Before the day was I am he…
Before time began, God was there.
There is none who can deliver out my hand…
He will never give you over. He keeps you close.
I will work, and who shall let it?
He will work on your behalf and who can stop it or who can handle it.
There is no one like the Lord.
(Adapted from Isaiah 43 verse 13.)😀
The summer is ending, and it is back to school time. Change is something that can not be stopped.
Change happens in every aspect of life. Sometimes it is hard to accept newness or the difference of things, but if I want to continue to exist in this diverse world, I am learning I have to accept things and try to make them my own.
God helps me with this. I sometimes have not sown the seeds of change, and my harvest is, at times, not what I want, but God sees me through. He can change things to work out for my blessing.
All he asks is for me to believe and trust in him.
I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from there comes my help. Adapted from Psalm 121 verse 1.
Take with you the shield of faith so you can withstand the fiery darts of the Devil.
The Devil travels around looking for those he can mess up big time. If you are following the Lord, he does not want to make it easy for you. He springs, hoping to get his claws on you.
But if you read the Word of God faithfully and trust the Lord, your walk of faith gets easier.
When problems come, you dig deep and remember the promises He spoke to you. You call no those promises. You go over them again and again. Soon, those doubts and fears planted in your heart by the Devil will fall away.
You must have the word of God to shield you. If you don’t read the Bible, you have nothing for protection.
Adapted from Ephesians 6.
I seek the Lord for his word is sweet.
I trust the Lord, for he is good and true.
He is the source of all my blessings. Everything that I have and everything that I am, I owe it all to the Lord.
He provides for all my needs even before I know what to ask for. I call on his name in my day of trouble.
I call on his name when I am lost.
I call upon his name when I have a song on my lips.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. Isaiah 2 verse 22.
We can’t understand the great mysteries of life. How the rivers follow into the sea and the sea never gets full. Why does the sun rise and set at a certain time? How nature knows when it is spring when all the trees and blossoms begin to bloom.
We know there is a time for everything, and we believe and accept that event will happen.
We don’t know or understand the mind of God. His ways are past finding out. In other words, they are beyond our comprehension.
But it is for us to trust God where we can not trace Him.
As thou knoweth not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knoweth not the works of God who make the all. Ecclesiastes 11 verse 5.
Without faith, it is impossible to please God.
Adapted from Hebrews 11 verse 6.
I was envious of the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Psalm 73 verses 3 and 17.
Don’t look at what others have. Concentrate on your own life.
The grass is never greener on the other side it just looks that way.
Live a life pleasing to the Lord, and everything will fall into place.
The wicked and the foolish will get their own just rewards.
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalm 69 verse 3
Sometimes the problem is so big I can not see beyond it, so focused am I on the situation I fail to remember His promises.
There is nothing too big or too small to waken the ear of my God.
The answer may not come when I am looking for it or even where I anticipate it’s coming, but rest assured it will come on time.Â
He will not tarry in his deliverance because he will not make those who wait on him be ashamed.Â
This is his promise to me.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.
Psalm 66 verse 18
Who do we think we are praying to the Lord without sincerity?
We are fake in compassion and evil lurks in the corners of our hearts. We have offenses we have not confessed whereby we wish to give evil for evil.
Who are we to come before a holy God with dirty hands trying to justify our actions?
We are nothing. We must learn to bring our sins or problems our heavy hearts to him. Open our minds and confess our wrongdoings, and leave them at his feet. Let the Lord fight for us. Let him take vengeance for us. He understands and knows what is best.
Forgiveness is not easy, but by taking that first step towards the Lord is a leap in the right direction.
Sometimes, you feel a distance. Maybe because you ate not right with the Lord at the moment. Sometimes things around you are overwhelming.
Don’t lose heart.
Quiet your spirit and look to the Lord.
He will never cast you away.
If you do not hear his voice or know his instruction, fear not he has not forgotten you.
Precious are you in his sight.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Psalm 51 verse 12
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