WALK, SIT, STAND

2 Corinthians 6:16 NIV …As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

What a promise to take with us into each day! The God who raises the dead, who flung stars into space, the majestic King of Heaven, our Abba Father who loves us, He is walking with us wherever we go! He’s watching over us, keeping us on the straight and narrow, when our eyes are on Him. 

Sometimes when we go for a walk and the path narrows we follow the person in front and walk in their footsteps. In the same way God walks with us, but He also goes ahead of us, so we can follow where He leads. Isn’t that reassuring? He leads us in paths of righteousness, beside still waters and He lets us rest and feed in green pastures. Thank You Lord.😊

Ephesians 2:6 NLT For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus.

Then Paul reminds us we’re no longer earth bound but citizens of heaven, taken out of the kingdom of darkness and put in the kingdom of light of God’s dear Son. We are sitting with Jesus,  at the right hand of God. Our bodies may be experiencing earth, but our inner spirit is joined with Jesus so we can experience heaven as well. In one sense we are already there! Lord give us deeper revelation of being seated with Christ in heavenly places, seated in a place of victory.

2 Corinthians 1:24 NIV Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm.

Now because God is walking with us, because He has sat us down beside His throne with Jesus in a place of all authority and power, we can stand by faith in all that God has done for us in Jesus. We can stand on His promises because not one of them has failed. We can stand in the victory Jesus has won for us, and having done all stand with our armour on knowing who we are and whose we are. Hallelujah. 

Just in case we forget, wherever we go and whatever we have to do today, God is reminding us we are walking, sitting and standing with God each day. What a thought!😊 Thank You Jesus. Amen.

JUST ENOUGH OR MORE THAN ENOUGH?

Ezekiel 34:26 NIV I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.

Can I ask you something? Is your concept of God one that He gives us ‘just enough’ to get by? When someone asks how much milk you want in your drink and you show them your thumb and finger close together to say a little bit, just enough? Are we the same with God? Just enough money to pay the bills Lord, just enough health to get through the day? Lord, if you could just ….?

Or is your image of God one where His arms are thrown wide open and you know He is the God of ‘more than enough’ and that His heart is to shower you with His blessings, not because we deserve them but because of His great love for us. Ephesians 1:8-9 NIV says God lavished His grace and favour on us. Lavish is an over the top word because our God is actually an over the top God!😊

Our perception of God will determine how much we can receive from Him and if we think He’s holding back on us then we maybe haven’t quite believed this verse…

Romans 8:32 NLT Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?

The enemy always tries to make us doubt God’s promises, to make us think they were for a different time, or for someone else, but if we belong to God then all His promises, ALL of them, are yes and Amen in Jesus.

God is wanting us to take the limits off Him, to believe His word where He says His heart is to prosper us and not to harm us, to prosper everything we set our hands to, to walk in the abundant life Jesus died to give us. 

In order to do that we have to have a sense of bible expectation, of  hope based on His word, of faith that sees the unseen, to know God has given us the ability to call forth what we’re believing for by faith, because of His promises. If we can see it already in front of us then we don’t need faith, but we do need it for the things we can only see with our spiritual eyes.😊

Jesus turned 120 gallons of water into wine, He gave thanks and a few fish and rolls fed 5,000 people with 12 big baskets of left overs. God split the sea for Moses, fed 2-3 million people for 40 years in a desert! So is it just possible we’ve been insulting God by only asking Him for ‘just enough’ health, just enough strength, just enough money, etc., instead of believing our God is the God of ‘more than enough” and it blesses Him when we ask for more than enough of the ‘everything’ He wants us to have!😊

Lord, open our eyes so that truth sinks right down into our spirits to see You as You really are - our wonderful God of more than enough who wants to pours out Your blessings on us if we’ll receive them. Amen.

Photo by Daniel J. Schwarz on Unsplash