God's Promise

Greetings!

Let me tell you...praying and focusing on God's promises is powerful. I pray that you embrace God's promises, and claim them as your own. I was reading some of God's promises, and I came across this one in Isaiah that says, "Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." (Isaiah 46:4). Wow! How can we read that and not believe that we have the victory. Nothing can stand in the way of what God has purposed for our lives. He is the Great I AM, and nothing is too hard for Him. The more I meditate on that word, the stronger I feel.

For years, I have tried to make things happen. I really felt like I had to be somebody for God, that He couldn't possibly be pleased with me...not as much as I messed up. But I had it all wrong. I didn't have to BE somebody for God...I AM somebody to God. God loves me...as crazy as I sometimes can be. There is no mistake so big that God can't forgive, and if I didn't know it before this scripture proves it to me now.

The promise I want to focus on this week is the promise that says God will strengthen us. We may feel like our problems or situations are going to overtake us, but if we don't give up...if we hold on to God's promise that He will sustain us...that He will rescue us....then God will use those times to grow us. God uses every opportunity to show us who we can be in Him. We can trust The Creator who created us. He will never relax His hold on us...

Until next time...

Be blessed

Greetings!

This week, our promise is in Psalm 23:1, "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want" Some versions say, "I lack nothing." I think I like that better, because when we make the Lord the head of our lives, we will lack nothing. We may "want" some things...but nothing we really need.

For some reason, thinking abut this promise made me think about friendships, and how even through the Lord is a friend "at all times," He has made us to need each other. The Bible says, 'A threefold cord is not easily broken. "We can't handle this world alone, and we weren't meant to. We grow, and are strengthened through our relationships with one another.

I thank God for the people He places in our paths. Those people who hold us up, and pray for us. Those people you can lean on in good times and bad times. I think God has given everyone at least one “ride or die” friend. That friend that won’t co-sign your foolishness, but they will be there when you need them. I believe that is one of God’s gifts to us.

I thank Him also because He leads us and guides us and sometimes He even hides us. He keeps us in spite of us.  We may make mistakes, but it is good to know that God doesn’t hold them against us. In Psalm 103:12, it says that God remembers our sins no more, "As far as the east is from the west." That means that whatever we have done even the things we may do in the future...we are forgiven. We can't let the enemy mess with our minds. God loves us, and every day He gives us new mercy, new hope, new grace, and a new beginning...

Until next time...

Be blessed

Greetings!

Last week I posted on God’s promise that we are more than conquerors. I believe God is leading me in that direction this year. Although I know in my heart that God’s promises belong to all of us, I haven’t been living as if I believe it. I have been writing about it, thinking about it, and speaking it over the lives of others, but I have been living this weak worn out life. And, God is saying enough is enough. He is showing me that my strength comes from Him, and that I will never walk in His promises if I can’t see past what I perceive to be my failures. The one thing the Lord has shown me is that when I begin to speak His word into the atmosphere…things change. It’s no longer about my issue—it’s about my God. He is God, and He can move mountains!

My mission this year is to press in until His promises are so real in my life that I can’t breathe without calling one to mind…

This week the promise He is showing me is the one that says God will meet all of our needs. In Philippians 4:19 it says, “And, my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” This scripture says to me that if we have Christ Jesus…we never have to worry about ANYTHING. God will take care of our needs…all of them. Not because we have been so good, but because we have the Son, and if we have the Son…He has us.

God loves us, and He has given us grace enough to handle whatever we go through. As hard as it may be, we have to take our hands off our situation and trust our God to fix it. Praise Him for the victory, because in the end…we win.

Until next time…

Be blessed

Happy New Year Everybody!

I am so excited about what God is doing in this new year. This year, we are moving forward into our purpose and claiming all the promises that belong to us. If God could take time to breathe the word of life into His prophets for us…the least we can do is walk in them. Everything that happened last year is behind us, and a new day is here. God is in the blessing business, and I want everything that He wants for me. We have the opportunity to begin again, and I do not want to blow it. Our church theme this year is, “Living in the FOG (Favor of God).”  For me, living in His favor means that I am in the center of His will, and that I not only know His promises for my life, but I am also living His promises.

This week, I want to focus on the promise that says we are more than conquerors. One of my favorite scriptures is from the Book of Romans, and it says, "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:37-39).

Being more than conquerors says that we know whatever happens; God has already worked it out. It says that nothing…no problem, no situation, and no concern can come between the relationship that we have with the Lord. He has to be number one, because when He has first place in our lives, we never have to worry about the outcome, because God holds the outcome in His hands.

Until next time…

Be blessed