Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. Luke 18:40
For days, the sickly cat cried, huddled in a box near my workplace. Abandoned on the street, the feline went unnoticed by many who passed it by—until Jun came along. The street sweeper carried the animal home, where he lived with two dogs, which were former strays.“I care for them because they’re the creatures no one notices,” Jun said. “I see myself in them. No one notices a street sweeper, after all.
”As Jesus walked toward Jericho on His way to Jerusalem, a blind man sat begging by the roadside. He felt unnoticed too. And on this day especially—when a crowd was passing through and all eyes were focused on Christ—no one stopped to help the beggar.No one except Jesus. In the midst of the clamoring crowd, He heard the forgotten man’s cry. “What do you want me to do for you?” Christ asked, and He received the heartfelt reply, “Lord, I want to see.”
Then Jesus said, “Receive your sight; your faith has healed you” (Luke 18:41–42).Do we feel unnoticed at times? Are our cries drowned out by people who seem to matter more than us? Our Savior notices those the world doesn’t care to notice. Call to Him for help! While others may pass us by, He’ll stop for us.How would knowing that Jesus sees you change how you view yourself and your life? Who are those around you who might need to be noticed, and how can you “stop” to encourage them with the Savior’s love?
Dear Jesus, thank You for hearing me when I call to You. Like the blind man who received his sight, help me to follow and praise You all my life.
If we think about those who lived in harmony with one another in the scriptures, the ones who appear before our eyes are Daniel., Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and Queen Esther and her nurses. By living in this way, not only were they blessed and elevated, but those who were with them gained knowledge of God and achieved salvation. That is why God directs us to have a fellowship gathering this year 2024 in every constituency.
Benefits
1) We all rejoice in the Lord. The Lord also rejoices when our constituencies join together as soldiers. Deuteronomy16:14 “Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.
Philippians4 : 4 “Rejoice in the Lord always. Rejoice, I say again.”
2) God’s name is glorified.
Daniel3:28, 29
“Then Nebuchadnezzar spoke; Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abedneho. They did not serve and worship any other God besides their own God, but trusted in Him and rejected the king’s commands and surrendered their bodies. He sent his messenger and freed his servant. There is no other God who can be save like this.”
3) Gentiles gain the knowledge of God.
Daniel 6: 26, 27 “It is decreed that all who are within the rule of my kingdom should tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. He who saved Daniel from the hand of lions is the one who saves and protects, who does signs and wonders in heaven and on earth.” It leads to salvation for many in our constituency.
4) They are raised.
Daniel 3:30 “Then the king exalted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abedneho in the land of Babylon.
Daniel 2:48 “And the king promoted Daniel, and gave him great and abundant gifts, and set him over the whole province of Babylon, and made him chief satrap over all the wise …”
5 ) Enemies are destroyed. Things ended up changing.
(Esther 9:1, 7:10)
6 ) The immeasurable anointing of the Holy Spirit is poured out. People who turn the world upside down are created.
Acts of Apostles throughout the 2nd chapter 7 ) Divine counsel is revealed. A vacant apostolic position is being filled. (Acts 1:13-15, 26) Vacant shadow legislators will be filled.
8 ) Gentiles receive anointing. Baptism is given. New souls join us and the kingdom of Jesus Christ grows in our constituency. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abedneho the four Jews kept themselves from being defiled by the heathen king’s food and the wine he drank, even though they were in the palace of Babylon. At first the decision appeared in Daniel’s heart, but all four unanimously accepted the decision. Daniel 8:1-16
A golden statue was made by King Nebuchadnezzar. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednoho had been given an order that everyone should fall down and bow down. The three of them unanimously said “ We will not worship this idol and we will not worship your God” So when these three were thrown into the fiery furnace, God walked with them and kept them unharmed. So the king not only ordered that no one should speak blasphemous words against the God of these three, but also declared that there is no other God who can be saved. In this way Nebuchadnezzar, a Gentile, gained the knowledge of God. He exalted them in the land of Babylon. Daniel 3:29
By the machinations of Haman, who was next to the king in Susan’s palace, A plan was made to exterminate and loot all Jews trapped in 127 countries. At that time Queen Esther from the Jewish clan went to the king’s place after fasting for three days with her nurses and made her request. She took this decision risking her life. As she found favor in the king’s society, the impending doom for the Jews was removed. The Jews annihilated their enemies by cutting them by the sword. Haman was also hanged as a soothsayer. The reason for this victory was that Esther fasted in unison with her nurses.
A single man named Corneliu was the ruler of the Hundred. He was always praying to God and doing a lot of charity to people. Corneliu was a kin to a shadow parliamentarian. The Shadow Member of Parliament is the head of the constituency. We should pray like Cornelius. That means he can pray for two and a half hours every day and receive visions and advice from God while doing good to the people of his constituency. Cornelius gathered all his relatives and friends to his house and according to God’s advice, he also invited the apostle Peter. As Peter preached, all the Gentiles were listening and the Holy Spirit descended. They were baptized.
According to the advice given to Sister Angelica, when the Shadow MPs and the team members are in one of the houses with the soldiers who completed the BFF and those who trained in the gift school, and their families and friends are also invited and held a fellowship meeting, Holy Spirit will come down and shower power during the message time and the prayer time.Then there can be many Troop Churches , Gift schools to be formed and vacant shadow legislator and Coordinators to be filled. Let us obey God’s advice completely.
Prayer
Our Father in heaven, Please grant us the grace to all our shadow parliamentarians to accept your advice and hold fellowship meeting in their respective constituencies wholeheartedly, We pray in Jesus name. Amen.
I chronicle 16:11 “Seek the lord and his strength, seek his face continually”.
People often ask for the god’s assistance at life’s lowest points. But God, our heavenly Father, loves you and offers his hands in good time as well as bad. We can always turn to God in prayer. Praying to God brings answers and inner peace.
The Old Testament teaches that we are created in God’s own image (Gen 1:22) just as our father and mother created us in physical body. Our heavenly father created our spirit. That’s why God is called the “Father of spirits” (Hebrew 12:9) this familial relationship means that we can turn to him when we need help.
God loves you:
Because God is your father, he loves us and wants to help us through our challenges. God’s love is constant. In the New Testament Jesus explains that because God is perfect. He knows perfectly how to help us when we ask him and wants to help even more than a loving earthly father desires to help his children.
“If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father will give him a stone? Or if a he asks a fish, will he for a fish give him serpent? If he then, being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children’s. how much more shall your heavenly father gives the holy spirit to them that ask him? (Luke 11:11-13)
God wants you to grow:
Because God loves us. He doesn’t eliminate trials and hardship from our life. Death, illness, financial hardship, natural disasters and many other difficulties are part of God’s plan for our long-term happiness because they allow us to learn and grow and become a better person. It may not seem like it when we are in the middle of a trail. but the apostle Paul taught that this “light affliction is only temporary and can lead to a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory (II cor 4:17)
Every challenge we face can help us to progress especially if we turn to God for help.
God respect your freedom:
We have no control over some of life’s difficulties others a direct or indirect results of our choices because he loves us, God gave us agency, or the freedom to make decision. our agency enables us to make good decision that leads to happiness, it also makes us accountable for bad choices, which leads to immediate or eventual unhappiness. God will not intervene in your choices; he allows us to decide for ourself and to learn from the consequences. Yet he offers the ultimate help to overcome the mistakes and sins. The saving power of Jesus Christ. No matter how bad our circumstance may become or how many wrong decisions we may have made, we can always choose to change and find peace through Jesus Christ Even though God’s love for us is constant, we must turn to him for help. We can do to seek God assistance in our life through.
1)Exercise faith in God:
Faith means not only believing there is a God and he is your father, but also have confidence that he can and will help when we turn to him.
No matter how black life may see. No matter how difficult it is. Faith is a first step to seeking (heb 11:6)“he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him”.
2)Pray:
When we remember the true relationship with God that is our father and we are his children. Prayer becomes a welcome, comforting communication. Take all questions, conflicts problems and insecurities to our father in our prayer. He is all knowing and all seeing, he understands, he waits for us to seek him in prayer so he can guide, uplift and give comfort.
3) keep his commandment’s:
Every person is equal in God’s eyes; he loves all of hid children. He that is righteous is favoured of God. That does not mean that God has favourite’s; it does mean that those who are righteous- those who follow him and do what he asks- qualify for God’s favour or blessings.
When we keep the commandments. He is ready to bless us. He is our father almighty. amen
Romans 8:24-25 “We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it.But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.) “
Hebrews 11:1”Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see”. Substance of Faith is the assurance of the unseen.Faith is not what we see through our eyes to believe.Our belief in the thing that remains unseen is considered Faith.
Our God who creates new things out of nothing desire that we His children also have such eyes of Faith.Such Faith Filled generation God desires in these days. Let’s see about two personalities,who stood their ground on Faith.
Noah
Hebrews 11:7 It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith”.We have the complete life of Noah in the book of Genesis.At the times of Noah,God, Our Maker,regretted creating mankind on the earth due to their sinful nature and decided to destroy them,therefore God asked Noah to build an Ark.If we are given such a task will we willingly accept stands as a question?But God is in search of the Noah who believe in the things that remains unseen.God has a plan for our lives to in the surrounding that we live.Lets accept that plan thoroughly and implement it with Grace of God .In those days,though the people never saw rains and all discouraged Noah with words of unbelief,Noah stood strong and obeyed God’s words and did the work that was bestowed to him.God has also given many plans for us too.We have to be connected with God and complete the task entrusted for each of our lives.Through our obedience towards God’s plan May the Lord save our land from danger and fire.
Abraham
Hebrews 11:8 “It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going.”
From the nation of Chaldeans who worshipped idols Abraham was asked to leave his father’s house,his nation,his people and go to a place that God had asked him to.But God did not reveal the place that he needed to go to.Abraham immediately abandoned his all and left.This is Faith.
Romans 4:17,19”That is what the Scriptures mean when God told him, “I have made you the father of many nations.” This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new things out of nothing. – Romans 4:17 And Abraham’s faith did not weaken, even though, at about 100 years of age, he figured his body was as good as dead– and so was Sarah’s womb. – Romans 4:19
From these verses we see that Abraham,though he was advanced in his age did not consider.He believed that he will be made leader over every nation,though he was a nothing. I happened to counsel a couple who did not have a child for the last seven years of their marriage life.In the midst of my conversation with them God revealed something to me.I heeded to it and brought to them a newly born infant.After the couple held the infant in their hands I asked them to pray by Faith for their own unseen child.By God’s amazing Grace,the couple were eventually blessed with two children.To God be the Glory.
New Testament, Jairus comes to Jesus and says that his girl child is sick.When the people around spoke words of unbelief to Jairus,Jesus Christ looks at him and said have faith and went to his house.Jesus spoke to the already dead girl,that she is not dead but asleep and brings her back to life.God who works miracles.
In your life if you are gripped with hopelessness Our God who is able to turnaround the circumstances is mighty to save.we all regularly read Ezekiel 37,He is still Our God who brings dry bones back to life.
If Our locality or our family seems dead let us raise them up as Praisers to praise and worship Our God .Let’s raise people who can commit to serve God.Everything is possible with Our God,because Jesus Christ is Our God who can transform dry bones into a battalion of soldiers.
Danger is like a viper though it grips us and poisons us through our Faith In Christ we can shake it off.Amen
Two are better than one . . . . If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. Ecclesiastes 4:9–10
Ecclesiastes 4:9
Søren Solkær spent years photographing starlings and their breathtaking spectacle: murmurations, where hundreds of thousands of starlings move in fluid motion across the sky. Watching this marvel is like sitting underneath an orchestrated, swirling wave or a massive, dark brushstroke flowing into a kaleidoscope of patterns. In Denmark, they call this starling experience Black Sun (also the title of Solkær’s stunning book of photographs). Most remarkable is how starlings instinctively follow their nearest companion, flying so close that if one were to miss a beat, they’d suffer mass calamity. However, starlings use murmurations to protect one another. When a hawk descends, these tiny creatures enter tight formation and move collectively, beating back a predator who’d easily pick them off if they were alone.
We’re better together than we are alone. “Two are better than one,” Ecclesiastes says. “If either . . . falls down, one can help the other up. [And] if two lie down together, they will keep warm” (4:9–11). Alone, we’re isolated and easy prey. We’re exposed without the comfort or protection of others.
But with companions, we give and receive help. “Though one may be overpowered,” Ecclesiastes says, “two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken” (v. 12). We’re better together as God leads us.
Although the author of Ecclesiastes isn’t named, he refers to himself as “the Teacher,” or qoheleth in Hebrew (1:1-2, 12; 12:8-10). Based on internal evidence, scholars believe that “the Teacher” is Solomon, “son of David” (1:1) and “king over Israel in Jerusalem” (v. 12). In the first six chapters, Solomon examines life as he’d lived it and discusses what makes it purposeful and meaningful. He talks about human achievements, pleasures, and wisdom (chs. 1-2) and how mortal men live out their time on earth in the light of eternity (ch. 3). In chapter 4, Solomon discusses social relationships. The solitary person lives a miserable, lonely existence without social interactions with other humans. In verses 9-12, the author extols the value, advantages, and mutual benefits of friendship, partnership, and companionship, making this passage a popular text for weddings. Solomon argues that friendships and community are needed for a meaningful life.
Dear God, please help me commit to being in community and extending Your love.
“Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing” (John 20:27).
It is the expectation; commandment and counsel of the Lord for us not be unbelieving, but to believe.
It is only for the purpose of creating faith within us that the Lord has recorded all the signs and wonders that He has performed in the Scripture. He has also done great things in our life, and strengthens our faith. We are worthy to be called as Christians, only if we believe.
Although Thomas, the disciple of Jesus lived in close fellowship with the Lord, and had personally witnessed many signs and wonders of the Lord, he still did not believe in the resurrection of Lord Jesus. Therefore, in order to make him as a Believer, the Lord had to show His wounded hands and side.
The Lord said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing” (John 20:27).
Faith is a creative power; whereas lack of faith has the power to destroy. Lack of faith limits the power of God to act in your life; as He cannot freely operate His signs and wonders where there is unbelief. The Scripture says, “Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:58).
Our Lord is the Lord of wonders. He does great things past finding out, and wonders without number. And He came down to earth for that purpose. But when people did not believe in Him, that unbelief prevented Him from doing mighty works in their midst. The people limited the Lord, by making statements such as, ‘Is He not the son of the carpenter; is He not the son of Mary?’.
On many occasions, because of their unbelief, the disciples could not cast out the demonic spirits. When they asked Jesus as to why they could not cast the demons, Jesus pointedly told them it was because of their unbelief (Matthew 17:19-20). Therefore , do not be unbelieving, but believing.
The Scripture says, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6).
Children of God, believe in the Lord with all of your heart. If you believe, you shall have the reward for every prayer. If you believe, the Lord who laid down His life for you, will perfect everything concerning you. The Scripture also says, if you would believe you would see the glory of God.
Verse for further meditation: “Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29).
Romans 12:2 says, “And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind.”
The word transformed is the same Greek word as in 2 Corinthians 3:18.
In 2 Corinthians 3 transformation is by the Lord Spirit, while in Romans 12 transformation takes place in our mind. This shows that transformation is accomplished by the Spirit through the renewing of our mind. If our mind is not renewed, we cannot be transformed.
Overthrowing Reasonings and Taking Captive Every Thought unto the Obedience of Christ 2 Corinthians 10:5 says, “As we overthrow reasonings and every high thing rising up against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought unto the obedience of Christ.”
Many people may never have realized that there is such a phrase in the New Testament as overthrow reasonings. Have you ever overthrown your reasonings? Every day we have many reasonings; even at this moment we may have reasonings. To overthrow reasonings and take captive every thought unto the obedience of Christ is the real renewing of the mind.
Ephesians 1:18 says, “The eyes of your heart having been enlightened.” The eyes of our heart involve our understanding, which is a function of the mind. With our understanding there are eyes, not the physical eyes but spiritual eyes, and these eyes need to be enlightened. This means that our mind, our understanding, need to be transformed by being renewed.
In order to be renewed in our mind, we must first learn to overthrow our reasonings. Day by day there are reasonings and imaginations in our mind. These imaginations are like dreams. In our imaginations we can travel all over the world. We may travel to Canada in our mind, and two minutes later we are in America. If we check with ourselves, we will see that we have many imaginations and it is difficult to quieten and stop our mind.
We must learn the lesson to overthrow our reasonings and imaginations. We also need to take captive every thought unto the obedience of Christ. We do not realize how rebellious we are in our thoughts. We need to be subdued in our thoughts. Our thoughts need to be taken captive. We need to practice and exercise to do this.
Putting Off the Old Man by Being Renewed in the Spirit of the Mind Originally, our soul was something in the old creation, but the Lord’s salvation transforms it into something of the new creation. Most of this transformation is in our mind. Our natural mind is too old. Because we have the mind of Adam, our mind is as old as Adam. Even a young brother has an old mind. Therefore, we need a change of mind.
1Corinthians 2:16 says that we have the mind of Christ. By our old nature we have the mind of Adam, but by the new birth we have the mind of Christ. After we are regenerated, we need a change of mind. This change of mind is the meaning of repentance.
Ephesians 4:22-24 says, “That you put off, as regards your former manner of life, the old man, which is being corrupted according to the lusts of the deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the reality.” Putting off the old man and putting on the new man depend on our being renewed in the spirit of our mind.
The old man is mainly the soul, and the mind is a part of the soul, so the mind is a part of the old man. The old man has been crucified on the cross. Now we need to recognize this fact and put off the old man. This is simply to put off the old mind with its thoughts. If we recognize the fact that we as the old man have been crucified on the cross, we must act on it by rejecting and giving up the reasonings and thoughts of our old mind, reckoning that our mind has been crucified. If we do this, the Holy Spirit will do His part; He will renew what we put on the cross. To renew is simply to resurrect. If we put our mind on the cross, the Holy Spirit will renew it by resurrecting it from death.
We must learn the lesson to reject our reasonings and our old thoughts. We do not realize how much we are controlled, directed, and governed by our mind. We must realize that we, the old man, the self, the soul, have been crucified, so our mind and our thoughts have to be put on the cross. If we do this, the Holy Spirit within us will renew our mind. He will come into our mind and take possession of it, causing it to be renewed. At this very point, the Spirit will even fill our mind. Our mind will be filled with the Holy Spirit.
We cannot understand the Scriptures with our old mind. Moreover, because our mind is wrong, we often misunderstand the ministry of the word. Therefore, when we come to read the Scriptures, we must learn the lesson to reject our old thoughts and our old way of thinking. We do not realize how much we bring our own thoughts into our reading of the Scriptures. To come to the Word with an old mind means that our mind has not been renewed.
I once stayed in the home of a brother and sister. This couple loved the Lord, but they were not of one mind because it was hard for the sister to submit to her husband. One morning I asked the sister what she had read in the Bible. She said that she had read
Ephesians 5. I asked what help she had received, and she replied that she received the light that husbands should love their wives. I turned to the brother and asked the same thing. He said that strangely he had read the same passage and had received the light that wives should submit to their husbands. No doubt, the sister already had the thought in her mind that husbands should love their wives, and when she came to the Scriptures, she brought her thought with her to get a confirmation. It is the same in principle with the brother. He had the thought in his mind that his wife should submit to him, and he came to the Scriptures to get a confirmation. This demonstrates that people come to the Scriptures with their old mind.
Because our mind is occupied by all our human thoughts and reasonings, it is difficult to understand the Word. It is difficult to get something new, heavenly, and spiritual. We cannot get something from the Scriptures because we bring something to them. This is because our thoughts and mind have not been renewed. This is our problem. After we are regenerated, we need to be transformed by the renewing of the mind. Then when our mind is renewed, our mind influences our emotions and our will. If our mind is transformed, our whole soul, including our emotions and our will, also will be transformed.
In the same principle, we must learn the lesson to reject our natural will and emotions. Many times when someone comes to us or when something happens to us, we cannot control our emotions. We are so influenced and directed by our emotions that we are beside ourselves. We must learn the lesson to reject our natural emotions. Then something will happen in our emotions. They will be renewed by the working of the Holy Spirit. It is the same in principle with our will. We need to learn the lesson always to subdue and reject the natural will.
The mind, emotions, and will are the parts of the soul, and the soul is the old man which has been crucified on the cross. We have to realize this fact and reject the old elements of the old man. If we do this, the Holy Spirit will honor what we do. He will renew our mind, will, and emotions, which we have rejected. This results in transformation. The Holy Spirit with the divine life, which is the Lord Christ Himself, will take possession of our mind, emotions, and will. He will heal our entire soul with Christ as our life. Then the element of Christ will be not only in our spirit but also in our inward parts, our soul. Christ will be the infilling factor in all our inward parts. The Holy Spirit will fill our inward parts with Christ Himself. This is the transformation in our soul.
Prayer Lord I receive the Grace to renew my mind. Let my mindset set my destiny. Work on my mind Lord in Jesus name I pray. Amen.
There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee ,nor forsake thee”. Joshua 1:5
The verse promises us that no human being can defeat us all the days of our lives.Though unseen the Lord is with us all the time and we are greater than any other great people in this world., because we are great by His grace. This greatness was gifted to Moses and Joshua. It is also gifted to us, who are His children.
1John4:4 says”….. greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world”.
This encouragement should empower believers not to fear satan, but rather trust the Lord and obey His commands. By doing so we can overcome the powers of darkness and walk with boldness in this life.Isaiah54:17 says” No weapon formed against us shall prosper “.
He makes us more than conquerors. Romans 8:37”In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” We only need to yield to Him and resist the enemy of our soul. We do not use force or violence or the methods of our enemies, but Lord guarantee our victory.
Deutronomy 20:4 “For the Lord your God is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” God was with Moses and led him step by step on the journey to freedom and to the promised land. He did the same with Joshua.Today the same God is with us and He says” I will never leave you nor forsake you”.Hebrews 13:5, Deutronomy 31:8
Our personal relationship with the Lord is the source of our happiness, victory, deliverance, blessings and strength. We can be confident that He will lead us to victory and provide whatever we need for our journey . The worldly people live on the basis of money and prosperity, but people of the Word,who is God, live on the basis of God’s promises. The Word becomes our source of strength, inspiration, guidance, wisdom and hope.
The enemy always plot to attack us or steal our peace and happiness. Lord goes ahead of us and cover our back. The battle belongs to the Lord. So the plot of the enemy won’t be successful as our pilot and escort are both Almighty God.Our battle is not physical but spiritual, in prayer and supplication and meditating and claiming His promises.
Heavenly Father we thank you for the promises which help us to overcome the world and become victorious. Thank you for your promise that “ I will never leave you nor forsake you”. In Jesus name I pray , Amen
“Those who have been ransomed by the LORD will return. They will enter Jerusalem singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Sorrow and mourning will disappear, and they will be filled with joy and gladness.”Isaiah 51:10-12“
Are you not the same today, the one who dried up the sea, making a path of escape through the depths so that your people could cross over? Those who have been ransomed by the LORD will return. They will enter Jerusalem singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Sorrow and mourning will disappear, and they will be filled with joy and gladness.
“I, yes I, am the one who comforts you. So why are you afraid of mere humans, who wither like the grass and disappear? “Our God is the one who dried the depths of the sea and made a way for the ransomed to pass by.
Human mourning types Job 14:1″How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble!
Psalm 31:10 “I am dying from grief; my years are shortened by sadness. Sin has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within”.
Psalm 39:6“We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it. “
Psalm 90:10 Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away.
”Ecclesiastes 4:4“Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless– like chasing the wind.
Lamentations 3:32-33“Though he brings grief, he also shows compassion because of the greatness of his unfailing love. For he does not enjoy hurting people or causing them sorrow.
“Zephaniah 3:18″I will gather you who mourn for the appointed festivals; you will be disgraced no more.
”Jeremiah 31:13“I will turn their mourning into joy. I will comfort them and exchange their sorrow for rejoicing.”How to overcome our everyday sorrows of this world?
Deuteronomy 28:20“The LORD himself will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and abandoning me.”If we obey His commands and hear his voice he will bless our lives more than the rest of the world.
1 Samuel 1:10“Hannah was in deep anguish, crying bitterly as she prayed to the LORD.”Hannah went and bitterly cried and prayed to the Lord .Her sorrow disappeared.
Psalm 142:2“I pour out my complaints before him and tell him all my troubles. “Call to God during the times of trouble.
1 Samuel 1:15″Oh no, sir!” she replied. “I haven’t been drinking wine or anything stronger. But I am very discouraged, and I was pouring out my heart to the LORD.”Pour out your heart like Hannah in God’s sanctuary .
Esther 4:16 When Queen Esther’s maids and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, she was deeply distressed. She sent clothing to him to replace the burlap, but he refused it. –
Esther 4:4 “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.” Like Esther, we must hold on to our Faith and fast for God’s righteousness
.Daniel 6:3,10“Daniel soon proved himself more capable than all the other administrators and high officers. Because of Daniel’s great ability, the king made plans to place him over the entire empire.” “But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.”
Like Daniel,We must be honest ,blameless and preserve our relationship with God.If we abide by all that is said above God will surely shower His eternal joy on our head.we will be happy and joyful.Sorrow and mourning will disappear forever.Glory to God
“I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, …”So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.” — Malachi 2:16
Thoughts on Today’s Verse….My heart breaks for those who hear these words of this verse and feel a shattering in their souls because of what they have endured. God hates the pain, damage, loss, sorrow, and physical damage you carry. We mourn with those who had to leave their marriage to find spiritual, emotional, and physical protection.
In our throw-away world, God hates when people are abandoned and when we break our lives through our unrighteous behaviors. We want our spirits to be holy. We don’t want our hearts corrupted by selfishness and resentment. We choose NOT to break faith by treating those closest to us with contempt, neglect, or abuse.
When people are broken by what causes divorce and the consequences of it, let’s find them, include them, and bring them home to God’s family for healing. Let’s especially be sensitive and supportive of children caught between divorcing parents. Let’s remember that God hates divorce and what causes it, but he does not say, “I hate the divorced.”
All sin is forgivable when we genuinely repent and reorient our lives to God (1 John 1:5-10, 2:1-2).
My Prayer…Almighty God, please make our words strong, our commitments lasting, and our lives faithful to our promises to you and each other. Bless those whose hearts have been shattered by spouses who have treated them unfairly, abusively, and unfaithfully. Thank you for the beautiful examples of many who have had strong marriages. Thank you for those who have stumbled but come back to you, confessed their sins, and gone on to build godly relationships and marriages. Please bless me and my house with a legacy of faithfulness that lasts generations after us. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
