Exhausted, tired, and worn out? Tired of dealing with all your problems by yourself? Do you have more to accomplish than there is time? Your responsibilities, financial issues, and social media not giving you a break? The pressure of life leading to burdens and stress?
The best rest comes without stress, due to our casting all our cares on Jesus, the Anointed One. We recover our lives, as we rest in him, learn grace, and leave the heavy burdens. He gives you strength for the day, as you place your focus and worship on him. He is always with you and is your strength, joy, and help.
“Come to me, all of you who are struggling and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” ( Matthew 11:28-30 CJB)
Today Lord, I open my heart to you and place all my broken places before you. Purify my heart and cleanse me from within of all my sin. I dedicate myself to you, today.
Thank you for a fresh start. Your ways are wonderful and I praise you for renewing my life. I glorify your name and praise you for a new day through Christ Jesus!
“God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I cleaned up my act, he gave me a fresh start.“
“Indeed, I’ve kept alert to God’s ways; I haven’t taken God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works, I try not to miss a trick.“
“I feel put back together, and I’m watching my step. God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.” (2 Samuel 22:21-25 MSG)
Hope deferred makes the heart-sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. (Proverbs 13:12) You’ve been praying, fasting, worshiping and waiting, expecting the Lord. Make sure in all that you do, “pour out your heart” to the Father so he can heal you.
I release the healing balm of Gilead into your “sick and tired of waiting heart.” I command your heart to be whole and complete.
Many times the anointing starts with a desire, which the Father placed there from birth. Therefore, note that he is going to bring what he impregnated you with to pass. He is going to bring it to pass. However, before he brings it to pass, he must bring you past the wait or weight of your past. Although it can become disheartening, discouraging, and debilitating simply waiting. You must recognize and remember who it is you are waiting on (Yahweh) and ascend into worship.
“They that wait on the Lord will renew their strength…” ask the Father to renew your strength to wait on Him. You’re not waiting on man, you’re waiting on, expecting, trusting in, and hoping in the Lord. Inclusively, you’re preparing to take flight. “they will mount up with wings like the eagles’. “An eagle “mounts up,” as it soars. When a storm breaks, the violent winds that lash the earth, the eagle uses those winds to carry it not away from the storm but above the storm. The eagle uses the storm, as the impetus to draw closer to the Father.
It is time to soar in the Father’s presence and all the Glory of Him. You are relying on the Christ, in you the Hope of Glory.
May the Father restore your hopes, dreams, and your expectancy of Him. Allow the Father to restore your Hope today!
When God makes a promise, with full assurance it will happen. Although it might not happen on our time schedule, God will fulfill it. He is dependable and faithful. Believe it! He will fulfill all he has promised.
God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through? (Numbers 23:19 NLT)
I will answer them, before they even call to me. While they are still talking about their needs, I will go ahead and answer their prayers! (Isaiah 65:24)
“Pay close attention now: I’m creating new heavens and a new earth. All the earlier troubles, chaos, and pain are things of the past, to be forgotten. Look ahead with joy. Anticipate what I’m creating: I’ll create Jerusalem as sheer joy, create my people, as pure delight. I’ll take joy in Jerusalem, take delight in my people: No more sounds of weeping in the city, no cries of anguish; No more babies dying in the cradle, or old people who don’t enjoy a full lifetime; One-hundredth birthdays will be considered normal— anything less will seem like a cheat. They’ll build houses and move in. They’ll plant fields and eat what they grow. No more building a house that some outsider takes over, No more planting fields that some enemy confiscates, For my people will be as long-lived as trees, my chosen ones will have satisfaction in their work. They won’t work and have nothing come of it, they won’t have children snatched out from under them. For they themselves are plantings blessed by God, with their children and grandchildren likewise God blessed. Before they call out, I’ll answer. Before they’ve finished speaking, I’ll have heard. Wolf and lamb will graze the same meadow, lion and ox eat straw from the same trough, but snakes—they’ll get a diet of dirt! Neither animal nor human will hurt or kill anywhere on my Holy Mountain,” says God. (Isaiah 65:17-25)
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Spoken words, lodge in our soul (mind, will and emotions), bringing life or death. When we speak with kindness, it brings healing to ourselves and others, healing our bones. Negativity on the other hand, brings destruction and many problems.
Forgive those that have spoken against you, including yourself. Loose all the negative words from your soul and bind the positive words and the love of Jesus to your soul. Let the sweet honey fill you.
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. (Proverbs 16:24 NET)
If you rely on your voice for livelihood, your life support will be temporal and short. However, if you rely on God’s voice for your livelihood, your life support will be eternal and more abundant.
Many times things do not go smoothly, when you follow God’s instructions, in faith.
Abraham was told to leave his hometown, everything that was familiar, his extended family and go where God told him, when he was aged seventy-five years. He did this and ended up as a stranger in the land where his descendants would live. He lost his identity to have a new identity. When he was one-hundred years old, he was given his son of promise, Isaac. Later, he was tested and told to sacrifice his only son. He was ready to kill his only son, when God stopped his hand and provided a ram for the sacrifice instead. Abraham believed God and saw God fulfill his promises, even when it looked like nothing would happen.
Moses was told that he would be the deliverer of his people, who were enslaved in Egypt for four-hundred years. He did this his way, while living in the King’s palace. He killed an Egyptian and had to escape to the wilderness, where he lived for forty years. The wilderness was not wasted time, as God taught him to depend on Him, not himself. Then he was ready for his life purpose at age eighty.The wilderness was not wasted time, but got rid of the self-dependence. to being a friend of God, who listened and believed God.. He then lead his people out of Egyptian slavery.
Paul was a well educated man, of power and influence. When he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior, his life changed. He brought the good news of Jesus, to the Gentiles. The last part of his life, he ended up in prison and in chains. He was not famous and his life consisted of his closeness to the Lord Jesus. While hidden and in chains he wrote letters to the Romans, Ephesians, Philippi, Colossians, and others. These letters have encouraged and helped many disciples of Jesus grow in their faith for more than two-thousand years. His life was not wasted and his wisdom and Holy Spirit inspired writings encourage us today..
Never, believe that it is over, while you are going through hardship. God is preparing you for much bigger things than you can imagine. Believe him and follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God. (James 2:23 BSB)
