Romans 8:28 The Word Works

Romans  8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.


Pain can become a prison, locking people into it cells forever. Distorting the facts and the truth of God, it will try to keep you locked up forever.

Pain is very real, and very real to the one experiencing it. It is tormenting, its hurts down to the core of the soul. It causes you to always keep your attention on it. And when you don't, it reaches out from nowhere and grabs you and shakes you back into its reality. Sleep is not a blocker of its outreach. Meds can only do so much. Sometimes meds lock you into a sense of false security.

Thinking that's it is over, you find out very quickly that it is still there.

But God...

Pain like everything else has a time limit that God allows it to have.

I am not making light of pain, lest I fall into the snare of hypocrisy. I am saying, he that comes to God must believe that "God is", and a rewarded of them that seek him diligently.

The word of God has to become first. The word has to become the carrier of change. The word has to be made a constant reality, which is and within itself very difficult.

People with good intentions will tell you to come off of the meds. That comes from a person who has never been acquainted with pain.

Take the meds in Jesus' name. Let God bring you off by faith, by his will, and not by the good intentions of others.

God's way is the best way. He often shows up when the enemy intent is to destroy you. God is there to change the course of your life. God is always there working out the good of a messed up situation working it out in your favor.

When people say it’s all over, God says I am not finished with you. I have a mission for you to do. Regardless as to what you feel or how much you think you can function in your adversity

We are the called according to what he has purposed for and through us. We call on him to save us from what the enemy tries to put on us. Jesus came to heal our pain and those are his words. So we can stand only them.

Proverbs 3:23-26 Sweet Sleep

Proverbs  3:23-26
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. 
25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

 
Are you being attacked by the enemy in your sleep or when you lay down to sleep?

Do worries possess your thoughts?

Are you being held hostage to fear in the night hours?

I will not get into a long discussion from the perspective of clinical or psychological fear. I want to deal specifically with fear that causes us not to sleep at night.

Perhaps when getting into bed we allow our minds to wander into some thought of pleasantness. All is well. There is perhaps a small smile on our face. All of a sudden, out of nowhere dread seems to permeate our whole being. Our imagination begins to go in to high gear. All we can see in our mind's eye is an impending danger. We can not move mentally forward. We become imprisoned by a single thought. Our mind races to rehearse a mental scenario repeatedly. We cannot stop this distressing process. Before we realize, many hours have passed and we have loss much needed rest and sleep.

Perhaps we have heard some bad news concerning a friend or loved one. Perhaps we are having some financial or health issues or issues with someone who have turned against us. The process is the same. We become imprisoned by a single thought that we rehearse in our minds repeatedly until fear possesses our total being.

It is enough to have genuine concern about an issue that consumes us, but night was made for resting and recuperating from the toils of the day. To be tormented in the night hours when we need rest, is against all things natural.

To toil at night when we need rest is against our health and well being.

This proverb says we should have sweet sleep!

What is sweet sleep?

For me sweet sleep is sleep without worry, fear, or stress. I awake feeling renewed and refreshed. I stretch off the night and began a new day ready for a new beginning, a new victory, a new and refreshed mind for anything I may encounter. Anything! It is a rebooting of my being, leaving the old unusable for yesterday, and to build on today for today.

We can't do that if we have been bogged down with stress and worry through the night.

The proverbial writer says, the LORD will be your confidence, which suggests we have lost confidence in what he says in his word.

Finding confidence in God's ability to protect and keep us, affects our sleep and how we think at night. God is our protection from everything. Our ability to trust that he has our best interest at heart is where our thoughts should rest.

The enemy of God adds to our mental discussion. We actually carry on a conversation with fear, rather that in prayer with God or meditating on the wisdom of the ages. Let us put away the practice of consulting with fear over God's word. Let’s grab a hold of confidence rather than casting away our confidence in the Lord.

Psalm 119:24 The Sweet Word

Psalm 119:24 GNT
Your instructions give me pleasure; they are my advisers.


God is concerned about our every success as well as our every failure.

He provides a word to us at the exact time we need it. A faithful servant listens for the voice of God constantly. This servant wants to know the instruction of the Master. The Master knows what we have need of long before we ask.

Because we follow the voice of God we have minimal struggles. He directs our steps. Yes our steps. It is very worriesome trying to follow after the words of the well intentioned. They mean well but they only know so much. Following God's word always pays off.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 God Knows More

Ecclesiastes 3:14  

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

God has performed no act without it being a part of his plan. All creation from beginning to end has been under the direction of the master builder, God. The course of the cosmos, all things from 88 constellations to the Terra firma , in all complexities from beginning to end has functioned according to the authority of God.

The functioning of our natural bodies is according to one ruler of all things. He from the beginning has set the course of all things that exist in this and all worlds. When God speaks, he speaks according to his foreknowledge he envisioned from it's raw state of nothingness to when it ceases to exist from one one or many others.

We must revere a God that has no contemporaries or colleagues. He alone is ruler of the universe. I am grateful that man has no voice in the matter to control God.
When we bring this verse to where we are. Whether we are prosperous or without, whether we are enjoying totally wonderful heath or infirmed, or whatever our position in life,  it is within the plan of God to change any mal state you may find yourself. God is more willing than we are. It is in his plan.

Lamentations 3:25 Just Wait

Lamentations  3:25

The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Growing up, my dad would give us an allowance every Saturday morning.
Here's your dollar, don't spend it all in one place. Many times he would call us so that we could get it from him. There were times he wouldn't say a word. He did not want us to think that it was a free ride. He wanted us to appreciate him and what he was doing for us. So my brother and I would ask, do you have an allowance for us this week, Daddy? He would smile and say, here's your dollar, and don't spend it all in one place. We would say, thank you Daddy.

Seeking the Lord is not just about what you want from him, for he will give you the desires of your heart. Seeking the Lord involves us appreciating what he does for us.
Many things he does without us asking.  We sometimes become insensitive to his love for us. We expect him to just be there.

Let us make it a habit to appreciate the small things God do for us. We can't allow ourselves to become so stiff that we are producing the things when wants from us. I remember hearing a preacher say, a thanking man is thinking man. I tell you a thanking man sees farther do the road  In every thing give thanks  unto God, for it is the will of concerning you.

The process of waiting is often difficult because doubt, unbelief, and discouragement that comes our way.  Waiting involves the voices of fear, doubt, unbelief and discouragement ever speaking in our minds. These voices are short circuited by us standing on the word of God and the resolve that God will do what his word promises he will do. These voices can only be drowned out by the word of God. Just as sure as you are living they are going to drown out the word. The resistance of their voices are thwarted by a louder voice in an by the word.

Keep waiting, he will surely come.

Matthew 16:19 Whatsoever Means Whatsoever

Matthew  16:19

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Whatsoever(whatever)?
Yes whatsoever!

No matter how great or small, no matter how insignificant or how massive, the word is whatsoever.
The above verse is one of the scriptures that I stand on when I am in need of health and healing. I believe there are promises that we can stand on and God will honor our faith in his word. God is resolute in his promises. He honors his word. 

Jude 1:24 You Don't Have To Fall

Jude  1:24

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

You don't have to fall.

You don't have to:
Fall short       Fall behind
Fall apart       Fall into temptation
Fall below     Fall over
Fall down      Fall for anything
Fall out          Fall from grace
Fall prey to    Fall on hard times
Fall under      Fall on stony ground

He is able to keep us from falling.

He has the ability to see the fall long before it happens. He is able to prepare a safer way for us to travel, walk or reside. He is able!

When speaking about American comic superheros, what makes them special is their superhuman abilities. They are able to do feats of physical and mental strength that regular humans cannot do. Their abilities can't hold a candle to who God is to us. In a related scripture, it says, He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. He abilities can not be measured, for there is no instrument vast enough to measure God's ability. The ability spoken in this verse is that he is able to keep us from falling. A God who is concern about our lives will protect us from any and all falls, great and small. He will keep us from hurt and harm.

This scripture says that he is able to present us faultless. This in and of itself is not possible to the theology of some. Some people would rather have this scripture say it a little different. Without fault is without fault. They quickly point out that it does not say without sin. I would to God that they would stop trying to make the word say what they want it to say. God has the strength and the might to keep us from falling and present us faultless. We serve a mighty God, to whom nothing is impossible.