TRACK THEM DOWN AGAIN

Proverbs 4:20-22 My son, give attention to my words: Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

Chris came back from a bike ride yesterday and discovered he couldn’t find his phone anywhere! He was searching all over and I said “Well let’s ring it and if it’s in the house we’ll hear it.” Sure enough it was ringing merrily and we finally tracked it down to the shoe cupboard, under the stairs, inside a shoe!! How on earth did it get in there?🤣

Sometimes we lose track of truths in scripture and we have to hunt them down again as well, so they can be real in our everyday lives. When we don’t hear a promise for a while we tend to ‘lose’ it but if we keep it in front of our eyes like our verse says, and in our ears like it says in Romans 10:17…faith comes by hearing, then our faith will grow and we’ll find healing in them as well.

This is a nudge from the Holy Spirit for us to go and search out some of those promises God gave us, those words that sparked a witness in our spirit, that we’ve maybe forgotten about. Let me encourage you today to not just find them, but to discover new ones, write them out and pin them on your mirror so you see them everyday. Read them aloud so you hear them.

We all know how easy it is to let things slide with all the pressures and distractions of every day but we are a people of the Word aren’t we? So let’s start declaring those promises over our lives, bring them to the Lord and say we’re standing on them again and believing Him to back them up and manifest them in our here and now.

I hope I’ve inspired you, and if I have, go and encourage and inspire somebody else to do the same. Why not text them a promise?🙂 Even if we’ve let them slide for twenty years or just last week, we can start sowing seeds of faith for our futures again and keep standing on and believing those promises, no matter what. 

We praise you Lord, You are the God whose promises have never failed yet and we look to You afresh to fulfil Your Word because all the promises are Yes in Jesus and we say Amen.

If you’d like some suggestions here are just a few promises:🙂 Jeremiah 30:17, Matthew 8:16-17, Isaiah 40:29, Isaiah 40:31, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 43:2, Jeremiah 29:11, Deuteronomy 31:8, Joshua 1:9, Psalm 23:4, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:31-33, Matthew 7:9-11, 2 Cor.9:8.

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