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Personal stories of faith through the challenges, obstacles, trials and tribulations of life

Life Scriptures: Holding onto God’s Promises

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He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. John 7:38

Sometimes the Lord will speak a specific scripture during a difficult trial or situation in your life. It’s a promise that’s embedded in your heart that you can retrieve at any time to bring peace, comfort, and encouragement.

The Bible is the living word of God and every part of it is filled with life’s instructions and detailed stories of how people handled challenges and triumphed in victories by holding onto their faith in God.

We can often take our eyes off of Jesus and look to friends, family, co-workers or even the world for answers to our problems. We trust in false promises made in relationships, marriages, corporate institutions, government and political systems. With so much noise in every area of our lives, it’s difficult to be still so we can listen to the voice of God.

By the Still Waters

It’s always beneficial to step back and silence your world. It’s during these quiet moments the Lord will provide a revelation of His promises. We may have heard the same verse over and over again but at a different season in your life, you can have a new experience and the same scripture emerges with a deeper revelation.

The Lord has unlimited ways on how to speak to us. We need to be open and learn how to discern God’s voice and act in obedience.

How can we be sure if it’s the voice of God speaking to us and not our own? We can pray for wisdom and discernment. We also learn by reading the Word of God regularly and setting aside personal prayer time with him.

Here are a few other ways to hear God speak:

  • Does the action or message align with the Bible?
  • Does your conscience, internal spiritual compass, feel at peace with the decision or act?
  • Is there a reoccurring thought, instruction, action or idea that repeatedly tugs at your heart?
  • Do you notice messages or symbols that are delivered to you in several different ways and methods as a vehicle of confirmations?

The Gospel is a solid rock for his children to stand on. Our belly is the deepest part of our soul where the Spirit dwells. Water is often a metaphor in the Bible which means life. A dry, parched soul thirsts for Jesus just like his body thirst for water. Our bodies are even made up of 98% water. We are not able to live without water. Water is of the Spirit. Water is life. The gift of salvation is the gift of eternal life that Jesus provided for all of us to receive. Drink from the fountain of salvation that sustains.

What is your life scripture? Please feel free to share your comments or questions below. Your life scripture will also help encourage someone else who may just need to hear the promises of God today.

 

Scripture References:

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Amos 8:11

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:

Romans 10:17

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 

Related Scriptures:

I Samuel 3:1-10

Hebrews 1:1-2

Acts 2: 1-4

John 16:13

 

 

 

 

 

A Visit to the Barbershop

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The Healing Garden

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“God is love. His nature requires that He cares for His creation unconditionally. This means that no matter what people do, think, or say – even if they reject Him – the Lord will not stop loving them. The only thing preventing us from experiencing that love is own response.” Dr. Charles F. Stanley

Welcome! If you happened to come across this blog, it’s not an accident or a coincidence. This is a call to the broken, the forgotten, the abused, the lonely, the invisible, the lost, and the hopeless. When all that you have to hold onto is shattered, someone is standing much closer and standing right by your side.

Welcome to the healing garden. The Lord’s desire is to heal those secret places, those wounded places, those places that are tied in knots.

Walk through the healing garden and pluck out the weeds of despair, grief, loss, depression, and failure. Plant new seeds of faith, hope, wisdom, strength, and power. Embrace the kaleidoscope of color. Seasons change. Flowers will bloom and dance in the sunlight.

Don’t give up on yourself. He will not give up on you. If you could only see, what the Lord sees in you. He makes no mistakes. He is able. He is the Great I Am.

He is near.  Just call His name. Keep pressing. Keep pushing. Keep moving forward. All things are working for your good. He loves you more than you could ever know. Trust Him. Rest in Him.

In the healing garden, there are tears. It’s a place of transformation and restoration. Surrender all. Just believe. Come to the healing garden. It’s a place where you learn to be still and gain patience.

In the healing garden, the lies that you believed have no power. You don’t have to please others to be accepted. There is only unconditional love in the healing garden. Won’t you come and dwell there?

It’s a place of harmony and melody. It’s tranquility and peace. Embrace a place where there’s no confusion, chaos, or distractions. It’s a place of instruction, direction, and order.

No excuses live in the healing garden. Step up to who you are called to be. There is no arrogance or competition here. Elevate your mind and drop the ego. No temptation or sin survives or thrives here, either. You’re free to be, naturally.

In the healing garden, there are unlimited possibilities and open doors of opportunities that outweigh impossibilities. Victory resides here.  You are welcome. Will you accept the invitation?

 

Scriptures of Inspiration

1 Peter 1:3-9New International Version (NIV)

Praise to God for a Living Hope

3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Joshua 1:8

“My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” Proverbs 4:20-22