Have
you had your Joy Juice today? God
promises a special kind of joy.
When
I was a little girl, my grandmother had a small loaf-of-bread-shaped
container filled with scripture cards always sitting on her kitchen table. On the outside of the plastic ‘bread” were
the words “PRECIOUS PROMISES”. That
memory is so vivid to me because my grandmother shared with me the Word of God
by encouraging me often to select a card from the container. She called it the Bread
of Life, explaining what each verse meant as we read it aloud.
What
a legacy she left our entire family! A genuine legacy of joy. And as I grow
older and am a grandmother myself, I see the impact of Godly upbringing…but
even more so, the importance and power of claiming the Promises of God! There
is no more effective weapon in our spiritual arsenal than to call upon God by
going to the scriptures and praying His Word, His precious promises! As
Ephesians 3:12 says:
“Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come boldy and
confidently into God’s presence.”
Do we
“come boldly” into God’s Presence?
Often, we come timidly, not confidently.
We may be doubtful that He wants to hear from us. Things we’ve done in the past seem to
overtake our reason…and we think we are not worthy to call upon the Lord! THAT MY FRIEND is exactly what our enemy
wants us to think. That is how he steals
our joy!
It’s
not because of our worth but because of CHRIST that we can boldly claim His precious
promises.
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