Author: Faith

Judges 7:16-19 Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a shofar into every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and torches inside the pitchers. And he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise; watch, and when I come to the edge of the camp you shall do as I do: When I blow the shofar, I and all who are with me, then you also blow the shofars on every side of the whole camp, and say, ‘The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!’ ” So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the shofars and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

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“When God called Gideon to lead Israel against their enemies, He wanted to show that a small army empowered by God was more effective than the largest armies. But notice how they fought – without weapons that an army would normally use. They fought with shofars and lamps! They fought with weapons that the world would consider ineffective, yet triumphed mightily over their enemies. They shouted as loud as they could, sounded the shofar, and broke the vessels that held the fire so that their lamps burst through with brightness.

This breaking of the lamps of clay holds a powerful metaphor for us. If we too are “earthen vessels” holding the fire of God – the Spirit of God within us, then a “breaking” of the outer man is necessary for His inner light to burst through. Victory can come out of brokenness. Our old life of self, often called the “old man”, when truly crucified and broken, will give way to the release of the Lord’s Spirit of God in our lives. The death of our Lord has broken the power of our self-life since we were crucified with Him. Walking in that awareness brings light and victory.

Let the love, joy, peace, and all the fruit of the Spirit breakthrough in your life. Your old life of Self has been and is being broken, as Yeshua’s victorious light shines through your earthen vessel”

God sees not just what people are today, but what they could become tomorrow and what they were yesterday, but we don’t.

Sometimes we meet someone in the worst season of their life. And understandably we don’t like them, but we do need to love them. Just like God loves us! Because just as we need to be loved during our most difficult times, people we meet also need to be loved the most -during their worst seasons!

With the help of God and through His Grace, our Faith can grow during these difficult times. And often, this growth is exactly what helps our compassion and love grow for others.

“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.  And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.”-Luke 6:32-33

If we do tis, then we can emerge from these difficult days with a stronger Faith in God, in each other and in ourselves, and the ability to share that with others 🙂

Because God Loves Us 🙂

I must share with you that sometimes I am better at this than others.  And sometimes, often, I end up taking a “worry” back a few times before I am finally able to “leave it with our Lord”.

We all do this sometimes.  We want to “leave things with God” , but we take them back.  We have a specific solution in mind and we want that one, lol.  We are not sure we want God’s solution…

But the truth is, God’s solution is always better!  For God can see all the yesterdays, todays, and the tomorrows.  God can see every life that will be touched.  We can’t.  So we need to leave our problems with the Lord and Trust that He loves us enough that His solution will be the best!

Does that mean we can’t pray for someone to get well?  Of course not!  But our prayers should always also include “God’s Will Be Done”.  Because even in this case, God will know what is truly the best thing not only for the person who is sick, but for all who love that person.

Thank you God for loving us that much ?

We can not see the whole of our lives or how our lives may impact others.  So when God says No, or Not Yet, we have to Trust that God knows more than we do.  For God know not just what we want, but what we need.  And He knows what we need today AND tomorrow.  We can only see today.

And let’s face it, what we want is not always what we need! 

So keep praying no matter what! God loves you and He will give you what you need ?

One of the hallmarks of my life has being able to see God in it. And I am so very grateful that this has been so 🙂

Remember Moses and the Burning Bush? I wonder sometimes if God appeared now, in the Burning Bush-would we believe?

God is everywhere. God is always with us :). He is in the sunrise and the sunset. He is in a nature preserve and He is in the city. God is in the smile of a friend and in the smile of a stranger. God is in every child, born and unborn. He is in the river, the oceans and the mountains, for God made them all. But it is up to us to see Him, and Believe.

God can be in us, if we just ask Jesus to be our Savior 🙂

“And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.”- Daniel 12:1

The End Times feel many with fear. And it should, if we planned to be here. But we don’t. Notice at the very beginning of Daniel 12 it says, “at that time thy people shall be delivered”!

We may indeed stand at the Beginning of the End, but even if we do, God has a plan those who believe 🙂