Recognize the New Season Ahead

Recognize the New Season Ahead

Just like the sky changes its color as the sun rises and sets, also recognize the changes in your season my child. For when things are shifting, you will see the signs. Things will not be the same as they once were.

Yet I know how much you cling to the seasons that have past. You look back at the things you once had and the seasons you once enjoyed, but do you not realize that my blessing lies before you and not behind you? So do not look at the seasons that are past, but recognize the season that is changing right now. Look forward to the new season that is ahead.

For each season has a sweetness to it. There are some that are difficult, yet each one shapes you. Each one moves you forward along the journey of life that I have set before you. So take time to enjoy each season. Enjoy the sunsets. Enjoy the sunrises. Enjoy the dark times and the times that are full of goodness, for each one adds something new to you.

So look up! A new season is coming. Can you feel the changes in the air? Can you see the colors of the sky beginning to change their hue? The change is upon you - so move with it. Do not be discouraged. Do not hanker back to old seasons, but look ahead instead to what lies ahead and run towards this new season with all joy, says the Lord.

Time to Get Moving

Time to Get Moving

Look ahead and see the road before you my child and realize that I have equipped you to walk it. For it is a new road and you might not recognize the markers along the way, but I have indeed given you the strength you need to walk it. I have indeed ordered this path and it is for you to walk it now in all joy.

For I know that you have walked down some difficult roads. I know that you have become weary and that you are unsure of what lies ahead of you. Yet know that my hand is upon you and that I will lift you up and cause you to walk this road in all joy. This will not be like the roads of the past, for this road is ordered of me.

Walk it in faith and not in fear. Walk it in hope and love. Walk it holding my hand and allowing me to lead you every step of the way. For even though the road is ordered by me, you cannot walk it in your own strength - rather you need my strength to get to the final destination.

So walk in faith and not in self will. Walk in love and not in your own kindness. Walk in hope and not with your own ideas. Then you will see the treasures that I have laid down along the way for you to find. Come now. Step forward, but step forward in my blessing and holding my hand - doing it my way and you will surely walk in blessing says the Lord.

Its Time For the Impossible

Its Time For the Impossible

As you sink your roots deep into the soil of my presence, I will water you my child. For the world is dry and your spirit has become empty. It is time once again to come into my presence to get filled up again.

For the things of the world cannot satisfy. The world is like a desert that leaves you empty and the longer you are there the more incapable you feel. However in my presence you are filled up. Not only are you given strength again, but everything is possible in my presence. You see with my eyes. You feel with my heart. You see the possibility in the situation instead of the impossibility.

As you walk in the world and listen to all the voices that surround you, you only hear how things cannot be done. You are confined to the natural forces of this world. However when you come into my presence and listen to my voice, I can give you the possibility in your situation and show you a different way of doing things. I can show you the supernatural power I have to overcome in your circumstance.

So whose voice will you incline your ear to today? Where will you listen? Will you listen to the doctrines of the world that tell you that it cannot be done and who try to force you to conform to their worldly wisdom? Or will you incline your ear to me and allow me to renew your mind and allow you to see another way out? A way that is beyond your own ability, but is perfectly possible because of my power?

You cannot walk in both my child. Yet I extend my hand to you right now and I call you to come to me. Come into my presence. Incline your ear to my commandments and your heart to my testimonies and your eyes will be opened! Your ears will hear! Your mouth will be loosed and what looked impossible before will become possible now says the Lord.

Seeing the Person

Seeing the Person

“Simon answered and said to Him, ‘Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.’ And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.” LUKE 5:5,6 To you and me this may sound like a coincidence, or luck. Some might call it a miracle, and it is miraculous, but it is more than a miracle; it is a sign given by Christ in order to reveal Himself to Peter. In Scriptural language, it is “revealing His glory.” Jesus merely said, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch of fish.” Nevertheless, Peter perceived that Jesus was no ordinary man. For when he saw what happened, he fell down and sobbed, “Lord, depart from me, for I am a sinful man.” The One he called Teacher he now calls Lord, and Peter is immediately made to see the contrast of himself, a sinful man, and Christ, the Holy One of God. Everyone else heard the teaching, but Peter saw the Person. Source: “Lord of All” by Chip Brogden http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/lord-of-all Like this? Share your comments: http://www.chipbrogden.com/june4 I am your brother,

Chip Brogden

Hunger for Righteousness

Hunger for Righteousness

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” MATTHEW 5:6 To hunger and thirst for righteousness is to look forward to the promise of new heavens and a new earth (2 Peter 3:13): to long for it, to desire it, to pine for it, to seek it, to prepare for it and to keep praying for it until it arrives. It implies that we are not content with things just the way they are, and we are not satisfied to just let things go along as they always have. We hate sin, we hate the effects of sin upon this earth, and we mourn the consequences of man’s inhumanity to man and rebellion towards God; but we have hope for a better day, a better life, a better world where Righteousness Himself is living among us. Until such time, we are hungry and thirsty for more of what we have only just begun to taste. Source: “The Irresistible Kingdom" by Chip Brogden http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/the-irresistible-kingdom Like this? Share your comments: http://www.chipbrogden.com/june5 I am your brother,

Chip Brogden

Ignore the Fog

Ignore the Fog

Just because there is fog on the ground, does not mean that the road is not open before you my child. In fact, it only means that you are climbing the mountain and coming into my presence. So press on forward this day and soon you will see the sun burn away the fog and clear the path in front of you.

Do not think you are blind. Do not think that you are missing me! Trust in the words that I have given to you. Trust in the promises that I have given and continue walking forward my child. For if the enemy cannot divert you, he will discourage you from walking forward, thinking that I have let you down.

So do not listen to his lies today, but keep pressing on forward. Keep walking no matter how you feel and no matter how dark it might seem to you. For this is just fog. What you see is just a shadow and not the truth! So let my truth set you free! The truth that you are on the right road. You are headed in the direction and that my hand is on you.

So whose voice will you incline your ear to today? Where will you listen? Will you listen to the doctrines of the world that tell you that it cannot be done and who tries to force you to conform to their worldly wisdom? Or will you incline your ear to me and allow me to renew your mind and allow you to see another way out? A way that is beyond your own ability, but is perfectly possible because of my power?

For I am right here walking this road alongside you. So keep walking. Take each step as it comes and I shall surely direct your path says the Lord.

Why So Little Fruit?

Why So Little Fruit?

“We who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake.” 2 CORINTHIANS 4:11 The answer to why there is so little power and genuine spiritual fruit in the lives of those who follow Jesus is a simple one: they desire the Life of the Lord, but not His Death. They want a daily pouring out of the Lord’s Life, but they shun the prospect of daily sharing in His Death. The saints of the Lord are well instructed in living victoriously, being blessed, walking in power, overcoming the enemy, and living up to their potential. By comparison, the majority of them know next to nothing about self-denial, bearing their Cross, boasting in their weaknesses, being joyful in trials, winning by losing, gaining by giving up, working by resting, accepting both the bitter and the sweet as gifts from God, enduring hardness and accepting suffering. God desires to increase us and enlarge us; He therefore calls us to go back to the Cross and start over again. Source: “Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/embrace-the-cross Like this? Share your comments: http://www.chipbrogden.com/june7 I am your brother,

Chip Brogden