I had a pretty severe migraine headache about eight days ago and it’s still making me dull in the head and pretty weak. Since the initial migraine attack, I’ve had some challenges come up. Even though I often have a harder time maintaining my faith after a migraine, the Lord just kept reminding me to praise and trust Him. Sure enough, even though my body and mind were both in disagreement, I kept praising and trusting God, and He just kept delivering me all week long. I’m telling you this to build you up in your faith, and that even though you may feel weak, obeying God by praising and thanking Him in all things can bring great blessings and deliverance. It builds self-control and helps me to not complain which is always a blessing. ☺
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
whose trust is the Lord.
8 He is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:7-8
Many times, seemingly stressful or harmful circumstances are simply a prelude to God’s mighty deliverance. He’s about to bring us a blessing but we can’t see it yet so we’re tempted to worry. He asks us to have faith that He’ll see us through.
I was going to write about something else this morning, but right when I sat down to begin, I felt lead to write this instead.
The greatest thing spouses and parents can do for each other and for their kids is to believe and act on the Word, the Bible, no matter what’s going on on any given day.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it’s so true. It’s what happened to me over the years. If I believe God’s Word and let it impact my actions, my wife is much happier and has an easier time trusting God.
For instance, if I believe and act as those I believe Romans 8:28, my entire family benefits from it. I do, too, because believing Romans 8:28 stops fear and brings hope. It encourages us.
And, that’s just one scripture, and yet it makes such a huge, positive, peace-inducing impact on us and our families.
God wants to bless the entire family by having us believing and acting out our beliefs by trusting that He’ll back up His Word.
Believing God brought great blessing to the lives of the people in the Bible. This is our time to live out God’s truths and to watch Him bless our believing as well.
Be a blessing to your spouse and children by believing and acting out God’s truths.
God bless,
Mark