WE HAVE A GOOD REPORT

Proverbs 15:30 NKJV The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, And a good report makes the bones healthy.

When we were at school we wanted to take home a good report to make our parents smile.😊 Now we constantly receive doctor’s reports, maybe job reports, or bank reports and some of them can be disturbing. But I have good news because we have a good report every day that should make us smile and it’s the Word of God which supersedes them all!

Our report says this:

God loves us with an everlasting love and nothing can separate us from His love.✔️

Our sins have been forgiven and cast away as far as the east is from the west, and God remembers them no more.✔️

God has given us His grace and righteousness as a gift so we can reign in life.✔️

Now everything Jesus has is ours as Joint Heirs with Him!✔️

By Jesus wounds we are forgiven and also healed.✔️

Our God is merciful and faithful and He will never abandon us or leave us without support.✔️

Our God will provide all our needs according to His riches in heaven by Christ Jesus.✔️

He has made us Over-comers, more than conquerors through Jesus.✔️

We are anointed and equipped and can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.✔️

We have the Spirit of the Living God, who raises the dead, dwelling on the inside of us.✔️

Jesus is coming again to receive us to Himself.✔️

Our outstanding report comes from God’s word and it goes on and on. You can read it for yourselves, but even this little bit of our report is wonderful beyond our imagination and you know what a good report does? Our verse says it makes our bones healthy and strong when we believe it! 

Let’s keep reading our report every day and find out what the rest of it says, till it sinks down into our bones, till it transforms our minds, and if we receive a bad report from anywhere else we can say with total confidence, “Ah, but I have a better and a higher report and even though I may not see it all yet I receive it by faith.”😊 In Jesus name. Amen.

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WHEN GOD MULTITASKS

1 Peter 5:7 AMP casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully].

I read this Snoopy quote yesterday and it made me smile: “I’m multitasking. I can listen, ignore and forget all at the same time.” I wonder if any of us do that, whether intentionally, or not!?😊

Thankfully, God is not like that because when God multitasks He always listens, He never ignores us and He never forgets what we’ve been saying. God cares about us more than anything we can imagine and His love never ends so when we go to His throne room we know He’s always available and ready to give us mercy and help, no matter what the circumstance, or how alone we may feel.

There are times we can be afraid to confide in someone because we think they’ll judge us or dismiss our concerns as silly or trivial, or too big to handle, but God already knows us inside out so nothing we tell Him will come as a surprise. God already knew what He was getting when He called and chose us, so we can trust Him to understand where we’re coming from.😊

Psalm 139 reminds us God knows what we’re going to say before we say it and He knows when we sit down or rise up, so no matter what we’ve done, or should have done, or how bad it was, or whatever worries us, God already knows before we tell Him, and He’s just waiting for us to admit it and let Him forgive us and put it right.

No wonder we can draw near to God when we know He’s like that towards us, that He’s not condemning us but His heart is to care for us and the things that trouble us. His heart is to lift us up and let us know that nothing can stop Him loving us. What a wonderful blessing that is!

Psalm 34:17 NLT The Lord hears his people when they call to him for help. He rescues them from all their troubles.

So next time we need someone to listen to us, who won’t ignore us, but who really cares about everything that’s going on in our lives, let’s go to Jesus, our wonderful High Priest who sympathises with our weaknesses and has done something about them, and leave all those cares with Him, knowing He won’t condemn us, or forget us or any one of our concerns.😊 (Hebrews 4:15-16)

Thank You Lord. Amen.

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