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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. - Romans 8:30 KJV
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29-30 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun. - Romans 8:29-30 MSG
The Message For Today (July 7, 2024):
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Everything that God starts he finishes. Your life has been pre-ordained since before the foundation of the earth. Everything that you've endured, the weight, and the glory has all been for the working of his kingdom. Because you are a believer in Jesus Christ the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 12:1-2 that we are to seek him as the author in the finisher of our faith being the very demonstration of how we walk this walk.
12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. - Hebrews 12:1-2 KJV
So that means that whatever God has for you, whatever he has called you to start, and whatever He's called you to put your hands to he will help you to finish it. The grace of God enables and equips you to move through seasons and obstacles and hindrances for God's glory. Everything that you walk through is for the glory of the living God. Everything that you endure it's for the glory of the Lord. He is rising amongst us he is pouring out his spirit. He has equipped you to finish and he is even now empowering you by the Holy Spirit to walk out the journey.
Where others may see starting and stopping and starting and stopping as a way of life forward and backwards, advancing and retreating, commit your heart to seeing something different commit your heart to believing Romans 8:28
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. - Romans 8:28 KJV
Every hindrance and every setback are for the working of the ministry. The time and the seasons all line up to God's will and your submission to God lines up to his will. Your trust in Him will line up to his will. This is the scripture that we were to live out as believers. Not being overwhelmed or distracted but to simply trust that He is faithful and He is more than able to finish what He started in us.
The Bible says that God is faithful to finish what he started, that he's going walk with you to the very end and the scripture here confirms that in Romans chapter 8:30.
It becomes simple confirmation of the promise of God.
It becomes confirmation of his love for you, and
it becomes a living witness of what Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Facing the weight of the cross, the death, the burial and resurrection, He still said to God: “Nevertheless”. He knew the weight of it but still walked it out because he trusted that this would be a part of his journey. Because he knew that this was his assignment. Remember these things: The Lord is just. He is favorable. He loves you and he desires to prosper you. He knows the plans that he thinks towards you to give you a future and a hope.
That does not change just because life became difficult. That does not change just because the markets and the economy moves a certain way. God grace is sufficient and his strength is made perfect in your weaknesses. Trust in Him and receive the grace to finish.
Closing Devotional Prayer
Father in the name of Jesus, I thank you. Thank you for the mighty woman of God. Thank you God for her heart being lined up, Oh God and empowered by this awesome word. I thank you God that the grace and the glory will go forth like never before and that, Lord, every wall will come down.
The mighty woman of God will receive that you love her, that she is not alone, that she can trust you, God. I thank you for the favor of God. I thank you, Oh God, that you are right there with the woman of God. She can trust that your spirit is going before her to make ways out of no way. I thank you Lord and I give you glory in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.