We serve a God who does all things well. Everything He made was “good”. That includes you and me! Salvation is not just about gaining freedom from the past, to live well in the present and prepare for the future. It is also about the recovery of our primary identity.
Graham Cooke
Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
C.S. LEWIS, Mere Christianity
God is usually blamed for the evils that exist in the world because if He is God, He can remove any problem quite easily because He is big and powerful. But to rid the world of sin and its consequences would require something extremely dramatic—removing all sinners. And apart from being born again, how many of us would be left? C. S. Lewis once made a statement that has helped me quite a bit throughout the years—“once the author steps on the stage, the play is over.” He can fix it all in a moment. But when He does, time stops, eternity begins, and the final line has been drawn in the sand. His answer would be quite painful. His patience, which we see in full operation right now, is so that we can gather as many into the family as possible. His long-suffering is beyond all of our abilities to comprehend and comes at great personal cost. Continue reading “Why doesn’t God just fix the world’s problems?”
Sometimes it does not take much to make a significant improvement in your life. Just a small revelation from God applied to life and your attitude and approach to life can take a significant turn for the better.
God is always putting little treasures out there for us to uncover and like a parent hiding Easter eggs in plan sight for children to find – when we find the treasure and apply it – I believe this brings God great joy.
One small revelation with a big outcome for me that I gleaned from a booklet by Steve Backlund is that, ‘there is no normal’. Continue reading “There is no normal”
Steve Backlund makes these comments about ‘disempowering failure’…..
Saturate yourself in the promises of God. Our faith cannot be in ourselves but in what He has said. At times we all feel like we are a failure where it seems we have messed up too much. In these times, our self-talk wants to tell us we have not only failed but we ARE a failure. When we embrace this negative mindset, we are hindered greatly from our connection with God and our assignments in life. However, this tendency is something we can all overcome.
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THE MIGHTY WINDS OF TURNAROUND AND VINDICATION!!!!
There is a great wind of turnaround and vindication upon you. For the circumstances and opposition that has been coming against the Word of the Lord in your life is being halted.
There is an accelerated momentum that is increasing where you will see an unprecedented demonstration of the turnaround of God and vindication of the Lord. The Lord is roaring over your circumstances and they are SUDDENLY coming into alignment. Continue reading “Prophetic Word”
