GOD CAN FIX IT

Mark 5:22-23 GNT Jairus, … when he saw Jesus, he threw himself down at his feet and begged him earnestly, “My little daughter is very sick. Please come and place your hands on her, so that she will get well and live!”

We all need things fixing from time to time and I heard this the other day and it stuck with me… “If you will pray God can fix it.” It doesn’t have to be long or eloquent prayers, it doesn’t matter how far gone things look, it just needs us to believe God can fix it.😊

During Jesus’ ministry we often find people coming to Him with urgent needs. There was no half heartedness with them. They needed Jesus to do something for them and they needed it now, like the man who came asking for help for his son who had seizures.

The writer of the Psalms knew how to cry out to God for help and God answered him. Psalm 34:6 KJV "This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles."

When Peter stepped out of the boat and found he was sinking, he called out, “Lord save me” and Jesus reached out His hand and ‘they’ walked back to the boat together. When we call out to God for help, then together with God we can overcome the storms. He is in them with us bringing us through to the other side.

There used to be a saying, “Why worry when you can pray?” not “Why pray when you can worry?” Scripture says God hears every one of our prayers when we come in faith and He is answering them as He knows best.

We can be encouraged because God wants us to stand on His promises and pray them back to Him because not one of His good promises has ever failed. (Joshua 21:45) So let’s keep praying and thanking God He can fix it, whatever it is, and the answers are on the way. Amen.😊

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JOY IN THE HOUSE

Psalm 16:11 NKJV You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Could you do with some joy today? Well, the phrase ‘Joy In The House’ just kept going through my mind, and I found myself praying for everyone who reads this blog to have such a sense of joy in their house, in their hearts, totally inexplicable but supernatural joy that comes straight from the throne of heaven, but is down in our hearts. The sort of joy that may even have us doubled up with laughter, maybe even holy laughter, but I’m believing for a release of the joy of the Lord into all our lives. Could anyone do with some of that? I know I could, all the time!😊

The secret is to believe for it and take a few minutes out with the Lord. I’ve put a link below to a song, written in 2024, which blesses me every time I hear it or sing it and I encourage you to have a listen. It will lift your spirits and fill you with joy.😊

And afterwards just declare to yourself, ‘The joy of the Lord is my strength and His joy is bubbling up in me. I receive it, and I expect it to rise up on the inside of me like bubbles, a life giving stream throughout my day! I will not be moved by what I see, or hear, or how I feel about things. I am a child of God therefore I have His fruit of joy down in my spirit and I call it out and praise You for it Lord.”

Jesus said we can have what we believe for, so I’m here today to ask us to believe for the spirit of joy, to have a different perspective, to even look for the funny side of things when we can, to know God has us safe in His hands which is something that will drive the frowns from our faces, and the worry from our minds, and help us relax and rest in Him.😊 

It says in His presence is fullness of joy, not fullness of condemnation, or blame, or sad expectations, or judgement, or doom and gloom. No, in God’s presence there is overflowing joy and He has placed it deep down in our hearts just waiting for us to stir it up and thank Him for it. So friends, let’s accept and be strengthened by His Joy today. Amen.

I hope you can have a listen to the link below through to the end when he reads Isaiah 61:1-3.😊

https://youtu.be/mEIa_BPa6Uw?si=nvY4zTgM6FeLt3AV