My beloved embryo twin brother, it’s been 9 months since your God ordain spiritual 2nd birth and all I can say is, if it had not been for God’s grace, our family, church family, and friends I don’t know where I would be right now! But because I can cleave to scriptures like I Thessalonians 4:13-18, I can live with strength, comfort, peace, and hope.

Those passsges of text read as follows:

“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do hwho have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.”

To those of you who have and are presently processing grief, here are three things I continued to embrace:

1. Don’t grieve without hope.
2. Don’t grieve in your own strength.
3. Don’t make grief your God.

As each day passes that’s one more day that gets us closer to our celestial rapture ready reunion and for that reason and that reason alone, I am excited about what the future holds!

No-No, I still have to remind myself that you are out of town going about our Father’s business!! I love you baby and I miss you deeply, but I know that God loves you more! God knows what He is doing even when it doesn’t make sense to me!

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#LegendsNeverDie

I am humbled every time I read this caption because I can literally insert my name in each one of these examples.

Undoubtedly, Jesus did the unthinkable when He died on that rugged cross, taking on the sins for all humanity and He did the impossible when He rose from that borrowed tomb, conquering sin and death!

2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.”

The entire Bible can boxed into this one scripture and only God in Christ can do that! That’s my JESUS!

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#ThatsMyJesus

What you say after the ”I am” matters. Even if you didn’t think you were praying, what you say to and about yourself has the power of a prayer and prophetic implications.

That said, let’s briefly journey back to the OT for a second. Remember the question Moses asked God after he was called to lead the Israelites out of 400 years of Egyptian bondage? Exodus 3:13 records that brief transaction. ”Moses asked God, “When I go to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” In verse 14 God replied, “I Am Who I Am . This is what you say to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.”

The people probably thought Moses was crazy but it made perfect sense to God.

Let me break it down for you the same way Moses probably had to explained to the baffled people. If God made everything out of God, then the “I” of God and of every person who lives, or lived in the past, or will live in the future is the same. The “I” means awareness or consciousness, not the mind. God’s mind and my and your mind is very different. God knows all that can be known. You and I know a little…very little. The awareness lighting up each mind is one and the same. There is only one I-awareness.

So, when I say “I am,” I speak for my own little self and for God at the same time. Therefore, it’s not okay for me to say “I am worthless” or “I am dumb” because I am saying those things about God too and they are surely not true about God. Since the I-awareness of God and I are the same, they are not true for me either.

In short brothers and sisters, whatever you say after you say “I am,” you are literally and supernaturally calling on God and the entire universe to make it so. That’s why you must speak of joy, happiness, and beauty. Speak of love and trustworthiness. Say all good things after you say “I am” and know that it’s the truth.com!

You may be asking, is that all there is to it? No. You also need to take the appropriate actions to make it happen. This form of affirmative prayer is called treatment. There is a saying: “Treat and move your feet.” Besides affirmative and effectual prayer (James 5:16), we must do what needs to be done so the good result is ours (James 2:14-26)!

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#IAm……

Faith is everything in the life of believers. The bible reminds us in Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Faith is what brings everything that we need from God.

Faith causes us to act on what we haven’t experienced yet, to believe promises in the Bible that haven’t been fulfilled yet, and to trust God when our situations haven’t changed yet.

My brothers and sisters, faith is such a powerful gift from God (Ephesians 2:8–9) Christ told His disciples that, with just a tiny measure of it, the size of a mustard seed, they could move mountains (Matthew 17:14-20).

I thought about it this morning and perhaps God accepts our mustard seed size faith because from His vantage point that’s how He sees the challenges we face….as big as a tiny mustard seed. Nothing or no thing is bigger than our God!

The power of faith reflects the omnipotent nature of the God who bestows faith on His own. The mustard seed is one of the tiniest seeds found in the Middle East, so the conclusion is that the amount of faith needed to do great things or to overcome great things is very small indeed. Just as in the parable of the mustard seed (Matthew 13:31–32), Jesus uses rhetorical hyperbole to make the point that little is much when it comes from God.

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#tinyfaithmovesbigmountains

“God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him” (Philippians 2:13).

This is such a profound scripture because it doesn’t matter what your facing good, bad, or indifferent God is at work in all circumstances.

God is indefatigable which essentially means He never burns out. Jesus said these words in John 5:17 NLT, “My Father is always working, and so am I.”

My beloved Brothers and Sisters, no matter what is happening in the natural, as believers in Christ, we can be certain that God is working even if we can’t see it or feel it. We can be certain that God is fighting our battles, arranging things in our favor and making a way for us even when we don’t see a way.

So today remember God is making things happen for you, even when you don’t see it, even when you don’t
feel it, and even if it is not evident. God sees, knows, and cares about you and He is working on answering every one of your prayers!

God is supernaturally working in ways we simply can’t understand (Isaiah 55:8-9).

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#GodIsOnTheMove

Jesus has already gone before us on the cross. He prepared the way for us to be in relationship with God. God is with us in the form of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter, Way-Maker, Miracle-Worker, Promise-Keeper, and Light in the darkness!

Unequivocally, the Holy Spirit helps us in all circumstances. He comforts, guides, encourages, empowers, and inspires us to live a life of faith.

Deuteronomy 31:8 and in context Hebrews 13:5 reminds us that, “The Lord Himself goes before us and will be with us; He will never leave us nor forsake us.”

This is indeed good news to keep in mind because I know that life has a way of helping us forget that God is with us; even when we are facing one of life’s many challenges, battles, and difficulties!

Brothers and Sisters, I don’t know what plight your facing today, but I do know that no matter what lies ahead of you, God is already there. In addition to that truth, God is with you, He goes before you and He won’t stop fighting for you. So, don’t be afraid or discouraged. The God of all creation, a being beyond the limits of time and space, is always in your corner.

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#GodIsInYourCorner