GOD IS MORE GOOD …

Psalm 34:8: NKJV Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

I was listening to the testimony of a man who had been facing 76 years in prison for dealing in drugs which he didn’t do. He was actually acquitted a year later. Things had looked really bad but then he said this, “It doesn’t matter what the situation is, God is more good, than the bad is bad!”

It would be good to carry that thought with us because it’s a powerful truth. I just thought how immensely encouraging it is, that when we face seemingly impossible situations our God is bigger, stronger, more powerful and His heart is for us not against us. No matter how bad the bad is, our God overwhelms it with His goodness, His power and His love.😊

Our God is the God of the turn around and I was talking with friends the other day who were recounting how the Lord has recently turned a family situation around completely. It didn’t look good, and yet now the picture is completely different, their relative is changing and has new hope.

Can I encourage someone today to know that no matter how long things have been the way they are, our God is actively responding to our prayers to soften hearts, to redirect the footsteps of our loved ones, to alter mind sets which seem so stuck. With God anything is possible because He is outside of time, outside the confines of our natural world and when we speak out what He has said we’re drawing His plans and purposes from the spiritual world, into our natural world to change destinies.

Next time you think things are too far gone, recognise that thought as being from the enemy, look again, in the light of God’s goodness, and dust your faith off. Declare your God is bigger and more powerful, your God raises the dead, your God speaks and worlds come into existence. Now speak His word over your situation and believe Him to do the impossible for you too. In Jesus name. Amen.😊

Psalm 145:9 NIV The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.

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EXTRAVAGANT PLANS

1 Chronicles 28:19 NLT 19 “Every part of this plan,” David told Solomon, “was given to me in writing from the hand of the Lord.”

We all make plans of one kind or another, whether it’s for a holiday, or maybe a family celebration and some people plan it down to the last detail, while others go with the flow!😊

In Chronicles we read how God personally gave David His plans for the Temple that was to be built, and we discover they were very meticulous. King Solomon actually carried those plans out to the last detail and we realise how extravagant they were! There was nothing but the best, nothing too much trouble and God provided it all through King David. He even provided the master craftsman Huram to make the gold, silver, bronze and embroidered artefacts. It was probably what we would call ‘over the top’!😊

It gives us an insight into the heart of God and His plans for each one of us. 

1 Corinthians 3:16 NKJV Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? We are now God’s temple and His plans for each one of us individually, and as a body of believers, are just as extravagant, over the top, and detailed, because that’s just who He is!

Psalm 32:8 NLT The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. So whatever is going on with you at the minute, be encouraged and know God still has good plans for your life, they are plans to give you a future and a hope, plans to bless you not to harm you.

He has things prepared and planned for you to seek out and walk into, whether they are spiritual, physical, or relational - they are good plans, extravagant plans, detailed plans, and they have His fingerprints all over them! We just have to listen for His instructions and be willing to do as He says.😊

Thank You Lord. Amen.

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