Thoughts for another day

May 15, 2014.

Today's verse:  Is. 45:3. And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.  (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

As Christians we must remember we have the special status of being a ‘child of God’ in and through Jesus Christ our Lord; and this status isn’t reserved for only a few but to all who have accepted Christ and His marvelous sacrifice.  In becoming a child of God, the Word of God says we were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit at the time of accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior.  Therefore, there’s an anointing of special Grace upon our lives…unmerited, yet fully existing in every true believer’s life.  Grace so powerful, it can rock the foundation of the world, a Grace by which the saints of old downed wild animals, destroyed the bastions of the enemy, overcame impossible blocks, subdued huge armies and by only worshipping the Lord, brought about earthquakes which perforce released them from captivity.

Now since we have God’s special anointing, the Promise above is for everyone who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of their lives.  In the Word, we know God has reserved for us unknown treasures of darkness and hidden riches, dwelling in secret places of which we know nothing.  God will release in the lives of His holy ones such bounties that they who see them will marvel and wonder how it came to be and then we’ll know for sure that He is the Lord who calls each one of us by name and He alone is the God of Israel!  How will it happen, we don’t know for we don’t know how God works, Eccl. 11:5, ‘As you know not the way of the spirit, nor how the bones grow in the womb of a woman with child, even so you know not the works of God who makes all.’  All we need to do is trust Him to Whom all things are possible.

If today, most believers live in conditions of squalor and want, it’s simply that we don’t believe in the Word or we aren’t yet acquainted with the Word.  I usually never talk about riches and such like things because our objective is to praise Him, who has given us life; but it would be wrong to keep silent on the fact that God wants His people to live in full.  The only limitation we have is our mind which refuses to accept God’s reality and that’s why we don’t receive what’s ours in Christ.  Never mind if in your mind you want the greatest things and you fear ridicule if you tell others, for know that our God is Almighty and nothing is impossible to Him.  All we need to do is just hang in there in faith, even if at times it seems hopeless; for surely God is about to do something mighty and all good things take time, for in that time, God moulds us into that which He wants us to be.