The Lord Will Bless

"The LORD will give strength to His people; The LORD will bless His people with peace." - Psalm 29:11

Wow this is an amazing promise from the word of truth, which is 100% reliable. The Lord will give strength to His people to His people. So who are His people? You are His people, when you have accepted Jesus Christ into your heart, you accept the entry into the kingdom of God. At the same time, you also accept the power of Jesus into your life. This power includes the strength:

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." - Philippians 4:13

and blessings:

"And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." - Philippians 4:19

How good is that? We will never be able to gain entry into God's kingdom on our own. No matter how good of a person we are, it is never good enough. But by the grace of God, He sent His Son as a living sacrifice to atone for all our sins and break the bondage of sin in our lives.

Thank you Jesus for all that you have sacrificed - your life, your everything. Just so that you could save a sinner like me. I'm sorry Lord for the sins that I have committed, help me to learn from my mistakes. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Empowered

The last couple of days I have been feeling very tired. I'm not sure whether it's a lack of sleep or whether I'm doing too much. It's easy when we do feel tired to ask God for strength and to rely on Him. But many times when we should have asked for His strength, but we fail to. We think we can live life on our own strength, however we can only live life to the full with the strength of God.

"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." - Acts 1:8

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." - Philippians 4:13

We CAN do ALL things, but only through CHRIST who strengthens us. Life and power comes from the Lord. We do not generate our own power, but it is received from the Lord. The very breath that we breathe is borrowed from God, He could easily take it away in an instant.

Lord thank you that you have empowered us to live life to the full. Continue to strengthen me Lord so that I may a witness to you, everywhere I go. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Trust in What?

Who or what do we rely on to give us strength each day? Yesterday I was really touched to put my full trust in the Lord. The story is that I had been planning to go for my drivers license test (Driver Qualification Test) to get my full license. Week after week I would put it off, until on Thursday I remembered that my license actually expires in November. It turns out that it actually expired on the 12th of November which was just last Sunday.

My first reaction was of panic, I thought I would have to sit through the Provisional license test again! Thank God that I didn't and so the next day I went to the RTA first thing in the morning to do the test. I was thinking, if I didn't pass the test I would just renew my license, no big deal. In my mind I didn't want to renew my license, I believed God would help me through it.

I had not done any study except flipping through the notes because it was too boring to read. I can definitely say I trusted in the Lord with all my heart. I believe if it wasn't for Him I would not have passed the exam. The most amazing thing, was that I got a PERFECT score (100%), the lady there was surprised somewhat, because not many people get 100%.

Praise God, He is awesome!

"Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the LORD our God." - Psalm 20:7