Category: Hope In Hard Places

A New Thing

Yeah, so some days just seem all so old and familiar, and just when you think you’ve turned a slight corner it appears it went wrong and not right. Then what? Then where do we turn when the turn at the corner didn’t turn at all in the right direction?
Isaiah 43: 19

“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”
Don’t you love it; this wonderful promise from the Lord your Holy One, Israel’s Creator and King ~ Verse 15?

“I am the Lord who opened a way through the waters, making a dry path through the sea….but forget all that ~ it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See I have already begun, do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.”

An awesome promise from the Lord our God for us right now in this moment, this day, this month, this year. I especially like the part about the “New Thing.” Don’t you? Whatever God has done in the past that rocked your world, and turned it upside down with wonder, miracles and healing, is nothing compared to what He’s about to do, can do, and will do, if we just ask with a believing heart.
So beautiful soul ~ needing something new today? I’m sure we could all use a heap of “new” and wonderful and couldn’t we handle the awesomeness of watching our Red Sea part, making a way for us to cross over into God’s promises fulfilled?

Well ~ God is faithful! As He led the Israelites through the wilderness He leads us! He’s our life source, our life preserver, our provider, our sustainer, our healer, our counselor, our Savior, and our Lord. Let’s not miss the new thing He’s about to open up to us by living in past glories, victories, or even those devastating past failures, where it’s so easy to wallow and get off course. There is more than all of that ~ and our sovereign God holds it for us. Open your mind and your heart to the “New” that He has in His divine, Mastermind! Be obedient! Be trusting! Be faithful and watch and pray!

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Five Smooth Stones

Oh, couldn’t we do with a few slain giants today? Those huge obstacles that get into our thoughts, minds and hearts and try to take us down in defeat and leave us feeling like whipped puppies?

Oh, yes, those fears, anxieties and failures that just have a way of wrapping themselves around our little finger to blackmail us into their captivity, always present themselves, just when we think we’re making a little progress along the way. They creep out of the cracks like poisonous spiders, small but mighty, ready for attack, and we feel helpless to escape.

So, friends, that’s why we grab our five smooth stones of scripture to tuck into our pockets before we head out for the day.

David knew, didn’t he? He collected his stones and his words just before he went out to meet the big guy, the Philistine no one dared to speak of, let alone meet. In 1 Samuel 17:45-49, we find him reinforcing God’s faithfulness in action, when he states,

“You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s armies..whom you have defied. Today the Lord will conquer you and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.”

So, maybe the battle rages on within and without and you’re left without much to go on, but five smooth stones of scripture. That’s enough! Grab them! Tuck them into your heart! It’s all you need to face those big guys who are out to get you and trip you up.

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Our Forever Friend

Yeah, so life can get in the way sometimes can’t it? Messy Stuff comes out of nowhere and lands right in our lap and leaves us feeling not so capable of managing the moments staring us in the face.

When stuff happens we so much want to run and go and be and do and control and make it work and fix it, even though we haven’t got the slightest idea as to how. In ignorant exuberance, we so often then, make more of a messy situation, than we dared think of.

Oh, aren’t we so delighted to know that our God, the Master Creator of this brilliantly put-together universe and our giver of life itself, is the One who runs after us when our world runs out and our stuff gets messy? Yeah, When things go sour, He runs with outstretched arms of grace and hands of healing and mercy to our aid, if we only stand still and let Him catch up!

Even then, after we’ve made a complete mess of it, He steps in and says,

“I can fix it for you! Let me!”

And He does! I love how He does it, don’t you?

Isaiah 12:2
“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense; He has become my salvation.”

Lamentations 3:25
“The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;’

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He’s Got It

So beautiful one, just know as the days unfold, that God’s hands are big enough to hold all of those concerns of yours, so you don’t have to!


Yes, just when your mind’s on overload with all the stuff and you already have enough on your plate and your heart all but stops, when yet, something more surfaces, God says,

“I’ve got that too!”

You can rest assured He does, and you don’t even have to go there except to give it all over to Him. So, that financial pressure, kid trouble, health issue, relational crisis, major loss, and uncertain future can just be given over and left in His hands.

We have an awesome God of grace and mercy and He loves dearly and deeply with no strings attached. We don’t have to prove ourselves or qualify for top running, because in God’s Kingdom and economy, to lose is to win.

In Matthew 11: 27, 28, 29, Jesus Himself, revealed His relationship with His Father God explaining how everything He said and did was rooted in this Father/Son unity when He explains to His listeners,

“All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Even today, our Lord speaks for us and prays to His Omnipotent, all-knowing Father on our behalf and for our needs. He takes them all before the throne of grace. Yeah, all the anxieties, the issues, the pressures, and the shortcomings, He just lays them out before His Father and our God, who made all things, knows all things and holds all things in His hand and dear to His heart.

Think about that and let the depth of it saturate your soul! He’s got it for you today!

Well, He’s got you, beautiful one, and that’s enough! So rest in that thought and know that whatever life throws at you, He’ll bring you through because when our hands just can’t hold enough our Lord’s hands can hold it all.

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