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| | Give Your Faith a Voice |
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| | “And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ‘I believed and therefore I spoke,’ we also believe and therefore speak.” | | (2 Corinthians 4:13, NKJV) |  |
| | TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria | Every believer has been given a measure of faith. In order to see the promises of God come to pass in your life, you have to give your faith a voice. You must declare what God says about you in His Word. Those seeds of faith inside you are activated when you speak them out into the atmosphere. That’s why the scripture tells us, “Let the weak say I am strong. Let the poor say I am rich.” When you give your faith a voice and send forth the Word of God, the Bible says that He watches over His Word to bring it to pass in your life. Every word you speak is a seed. Don’t dig up your seed by speaking against your faith! Don’t allow words of defeat or negativity come out of your mouth. Instead, water your seed by continuing to declare the Word of God. When you wake up every morning, thank Him that His promises are coming to pass in your life. As you do, you will see those things come to pass and live the life of victory God has prepared for you! | | | | A PRAYER FOR TODAY |
| | Father, today I humbly come before You giving You my thoughts, my actions, and my words. Help me to give my faith a voice by speaking Your Word daily. May my words and my thoughts be pleasing to You always in Jesus’ name. Amen. | — Joel & Victoria Osteen
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| Let Your Heart Be Established By Grace |
Hebrews 13:9
9… it is good that the heart be established by grace…
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God does not want your heart full of worries and fears, tossed and
turned by every challenge that comes your way. He wants your heart at
rest and established by His grace toward you. |
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But when you think that the breakthroughs to your challenges depend on
your ability to obey God, then your heart will not be at rest. It will
be full of worries and anxieties. Why? Because you can never obey God
perfectly. |
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But when you depend on God’s grace, that is, His undeserved, unmerited
favor, the opposite happens — your heart becomes established. When you
know that the only thing that qualifies you to receive God’s blessings
is faith in the finished work of Christ, your heart becomes established.
Then, you will walk without the fear of your troubles swallowing you
up. You will walk with full assurance that His blessings will be
manifested in your life. |
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My friend, God wants your heart established, knowing that His
righteousness, healing, protection and provision are yours — all paid
for by Jesus’ finished work at the cross. God’s blessings are sure in
your life because they are not dependent on your ability to keep His
laws, but Jesus’ perfect obedience. |
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You see, under the old covenant, you receive God’s blessings only if
you keep all His laws. (Deuteronomy 28:1–2) If you sin and fail to keep
even one law, you will be disqualified from receiving His blessings. But
today, under the new covenant, your sins no longer disqualify you
because God Himself has said, “For I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember
no more.” (Hebrews 8:12) |
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So let your heart be established by God’s grace. Because of His grace,
you have full access to His blessings. You no longer have to worry about
whether you are good enough. You can stand firm on the promises made in
His Word and enjoy His blessings today because Jesus has paid the
price. Your part is only to believe and receive! |
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