2 Words in 1

 

Rest in My Love

We’re all a bit weary at the moment.

I think The LORD is far more aware than any of us when pushing through to perfection is needed and when just enough is enough.

Our hearts need not condemn us because His doesn’t….

The LORD says, “Some of you are very weary from warring and contending and from simply waiting upon Me.

I know you are tired and I have not forgotten you. (Isaiah 49:16-16)

Mistakes will happen. Give them to Me.

Find your rest in Me. Find your way in Me.

I know when you must make the extra effort and push through to excellence.

I also know when ‘only just enough’ is enough.

Have confidence in Me even in the middle of your weariness.

Let Me be your Guide.

Do not let your hearts condemn you, for My heart does not.”

“There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.” Hebrews 4:9-10.

“In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.” Exodus 15:13.

If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.” 1 John 3:20-22.

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Marilyn Baker is a Christian singer, songwriter and musician.

She is also blind. Her music is unpretentious but always sincere and from the heart.

If you can, let this song minister to you today.

God loves you and He does not condemn you. Rest in Him.

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The God of All Hope Has You Firmly in His Hands

This is an important message for more than one person. I don’t know who you are but please know The LORD hears you.

Anyone reading this who has an intercessory anointing, please do pray with this Message.

I believe whoever this is for is meant to be great in The Kingdom but they are currently under attack.

The LORD told me something you thought you had dealt with long ago, has recently “reared its ugly head” again.

At the moment, you are facing an issue that should have departed your life by now.

You feel as you have been pacing around the walls of Jericho so for so long now, that your steps have worn out a deep ditch like a First World War trench that you daily trudge round though you can barely see out of it.

Other people are telling you that “you just need a revelation from The LORD”. It makes your heart sink.^*

You feel like a failure. As though you are letting down God.

You worry that if you can ever climb out of the ditch, your Jericho will actually just be a tiny Lego building of plastic bricks that you could dismantle with your fingers.

But from down here in the ditch, Jericho seems even taller, stronger and more impregnable than ever.

It may be an ongoing problem in your surroundings, like damp rot or a leaking roof.

It may be a problem with a relationship.

It may be your child being bullied at school. Or they may themselves be a bully.

It may be a sickness, physical or mental. It may be yet another virus, but with all the viruses that have been hitting us lately, your body isn’t fighting this well and you feel burned out.

It may be a mindset, like a mindset of rejection, low self-esteem, an attitude of lack, or thinking you need to strive for God’s favour.

It may be an addiction, something you thought you had left behind you and just can’t seem to control.

It may be merely an unnecessary habit.

Or it might be a profoundly disturbing, besetting sin that you keep dealing with but it keeps coming back.

Perhaps it’s something others will merely find odd, but you know exactly how wrong it is, and how much you are grieving your Saviour.

That sickness, those problems, those thoughts, those reactions, those old ways keep coming back to haunt you.

And this time you feel as though it has stretched out its long, cruel fingers to squeeze the life out of you.

You feel overwhelmed.

You feel as though other people are already indoors at the wedding feast of the Lamb of God, breaking bread at the table of The LORD with fellowship and joy.

But you are outside in the dirt, eating out of your rubbish (garbage) bin with a spork.

The more it continues, the more you worry. The situation is becoming worse.

It consumes your waking hours and disrupts your sleep.

The LORD told me you feel like a sewer, full of filth.

The torment and turmoil has been so great that someone has even asked God to let them die.

You feel you are spiraling out of control.

It is not true.

The pain you are experiencing is real. I would never dismiss your suffering by telling you otherwise. But your situation is not dire as you suppose.

This is an attempt by the enemy to knock you out of alignment. Breakthrough is coming and this is a last ditch attempt to keep you from the good things God has planned for you.

It is a fight you don’t have to face alone. You don’t have to fight in your own strength to keep going. You don’t have to fight in your own strength to stay alive.

You don’t have to fight to be holy.

Turn your eyes to Jesus.

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18).

Instead, allow The LORD to make you holy. The LORD is your life.

The God of all hope has you in His hands.

You are saved, you are redeemed and you are so very, very loved. Christ lives in you.

Jesus is alive in you.

Seek The LORD. Yes of course pray about it. Read more of the word if you can.

Concentrating on what’s wrong has been feeding it. If attention is worship, your worrying has been worship of entirely the wrong kind. Your warfare against it has been fueling it.

Worship and praise Him. I firmly believe it is impossible to worship Him too much!

Most importantly of all, rest in Him. Spend time with Him.

Sometimes all the praying and the doing things for other people and reading the word is done from a mindset of striving.

Spend time just enjoying being with The LORD. Seek His face. Not for what He can do for you, but for who He is, regardless of your situation.

Give Him your attention. Let Him overwhelm you with the wonder and beauty of His presence.

We are born to be priests and kings. Minister to The LORD.

Minister to The LORD and your troubles will start to improve.

Breakthrough is coming. Deliverance is coming. The LORD is with you. He is mighty to save.

The God of all comfort is better than any earthly comfort. Turn to Him.

Know that I am praying for you.

^*I do wish Christians wouldn’t say that as often as they do. It’s well-intentioned but sometimes it isn’t true and even when it is true, it isn’t always helpful. It’s better to pray they receive revelation and be led by The Holy Spirit as to how to initiate conversation if necessary.

 

~ Iris Maud, UK.

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Iris Maud, UK.

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