Testimony Tuesday
Good morning warriors. I had planned two encouraging testimonies this morning but for some strange reason one wouldn’t load. The app was acting a little fiddley. (Is that a word? If it isn’t I just made it up)
I will keep trying to download the one video, but in the meantime, the following is a boost of encouragement from a woman whose account I follow. Her message applies to all of us Christian’s who walk daily with the Lord.
No matter where you in your journey as a Christian be encouraged. All of us including myself are fighting battles, whether personal or collectively as we live in today’s world.
There is a hope.
Let’s remember this.
When life is hard or challenging, we have always The Shepherd to lean on.
I pray today, that no matter where life has found you today, look to the One who is life, and trust that He has already gone before us and overcome.
Be blessed.
—Paula
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Good morning warriors. I had planned two encouraging testimonies this morning but for some strange reason one wouldn’t load. The app was acting a little fiddley. (Is that a word? If it isn’t I just made it up)
I will keep trying to download the one video, but in the meantime, the following is a boost of encouragement from a woman whose account I follow. Her message applies to all of us Christian’s who walk daily with the Lord.
No matter where you in your journey as a Christian be encouraged. All of us including myself are fighting battles, whether personal or collectively as we live in today’s world.
There is a hope.
Let’s remember this.
When life is hard or challenging, we have always The Shepherd to lean on.
I pray today, that no matter where life has found you today, look to the One who is life, and trust that He has already gone before us and overcome.
Be blessed.
—Paula
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❤10
Apparently God needed to tell me something three times.
And by the third time, I was like:
Okay, God. I get it.
I wasn't searching for these verses.
I happened upon all three while working on something completely different.
First:
"The righteous person may have many troubles.." Psalm 34:19
Then:
"We must go through many hardships…”
Acts 14:22
And finally, Jesus Himself:
"In this world you will have trouble."
John 16:33
Okayyyy. I'm listening.
Many troubles.
Many hardships.
You WILL have trouble.
Not exactly the inspirational message was hoping for.
But I started wondering if maybe God wasn't simply reminding me that life would be hard.
Maybe He was correcting something I keep forgetting.
Hardship does not necessarily mean something has gone wrong.
And yet, how often do we treat it that way?
Something gets hard and immediately we wonder:
God, where are You?
Did I make the wrong decision?
Am I outside Your will?
Why would You let this happen?
If You're with me, why is this so hard?
Somewhere along the way, I think many of us started believing that God's faithfulness should look like a life with fewer hard things.
But that isn't actually what Scripture promises.
Jesus didn't say,
"Follow Me, and nothing will hurt."
He said,
"In this world you will have trouble."
And then He told us not to lose heart.
And this is the part I almost missed:
None of those verses leaves us alone in the trouble.
"The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all."
"In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart! I have overcome the world."
The trouble is real.
But so is God.
Maybe we need to stop interpreting every difficult season as evidence that God has abandoned us.
Maybe the presence of hardship doesn't mean the absence of God.
Maybe sometimes we are exactly where we're supposed to be...
and it's still hard.
Because Psalm 34 was written by someone who knew fear.
Someone who cried out.
Someone who was brokenhearted.
Someone who had troubles.
And somehow, right there in the middle of it all, David could still say:
"Taste and see that the LORD is
good." Psalm 34:8
Maybe that's where we learn His goodness most deeply.
Not because suffering itself is good.
But because we discover that when everything around us is shaking,
He isn't.
He is still near.
Still faithful.
Still listening.
Still God.
So yes.
You may have many troubles.
You may go through hardships.
Jesus Himself said you will have trouble in this world.
But please don't stop reading there.
The Lord delivers.
Jesus has overcome.
And the God who is close to the brokenhearted will be with you through every bit of it.
Psalm 34:18-19
~Kelli Bachara
And by the third time, I was like:
Okay, God. I get it.
I wasn't searching for these verses.
I happened upon all three while working on something completely different.
First:
"The righteous person may have many troubles.." Psalm 34:19
Then:
"We must go through many hardships…”
Acts 14:22
And finally, Jesus Himself:
"In this world you will have trouble."
John 16:33
Okayyyy. I'm listening.
Many troubles.
Many hardships.
You WILL have trouble.
Not exactly the inspirational message was hoping for.
But I started wondering if maybe God wasn't simply reminding me that life would be hard.
Maybe He was correcting something I keep forgetting.
Hardship does not necessarily mean something has gone wrong.
And yet, how often do we treat it that way?
Something gets hard and immediately we wonder:
God, where are You?
Did I make the wrong decision?
Am I outside Your will?
Why would You let this happen?
If You're with me, why is this so hard?
Somewhere along the way, I think many of us started believing that God's faithfulness should look like a life with fewer hard things.
But that isn't actually what Scripture promises.
Jesus didn't say,
"Follow Me, and nothing will hurt."
He said,
"In this world you will have trouble."
And then He told us not to lose heart.
And this is the part I almost missed:
None of those verses leaves us alone in the trouble.
"The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all."
"In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart! I have overcome the world."
The trouble is real.
But so is God.
Maybe we need to stop interpreting every difficult season as evidence that God has abandoned us.
Maybe the presence of hardship doesn't mean the absence of God.
Maybe sometimes we are exactly where we're supposed to be...
and it's still hard.
Because Psalm 34 was written by someone who knew fear.
Someone who cried out.
Someone who was brokenhearted.
Someone who had troubles.
And somehow, right there in the middle of it all, David could still say:
"Taste and see that the LORD is
good." Psalm 34:8
Maybe that's where we learn His goodness most deeply.
Not because suffering itself is good.
But because we discover that when everything around us is shaking,
He isn't.
He is still near.
Still faithful.
Still listening.
Still God.
So yes.
You may have many troubles.
You may go through hardships.
Jesus Himself said you will have trouble in this world.
But please don't stop reading there.
The Lord delivers.
Jesus has overcome.
And the God who is close to the brokenhearted will be with you through every bit of it.
Psalm 34:18-19
~Kelli Bachara
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Forwarded from Salt & Light 🙌🏻🇺🇸 (Brittany Templeton)
1 Samuel 17:47 —
“This is the LORD’s battle, and he will give you to us!”
1 Samuel 17:45 —
“I come to you in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies…”
Deuteronomy 20:4 — “For the LORD your God is going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies…”
Isaiah 41:10 — “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.”
Romans 8:31 — “If God is for us, who can ever be against us?”
We WILL face giants. But the battle is the Lords! And he determines our steps🙌🏻
“This is the LORD’s battle, and he will give you to us!”
1 Samuel 17:45 —
“I come to you in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies…”
Deuteronomy 20:4 — “For the LORD your God is going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies…”
Isaiah 41:10 — “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.”
Romans 8:31 — “If God is for us, who can ever be against us?”
We WILL face giants. But the battle is the Lords! And he determines our steps🙌🏻
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Testimony Tuesday
There will be times in our Christian walk when we experience or hear about unexplainable things where the only conclusion is that it must have been God.
That’s why they are called miracles.
What would it take to move our faith from our minds to our heart to believe for miracles?
Doubt can be the destroyer of our faith, because it is also unbelief.
Imagine the power of one yielded vessel.
Imagine obeying God when everything in your human mind is telling you that it doesn’t make sense. You may look and feel foolish but I believe God does His best work when we defy the fear and obey His voice.
We know and believe God’s ways are higher, and yet sometimes we can feel like maybe He must of reached His limit for a miracle today.
Maybe there isn’t a miracle for today, or at least not yet.
Maybe it’s coming…maybe it’s the alignment that must come into play first before the coming miracle.
There will be times when we’ve been praying and believing for a miracle, and then all of a sudden the thing we’ve been petitioning for comes…suddenly.
Other times it is delayed, or we are still waiting for an answer.
Then there will be times when the answer isn’t the outcome we were expecting.
What do we do with that?
We continue to trust God even when the answer is no. Perhaps, even when the answer remains no, there still remains a plan.
Does God even care? We know He does.
Sometimes the answer to our prayers is for something that reaches far into the future.
It’s a “Not Yet” moment.
Just because the pain or suffering we experience feels unbearable while waiting for an answer; it doesn’t disqualify us from receiving a miracle.
The miracles are not contingent on our reactions to tragedy, or suffering.
Even Job cried out in his misery, and still he acknowledged God throughout and in the end God restored Job.
God still has a plan.
We don’t need to strive, we need to trust the same God you’ve read about in the Bible is the same God today.
All we need to do His set aside our doubts and trust that He is still in control and that His ways are not going to be the way we thought it ought to be.
In the meantime, we put on our Mountain Moving faith believing our God is a “Can Do” God.
We open our hearts to hear His voice to act on faith, to choose to believe God’s ways are purposeful despite how we feel or look at the circumstances.
We don’t have to understand, or analyze it, we just trust Him and wait in faith for the outcome.
It’s like when the sun shines and it’s a beautiful day, but within a few hours a storm rolls in with heavy rain. The sun hasn’t stop shining…it continues to shine even when things are clouded and dark. It faithfully shines bright as it always has. It was just temporarily hidden.
Then the glory is revealed.
God’s faithfulness.
God’s tender care.
“Jesus said… “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.””
Mark 9:23
Blessings,
—Paula
@CallToBattle
There will be times in our Christian walk when we experience or hear about unexplainable things where the only conclusion is that it must have been God.
That’s why they are called miracles.
What would it take to move our faith from our minds to our heart to believe for miracles?
Doubt can be the destroyer of our faith, because it is also unbelief.
Imagine the power of one yielded vessel.
Imagine obeying God when everything in your human mind is telling you that it doesn’t make sense. You may look and feel foolish but I believe God does His best work when we defy the fear and obey His voice.
We know and believe God’s ways are higher, and yet sometimes we can feel like maybe He must of reached His limit for a miracle today.
Maybe there isn’t a miracle for today, or at least not yet.
Maybe it’s coming…maybe it’s the alignment that must come into play first before the coming miracle.
There will be times when we’ve been praying and believing for a miracle, and then all of a sudden the thing we’ve been petitioning for comes…suddenly.
Other times it is delayed, or we are still waiting for an answer.
Then there will be times when the answer isn’t the outcome we were expecting.
What do we do with that?
We continue to trust God even when the answer is no. Perhaps, even when the answer remains no, there still remains a plan.
Does God even care? We know He does.
Sometimes the answer to our prayers is for something that reaches far into the future.
It’s a “Not Yet” moment.
Just because the pain or suffering we experience feels unbearable while waiting for an answer; it doesn’t disqualify us from receiving a miracle.
The miracles are not contingent on our reactions to tragedy, or suffering.
Even Job cried out in his misery, and still he acknowledged God throughout and in the end God restored Job.
God still has a plan.
We don’t need to strive, we need to trust the same God you’ve read about in the Bible is the same God today.
All we need to do His set aside our doubts and trust that He is still in control and that His ways are not going to be the way we thought it ought to be.
In the meantime, we put on our Mountain Moving faith believing our God is a “Can Do” God.
We open our hearts to hear His voice to act on faith, to choose to believe God’s ways are purposeful despite how we feel or look at the circumstances.
We don’t have to understand, or analyze it, we just trust Him and wait in faith for the outcome.
It’s like when the sun shines and it’s a beautiful day, but within a few hours a storm rolls in with heavy rain. The sun hasn’t stop shining…it continues to shine even when things are clouded and dark. It faithfully shines bright as it always has. It was just temporarily hidden.
Then the glory is revealed.
God’s faithfulness.
God’s tender care.
“Jesus said… “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.””
Mark 9:23
Blessings,
—Paula
@CallToBattle
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I was not able to download the following video so I will put a link below.
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Some encouragement while you are waiting for your miracle.
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I decided today is Feel Good Friday! Came across this sweet video. It just made me smile.
Enjoy your Friday!Here’s praying you’ll be blessed as you begin your weekend.
“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.”
II Corinthians 9:7
Enjoy your Friday!Here’s praying you’ll be blessed as you begin your weekend.
“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.”
II Corinthians 9:7
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Testimony Tuesday
This morning I came across the following video. I loved this persons attitude.
It really touched my heart, and changed my perspective. In fact, I am going to receive this as a challenge in my own personal life.
It illustrates the belief that even the work required to maintain life’s blessings can be viewed with gratitude.
It’s not hard to look around ourselves and notice there is work to be done. Things that need to be managed, or taken care of. Chores to be done.
Tending life. Everyday. All the time. It never ends.
But what if we started looking at these things through a lens of gratitude as a gift from God?
Even just being able to awake, get out of bed and thanking God for another day, no matter what the day brings.
No matter what needs to be done today.
No matter what challenge awaits us.
No matter what unexpected event shows up.
No matter what is facing you right now…
Consider it a gift from God.
I believe in my heart, being grateful is where peace resides. Saying; “Thank you Lord” in the midst of toil, shows gratitude.
Be encouraged today.
“Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.”
Ecclesiastes 5:19
This morning I came across the following video. I loved this persons attitude.
It really touched my heart, and changed my perspective. In fact, I am going to receive this as a challenge in my own personal life.
It illustrates the belief that even the work required to maintain life’s blessings can be viewed with gratitude.
It’s not hard to look around ourselves and notice there is work to be done. Things that need to be managed, or taken care of. Chores to be done.
Tending life. Everyday. All the time. It never ends.
But what if we started looking at these things through a lens of gratitude as a gift from God?
Even just being able to awake, get out of bed and thanking God for another day, no matter what the day brings.
No matter what needs to be done today.
No matter what challenge awaits us.
No matter what unexpected event shows up.
No matter what is facing you right now…
Consider it a gift from God.
I believe in my heart, being grateful is where peace resides. Saying; “Thank you Lord” in the midst of toil, shows gratitude.
Be encouraged today.
“Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.”
Ecclesiastes 5:19
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The thing I really love about this second video is the fact this woman who is sharing her experience didn’t realize how one simple act of kindness would make a huge impact.
In fact, she hesitated. She had doubted if she even heard God correctly.
I’ve been there.
I’ve said; “Is that you God?”
She took the risk and obeyed anyway.
She risked looking foolish.
Lesson here. Obey quickly.
We don’t have to have a reason or even know why God is asking us to act on something. He just wants obedience.
The blessing goes both ways.
It’s just as much for us as it is for the recipient.
Either way, God is glorified.
“If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;”
Isaiah 1:19
In fact, she hesitated. She had doubted if she even heard God correctly.
I’ve been there.
I’ve said; “Is that you God?”
She took the risk and obeyed anyway.
She risked looking foolish.
Lesson here. Obey quickly.
We don’t have to have a reason or even know why God is asking us to act on something. He just wants obedience.
The blessing goes both ways.
It’s just as much for us as it is for the recipient.
Either way, God is glorified.
“If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;”
Isaiah 1:19
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