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Romans 10 :15 “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
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When,we feel as if we’re collapsing on the inside and crying out to God, “I cannot handle any more!” we can expect to sense a little inaudible whisper that encourages us: “You are going to make it because I am here.”
Though God may be silent for a time, He never ceases working on our behalf. When the time is right, He provides an outcome aligning with His perfect plan. Giving up before the Lord responds to your call is a grave mistake. So pray on, friends. Pray on!
"Thank you God for knowing my future in advance so that you have a passage or a verse or chapter waiting for me as I start my day. I needed this today and when I seen the title and read the chapter, It reminds me of Gods care for me, This also keeps me coming back each day to read and study out what God has in store for me. If I missed a day I miss out on God speaking directly to me through His word. Guide me in all that I do, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be aligned with yours oh my Lord and my redeemer. Let me mediate on your might and your strength even when I encounter situations beyond me today. Cover me under your arms and keep me in your refuge ..Amen!"
Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail—his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world...
Soon as you Father finished praying over me..God spoke Mark 8:24 , I never expected to live 12 years with MS. Jesus didn't heal the blind man right away ,like Jesus other healings..first the blind man couldn't see anything, then things got blurry ," men walking around like trees..Then everything was clear, Jesus healing, doesn't necessary mean to receive complete physical healing through those times of HIM carrying us, but developing spiritually with each salve of his precious tough...
This is strange for a number of reasons. First of all, Jesus usually knows when something works, and it usually works! Miracles are not really a problem for Jesus. As we read this question, we almost wonder if Jesus was going through a bit of a slump in his miracle working. Maybe He had tried one a few days before in front of a lot of people, and it didn’t go so well. Now, He is a little bit nervous. He doubts his abilities. So, instead of taking a chance in front of a crowd of people, he leads the man out of the city, tells the man that He will try, and does it with a bit of a “here goes nothing” mentality. And after he tries, He sheepishly says, “Do you see anything?”
What is even stranger than Jesus’ question is the response of the blind man. Verse 24 tells us that the man says, “I see men, for I see . . . .”Let’s stop right there. The blind man who was brought to Jesus can now see. He says twice that he can see. “I see men.” “I see.” Obviously, something miraculous just happened. Jesus touched the man and he was healed. Or was he? The man continues and says, “I see men, like trees, walking around.” Either this man has found himself in a village surrounded by very large men with extra extremities, who look like trees, or perhaps somehow the man is seeing, but he is not seeing clearly. At the end of verse 24, we find a man that has been healed-sort of. His sight is restored-partially. He can see-but not clearly.
So, Jesus goes at it again. Verse 25 tells us that Jesus looked at the man intently,” Then again He laid His hands on his eyes . . . .”At the end of the verse, it says, “and he began to see everything clearly.” The second work of Jesus seemed to fully heal the man. Jesus, aware that the man had been healed, him not to go back to the village and not to tell anyone what happened. After two attempts, the man finally sees clearly and went away with clear instruction.
As I mention earlier,I didn't expect to live with MS for 12 years...or maybe you with cancer for so long. Does that mean we see Jesus any clearer as we go through our trails. What we go through, our times of troubles, pain and tribulations becomes something more than healing. There is a lesson through our healing...each step we see Jesus more clearly, knowing HE carries us with each system, weakness, pain, etc..
"Does He ever find me pondering the time when I cared only for Him? Is that where I am now, or have I chosen man’s wisdom over true love for Him? Am I so in love with Him that I take no thought for where He might lead me? Or am I watching to see how much respect I get as I measure how much service I should give Him? "
"Father, I always need You. Forgive me for
thinking I am sufficient in myself. Help me to
follow You and Your ways whether life is easy
or difficult. Thank You for caring for me. " Amen!
In Matthew 26, even for Jesus, there are three moments of utter silence. It even says that his soul was overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death (v.38). Jesus was desperate for God’s intervention from what was about to come. But there is absolutely no answer to his cry.
There are many of us who have experienced such a silence, and let me tell you that it is not a very encouraging experience. It is painful and a struggle to get through those moments and we can often feel like we are left in the dust by God. We may read this passage thinking that the Father may be cruel and a masochist for letting his Son die in the way he did after this event – but there is something else to this passage that we see through Jesus’ words and actions. The Father’s silence was not because he was not listening or had no answer, but rather because God was working to save us – even in that very moment.
When the Lord asks me to read the book of Job...I know, he is preparing me for something very hard for me to go through. The book of Job, arguably, could be one of the first books written for the Bible, It starts with God and the devil having a narrative about Job, God's faithful and honorable servant. Strangely.. the devil want to torque Job, to see if he would stay faithful to God during this time of suffering. So..God says go ahead, but don't torque him until death. Job, was obviously a victim, a chess piece in a game of chess. He lost his children, livestock, workers, and was inflicted with disease and boils. Job's wife and friends on top of everything else tormented him with "What did he possible do to make God put him through all this suffering."..his own wife wanted him to curse God and die.
When I came across Job chapter 42 verse 5.."My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you." God revealed to me during all this time Job in his subconscious was trying to reason the terrible things that came upon him and his children.."Maybe my children did something bad against God or this or that. It wasn't until verse 5 that Job saw God in the spirit, God is God...We could be good in our own eyes and others, but this doesn't make us see God as God. Building up award and aptitudes doesn't give you a relationship with God. For me Job, finally got it..he was saying, "I admit I once lived by hearsay of you God..I woke up, and now I have it all firsthand—from my own eyes and ears! I’m sorry, forgive me God.
It's then I have to remember,
That it's in the valleys I grow.
If I always stayed on the mountain top
And never experienced pain,
I would never appreciate God's love
And would be living in vain.
I have so much to learn
And my growth is very slow,
Sometimes I need the mountain tops,
But it's in the valleys I grow.
I do not always understand
Why things happen as they do,
But I am very sure of one thing.
My Lord will see me through.
My little valleys are nothing
When I picture Christ on the cross
He went through the valley of death;
His victory was Satan's loss.
Forgive me Lord, for complaining
When I'm feeling so very low,
Just give me a gentle reminder
That it's in the valleys I grow.
Continue to strengthen me, Lord
And use my life each day
To share your love with others
And help them find their way.
Thank you for valleys, Lord
For this one thing I know
The mountain tops are glorious
But it's in the valleys I grow.
Prayer begins in trouble, and it continues because we’re always in trouble at some level. It requires no special preparation, no precise vocabulary, no appropriate posture. It springs from us in the face of necessity and, in time, becomes our habitual response to every issue—good and bad—we face in this life (Phil. 4:6).
That trouble we dreaded so much, of which we say, “I am sure it will crush me,” it would have crushed me if I had been left to myself; but when it came, we were strangely upheld, and kept so calm and placid that we did not know ourselves. When you saw your husband die, and those little children were all around you, and you knew that you were a widow, how was it that then you were still so trustful? Or you, dear husband, when you saw your wife at last expire, and the light of your home was quenched, how was it that you still said and meant it, “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord?” Why, it was because the Lord had made you one of his hidden ones! He said, “Come home, dear child, come and rest with me”; and he shut you away from all the trial, and enabled you to find peace in him.
The Lord had place in my spirit, remembering that, when Athaliah sought to kill all the royal seed, Jehoiada the priest took Joash, who was then a child, and hid him for six years in the house of the Lord, and there he was safe. So God takes each one of his children, and makes a Joash of us, and preserves us from the assault of the enemy so that we cannot be destroyed. -2 Kings 11 (NKJV)
I made a miraculous recovery, and today it reminds me not to complain about life’s challenges. “I’ll just take a deep breath,” I say, “Thank You God I can breath.”
How easy it is to focus on things we need or want, and forget that sometimes the smallest things in life can be the greatest miracles. In Ezekiel’s vision (Ezekiel 37:1–14), God showed the prophet that only He could give life to dry bones. Even after tendons, flesh, and skin had appeared, “there was no breath in them” (verse 8). It was only when God gave them breath that they could live again (verse 10).
This vision illustrated God’s promise to restore Israel from devastation. It also reminds me that anything I have, big or small, is useless unless God gives me breath. Amen!
We want to escape from our life, which suddenly feels like an oncoming train about to run us down. It is the shock we feel when we receive a frightening diagnosis from our physician. When we are laid off from a job. When a friend dies. When a relationship ends. We say to ourselves, “This cannot be happening.”
When my brother was first diagnosed with colon cancer that would take his life, and when I heard that the treatments would only lengthen his life by a few months, I couldn’t believe it. “No, no, no,” I thought, this is not the way it is supposed to be. Everyone, if they live long enough, will one day know this feeling. Recently when a dear friend discovered that he had an inoperable cancer, and had only one year to live, he said he felt lost. “I don’t even know where to begin,” he told me.
Perhaps you are stuck in a miserable job with no prospects of relief. Or you are caring for someone living with a chronic illness, and you wonder how much longer you can go on. Or you receive a diagnosis of a minor medical problem that will mean a change in the way you live. In each of these cases you want to say, “Remove this cup.” And, again, exacerbating the situation is a fear that can sap our ability to make good decisions. Panic can so master you that you can barely think, let alone pray.
We all face different challenges throughout our days; and we all can look to Jesus moment by moment for help, strength, and peace. He will help us to hold back from snapping at our loved ones; He will give us the courage to do the next hard thing. Look to Him and find contentment.
How upsetting it is to see a ray of hope, a bit of sunshine but then have despair once again set in. Keep in mind, David experienced the same struggles, and he was a man after God’s heart. David testified of having great trust in the Lord, yet he went through hard times too, as he describes in this psalm.
How did David arise from this pit of despair? “But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me” (Psalm 13:5-6).