Pray For One Another

 “... pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” - James 5:16

“Two is better than one”

Lifting one another,

Helping one another,

Encouraging one another,

Praying for one another,

Don’t come solely, but it needs someone to accompany you.

People in this world tend to isolate themselves from others to be tagged as one of those ‘independent people’ but the bible verse for today wants us to pray for one another with the same:

Goal.

Vision.

Practice.

God.

Assuredly, it is way more powerful than usual because it is written in Matthew 18:19, “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.”

God wants us to be one in Him.

He loves to see His children unite.

Most of the answered prayers are done not just by one who prayed alone to God but it is done through prayer warriors. Battles are everywhere either personally or spiritually. It needs more than one person to claim that victory. Help is of the essence. And with God, there’s unity, success, breakthroughs, and healings.

God encourages us to pray together and for each other.

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Return To God…

 

Have you heard the story of Job in the Bible? 

Job suffered hardships and difficulties such as crisis, illnesses, and even death of his children…

We sometimes experience similar situation.  We go through hardship leading to a miserable life. We can feel pain, struggles and miseries because we are human.  God wants us to realize that the only solution is to return to Him wholeheartedly. He has everything that we need.

God is saying, “My plan is to not only heal and restore you, but to use you to draw the nations to Me…”

He allows us to suffer because He has a plan for us, we may not understand and know what it is but He wants us to trust Him and believe in Him because He is the “Great I am”.

Exodus 23:25 encourages us to start to, “Worship the Lord your God, and His blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you.” This is to exclusively serve God alone. Through that, we will be restored from everything that was lost and will surely win the battles in life the same with Job.

God knows what you’ve been through and He is there waiting for you to realize that He blesses someone who is in love with Him and prays to Him.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, offer your life again to God and He will shower you with blessings. 

“Nothing is impossible with God.” - Luke 1:37, A reminder that you must ponder if you return to God, this is an assurance that God is able and your only hope is Him alone.

The Lord bless you…

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Keep Running!

 “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 3:14

 

Assuming that you are an athlete, you are bound to compete with someone else, a running competition that only few people know about. As you are in the competition proper, your enemy tries to hinder you from reaching that goal - to win. He wants you to stop and turn around so that he will win. The choice is yours whether to continue or not.

But listen because the Lord whispers,

 “My child, you’ve come too far to stop now… You are so close: be focused, aim that goal, win that battle, you are so close to your success and breakthrough. I made that competition to attest how strong you are, so don’t run aimlessly, but straight towards a finish line to win a prize. You can do that.”

The Bible verse for today encourages us to never stop, the process may be hard but sooner or later, it will prevail. Embracing difficulties is also allowing oneself to learn and grow. If the enemy discourages you to pursue and you think that you can’t reach that goal, dream or even win that battle, then this is the time to be motivated because ‘You are so close…’

 God is saying to you today:

Keep going!

Blessings are coming!

Victory is coming!

Cloudy moments will become clearer soon and the view is beautiful.

Believe and trust in Him.

There’s a prize in every hard work and perseverance.

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Be Still…

 “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” - Psalm 46:10

Have you ever asked yourself about this verse?

Why is it necessary to stay still amidst the happenings?

One reason could be because He is your safe refuge as it is written in Psalm 46:1, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” Your adversities in life are your struggles and battles to win day by day for you to survive and God is always there.

Another reason, keeping calm is allowing yourself to think of more good solutions - God is your only solution, if you Return To God.

Philippians 4:6-7 states that, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” An encouragement that if you stay still and offer your battles in life to God, He will never drag you down but He’s willing enough to help you.

You don’t have to be stressed over things that are out of your control. Remember that people are people, conflicts are conflicts, trials are trials but one thing is for sure, God is God and He will forever be God.

Offer everything to God including your heart, mind and soul.

Let Him handle it but pray consistently as it is noted in 1 Thessalonians 5:17.

God bless you…

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All Glory Belongs To God Alone

 “Not to us, Lord, no to us but to Your Name be the glory, because of Your love and faithfulness.” - Psalm 115:1

In the moments of success, achievements and accomplishments, it feels so good to be praised and acknowledged by someone for what we do. And as human as we are we tend to accept each praise and the glory given by the people, a sad reality though because God gives us the strength to win that battle but we never give Him the attribution that He deserves.

God is A. B. L. E

Allowing us to win.

Becoming stronger and tougher each day.

Letting us enjoy the free life.

Exiting us from the battle fields with confidence (through His grace and mercy).

All along, He is with us. He never leaves us and yet here we are claiming all the praises and glory all by ourselves. It’s too selfish, right?

God must be acknowledged and praised, too.

He definitely deserves the glory alone.

To do that, let’s give back the praise, honor, thanks and glory because He is the one and only God. Let us never forget that we are just stewards of whatever God has given and entrusted to us. Without Him, we are nothing…

Be reminded that everything belongs to God.

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