OUR HOPE OF GOODNESS

Proverbs 10:24b (Nlt)…but the hopes of the godly will be granted.

I put my sun cream away in the cupboard the other day as I’d given up expecting the sun to be hot enough to need it any more this summer. As I did it I wondered have we, in a sense, put our spiritual sun cream away as well, because we’re not expecting the heat of God’s blessings to overwhelm us anymore? 

Moses prayed for God’s face to shine on His people and God still has the intention of shining down His blessings on us every day, all our lives, but if we’ve given up expecting anything it hinders the flow of all He’s trying to send our way. 

God wants us to have a spirit of hope, of expectancy of good from His hands, because our faith needs hope in order to work.😊 If you’ve lost heart recently, and lost your sense of expectancy of things getting better, please let this verse encourage you….

Psalm 27:13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Regardless of all the Psalmist had gone through, and all that was looming in front of him, he had learned to keep believing for, and expecting good things in his future because he knew his God was a good God. And we have the same good God, so even if we’ve been seeing or experiencing negative things recently, that doesn’t mean we should stop looking for God’s good things. Quite the contrary, we should be looking and believing all the more for God to turn things around for our good!

Isaiah 30:18b (AMPC) …Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who (earnestly) wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him (for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship)! I wonder, are we earnestly expecting all those?

Be encouraged! Our God is the God of all hope and comfort, not the God of all give up, hopelessness and despair. So if you’ve put your spiritual suncream away, go get it out again, and keep looking for and expecting God’s goodness to shine on you every day in all it’s glory.😊☀️

Romans 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Expect a blessed weekend.x😊

A HARVEST OF BLESSING

Galatians 6:9 So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.

There is an orchard near us where the public can go and help themselves to apples and plums which we did the other day. All through the year I save jam jars so I’m prepared and ready for harvest so I can make my jams and chutneys, some to store, some to give away.😊

Harvest always speaks to me of abundance, and in life God wants us to prepare for the harvests He has coming to us and not miss them. All through Scripture God talks about harvesting and blessings for His people. Deuteronomy 28:8 The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand….

God hasn’t just prepared, but has commanded blessings for us to gather in by faith as we believe for our prayers to be answered, so we can then bless others. What a wonderful thought! 

We had to go out and scrabble through nettles and brambles to get to the fruit because the orchard is all overgrown and neglected and it’s like that in other areas of life too. We have to make the effort and fight through the doubt and unbelief to bring in the harvest God is sending our way!

You may be believing for a harvest of healing, or for finances to come through, or for a new home, or a loved one to be saved. Every prayer was a seed you planted in faith, and that seed is constantly growing and will produce a wonderful harvest. Keep watering your seed prayers with the water of God’s word, of God’s promises, with praise and thanksgiving, till the harvest comes.

The farmer doesn’t sit in the farmhouse, he goes out and brings the harvest in! If God tells you to change your job it’s because there are greater blessings in the new one. If He says to go and witness to someone it’s because the harvest of their soul is ready to come in. If He says to give an offering, to sow a seed of finance into His Kingdom, it’s because He wants to multiply it back to you with a harvest of thirty, sixty, a hundred fold. But we have to do the sowing and reaping! 2 Cor 9:6-15 teaches us such a lot if you’d like to learn more. It gives us God’s ‘how tos’ on reaping and sowing.😊

Let’s speak words of faith and bring in the harvest of blessings He has prepared for us. Bring them in by praising and thanking Him for them and prepare our hearts (like the jam jars) to receive His abundance and not shy away from them. Amen.