GOD HAS YOUR BEST INTEREST AT HEART

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…….JUST TRUST HIM

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

WHEN YOU CAN’T SEE WHERE GOD IS TAKING YOU, JUST TRUST HIM……

Everything was going GREAT in Job’s life, but then the bottom fell out. In a very brief period of time, he lost his HEALTH, his BUSINESS, AND his FAMILY. He didn’t understand it. He was a man of great INTEGRITY and FAITH. He was doing the RIGHT thing and the wrong thing happened. His friends told him it was HIS fault. His wife said, “Job, just curse God and DIE.”

Job could have gotten bitter and given up on LIFE, but he UNDERSTOOD that there are times in life when it doesn’t seem FAIR and you can’t SEE what God is DOING. You’re PRAYING, but it’s not working OUT. Rather than make a negative judgment based on one season of opposition, he kept an attitude of FAITH that EVENTUALLY led to an ABUNDANT place. He let GOD be his vindicator and not only saw his health RESTORED, but he came out of that difficult season with TWICE what he had before. When YOU can’t see where God is taking YOU, just TRUST Him.

Today’s Scripture:

Job 23:8, NKJV

Look, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive Him.

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…….WHAT GOD SAYS, GOES

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

DON’T LIVE STRESSED, STAY AT PEACE KNOWING THAT WHAT GOD SAYS GOES…..

We all have situations that LOOK like they’re never going to work out. It’s easy to get discouraged and think it’s OVER. But God has the FINAL say. The medical report may be bad, but it’s NOT the last word. What God says GOES. You may have struggled with an addiction for YEARS, but God has the final WORD. You may have people who are trying to hold you back, but people don’t HAVE the final say. No disrespect, but neither the doctor, nor the banker, nor the financial planner is on the THRONE. GOD is on the throne, and what HE says goes. That He is FOR you is more than the whole WORLD being against you.

When you know that GOD has the final say, you don’t LIVE stressed over the medical report or try to manipulate or play up to PEOPLE to like you. You stay in PEACE, knowing that you’re NOT at the mercy of bad breaks, accidents, sicknesses, or PEOPLE who are against you. What God says GOES.

Today’s Scripture:

1 Peter 3:22, MSG

Jesus has the last word on everything and everyone, from angels to armies. He’s standing right alongside God, and what he says goes.

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…..BELIEVE AND RECEIVE…..

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JUST BELIEVE, AND RECEIVE WHAT GOD’S ALREADY DONE

All through the Scripture, you can clearly see that it is God’s will to heal the sick. Fourteen times in the Scripture it says that Jesus healed “all” who were sick. I can’t find one instance where Jesus turned someone away and wouldn’t heal them. He didn’t always heal the same way, but He healed them all. Isaiah 53:4 says, “Jesus carried our sickness and took our infirmities.” He already paid the price. You have to have the boldness to say, “God, I know it is Your will.” That Scripture goes on to say, “By His stripes you were healed.” Past tense. Jesus took those stripes before He was crucified. He didn’t leave anything out. He’s already done it.

You have to make the switch from “God, if You want to heal me” to “God, I know You want to heal me.” Our attitude should be, “Lord, I receive Your healing. By faith I receive what You’ve already done.” You don’t have to talk Him into it or wonder if it’s His will. Make the switch.

Today’s Scripture:

Matthew 15:30, NLT

A vast crowd brought to him people who were lame, blind, crippled, those who couldn’t speak, and many others. They laid them before Jesus, and he healed them all.

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…….WHERE YOU NEED TO BE

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GOD WILL WORK OUT HIS PLAN AND GET YOU TO WHERE YOU NEED TO BE

When Moses led the two million Israelites out of slavery into the desert and toward the Promised Land, I can imagine them asking him, “What ROUTE are we going to take? Where are we going to get FOOD and WATER? How will we PROTECT ourselves?” Moses answered, “I don’t know.'” Just because YOU don’t know how something is going to work out doesn’t mean GOD doesn’t have a PLAN. Moses had such a TRUST in God that he was COMFORTABLE not KNOWING. He took it one step of FAITH at a time.

When WE’RE trying to figure everything out and manipulate a solution, we’re being GOD. It’s very FREEING when you learn this principle that it’s OKAY to say as Moses did, “I don’t KNOW how it’s going to work out, but I’m at PEACE.” You’re taking yourself OFF the throne and putting God ON the throne. Take the pressure OFF. You don’t HAVE to know; GOD knows. He will work out His plan and get you to where you’re SUPPOSED to be.

Today’s Scripture:

Psalm 138:8, NLT

The LORD will work out his plans for my life–for your faithful love, O LORD, endures forever.

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BE MOVED NOT BY WHAT YOU SEE…..

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BE MOVED NOT BY WHAT YOU SEE, BUT BY WHAT YOU KNOW GOD SAYS IN HIS WORD

We ALL face situations that LOOK like they’ll never change. We have BIGGER things in our spirit, and we KNOW what God PROMISED, but it seems like we’ve reached our limit in our CAREER. Our bank account says we’re STUCK. When we look at the medical report or at a broken relationship, there’s no sign of it IMPROVING. But the Scripture says, “The things we see NOW will soon be GONE” (2 Cor. 4:18). What we SEE is subject to change according to what God promises in His WORD. You can’t be MOVED by what you SEE; you have to be moved by what you KNOW He SAYS.

Are YOU believing what you’re seeing, or are you believing what you’re READING in God’s Word? What you SEE may be lack and struggle, but what God is SPEAKING to you is ABUNDANCE, HEALING, BREAKTHROUGHS, and new LEVELS. Don’t reduce what God’s PROMISED you to fit your faith. Stretch your FAITH and come up to HIS level. EVERY word He promises WILL come to pass.

Today’s Scripture:

1 Kings 8:56, NLT

Praise the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, just as he promised. Not one word has failed of all the wonderful promises he gave through his servant Moses.

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……CONNECT THE DOTS….

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

ONE DAY, GOD IS GOING TO CONNECT THE DOTS FOR YOU

God gave Joseph a dream that he was DESTINED for greatness, but before that dream came true, he went through some very dark places. However, today’s Scripture shows how God connected the dots. Being thrown into the pit by his brothers led to being sold to Potiphar in Egypt, which led to being falsely accused and put in prison. In prison, he interpreted the dreams of the butler and the baker, which led to interpreting PHARAO’S dream and being put in charge of the NATION. Every step was divinely ORCHESTRATED and moving Joseph toward his DESTINY.

As was true in JOSEPH’S life, you have to BELIEVE that a disappointment, a betrayal, or a setback is part of God’s plan. It’s moving you little by little into your DESTINY. God knows what He’s DOING. What looks like trouble is really the hand of GOD. Keep doing the right thing DESPITE the trouble, and ONE day, God is going to connect the dots for YOU.

Today’s Scripture:

Genesis 50:20, NLT

“You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.”

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LIVE DOWN DEEPER

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

CHOOSE TO LIVE DOWN DEEP

When you throw a rock out into a lake that is calm as glass on the surface, it sends ripples across the whole lake. It LOOKS like it causes a big DISTURBANCE. But the TRUTH is, one foot BENEATH the surface was CALM and PEACEFUL. No fish exclaimed, “Call 911! Something’s wrong!” Nothing on the surface affects the water down DEEP. It stays CALM.

How easily do YOU get upset? If the pebbles that get thrown into your LIFE are getting you frustrated and stealing your JOY, you need to go down DEEPER in FAITH. “But the promotion at work fell through!” That’s a PEBBLE. “She offended me!” ANOTHER pebble. “The loan was denied!” Just a pebble disturbing the SURFACE. That’s not making LIGHT of those things, but when you get BENEATH the surface, you know GOD is still on the throne. Down deep where you choose to LIVE, you’ll feel a PEACE, you’ll be at REST.

Today’s Scripture:

Isaiah 32:18, NIV

My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest.

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…….WITHOUT ‘MESSY TIMES’

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YOU CAN’T BECOME ALL YOU WERE CREATED TO BE WITHOUT ‘MESSY TIMES’

House building sites are often BIG messes of mud, discarded lumber, and trash piled high. What’s interesting is that we don’t say, “Stop building! It’s never going to be a beautiful house.” We know the MESS is a part of the building PROCESS.

In the same way, you have to see the things that are messy in your LIFE, things you struggle with, things that seem to be delays, as simply under CONSTRUCTION. You may not LIKE the mud–The disappointment, the setback, the betrayal–but it’s part of the PROCESS. You can’t become all you were CREATED to be without messy TIMES. Your architect and BUILDER, the Most High GOD, isn’t CONCERNED about the mess because He designed a specific PLAN for your life. He’s already taken into ACCOUNT all the delays, the things you don’t understand, and even the MISTAKES you’ve made. God is saying, “You’re not a finished PRODUCT. What I STARTED, I’m going to bring to COMPLETION.”

Today’s Scripture:

Hebrews 3:4, NIV

For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

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YOUR VALUE AND SELF-WORTH…….

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YOUR VALUE AND SELF-WORTH COMES FROM YOUR CREATOR

It’s great when PEOPLE cheer us on and make us feel VALUABLE. We LOVE when a friend COMPLIMENTS us or a coworker HELPS us on a project. God uses PEOPLE to help move us toward our DESTINY. But you can’t become SO dependent on people that you’re trying to get your worth and value from THEM. It’s easy to rely on THEM to keep you feeling GOOD about yourself and make you feel APPROVED. But if they don’t give you their APPROVAL and meet your EXPECTATIONS, you’ll feel discouraged and inferior, and you’ll work OVERTIME to try to win their APPROVAL. The PROBLEM is, YOU’RE trying to get from PEOPLE what only GOD can give. Your VALUE, your SELF-WORTH doesn’t COME from another person–it comes from your CREATOR.

Jesus KNEW better than to rely on people. What they do or don’t do doesn’t DETERMINE your worth and cannot stop your PURPOSE. Quit depending on OTHERS’ approval and start approving YOURSELF.

Today’s Scripture:

John 5:41, NLT

“Your approval means nothing to me.”

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….THE FORCES OF DARKNESS…..

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

ALL THE FORCES OF DARKNESS CANNOT KEEP YOU FROM YOUR DESTINY

This is what three Hebrew teenagers did in the Scripture. They wouldn’t bow down to the king of Babylon’s golden idol. He was so furious that he was about to have them thrown into a fiery furnace. They said, “King, we’re NOT worried. We KNOW that our God will DELIVER us. But even if He DOESN’T, we’re STILL not going to bow down.” That’s UNCONDITIONAL trust.

You may have a lot coming against YOU. Perhaps, you feel as though YOU’RE about to be thrown into a fire. This is the key: stay in FAITH, BELIEVE in your dreams, believe the situation WILL turn around, and then DECLARE, “Even if it DOESN’T happen MY way, I’m STILL going to be HAPPY. God, if You turn it around, or if You DON’T turn it around, I’m STILL going to give You PRAISE.” You live like THAT and all the forces of darkness CANNOT keep you from your DESTINY.

Today’s Scripture:

Daniel 3:18, NIV

“But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”