Just a reminder that IS thinking about you!
I want to encourage you today, that whatever you are waiting for from God, don't be afraid to wait. Satan wishes you to move into fear, while God desires you to stay in faith. Remember, "Perfect love casts out all fear." If we seek the perfect love of God, and seek to do only that which is loving, we will be able to move beyond the past, quit reaching constantly for when "things will soon be better for us," and capture the moment.
Too often we're busy binding and breaking, when we should be finding and making a place for God's grace to fill our lives to face what is, and isn't before us. The devil doesn't make us do anything, and he or his demons certainly don't overpower our will. God didn’t create them with that much power.
Try not to spend much of your prayer-time in Fear based-praying. Fear based-praying is praying from a place of what we think we need and feel we need, but may have absolutely nothing to do with faith-based prayers. Faith based-prayers are prayers of choice based on truth, which remain unchangeable.
Facts may change, but truth does not. God's word and will is the only truly Godly prayer we can pray. Anything else apart from it, results in "asking amiss," that James talks about. We can ask for whatever God wills for us. Be encouraged to wait in faith, which works by love. Let me say this a little differently.
[size=large]FAITH DOESN'T WORK EXCEPT BY LOVE. LOVE DOES NOT CONTAIN FEAR. FEAR IS A WEAPON OF THE ENEMY. [/size]
God does not seek to reveal His will, only to paralyze us with fear, and then say believe, hope for the best, hang in there, it will get better. I know how tough the devil is, but bless your little heart, my son is praying for you here at my right hand.
God made the devil. God made hell. God made the darkness. God made every principality, the possibility of every stronghold, every ruler of darkness, as a creator. Who rules? God does. We do not have to fear what God has power over and tells us we have power over.
Our problem is that we don't really believe in the grace to face, the power to overcome, and that God will do for us, what we watch him do for everybody else. We think, “I'm nobody with any favor from God, and we hang our heads and say woe is me” (I've been there! I've done this). I know what the temptation and pattern is to believe how we've been taught to believe-the devil is strong, watch out, be careful, as soon as you get blessed, look out, another trial is coming. Well, if this is true, then why don't we learn to deal with life, and learn whatsoever state we're in to be content?
We miss the opportunities to learn, grow, change and become who we are eternally destined to be-creatures of enormous power to love, heal, bless the Father, bless others, and be image bearers of truth. Again I want to say...BE ENCOURAGED. GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU. STEP INTO THE MOMENT and experience God right where you are and right where He is.
God can not possibly fail any of us, but we can fail others and ourselves. His strength is made perfect in our weakness. Where you have been does not determine where God says you are and where God says you are going. His word is what we all must stand on, and get our minds, and words in tune with, so that we activate the power of faith.
Truth has nothing to do with what anything feels like, or looks like. Truth is whatever God has to say about anything. JUST BELIEVE. His word and His Spirit, always reflect the truth.
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
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