Be encouraged in the face of hardship

As you continue to walk the path I have laid before you do not be surprised by the tests, trials, or adversities you encounter along the way. Surely these things are all part of the path, and surely you will encounter them, but understand in these times of hardship and stress you are not alone. I will never leave, forsake, abandon, nor forget you, though it may feel this way from time to time. I have initiated many good things in your life, and I am going to see every last one of them come to their completion.

 1 Peter 4:12, Romans 5:3-5, Hebrews 13:5, Philippians 1:6

 

In your times of adversity understand you will grow. Areas of weakness, deception, and immaturity will be exposed, and you will have the opportunity to make changes, and you will grow because of it. While these lessons will not be comfortable for you, these valuable lessons will serve you if you will embrace them. They will be turned around for your good, to serve you in the long term, if you continue to endure and embrace their value and implement what you learn. 

2 Peter 3:18, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 8:28, James 1:12, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Galatians 6:9

 

These things are not meant for your harm, but for your growth and development, for it is in these things you will learn to overcome. You will learn your limits. You will perfect your skills. You will acquire gratitude. You will enhance appreciation. Through all of these things you will grow and be transformed more and more into the image of my son.

 

So in your times of need, shame, or failure reach out to me, for I am near you even now, and I will hear you. I will encourage you. I will sustain you. I will renew your hope, perspective, and joy even in the middle of great calamity, persecution, and resistance. My joy is not based on circumstances, but by my spirit, and I will commune with you even in your darkest hour for my love for you has no bounds, and has no limits. 

 

Hebrews 4:16, Romans 15:13, Galatians 5:22, 1 John 1:3, Ephesians 3:19

 

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My will for you and for your life

Though there will be darkness, joy will come in the morning. Though there will be hard and difficult times, they will not last forever but will pass in time. These difficult and trying times will not be worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed in and through you as you are continually changed and transformed little by little, day by day.

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Though there is discomfort, and even pain, there is also an awakening and birthing happening within you to set you free from limits of the past, and enable you to walk in new levels of maturity, competency, activity, and leadership in all the things I have called you to pursue.

 

Though there will be times of confusion, I will guide you through them. These difficult and confusing times may last longer than you want, longer than you think they should, but nevertheless I will guide you through them, and they will not continue forever. I am the author and perfecter of your faith, life, path, and destiny in me, and none of these things can be changed or swayed, for I have set them in motion, and they will surely be accomplished at the time I have scheduled them to be completed

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While you are required to persevere day after day, year after year, know I have the end in mind, and am working all things out for your good, in your time of blessing soon to come. Let me encourage you today to walk by faith, not by sight. Continue to put one foot in front of the other as you move forward in the direction I have called you to. Though you will not always know or understand everything fully, know and trust I am guiding and shepherding you to the place I have for you, because this is my desire, and this is my will for you and for your life. (3)

 

(1) Psalm 30:5, 2 Corinthians 4:17, 2 Corinthians 3:18
(2) Psalm 5:8, Psalm 32:8, Hebrews 12:2, Habakkuk 2:3
(3) Romans 8:28, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 16:9, John 10:11

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Knowing and experiencing fullness and freedom

There is so much freedom in me. There is so much liberty in me and in the pursuit of what I have for you. At times your natural mind does not comprehend my ways, or my plans, or my timing, and so you see me and my ways, as limiting you, hindering you, or holding you back. But this perspective is not true for your full potential and capacity, together with the fullness of your desires, will only be satisfied and found in me.

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It is in union with me you, in harmony with my plans, in alignment and obedience with my ways and timing, you will be fully satisfied in every way. There is no source of true, lasting satisfaction apart from me, outside of me, or without me. I have come to give you life, to bring you a new way of life, and to do so abundantly.

 

Though you misunderstand my ways and see them as limiting, you will find as you allow yourself to receive my leadership that nothing could be further from the truth. My ways will bless you, not harm you. My ways will cause you to prosper, not to suffer. My ways will spawn abundant life, not create a meager existence. My ways will honor you, not exploit you. My ways will deliver you into freedom, not shackle you in chains.

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So open your heart to trust me, my ways, and my timing, for as you receive my leadership and follow all I have for you, you will experience more joy, freedom, and bliss than you have in days past, and even more than you ever thought possible. These are my plans for you, to see you flourish and truly prosper, and see you walk, abide, and possess your success.

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I am that loving father, wanting the best for my children, willing to give you the very most and the very best. As you embrace this truth and abide in this reality you will come to know and experience the fullness of all the freedom I have for you. 

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(1) Galatians 5:1, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Isaiah 55:8-9, Matthew 5:6
(2) 2 Peter 3:9, 1 Timothy 2:4, John 8:12, Philippians 4:19, Numbers 6:24-26
(3) Proverbs 3:5, Psalm 56:3-4, Habakkuk 2:3
(4) Jeremiah 29:11, 3 John 1:2, 2 Corinthians 9:11, John 10:10

 

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I have already made way for you

I have kissed you with the sweetness of my acceptance. I have embraced you with the sweetness of my of approval. I have showered my affections upon you time and time again, and it is my great pleasure to continually do so, for I have reconciled all this world so nothing will ever separate us.

I know in your hurt and confusion you make your mistakes, but let me assure you that each and every one of your mistakes has already been accounted for and has already been overcome. For what good would my sacrifice have been if you could undo the reconciliation I prepared for you? How small would the reconciliation be if you were able to undo it? So do not fret, and do not worry, but trust and know I have all things accounted for. I have already made provision, for my reconciliation is beyond extravagant.

There has been no small price paid, for you are my jewel, The One I Adore. I have poured out my great love to you again and again, and have done so in immeasurable, unfathomable ways. So do not worry that your weakness, or your mistakes, or your humanity will somehow consume or overturn the redemption and reconciliation I have provided you.

Be confident in who I am. Be confident in what I have given you. Be confident in what I have made available to you. Be bold, and take action, and allow the confidence of my spirit to reveal little details to you the way your heart desires. You stand in the center of my attention. You stand in the center of my favor. So do not consider yourself a beggar but understand you are my most precious child. Surely if you ask for bread I will not give you a stone.

I know you are but small, and I know you are but weak. I will renew you again and again for I have already overcome all these things so you may walk in the victory I have planned for you. Over the course of time you will come to know, you will come to see, and you will come to realize the many layers of revelation and understanding I have for you. But for today simply accept my love and accept my will, and move with courage and confidence in the direction of my leading, for I have already made a way for you, though you do not fully understand or perceive it.

(1) 2 Corinthians 5:19, Romans 8:31-39

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LITTLE FOXES

LITTLE FOXES
Song of Solomon 2:15 "Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom."

The vine is a very special plant in Israel because it requires a lot of work in other to cultivate it. Before cultivation, the land must be tilled, stones has to be removed, wall and watch tower will be built, a vine press and a store for storage of the fruit, all these must be put in place before thinking of cultivating the crop.
When one invest what he has to plant a vine, he expect a return of his investment. So every necessary measure must be put in place, in other that nothing affect the expected harvest. Foxes are conciderd a threat to the vine because it eat up the grape before it matures. In the Old Testament, foxes are mentioned in

Judges 15 . Samson ties torches to 300 foxes and releases them to destroy the grain fields of the Philistines.

In Nehemiah 4:3 , the evil Tobiah mocks the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s wall, saying, “What they are building—even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!”. So I will not be wrong if I say that the little foxes are destroyers and because of there size it will be difficult to control them and for them not to be allowed a strong wall is required and the watchmen must be on alert.

The painful thing about this foxes is that they eat the vine when it start to bloom ( when it start producing greenish flower clusters called bud) the danger is that if the fox eats the bud, the vine will continue to grow but will not produce any fruit. People will see it growing with beautiful leaves and stem, but no fruit.
Just as the farmer guide his field against the little foxes, so we also are expected to guide our hearts, and lives against the foxes of our days, they come in form of sin, (

Galatians 5:19-21) wrong imaginations, Low self-esteem, friends etc whose mission is to kill your dream. People look at you from the outside, they see a promising youth, a handsome and beautiful individual but from the inside there is no fruit to back what they saw.
I pray for you today, may the Lord open your eyes to see those little foxes in your life, give you the strength to guide yourself against them in Jesus name....
I decree that every foxes sent to destroy your life and destiny be destroyed in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen

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SINGING PRAISE WITH UNDERSTANDING:

         SINGING PRAISE WITH UNDERSTANDING:

(Psalm 47:7) "For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding"..
Singing praises to God is not just for the sake of dancing in church because when we praise without understanding what we are doing is making noise. It is normal for someone to praise and thank God when something great happen in his/her life but it takes a man of faith to praise God when he has nothing. in joshua 6 the people of Israel did not wait until that wall of Jericho to falls before they praise God but they praised God for it to fall. Let look at the secret of praises:

1. When you praise God, he step into the situation just like  in act16:25; in prison Paul and silas prayed, nothing happened but when the switch into praises God step in.

2. Praise are the weapons of war. (2Chro 20:22)."And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir,....." the people went into the battle not with sword and arrows but with praises  and the enemy destroyed themselves 

3. God identifies himself with praise. Do you know why Jesus is called the lion from the tribe of Judah Gen29:35 because the meaning of Judah is praise.

4. Anointing flow when praise and worship is activated 2kings3:15.
praising God for who He is, giving Him thanks for the things He has done and  the once He will do.
Child of God, understand  the power of praise and thanksgiving and applying it in our lives on a daily bases, that is, living a victorious life.
Be a thankful Christian not a doubtful Christian.
Praise the Lord. So in conclusion just praise

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There is more

This is just for you who is thinking that his life has nothing more to offer. You may have tried many
thing and come to a conclusion that there is nothing more that you can offer or do to make things better or get the best out of life.

Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

          I will encourage you never to give up on yourself and that dream you had long ago . The road may look like a dead end but keep going keep pushing you can walk on that water, that water can become a dry land. When moses and the children of Isreal came to the red sea there seem to be no way forward but God told Moses to keep going forward .

Exodus 14:15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:

I will advise you to keep going forward instead of backward there is nothing in your past or at your back you haven't seen before but there is so much at your front and in your future you haven't experienced just yet and you can only get there when you keep going forward.

1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

There is a well of potential in you , you are not ordinary or normal  You are not empty and finished. Child of God you have the very life of God in you and many more you can do. You have the spirit of God dwelling in you and you can do it again. If you tried before try again. I see you becoming everthing and more you ever thought about.

There is more to you than you can imagine never let the frustration and pains of today cause you to lose your self , there is more in you than you have ever seen......

Say to yourself there is more in me am not just going to end like this, I am getting the more out.

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