Give Hope, Be kind

This is a new day and it comes loaded with hope!
I know that we all face challenges in life. They are real, often times difficult and tiresome. They can sap us of our strength when we let them consume us.
Let us speak kind and encouraging words to the hurting. Let us give hope to thw hopeless.
Time and seasons do and will change!
Just need to hold on in faith!
Passing through a difficult season?
May our Lord give you the grace, not give up but persevere and praise Him through your trials and lamentations.
It happens in the Psalms all the time.
It happened with Job, and with Paul!
Better things are yet to come!
Have a blessed day!
🌿🌺 Isaiah 61:7 "Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore, in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs."🌿🌺
Julia 🌸🌿

Family that prays together

"Praying together with your spouse on a consistent basis will accomplish more for your marriage than any other one thing you can get from all your sessions of counseling."~Ed

Hi...

It's said."A family that prays together stays together." 

And where there is no prayer there sure is strife, disunity, disharmony!

🌿🌺 James 5:16 that we are to "pray for each other so that you may be healed." 

☘️As life gets busy, it's sad to see quality family devotional time not being a priority anymore. Sometimes one finds easy to pray with a friend or take part in prayer meetings but does not know that prayer ministry begins in the secret place and then with the family.

☘️ A child's greatest need: Praying parents.

Time to get back to family prayer times.

☘️Is Prayer important to our relationship with our spouse and kids or is prayer is just a formality? 

☘️Praying with our loved one should never be taken lightly. When we pray with our spouse and kids, it's good to sit down together, hold hands and seriously pray.

☘️But it is sad prayer is no longer a priority but an option.

🌿🌺Matthew 18: 18 “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[b] loosed in heaven. 19 “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

☘️We need to cover our kids with prayers regularly, intensely and whenever God brings our child to mind, may be our child is facing a difficult situation at that moment. 

Be blessed..

Julia 🌿

How important is prayer for families?

How important is prayer for families?
Some one wrote...
"Prayer for families is the very foundation that keeps a family unit together."
Have you heard the phrase "A family that prays together stays together"?
Again I Quote:
"The concept is true - a family that has their focus on praying to the Lord Jesus Christ has a foundation that may be shaken at times, but it will withstand all that comes against them."
☘️May our 1st priority be God and our time with Him.
☘️Next is Family and time with family, building  each other with prayer and love.
☘️3rd has to be Ministry/Business and other things.
When priorities are misplaced it is the family unit that falls apart.
🙏 Let us strengthen our personal prayer time and prayer alters at home, take time to pray together as a family before we pray with others and for others.
🙏 Let us pray for families and relationships strained within walls of the home due to lack of prayer, love and understanding.
🙏Let's thank God for our families this day and pray a hedge of protection around our families.
🙏So many marriages are in trouble, divorce among Christians on the rise.
There are people we know who's hearts are breaking, who are stressed out and on the verge of giving up, let us pray for them.
Have we neglected family prayers?
Time to get back to it...
Be blessed,
Julia 🌺🌿
JOSHUA 24:15
" But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."
#familyprayer #praytogether #worshiptogether #singtogether #powerofprayer

Eventually God will reveal

Goodmorning ☀
🍁If God is the One who is leading us, why worry when our path has thorns and stones. He sure did not say life will be trial free.
🍁Someday He will reveal to us the purpose of our pain and trials.
🍁Till then we have to hold His hands and follow Him.
Jesus Christ knows what He is doing and He has good plans for us.
🍁He will one day deliver us from all our troubles(Psalm 34:19)
#HoldOn
Blessed Day
Julia 🌸🍃
#blessedday #GodKnows #YahwehLeads #life #trials #EncouragementForTheDay

Blessed April

❤️James 5:11a, "Behold, we count them happy that endure." ❤️

🍀March ends and we step into April. You may not know what lies ahead but the One who holds your future will guide you with His hands. 

🍀Life may have been a long struggle, pray this is a beginning of a new season.

For every tear may there be a smile, for every care, a promise to hold on to and a blessing in each trial, answer to prayers and beauty for ashes.

#BlessedApril

#ThankYouJesus

Julia 🌸🌿

Christ is the Head of our home!

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🍂 We will proudly display this in our wall, say it but is He really the Head of our homes?

🍂 Does what He speak really matter to us? Do we obey Him? He being the Head has the right to rearrange things, discard stuff, bring in new things. He sure knows best. 

🍂 As He silently listens to our conversations, watches what we do, will He be pleased?

Nothing is hidden from God. 

🍁Hebrews 4:13, "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.“

🍂  How we  treat the weak, helpless in our midst too reflect who we are and to Whom we belong to. God is watching. 

🍂 We are to be a guiding light and helping hand to those weak in faith. We are to love them uncoditionally, pray and never be a stumbling block on their path.

🍂 Nothing misses God's eyes, His Word says in     🍁Proverbs 15:3, "The eyes of the LORD are in every place, Watching the evil and the good."

🍂 He knows even our thoughts! 

Under His eyes we are safe! 

Have a beautiful day knowing if God with you you are never alone. 

Julia⋱‿•.♡.•⁀🍂🧡🍂.

Hold on...

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💗Sometimes you find yourself hanging in there to that little faith and hope you have.

Hold on, do not give up, God know and sees it all and will come to your rescue in His time.

Just hang in there and hold on in faith knowing better things are yet to come!

Have a blessed day,

Julia 🌸🍃

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#life #holdon #betterthingsyettocome #donotquit #donotgiveup

Take a walk with God!

What distracts us or tempts us from spending time with God, ignore Him and not read God's Word?

Sometimes we need to take our eyes off our mobiles, TV, situations that we battle with and take a long walk in a quiet place and talk to God, all Him to speak to us.

We need to come back to our 1st love and spend time in His Presence daily.

#BlessedDay

Julia 🌺🌿

#ThankYouLordJesusChrist

#seekthelord #KnowGod #meditateonhisworddaily #lifelessons 

A little Light and a Big difference...

Hi

Something to think about..

Don't ever think that a little light cannot make any difference because there is soo much of darkness around.

Remember even one candle can light up a dark room.

A little light sure can make a BIG difference...

So let your light shine and make a difference in someones life this day!

Let's God's Light shine on your face this day.

Psalm 4:6

Many are asking, "Who can show us any good?" Let the light of your face shine upon us, O LORD.

Isaiah 60:1

"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you."

Reflect JESUS/YESHUA~~The Light of your life~~ so that others see JESUS and are drawn to HIM.

Matthew 5:16

In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

God Bless You!

Julia

Christ was born!

🔔🎶One day in History my Savior and Lord Jesus Christ did come!🎶🔔

So I celebrate Him everyday!

✨He saved me and set me free!✨

🌟💕And His name shall be called

Wonderful,

Counsellor,

The Mighty God,

The everlasting Father,

The Prince of Peace

Isaiah 9:6💕🌟

The battle belongs to The Lord!

Just because God is silent doesn't mean He hasn't heard or seen.

"He will arise as at Mt.Perazim & be stirred as in the valley of Gibeon....to do His work, His Awesome work, and bring to pass His act, His unusual work!"Isaiah 28:21

We need to not #giveup but #holdon in faith to see God move!

At The Valley of Gibeon, God fought on Joshua's side (Joshua 10:1-14) & at Mt.Perazim, God fought on David's side (2 Samuel 5:20)

He is the same yesterday, today and forever and promises to fight our battles too.

He is a #PromiseKeeper and sure never lost a battle.

Julia

Turn my eyes away....

🌾As mobiles get smarter & TV has the 'world's best' entertainment in one's fingertips, the devil who is the "ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient (Ephesians 2:2", seems to have captivated the hearts, eyes of many to be fixed on all he dishes out to keep even the so called 'Children of God' hooked, addicted to games, serials & shows. 

🌾By doing so the little devil is happy he has turned the eyes & hearts of many that was once fixed on Yahweh and His Word!

One can now sit for hours playing games, watching shows on TV, back to back that at the end of the day is too tired to talk to God, read His Word. 

🌾Our walk with God and talking to Him and worshiping Him is not just a one day affair but sometimg we do daily.

How far we have turned away from God!

Sigh!

His heart sure breaks 😢

Who is our first love?

🌾Time to set back our life in order and redeem our time!

✿The Bible says in James 4:7, "Submit yourselves therefore to God Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” 

🌾Let's resist the devil and his works designed to take us away from God.The Devil let's go only when compelled. We are given the power to resist him.

Let's not be ignorant of Satan's plans.

✿ 2 Corinthians 2:11 lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

🌾Our one and only enemy the Devil, is on the prowl to steal, kill and destroy,

He has nothing good in mind...

🌾Let us be careful, watch what we watch and get back to our first love!

May God turn our eyes away from worthless things that take way so much of our precious time!

Be blessed...

We have a short time...

#fact "A man who sleeps 8 hrs a day and lives to be 75 yrs has actually spent 1/3rd of his life sleeping."

And other than this 8 hrs of sleep, how much time we waste doing, seeing and reading things that do not help us or edify us in anyway.

At the end of the day we finally have no time for quiet time with God, prayer and Bible reading or this is just a quick affair.

It's said "Time" and "Tide" waits for no man.

May God help us to use every moment wisely!

Another day ends....

Good night...

Julia

A Prayer for September

 

Cooler nights & crisper days, that's what Autumn brings. As Golden leaves crunch beneath our footsteps, Holy God, remind us that this is time for letting go. Help us drop our grudges, hurts and sorrows as the lordly maple drops it's flaming leaves. Bless us as we shed which is no longer needed. From "Guideposts" Blessed September! A

 

New Day....New Hope...

This is a new day and it comes loaded with hope!

I know that we all face challenges in life. They are real, often times difficult and tiresome. They can sap us of our strength when we let them consume us.

After a long walk in darkness, even a ray of light gives us hope.

Time and seasons do and will change!

Just need to hold on in faith!

Passing through a difficult season?

May our Lord give us grace to not give up but persevere and praise Him through our trials and lamentations?

It happens in the Psalms all the time.

It happened with Job, and with Paul!

Better things are yet to come!

Have a blessed weekend.

🎉 Isaiah 61:7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore, in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

Julia

Our Heavenly abode...

Are we looking forward to our eternal home in heaven?

🌺 2 Corinthians 5:1" For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed; we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

Our Blessed hope is, Jesus Christ our Lord will take us to this Heavenly abode He has prepared for us!

He is the way to this Home! (John 14:6)

So let not our hearts be troubled.

🌺 John 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."

What a hope & assurance that gives!

Julia

MAGINIFY THE LORD!

MAGINIFY THE LORD!

Psalm 34:3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.

Job 36:24 “Remember to magnify His work, Of which men have sung."

Psalm 69:30 "I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify Him with thanksgiving."

If God is the solid rock on which we stand and if He's our shield and defender, why fear the enemy's fiery darts? It will bounce back in Jesus Name!

If we stand on the Truth of God's Word, no lie or deception of the enemy can confuse us, the long tests and trials we go through will not make us weary. If we take our eyes off God in good times or bad and start doubting His Word, and magnify the mountains we face, the pain and illness, we will fail, we will fall, we will get fearful. But, the moment we take our eyes off the problems, off the storms and battles we face and start magnifying the Lord and put our trust completely in Him, He will take over and fight for us. But, the problem with us is, we fail to let God take over our cares and concerns completely! We forget our Lord Jesus Christ is our very present help in time of trouble.

Can we choose this day to Magnify out Lord over everything else?

Even as we magnify His Name, can we pray the Lord will display His Awesome power, miraculous healings in our midst and for a great move of God on earth this day?

We need to ask to receive. There are millions of souls out there that need to know the saving grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and see and feel the splendor and power of the Almighty God who created this universe.

1 Chronicles 29:11 "Yours, O Lord, is the greatness,

The power and the glory,

The victory and the majesty;

For all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours;

Yours is the kingdom, O Lord,

And You are exalted as head over all."

Millions still need to know there is healing, spiritual, emotional and physical in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and that HE IS THE ONLY WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.

As we magnify out Lord He will display His Splendor in our midst.

Ezekiel 38:23 “And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Your heart may be breaking today. You may have spent the night weeping. You may be longing for someone to come sit and weep with you. You may be crying out to the Lord for help because you are in pain, in debt, feel lost and lonely ad feel you have reached the end. When your heart is breaking, cry out to the One who hears and binds up the brokenhearted. Magnify His Name over your pain, your loss, your brokenness, your illness and see Him display His splendor.

Have a blessed day,

Julia

It is not about Religion but all about relationship

🌾It's not about #religion but #relationship

From man's creation to his eternity in heaven, it is relationship & fellowship and love God wants!

🌾 His love for humanity is above all caste, creed, color, religion. Because He so...loved the world He came down, walked this earth, to redeem us back to Him.

🌾 We too are expected to have His love and compassion in our hearts to all in this world!

🌾 How will everyone know we are the disciple of Jesus Christ our Lord and savior?

🍃 John 13:35 "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

🌾 But so often we find it difficult to even love our own and see eye to eye with them and dream of spending and eternity with our loved ones!

May God's kingdom come in our hearts now!

Julia

God's Mighty hands

HE who holds the Universe, holds us in His hands and looks at us His children and says, "See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before me." Isaiah 49:16 So, in midst our pain, loss, trials and all that we see happen around us in this world, it gives us a sense of security! And He keeps His Word. All His promises are "Yes and Amen" in Him! So...as we go to bed tonight, let us rest our head in the pillow of Gods promises, leaving our cares and worries in His mighty hands.

Good Night,

Julia