It's good and necessary to keep reminding ourselves that we are surrounded by the walls of God's salvation. So often we feel we are surrounded by bad news. We hear of so much sadness that we can feel like we are surrounded by the enemy. But can I tell you that is an absolute lie.
God has us surrounded not the enemy! He has surrounded us with His salvation and His salvation includes, forgiveness, peace with God, rightstanding with Him, healing and health, His prosperity and provision, His encouragement and strengthening, His supernatural peace, His joy.
He is the God of all comfort when we are down, the cure for every disease and virus, the answer to every failing and fault and how is that - because of Jesus - because of the cross - because of the resurrection. Jesus paid the price for it all and we belong to Him now.
Isaiah 26:2-4 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.
So when we get downhearted, or depressed He has given us the antidote. God calls us to trust in Him and in Him alone and to get our thoughts fixed on Him, not on all the depressing things we keep seeing and hearing. It says trust in the Lord always not sometimes or when we 'feel' like it or when we 'feel' strong. No, He says to trust Him always, no matter what things look like or feel like. In fact, I think it's even more important to say to the Lord that we're trusting Him especially when we don't feel like it, when we can't see the promise manifesting yet, when we are being so oppressed by the enemy because praise turns the tide of the battle.
Have you ever noticed that DESPAIR turned around spells PRAISE when you kick the D for devil out of it!
Lets kick the devil out today and praise our God and tell Him once again we trust Him and our eyes are fixed on Him always as we expect the goodness of God and His peace to unfold in our lives this week. Amen.
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