Never Disappointed

Never Disappointed TODAY’S SCRIPTURE “...those who hope in me will not be disappointed.” (Isaiah 49:23, NIV) TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria What a powerful promise we have from Almighty God! When we put our hope in Him, we will never be disappointed. Of course, that doesn’t mean that things will always go our way. There may be temporary disappointments, but we will never be permanently disappointed. Somewhere down the road, God will cause it to all work out for our good. With God on your side, you will always end in victory! Are you carrying frustration, worry or aggravation about something? That’s usually a clear sign that your hope is in the wrong place. If you hope in circumstances, it will deplete you of joy and peace. But when you turn those circumstances over to God, when you refuse to worry, when you refuse to allow the temporary things of this world to dictate your happiness, that’s when God can do a work in your life. When you trust in Him, He will make your crooked places straight; He will cause you to mount up with wings like the eagle. Today, choose to put your hope in the Father; you won’t be disappointed. Trust Him because He is faithful. Find rest for your soul in knowing that He is good, and He has good things in store for your future! A PRAYER FOR TODAY Father, today I give You every frustration, every aggravation, every difficulty. I release total control into Your loving and able hands. Speak to my heart and give me Your peace. Show me Your love as I place my hope in You in Jesus’ name. Amen. — Joel & Victoria Osteen

Consider The Source

READ: James 1:12-18

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights. —James 1:17

I love cinnamon. I love cinnamon rolls, cinnamon graham crackers, cinnamon candies, cinnamon toast, cinnamon apples, and cinnamon pretzels. Cinnamon is one of those spices that makes other things taste better. However, it never crossed my mind to think about where cinnamon comes from. Then, on a recent trip to Sri Lanka, I learned that 90 percent of all the cinnamon in the world comes from that island nation located in the Indian Ocean. For all of the cinnamon I’ve enjoyed over the years, I never stopped to consider its source.

Sadly, my walk with Christ is sometimes like that. God has blessed me with a wonderful wife, five children, and grandchildren who are more fun than a barrel of monkeys. In the midst of my enjoyment of them, however, I sometimes fail to consider the source of those blessings—what the hymnwriter called the “fount of every blessing.” James put it like this: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (1:17).

How ungrateful we would be to enjoy the rich blessings of life without thanking the Father who is the source of all of creation. —Bill Crowder

Dear Lord, from whom all blessings flow,
Most precious gifts dost Thou bestow;
So truly faithful may I be
As Thou art gracious unto me. —Roworth

Gratitude is a God-honoring attitude.

Message by: "Our Daily Bread"

Draw the line

So the king said to me, Why do you look sad, since you are not sick? .... Thein I was very much afraid....... The king said to me, For what do you ask? So I prayed to the God of heaven. Nehemiah 2:2-4

When a boss demands so much of an employee that it is ruining her home life, her spiritual life, and perhaps her health, she is not being rebellious if she confronts the boss and states plainly what she can and cannot do. She actually would incure guilt if she did not. 

God expects a person to put her marriage, her family, her home, her spiritual life, and her health before her job. If she loses her job as a result of proper confrontation, God will help her get a better one. It is sad when a person lives in so much fear of the loss of money and reputation that she allows herself to lose her health, the respect of her family, and a good relationship with God. It is sad to have the approval of someone, such as a boss, but to be out of the will of God. If you have been allowing someone to control you, you should ask yourself what price you are paying to have that person's approval. Don't play the games you have to play in order to have everyone's approval. 

Prayer: Lord, when it comes to doing Your will, I trust You to help me to draw a line and stand for the right values. I will stand with you. Amen.

by Joyce Meyer "The Confident Woman Devotional"

Peter kept on knocking!

Acts 12 : 16

But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished

Peter was in jail. The church has come together, to pray for the release of Peter. Before they finished, God has listened. But they did not believe for a fast answer to their prayer. That’s why they left Peter standing outside knocking.

We pray so often and beg something from God. But do we really believe that He can answer or will answer? How many times is the answer already there, but is knocking at the door of our unbelief.

Since Pentecost the door of heave is open for a disciple, and the Spirit of God is powerful. Everything was possible for the earlier Christians. Yes, God has intervened and Peter was free. But the church did not believe.

We pray in our prayer time always the same prayer points and do not know, that He has answered it already. He does answer our prayers, but we do not recognise it und can because of that, not receive it. Peter must continually knock the door!

God do grant us sometimes freeing, but we leave it untouched in front of the door. He grants us our prayer request but we do not recognize, because it has already happen; let us grasp it! God has also answered our privat prayers already. Let us pick up His presents.

In the Bible is written: .. and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished (Act 12:16). They where astonished because their prayer was already answered. Don’t we do that often as well, in stood of living in the reality of God’s power and according to His promises. God is ready to pour out His blessings for our requerst and for the work we have done, when we fulfil the condition. Maybe we fished the whole night, but we did not get any fish. And the Lord advises us to throw the net on the other side. Blessings will come if we do that.

We pray to God for this or that. Is God dead? Is His hand to short? It s written ....... 1. John 5 ; 14 - 15 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us whatever we ask we know that we have what we asked of him. 
Free translation "Manna am Morgen" by H.E. Alexander

Living daily with Jesus

........ “You know what this whole thing is about, Jake?” John sat back on the bench, crossed his arms over his chest and looked out across the playground. “It’s about life-—God’s real life filling your own. He moves in so that you will no longer entertain any doubts about his reality. It's the kind of relationship that Adam tasted when he walked in the garden with God and heard his great plan to have a people through whom He could demonstrate his reality to the world in more ways than you could ever imagine. It is the kind of life Jesus lived that was more than sufficient to meet every need he faced, from feeding multitudes with a little boy's lunch to healing a sick woman who touched the hem of his robe. This life is not some philosophical thought you can conjure up through meditation or some kind of theological abstraction to be debated. It is fullness. It is freedom. It is joy and peace no matter what happens—even if your doctor uses the ‘C’ word when he gives you the results of your MRI.

This is the kind of life that he came to share with everyone who will give up trying to control their own lives and embrace his agenda. “It’s certainly not what so many have come to believe, like working hard, building big ministries or new buildings. It’s about life that you can see, taste and touch; something you can frolic in every day that you live. I know my words fail to describe it adequately, but you know what I’m talking about. You’ve had moments like that, haven’t you?” .........

Book: "So you don't want to go to church any more" by Jake Colsen 

To Think about - Where is God?

Where is my God, my heavenly Father. The one, who have created everything. Where?

I use to throw this question to my self, how can I reach and acknowledge this wonderful God.

The best through his word I think.
 
The first that is coming to my mind is Hebrew 11:1 were is written: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.  By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. 

God is a spirit, nobody can see. And as I have understood further we are created from noth-ing that has ever existed before. In the Gospel of John is written:   In the beginning was the word (griech. = Logos; the Greek definition of word means talk, reason, thought, ability to think) and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.   Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it (John. 1:1-5).

I am created of the thoughtfulness of God, Me – a thought of God! This is something special and beyond comprehension. The mighty God, creator of this world has made me, because he thought that I should exist. Hallelujah.

Most inconceivable! … but true. Hallelujah!

So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27  

Not only that I am existing  -  I am again created according to HIS  image; that means HE has used himself as a “Sample” to mould me. Hallelujah! I am wonderfully made with every divine preference that a human being can contain. 

God said very clear: I (A)said, "You are gods, And all of you are (B)sons of the Most High. (Ps 82:6). And Jesus repeated the statement of the Father in John 10:34 and add that this scripture can not been removed.

I still like to illumine this from the practical side. Means: When I talk to a child of God I am speaking to a god. It implies for me that God exist in every human being, but only awake in His incomparable love in the lives of those, who have handover their life to our Lord Jesus Christ and let their life be ruled by His  love. There is where we can find God, invisible – visible. Amen. Written by MLA