Even though a particular challenge has the same label for all afflicted, the manifestation is as unique as each individual.
Always remember: You are not your challenge; You are not the label; You are not only that.
For it is written:
“You have hedged me in behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me…I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”
Psalm 139:5, 14
Always remember that the same God who fashioned you and formed you in your mother’s womb is the
Hopefully, you grow and mature through the different stages of your life.
What you used to do becomes not so necessary anymore.
Your tastes and the things you enjoy shift with each season.
Embrace and grow gracefully through the seasons of your life.
For it is written:
“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete,
May the Lord shine His everlasting grace upon you.
May you arise in this season with His resurrection power and anointing to go forth in destiny to fulfill His Great Commission to His followers ‘for such a time as this!’
For it is written:
“Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to
Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple.
Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves’.”
Jesus
Mark 11:15-17
During this last week of Lent consider your temple.
This week for our Jewish brothers and sisters is the commemoration of Passover when the Angel of Death passed over the households of God’s chosen people.
The sign for deliverance was the blood of the lamb put on the lintels of their door frame.
It is a festival of freedom calling to mind God’s releasing them from Egyptian bondage.
For Christians, this week is Holy Week taking us from Palm Sunday through Holy Thursday (the Last Supper), Good Friday (the death of Jesus) and finally to Resurrection Sunday, when Jesus rose from the dead.
“I must preach the kingdom of God…because for this purpose I have been sent.”
Jesus
Luke 4:43b
If you really choose to make Jesus the Lord of your life, your worldliness should decrease as His Kingdom reflection increases in you.
You should become more and more like Him.
Your life should reflect the Kingdom of God.
Whether you preach out loud with words or by how you live you should be preaching the Kingdom of God not the religious doctrine and worldly ways of men.
