RECEIVE GOD’S HUG

Isaiah 40:11 NLT He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arm holding them close to his heart.…

I expect most of us would say they like a big hug and you might feel you could do with one right now!😊 When someone who cares for you gives you a hug you lean in to it and hug them back. You might even linger in it for a moment and allow their love to wrap you around and give your love in return. It’s almost instinctive unless you don’t know the person, then we tend to hold back.

But God wants to give us a hug because it’s His love reaching down to us at any given moment, or in the middle of whatever is going on.  He is whispering in our ear that He loves us beyond anything we can imagine, so we don’t need to be upset, He has us in the palm of His hand and He is in control of our lives. 

Isaiah 40:11 TM Like a shepherd, he will care for his flock, gathering the lambs in his arms, Hugging them as he carries them,….

The Holy Spirit is giving us a picture of God picking us up, of wrapping His loving arms around us and holding us there. He doesn’t withdraw His arms when we make a mistake, we’re being held close to His chest where no one can snatch us away. He is breathing His love into our body, soul and spirit, into our situations.😊

Will you allow Him to do that for you? He is our Good Shepherd who also wants to lead you to good pasture. 

We can come to the throne to receive His immense mercy and grace, His favour and love and let Him care for us, while our hearts can respond with worship and praise.

Why not just take a minute or two to sit with Him and let Him wrap you in His arms and lean your head on His shoulders, knowing He cares for you personally. In Jesus name. Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊

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SET FREE

Isaiah 10:27 NKJV It shall come to pass in that day That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, And his yoke from your neck, And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

Have you ever seen a team of husky dogs pulling a sled together? If so, you will have seen how they are yoked together and cannot pull apart. They have to go where the yoke is being directed by their driver.

Just like those dogs we may still have some yokes on our necks which take us in directions we don’t really want to go without realising it. 

It’s like when there is a yoke of sickness or ill health, or a yoke of some wrong attitude handed down to us from a previous generation. It may be a yoke of a poverty mentality where we’re afraid to give financially into God’s kingdom because we think we can’t afford it.

But God reminds us that when Jesus went to the Cross He took all our sins and shortcomings into Himself, and every yoke was destroyed because of the anointing oil. Apparently that word ‘destroyed’ means crushed to a powder so it can’t come back on us.😊

1 John 2:20 NIV But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

Psalm 23:5 NKJV You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.

When we belong to Jesus we have His anointing and it has destroyed the power of any yoke and broken it off our necks but we need to know the truth for it to set us free. So if the enemy is trying to put something on you, remind him he can’t!

Tell the enemy we’re not yoked to him anymore because his yoke has been ground to a powder, powerless to hold us. We have been set free by Jesus’ shed blood.😊

Instead, Jesus reminds us He doesn’t force His yoke on us but we have to take His yoke on us…Matthew 11:29 NKJV Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Thank You Lord for breaking every yoke of the enemy off our necks and destroying them. Lord we take Your yoke willingly by faith and thank You for setting us free. Amen.

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