by Grethe Stanley | Apr 7, 2020 | encouragement
Psalm 118:24 NLT This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.
If ever there was a time when we need to learn to live in the NOW; this is the time.
We can spend so much time regretting our past and worrying about tomorrow that we forget to enjoy the day we are in.
God only offers us Grace for one day at a time. We are not created to live in the past or the future, but rather we are created to enjoy TODAY. We have to TRUST God for all our tomorrows and we have to release all our regrets of yesterday to Him.
When I wake up in the morning, I like to start my day by thanking God for the day that He has made and I say to HIM. “I will rejoice and be glad in it.”
2 Corinthians 12: 9 says My Grace is sufficient for you…
We can experience peace and joy even if we are having a difficult day. We are in a very difficult season at present with COVID -19, BUT God is still the ALL SUFFICIENT ONE, He offers us wisdom, strength, peace and yes, joy, as well when we submit every moment to HIM.
John 16:33 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart I have overcome the world.
The key to living in the NOW is stay FOCUSED on Jesus, His Grace is sufficient.
by Grethe Stanley | Apr 4, 2020 | encouragement
The meaning of struggle according to the Cambridge English Dictionary is to be in danger of failing or being defeated.
The meaning of surrender according to the Cambridge English Dictionary is the act of giving up something, or giving control of something to someone else.
So many are struggling with the restrictions that COVID-19 has forced upon us. This Pandemic will affect each of us in different ways. The world the way we knew it will never be the same again. But we know that God is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Isaiah 40:8 ESV The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God will stand forever.
Psalm 119: 90 ESV Your (God) faithfulness endures to all generations; You have established the earth, and it stands fast.
What ever you are struggling with concerning the circumstances you find yourselves in, take a moment and ask yourself, “will my struggling change anything?”
Can I encourage you today to list your struggles and then surrender them to God and declare HIS SOVEREIGNTY over them. Don’t allow your struggles to defeat you, instead lay them down at the feet of Jesus and surrender them to HIM.
God is the supreme authority and all things are under His control, even COVID-19
Remember THIS TOO WILL PASS and then there will be a new and living way for us to walk in.
by Grethe Stanley | Mar 30, 2020 | encouragement
For a few days now I have had the words” it’s a new and living way, walk ye in it” running around in my head. I hadn’t thought too much about it until I spoke to my son who is in hospital recovering from a bad motor bike accident this morning. He said to me “you know mum, when this is over (COVID-19) life is never going to be the same. There will be a new way of doing life in so many ways.” I think he spoke prophetically without knowing it.
God said at the beginning of the year “Behold I will do a new thing”, that confirms to me that after COVID-19 life is not going to go back to the way it was. “Behold I will do a new thing, will you not be aware of it”.
A new thing!!! New wine!!! There is a new and living way walk ye in it!!! all this is running around in my spirit. What are you saying Lord???
This self isolation and social distancing is giving us more time. I am enjoying having extra time to spend with the Holy Spirit. This Epidemic has cut right across our “busyness” etc. I believe it is because God is wanting to prepare us for the New Wine, for the new and living way post COCID-19.
I do not know what this New Wine or new and living way looks like, but I do know that I want to be part of it, how about you? Are you prepared to step out of the old and comfortable into the new, even if it is uncomfortable?????
The Bible says in Matthew 9:17 NLT Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst from the pressure, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine is stored in new wineskins so that both are preserved.
Isaiah 30:21 NIV Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying,”This is the way; walk in it.”
I decided to look up it’s a new and living way etc and I discovered it is actually an old hymn (author unknown)
It’s a new and living way walk ye in it,
It’s a new and living way God has planned
It’s a new and living way I am walking day by day
I am guided and led by His right hand.
This is just my Sunday afternoon musings, I would love to hear your thoughts.
by Grethe Stanley | Mar 27, 2020 | encouragement
To say that we live in extraordinary times is an understatement. I firmly believe that God is getting us ready for revival and as daughters of the King, we need to prepare for what God is getting ready to release into earth. When revival comes, it comes first to the church
(you and I). That means revival is coming our way!
The Lord is calling us to get ready and be radiant because his glory is rising upon his people. Listen to what the Word of God says in Isaiah 60:1–2 Arise, and shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the God rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and think darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you.
In our society today we see darkness everywhere, but we have to remember that God’s light will expose all the darkness. We need to make ourselves ready for His light to come upon us first and then He will realise us to gather in the great harvest.
Get ready, get ready, get ready those words are ringing in my ears, the trumpet of revival has blown, the Heavenly host is poised and ready to be released!!! you and I need to get ready.
by Grethe Stanley | Mar 25, 2020 | encouragement
Never in a million years would I have believed that in 2020 most of the world would be in lockdown, however it is, and that is now our new normal for now. Let us remember though that “this too will pass”.
It is not the first time that there as been a lockdown; You can read the story in Exodus about the time that God commanded a lockdown during the Passover in Egypt. He told every Israelian household to stay home, hidden and protected under the blood of the lamb.
Exodus 12:12-13 On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the housed, where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
That same power is in the shed blood of Jesus, we as believers do not have to succumb to fear, we can symbolically apply the blood of Jesus to our doorpost to protect us and our families from the pandemic that we are facing.
Off course we have to be sensible and do what we are asked to do such as self isolation and social distancing, but we don’t have to live in fear.
The words running around in my mind as I am typing this is:-
There is power, power, wonder-working power in the blood of the lamb.
There is power, power, wonder-working power in precious blood of the lamb.
JESUS IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER. AMEN
