When God says, “I Will”, He means, “I Will”! God is immutable and His plans are unchangeable and irrevocable. Nothing and no one in this universe can stop that plan from coming to fruition. We have Genesis and we have the Book of Revelation. God has a plan and it will come to pass, and nothing can stop it. Isaiah 14:27 confirms, “Nothing can stop God’s plan for your life.”

My brothers and sisters in Christ, our God cannot be restricted. No one can build a fence around Him. No one can set up a force field around Him. We can’t set up a situation where He can’t do what is correct. He will use stumbling blocks as stepping stones to come through for you. Trust Him. He is His only limit. He can do whatever he wants, whenever He wants. His desires, plans, purpose, and will are the only controls that are placed upon Him. God allows obstacles, and chooses obstacles, to show His great might in situation after situation so that He alone gets the glory.

That being said and in closing, God always knows the path and the way that He has prepared for us. He knows our future, good things are in His plans but we must faithfully trust and believe and put our lives in His capable hands. God knows our troubles and all we need to do is give Him our faith today and let Him connect the dots. God knows our every need, so there’s no need to fret, worry, or complain because His perfect plan for our lives cannot be stopped!

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Staying stuck in our personal brokenness, disappointment, pain, grief, guilt, or shame does indeed keep us from living an abundant and God fulfilling life. The same life that Jesus speaks of in John 10:10.

I get it, we are broken people living in a broken world, attempting to live meaningful lives. But we are often so unaware of how our brokenness affects us. In addition, we’re so scared of letting our vulnerabilities show. Life and the enemy have trained us to hide our brokenness at all costs. Meanwhile, the brokenness is festering and having a relational impact.

Oddly enough, sometimes the most obvious things we need seem hidden, even though they are in plain sight. Most of the solutions for our life are very simple, yet often ignored. One of the greatest practices that is neglected is the need to cultivate and care for the life of the heart.

I John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” and James 5:16 says, “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.”

That being said, the better option is choosing to seek God’s forgiveness and then receiving God’s permission to heal for ourselves and giving ourselves full permission to do whatever is needed to follow that path to healing.

Accepting God’s permission to heal definitely means facing our fears, doubts, and doing what needs to be done anyway with all of the support we can find, without letting the resistance slow us down.

It’s not easy, but we must not forget that our greatest blessings are always in front of and never behind; God has given us permission to heal, so He is calling us to move forward by His grace every single day!

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Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your understanding. Acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will direct your path.”

Solomon reminds us that everything has its time and place (Ecclesiastes 3:1). Therefore, rejoice always, prayer continual, and give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus (I Thessalonians 5:16-17).

By the way, while you are faithfully and steadfastly standing on God’s promises in your waiting season; I encourage you to trust and believe that your request(s) was heard by God, and He is already responding it. Don’t forget that God works on His timing so you’re going have to be patience.

You see, God has his own sense of timing: ‘With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day’ (2 Peter 3:8). Verifiably, He has perfect timing: He is never early nor never late. Adding to that, God is never in a hurry, but He is always on time.

My beloved brothers and sisters, please trust God to work it out for you rather than relying on your own understanding or perspective of the situation. God unconditionally loves you and the Maker of heaven and earth wants you to never forget that. God is always with you and for you!

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In Psalm 62:5-7, David said this: “I depend on God alone; I put my hope in Him. He alone protects and saves me; He is my defender, and I shall never be defeated. My salvation and honor depend on God; He is my strong protector; He is my shelter” (GNT)

Pray with me!

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Pray with me!

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Mark 9:24, “Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

The dominant theme in this passage of text is faith and doubt. Jesus’ initial response to hearing of the boy’s condition expresses His disappointment in a lack of faith: “You unbelieving generation, how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you?” The boy’s father initially seems to display a lack of faith as well. He asks Jesus to do something for the boy “if you can” (Mark 9:22). Jesus picks up on this doubt, repeating the man’s conditional statement (verse 23). In essence, He responds by saying, “What do you mean, IF I can?” He goes on to assure the man that anything is possible if he has faith. (On at least two previous occasions, Jesus had linked healing to faith in Him—Mark 5:34 and 36). It appears that the only thing preventing the man’s son from being healed is his faith, and he realizes that he has already portrayed a lack of faith. The man wants to express faith but at the same time be genuine. So he says, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” (verse 24). In essence, he says, “My faith is far from perfect. I may not have enough faith. If my faith is not enough, please help me to have enough.” The CEV puts it like this: “I do have faith! Please help me to have even more.” Jesus is pleased with this response and heals the boy.

Talk about being Honest, Open, and Transparent (H.O.T.) in front of crowd!

I hope you enjoy this one minute word of encouragement. Feel free to share it with someone you think might need an inspiring word to help build their faith!

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Welp, it’s settled…time doesn’t get the credit for healing….God does! David contextually confirmed this biblical truth in Psalm 147:3 and he said, ”He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds.”

Look at it this way, time passes but it is not a healer. The passage of time may take the edge off of acute pain, but it does not heal the pain.

You see, waiting for pain to heal is like waiting for the air to come back into a flat tire. You can wait, and wait, and wait, but until you take action the tire will remain flat.

If I am speaking to you please note there is no judgment intended. I know that recovering from loss isn’t a topic most of us learned about in school, or from other people. But perpetuating the myth that time heals is harmful because it’s just not true.

One of God’s names, which He spoke directly in Exodus 15:26, is “The Lord Who Heals You.” Healing is an integral part of God’s nature. Scripture repeatedly says that Jesus healed because he had compassion on the people. Jesus healed because it was His nature to do so.

Now then, let’s shift our focus back on time for a moment. When you dig down just a little deeper you will find that the marking of time is irrelevant to God because He transcends it. Peter, in 2 Peter 3:8, cautioned his readers not to let this one critical fact escape their notice—that God’s perspective on time is far different from mankind’s (Psalm 102:12, 24-27). The Lord does not count time as we do. He is above and outside of the sphere of time. God sees all of eternity’s past and eternity’s future. The time that passes on earth is of no consequence from God’s timeless perspective. A second is no different from an eon; a billion years pass like seconds to the eternal God.

That said, even in the midst of our pain as believers we should have a deep sense of comfort knowing that God, though timeless and eternal, is in time with us right now; He is not unreachably transcendent, but right here in this moment with us. And because He’s vertically and horizontally reachable in every moment of our lives, He can and will always respond to our needs and prayers.

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