I was sent this devotion today by some friends of mine. I trust that it will encourage you as it has encouraged me.
"The hill country shall be thine" (Josh. 17:18, RV).
There is always room higher up. When the valleys are full of Canaanites, whose iron chariots withstand your progress, get up into the hills, occupy the upper spaces. If you can no longer work for God, pray for those who can. If you cannot move earth by your speech, you may move Heaven. If the development of life on the lower slopes is impossible, through limitations of service, the necessity of maintaining others, and such-like restrictions, let it break out toward the unseen, the eternal, the Divine.
Faith can fell forests. Even if the tribes had realized what treasures lay above them, they would hardly have dared to suppose it possible to rid the hills of their dense forest-growth. But as God indicated their task, He reminded them that they had power enough. The visions of things that seem impossible are presented to us, like these forest-covered steeps, not to mock us, but to incite us to spiritual exploits which would be impossible unless God had stored within us the great strength of His own indwelling.
Difficulty is sent to reveal to us what God can do in answer to the faith that prays and works. Are you straitened in the valleys? Get away to the hills, live there; get honey out of the rock, and wealth out of the terraced slopes now hidden by forest. --Daily Devotional Commentary
Got any rivers they say are uncrossable,
Got any mountains they say 'can't tunnel through'?
We specialize in the wholly impossible,
Doing the things they say you can't do.
--Song of the Panama builders"
Good stuff...have a great day!
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This ties right in with the teaching from Sunday night when we were talking about the oil for the lampstands. It had to be pure, "Pressed" olive oil and the key to that was being pressed. God gets our best when we are pressed, put under pressure, assailed on all sides...that's when God really sees our hearts (well, He knows our hearts all the time) in action. If we can praise Him and move forward with His plans, even in times of disaster and doubt, then God knows that we know who rules the heavens. It's easy to praise God and be holy when things are going really good...it's when life has totally dumped on you, when tragedy has struck your household, when devastation has laid siege to your soul, that we need to remember the God in charge of all things and that HE CAN TURN ALL THINGS TO GOOD! Even those things that people (or the enemy) mean for evil, God can turn them to good! Even when we can see no silver lining in the clouds around us, God knows that the whole cloud can be gold if we but trust in Him!
How great is our God? How wonderful that when a door closes, another opens with greater opportunity and reward? How amazing that even when we struggle, when we doubt, when we question, God is faithful to us and raises us up to the heights! I love Him so much.
It's been a tough month already but I know that God is faithful to pull me through...I can do all things through God! On my own, I falter and I fail...with God's help, I can succeed at anything I put my hand toward. What an awesome gift He gives us daily.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him you heavens and earth! Praise Him, Praise Him! God is good, all the time!!
What we give to God, He returns to us tenfold (or even more) in our lives and our loves. Love God, Love People!!
Jon
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