God Word for me

 Dear Friend, Christmas is the moment of reminder that ”favour doesn’t always feel like favour,” a wise sage once said.   In fact, favour has a knack for making one feel like hell just started its ravenous rampage.   So this Christmas and always, I urge you to remember that favour is a particular presence (not a feeling) that has more to do with your future than with your past; more to do with the promise of God, than it does with the plight of man; it has more to do with the purpose of The LORD, than the plotting and scheming of men.  I believe that favour, in spite of the twists and turns of life, will sometimes put the favoured in a pit, but the same favour will also eventually take the favoured to the palace of the fulfilment of God’s promised purpose.  Without the pit ~ there is seldom no access to the throne in the palace till we first learn to reign during the time done in the pit.  Favour might bring her trouble but she always also brings ...

  After many years of living in the dark unseen, feeding on the sap of tree roots deep within the soil, the cicada emerges out of the ground.   It climbs the tree it has fed from and crawls out of its shell. It spreads its wings—now free to fly, sing and find a mate. [1] Climb out of that Shell! It is time to shed the inhibitions and limitations of the past. And for you, that may be for further growth—or it may be a time that you need to emerge into your true identity. Others animals shed their  skin  to make room for growth. As the time draws near for a snake to shed, its outer layer of skin becomes dull in color. The old skin is dry, uncomfortable, and irritating. Underneath, a bright new layer of skin is becoming ready. It is time to let go of past information about who you are. It is time to get out of the comfort zone of how history has defined you to be. And it is time to enter the miracle zone of who your Heavenly Father says you are. Everything that Hinders “...