Believing. The End.

Sometimes, getting to your promise, your "rhema" word from God, the one He has confirmed repeatedly, feels and looks a bit like this ...

We are cracked and chipped from our afflictions on all sides, but we are not crushed by them. We are bewildered at times, but we do not give in to despair. We are persecuted, but we have not been abandoned. We have been knocked down, but we are not destroyed. - 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 (Voice)

 

And, the deceiver would have us keep our eyes off Jesus, because after all, he came "with malicious intent, looking to slaughter, and destroy .... " - John 10:10a (Voice) But Jesus, He came "... to give life with joy and abundance." - John 10:10b (Voice). And He says ...

"For NO word from God will EVER fail." Luke 1:37 (NIV)

and this ...

 

And because He says so, that is where I will stand and wait quietly on Him because God never lies. I will "cease striving (be still) and know" that He is God. - Psalm 46:10 (NASB, NIV). No matter how it looks or even feels, physically or emotionally. There will be days, and those days s.u.c.k., however, even on those days that I don't understand, I will CHOOSE to believe Him. God does what He says and it's unimaginably glorious when we see His promises come to fruition in the "land of the living." (Psalm 27:13 NIV). Amen and Amen.