God is Faithful - The Theme of this Season

“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”- Isaiah 41:10.

God wants us to exercise greater trust in Him. When another test comes or another stretching circumstance happens, lean hard into God. Believe His word with all your heart, because God is faithful.

We ask for faith and more trust in God, so it follows that situations in our lives will happen to make us have to trust harder and longer, to test our faith more than before. Don’t give up on God, but in the closet of prayer, experience the power of His resurrection. It is in these times that we will get to experience, more than ever, the power of Christ in the midst of our own weakness and uncertainty in life.

We are appointed not only to believe in Jesus, but also to suffer for His sake (Philippians 1:29).  God knows that sometimes only suffering or perhaps, unexpected challenges will be able to bring out the gifts that He has given to us. God deepens our heart and character, often using things that may hurt or be challenging above what we previously thought we could handle. All that the enemy hoped would harm us, however, God uses to make us ever more children of Heaven. We are more than conquerors in Christ. God uses everything that happens together for our good - to change us to become more like Jesus. 

"Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.  For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

 “For yet a little while,
And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.

Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”

But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul."- Hebrews 10:35-39

God is not only interested in advancing the kingdom of God in this world of nations; He is also looking to advance His kingdom in our hearts. As this spiritual war rages on, there is a quiet strength of the closeness of God’s heart that we can enter. Find your peace and faith in His trusted Word. “Thy word is truth.”

“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed into His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection of the dead.”- Philippians 3:10-11