GOD IS ON MY SIDE

Psalm 56:9 My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help. This I know: God is on my side!

I wonder if you wake up as fresh as a daisy, or do you sometimes wake up and find yourself saying what the world says which tends to be a bit grumpy and negative? Or do we choose to speak life and say something positive and uplifting and allow the Holy Spirit to start our day off right by being thankful?😊  

Yesterday was one of those bleary-eyed wake up mornings for me and I had this choice to make! So as I got out of bed, I grabbed myself by the ear metaphorically and said to myself,  “Thank You Lord for a new day. I am the head and not the tail, I am above only and not beneath, I am an overcomer, the Lord is helping me, and the devil is beneath my feet.”  The more I confessed those and other truths of scripture over my own life, the more uplifted I became. I was still bleary eyed but my feelings were beginning to follow my thinking and my confession!😊

Can I encourage us all, however we feel at the minute, instead of muttering our complaints, let’s start talking faith to ourselves, saying what God says about us, how He approves and accepts us because of Jesus, how He goes ahead of us into your day, that healing is coming, and how blessed we really are.😊 

I know things don’t change in an instant but if our thinking is right, then our emotions will follow. When we think the thoughts of God, then He can direct our paths and the way our day goes. 

We know that God is for us and the NLT says, “God is on my side” which is so reassuring as we go about our day. It means no matter whatever else happens in the next 24 hours, we know God is rooting for us and has made us to be overcomers through Jesus.

So let’s go out into our day with that mindset - ‘God is on my side, the Holy Spirit is helping and upholding me, Jesus is interceding for me and I’m safe in His hands because my Heavenly Father loves me.’ 

Thank You Lord. Amen.

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ENEMIES DEFEATED

Genesis 14:20 NLT And blessed be God Most High, who has defeated your enemies for you.

I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to fit a large cushion into a tight cover after it’s been washed? It’s like a full scale wresting match! Or trying to fit a duvet into its cover and you nearly stand on your head trying to fit it inside! 

They are physical things we sometimes wrestle with, but Paul talks to us about wrestling with spiritual things, with beings that we can’t even see but that are real.  (Ephesians 6:12)

The thing is we’ve not to wrestle with them in our own strength but through Christ who strengthens us, from the standpoint of victory already won.😊

Whether it’s physical ailments, relational upsets, financial lack, whatever tries to steal our peace, whatever comes against us and tries to bring us down, those enemies have already been disarmed because God has defeated them for us through Jesus’ victory at the Cross.

Now our part is to enforce the victory which has already been won, to use our God given authority over those spiritual forces and remind them they are already defeated by Jesus, they’re beneath our feet and we have total victory over them. 

Be encouraged today to enter into the full benefits of our covenant. They’re already bought and paid for by Jesus so let’s resist our enemy and remind him he has nothing on us any more because we’re clothed in the righteousness of God, and we’re actively receiving the wonderful abundance of His grace and mercy each and every day. In Jesus name. Amen.