Quit being defined by your mistakes. Do yourself a favor and remove those labels. Instead, wear the labels God gives you.
Your words have transformative power and give life to what you're saying. When you declare God's Word and speak blessings over your relationships, health and future, life-changing possibilities are unlimited. This month, Joel would like to send you his new book so you can declare faith-filled words that invite blessings, favor and success into your life.
Today's Word: APR 26, 2024
You may be in a season of suffering and struggle. You may feel that your health, your marriage, or your finances are never going to get better. No, God Himself is about to step in and do what only He can do. When you see how He restores and brings you out better, your mourning will turn into dancing, your sorrow into joy, your weeping into laughter. Don’t believe the lies that you’ll always be lonely, you’ll always mourn the loss, always be brokenhearted. No, your time is coming. God says, “It won’t be long until I have you back on your feet.” It won’t be long until your health turns around, until your child gets back on course, until the situation in your marriage resolves. It may look as though the enemy has won. The good news is that God has the final say. He’s not just in control of your life, He’s in control of your circumstances. Nothing can stand against Him. When it’s your time, doors will open, freedom will come, healing will show up, good breaks will find you.
As you face circumstances in life, sometimes it’s easy to get discouraged. But what if you could believe big and know that by this time next year, you’re going to see things turn around. This month’s ministry thank you will help make the coming year a time of expectation, hope and above all…belief!
It’s easy to be frustrated when something we’re waiting for is taking so much longer than we thought. It’s tempting to take matters into our own hands and try to force doors to open, to manipulate a situation, to live striving and straining. But the Scripture says, “Through faith and patience we inherit the promises” (Hebrew 6:12). You have to trust God’s timing. Without patience, you can miss God’s best. It may be taking longer because what God has in store is much better than what you have in mind.
Jesus told His disciples, “I’m going away to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2). God has some prepared blessings for you, things He’s already lined up—good breaks, the right people, healing—that will come at His appointed time. Isaiah 40:31 says, “They that wait on the Lord will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles.” Waiting on the Lord is waiting in faith, in peace, from a place of rest. You do your best, then you step back and let God fight your battles, open the doors, bring the right people, vindicate you.
In John 21, Peter was so discouraged, not knowing what he and the other disciples were going to do after Jesus’ resurrection, that he took matters into his own hands and went back to fishing. But after he and the other disciples had fished all night and caught nothing, Jesus, whom they couldn’t recognize in the early morning light, called out from the beach and told them to throw their net on the other side of the boat. When they did, they caught so many fish they had to drag the net to shore. Here they found that Jesus had a charcoal fire burning and fish already grilling on it. He said, “Come and have some breakfast.” What the disciples couldn’t catch, Jesus was already cooking. What they had worked all night for, God already had on the grill. This was a prepared blessing—fully cooked, seasoned, and ready to eat.
Like these disciples, you may have worked hard, done your best, but you haven’t caught anything. You haven’t caught your healing, so to speak, or the right person, the good break in your business. Your nets are empty. Can I encourage you? What you haven’t caught, God is already grilling. While you’re stressed thinking the business problem or the medical report isn’t changing, He’s putting more charcoal on the fire and seasoning the fish. Something’s cooking. You’re about to taste and see that the Lord is good. You’re coming into a prepared blessing. God knows what He’s doing, so just rest. When the fish are ready, when it’s just right, He’ll call you.
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