Pro 4:25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you. Naturally, we would like to fulfill the purposes of our being within God’s time lines. Ones we know what we want to accomplish, we must remain focused. Irrespective of the attractions that may try to draw us away, our ”…
CHOOSE TO BE GRATEFUL
Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus ( 1The 5:18) Our circumstances should not dictate our thanksgiving. Our thanksgiving should flow not ” for all things ” but “in all circumstances”. We must thank God in everything whether good or bad because no matter what troubles and…
UNNECESSARY SUFFERING.
Pro 22:3 A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished. To foresee is to be in a position to predict, know and expect that something is going to happen before it does. A prudent man is one with a very good sense in dealing with practical matters…
BEAUTY FOR ASHES
Isa 61:3 to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.” The ancient people lacked the availability of…
HE LONGS TO BE GRACIOUS TO YOU
Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him ( Isa 30:18) What a wonderful verse that reveals the character of YHWH. He longs to be gracious to you and therefore He awaits on…
“NOW LIFT UP YOUR EYES.”
Then the Lord said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, “now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward for all the land you see , I will give it to you and to your descendants forever. (Gen 13:14-15) Abram lifted up…
THE JOY OF SALVATION
Psa 51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me with Your generous Spirit. This is a prayer of David. Something was not happening right. Whatever had happened affected him physically and spiritually. The joy of the Lord was missing.He pleaded with God for mercy and for the restoration of the joy…
HEAVILY GUARDED.
Psa 125:2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, So the LORD surrounds His people From this time forth and forever. The mountains are used here to show the importance of the protection they provide the people from invaders. Jerusalem could not easily be attacked. This promise is for those who trusts in God. As the mountains…
A HEALTHY, HAPPY HEART.
Pro 17:22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones. Your heart beats about 4, 800 times per hour. That’s a whopping 115, 000 times per day. It will pump nearly 2000 gallons of blood daily. ( Encounter) This not withstanding, God would also like us to have a…
THINGS THAT SEEMS LAUGHABLE
Gen 18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” The message was very clear with specific timelines; At this time next year. Biologically speaking, this seemed to be a ” mission impossible”. Sarah laughed because she thought that it was impossible for…