Through every season, when it’s rainy and when it’s sunny, when we’re getting good breaks and when we’re going through tough times, when people are treating us right and when they’re not being fair, we don’t lose our praise. We don’t lose our joy. We don’t give up on our dreams.
God didn’t create anyone average. He didn’t make anyone ordinary. He calls you a masterpiece. He put greatness in you. There is potential on the inside that you have not yet tapped into. There are gifts and talents that haven’t developed yet.
We not only have the Spirit of the Lord upon us, but He lives within us. Jesus promised that the “Helper” He would send would be with us all the time. Jesus has given you “grace to go” for every situation and to overcome every challenge.
You’re not just living unto yourself. You’re affecting those who will come after you, and you’re honoring those who have gone before you. They will benefit. They will receive a reward because you took new ground. You ran your race with purpose.
We like what’s easy, but God is saying, “Take those things that are difficult for you to do and give them to Me because that’s how you’ll grow.” When God speaks to those difficult places, He’s speaking to your potential, to becoming everything you were designed to be.
Someone said, “Don’t desire someone so deeply that you’re willing to disobey God just to keep them close.” Whew. That one will make you check your heart 😮💨
Grace is not just God’s kindness to you; it’s divine power to enable you to do things you could never do in your own power. Grace is supernatural favor that moves you into God’s highest and best.
Too often, we get out of agreement with God when we make a mistake or when things don’t go our way. We have to remind ourselves that we are not failures; we are learners.
When you keep thanking God for what He promised, you keep talking like it’s on the way, you’re constantly meditating on what He said, then you’re going to see the faithfulness of God. He’s going to make things happen that you couldn’t make happen.
Blessing your enemies not only shows God that you have the character to go higher, but it shows people who you really are. Anyone can be good to someone who’s been good to them, but when you can be good to someone who’s done you wrong, you’re an exceptional person. You’re the kind of man, the kind of woman who God can entrust with greatness, who He can use for His highest purposes.
You can’t judge your future by where you are right now. Proverbs says, “The path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter.” As you step into new seasons, where you need more strength, more wisdom, more grace, you’re going to unpack things you didn’t know were in you.
Jesus said in John, “You didn’t choose Me, I chose you.” God loves to choose strangers: people who don’t seem to fit, people who weren’t raised in faith. You wouldn’t be reading this if you weren’t chosen. He handpicked you. Don’t go your whole life thinking you don’t measure up.
1 John 5:14-15
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Confession
This is the confidence I have in Him: that when I ask anything according to His Word, He hears me; And since I know He hears me, I know I have the petitions that I desired of Him.
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