Sunshine Vibes

Oh, the beauty of the sweet sunshine.  How it uplifts your spirits.  How it inspires you to go out and enjoy the day.  The pleasure of taken in the morning’s fresh air.  Everyone can admit they love a nice sunshine day.  Yet who created the sun?

Habakkuk 3:4

His radiance is like the sunlight.

He has rays flashing from His hand,

And there is the hiding of His power.

Revelation 1:16

In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the sun shining in its strength.

When I look at a beautiful sunrise, I remember to look at Adonai. He uplifts us.  He inspires us.  He strengthens us and give us the grace to enjoy our day.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 

There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

Yes, God wants us to enjoy our lives from time to time.  He was the creator of enjoyment as well.  So, I challenge you the next time your eyes dwell upon a beautiful sunrise or get to enjoy a sunshine day, stop and meditate on Adonai.  He’s the maker of heaven and earth.  He’s the maker of our enjoyment.

 

Have a God sunshine day!

 

 

 

A Path We Cannot See

Those sad news calls that pierces your heart. That diagnosis you weren’t expecting.  A moment that was just out of your control.  No one likes to experience the hiccups of life, but sometimes they are just unavoidable. 

Just look at the people of God coming out of Egypt.  Here they were excited being free from bondage just to find themselves having to run from Pharaoh’s army.  On top of that they run to the Red Sea.  It could have been taken that it was all a trap, as now all they have left of their freedom is to drown and die. Talk about a hiccup moment of life!

Psalms 77:19

Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters-a pathway no one knew was there!

What could have been considered a trap for the people of God, ended up really be a trap for Pharaoh’s army.  Who knew at that moment through an act of obedience on Moses' part, God would part the Red Sea to get his kids on the other side and then watch their enemies perish.  “A pathway no one knew was there.”

 

You may be experiencing your own Red Sea hiccup in life. Yet His thoughts are not our thoughts, and his ways are not our ways.  Just like the people of God being blessed to have experience the Red Sea part for them, the same God can make the Red Sea of our situations part for you as well.  He’s the same yesterday, today, and forevermore.  He just might make that pathway that no one even knew about just for you!

Be Encouraged.

Is It OK to Question God?

Habakkuk was a prophet who found himself being sadden by the corruption he saw around him.  With this weighing on his heart, he decided to question God.

Some may say but I thought we shouldn’t question God, as he is God.  Yet is that a religious mindset or relationship mindset?   Selah

In a relationship whether it be a parent with a child, a teacher with their student, or a husband and wife; we all have had a question or two come up in our relationships that needed to be answered.  Since Christ blood restored our relationship with him, Habakkuk shows that it is perfectly okay to ask God a question.  Yet we are to be aware that his response may not always be what we would like to hear.

In this short book, Habakkuk ask the question and God responds with an answer.  The book ends with Habakkuk prayer.  The book shows that God wants us to come to him with our struggles and with our cares.  It’s a beautiful reminder that even when things aren’t making any sense, God bring his strength and reassures us that he is yet in control. We are to live in the strength of his Spirit.  Is this easier said than done? Yes, but that’s where the just shall live by faith sets in!

God answered Habakkuk and He will answer you as well.  So, what question do you have for Him?  Be aware as the answer may surprise you.

His Time

 

As I was speaking with a dear friend, the subject time arose referring to the following part of the scripture:

Psalms 30:5

…. weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

It was stated that the morning came, and the person still felt like weeping.  Then the Holy Spirit gave me this as a response:

Maybe the person morning is not God’s morning.  God’s time doesn’t always line up with our time.

As I’m reading the Lost Books of the Bible, in the book of Jubilees this was confirmed with Adam. God said by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, he will die.  Technically did Adam die right then and there after eating of the fruit. No. Yet he died within a day on God’s time. How?  A thousand years is as unto one day with the Lord. Adam died at the age of 930.  He didn’t make it to 1,000.  Therefore, he died within a day to God (Lumpkin, 2009, p231).

While we are in the valley of life circumstances, it’s hard to see things God’s way at times.  So, this is a moment of encouragement to remind you that if it doesn’t seem like God is answering on our timeline, it maybe because HIS timeline is different from ours!  Remember his thoughts are not our thoughts and his ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8).

Nevertheless, if His Word says joy comes in the morning, you can rest assure that it will come just at the right time!

Be encouraged.

Reference:

Joseph M. Lumpkin. (2009). The Lost Books of the Bible: The Rejected Texts. Fifth Estate.

 

When Jesus Is in The Room

 

As I was reading Matthews chapter 8, I became overjoyed with this thought:

What happens when Jesus is in the room…

Within the text, when Jesus came to Peter’s house, his mother-in-law went from sick to healed.  She then got up and served him.

His presence on a ship with his disciples calmed the storm.

When he would come into town, deliverance would take place on the people.

Revelation 3:20

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with me.

When we open that door and let Him in, peace enters the room, joy enters the room, and strength enters the room.

Psalms 16:11

You will make known to me the path of life; in your presence is fullness of joy, in Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

So here is a question to ponder on, how do you respond when HE enters your room?

Be encouraged.

 

In One Day

 

Zechariah 3:9

For behold, the stone That I have laid before Joshua: Upon the stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave its inscription,’ Says the LORD of hosts, ‘And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

Two words that so simple, yet has such an impact. 

One day.

In one day you can go from being single to being married.

In one day you can be carrying a child in your arms for the first time.

In one day you can see your dream become a reality.

In one day you can also experience lost.

One day.

As I was reading Zechariah, the last part of that scripture pierced my heart.  He removes the sin of the land in one day.  He did by the cross.

In one day Jesus took on our sins.

In one day Jesus was acquainted with sorrow and grief.

In one day Jesus redeemed us.

In one day he fulfilled the old and birth the new covenant.

Just in one day he made away that can change men lives forever!

 

Just think about how HE can change things in one day.

 

 

 

God Is Already in Our Tomorrows

 

 

I was reading a passage about King Herod built this huge fortress on top of the Masada Mountain where it could space 10,000 soldiers.  Years later, David found himself fleeing from Saul.  In Psalms 18:2 David writes:

The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety.

As David was writing this, he was hiding in the desert where he set up camp near natural mountain fortress in the wilderness.  The Hebrew word for fortress is Metzod which in English means Masada.  So, the mountain where King Herod built was where David was.  What a tangible representation of God’s protection in David’s time of need (Adamson, Dave. 52 Hebrew Words, p 107)

This reminded me how God is already in our tomorrows, so we can already praise Him in our today.

Be encouraged.