WAKE UP!

Romans 13:11 NLT This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believe.

Wake up sleepy head! We all know how hard it can be to not just wake up but to actually get out of bed when the bed is warm and cozy but on Sunday I was reminded how important it is for us to wake up spiritually because God is on the move and He wants us to be part of it.😊

Jesus didn’t just come for you and me, He came for as many as would believe in Him and I was challenged as to what I’m doing to help that happen. God has opportunities and things for us to do that we may not have considered, which might be outside of our ‘box’ but if we’ll follow where He leads then He can flow through us to others to bring them to Himself.

There is a sense of going into a new season for many of us and God wants us to make the most of the season we’re going into, not to minimise it or find excuses why we can’t do things. Rather He wants us to lean into Him for His strength and empowering to see what He will do in and through us, to have a sense of expectation.😊

Too often we see the risk, the difficulty, we see the giant in the land instead of remembering that because God is for us, then who can be against us? No one! Our God is mighty and He has given us spiritual weapons of warfare to pull down those strongholds of unbelief, of inadequacy, of lack of confidence and declare we are chosen, called, equipped and anointed by God to do whatever He asks of us.

We need a faith response! We don’t need a doubt or an unbelief response! God is with us! His resources are for us! He has given us His authority and remember God loves to surprise us so if things unfold in a ‘different’ way to what we imagined then that’s good too! 

Don’t let’s try to keep God in our little box but let Him take us out of our box into His land of endless possibilities, of opportunities, of His favour and every good thing He has planned for us.😊 In Jesus name let it be so! Amen.

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LIFE CHANGING

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.

We sometimes hear of people who have life changing experiences where they maybe had an accident, or an illness occurred, and their lives changed. But when we read the gospels we meet Jesus who changed peoples’ lives wherever He went, for the better.😊

The people who came to Him and the ones He sought out, the ones who were sceptical at first, and those who fell in worship at His feet, once they encountered Jesus one on one, their lives were never the same again. It’s the same for us today, knowing Jesus changes our past, our present and our destiny.

He is the central figure in all of history and if we have given our lives to Jesus, if we’re spending time with Him, remembering His goodness, His faithfulness, lifting our eyes off your circumstances and looking at how great our God is, we will be changing all the time, from one degree of glory to another, to become more like Him.😊 

God wants us to have an encounter with Him on a daily moment by moment basis because of His great love for us. His plan hasn’t changed. He wants us to know Him intimately, to have ongoing revelation of who He is, how He thinks and what He wants to do for us and in us, so we can be changed for the better and reach others with His love, so we can experience the plans He has for us.

Hebrews tells us God rewards those who diligently seek Him, whose hearts are turned towards Him and He is inviting us to stop and seek Him today and allow His love to flow into us and receive His mercy and grace to change our lives for the better throughout each day, moment by moment, as we navigate our new week.😊 Amen.