LIFE IS LIKE MAKING CAKES

Isaiah 64:8 NIV Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Life is a bit like making cakes! We throw all the ingredients in the bowl, then they’re beaten together and the mixture looks all lumpy and messy to begin with, but then it all begins to come together as we smooth it out and put it in the oven, and the end result is a delicious cake we can all enjoy!

In the same way we may feel like we’re sometimes in the lumpy messy stage, feeling all beaten up, when one thing after another is thrown in the bowl at us. But we need to know God’s hand is on us and the end result will be something so delicious and worth waiting for we’ll stand back and be amazed at what God has done in us and through us. (Job 12:10 NLT For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being.)

So don’t be tempted to open the oven door before the situation is resolved and wonder why it’s not ready yet, otherwise it might fall flat! It just takes time!😊

God wants us to trust His timing and His process. If He’s not changing our circumstances He’s changing us! God is working in the background resolving situations but He’s also making us into something special at the same time.

So, be encouraged today to not give up, no matter how hot the oven gets or what stage the cake is at! God knows what He is doing and He’s promised us His strength and His help because He’s in it all with us to hold us together and make us rise! 

Just imagine - You’re being made into an amazing gateau!😊 Thank You Lord. Amen.

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WAKE UP TO THE POWER IN YOUR BOAT

Mark 4:38 NLT Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re going to drown?”

We’ve probably all had to try to wake someone up in the morning when they’re sound asleep or experienced it ourselves.😊 But here the disciples are desperate and they know they need to wake Jesus up to help them. 

Psalm 121 tells us that God never sleeps or slumbers. In other words He doesn’t doze off for two minutes!😊 But what occurred to me is that we can sometimes forget Jesus is even in our boat when the pressure is on and circumstances feel like they’re ganging up on us, or even when the mundanity of life is just jogging along quietly.

We can become complacent doing things in our own way, in our own strength and in a sense we’ve allowed our awareness of Jesus and His power to go to sleep in the back of our boat. We may have allowed His power to become dormant in our lives! If so, I’m here today to wake us up to the fact that the living God is alive in us and wanting to be active in our daily lives.😊

God wants us to wake up to the power within us! Recognise that the same power that brought healing to all who were sick lives in us. The same power that raises the dead lives in us. The same power that holds the universe together lives in us! Jesus wants us to wake up and use His power, release it by faith, by speaking His words, His promises, into our lives.

The disciples said, “Who is this man? Even the wind and the waves obey Him?” We know who He is - the Lord, strong and mighty and He is in us by the power of His Holy Spirit!😊 Glory to God!

Can you feel the Holy Spirit giving us a nudge? Jesus is wide awake but we need to wake up and go to the back of the boat where we may have left Him, and allow Him to be released into our lives, into our storms, our daily routine, in order to bring us His love and peace, His joy, His presence and His life changing power.😊In Jesus name. Amen.

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