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Great Expectation
God's blessing to all of you and Happy New Year!!! What a great time to expect great and new things that are to come. As this year begins, I want to challenge each and every one of you who are reading this message today to go above and beyond what your natural mind can think of, what you are able to do, and step out and ask God to stretch your faith and to bring you into a higher level of faith-a higher and closer walk with Him, and ask Him to show you great and mighty things you don't know because that is what He promises in Jeremiah 33:3 "Call to Me, and I will show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." and also " Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us." Ephesians 3:20
God is the beholder of all things hidden and things revealed, things great and things small. He knows where He hides His treasure and His blessing. Sometimes we can be walking right by a blessing without knowing, but if you ask Him and allow Him to open your eyes, He will show you great things and reveal to each of us what is hidden. God is always searching and looking for those who are humble and who would ask Him. I know without a doubt that there are great blessings for each of us out there and that God is about ready to show each one. Some of us may think that we have all that we need and that God has blessed us with plenty and that we are content and satisfied. I know those thoughts and words are true because the Holy Spirit said so through the Apostle Paul. God wants to bless us. Not so that we may be content and be stagnant but to help and bless others and be great role models and leaders to help lead and guide those that do not know the truth about the love of the Father and of our Lord Jesus. That brings me back to an incident that happened when my children were a little younger. I remember rejoicing when they could count to ten or if they discovered something new. How much more will the heart of the Father, our Father and our Lord Jesus rejoice over us when He sees that our hearts seek and desire to know more of Him and about Him and to grow in Him. He said in 1 Cor 14:1"Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts" and also in 1 Co 1:9 "And to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding". I remember also when I first heard His voice and received His love for myself. Oh! I rejoice to the extent that people say that there are lights shown through my eyes. Even though I don't look at myself when I share the love of Jesus Christ with people, I do believe what they say because when I share His love with my fellow neighbors I can feel a great extent of heat upon my body. "Whom have not seen you love though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory" 1 Peter 1:8. So, I believe that each of you has many blessings that the Father has stored up for you and has not yet been revealed to you. I believe that it doesn't matter where you are in your walk of life, you can always excel and you can always learn something new as long as your heart is open and your soul and spirit are willing. Some of us may have had a great year last year, but for some, last year might have been a little tough, had some trouble, and may have had a few setbacks. For some, we may stumble here and there. And yet, for others, the battle might have been great but it did not take us down. We may grow weary but the Lord has kept each one of us and we have stood firm upon the ground in which the Lord God has placed us and each and every one of us is still here and have persevered through yet another great year. "We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not despair: persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body" 2 Co.4:8-10 "His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and FAITHFUL servant: thou hast been FAITHFUL over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." Matt. 25:21. May your soul and spirit rejoice for your God is on your side and stands by you to lift you up and bring you into another realm of glory. Be filled with His Spirit and receive your blessing in Jesus' name.
I pray that this year will be the beginning of all the years to come, and I will declare it in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that from the very first day of this year, that each one of us that are in Christ and all those that will join and believe in the name of Jesus Christ, will walk in His great love, power, and authority and will be in placed to take authority in the Spiritual realm to break down, destroy, bind and take into captivity all that in which Jesus Christ has died to give us authority over. I pray that the LORD God will give each one of us the courage, the confidence, and boldness to speak forth and "calls those things which be not as though they were" Roman 4:17 and believe for those things that He has promised to give us. I pray that we may take on the challenge to step out of our zone of comfort and prepare our heart, soul, and spirit to receive more from our Father and Lord Jesus. I pray that each one of us will reset our mind to expect great things from Him who loves us and wants us to always grow in Him and in the gifting that He has placed upon each one of us and to move us up to be closer to His heart. Father in heaven, as this year begins, I pray as you said in Jeremiah 31:28 "as you have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy" I pray, Father, that you would remove from us anything that is not of Your Spirit, any words or actions that are not producing goodness for You and for Your kingdom. I pray that you would pluck it up, break it down, throw it out and destroy it from our lives, but I pray oh! Father, as You also said in Jeremiah 31:28 "So I will watch over them to build and to plant". I pray that your eyes will always and forever be upon us to watch over each and every one of us and Your hand will rebuild and replant in us a new heart and refresh and refill our soul with Your Spirit so that our life may be full of the fruit of Your Spirit which is "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." Galatians 5:22-23 and that we may be where You want us to be, not what we can see but what you see for us. That we may walk in your love, power, and an authority in the name of Your holy and mighty Son Jesus Christ. Amen.
I thank God for each and every one of you who is reading this message today. I pray that He may touch and change your life as He has mine and give you a place in Him as He has given me by calling me His own. Amen.
Cyndie Tran
- The Father's Love Ministries