Peace in the Storm

Recently I was given reading glasses, and at first I found them difficult to get used to, but then I found they really did magnify the text and helped me to focus on what I was reading more clearly, but when I stood up to move about I was disoriented and out of focus, and quickly learnt to take them of because they were only meant for reading and not for anything else.   The Holy Spirit began to speak to me about this and reveal how we cannot read the bible with faith and then like reading glasses set faith aside while we get up and about life.  We must live in faith continually.  He started to show me how focused we can become on an evil or negative report and then when we try to get up and move forward we become disoriented and can't focus. Let me explain it this way, usually we only need reading glasses to read 'small print' we have no problem reading larger print in good light.  When it comes to 'faith'  the question is what is the small print?...

Sitting down to pray this morning - a frosty start but the sun is shining, the golden leaves shimmering  - Autumn is slowly turning to Winter - But still a lovely time of year.  Each season has it's own beauty if we have eyes to see it.  Just like our lives, it is season by season, we are never standing still but always changing.  This morning I began to read over my notes from 2017, and I realised that I was saying and writing basically the same words that I am still writing - BUT - as I read them I can see that my understanding and whole perspective towards these words have changed.  Then 2 years ago I was writing down the promises of God that I had found - and I was choosing to believe them because they were God's Word. BUT now I can see the growth and deeper understanding that has happened in me - I can see that these are not just words written on a page but they have become one with and in me.  I have grown to know not just believe these truths...

I Am Blessed This morning I was reading 1 John chapter 5 and it just became so real to me that How Blessed we are when we believe that Jesus IS the the Son of God, not just that Jesus WAS the Son of God. The Child of God who enters into the promises and blessings that HAVE BEEN provided is truly blessed.  The Old Covenant people of God were living always looking forward to redemption BUT as NEW Covenant people we live knowing that FULL REDEMPTION has ALREADY been accomplished by our Lord Jesus Christ.   You might say "I don't really understand what the difference is" - BUT for me this difference has changed my life.  I used to believe that God was GOING to help me or heal me someday in the future - BUT now I rejoice that HE HAS ALREADY made a way and provided for me.  I now ask the Holy Spirit to help me to receive what has already been given rather than begging God to help me.  I can't explain the joy this revelation is to my heart and how it strengt...