God is not only this great and wonderful God that we read and learn about, but in our walk with Him we experience Him; we feel Him in every area of our lives, and through every situation we face. Even if words escape us and we can’t properly explain it, and even if we don’t see it clearly right now, we know that He is there because we can feel Him alive in us, working around us and through us, covering us, carry us, and holding us through it all.
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Every day we are given is another chance for us to experience regrowth. Is there something we let go of? Something we didn’t guard or tend to as we should have? Something we may have neglected? Today is a day to start over. It is a day to step out again and believe that God still has a place and work for you to do in His kingdom. Use where you are and grow from there. Today is just as good as any other day to relish in the mercies of those regrowth periods God allows in our lives.
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Everything is going to be alright. The night or nighttime dark situations can’t last forever. We have this promise that joy is on the horizon!
One of my favorite times of the day is waking up. Not the actual waking up part (sometimes that’s a little hard 😉 ), but when I finally get up, I get to draw back the curtains and see the new day. It’s untouched. It’s filled with hope and promise. Whatever happened yesterday is not here for this is today. It’s that freshness that draws me in and gets my soul stirred for the possibilities ahead.
When we go on vacation one of the places we stay at is a condo in the mountains. It’s so peaceful. With coffee in hand in the morning, I head out onto the balcony and sit to admire the new day. The only thing I hear is the birds singing their song. The deer break twigs and rustle leaves when they walk. Sometimes you see the groundhogs and other animals eating their meals for the day. You get this sense about you that this is the way it was meant to be.
And it makes me wonder about a time when all days were meant to be like this. When there was a time when all days started in innocence and nothing was yet corrupted. When there was a time that man walked freely in the Garden with God.
I love gardens and I declare one day I will have a nice one. I’m working on it. We were meant to live the garden lifestyle. We were designed to reign in innocence and peace. The world we live in today contradicts the fellowship we were created to have with God. We were to have an up-close relationship with Him. After the fall the Bible tells us, “And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day…” (Gen. 3:8).
Let your mind go back, not to the sin, but to the experience of being with God in the garden. Adam and Eve experienced God on a level that no other being will have the privilege to. Surely this was not the first time God had paid them a visit in this fashion for they knew what it sounded like when they heard Him in the garden. They had a realistic divine view of the Almighty here on earth.
What would it have been like to have the Sovereign of the universe, day by day to come and see about me? What would it have been like to verbally hear the mouth that spoke things into existence speaking to me? What would it have been like to hear Him moving among the garden with my own ears and to know it was the Lord? What would it have been like?
There, thinking back before the Fall, fellowship with God was uninterrupted by evil. There the beauty of all God is could be seen by those He created. There, peace was the predominant feeling because the shaker of peace had not entered the scene. There, God spoke directly to man unhindered by fleshly desires. There, it’s hard to imagine, but life was nothing but good because the man knew nothing but God.
Imagine the best backyard barbeque. We sit around laughing and enjoying the company of others. Not that we are bringing the Sacred down to our level but in our finite understanding can we imagine in the garden, Adam and God chit-chatting about the day, about the animals, or about life in general? Can we imagine the way Adam’s heart must have felt assured every time He heard the voice of God speak to him? Can we imagine that when Eve was presented to her husband there was no fear, only love, because that’s all they ever received was love on the earth? Can we really imagine?
It may be hard for our minds to fathom such an age of innocence and honesty. It’s hard for us to see what this must have been like because now our view has been corrupted by sin. But I imagine it was glorious. It was nothing like we’ll ever know here on earth. In that garden, during that time, beauty is all that was seen with our eyes and with our hearts. God was all that was known. Oh, imagine.
It’s hard to put into words when everyone was right before God. It’s hard to describe from one’s soul a place of longing but never viewing. It’s hard to capture the essence of what being with God was like there, and yet my heart still yearns to know what would it have been like?
What do you think it would have been like to see the world at its best? What do think it would have been like to fellowship with God at your best? Where we live in the mid-Atlantic region we are expected to have rain most of the day. Even in this dreariest of settings, I’m looking at the trees swaying outside my window and imagining the beauty of that time. I guess that’s what it would have been like, beautiful because everything was in harmony with God. Beautiful represents their relationship with God and it represents the surroundings that God created for them.
One day we will experience that garden lifestyle again, that age of beautiful unbroken relationship with Him when we meet Him in our heavenly home. And I can’t wait.
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Many times when we discuss the land of Egypt within the confines of the Bible, our minds automatically trackback to the time when the children of Israel were in bondage there. We see them under the weight of the taskmasters, dealing with oppressive circumstances that are beyond their control. They stand by and watch as some are beaten, others are killed; lack and degrading situations run rampant throughout their time there. Fear, hatred, and jealousy by others drove them to the place where they are residing; a place where tough days seem like they will never come to an end.
Often times, when people find themselves in a hard spot of life, or when they find themselves coming up short and just not happy with the way things are turning out at this particular time, they refer to that circumstance as their place of “Egypt.” This is where heartbreak and troubling times lie. This is the place where it seems everything is fighting against them and no matter what one does it just doesn’t appear that they will ever come out on top. People may not have taskmaster’s whips to deal with, but other things just lash and lash out at them, making it hard to get back up again.
As hard as this may be to believe, I assure you your Egypt will not last forever. I’m sure the children of Israel had doubts about this. After all, their time there lasted about four hundred years. Yet, even before this family of seventy ventured into the land and grew to the astronomical numbers we see in Exodus, God knew all about their time there before they were even there.
In Genesis 15:13 God told Abram, “Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.” Outside of that prophecy God also said, “And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance,” (Genesis 15:14). In this we see, there was a promise before they even set one foot in Egypt; before they even encountered a problem, God already had a blessing lined up for when they came out.
Today, we fight against so many unknowns. We deal with all the this and that’s of life that it simply just weighs one down. One might not find themselves in a literal state of captivity, but something just sits on them heavy, becoming an almost unbearable burden, that they just don’t know what to do. With a feeling of exasperation, some just give up, content just to go through the motions of life, without grabbing hold of the feeling of hope because of the fear of being let down again, just to drift back into that state of uncertainty once more.
But, I am here to tell you today, continue hoping and never give up. Your “Egypt” is not lost on God. God knows what you are facing. He knows every disappointment you are dealing with. He knows every struggle you are battling. He knows everything that you are fighting through and that’s fighting against you.
It may be hard to see the proverbial silver lining in a dark cloud at times or the light at the end of the tunnel, but we have something better. We have a promise! God told Abram when his people came out, they were coming out better than when they went in. God was going to judge those who did them wrong, and God was going to bless them greatly.
Another promise Abram received was in a few verses prior to those noted above. God told him, “Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be,” (Genesis 15:5). Not only were they going to be blessed, but they were going to come out increased in the people they were. To go from one individual to the millions they would come out to be, they were going to grow not only in number but in experience through their troubling times. They would have to learn to endure some stuff in order to be the people who would eventually be fit to take on the Promised Land.
While it may at times seem like the hard times are breaking you, they may be actually making you. So remember, before there was Egypt, there was a promise. And, I don’t know about you, but I will take a promise of God over a so-called silver lining any day. The promises of God are sure. Through our relationship with Jesus Christ, we are told, “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us,” (2 Corinthians 1:20).
In other words, no matter what you are facing today, Jesus has you covered. No matter the obstacles or hard places that make you feel like you are in Egypt and you just want to give up, God has an unfailing promise of His love, grace, mercy, peace, and deliverance through even the most difficult circumstances.
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Reformations on the outside don’t always equal change on the inside. It has been proven time and again throughout history, and even throughout the Bible. A great leader can rise up and make the necessary plans and put programs into place that should foster positive growth in a specified area. But, if those toward whom the program was geared to serve don’t have a true heart for change, then what we see is a lot of outer stuff being switched around without any real inner transformation taking place.
Jehoshaphat was such a leader. Jehoshaphat reinvigorated the spirit of worship toward God once more for the people of Judah. He, himself, “sought the God of his fathers, and walked in His commandments,” (2 Chronicles 17:4, NKJV). And as such, he was compelled to make the “Book of the Law” available to anyone who would hear. So he sent leaders throughout the region to teach God’s Word (2 Chronicles 17:7-9).
Another area of reformation that saw positive changes was with the judges. Men who judge honestly and not take bribes. Men who would “act in the fear of the LORD, faithfully and with a loyal heart,” (2 Chronicles 19:9, NKJV).
After many ups and downs during his reign, and even a miraculous victory that was won just through praise (2 Chronicles 20), when it came time for Jehoshaphat’s reign to end and he was noted as “doing what was right in the sight of the LORD” (2 Chronicles 20:32, NKJV)), the very next verse tells us the status of the people. “Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers,” (2 Chronicles 20:33, NKJV).
Leaders are just that – leaders. They can go out in front of the pack and try to lay the course for the best plan of action but it is up to the individual to let the compass of his/her heart to be guided in the right direction. There is a personal responsibility to have a purposeful heart that will intentionally pursue one’s own relationship with God.
How we get on in our relationship with God cannot be put off on another. We can’t shun the charge to follow wholeheartedly after Him and claim that it’s the fault of others for why we didn’t follow through.
The reason for the lack of follow-through lies literally at the center of one’s heart. A heart that is not fully devoted to God is a heart that won’t be inclined to continue to live for Him when those people who bring that positive influence are no longer in our lives. We have to want God for ourselves. Our hearts have to be intentional in our daily living for Him.
How do we do that? What does that look like?
A purposeful heart will diligently seek after God. Seek Him through prayer. Seek Him in the Word. Seek Him in times of worship. A heart that loves the Lord will want to know more about Him and these avenues can help turn one in the right direction. The psalmist said, “With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee,” (Psalm 119:10-11).
“I sought thee . . .”
“I hid” the word in my heart . . .
“I” denotes it is one’s personal obligation to charter the course of their own heart; to fill it with the purpose of God; to choose “the way of truth,” (Psalm 119:30).
Leaders can lead but we must make it up in our own minds and hearts to want all of Him as our own. We must have a purposeful heart that steps closer to Him and not turns away (Proverbs 4:26-27).
David, a man after God’s own heart, became knowns as such because his desire, his goal, the purpose of his own heart was totally for God. He is quoted as saying, “One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple,” (Psalm 27:4). All the days of his life he wanted his heart directed toward God.
Purposing the heart is being intentional in going after God for one’s self. Nobody else can do it for you.
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Job 1:20-22 “Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.”
Ephesians 5:20 “Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18 “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
Job 19:25-27 “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.”
Anytime we see a “…” in a sentence it expresses a train of thought and direction or a transition if you will. That “…” is very important to this message.
Times of transition can be good and bad. When one is engrossed in unpleasant circumstances a nice change of pace can be just what the doctor ordered. It breathes new life into you and lifts your spirits high making you feel as if you are on cloud nine. At the same time, when one is entering times of affliction, lack of any sort of substandard anything compared to what they are used to, the feelings of dread and just suffering through take over.
There are different seasons that everyone goes through in life. There are times of joy and there are times of pain. While we don’t mind dealing with the seasons of joy and happiness that come our way, a whole other story could be told for the times of pain and suffering we encounter.
There are seasons, even for the Christian, that come that are not too pleasant. There are times when the people of God had to endure trials and tribulations. There are episodes of turmoil that have wiggled their way into our families, our lives, our jobs, and our finances.
Sometimes difficult and new stuff pops up out of nowhere, things you weren’t looking to happen in this season of life, and it has blindsided you and caught you off guard. There may be things that surprised you and now you just don’t know which way you are going. The road hasn’t always been easy to travel. We are looking for the new. We need a transition. We are in need of a “…” moment.
It’s time to move from the victim mentality and don a praise mentality. It’s time to move from the feeling defeated mentality to no matter what’s going in my life, “…Lord, I just want to thank You” mentality.
A praise mentality says no matter the situation we are going through I still have a reason to worship. We still have a reason to lift our hands in utter adoration! We still have a reason to fall to our knees in prayer! We still have a reason to believe His grace and mercy is at work in our lives! I still have a reason to say, “Thank You!”
Job is one of the most figurative Bible characters who we surmise as suffering outside of Jesus Christ our Savior. So, I figured if anybody can teach us how to be thankful despite what we’re going through it could be Job.
Job was a man whom God describes in the Bible as being upright and perfect, Job 1:8. He is known for turning himself away from the path of evil, not giving it a foothold in his life. Yet, in his righteous living, he was still susceptible to being tested in some of the worse ways possible. He lost everything from possessions down to the very people he loved the most in life.
Job’s experiences can be summed up in that one word: suffering. Job knew suffering. Job knew what it was like to love and lose; to have and to have not. What’s more is he lost everything at the same time, piling traumatic event after traumatic event on till he thought his heart couldn’t take any more (read Job 1-2 for greater detail).
Sitting in a pile of ashes with seemingly nothing left, could he at least find comfort in the good word of a friend? Will they speak encouragement to help him carry the weight of his burdensome troubles?
The answer sadly is, “No.” His friends started out with good intentions but by the time they reach chapter 4, Job’s friends became what is known as “miserable comforters.” They decided to chime in with their opinions of what was right and wrong. This was where their attempts at comfort went downhill. They berated Job and blamed him for all that he was going through.
Job literally had no one and the weight of the world was upon his shoulders, but his response to his trials is what blew my mind away. When things first began to unravel for him, in the verses we read in chapter 1 he shaved his head, fell down on his face and he worshipped.
The words that came out of his mouth were of praise and thanks. He said, “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD!
That word “blessed” is synonymous with celebrating God with praise in spite of. That word blessed is acknowledging God is good no matter what the circumstances around me say. That word blessed is also translated in the New and Old Testament to give thanks! “Blessed be the name of the LORD!” Job, with his shaved head of sorrow and humble spirit, gave God thanks amid the sorrow he was going through!
His response reminds me of Psalm 34:1 where the psalmist proclaimed, “I will bless the Lord at all times and His praise shall continually be in my mouth!” I will thank God always and I will never stop celebrating His goodness! I will show God gratitude always and I will never stop lifting Him up. I will appreciate God even in this and I will never stop recognizing that He and He only is God of my life.
Ephesians 5:20 says, “Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” My always for all things may not look the way I want it to right now, but Lord I thank You, is what he’s saying! I am not saying thank you because I like problems, but I am saying thank You because I know the God I serve. I am saying thank you because He is working on the inside to change things on the outside. I am saying thank you because God is setting us up for a future that is glorious in Him! Therefore, “…Lord, I just want to thank You!”
1 Thessalonians 5:18 tells us, “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” I am in Christ; therefore I give thanks! I have been washed by the blood, therefore I give thanks. Yes, life hurts sometimes and yes, the walls come crashing down sometimes, but I owe God a praise. I thank God for seeing me through every trouble, every storm that blows my way! “…Lord, I just want to thank You!”
Job’s response went even further than this. In Job 19, he said, “For I know that my Redeemer lives.” Things were not exactly turning in his favor. At that time, his today didn’t look any better than his yesterday. His friends are still in his face challenging him with their accusations. But, despite his personal persecutions, he emphatically declares, “I know . . .”
Knowing speaks of assurance. A declaration of knowing tells doubt there is no place here for you. “Know” is certain that this is what it is. And, what he is certain of is “my redeemer liveth.” God is alive and will always be alive. “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty,” (Revelation 1:8).
“He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.” Job knew that God was and is the end-all of all authority, victory and power. Standing upon anything denotes mastery and dominion of said object. Job knew where his trust lies. In God who is victorious: “Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him,” (Psalm 68:1). Paul, speaking of Christ said He, “hath put all things under his feet…,” (Ephesians 1:22). Even this.
“And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.” There is hope beyond the here and now. Physically, it didn’t look good for Job. He had “sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown,” (Job 2:7). He, in dealing with the pain of his body and the pain of his heart must have thought there is not that much more time left. At one point of desperation, things had gotten so bad, Job prayed for death (see Job 6:8-9).
Despite it all, he knew that there was a better day beyond the corruption of his flesh. His body, when the time came, would lie in the ground and the worms would have their way with him, but he looked forward to another glorious time when “in my flesh shall I see God.” Things were hard for Job, but in his speech, you can still see his faith alive and active in what he believes: and he believes GOD! Therefore, “I bless God! I give God thanks!”
Job teaches us how to respond to God in midst of trials and troubles. He may have been down, especially when his friends attacked him, but he still recognized God for who He is. He basically transitioned his mentality to shift his focus from what was before him to the God who can save Him.
Yes, he grew weary and even questioned why he was going through what he was going through. Who wouldn’t? But, through it all you still see his faith in God come to the forefront in the midst of his story.
In the end, Job was blessed with a double portion of blessings. God testified of Job to his friends. God spoke up for Job and said, “My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath,” (Job 42:7).
It’s not too late for God to turn it around and to testify on your behalf. The week of Thanksgiving is here, and this year is not over yet. There is still room for a blessing. And, even if not – if God never does another thing for us, can we say, “Lord, I thank You?”
At the end of the day, as hard as it may be sometimes, we must transition our thinking and say “… But Lord, I thank YOU!”
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Do you ever feel opened and exposed during the trials of life? Do you ever feel that the enemy has free pickings when it comes to your heartache? Well, he doesn’t! The enemies of this life may chase you, hunt you down, and all together seek to make your life miserable, but the enemies do not have the last say over anything. God, in His complete sovereignty, has you covered!
If anybody knew about being constantly chased by enemies seeking to take their life it was David. Saul, in jealous pursuit, saw something special in David, the favor of God, and wanted to destroy David. There were days when David may have felt like giving up. There were days of hiding in caves and pretending to be a madman to seek solitude in other countries. But, through it all David dealt best with his enemies through prayer. He declared who his God was and committed his trust to Him. In Psalm 140:7, “O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.”
To be covered means to be concealed and to be protected. The battles of this life may at times make us feel that we are an open target to everyone who can’t stand the favor of God on us, but be of good cheer, God’s got us covered! “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever,” (Psalm 125:2). And, if God is like a mountain surrounding us then there is no adversary that can break through the covering He has over us. It may feel like we are on the run sometimes but God is still that protecting force that “covered my head in the day of battle.” Commit your heartaches, your battle, and your enemies to God, and let Him be your covering today.
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There is always something about the stories where the underdog comes out on top, where the least of all becomes the greatest that sends chills of inspiration up the spine.
The story of David and Goliath has long evoked a sense of awe at the victory won and the hope of possibility in the soul still in the fight facing his/her own giants. The fact of the matter is that many things in this life which we face day to day can at times seem too much to bear. Our worries don’t necessarily have to be against the biggest guy around. Just the struggle of making it one more day, another try at giving it your best shot, can make it really hard for some people.
That’s why this article is not going to focus on the beast Goliath was or how David brought him down with just a stone and slingshot.
Nope. I want us to focus on the confidence that David had in God.
To me, it doesn’t matter if what you face is big or small. Sometimes the hardest stuff is the routine, small stuff that gets on your nerves every single day and makes you want to throw in the towel and quit.
Yes, David did the impossible in the name of the Lord. But, what I have found out in my own life is when we have that same confidence in God in every area of our lives, big or small, God tends to step in and work it out for us. And, you know it was Him because that very area in life that used to be a source of hardship and frustration now becomes a place of peace and productivity.
David, before confronting Goliath, declared, “The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine,” (1 Samuel 17:37, emphasis mine). I want us to focus on “He will” of that statement. David expressed in those two little words the amount of confidence he had in the God he served.
Confidence in God is the key no matter what. Many times we misplace our confidences in the things and the people we see around us, allowing them to become our focus and control when God should be at the forefront of the battle with us. Over and over again we are told in His Word, “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man,” (Psalm 118:8); yet, man seems to always get more of our attention and we wonder why we falter in the battle and don’t end up standing as victor over the giants and circumstances we face.
We have to rely more on God than anything else in this world. He truly is the only one who can get in there and fight with us and for us and bring us to a victorious end on the other side.
Below are some reminders to trust God and have confidence in Him no matter the size of anything we face. Knowing this will improve our day to day struggles in life and turn them into day to day victories.
Once, I was traveling out of town and the hotel we were staying in had one of those beauty magnifying mirrors that swing out on an arm. You know the ones I’m talking about. They get up close and really personal in your face. What you thought you looked like in a normal mirror became something totally different in this magnifying truth-teller.
I often avoid those mirrors because there’s only so much truth about my face I want to see. But, looking into these things a whole world of pores and things that seem to come out of nowhere all of sudden can’t be ignored. The eyebrows need more manicuring than once thought. Things need to be plucked, covered, or taken care of to present this face to the world before I left out that day.
As I said, I always avoided these mirrors but I must admit when I stepped back to see the final results I was more than pleased and fully intend on having one installed in my bathroom at home.
How often are we afraid to take a closer look at ourselves? Not our face per se but at things like the inner man, our life, and our relationship with God. Are we too afraid of what we’ll find when we look too closely? Do we not want things revealed to us that may have gone by without a closer inspection?
God wants the best for His people but sometimes the best means we have some stuff that needs to be plucked and dealt with first. We have to seek the beautifying of His Spirit in order to step back and see the glorious final results He has for us up ahead.
“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. . .” 2 Corinthians 13:5
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