As we enter a new month and a new season I want to encourage you to put your focus entirely on God, our Rock!
I’m almost positive each one of us can say this year has been full of many obstacles, distractions, heartaches, and pains. To be honest it is hard to live day to day without something coming against us or hearing of something tragic. I just want to remind you today, no matter what you may be facing, that God is with you. He has authority over everything. He promises to be with us, but he doesn’t promise that it will always be easy.
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
God gives us the ability by faith to live above the struggles of this life. We can have peace in tribulation because we have the promise of eternal life. Jesus does not abandon us in our troubles. Our faith grows with each trial or tribulation we face. We can always look back and see what the Lord did for us. He either walks with us through the fire or removes it completely.
I want to remind you that we are set apart. We are called and chosen by God to mirror His holiness. Being chosen by God means that we should focus on our kingdom work over any temporary troubles of this life. This doesn’t mean we don’t hurt and feel the pain, but that we walk in faith knowing that it will grow us and bring glory to God.
“Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. “ Romans 5:3-5
I pray in this new month and this new season, no matter what it brings, that your faith will be strong and unmovable. I encourage you to praise God in each new day and know that He will protect and provide for you. Find joy in knowing that we are secured in God’s love and he gives us new mercies everyday. He is the rock of our salvation!
“The Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior! He is the God who avenges me, who puts the nations under me, who sets me free from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from a violent man you rescued me. Therefore I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name.”
2 Samuel 22:47-50
Just as David praised God wholeheartedly, so should we!
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