God never sends you out alone by Max Lucado
Hello everyone,
How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord. We thank God for His mercies, His lovingkindness, His tendermercies. I read a story somewhere and tried to recall it as part of today’s daily encouragement. But I think I will just put it out as is for everyone. It is called God Never Sends You Out Alone by Max Lucado.
“When you place your faith in Christ, Christ places his Spirit before, behind, and within you. Not a strange spirit, but the same Spirit: the parakletos. Everything Jesus did for his followers, his Spirit does for you. Jesus taught; the Spirit teaches. Jesus healed; the Spirit heals. Jesus comforted; his Spirit comforts. As Jesus sends you into new seasons, he sends his counselor to go with you.
God treats you the way one mother treated her young son, Timmy. She didn’t like the thought of Timmy walking to his first-grade class unaccompanied. But he was too grown-up to be seen with his mother. “Besides,” he explained, “I can walk with a friend.” So she did her best to stay calm, quoting the Twenty-third Psalm to him every morning: “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life…”
One school day she came up with an idea. She asked a neighbor to follow Timmy to school in the mornings, staying at a distance, lest he notice her. The neighbor was happy to oblige. She took her toddler on morning walks anyway.
After several days Timmy’s friend noticed the lady and the child.
“Do you know who that woman is who follows us to school?”
“Sure,” Timmy answered. “That’s Shirley Goodnest and her daughter Marcy.”
“Who?”
“My mom reads about them every day in the Twenty-third Psalm. She says, ‘Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life.’ Guess I’ll have to get used to them.”
You will too. God never sends you out alone. Are you on the eve of change? Do you find yourself looking into a new chapter? Is the foliage of your world showing signs of a new season? Heaven’s message for you is clear: when everything else changes, God presence never does. You journey in the company of the Holy Spirit, who “will teach you and will remind you of everything I have told you” (John 14:26 NLT).”
Trust God. HE knew before time that we would be in need of a Counselor, a Teacher, and A Comforter. There are so many things that might give the potential for fear, but we have a Strengthener with us. We have within us not a spirit of fear, but of power, love and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1v7). Be at peace, you are not on your own.
Have a very blessed day.
Heavenly Father,
We thank You so much for this day which You have made which we can rejoice and be glad in. Father I pray for Your children this day even as they go about with all the works of their hands, even as they venture into new projects and seasons of their lives, I pray that You will speak Your peace into their hearts, and let them know that You reign supreme, that You will never fail them nor forsake them. Thank You Eternal Rock of Ages, in Jesus name we pray, amen.
How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord. We thank God for His mercies, His lovingkindness, His tendermercies. I read a story somewhere and tried to recall it as part of today’s daily encouragement. But I think I will just put it out as is for everyone. It is called God Never Sends You Out Alone by Max Lucado.
“When you place your faith in Christ, Christ places his Spirit before, behind, and within you. Not a strange spirit, but the same Spirit: the parakletos. Everything Jesus did for his followers, his Spirit does for you. Jesus taught; the Spirit teaches. Jesus healed; the Spirit heals. Jesus comforted; his Spirit comforts. As Jesus sends you into new seasons, he sends his counselor to go with you.
God treats you the way one mother treated her young son, Timmy. She didn’t like the thought of Timmy walking to his first-grade class unaccompanied. But he was too grown-up to be seen with his mother. “Besides,” he explained, “I can walk with a friend.” So she did her best to stay calm, quoting the Twenty-third Psalm to him every morning: “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life…”
One school day she came up with an idea. She asked a neighbor to follow Timmy to school in the mornings, staying at a distance, lest he notice her. The neighbor was happy to oblige. She took her toddler on morning walks anyway.
After several days Timmy’s friend noticed the lady and the child.
“Do you know who that woman is who follows us to school?”
“Sure,” Timmy answered. “That’s Shirley Goodnest and her daughter Marcy.”
“Who?”
“My mom reads about them every day in the Twenty-third Psalm. She says, ‘Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life.’ Guess I’ll have to get used to them.”
You will too. God never sends you out alone. Are you on the eve of change? Do you find yourself looking into a new chapter? Is the foliage of your world showing signs of a new season? Heaven’s message for you is clear: when everything else changes, God presence never does. You journey in the company of the Holy Spirit, who “will teach you and will remind you of everything I have told you” (John 14:26 NLT).”
Trust God. HE knew before time that we would be in need of a Counselor, a Teacher, and A Comforter. There are so many things that might give the potential for fear, but we have a Strengthener with us. We have within us not a spirit of fear, but of power, love and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1v7). Be at peace, you are not on your own.
Have a very blessed day.
Heavenly Father,
We thank You so much for this day which You have made which we can rejoice and be glad in. Father I pray for Your children this day even as they go about with all the works of their hands, even as they venture into new projects and seasons of their lives, I pray that You will speak Your peace into their hearts, and let them know that You reign supreme, that You will never fail them nor forsake them. Thank You Eternal Rock of Ages, in Jesus name we pray, amen.
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