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“Faith can feel ridiculous… until it starts to rain.”


I’ve lived this line more than once. Just this week, our family lost a dear friend—Ms. Gail—after a long, hope-filled battle with cancer. We prayed with fervency and faith for her healing… and yet, for reasons we may never understand this side of Heaven, Jesus welcomed her home on Monday…


Moments like these can shake your soul. They can tempt you to question whether your prayers mattered—whether your faith was misplaced. But today I remembered Noah.



He built an ark in the middle of a dry region, where it had never rained. He trusted the Word God had spoken, letting every swing of the hammer pierce the air, not for applause or understanding—but in agreement with a promise no one else could see. He built by faith… until the rain came.

Sometimes God asks us to do the same:

To pray for something.

To build something.

To believe for something—without ever seeing the outcome we imagined.


But here’s what we can count on:


“Even if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.” – 2 Timothy 2:13


And…


“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.” – Hebrews 10:23


So friend, don’t let the delay make you doubt.

Don’t let what you see or what you don’t see yet cause you to lay down your faith.

The rain will come.

We just might not see the full spectrum of it until we get to the other side of Heaven. And when we do, I believe we’ll see how every prayer mattered, how every moment was seen, every tear was collected —and how faithful ones like Ms. Gail helped us keep believing.🤍


 
 
 

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I awakened today with a faint remembrance of falling asleep with sorrow in my heart. The visual that surfaced was that of a beaker filled with oil & water. It was scientifically wrong as the oil had settled to the bottom & the water rested on the surface. I sensed that the water represented sorrow & the oil of God’s Presence rested beneath.


We live in a world marked by weeping. Not a day will pass without someone, somewhere shedding a tear or bowing their head in grief. Sadness that rises to the surface is a condition of our fallen world & yet it will not be the state of eternity if we let the Lamb become our Shepherd.


Revelation 7 tells of a day when the Lamb on the throne will be our Shepherd. He will lead us to life-giving water & God will wipe away every tear from our eyes.”


I find it funny that a lamb will be a Shepherd. It’s like a child being a parent, but better because THIS Lamb came as a young, innocent knowing all, seeing all, & as The Word, being the Source of ALL past, present & future!


The Lamb was center on the throne so one cannot approach God without first passing before The Lamb.


The Lamb knows what it’s like to BE a sheep, He knows the sorrows of this earth & the unfulfillment we face on the daily! It is because of His love that He became The Lamb so we might invite Him to become our Shepherd!


When we allow Him Lordship over our hearts, He leads us to life-giving water before the throne of our God, Who with exquisite tenderness, wipes every tear from our eyes.


In this life we will have sorrow that settles on the surface of our hearts, but Jesus longs to be the oil of gladness that rests like a deep, unending well far below the happenings of everyday life!


Father, You created us to experience emotions & yet they do not negate or diminish Your life-giving Presence. In fact, they act like a gas gauge reminding us of our need of You!


I feel like that beaker this morning with watery sorrow on the surface AND the oil of Your Presence like a firm foundation beneath. Thank You for being a shield of protection to all who come to You! We may feel feelings, but the Truth of Who You are keeps them from settling for too long or seeping too deep.


💡MICAH 5:1-7:20

💡REVELATION 7:1-17

💡PSALM 135:1-21

💡PROVERBS 30:5-6



 
 
 

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It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

~Galatians 5:1

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