You Will Lack Nothing

Deuteronomy 8:6-10 (ESV)
⁶  So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.
⁷  For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,
⁸  a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,
⁹  a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
¹⁰  And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. 

Prayer Warriors,

There is so much going on in these verses, but I just want us to concentrate on a couple of things. In verse 7, I want us to see that he brings us "into a good land"...... and He starts to describe the Promise Land and what His people will enter into. You see, no matter our circumstances, it's a good land. Why? Lets look at verse 9, "in which you lack nothing" there is not one no good thing we lack. Our father tells us, He will not withhold, one good thing from His children. Just like we withhold no good things  from our children, unless we believe it won't be good for them.....so our farther will also. If we don't have it, it's not good for us, plain and simple. He is a good God and He loves His children, so don't let the enemy till you differently, don't believe his lies. God is our provider! Yes,we must work, like they had too, till the land and dig for copper, but verse 10 tells us, "you shall eat and be full, you shall bless the Lord you God for the good land he has give you."

1 Corinthians 1:4-9 (ESV)
⁴  I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
⁵  that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—
⁶  even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you—
⁷  so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
⁸  who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
⁹  God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Ladies,

Now let's look at the spiritual aspects of lacking nothing...... Why? We are rich in Him. Who? In Christ Jesus our Lord. In verse 7, he's telling us, we are lacking nothing because we are rich in him in all speech and knowledge. His grace has been poured over us. I believe the Lord wants to use you Ladies, in ways you haven't fully pursued. There could be many reasons why you haven't.......but don't let that stop you from walking in the gifts that He has given you! If he has called you, then he has equipped you. Remember, there's not one good thing that He has withheld from you. You lack nothing because of the grace of Jesus Christ, he has given you all things.

You see Ladies, whether its physical or spiritual we lack nothing! 

Blessings,
Christina 

HE BROUGHT US OUT THAT HE MIGHT BRING US IN

Deuteronomy 6:23 (HCSB)
²³  but He brought us from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that He swore to our fathers. 

Prayer Warriors,

He brought us out, that He might bring us in. Today, the Lord taught me, that I just didn't save you, just leave you in the state where I found you. Even being a christian for years, and thinking, I've grown over the years. I'm not where I use to be. Then hearing Him speak to my heart, I started to wonder, am I where He wants me to be in my walk with Him........

IN MINISTRY

MOTHER

WIFE

FRIEND

MY JOB

BEING A WITNESS

ETC.........

I could go on, but you know where I'm going with this. You know, that Lord never takes you out of something and not bring you into something better. He has great plans for our lives, He promised us. The trials we may go through, or the detours we take. We begin to wonder in the wilderness like the children of Israel. What should have taken 11 days, it took 40 years for the next generation to enter in.

God has placed things in our hearts and wants us to journey with Him, into the promise land. It might be a physical, or spiritual one, maybe both. The thought of new place, or ministry, or job........... 
We put fear into our hearts, or we think about our past and we start to question. Is this what God really wants? Can I do This? Why me? Sometimes these questions keep us in the wilderness. How long we stay there, is up to us, so lets take steps of faith and let Him lead us into His perfect plan. 
For here and eternity.   

God wants us to enter into a journey with Him and lets take the next generation with us.

Blessings,
Christina 



  

Trust in God Alone

Psalm 62:1-12 (HCSB)
¹ I am at rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him.
²  He alone is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I will never be shaken.
³  How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you attack as if he were a leaning wall or a tottering stone fence?
⁴  They only plan to bring him down from his high position. They take pleasure in lying; they bless with their mouths, but they curse inwardly.Selah
⁵  Rest in God alone, my soul, for my hope comes from Him.
⁶  He alone is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I will not be shaken.
⁷  My salvation and glory depend on God, my strong rock. My refuge is in God.
⁸  Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge.Selah
⁹  Men are only a vapor; exalted men, an illusion. ⌊Weighed⌋ in the scales, they go up; together they are less than a vapor.
¹⁰  Place no trust in oppression, or false hope in robbery. If wealth increases, pay no attention to it.
¹¹  God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: strength belongs to God,
¹²  and faithful love belongs to You, LORD. For You repay each according to his works.

SATAN WAS SILENCE

Job 1:6-12 (HCSB) 
⁶  One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
⁷  The LORD asked Satan, “Where have you come from?” “From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.” 
⁸  Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.” 
⁹  Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
¹⁰  Haven’t You placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
¹¹  But stretch out Your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will surely curse You to Your face.” 
¹²  “Very well,” the LORD told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, you must not lay a hand on Job ⌊himself⌋.” So Satan left the LORD’s presence. 

Prayer Warriors,

This discussion between God and Satan is very interesting to me. Satan, says," The only reason Job fears or (loves) you is because you have a hedge of protection around Him." You see what the enemy was saying," Because you have prosper Job in everything, that's why He loves you, take it all away and He will curse you!" 

If you ever read the book of Job, you know that Job had many questions but He never cursed God. 

Job 1:21 (HCSB)
²¹  saying: Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will leave this life. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. Praise the name of Yahweh.  

Job did not realize what was going on in the heavenly realm. Satan putting God on the (Stand) before every angel and every living thing, in heaven and on earth. Can you picture it? Man only loves you because of what you do for man not because your a Holy God. Job was put to the test and past and something amazing happened.....

SATAN WAS SILENCE  

 When the marriage is failing, and we still trust God to restore it.

WE SILENCE SATAN

When we don't know how that next bill will get paid, but we know He will provide!

WE SILENCE SATAN

When that job don't come through and believe God has something better!

WE SILENCE SATAN

When we don't understand what He's doing in our lives but we surrender it all!

WE SILENCE SATAN

When we see our children going in the wrong direction and know He will put them on the right path!

WE SILENCE SATAN 

When we're in (Love) with Him and (Worship) Him because He is worthy of our praise!

WE SILENCE SATAN

Job 13:15 (NASB77)
¹⁵  " Though He slay me, I will hope in Him.

There's something bigger going on in the heavenly realm!

Blessings,

Christina 

  

A TRUE BELIEVER

 Job 1:20-22 (HCSB) 
²⁰  Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
²¹  saying: Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will leave this life. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. Praise the name of Yahweh.
²²  Throughout all this Job did not sin or blame God for anything.

Prayer Warriors,

Job was a man of integrity, a man who loved the Lord, not because of what he had but we know from scripture when everything was taken away, He would not curse God. He fell to his face and worshiped Him. No man has suffered as much as Job, except for our Savior Jesus Christ. 
It said, " In all of this Job did not sin or blame God." I love what MacArthur said,

21. Instead of cursing, he blessed the name of Jehovah. Job’s submissive response disproved the adversary’s accusations (1:9–11). So far, Job was what God claimed him to be, a true believer with faith that cannot be broken (v. 8).

MacArthur, J. (2006; 2008). MacArthur Study Bible NASB (Job 1:20). Thomas Nelson Publishers; Nashville, TN.

I pray that in all we may go through in life, with love ones, work, neighbors.......I pray that we would be blameless in the eyes of our Lord. We would be women of integrity, even when we don't understand! Women of prayer, who persevere in time of trouble. Prayer Warriors that put on the full armor daily, ready for battle. If we've been in a pity party and I know how to do that real good! Remember His promises. 

Let us be, who He claims us to be, a true believer with a faith that cannot be broken! 

Blessings,

Christina

Humility

Humility is an indispensable requisite of true prayer. It must be an attribute, a characteristic of prayer. Humility must be in the praying character as light is in the sun. Prayer has no beginning, no ending, no being, without humility. As a ship is made for the sea, so prayer is made for humility, and so humility is made for prayer.

The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds .

Philippians 2:6-8 (HCSB)
⁶  who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage.
⁷  Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men. And when He had come as a man in His external form,
⁸  He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross.

Prayer Warriors,

It's amazing, when you think about it, that the God of the universe would come and take on a human body. It said, " He emptied Himself and to the form of a slave." Jesus, whom willingly  limited himself to the likeness of man. Yet still God, he choose to come as a baby dependent on  another human being. He set His rights aside, He now was subject to time, place and human limitations. 
God, who existed before the foundations of the world.

He humbled himself even unto death. I remember thinking to myself, well the Lord had to die. He created us and man sinned so He was our only way out. Oh, how I was mistaken. I truly didn't understand the cross. Yes, He was the only one that could pay that price, a perfect lamb but He still didn't have to do it. I was the one that had sinned, and still does and yet He went willingly, lovingly so that I, you could have eternal life.

When we come to Him in prayer in humility, may we empty ourselves of are pride because if never answers another prayer, He has already done enough! 

Blessings,
Christina  

Trust

The trust which our Lord taught as a condition of effectual prayer, is not of the head but of the heart. It is trust which “doubter not in his heart.” Such trust has the Divine assurance that it shall be honored with large and satisfying answers. The strong promise of our Lord brings faith down to the present, and counts on a present answer.

Do we believe, without a doubt? When we pray, do we believe, not that we shall receive the things for which we ask on a future day, but that we receive them, then and there? Such is the teaching of this inspiring Scripture. How we need to pray, “Lord, increase our faith,” until doubt be gone, and implicit trust claims the promised blessings, as its very own.

This is no easy condition. It is reached only after many a failure, after much praying, after many waiting, after much trial of faith. May our faith so increase until we realize and receive all the fullness there is in that Name which guarantees to do so much.

Our Lord puts trust as the very foundation of praying. The background of prayer is trust. The whole issuance of Christ’s ministry and work was dependent on implicit trust in His Father. The center of trust is God. Mountains of difficulties, and all other hindrances to prayer are moved out of the way by trust and his virile henchman, faith. When trust is perfect and without doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand, ready to receive. Trust perfected, is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for—and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless, that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So that what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds .

Prayer Warriors,

I love the words of  E. M. Bounds in how he brings trust and prayer together. Yes, it is with much prayers and waiting that I realize,  that I forgot to bring trust into my prayers. How I know, its because when I walked away, I say to myself, " I hope he answers that." or " That's OK if he doesn't." I've already lost trust in one I'm praying to.

 Proverbs 3:5 (HCSB) 
⁵  Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; 

I pray that we would ask the Lord to increase our faith, so we can trust in Him with all our hearts. Lean not, on what is going on in our lives, the trails we face, or relationships that are or have been destructive but TRUST in our Lord. The one who redeems, restores, renews. He has saved, changed and transformed lives and He will continue to do so. Trust in the one who holds heaven and earth in the palm of His hands. 

Blessing,

Christina