Are you looking out the window, focused on the storm or are you focused on what God promised you? He’s spoken dreams to your heart. He’s whispered things to you in your spirit. The enemy has tried to drown them out with negative thoughts and negative circumstances, God is there.
The enemy is trying to plant lies, doubts, and fears, hoping that you’ll give them a place in your mind. Clear out those negative thoughts. Get those intruders out of your mind. Put some new tenants in: faith, hope, and victory.
You may have gone through loss, disappointments, but that is not how your story ends. It may be painful now, you’re hurting, but God sees it. He’s not only going to help you through, but He’s going to fill your mouth with laughter. There’s great joy in your future.
Sometimes we try to hide our struggles, not just from people, but from God. We know we’re not measuring up. We should do better. When we get it all together, then we can go to God. But God knows everything about you and He doesn’t find fault. He’s not disqualifying you.
We all have these destiny moments in life when we know God is asking us to quit pretending, to get real, but we have to make a move. Maybe it’s to put down our pride and ask for help, join a support group, forgive someone, or to quit numbing the pain through alcohol, addictions
There’s the life that everyone else sees, and then there’s the life that only we see. We know how to smile in public while we’re hurting in private. God sees what you can’t show. He’s not faulting you. He’s not disappointed in you. He’s the one who’s going to restore you.
God is not finished with you. He didn’t create you and then decide to walk away because of mistakes, or neglect, or bad breaks. He’s a God who restores, a God who has new beginnings.
Sometimes God will put things in your spirit that don’t make sense. Here’s the key: God doesn’t ask us to figure it out. He doesn’t ask us to come up with a plan, research it, see if it’s possible. He simply asks us to believe.
When you go through a disappointment, you could be upset, bitter, but when you overflow with hope, you know that what was meant for harm God is turning to your advantage. Weeping may endure for a night, but you know joy is coming.
God wants us to depend on Him. Too often, we’re striving to make things happen, discouraged because it’s taking too long, trying to beat down doors. God is saying, “Come to Me. Ask Me for help. Call on My name and acknowledge Me as your Source.”
This is a new day. God is doing a new thing. You may not feel any different; you may not see anything changing. You have to walk by faith and not by sight. “Father, thank You that I am healed. Thank You that I am free.”
You weren't created to live restricted, bound, broken. That may be the way it’s been, but that’s not the way it’s going to stay. God has already ordained these times of release, times when He will free you from what’s holding you back.
You’re being released into freedom, released into wholeness, released into abundance. You’re going to see beauty for ashes, joy for mourning. It’s a new day. Chains are breaking, walls are coming down, strongholds are being loosed.
Listen to what God says about you and not all the negative chatter. You may have made poor choices, gotten off course, but that mistake did not stop your purpose. God’s mercy is bigger than any mistake you’ve made.
Don't have a weak, defeated mentality. “I can’t handle this. It’s too much.” Have a new perspective. “Yes, I’m hurting, but still I rise. Yes, it looks bad, but still I believe. Yes, I’m outnumbered, but still I trust. Still I move forward. Still I dream. Still I expect goodness.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4:7-8
I’m not saying to accept the trouble, accept the sickness, live in mediocrity. But stay in peace. Live from a place of rest. You can’t make everyone like you and make everything go your way. Thats going to frustrate you. Some of the things we’re trying to pray away are God's hand
You may have a small cup, small faith, small dreams, but if God only blessed us according to how much we believed, then we would be limited It’s not the size of your faith that will limit you its the quality of your character. God looks at our heart as much as He looks at faith