SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND BY MARSHA BURNS: The joy of the Lord is your strength and that joy comes from praise and worship. Let it spring up like fountains of living water. Let it wash over you in cleansing, healing waves and be renewed by its power, says the Lord.
Psalm 27:6 And now behold, He raised up high my head over my enemies. I encircled and sacrificed in His tent a sacrifice of praise and of a shout; I shall sing and strum to the LORD.
January 16, 2024. Just because the days ahead seem strange and unusual, saturated with much chaos, doesn’t mean that My children will be caught up in it. If you believe you are protected, then you are protected – speak it. If you believe you will be caught up in the chaos, you will be. Choose carefully your words for there is power in what you say. What you say comes from what you believe. Your future is literally wrapped up in how you believe.
Psalm 112:7 “From hearing a wicked report he shall not be afraid; his heart is prepared to hope upon the LORD.” Robin Robinson Bohlin
January 16, 2024. I do not like pain and I don’t think I know anyone who likes pain…of any kind. However, pain can be our friend sometimes, if it motivates us to do something about that pain. I heard the Lord say that some pain in your life will motivate you to be different. By that I mean, if you find yourself as unfocused, unmotivated or tired of the same old thing, then the pain of living that way has to get so great that YOU will do whatever it takes to change it. Sometimes pain is only an aggravation, but not great enough to want change. You have a say in your destiny, so either prophesy to your pain that you know how to eliminate it or prophesy to it to get worse, so you will want to get rid of it forever.
John 16:16-24 “Jesus went on to say, ‘In a little while you will see me no more and then after a little while you will see me.’ At this, some of His disciples said to one another, ‘What does He mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see Me no more and then after a little while you will see Me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’? They kept asking, ‘What does He mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what He is saying.’ Jesus saw that they wanted to ask Him about this, so He said to them, ‘Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see Me no more and then after a little while you will see Me’? Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice and no one will take away your joy. In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Very truly I tell you, My Father will give you whatever you ask in My name. Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive and your joy will be filled.’” Budd Rodgers
