Our God is Almighty. He sits high and looks low. He loves us and makes His face to shine upon us. His ways are higher and greater than our ways. Hallelujah to your name God! You are worthy to be praised.
To everything there is a season. We experience periods of time in our lives when we seem to be down. Circumstances like illness, injury, financial and professional stagnation, loss of opportunities, and bereavement among others happening all at the same time can make us feel weary and worn down. Waking up every day to more bad news of the unprecedented and disturbing things taking place in our society while we are down bad in our personal lives gives us an invitation to feel like there is no hope for us to get up from that low place of darkness and despair. The temptation is to resign to fate and get used to a new normal in that low place. While we may feel weak and powerless to make the dismal circumstances change in our favor by our own strength, we must remember that the God we serve is All Powerful. He is sovereign. He is our Provider, our Healer. The grace of God is sufficient for us, for His power is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9). His power…is made PERFECT in weakness.
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In our times of weakness, we must remember to keep God first in our hearts and minds. We have to trust in Him with all our hearts and lean not unto our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5-6). It may seem during our times of waiting that we are going to be stuck in the low place. We can be tempted to become hopeless. Everything that makes us feel strong and capable may simply not be working anymore. But in such times it is important to trust and rely on God’s steadfast love, which never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8). The God we serve will never leave nor forsake us (Deuteronomy 31:6). His mercy endures forever. (1 Chronicles 16:34).

Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
--Lamentations 3:22-23
 
We cannot know the mysterious thoughts and ways of God (Isaiah 55:8-9). Our times of low position and lack of capacity may be for our protection and preparation for where He plans to take us. Trusting God during such times is critical. The Author and the Finisher of our faith knows all about where we are going in life. At the right time the Lord will make it happen (Isaiah 60:22). At the appointed time, God will give us renewed strength. He will cause us to MOUNT UP with wings like eagles taking flight high above the position we felt stuck in. When God gets us up from that place, we will have the vitality and vigor to run and not be weary, to walk and not faint.
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Be encouraged today and know that God is with you while you wait. At the appointed time He will give you renewed, indefatigable strength and cause you to take off into the destiny for your life. God gives you a strength that no one can extinguish. He gives you a take off that makes people want to take you down but that no one can touch. When God causes you to mount up, you best believe that the winds of this world won’t be able to work against your ascent, no matter how hard they blow. Receive the power of God and soar.
 
Be Blessed!
~Nina

Updated 8/31/2020
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Praise God from whom all blessings flow! He is worthy to be praised (Psalm 18:3). Let us thank God today for His grace, mercy, and peace that is with us in truth and love (2 John 1:3).

I am thankful this morning for the presence of God. I thank Him for thinking it not robbery to continue to allow breath to flow through my nostrils. I know that God has a good plan for my life to prosper me and bring me no harm (Jeremiah 29:11). By faith, I trust that because I wait upon the Lord, He is renewing my strength and causing me to mount up with wings like eagles to soar in the purpose that He has established for my life before I was ever planted in my mother’s womb. I am sober, vigilant, and serious about fulfilling God’s purpose and plan for my life (1 Peter 5:8).

Sometimes we forget how serious life is. We as humans have the tendency to take for granted or overlook the reality that every single day of our lives is a tremendous gift from God. Not only is each day a gift, but the high-quality workmanship of human creation itself is a deeply intentional and detailed manifestation of God, Our Creator. God created us in His own image. Every detail of our being has been fearfully and wonderfully made by Him, and He is fully aware of every single aspect of each one of us. The very hairs of our heads are all numbered (Matthew 10:30).
 
Ephesians 2:10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Experiencing the death of someone that you love, and even more so someone that loved you, is a powerful reminder of how serious life is. Only God knows the day or hour that will be our last (Mark 13:32). Let us not take God’s grace for granted by squandering the time we have on meaningless pursuits. Let us let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us, because the wages of sin is death (Hebrews 12:1, Romans 6:23).

My encouragement today is that we all get serious about the specific purpose for our lives. Let us not waste another moment looking to the left or the right being distracted or delayed from the path of destiny for our lives (Deuteronomy 28:14).

Luke 9:23 AMP
And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross daily [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me]. Let us lay aside the superficial and ungodly matters in our lives and be serious about what God has called us to do. 

Be Blessed!
~Nina
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