TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
“As it is written: ‘I have made you a father of many nations.’ He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed — the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not”
(Romans 4:17, NIV)
TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria
Twenty years before Abraham ever had a child, God said to him, “Abraham, I have made you a father of many nations.” Notice God spoke to him like it had already happened, in the past tense. I’m sure Abraham thought, “God, you must have made a mistake. I’m not a father. I don’t even have one child. Abraham could have talked himself out of it; but instead, he chose to believe.
Today, you may be thinking, “I’m not blessed. I’m not confident. I’m not healthy. I’m not favored.” But when God says you’re blessed, don’t try to figure it out. Just agree with God and say, “I am blessed.” When God calls you prosperous, don’t go check your bank account. Don’t go look at the stock report. Just agree with God and say, “I am prosperous.” Things may look impossible. That’s all right. That’s the way things looked for Abraham. But sure enough, God’s promises came to pass, and he became the father of many nations.
Remember, when you agree with God, you are positioning yourself for a miracle. You are activating His truth in your life. When things look difficult, don’t agree with your circumstances, agree with His promises because He is faithful, and He will complete what He’s started in your life!
A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Heavenly Father, I bless You and thank You for Your goodness and faithfulness in my life. I receive Your promises as truth, no matter what is going on around me. Fill me with joy and peace as I hold fast to Your promises for me. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
— Joel & Victoria Osteen
amen to the wonderful message!
amen to these powerful words, you have just blessed me
You have answered to the many doubts I have been having in my life .AMEN
Very encouraging words indeed!!!!!!! I have been touched.
Amen. its so true
The word and the way to follow and apply is -BELIEVE.in GOD and have FAITH in GOD’S word ,for sure everything will follow in your hands.”writing from my experiences and knowing how GOD’s word is worth believing and ACTING UPON”
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world? You are.” Ayn Rand
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“We can only be kept in the cages we do not see.” Stefan Molyneux
As elaborated upon in Stefan Molyneux’s videos ‘The story of your enslavement’ and ‘Statism is dead – Part 3 – the matrix’ (amongst other videos of his to be found on youtube, his username is stefbot) he explains (paraphrased here in my own words) –
a) what we are told is democracy is actually a violent monopoly – (try refusing to pay your taxes – then you’ll see the ‘gun in the room’)
b) the most powerful (and only) real ‘weapon’ that they have which enables them to continue leading society down the path that they are, is something that should be completely out of their control, but we allow them that control by being so malleable. It is, in fact, totally under our control – if we want it to be. That ‘weapon’ is us – you, me and the bloke next door.
The only thing that holds this system together is that up until now, the people within society who are not in power are so divided and pitted against each other that they themselves perpetuate the system.
By arguing about the current and historical whys and wherefores of left versus right, religion versus religion, class versus class, race versus race, nationality versus nationality, city versus city, men versus women, the old versus the young (not an exhaustive list) – we perpetuate the system.
We enslave each other. Like crabs, we try to pull back those who try to escape. We pulverise anyone who suggests that the system is a sham and that it needs to be ripped down and rebuilt from scratch. We demonise anyone who criticises the status quo or suggests that we are all being manipula
we are all being manipulated and lied to on a daily basis.
You can see this occurring every single day in the comments section of every single online newspaper.
Those in power spend most of their time training their political puppets to pour fuel on these flames.
And while we fall for it and argue over irrelevant smokescreens, they do their work.