HERE AND NOW

Psalm 18:24 NCV This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad today!

I read this recently, “Don’t take now for granted” and it really struck me because we are all writing our ‘Here And Now Story Book’!😊

I wonder how often we spend our time looking forward to the weekend, or to a holiday, but forget to enjoy our now moments? Every day is full of ‘now’ moments that will never come back.The smell of dinner cooking, a walk in the sunshine, holding a hot cup of tea/coffee in the morning, or hearing the voice of our friend or family.

Just think, we can see where we’re going, we have arms to hug somebody, and we enjoy comforts we may take for granted, when we recall how during Covid we couldn’t buy toilet paper or hug people!😊

When children are testing our patience, let’s remember there will be a time when they’re no longer around and we will wish they were, and appreciate them while we have them.

We may be tired, but let’s not be too tired to listen to our family members or friends, to our children, to our spouse. They are all a gift from God and they need us to be present in the moment. They need our thoughts, our input. They need our encouragement, they just might need a hug, for them to know you know they are there, and that you care!

Those memories we are making will one day be so precious, so let’s be present in our now and not be always wanting the next thing and wishing our lives away. Not dreading what may or may not happen, and missing what’s under our noses, not being so focused on what we’re doing that we miss what they’re trying to tell us or show us!😊

God wants us to remember He is in our now, engaged with whatever we’re doing, so let’s do the same for the people in our lives, and not give them half an ear, or half our attention. Let’s appreciate and enjoy the details of our daily lives, the people we rub shoulders with, and not take them for granted because this ‘now’ moment won’t come again. 😊 Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊

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ACCORDING TO…

2 Corinthians 4:18 NKJV while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Have you ever heard someone say, “Well, according to so and so, this is going to happen,” and they’ve believed them! Sometimes we hear ourselves saying, “According to the doctor I’ve got this and my prognosis is that.” Very often we go by how we feel at the time and think, “Well according to my symptoms and how I feel I must be pretty sick!”

But Jesus said in Matthew 9:29 “…According to your faith, be it done to you.”. Not according to your feelings, not according to your past experience, not even according to the doctor’s report, or the bank’s report, or the media’s report, but according to your faith in the mighty God to whom nothing is impossible!😊

Everything we can see is subject to change, it’s temporary, but the truth of God’s word does not change, it is eternal, and it is incorruptible. 

We may well have the facts in front of us, but God reminds us that those facts are all able to be changed, which is good news.😊

Jesus raised people from the dead, so no situation is too far gone if we’ll just get our mustard seed of faith out of its bag and plant it, by declaring what God says.  1Peter 2:24 By Jesus wounds we were healed. Isaiah 49:25 I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save. Matthew 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 

Faith doesn’t go by what it sees or feels, it believes what God says in the Word of God.

We’re called to walk by faith, not by our feelings because they go up and down like a yo-yo, and even though our faith is tiny, if we’ll plant it by speaking out what God says, our faith will grow and we shall see His promises manifest. 

So, how are we going to live the next 24 hours, this next week, this year? According to what we hear, see and feel, or according to the Word of God that cannot lie? 

I pray we put our armour on and hold our shield of faith up, stand on the word of God, resist the enemy, tell him to go, and live according to the power at work within each one of us!😊 In Jesus name. Amen.

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