How would it feel to be an eagle flying high overhead? Pretty Awesome I bet! The Bible is full of metaphors that illustrate how we can rise above circumstances. Hi this is Dorette Schaal with an encouraging word for your day. Because we live on an earth with a curse, it is easy for us to be sucked into all the negativity around us, and for circumstances and situations of life to speak to us more loudly than God’s Word does. But if we want to rise above, we need to be renewed in God’s Word everyday. Rising higher means we walk the plan and path that God has for us, and are not moved by the distractions that are all around. We can live hope filled lives, and we can rise above! Be encouraged today!
Recently, as I was listening to our radio station KAGF at 105.5 FM, I heard a scripture that just became a freshly spoken word to me. It is found in Romans 15:13 and it says, “Now may the God of hope fill you will all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” As soon as I heard the words spoken (faith comes by hearing- Rom 10:17), I got excited. There are several ways to look at that scripture – the most obvious is that when you become a believer, joy and peace fill your heart. A second way to look at it is that when you need joy and peace, believe that God will give it to you, and you will receive it. A third way, and the one that ministered to me was that because we are believers, joy and peace take up residence in us. When we choose to believe what the Word says, in the face of difficult circumstances, or doubts that discourage us, joy and peace will result. What a beautiful way to live! When we realize and truly recognize that the God of the Universe, the King of Majesty lives on the inside of us, we are filled up with hope to believe for everything God has for us. That’s rising above circumstances and living on a higher plane, where the cares of life and the curse on the earth, don’t have the ability to pull us down, but we can live on top. That’s a great place to be.
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