You may be asked to help people at a time when you are not in the mood to help. When you are willing the lay your life (conveniences and plans) down to meet another person's needs, you have seen how I quite often I supply the need through another means.
I always honor a heart that is willing to sacrifice in order to help someone. When I humbled Myself and came to Earth, I had to give up the glory that I experienced in heaven. I had a willing heart to become the perfect sacrifice that would once and for all satisfy My Father's need to offer cleansing from sin for those who would believe in Me.
For the joy that was set before Me, I endured the cross because I knew the joy that would come to those who would believe in Me and the One Who sent Me. Ask Me today to give you the same willing sacrificial heart that I had, and you too will experience much joy.
HEBREW 12:2
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
BLESSING
What do you do when you say the blessing at meals? You give thanks before you eat the meal. I did the same when I blessed the loaves and fishes. What happened when I thanked My Father for the food He was going to provide? Twice the multitudes of thousands were fed simply because I gave thanks.
Thanksgiving is the key to fruitfulness. Grace abounds to those who give thanks before they experience the fulfilment of their requests on earth. Paul knew the secret to fruitfulness. He exhorted believers to always make their requests known with thanksgiving.
You extend a holy fishing line to heaven when you give your requests to Me by faith. By faith (the evidence of things not seen), you reel in the answer to your prayer with thanksgiving. When you do this, grace will always abound. Grace imparted through thanksgiving is the secret to fruitfulness. Grace is the supernatural ability to do what is impossible in the natural. Thank Me today as you release your requests to Me in prayer.
PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7; COLOSSIANS 2:7; 2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-12
Thanksgiving is the key to fruitfulness. Grace abounds to those who give thanks before they experience the fulfilment of their requests on earth. Paul knew the secret to fruitfulness. He exhorted believers to always make their requests known with thanksgiving.
You extend a holy fishing line to heaven when you give your requests to Me by faith. By faith (the evidence of things not seen), you reel in the answer to your prayer with thanksgiving. When you do this, grace will always abound. Grace imparted through thanksgiving is the secret to fruitfulness. Grace is the supernatural ability to do what is impossible in the natural. Thank Me today as you release your requests to Me in prayer.
PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7; COLOSSIANS 2:7; 2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-12
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
SLOW
Sometimes it seems like forever for Me to fulfill a promise that I have given you. I often am called "The God of the Midnight Hour." I know you feel like the promises and answers to your prayers come almost too late, but actually they are right on time.
My timing is not your timing. I do nothing in haste. The world's way is to get things done as fast as possible. I measured the universe and threw it into space, and I also measure the waiting time that you often experience as you look for My promises to be fulfilled and your prayers to be answered.
I definitely am not slow. Time is in My hands. I design those waiting times so that you will learn to both exercise your faith and trust in Me. Believe in faith when you do not see the answer, and trust Me to deliver the answers right on time.
PROVERBS 3:5
My timing is not your timing. I do nothing in haste. The world's way is to get things done as fast as possible. I measured the universe and threw it into space, and I also measure the waiting time that you often experience as you look for My promises to be fulfilled and your prayers to be answered.
I definitely am not slow. Time is in My hands. I design those waiting times so that you will learn to both exercise your faith and trust in Me. Believe in faith when you do not see the answer, and trust Me to deliver the answers right on time.
PROVERBS 3:5
Monday, January 4, 2016
HOLIDAYS
Now that all the holidays are over, it is time to put up all the decorations and celebration articles until next year. Holidays are wonderful, but they do take a great deal of work.
The word, "holiday," comes from My Word. I set aside special holy days in My Word. Those days sometimes were fast days and sometimes they were feast days. These days were designed to help My people focus on Me without the distractions of their daily routines of life. As you look forward to future holidays with your family, I want you to make every day a holy day.
When you arise every morning, commit your day to Me, and ask My Holy Spirit to help you make the day a holy day (a day when you can hear the gentle voice of My Spirit, a day when you can offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, praise, and worship to Me, commune with Me in prayer, and study My Word). Every day will be a holy day when you offer your body as a living sacrifice and the members of your body to Me to be used as instruments of My love, peace, and joy.
EXODUS 12:16; ROMANS 12:1; ROMANS 6:13
The word, "holiday," comes from My Word. I set aside special holy days in My Word. Those days sometimes were fast days and sometimes they were feast days. These days were designed to help My people focus on Me without the distractions of their daily routines of life. As you look forward to future holidays with your family, I want you to make every day a holy day.
When you arise every morning, commit your day to Me, and ask My Holy Spirit to help you make the day a holy day (a day when you can hear the gentle voice of My Spirit, a day when you can offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, praise, and worship to Me, commune with Me in prayer, and study My Word). Every day will be a holy day when you offer your body as a living sacrifice and the members of your body to Me to be used as instruments of My love, peace, and joy.
EXODUS 12:16; ROMANS 12:1; ROMANS 6:13
Sunday, January 3, 2016
CONCLUSION
It is so easy to draw conclusions about the various people you meet. However, I instructed My followers not to judge others and to judge nothing before the time. The reason that it is impossible for you to draw conclusions about people is because you do not know the rest of their story.
The only thing that you can with confidence draw a conclusion about is what happens at the end of time. I have clearly stated in My Word the rest of the story. When things are wrapped up at the end of time even the stars in heaven will be wrapped up, and there will eventually be a new heaven and a new earth.
When you know the conclusion to the real life stories written in My Word, you will have great confidence in My faithfulness to fulfill My Word. I want you to look at people with the attitude that I am still working in their lives. Do not be discouraged when you see their actions and words that do not glorify Me. Keep praying for them to give themselves freely to Me, and then the rest of their story will end well.
MATTHEW 7:1; REVELATION 6:14
The only thing that you can with confidence draw a conclusion about is what happens at the end of time. I have clearly stated in My Word the rest of the story. When things are wrapped up at the end of time even the stars in heaven will be wrapped up, and there will eventually be a new heaven and a new earth.
When you know the conclusion to the real life stories written in My Word, you will have great confidence in My faithfulness to fulfill My Word. I want you to look at people with the attitude that I am still working in their lives. Do not be discouraged when you see their actions and words that do not glorify Me. Keep praying for them to give themselves freely to Me, and then the rest of their story will end well.
MATTHEW 7:1; REVELATION 6:14
Saturday, January 2, 2016
DESIRES
I grant the desires of the righteous. When you received Me as your Lord and Savior, you were dressed in My robe of righteousness. When you delight yourself in Me daily, I will be able to give you both the will and the way to do My Father's will. It is My Father's will that you daily walk in the paths of righteousness that I have prepared for you..
What I plant in your heart, I grant. My Spirit will help you to plow up the fallow ground in your heart to receive the words that I will plant in your heart. Those words are usually the promises found in My Word, but sometimes I will give you a very personal word or promise.
When you receive a personal promise from Me, I want you to stand on that promise no matter what you see in the natural. Abraham was persuaded that what I had promised him would be fulfilled and that confidence in My faithfulness was counted to him for righteousness.
PSALM 37:3-5; PHILIPPIANS 2:13; PSALM 23:3; ROMANS 4:21-22
What I plant in your heart, I grant. My Spirit will help you to plow up the fallow ground in your heart to receive the words that I will plant in your heart. Those words are usually the promises found in My Word, but sometimes I will give you a very personal word or promise.
When you receive a personal promise from Me, I want you to stand on that promise no matter what you see in the natural. Abraham was persuaded that what I had promised him would be fulfilled and that confidence in My faithfulness was counted to him for righteousness.
PSALM 37:3-5; PHILIPPIANS 2:13; PSALM 23:3; ROMANS 4:21-22
Friday, January 1, 2016
RECOMMEND
When you look at the word, "Recommend" in your English language, you can see several small words included. The small words are "commend," "end," and "me."
This year I recommend that you come to Me and trust Me with the "end" of your story. I do hold your future, and you can trust Me to give you a good ending to the story of your life. I know how you refuse to read a book or see a movie that does not have a joyful, happy ending. Rest assured that your life will end well.
It is when you trust in yourself (the "me" of your flesh) that worry thoughts will assail your mind.
Trust Me with all of your heart this year and refuse to lean on your own understanding. You will have peace of mind and heart, and joy as you come to Me and trust Me to perfect those things that you are concerned about. I COMMEND YOU FOR TRUSTING ME IN THE YEAR OF 2016.
MATTHEW 11:28-29; PROVERBS 3:5; PSALM 138:8
This year I recommend that you come to Me and trust Me with the "end" of your story. I do hold your future, and you can trust Me to give you a good ending to the story of your life. I know how you refuse to read a book or see a movie that does not have a joyful, happy ending. Rest assured that your life will end well.
It is when you trust in yourself (the "me" of your flesh) that worry thoughts will assail your mind.
Trust Me with all of your heart this year and refuse to lean on your own understanding. You will have peace of mind and heart, and joy as you come to Me and trust Me to perfect those things that you are concerned about. I COMMEND YOU FOR TRUSTING ME IN THE YEAR OF 2016.
MATTHEW 11:28-29; PROVERBS 3:5; PSALM 138:8
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