The warning about snakes is not given because snakes bite everyday.
A day or even five without being bitten doesn’t make the warning a lie.
The warning about snakes is given because the day you are bitten might become your last.
We stubbornly face stubborn situations. We will not cower and relent. No! The situation will comply to the dictates of the finished work of Calvary.
It will be a good year.
No matter many or how big the people who went before you are…
…do not despise your own contribution.
There’s a part that only you can play & it is needed & awaited.
Romans 12:6 KJV
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us…
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
“Of fathers, boasting and the Father”
Sitting by the trackside, watching children at the “Infants Winter Athletics” competitions, I overheard an interesting conversation. Behind me were fathers jovially engaged in discussions when suddenly one of them began to speak glowingly..
Hebrews 12:1-2 NKJV
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Don’t be a prisoner of appreciation and acknowledgment. Do good anyway, even if the “thank you” or the special mention doesn’t come.
Colossians 3:23 KJV
“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men”
The devil wants you to get used to seeing evil until you get used to it, then you accept it & before you know it, you are doing it.
Romans 12:9
“Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.”
Evil doesn’t change. It displeases God.
Victory is some battles depends on your self worth.
You have to ask yourself questions. Would a person like you do that? …say that? …go there?
You are higher, better & worth more than that.
Nehemiah 6:11
“…Should such a man as I flee? …who …being as I am, would go..?
Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV
[22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
[23] gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
We are in danger when we have to always wait for correction, warnings and restraint to be forced on us from outside.
Sometimes it might be too late, or it might never come.
By God’s help, we must grow to a place one where one gets it from inside. “Self-control“
How can we be offended when people call us by a title “less” than what we prefer yet when we preach we refer to the trailblazing apostle simply as Paul? One of the pioneering apostles we simply call Peter. The King Himself we just call Jesus.
Pafunge…
Don’t let the disappointment from the absence of things make you forget that God is a creator. What is not there can be made.
ISAIAH 43:19
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth… I will even MAKE a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”