Lord, search my heart and show me any sins that I have not confessed to You. Cleanse me by Your blood and free me from guilt and condemnation. In Jesus' name, Amen.
The enemy loves to try and steal our value, our sense of worth. But nothing that’s happened to you has changed who you are: no mistake you’ve made, how someone else treated you. You are still a child of the Most High God. He created you in His own image.
When the promise is in the distance, far away, you’re going to have plenty of opportunities to get discouraged and grow weary. Thoughts will tell you, “It’s not going to work out.” Tune all that out and keep seeing it from a distance. Keep believing that it’s coming.
Sometimes when you’re looking for what God promised, it’s so far in the distance you can’t see anything with your natural eyes. It’s not visible yet. This is when you have to use your eyes of faith. .
God is supernatural. He’s going to do things in your life that you can’t calculate. You can’t explain it. You can’t plan it. His ways are not our ways. He created you to defy the odds. Now, be still and know that He is God.
I pray that you will understand that God loves you and that no matter what has happened to you in your life, no matter how deep of a pit you're in, He will reach down in it and lift you out and make you whole. God can renew your mind through His Word. He can heal your emotions. He can help you financially, physically, heal your body. He can give you the right friends, the right social life. God can help you and He wants to help you. It's not gonna be easy, but it's much easier than staying in bondage. Some things will come quick. Some will come more slowly. But the thing you have to make a decision on today is, "I'm going to step out on this journey by faith, and I am never going to give up." -Joyce #JoyceQuote
Everything that happens in life—the difficulties, the delays, the things that are not fair—they’re not random. God is giving you the opportunity to grow, to come up higher. He’s getting you prepared to handle the weight of favor, the weight of influence.
When you break out of that negative mindset and believe bigger, pray bolder, dream larger, you’re going to see the hand of God turn things around. He's going to break addictions, bring you out of dysfunction, promote you to levels you’ve never thought possible.
You are responsible for your own happiness. If you’re depending on what other people do to determine whether or not you’re going to be happy, you’ll spend a lot of days unhappy.
You have to know when to fight and when to walk away. You’re not supposed to confront every troublemaker. They may be disrespectful, trying to make you look bad. Ignore it and move on.
God is not just the God of the mountains; He’s the God of the valleys. The only way to a higher mountain is to come down and go through the valley. Don’t get discouraged by the valley; it’s leading you to something greater.
Life is too short to let your happiness depend on how someone else treats you. Don’t put your happiness in their hands. You can’t control what they do, but you can control what you do. You have a destiny to fulfill. There’s an assignment for you to accomplish.
No person can stop Him, no sickness, no addiction, no delay. All the forces of darkness cannot stop what God has purposed for your life. The only one that can stop Him is you if you get discouraged and lose your passion.
I can’t promise you that you won’t get knocked down in life, that there won’t be times when it’s not fair, but I can promise you that if you’ll get back up again, God will give you beauty for the ashes. He will pay you back for the wrongs.
Don’t waste your time trying to change your critic’s mind. Don’t argue with people that don’t matter. What they think of you is not going to stop your destiny. Their opinion is not going to keep you from your purpose.