Stability And Prosperity

Stability And Prosperity

Our Scripture reading is from: Psalms 16:5-7 (NET)  Lord, you give me stability and prosperity; you make my future secure. It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land. I will praise the Lord who guides me; yes, during the night I reflect and learn.

When you think about it, Jesus is our stability. Jesus is our prosperity. Every blessing we have is from Him. It starts even before the creation of the world. Were are told in Ephesians 1:3-4

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ. For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.

Not only did God love you before He said "Let there be light" but he carefully wove you together in your mother's womb. Listen to what is written in Psalm 139:13-16 (NIrV) You created the deepest parts of my being. You put me together inside my mother’s body.  How you made me is amazing and wonderful. I praise you for that. What you have done is wonderful. I know that very well. None of my bones was hidden from you when you made me inside my mother’s body. That place was as dark as the deepest parts of the earth. When you were putting me together there,  your eyes saw my body even before it was formed. You planned how many days I would live. You wrote down the number of them in your book before I had lived through even one of them.

These are the blessings God has poured out on you through His Son Jesus Christ. It is like a waterfall that never stops cascading down with blessings upon blessings on you!

Let's thank the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God who sent Messiah Jesus for best gift of all: Jesus! 

Praying and trusting

Our Scripture reading today is from Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIRV)

“Forget the things that happened in the past. Do not keep on thinking about them.  I am about to do something new. It is beginning to happen even now. Don’t you see it coming? I am going to make a way for you to go through the desert. I will make streams of water in the dry and empty land."

It is like that in our walk with God day by day. Each day has a new challenge and God has the answer. Do we need guidance? We are reminded in Isaiah 26:3-4:  LORD, you will give perfect peace to those who commit themselves to be faithful to you. That’s because they trust in you.  “Trust in the LORD forever. The LORD himself is the Rock. The LORD will keep us safe forever.

Praying and trusting helps us navigate each day's obstacles. 

What do you need this day? Remember, You can talk to God about it right now.

The one who is a liar

1 John 2:3-6 (WEBBE)  

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Jesus is still working miracles worldwide

John 21:25 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

Matthew 11:5

The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Acts 10:38
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Hebrews 4:14-16 

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.