When You Stand, GOD Steps In

"What do you do when you've done all you can, and it seems like you can't make it through?"

Child, you just stand, you just stand, STAND and you don't give up!

Through the storm, stand through the rain, through the hurt, yeah through the pain, 

Don't you bow, and don't you bend,

Dont give up, no don't give in.

Hold on, just be strong, GOD will step in, and it won't be long!

After youve done all you can, you just stand!"

This song blessed me this morning, an oldie, but a goodie!

What I got from this is that we're not just standing for the sake of standing, with no premise. 

When we stand, we stand on the promises of GOD!

"Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;"

Eph. 6:14‭-‬15

The peace is the promise. The peace is in the New Covenant, in Yeshua Hamashiack!

When we're standing in The Lord's will, we're standing with liberty and freedom!

"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and don't be entangled again by a yoke of bondage." - Gal. 5:1

I pray all is well with your soul today according to The Word of GOD!

Be Encouraged!

Let Nothing Deter Your Praise

Praise causes us to conquer fear, Praise establishes our lives, Praise causes transformation, Praise causes us to see the fruit of Our Focus, because in praise, our focus is The Lord . . .

Ask me how I know 😫🙌🏾

This year on my Birthday, The Lord shared a gift of The Word of knowledge that I couldn’t help but share, it was SO GOOD!!

Well, it was good to me, hopefully it is to you too, but more importantly this word is truly an Instruction: Let NOTHING Deter Your Praise!

Here’s why . . .

Praise is priceless. I can go on and on about it (which I likely will).

Let The Redeemed Come

If The Lord is our GOD, Leader, King and True Shepard, but we're not seeking Him to lead, not even paying attention to what he's doing, but instead doing our own thing, this makes for a dysfunctional relationship.

Fully belonging to the Redeemer, means fully following Him.

Do you claim The Lord as your redeemer? More importantly do you know Him to be that?

If so, then you're invited to come. Come into His presence with thanksgiving, come making a joyful noise, come with true worship, with your *whole heart in it. 

Let us seek, worship, and pray to The Lord *in Spirit and in truth. 

As His children, as His beloved and redeemed let's make sure we're listening for His voice.

May we seek and obey The Divine Shepard we belong to*, today and everyday.

Don't hide, don't be afraid of the power of GOD, come in.

*Jeremiah 29:13, John 4:24, John 10:27

Our Father In Heaven

Your Father chooses to give you . . .

Your Father chooses to give you . . .

Your Father chooses to give you . . .

Our Father in Heaven, The Creator of all living, chose to give us life in an eternal kingdom. The Kingdom resides within us when we accept Jesus Christ.* When we hear the word we know it, we feel it. It resonates with us. 

Affirm to yourself  if you have to, tell yourself regularly: You are a child of GOD and GOD is your Father. Say it out loud.

Trust that Father knows best, and wants the best for you.

The Lord is a good, good Father. Not only does the truth resonate with us, if we truly review our lives in retrospect there is something there to praise GOD for. 

Another benefit of sonship is that any questions we have about the the things we deem, not so praiseworthy, we can go to The Father with them. The clarity of The Lord is sweet like direction from The Lord. 

Pray much. Pray without ceasing*

"Where there is much prayer, there will be much of the Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer."*

As we are led by the Spirit of GOD,  We are the Children of GOD.* 

Fear not little flock, the Shepard leads as a Good Shepard* and a great Father.

May we seek The Father first, before we ever face the fear.

 

* Luke 17:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Romans 8:14-17

* Quote by Andrew Murray

Dependable G-d

GOD will get us out of and or protect us from trouble. Even if it's trouble we got our own selves into. Just like GOD fights for us, The Lord defends us in situations. 

A defender is so important in this world we live in. The Lord is our deliverer and our defender. 

He knows those who take refuge in Him. Spending time with our Father as Children of GOD, leads us to know that we can run to Him in times of trouble.* He knows us and we can get to know Him.

The closer we seek to get, we can begin to know that He's our refuge and stronghold, so we come to Him intentionally.  

Before the trouble, during, and after The Lord is good all the time. On our perceived good days and bad days, The Lord is faithful.

Like a fortified city. We know where our help comes from, all we need to do is look up.*

May we be prayerful and knowledgeable of our GOD continually.

Dependable God - Victor Thompson

* Proverbs 18:10, Psalm 121:1-2

Now Behold The Lamb

 

Now Behold The Lamb who is the Holy King. To those who believe He is our Shepard. 

Have you ever seen a sheep fighting against anyone who's tried to harm it or take it captive when the Shepard was around?

No. The Shepard does that. The Shepard is the protector. The Shepard is the caregiver. As children of GOD, we don't just have any 'ol Shepard. We have a Good Shepard*. He loves us so much that when we go astray, He delivers us, not only that "He lays down His life for the sheep". 

The Lord fights for us. He desires deeply that lost souls are recovered. When we're found to be in Christ after being lost in the world, all of heaven rejoices!*

The elders use to sing "GOD will fight your battles if you just be still". When we look to The Lamb: Jesus Christ that GOD provided for us, we're truly redeemed.

Born into sin that we may live again, that's a love that surpasses anything that could try to distract us or come against us.

It's the most powerful love, that we may not understand, but when we yield to it . . . our lives are saved.

May we forever keep our eyes on the life saving, life giving Lamb.

"Now Behold The Lamb" - Kirk Franklin, The Family

* John 10:11, Matthew 18:13

You Have A Promise Of Safety

 

HaShem, one of the names referring GOD, His name being too Holy to be spoken.

"Hashem is a Hebrew term for God. Literally, it means “the name.” In the Bible the Hebrew word for God is made up of four vowels, and according to tradition it was only pronounced on Yom Kippur by the High Priest. Saying God’s name was considered a very serious and powerful thing, so much so that one of the Ten Commandments prohibits us from saying God’s name in vain. As a result, people have come up with various substitutions."*

The name of The Lord is Holy. When we run to the name of The Lord we're running to a sacred place, a place where not just anything can run behind us. Not everything can enter the most holy place or The Most High's Presence.

The righteous, who have The Spirit of GOD in their hearts can. As the children of GOD when we run to name of The Lord we're protected. We're safe from the things that have no place in the presence of GOD.

The Lord told Abraham, that if he found fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, he wouldn't destroy the city.*

To be righteous is considered by some as being "in right standing with GOD". Righteousness is a position that we can choose to be in, it's one we can work to be in. It's certainly one that we're protected in.

As children of GOD, we can come to know our Father more, when we know our Father more we'll know that we can run to His Holy name, amongst other sacred things that are revealed to us in the covenant we have.

May we seek to live in the safety of The Lord continually.