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Romans 8:28 is a great memory verse to keep handy in times of struggles and hardships. In this passage of text God reminds us that He loves us in adversity, through adversity, and beyond adversity. God is bigger and stronger 💪🏾 than your struggles. All things may not seem good right now but He will work it out for good. I know sometimes our struggles may seem bigger than God, but God will overcome them. How do we know?? Well, hello………………………🅡🅔🅢🅤🅡🅡🅔🅒🅣🅘🅞🅝 🅢🅤🅝🅓🅐🅨!! God took the most despised and torturous form of death and made it a symbol of victory and hope. If He can do it with a cross, He can do it in our lives. We don’t want to undermine our struggles. Neither does God. Fortunately he cares so much He wants us to know He is bigger than all the pain in our lives. As born again believers, knowing God is in our corner is the foundation to Romans 8. This is a beautiful chapter that encourages us to draw closer to Jesus in our adversity, struggles, and hardships. My suggestion…..read it! In fact, read it regularly and remember; the struggle ✊🏾is real, but so is God!

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to 🅜🅐🅚🅔 🅘🅣 🅟🅛🅐🅘🅝? Well, it just don’t get any more str8-fwd than this:

“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.” (John 3:16 MSG) Hallelujah, in Christ and Him alone, l am no longer an enemy of God, 🅘 am now His son, His friend, and apologist! St8 up…I 🅛🅞🅥🅔 me some 🅙🅔🅢🅤🅢!

Father God, bless the work of my hands, the ideas of my mind, the strength/ healing of my body, and the passion in my heart. I need -You in my life today and I choose to place my trust in Your perfect will, plan and purpose for my life! In Jesus’ name! Amen and amen!

We all pray that God will pour out His irresistible 🅖🅡🅐🅒🅔 but how do we know that His limitless grace is flowing in our lives? Well, Jesus gave us the ‘how-to’ in Matthew 6:6 (MSG] and He said, “Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The [Your] focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.” In other translation we are instructed to pray in our ‘inner rooms’. The Greek used here for “🅡🅞🅞🅜” is tameion, which means “an inner storage chamber or a secret room. You’re quiet place might be a daily commute, a bench in the back yard, or the kitchen table. Simply put, a quiet non-babbling prayer, directed at God and not passers-by, will reap spiritual blessings. Furthermore, any act, be it praying, giving, or serving, should not be done for the purpose of gaining approval from others. Praying, giving, and serving should always be responses to our 🅡🅔🅛🅐🅣🅘🅞🅝🅢🅗🅘🅟 with 🅖🅞🅓 and the grace He pours in and through our lives!!

T⃣R⃣U⃣S⃣T⃣ G⃣O⃣D⃣!! Keep you head up!! Don’t look back rather look forward. Remember, God is never up to something bad and He is always up to something good because the Lord is good and His mercies endures forever!

H⃣a⃣v⃣e⃣ a⃣ b⃣l⃣e⃣s⃣s⃣ o⃣n⃣ p⃣u⃣r⃣p⃣o⃣s⃣e⃣ f⃣u⃣l⃣f⃣u⃣l⃣l⃣i⃣n⃣g⃣ d⃣a⃣y⃣!

Did you know that patience is connected to trust, hope, faith, love and good character? Proverbs 15:18 reminds us that, “Hot tempers cause arguments, but patience brings peace.” Additionally, most biblical scriptures points to PATIENCE as being the quality or virtue of presented as either forbearance or endurance. In the former sense it is a quality of self-restraint or of not giving way to anger, even in the face of provocation; it is attributed to both God and man and is closely related to mercy and compassion. So if 2019 is challenging your patience copy/paste this link and read:

https://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org/10-bible-verses-patience/

Anytime you reach your breaking point remember Romans 12:12, “Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times.” If God is patient despite our sins, transgressions, and iniquities, then we ought to be patience with others….right?

🅜aybe this day isn’t 🅾ne of your favorite, but 🅽ever forget that every 🅳ay is an 🅰mazing day and it’s up to 🆈ou to make it count! Ephesians 5:15-17 says, “Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.” This passage teaches us to:

◉ Be careful about our time and choices.

◉ Be an “on-purpose” person.

◉ Live a life worth living.

◉ Really think about what we are choosing to do and make wise decisions.

◉ Make the most of our time.

◉ Don’t let opportunities pass us by.

◉ Don’t be passive, vague, thoughtless and foolish.

◉ Know the will of God and cleave to it firmly!

Whether we live for only a few years, or to be 100, the time we have is still relatively short. We only have one life to live, so let’s be sure we 🅜🅐🅚🅔 🅘🅣 🅒🅞🅤🅝🅣!

Yes, today and forevermore for sure!!

Everybody timelines should have this status! If you don’t and you’re still breathing….I got good news for you! It’s not too late to make Jesus Lord of your life!

If I am talking to you repeat after me:

Jesus, I believe in my heart that You rose from the grave and I confess with my mouth that you are my Lord and Savior. Come into my heart and make me whole and complete. Amen!

It matters not what you’re going because you don’t have to be afraid about tomorrow because our omnipresent God is already there. I Corinthians 2:9 tells us, “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.” Fact is the only disparity or ambiguity between today and tomorrow is our own fear. Once we truly learn to put our trust in God, we will no longer be afraid of the things that come against us nor the things we can’t see….like tomorrow. We will be like the psalmist who said with confidence “…let all who take refuge in God be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you” (Psalm 5:11). Yes, we can be at peace today because we know that our God is already in our tomorrow and the day after that and so forth!

Father God, you rule reality, not me and although I am living out my purpose you are in control, and I trust that whatever the outcome, your sovereign will is always aimed at my good because of Jesus Christ. So according to Him, because of your grace in His cross and resurrection, do what You will and give me the faith to trust you in all things including what tomorrow holds. Holy Spirit rest not only in our minds but also in our hearts. In Jesus’ name, amen and amen!

Nothing paralyzes or cripples our lives like the attitude or thought that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Our Outlook determines outcome. If we see only challenges, obstacles, and problems, we will most likely be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in these stumbling blocks, we can have victory. Colossians 1:17 encouraged us by stating, “God is before all things, and in God all things hold together.” That’s right all things; not some things….not a few things…..BUT ALL THINGS! So today trust and believe in this truth; nothing ahead of you is bigger or stronger than the power of God in you and behind you.