Remember Past Victories

Sometimes God has and will slow us down so that we can hear his voice and understand what he is telling us. Then once you have heard and understood God will strengthen you and bring you back to action to accomplish the plan HE has for you.
It is for our own benefit that God tells us to remember things of the past. BUT The memories God wants us to remember are of our Past Deliverances, which will help to increase our FAITH for what we are going through right
now.
Remembering how God came through then and He can now also.

Multitudes of God’s people today face Trials on all sides. Yet many cower in
fear.
*Does this describe you?
*Have you forgotten the time you were so sick that you were close to death, BUT the Lord raised you up?
* Do you remember that financial disaster when you thought, “That’s it, I’m finished,” YET the Lord saw you through it, and has kept you to this day?
*Do you remember all those prayers for different  family members and how the Lord came through?
Do you Remember that addiction when you thought,  “That’s it, I’m finished, I can never give this up,” YET the Lord saw you through it, and has kept you to this day?
There are many things we don’t understand and we won’t understand until we are home with Jesus. But I absolutely believe that God can heal, and that he has a way out of EVERY situation.
The question for us is, where do we find the faith, the courage, to stand up and gain victory in JESUS?

The faith, the courage, to stand up and gain victory IN Jesus comes when you’re able to recall the incredible faithfulness of God, and the past victories he has
given you.
*You can’t face a giant Trial until you’re able to envision and understand the majesty and glory of God in your life.

We Need to Hear from God!!!!

“So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision, I had no strength left, my face turned deathly pale and I was helpless.” – Daniel 10:8

Daniel received a vision that troubled him greatly. He wanted understanding of this vision. He set himself out to understand the vision by fasting for three weeks. Three days after his three weeks of fasting, a messenger of God appeared to Daniel.
The messenger explained that Heaven had heard his prayer from the first day.

There are times in our lives when we must set ourselves to seeking God with all our hearts. It is in these times that we hear from Heaven in ways we may never have experienced before.

Daniel’s perseverance in prayer was rewarded with a personal encounter with Heaven.
However, in order to receive from God, Daniel had to:
* Be left alone
* Have his strength removed
* Be placed in a helpless condition

When we have NO ability in our own strength to move Heaven or the events around us, we are in position to hear from Heaven.
It is the acknowledgment of our humanity and our frailness that places us in a position to have a personal encounter with the living God.

We have been great sinners, but Christ died that we might be forgiven. The merits of His sacrifice are sufficient to present to the Father in our behalf. **Those to whom He has forgiven most will love Him most, and will stand nearest to His throne to praise Him for His great love and infinite sacrifice(the CROSS for you and me).

It is when we most fully comprehend the love of God that we best realize the sinfulness of sin.
When we see the length of the chain that was let down for us, when we understand something of the infinite sacrifice that Christ has made in our behalf, the heart is melted with tenderness and contrition.

If God’s Spirit in our hearts is quenched because of sin, the Love of God will not be able to flow into our lives.
“But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.”
Isaiah 59:2

*Do you need a personal encounter with God today?
* Do you need God to intervene on your behalf?
*Seek Him with all your heart. *Demonstrate to Him you are serious. *Get alone and acknowledge your helpless condition before Him.
* He will reward you with His presence.

All Christians are capable of setting self aside, but not all Christians are willing!_
“Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”. Hebrews 4:7

A negative thought first crossing our mind is not sin. But if we choose to bury that thought in our hearts or turn it into a negative action, SIN is the result.
** We need to take that thought captive and immediately relinquish it to God.
“…we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ…”
II Corinthians 10:5

When we “stuff” disappointments, these buried resentments can cause us to act exactly the opposite of how we want to act.
“…for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but  I am doing the very thing I hate.”Romans 7:15

Hope Connection and Moving Forward have: Eight Truths, a Result, a Word and a Verse to go together which We Embrace in order to Master Life!
(Here is 4 of 8)
4) I actively pursue God and His will through Scripture, prayer, and accountability to my fellow followers of Jesus Christ.
*Result: I am filled with God’s love, sustained by His grace and satisfied because of His work in my life.
*I am “Satisfied”
*Verse: Ephesians 3:17-19. “That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fulness of God.”

Come Lord Jesus, fill me with Your Love and continue to increase our Faith Daily
Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!  Try me and know my thoughts!24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!  Amen