The only plausible explanation to me for the way we’ve come to treat people online is that we conflate onscreen interaction with gaming. Getting high off bringing people low. This is not a game. Words are not imaginary weapons.
Our screens have cut our hearts out of our chests.
We all want to rise higher, accomplish dreams, overcome obstacles, but as long as we’re only focused on ourselves, we’ll get stuck. God brings people and opportunities across our path so we can be a blessing.
When I’m at a taping, I usually just eat in my room so I can keep studying. A man just delivered my breakfast, saw my open Bible & put his hand on his heart. I said, “You’re a brother?” With the warmest accent he said, “We must watch & pray these hard days. Jesus is coming back.”
The past, the hurts, the regrets are finished. The guilt, the condemnation, the shame are finished. This is a new year. Things that have held you back are being broken right now. You’re going to step into new levels of victory, new levels of favor.
Don't complain about that opposition, that person that’s trying to hold you down, trying to make you look bad. They don’t control your destiny. God does.
From the time God puts the promise in your heart until it comes to pass, that’s called the trial of your faith. That’s when it’s easy to get discouraged. Keep praying; keep believing. It may not have happened yet, but what God promised you, He’s going to bring to pass.
LASTING JOY is Found in Jesus Christ. His Joy and Delight are in you, that your Joy and Gladness May be of Fill Measure and Complete and; Yes, Overflowing. He Showers Blessings into your Life, and Rejoices when you Respond with Thanksgiving!-John 15:11, I Thes 5:16-18
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind,
be sober, and hope to the end
for the Grace that is to be brought to you
at the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
~ 1 Peter 1:13
Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.
Habakkuk 3:2
Don’t believe that God doesn’t hear you, that you’re wasting your time praying, believing, and standing in faith. The first day you prayed, God put the miracle in motion. You are close to seeing your promise.
God pays attention. He’s keeping the records of who’s trying to push you down, discredit you, make you look small, talking behind your back. He’s adding up all the deficits and, at the right time, He’s going to balance your books.
@JoelOsteen Amen, when the Lord Jesus wants to raise Lazarus, He asks Lazarus's tomb stone to lift, remove, and get rid of... God wants to enlarge you, you can get rid of the barriers that enemies may put, maybe wrong viewpoints, negative thoughts and so on...
@JoelOsteen Jeremiah 29:11 NIV. For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.(The enemy wants to hold me back, but God is enlarging me) the devil hates, for us to trust God! Stay open to the Holy Spirit!
If you’re going to see what you’re believing for, you have to be willing to do what other people won’t do. Don’t miss your destiny because you didn’t want it bad enough.