Can you pray and have confidence without repeating the request?

Do you pray over and over for the same meal when you sit to eat?

That's faith! You know the food is blessed, you know God heard you, you go on and eat it and you're healthy and bubbly, so why is it different when we pray for more pressing needs?

It's not more difficult for God to hear your cry than it is for Him to bless your food...it can be really tempting to keep reminding God when you're desperate, I have a clear notice at the entrance of my room, u see it as soon as u open the door,

"God heard you, just be patient"

Praising while you wait also helps your heart feel merry, Jesus gave a clear instruction when He said "Let not your heart be troubled"

You can pray amiss but you can't praise amiss. God inhabits praises, invite him with words and melodies of adoration. Keep singing His words back to Him, and praise Him with the loving expressions of your soul, because you know He always comes through, "it is through faith and patience that we inherit the promise" while you wait, praise, and have this confidence, according to 1 John 5:14-15

14 This is the [remarkable degree of] confidence which we [as believers are entitled to] have before Him: that [a]if we ask anything according to His will, [that is, consistent with His plan and purpose] He hears us. 15 And if we know [for a fact, as indeed we do] that He hears and listens to us in whatever we ask, we [also] know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted to us] the requests which we have asked from Him.

The Leaves, the Branches and the Roots

 A Let-Them-Go Message, from Madea

I'm sharing this video from vimeo, saw that a friend just posted it on Facebook and I like the way she categorized the people in your life. I do not support smoking but i need you to concentrate on the message in the video

Share with your friends. I hope you like it.

Say it to yourself

There are so many things in life against us already, don't be against yourself.

Say positive things to your spirit, your soul feeds on it. Your future feeds on it. Imagine that your future was a lovely child with great potentials, or maybe you can't see the potentials yet, would you leave it to die malnourished if it would cost you nothing to feed it?


It wouldn't cost you a dime to say those things you want to see.
Keep working toward the future you pray for, the works of your hands are the seeds that God will bless. His plans are to give you a future and a hope.


Never stop believing in the power of your words.

THE JOY OF CLIMBING

You never really arrive, it's always too early to brag. No matter where you are now, there's somewhere better. God is still preparing you.

Pride goes before destruction (Prov 16:18)

                                 

Recognize also that humility is so delicate that simply admitting that you possess it is a sign of pride. Know that God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.(1 Peter 5:5), Scripture also admonishes us to come boldly before God's throne of grace that we may obtain mercy (Heb 4:16) . This boldness isn't referring to arrogance, but confidence in who God is, and in what He can offer.

Matthew 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit..."

Remember the story of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18:9-14. Only the tax collector went home justified because he was humble.

God still has so much for you that you haven't seen yet(1 Cor 2:9). We cant afford to be complacent now, for the path of the just is like a shinning light that shinneth brighter and brighter!

Dance your victory dance, share your testimony, praise God ceaslessly, and retain an attitude of reverence, remembering that you got this land by God's right hand and favour...PSALMS 44:3

Trust in the Lord with all your heart.

The Bible is full of passages where we are encouraged to trust God.

Cursed is he that puts his trust in man.

This is a really simple message, Trust God, what He has promised will surely come to pass. Even if you know no man, hold on to your God.

A God-made will never be moved, like Mount Zion, you will abide forever.

Ps: That is me in the photo

"Through faith and patience we inherit the promise..."

I'm all for instant miracles, but sometimes God expects you to wait because what He's preparing for you is far greater than you can imagine, and you may not be ready for it yet so He's preparing you or preparing the circumstances around you, but in any case, He knows just when to give you what you need.

Dont go on birthing Ishmaels when God has promised you an Isaac.

Some foods can be made really fast, some can be bought from a grocery store or an eatery, while some will need to follow a process before you can savour the meal.

There are times when God can defy natural laws and processes established by man to accelerate his plans for you and there are times when He needs to test the stuff you're made of.

It's what you do, while you wait, that will count.

Stay in faith, still keep God first place and be good to people.
God is not unfaithful.