“Mother’s Day 2024”
If we start with the wrong conclusion, our entire perception will be off and therefore we will make decisions that undermine God’s plan and destiny for our lives.
Deuteronomy 8:1-10 (CSB)
Carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land the Lord swore to your ancestors. 2 Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years. 5 Keep in mind that the Lord your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. 6 So keep the commands of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and fearing him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper. 10 When you eat and are full, you will bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.”
- We ALL have a Promise Land
I need A DAILY reminder that there is MORE to this LIFE than JUST this life.
Deuteronomy 8:7-10 (CSB)
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper. 10 When you eat and are full, you will bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.”
- God’s leading requires obedience and will bring us to places of humility and testing.
Deuteronomy 8:1-3 (CSB)
Carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land the Lord swore to your ancestors. 2 Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
But in order to bring beauty from ashes, we must choose to walk in His ways.
- God has and will always meet our every need.
Deuteronomy 8:3-6 (CSB)
He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years. 5 Keep in mind that the Lord your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. 6 So keep the commands of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and fearing him.”
Then He gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known.
Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell.
I have used this illustration before, but it continually minsters to me. Corrie Ten Boom was a holocaust survivor.
Embroidered Crown Picture
“Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, BY FAITH, that on the other side of the embroidery… there is a CROWN.” Corrie Ten Boom
Hebrews 11:13 (NLT)
All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth
*Other Scriptures referenced in message: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10, Revelation 21