Father God, I don’t see how you will make a way, fix things, or fulfill Your promises. Yet, I believe You are able and You will do it. As I wait, I do not want to be my own biggest hindrance by allowing doubt, fear, or worry to rule me. Today, I make the choice to move out of my own way and trust You to have Your way. No matter what it looks like, I believe I will see You do the impossible in every area of my life. In Jesus’ He will make a way name, Amen and Amen!BeStrong

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Jesus said in Matthew 17:20, “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.” Well, the million dollar question is what if the mountain that needs to move is you?!

Ar the top of the morning, no matter what stands in our way, we serve a God who knocks down walls; opens doors; makes ways; delivers the bound; mends the broken; gives strength to the weak; increases those who are lacking; heals the sick; and causes His people to always triumph.

However, in order to experience these promises in our lives we have to get out of our own way. We have to get out of ourselves! We have to get out of our own thoughts and out of our comfort zones. Noel Pinnock once said, “When we allow comfort to enter our homes as a guest, it can remain as our host, and eventually it becomes our master.”

Undoubtedly, we have to force ourselves to break outside that small box labeled comfort. We have to challenge ourselves to trust God when He prunes and stretches. We have to say ‘no’ to complacency, small-minded thinking, and negativity.

So then, how do we get out of our own way? That’s easy. We begin by trusting God’s way and believing that, no matter what it looks like, there is absolutely nothing that can prevent God from doing what He wants to do. You are not too old; too young; too sick; too broke; too uneducated; too inexperienced; too damaged; too mentally confused; or too messed up to see God move in your favor.

There’s a reason for that, which is what I’m stirring into your cup of encouragement, empowerment, and inspiration. The answer to why your limitations don’t limit God is found in Genesis 18:14 where God said to Abraham, in the middle of his battle with doubt over the promise, “Is anything too hard for the LORD?”

My brothers and sisters, “If our hope is built on faulty PREMISES, we will not believe nor receive God’s PROMISES. A foundation of fear, doubt and worry will kill your faith in hard times. You must build your hope upon the word of God and nothing or no one else!

As you continue to drink down the contents of your cup, ask God if it’s you that need to be moved and if so….then move! Be bless on purpose and encouraged because there is no obstacle that can block God from carrying out His sovereign will. There is nothing He can’t do. Don’t fret, doubt, fear, worry, or laugh in disbelief. God is alway with you, even until the end of this age (Matthew 28:20)!

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Praise is something that wants to be EXPRESSED. Praise isn’t satisfied to think on the worth of something. Praise wants to sing of it, tell of it, and tell others about it.

The word “worship” is sometimes a quiet reverance…bowing down to something infinitely great. And sometimes bowing down is silent.

But praise is different. Praise can’t really be silent and still be praise. In one of the most effusive or heartfelt displays of praise recorded in the Bible, when all of Israel was bring up the Ark King David danced “before the Lord with all his might” (2 Samuel 6:14). You see, praise is expressing the greatness and beauty and excellence of something. When we’re praising God, we are expressing His vast greatness, incomparable beauty, and empirical excellence.

David reminds us in Psalm 150:6, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!” The Psalmist is calling us to express the excellence, the beauty, and the greatness of the true God and no one else. Additionally, the burden of this Psalm isn’t hard to discern or understand: “Praise the LORD!” The Hebrew here is hallelu-jah. It is two words: “hallelu” and then “yah.” “Hallelu” is a command. It is saying, “Praise!” And then “yah” is short for “YHWH.” The Psalmist is saying, “Praise YHWH!” “Praise the LORD!”

If your still reading devotional I invite you to consider that Pslam 150 comes after 149 Psalm(s) that have reflected on God’s ways, the trials that life brings, and the miracles He has accomplished. Therefore, don’t praise Him with naïve and reckless passions. But with the deep passion of someone who knows the God they’re praising. You know even more that God remains the most glorious being there is. There will never ever be is anyone above Him, anyone before Him, anyone after Him, and anyone greater than Him.

Above all, and above all things, if you have breath….”Praise the Lord!”

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2 Corinthians 12:9, reminds us that God’s grace is sufficient and that His power is perfected in our weaknesses. This may sound like an oxymoron but it’s true! I invite you to look at it this way, God literally reaches down in our weakness and picks us up! He provides the strength we need to make it through our struggles. He doesn’t always take them away, but He always carries us through!

The words made perfect in 2 Corinthians 12:9 mean “fully or entirely accomplished or made complete.” Christ’s power is made complete—it is able to fully accomplish its purpose—when His people are weak and depend on Him for strength. When we, like Paul, stop resisting and complaining and let the power of Christ rest on us, we make room to receive countless unexpected blessings from the Lord. By allowing God’s strength to be made perfect in our weakness, we have the opportunity to display God’s glory flawlessly.

The Bible gives several examples of God’s strength manifesting when His people are weak. Moses, the great leader of Israel, was deeply aware of his human shortcomings (Exodus 4:10). When the Lord called him to go to Pharaoh, Moses cried, “I’m not adequate. Please send someone else!” But God replied, “Go anyway, Moses, because I will be with you” (see Exodus 4:12–15).

I Corinthians 1:27 teaches, “But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” We must never shrink away from God because of our weakness but run to Him, letting Him equip, encourage, empower, and inspire us to accomplish His will. We must remember His promise: “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint” (Isaiah 40:29–31).

At the end of the day, God’s great power and sufficiency will always rest on us as we find our strength in Him, and He is glorified. We can whole honestly say with the psalmist, “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (Psalm 73:26).

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Pray with me:

Father God, thank You for showing me Your unfailing love! When I grow weary or become disappointed, it’s Your love that motivates me not to quit and to keep going. I am so ever grateful that Your love endures forever! Nothing can separate me from You or keep me from Your presence. Thank You for drawing near to me through this time, and thank You for what You’re going to do next. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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In the book John chapter 11, we read about Lazarus, who was deathly ill, and how Jesus apparently delayed His journey to reach his beloved friend.

John 11:5-6 says, “Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when He heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days.”

Inevitably, Lazarus dies, and when Jesus finally arrives, those around Him raise a deep question:

But some of them said, “Could not He who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?” (John 11:37).

Certainly, these people had previously witnessed Jesus’ miracles, but the tomb that was before them created questions about God’s plan for His friend Lazarus. If we are honest with ourselves, how many times have we felt the same, that God does not answer us or that He has delayed in coming to help us?

Waiting on God is not only difficult; sometimes it seems impossible. I’ll be the first to submit to you that in the meantimes and in between times I struggle with waiting on God to take action.

Let’s be honest, we all want things to happen in our own timing, according to our plans. However, God doesn’t operate on our schedules, and expecting that He will sets one up for disappointment.

Mary, Martha, and the host of onlookers discovered that God’s timing was impeccable when Lazarus walked out of that tomb. For those who didn’t know, the Lazarus story was a precursor to Jesus’ story in terms of His death, burial, abd resurrection.

Patiently waiting on God is not for the faint at heart, but One divine attribute that will enable us to patiently wait on God is His sovereignty. We can have complete confidence in His total, independent control over every creature, event, and circumstance at every moment in history. Subject to none, influenced by none, and absolutely independent, God does what He pleases, only as He pleases, and always as He pleases. Nothing can stay His hand: “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please” (Isaiah 46:10). Once we better understand God’s sovereignty, coupled with His goodness, waiting for God to act becomes a matter of a child trusting in his father’s faithfulness, sure of his father’s strength. Don’t wait on God, rather wait in God; in His strength, in His timing, in His assurance, and in His peace!!

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