NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US

Romans 8:35 NLT Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. 38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.

Everything in the garden may be rosy for you just now but there again it might not! There are times when we need to turn all our thoughts off and just read these verses over and over until they sink down into our spirit to bring peace into anything that is causing us distress. Whether it’s grief, or not understanding why things are the way they are, or when we can’t see our way through, or just when we can’t even think any more we’re so tired, they soothe our soul.😊

For those who are nursing sick loved ones, for those who are struggling to keep going, for those who are so poorly all they can do is call out to God for His help, whatever the trial we’re dealing with, these words are the bedrock beneath all of us. NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM GOD’S LOVE.

Even in the darkest moments the Psalmist David constantly cried out to God for His help, for His mercy or His forgiveness. He clung to Him even in the pit he found himself in and reminded himself of how faithful and good his God was to him.

It encourages us to know that even when we may struggle when life is hard, we can thank God for the truth these verses minister to our hearts. 

As we start another week the Holy Spirit is lifting our heads to look up and reminding us that no matter what may happen, or how upset or distressed we may feel, or whether we’re on a high or in a low moment, He will always be faithful and we will never be separated from the love of our God. In Jesus name. Amen. 😊

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AT ALL TIMES

Psalm 62:5-8 NKJV 

My soul, wait silently for God alone,

For my expectation is from Him.

He only is my rock and my salvation;

He is my defense;

I shall not be moved.

In God is my salvation and my glory;

The rock of my strength,

And my refuge, is in God.

Trust in Him at all times, you people;

Pour out your heart before Him;

God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Trust Him at all times! Even when you don’t know what to do, when you feel helpless, when you feel awful, when you can’t see how and your hope is trickling away? Yes! God said it! Trust in Him at all times!😊

God is far bigger than the biggest trouble and He says if we keep trusting in Him and His word, He will make a way. God has more ways than we could ever imagine and He’s not scratching His head wondering what to do! He already had the solution of the Cross before the world was made and that involved provision to remove the sins of the world throughout thousands of years!

Let’s put our problems in perspective in the light of knowing how powerful God really is, and how great His love is for us, although we will never fully grasp it.

Let’s talk to the problem and tell it to be uprooted and cast into the sea. Let’s talk to God about the solution He has prepared and receive it by faith instead of rehearsing the problem and encouraging it to grow bigger in our own heads. 

Magnify the Lord, not the problem!😊 Why? Because as the Psalmist reminds us, we can trust Him because He is our Rock, our Salvation and Defender. He is our glory, our strength, and our refuge is in God alone.

I think that must be more than enough reasons to praise and magnify our God today, don’t you? Amen.😊

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