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“And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled…” – Mark 11:7
“Troubled”– it seems everyone wants to get us frightened by some crisis. From the weather to the nations, everything is in “crisis management”!
Jesus told HIS followers NOT to be troubled. It doesn’t mean we don’t care, it doesn’t mean we don’t act, but we choose not to be in a crisis.
God is our Father, he is personally caring for us, he will give us peace and wise actions to take at the right time.
-fritz
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh took his signet ring … and put it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in robes … put a gold chain around his neck … had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command” – Genesis 41:41-43
Joseph was disadvantaged, a slave, and a prisoner for years, but he remained faithful to his morals and to hope. When the time was right his deliverance took but a moment.
Moments are essential; Divine moments change history.
Don’t discount moments of time. It doesn’t matter how long you have waited, God’s answer takes only a moment.
– fritz
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“I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.” – Exodus 6:7b-8
God’s purpose for his people was not to just get OUT of Egypt but to get IN to the promised land.
This has never changed, God’s acts always have a positive focus! As Frances Ridley Havergal, author of the hymn, “Take My Life and Let it Be” wrote 120 years ago,
“[T]he … Christ loving heart cannot be satisfied with only negative keeping … Every, ‘kept from,’ should have its corresponding and still more blessed, ‘kept for’ … not only kept from sin but kept for His praise.1
– fritz
1 – Kept For The Masters Use by Frances Ridley Havergal, 1881, page 23
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