Monday, April 25, 2016

Your Year Crowned with Good!!!

Prophetic Scripture:  Division of Psalms 65
Psalms has 150 divisions; 2,461 verses; and 43,743 words.


Text: Psalms 65:11  
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. (KJV)
You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance. (New Living Translation)
God always wants our future to be bright.  According to Psalms 65:11, God’s intention is to surround us with abundance and blessing.
It states that He crowns our year with a bountiful harvest!  In Hebrew, the word crown means to surround.  God wants your year surrounded with good things from Him.  Of course, the Lord knows that there are plenty of things in this world which try to prevent us from feeling like we are experiencing God’s goodness.  There are things that try to steal our peace, health, provision, joy, and much more.  Jesus said that we would experience tribulation in this world but that He has overcome the world (John 16:33).
So in other words, while there are many forms of tribulation that try to enter your life, God always has a divine plan for you to come out of it into abundance.  1st Corinthians 10:13 says, There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
His desire is for you to experience His goodness in such a way that even the most difficult experiences from last year or even the last several years will begin to turn around, and around, and around.  Psalms 65:11 says, Even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.
This is the picture that we need to expect for the upcoming year.  We need to expect God’s goodness to surround our year with good!!!

Monday, April 11, 2016

HELP THOU MINE UNBELIEF!

Unbelief is the absence of faith!
Here is a father whose son is demon possessed, and he wants his son healed.  He had taken him to Jesus’ disciples, and they couldn’t deliver him.  So now he’s talking to Jesus Himself.  In Mark 9:22 he says to Jesus, “Ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him:  but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us”.  Verse 23  Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Do you “believe” today?
Believe means to accept something as true!  Belief doesn’t require proof, just “acceptance”!
As we look at this passage of scripture, there is a man here who “believes” but at the same time has doubts!  He’s saying a lot in this statement.  Mark 9:24  And straightway the father cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
Do you see yourself?  We have to get to the place that we believe God totally!