KEEP GOING - DON’T GIVE UP!

Joshua 1:9 NLT This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Keep going. Don’t give up! How often we need to hear those words when life wears us down and we feel like we’ve had enough! Perhaps you feel like that at the minute? Maybe life has ganged up on you, or you’ve had more bad news and you don’t feel very inspired to do much. It might not even be that, but it’s just the treadmill of doing the same thing over and over again that has worn you down.

Whatever it is that has discouraged you God is constantly encouraging us through scripture to keep going, to know He is by our side telling us to be of good courage, to believe for the best, to know He is strengthening and upholding us.😊

In 1 Samuel 30:1-6 David and his men had faced a life changing defeat and the men were wanting to stone David, which was enough to discourage anybody, but David had learned to encourage himself in the Lord. He knew His God had not abandoned him and if he’d just keep going that God would come through for him. It was only 2-3 days later that he experienced an enormous victory and they reclaimed all that was lost and more.😊

Sometimes when we’re under attack and being pressured to give up, whether it’s giving up on a job or a project or on a relationship, pressured to give up on believing for our healing or something else that is taking a long time to happen, it’s the very time we need to hang in there. It could be only 2-3 days to our greatest victory but we’d never know if we gave in to the pressure and gave up believing for what God has promised.😊

Be encouraged to keep going, no matter what! God is fighting our battles for us but He does tell us to be strong and of good courage, to not be afraid, nor be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you. 

So strengthen the weak knees because you can do this with the help of the Holy Spirit. Keep going and whatever you do, don’t give up because God always leads us in victory.😊Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊

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BE ENCOURAGED

Isaiah 59:1 NLT Listen! The Lord’s arm is not too weak to save you, nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call.

God wants to encourage us all today no matter where we’re at, or what we’re facing, or what has happened. He knows the end from the beginning and nothing takes Him by surprise. God has told us He has good plans to prosper us and not to harm us, a future and a hope, but it requires us to take up our shield of faith to grab a hold of that promise so the enemy can’t steal it from us.

Scripture is full of what God has promised us and He doesn’t lie, so we can have confidence to stand on His word in the face of whatever the enemy is trying to put on us. We can be so grateful that our God is supernatural and He is not limited in any way, shape or form, by our present reality. 

Jesus told Jairus's daughter who had actually died, to get up, and she did. He told lepers to be made whole and they were. Their present reality had to bow to God’s supernatural reality. How encouraging that is.😊 Jesus never said, “How awful, what are we going to do!” No, He knew He’d been sent to heal the sick, make blind eyes see, etc. so He did, and He is the same yesterday, today and forever!

Jesus faced earthly reality on a daily basis but He brought God’s heavenly reality, which is higher and more powerful than ours, into every situation because He knew His Father’s heart was to heal, restore, provide and turn things around for peoples’ good. I can personally testify to that.😊 

3 John 2 NKJV Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. I love this verse because it reminds me of what God’s will is for His children, so I don’t need to wonder.

Let’s stand together in faith for all that God has promised us and believe what Isaiah said that God will listen to our prayers and He will save us. He will save you. In Jesus name. Amen.