Today I got an early morning call. I prayed. When it seems like ALL is lost.... we must believe that HE has NOT given up on us...GOD never quits.
Our circumstances are temporary. What seems impossible at this very moment -- is NOTHING for God to change. Nothing.
This is from Romans -- Chapters 8 and 9 from the MSG bible.
Read to the very end. Please.
20-33 Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that mold it, saying, “Why did you shape me like this?” Isn’t it obvious that a potter has a perfect right to shape one lump of clay into a vase for holding flowers and another into a pot for cooking beans? If God needs one style of pottery especially designed to show his angry displeasure and another style carefully crafted to show his glorious goodness, isn’t that all right? Either or both happens to Jews, but it also happens to the other people. Hosea put it well:
I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies;
I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved.
In the place where they yelled out, “You’re nobody!”
they’re calling you “God’s living children.”
Isaiah maintained this same emphasis:
If each grain of sand on the seashore were numbered
and the sum labeled “chosen of God,”
They’d be numbers still, not names;
salvation comes by personal selection.
God doesn’t count us; he calls us by name.
Arithmetic is not his focus.
Isaiah had looked ahead and spoken the truth:
If our powerful God
had not provided us a legacy of living children,
We would have ended up like ghost towns,
like Sodom and Gomorrah.
How can we sum this up? All those people who didn’t seem interested in what God was doing actually embraced what God was doing as he straightened out their lives. And Israel, who seemed so interested in reading and talking about what God was doing, missed it. How could they miss it? Because instead of trusting God, they took over. They were absorbed in what they themselves were doing. They were so absorbed in their “God projects” that they didn’t notice God right in front of them, like a huge rock in the middle of the road. And so they stumbled into him and went sprawling. Isaiah (again!) gives us the metaphor for pulling this together:
Careful! I’ve put a huge stone on the road to Mount Zion,
a stone you can’t get around.
But the stone is me! If you’re looking for me,
you’ll find me on the way, not in the way.
God is in control. Today was 'no' accident. IN the middle of a trial, in the middle of our despair -- we must remember -- GOD wins.
Our troubles are temporary and stand relative to the fact...JESUS died for it all...no matter what....what is most important -- is our NEED for HIM and our NEED to allow HIM to move the mountain, restore the brokenhearted...and RESTORE what the locusts have taken.
God can do that.
Don't give up.
Don't give in to flesh.
Believe that WHEN YOU FOLLOW God...FOLLOW wHat HE has asked you to do.... then...there will be GREAT rewards and... a peace that NO one can take away.
Speak life into your own heart and demand of God what HE has promised....a life of abundance and peace. Remind yourself of WHAT God has done...and THAT HE can do that again. REMIND the enemy that he has NO authority within your life...NO authority over your husband or children...and he has NO authority to harm you any more!
Sometimes we can't listen to the ones CLOSEST to us.... even our family MAY NOT have the best advice....so seek GOD.
Don't listen to your heart...hearts can be deceived. Listen to HIS word.
I believe that a marriage CAN be restored. I know marriages and people that have come through MUCH more than we ever have.
I believe a man or women CAN change...and become the person GOD so intended us all to be...HIS.
I believe that when it looks MOST impossible...THAT is when most can attest...'it HAD to be God'....
I know I have been a part of a miracle. Several.
I can believe that GOD has so many more for many of HIS children.
I believe CAN can restore a family -- whole...
I believe SATAN can throw such an assault upon a family that -- they all believe...nothing will change....BUT GOD does change people.
Don't let your heart HARDEN so hard.... and if you are seeing a person...whose hard is THAT heart - where you can see and know - he or she is NOT calling upon Jesus -- then pray even more.
Lord, tonight my heart is heavy with several families and loved ones so close to me that are not listening to you -- but listening to the enemy and believing a lie.......believing that YOU have left them. Lord...... may they dream this eve and get a glimpse of WHAT could be....good or bad...but change them tonight Lord...I am TIRED of watching another family get torn apart. I won't STAND for it on my watch...
Heading to bed.... praying....believing that... GOD wins. Amen.
Thank you. God bless you.
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