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June 03

Be Still…Listen

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BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD; I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE NATIONS,
I WILL BE EXALTED IN THE EARTH
(Psalm 46:10).

I bless you with absolute stillness before your Father…complete silence
Leave behind the noise of your circumstances
Cast aside all activity from the father-of-lies
Quiet all the voices in your mind.

Become still
Listen
Become acquainted with God’s voice
Be a detective
Perceive His Perspective
Become aware of His choice.

BE STILL BEFORE THE LORD AND WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM
(Psalm 37:7).

Wait patiently…quietly
After presenting your imaginations to your Perfect Father
After offering Him your emotions
After laying before Him your interpretations
Remain in readiness and expectancy before your Creator.

THE LORD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU; YOU NEED ONLY TO BE STILL
(Exodus 14:14).

And your Perfect Father will fight for you!
His Truth will prevail
His Hope will bring Joy to you
His Love will never fail.

What do you do when all the voices in your head talk to you at the same time?

Sometimes, you need to quiet all the voices you hear. You need to clear your head. You need to start over. After you have done this, you can let them back in, one at a time…but only the ones that are in tune with God’s Perspective—the Voice of Truth.

PRAYER: Speak, Lord God, I am listening. Teach me Your Perspective. Tell me the Truth. Show me Your ways. My heart belongs to You.

Maintain an Awareness

We need to make sure that we expect Truth from the Spirit of Truth, who goes out from the Perfect Father, and not try to come up with our own counterfeit truth by logically trying to reason things out for ourselves.

The Two Counsels
May 24

Let Go of the Charge

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Do you struggle with the thought that nobody understands you…that nobody knows who you are…that nobody understands the way you function?  Do you feel that you are a mystery: inexplicable…baffling…insolvable?

Maybe you were mistreated and misunderstood as a child and given no chance to justify your actions.  Maybe you were left seething with anger and disappointment, believing that you had no defense. Maybe you perceived that there was no way of being released from the charge, because there was no way of setting things right.

THE LORD DOES NOT LOOK AT THE THINGS MAN LOOKS AT. MAN LOOKS AT THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT THE LORD LOOKS AT THE HEART
(1 Samuel 16:7).

Precious Child, you need to know that I, the Most High, understand you…and also understood you when you were a child.  I, your Perfect Father, do not look at the things man looks at.  Man looks at the outward appearance, but I can see your heart. Be comforted that I know your heart…and I knew your heart when you were a child.  Your Perfect Father never misunderstands and I never misunderstood you when you were a child.

KNOW YE THAT THE LORD HE IS GOD: IT IS HE THAT HATH MADE US, AND NOT WE OURSELVES; WE ARE HIS PEOPLE, AND THE SHEEP OF HIS PASTURE
(Psalm 100:3).

I bless you to be comforted.  The God who made you understands you.  No thought is withheld from Him. You can let go of the charge.

I KNOW THAT THOU CANST DO EVERY THING, AND THAT NO THOUGHT CAN BE WITHHOLDEN FROM THEE
(Job 42:2).

Was there a time during your childhood when you were treated unfairly, because you were not understood? In the meantime, has this caused resentment, fear, and confusion to develop in your heart?

Are you tired of living with the resentment, fear, and confusion that have settled in your heart? Invite God’s Presence and Participation into the painful feeling of being misunderstood. Allow Him to look into your heart…and set things right.

PRAYER: Lord God, how comforting to know that You can see what is in my heart.  How good to know that You know the Truth, even when others misunderstand me. Please come into my heart and set me free from the pain of being misunderstood. Fill me with Your comforting Truth.

Maintain an Awareness

Since the beginning of our lives, the OLD MAN beliefs of abandonment, shame, condemnation, and rejection have been firmly planted in our minds and hearts by the father-of-lies.

The Two Counsels
May 22

May You Know the True God

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WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I TALKED LIKE A CHILD, I THOUGHT LIKE A CHILD, I REASONED LIKE A CHILD. WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I PUT CHILDISH WAYS BEHIND ME. NOW WE SEE BUT A POOR REFLECTION AS IN A MIRROR; THEN WE SHALL SEE FACE TO FACE. NOW I KNOW IN PART; THEN I SHALL KNOW FULLY, EVEN AS I AM FULLY KNOWN
(1 Corinthians 13:11-12).

As a child, your brain recorded every experience since the time of birth very accurately.  Not only were the facts of an experience permanently recorded, but also the interpretations that were concluded at the time of the event, as well as the emotions that were bound to the interpretations.

Realize that your childhood conclusions were sold under sin to the father-of-lies, and these false beliefs distorted your perception of God, even as an adult.

Because of these childhood conclusions, you probably wonder, “Am I good enough for God if I was not even good enough for my own mom during childhood?  Would God banish me as my dad did, because of the mistake I made as a child?  Would God keep me at arm’s length like my friend did when I did not please him as a little girl/boy?  Does God even notice me, or am I invisible to Him, too?”

NOW THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE: THAT THEY MAY KNOW YOU, THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND JESUS CHRIST, WHOM YOU HAVE SENT
(John 17:3).

Accept that God is not like your childhood dad.  God is not like your childhood mom.  God is not like your childhood friends.  Obtain Truth for your childhood conclusions from the Lord Jesus, so you may get to know the true God for who He really is.

WE KNOW ALSO THAT THE SON OF GOD HAS COME AND HAS GIVEN US UNDERSTANDING, SO THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM WHO IS TRUE. AND WE ARE IN HIM WHO IS TRUE—EVEN IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. HE IS THE TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE
(1 John 5:20).

Have you been comparing God to your childhood dad, mom, or friends? Then, you do not really know Him. Instead, you are seeing Him through the eyes of your childhood conclusions, which have been sold under sin to the father-of-lies.

Do you want to know God? Surrender your childhood conclusions to the Lord Jesus, just the way you perceive them. Then, you may get to know God fully, even as you are fully known by Him.

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, I submit my childhood conclusions to You, moment-by-moment, so I may receive understanding about You, the Perfect Father, and the Holy Spirit.

Maintain an Awareness

Our relationship with God is not just one-sided—us praying to God. When we pray, God also needs to talk to us…and He WANTS to.

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May 17

You Will Trample the Great Lion

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BE SELF-CONTROLLED AND ALERT. YOUR ENEMY THE DEVIL PROWLS AROUND LIKE A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DEVOUR
(1 Peter 5:8).

The world we live in is divided into the World of Truth and the World of Deception. Imagine with me an imaginary line on the ground from left to right that reaches into infinity, both ways.  On this side of the line is the World of Deception. On the other side is the World of Truth.

You and I start out in the World of Deception, where each and every one of our interpretations has been given over to the governance of deception. We would love to enter into the World of Truth, but there is no way we could cross the line into the Truth, because it is guarded by a fierce lion that paces back and forth, guarding the Truth with his own life.

However, this is not the end of the story.  There is someone else also standing on the line that separates the World of Truth from the World of Deception.  His name is Jesus. Jesus beckons you to come closer to witness a demonstration of the fierceness of the roaring lion that is guarding the Truth.  He pulls a blowtorch the size of a cannon forward, and aims it at the lion.  Suddenly a huge flame leaps from the cannon and the lion’s mane blows in the force of the flame, but the lion is not affected by the flame…at all.

I AM THE GATE; WHOEVER ENTERS THROUGH ME WILL BE SAVED. THEY WILL COME IN AND GO OUT, AND FIND PASTURE
(John 10:9).

But then, Jesus shows you something else that you did not notice before—He is holding the fierce lion by a chain!  Tenderly, Jesus explains, “I am the gate. If you surrender your own understanding to Me, you will enter through Me into the World of Truth. You will trample the great lion and find pasture. Because you love Me, I will rescue you. I will protect you, for you acknowledge My Name. I am in control of the lion.”

‘YOU WILL TREAD UPON THE LION AND THE COBRA; YOU WILL TRAMPLE THE GREAT LION AND THE SERPENT.  BECAUSE HE LOVES ME,’ SAYS THE LORD, ‘I WILL RESCUE HIM; I WILL PROTECT HIM, FOR HE ACKNOWLEDGES MY NAME’
(Psalm 91:13-14).

In which world do YOU live, most of the time: in the World of Truth…or the World of Deception? How do you know?

Do not try to fight the great lion by yourself.  He is a spirit and cannot even be destroyed by fire.  Instead, surrender your interpretations to Jesus.  He will make sure you cross the line and enter the World of Truth safely, through Him.

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, I want to live in the Truth…always. Therefore, I yield my daily interpretations…my assumptions…my conclusions to You. Redeem them, Lord, and redeem me from the World of Deception, so I may live in the World of Truth.

Maintain an Awareness

Discipline yourself to get Understanding.

The Two Counsels
May 16

When You Do Not Feel Loved

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Did you know that your Perfect Father loves you even as He loves His Son, Jesus?  There is no other Love in existence like that of your Everlasting Father’s.  There is no other Love with which you can compare your Perfect Father’s Love for you. Why not? Because He made you! He delights in you, because YOU ARE HIS CREATION!

 I HAVE GIVEN THEM THE GLORY THAT YOU GAVE ME, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE ONE: I IN THEM AND YOU IN ME. MAY THEY BE BROUGHT TO COMPLETE UNITY TO LET THE WORLD KNOW THAT YOU SENT ME AND HAVE LOVED THEM EVEN AS YOU HAVE LOVED ME
(John 17:22-23).

 Precious Child, understand that it is when you do not feel loved that you are prone to fall into sinful behavior patterns, especially if you do not feel loved by Me, your Perfect Father.  It is when you feel abandoned by Me that you fall into hopelessness.  It is when you feel rejected by Me that you fall into bitterness.  It is when you feel that you are not good enough for Me that you fall into shame.  It is My Love you crave the most: My personal attention…My reassuring confirmation…My healing affirmation.

Child, you need to understand that I made you. I formed you in your mother’s womb. I created you. You were not created by your father, or your mother, but by Me, the Perfect Father, the Creator of Heaven and earth. Why would I abandon My own creation? How could I reject what I have made? How could I be ashamed of My own Workmanship? Therefore, become rooted and established in My Love, filled to the measure of all My Fullness, as you grasp how wide and long and high and deep My Love is for you.

AND I PRAY THAT YOU, BEING ROOTED AND ESTABLISHED IN LOVE, MAY HAVE POWER, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE SAINTS, TO GRASP HOW WIDE AND LONG AND HIGH AND DEEP IS THE LOVE OF CHRIST, AND TO KNOW THIS LOVE THAT SURPASSES KNOWLEDGE—THAT YOU MAY BE FILLED TO THE MEASURE OF ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD
(Ephesians 3:17-19).

Do you feel you are not good enough or worthy to be loved?

Engage in an intimate relationship with your Everlasting Father. Get to know Him. Get to know His personal Love for you that surpasses your understanding. That is all you really need, for the cares of this world—the rejection…the abandonment…the shame…the condemnation—will all fade in the Light of your Perfect Father’s Love for you.

PRAYER: Most High, how good it is to hear about Your everlasting Love for me. How encouraged I am to know that Your Love surpasses all my knowledge. Perfect Father, I long to be filled to the measure of Fullness with Your Love, so that my soul might be satisfied, and my pain of abandonment, rejection, condemnation, and shame might be healed.

 

Maintain an Awareness

God wants you to desire His Love, because He wants to pour His Love directly into YOUR heart, right there where it hurts so much.

The Two Counsels
May 15

Hidden in Our Conclusions

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BE SELF-CONTROLLED AND ALERT. YOUR ENEMY THE DEVIL PROWLS AROUND LIKE A ROARING LION LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DEVOUR
(1 Peter 5:8).

Be reminded that you have an enemy—the father of lies. His weapon is deception—the practice of filling your mind with negative, destructive beliefs that are not true. This is the cause of your affliction. This is why you feel so abandoned, ashamed, rejected, and condemned.

Know that the father-of-lies always makes sure he stays hidden, while he lives in your childhood conclusions…your illogical interpretations…your perturbing perceptions. He hates the Truth and will try to keep it from you with every tool at his disposal, his favorite gimmick being…blaming others. This way, the focus is taken away from him, the cause of your affliction.

Nobody suspects him of the misinterpretations “I am a mistake…I don’t have what it takes…I am defenseless,” because he always makes sure the blame falls on someone or something else.  “It is your mother who does not love you.  It is your friend who does not care about you.  It is your dad who thinks you are a failure.”  Thus, while the father of lies remains hidden in our conclusions, he devours everybody with his deceit.

YOU WILL TREAD UPON THE LION AND THE COBRA; YOU WILL TRAMPLE THE GREAT LION AND THE SERPENT.  ‘BECAUSE HE LOVES ME,’ SAYS THE LORD, ‘I WILL RESCUE HIM; I WILL PROTECT HIM, FOR HE ACKNOWLEDGES MY NAME’
(Psalm 91:13, 14).

Whom do YOU blame for your failures, your imperfect personality, and your feelings of shame, condemnation, and abandonment?

Accept that it is not what a person said or did to you that is causing your pain; it is what you came to believe about yourself. The father-of-lies lives in your conclusions.

Are you tired of being the victim of the father-of-lies? Do you desire a better life, filled with Peace, Love, and Joy? Then, stop living according to the conclusions in your mind. Instead, trample the great lion by EMBRACING these perturbing perception, EXPOSING them to the Lord Jesus, and allowing Him to EXCHANGE them for the Truth. Because you acknowledge His Name, He will rescue you from the father-of-lies. He will protect you from the roaring lion.

PRAYER: Dear Lord Jesus, help me to see the hidden enemy for who he is: the father-of-lies…the cunning serpent…the roaring lion. Remind me, daily, to stop blaming my family, my friends, and my enemies for the illogical interpretations that live in my mind, but instead, to trample the roaring lion with Your Truth. I love You, Perfect Father, I acknowledge Your Name, Lord Jesus, and I accept You, Holy Spirit of Truth. Be my God. Be my Savior. Be my Truth.

Maintain an Awareness

We do not understand what is going on within us and we are too afraid to find out. We are too afraid to live…and even more afraid to die.

The Two Counsels
May 10

To Love Jesus Is to Obey Him

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WHOEVER HAS MY COMMANDS AND OBEYS THEM, HE IS THE ONE WHO LOVES ME
(John 14:21).

Know that to love Jesus is to obey Him.  One way to obey Jesus is NOT to surrender to your childhood pain…but to surrender your childhood pain to Him.

 ‘BECAUSE HE LOVES ME,’ SAYS THE LORD, ‘I WILL RESCUE HIM; I WILL PROTECT HIM, FOR HE ACKNOWLEDGES MY NAME.  HE WILL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER HIM; I WILL BE WITH HIM IN TROUBLE, I WILL DELIVER HIM AND HONOR HIM’
(Psalm 91:14-15).

Do you sometimes feel like a little six-year-old orphan: someone who is in the way…someone who is lost…someone who does not belong?

Do you sometimes feel like a shameful little eight-your-old criminal: someone who is evil from the inside out…someone who is irredeemable…someone who is not going to make it?

Do you sometimes feel like a twelve-year-old outcast: someone who is just a worthless bum…someone who is not accepted as part of the in-crowd…someone who does not matter?

I bless you to bring the little abandoned orphan, who still lives in your heart, to the Lord Jesus. Allow Him to heal the abandonment, fix the neediness, and get rid of the loneliness. Because you love the Lord Jesus, He will rescue you from the childhood conclusions that have been keeping you captive.  I encourage you to introduce the shameful little eight-year-old criminal to the Lord Jesus, your Savior. Allow Him to redeem it…forever. When you call upon Him, He will answer you.  I urge you to bring the twelve-year-old outcast, who still hides in your heart, to the Lord Jesus. Invite Him to heal the rejection, fix the unworthiness, and remove the depravity. He will protect you from the control of the father-of-lies, because you acknowledge His Name.

JESUS SAID, ‘IF YOU HOLD TO MY TEACHING, YOU ARE REALLY MY DISCIPLES. THEN YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE’
(John 8:31, 32).

What six-year old pain is still stuck in your heart? What eight-year-old conclusions still dwell in your spirit? Which twelve-year old interpretations still inhabit your mind?

Do not avoid the burden.  Do not deny the problem.  Do not simply endure the emotions.  Embrace the little child in you…and expose it to Jesus. He will exchange it for a mature adult.

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, I expose the child in my heart to You. Rescue me from the false childhood conclusions. Protect me from the evil one. Deliver me from the past.

Maintain an Awareness

Discipline yourself to get Understanding.

The Two Counsels
May 09

Everything That Hinders

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FOR WE WHO ARE ALIVE ARE ALWAYS BEING GIVEN OVER TO DEATH FOR JESUS’ SAKE, SO THAT HIS LIFE MAY BE REVEALED IN OUR MORTAL BODY
(2 Corinthians 4:11).

I have realized recently how many times a day Self, the OLD ME character the father-of-lies has shaped in me, needs to be given over to death, so that the Life of Jesus might be revealed through my actions and reactions.

There are so many opportunities in my daily life where I have a choice to give Self over to death, for Jesus’ sake.  There are the times when my Self feels threatened by other people’s successes.  There are the times when my OLD ME character feels attacked by other people’s selfishness.  There are the times when I feel discouraged, alone, and afraid. The sin that lives in Self so easily hinders and entangles.

The other day I felt my Self cancelled by someone’s selfish remarks. When I took the pain of feeling annulled and deleted to the Lord Jesus, He answered, “But your Self DOES need to be cancelled, so that I may live in you. Stop defending your Self…and let it die.”

LET US THROW OFF EVERYTHING THAT HINDERS
AND THE SIN THAT SO EASILY ENTANGLES,
AND LET US RUN WITH PERSEVERANCE THE RACE MARKED OUT FOR US
(Hebrews 12:1).

I bless you to throw off everything that hinders the Life of the Lord Jesus being revealed in your actions and reactions, even if it means that your Self gets knocked off its throne.

What will it take for you to stop defending your OLD ME…and let it die? Are you willing to allow the Lord Jesus to use another person’s selfishness to delete, annul, or cancel your Self?

Know that the only way to give Self over to death is to give Self over to JESUS, every day, a hundred times a day, whenever it is provoked.  JESUS IS YOUR SAVIOR.  All authority has been given to Him.  He is the only one who has the power to tie the noose around Self and its sinful habits and patterns.  Since there is only space for one or the other in your body, will you allow Jesus to get rid of Self and put HIMSELF in its place?

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, let me run with perseverance the race marked out for me. Help me to realize that each person’s race is customized and that I cannot run another person’s race for her/him and that another person cannot run my race for me. I surrender my Self to You—the OLD ME with its sin that so often hinders and entangles. Knock it off its throne, Lord God, and take Your rightful place on the throne in my heart.

Maintain an Awareness

We run…and run…and run. We run towards bad distractions and destructions like alcohol, drugs, or even crime, or we run towards good distractions like entertainment, or our husbands, wives, friends, or counselors.

The Two Counsels
May 06

Choose to Serve God

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YOU SHALL NOT BOW DOWN TO THEM NOR SERVE THEM. FOR I, THE LORD YOUR GOD, AM A JEALOUS GOD, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO HATE ME
(Deuteronomy 5:9).

Do you have a parent or grandparent who misused alcohol or other substances?  Do you have a parent or grandparent who reacted to life situations with violence, abuse, and uncontrolled anger?  Are you afraid that the iniquities of your ancestors have come upon you and your children?

I bless you to be comforted that the sins of your ancestors do not need to carry over to you.  Be encouraged that the way your ancestors reacted to life situations does not need to determine how YOU react to life issues.

Know that your parents and their parents had the same enemy you have—the father-of-lies—and that they had decided to react to his negative, destructive beliefs with a certain behavior pattern.  You do not need to do the same.  You do not need to serve the father-of-lies and his beliefs of abandonment, shame, rejection, and condemnation with sinful defense pattern of rage, abuse, alcoholism, or other dependencies.  You can choose to serve God!

WHOEVER HAS MY COMMANDS AND OBEYS THEM, HE IS THE ONE WHO LOVES ME. HE WHO LOVES ME WILL BE LOVED BY MY FATHER, AND I TOO WILL LOVE HIM AND SHOW MYSELF TO HIM
(John 14:21).

I bless you to love God enough to choose a different behavior pattern than substance abuse or rage to deal with the father-of-lies’ painful beliefs of abandonment, shame, rejection, and condemnation.  Choose to surrender these oppressing beliefs to the Lord Jesus, who will cherish your relinquishment and reveal His Love, Hope, and Truth to you.  Know that the Lord God will keep his covenant of Love to a thousand generations of those who love Him and surrender their iniquities to Him.

KNOW THEREFORE THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GOD; HE IS THE FAITHFUL GOD, KEEPING HIS COVENANT OF LOVE TO A THOUSAND GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS
(Deuteronomy 7:9).

How do you deal with life’s pain—the father-of-lies’ beliefs of abandonment, shame, rejection, and condemnation? Have you chosen the same behavior patterns that your ancestors have chosen…or have you chosen God as your Refuge, your Salvation, and your Redeemer?

PRAYER: Lord God, I know that without You I can do nothing. Without You I will fall into the same sinful behavior patterns that my ancestors have chosen to deal with the father-of-lies. Thank you that You have died to conquer the Law of Sin and Death and risen to set me free through Your Law of Life, so I may choose to serve You instead of the father-of-lies.

Maintain an Awareness

The truth is if we do not follow God in our thoughts, we will not follow Him in our actions, either, and then we will end up with the wrong purpose.

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May 04

Restore with Gentleness

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BROTHERS, IF SOMEONE IS CAUGHT IN A SIN, YOU WHO ARE SPIRITUAL SHOULD RESTORE HIM GENTLY. BUT WATCH YOURSELF, OR YOU ALSO MAY BE TEMPTED
(Galatians 6:1).

I bless you with a special anointing to restore…to restore with gentleness.

I encourage you to think of someone you know who is weary and weak—someone who might be trapped in the lies of the father-of-lies.  Take note that you can be of great help and comfort to your friend by being willing to restore him…gently.

Understand that when someone is trapped in a lie, he might behave irrationally.  He might express anger.  He might show jealousy.  He might breathe animosity.  However, regardless of the behavior he displays on the outside, deep in his heart he feels hopeless…helpless…powerless.  Therefore, he hungers for Love—God’s Love.  He hungers for God’s Hope, God’s Truth, and God’s Peace.

HE GIVES STRENGTH TO THE WEARY AND INCREASES THE POWER OF THE WEAK
(Isaiah 40:29).

Grasp that often, when someone is lying with his face in the dust, he is not able to reach God’s outstretched hand of Love, Hope, and Truth.  Recognize that the heavy burden of hopelessness, helplessness, and powerlessness paralyzes a person and can prevent him from looking up into God’s face. Sometimes, a person might need someone to pick him up. Are you willing to extend your hand…and your heart?

ARISE [FROM THE DEPRESSION AND PROSTRATION IN WHICH CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE KEPT YOU—RISE TO A NEW LIFE]! SHINE (BE RADIANT WITH THE GLORY OF THE LORD), FOR YOUR LIGHT HAS COME, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAS RISEN UPON YOU!
(Isaiah 60:1).

Do you know of someone who is lying face down in the dust, feeling hopeless, helpless, and powerless under the lies of the father-of-lies?

Stoop down with gentleness and pick your friend up.  Do not condemn, criticize, or control.  These are sinful behavior patterns that only ease your own pain.  Instead, encourage, bless, and understand. Then, you will witness a miracle. You will see your friend arise from the prostration in which circumstances have kept him…to take God’s Hand.

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, fill my heart with Your Gentleness, Your Kindness, and Your Understanding.  Fill my heart with Your Nature, so I may restore those who have fallen face down into the dust. Help me to only see the other person’s pain and not react to my own. Work Your Righteousness in me, so I may restore others with blessings and understanding instead of criticism, condemnation, and control.

Maintain an Awareness

Understand that HOPE needs to come to you through your heart. Therefore, you need to CONNECT with your heart and find the places of sorrow, despair, fear, disappointment, bitterness, and anger that reside there.

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