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Though she was resentful and bitter about her inability to produce life in her life, God used her belief, her desperate hope, her anguish and her pain to produce. You are not good for nothing. God has a point to barrenness but it won’t last forever. Even in times of emptiness, God has a purpose for you to live out and part of that purpose is to be a carrier of faith.

When David learned how to be a king from the position of a shepherd, he then became King. Don’t wait for tomorrow until you’ve gained a certain place you think you need to arrive at. You have arrived. Your arrival has already come. You are called and preserved for now. Be who you need to be today.

Be who you need to be today. Don’t wait for tomorrow until you’ve gained a certain place you think you need to arrive at. You have arrived. Your arrival has already come. You are called and preserved for now. The ultimate life God has for you has already begun.

We can easily be caught up into a current and swirl of complaining thinking, of bickering and disputing, of one-upmanship and leveraging and positioning. In that place we are broken down and scattered.

We will always have a ‘what if it doesn’t happen?’ anxiety if we’re just hoping, wishing or praying in disbelief. This is why hoping in the power of the Holy Spirit is different. His hope fills us with joy and peace in believing.

To be watered and well, we need friendship, transparent conversations, and time with God drinking in His Word.

Doing hard things can seem like using a key in the wrong lock. Things we find confusing, hurtful or overwhelming can cause us to feel weary, diminished or even defeated, but they don’t have to lock us out of a successful way forward.

I do not run like someone running aimlessly. He equips me to live and function in a way that no one else is placed to do. I have been placed in a lane to run in a race that no one else can run. Love is the reason we have a destiny of hope.

If I’m not feeling free, if I’m burdened, constrained, oppressed, or maligned, I need to recognise where that’s coming from. Is it coming from within me or is it coming at me from other people?

God takes delight when we achieve milestones; when we’re running a good race and we’re keeping our eyes on Him. Even when we’re trying to run well but we’re weary, that’s a milestone.

Catch the vision that God has for you and run with it. Work at it. Pursue it. Be diligent in the small things and you will see all things God has for you unfold.

We don’t have any reason or desire to hide from anything, to stay in dark corners, and we have no need to be influenced or contained by others who choose to stay in the dark. We are alive and well and live in the light

God is not an exalted man. He is not an image or a spirit of a man. He is a supreme being, who created all from nothing and rules over all. He looks different. He thinks different. He is different. All that He created He somehow encompasses and reflects in form. How much do we meditate on God's glory and what that means for our reality?

Son of Man is a title Jesus the Christ used for Himself. He was fully God but He also became fully man to enter into the human experience of living, temptations, testing and death, taking on our sin and the punishment for the spiritual laws against sin. He came to save the one. You’re the one. I’m the one. The people you are with today are the one.

What do you place value in? Position? Power? Wealth? Should we be striving?

When we have had someone who has blown a mist of healing across our lives it’s something to be thankful for. But life is but a breath and we all pass away, our bodies returning to the ground, our soul being extended to its eternal destination.

We go through passages of time where God has to deal with our hearts and our minds. We collect offenses and carry hurts that become burdens. If undealt with, they interfere with the way we live and every relationship around us. It’s like a spill that quickly spreads, leaving a stain unless it’s properly cleaned up.

Testing. Surrender. These are big words in the Christian faith. There are many days we fail the ideals of Christ’s teachings.

With God, we know our lives have the meaning He desires. We are positioned and we can blossom in whatever He is calling out in us.

Life doesn't always work out the way you plan or imagine. What better place to keep yourself in life, than in God’s love?