LovingLady
Well-Known Member
This is the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it. Ladies the Lord has shown grace and mercy to us. A lot of us have been struggling as of late, and I pray that this is the answer to a lot of your prayers.
I watch the Multimedia Potter's House Service yesterday, and the spirit moved me to share my notes with you. The passage that was highlighted during the service was Psalm 66: 8-12. This scripture outlines the tools that will bring us to a real place of wealth in every aspect of our life. This is not about monetary value, this is about being spiritually rich.
Psalm 66: 8-12
8 Oh, bless our God, you peoples!
And make the voice of His praise to be heard,
9 Who keeps our soul among the living,
And does not allow our feet to be moved.
10 For You, O God, have tested us;
You have refined us as silver is refined.
11 You brought us into the net;
You laid affliction on our backs.
12 You have caused men to ride over our heads;
We went through fire and through water;
But You brought us out to rich fulfillment.
God focuses on the internal aspects of us, because of this, He will get down to the real issues that confronts us in our lives. He is not looking for or concerned with the paint and white wash.
According to Dr. Payne, "Poverty is the extent at which an individual goes without resources." God wants you to be rich on the inside, before you will be rich on the outside. If you can be rich in your mind you can be rich in your pocket.
God wants us to be blessed and to be rich in every area of our lives (intellectually, financially, spiritually, physically, children are victorious , blessed marriage, etc.).
God is ultimately in control, the devil is God's devil, he can't do no more than God allows. We are in the hands of God, the situation may not feel or look good, but we must fall on the fact that God loves us. When a parent chastises you, it is done in order to make you better, when God chastises us, it is to make us better.
If you look at the word "through", is a transition word. God brings us through the fire and the water, through the trails and the tribulation. God is so wonderful that He sits on the test before we go in, He sits on the test while we are in it, and He sits on the other side waiting for us. He has so much confidence in our ability to endure that He says that " When you get here . . ." This is why the fire doesn't kill us, God is there with us.
Praise God!!!
The ultimate goal is to bring you to a place of wealth in every area of your life.
Purity Test
In verse 10 it says that "You have refined us as silver is refined". When sliver goes through the refinement process it is heated up. The purpose of this is to release the silver of it impurities such as lead. Once the sliver is liquefied the impurities rises to the top and they are blown away.
When we are going through the fire (trials, hard times, etc.), it is God's way of releasing us from certain behavior, hazards, people, etc. that are standing in our way. We may cry and complain, but the Lord is trying to say "until I separate you from those things, I can't make you shine like you are suppose to."
God wants you to praise him for the things that you have lost, praise Him because they were dragging you down and destroying your future. If it is gone, that means you don't need it. If it was necessary for you to have, God would allow you to keep it.
The things that were holding you down, God wants to release you from it. An example of this would be the Hebrew Boys. The fire that they were placed in was 7 times higher than it normally would be and it should have killed them. The fire destroyed everything that was holding the boys back (the ropes around their wrist) but it didn't destroy them.
Isn't God amazing.
There have been times when we went through challenges and we have questioned the wisdom of God. We have even tried to tell Him the things that we need in order to be blessed. God is so wise that He will prove to us that the things we lost was something that we didn't need.
To be continued . . .
I watch the Multimedia Potter's House Service yesterday, and the spirit moved me to share my notes with you. The passage that was highlighted during the service was Psalm 66: 8-12. This scripture outlines the tools that will bring us to a real place of wealth in every aspect of our life. This is not about monetary value, this is about being spiritually rich.
Psalm 66: 8-12
8 Oh, bless our God, you peoples!
And make the voice of His praise to be heard,
9 Who keeps our soul among the living,
And does not allow our feet to be moved.
10 For You, O God, have tested us;
You have refined us as silver is refined.
11 You brought us into the net;
You laid affliction on our backs.
12 You have caused men to ride over our heads;
We went through fire and through water;
But You brought us out to rich fulfillment.
God focuses on the internal aspects of us, because of this, He will get down to the real issues that confronts us in our lives. He is not looking for or concerned with the paint and white wash.
According to Dr. Payne, "Poverty is the extent at which an individual goes without resources." God wants you to be rich on the inside, before you will be rich on the outside. If you can be rich in your mind you can be rich in your pocket.
God wants us to be blessed and to be rich in every area of our lives (intellectually, financially, spiritually, physically, children are victorious , blessed marriage, etc.).
God is ultimately in control, the devil is God's devil, he can't do no more than God allows. We are in the hands of God, the situation may not feel or look good, but we must fall on the fact that God loves us. When a parent chastises you, it is done in order to make you better, when God chastises us, it is to make us better.
If you look at the word "through", is a transition word. God brings us through the fire and the water, through the trails and the tribulation. God is so wonderful that He sits on the test before we go in, He sits on the test while we are in it, and He sits on the other side waiting for us. He has so much confidence in our ability to endure that He says that " When you get here . . ." This is why the fire doesn't kill us, God is there with us.
Praise God!!!
The ultimate goal is to bring you to a place of wealth in every area of your life.
Purity Test
In verse 10 it says that "You have refined us as silver is refined". When sliver goes through the refinement process it is heated up. The purpose of this is to release the silver of it impurities such as lead. Once the sliver is liquefied the impurities rises to the top and they are blown away.
When we are going through the fire (trials, hard times, etc.), it is God's way of releasing us from certain behavior, hazards, people, etc. that are standing in our way. We may cry and complain, but the Lord is trying to say "until I separate you from those things, I can't make you shine like you are suppose to."
God wants you to praise him for the things that you have lost, praise Him because they were dragging you down and destroying your future. If it is gone, that means you don't need it. If it was necessary for you to have, God would allow you to keep it.
The things that were holding you down, God wants to release you from it. An example of this would be the Hebrew Boys. The fire that they were placed in was 7 times higher than it normally would be and it should have killed them. The fire destroyed everything that was holding the boys back (the ropes around their wrist) but it didn't destroy them.
Isn't God amazing.
There have been times when we went through challenges and we have questioned the wisdom of God. We have even tried to tell Him the things that we need in order to be blessed. God is so wise that He will prove to us that the things we lost was something that we didn't need.
To be continued . . .
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