We Are More Than Conquerors!

Good morning to all on this glorious Monday morning! The last five days have been very eventful for us. On Thursday, Princess Hailie had to be hospitalized to rule out seizures. Waine and I drove to Orlando Thursday night so that we could be with her and her family. She is well and it looks like she was aspirating her milk which gave her a pneumonia, sinusitis and ear infection. The shaking was secondary to her airway being blocked by the milk because she was being fed lying flat. Waine and I drove back to Atlanta on Saturday for Aleron's Surprise Birthday party which was planned by Alexandra, his beloved, and as God would have it all is well and we are truly blessed. Thursday is the day that I encouraged everyone to speak the name of Jesus for power and affirmation. I had lots of practice on Thursday and every day since! Continue to pray for ET and his family and if you have prayer requests add them to this blog and any other blog you visit. Be not ashamed to send your prayer requests up to God and share your needs with the body of believers.

I am continuing my journey in Romans 8 verses 31-39, "What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Amen and amen!

What an affirmation Paul gives us --NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD!!!! When God sees us He sees His Son, Jesus. Jesus our Intercessor; Jesus who vouches for our validity as children of God; Jesus who ensures that our "todays" and "tomorrows" are filled with abundance. We can't even separate ourselves from the love of God because when we submitted our lives to God through Christ our salvation and our abundance was secured. Paul says that God graciously gives us all things--so why are Chrisitians struggling? I believe we struggle because we want to. You see "struggling" is tangible -- faith is not. Struggling does not require patience for outcome; faith requires patience and maturity. We would rather struggle and exhaust ourselves than to just be quite and trust. When I had to finish seeing my patients on Thursday and then drive 7 hours to get to Hailie I had no choice but to be in prayer and faith. No struggle would get us there any faster. I knew that God was with this precious little angel and knew that He had a plan that would bless us all. I had to give my struggles to God because I had no choice. God wants us to freely give our "every day" to Him--He wants us to TRUST HIM for all our abundance SO THAT WE CAN BE FREE TO BE ABOUT HIS BUSINESS OF KINGDOM BUILDING. When is the last time you shared your faith with someone?

God's love is constant and His love is available minute by minute. Do not look to your future--it may never come. Trust God for that. Look to you "immediate"; your "right" now and trust Him for it. Evaluate what you think is missing that blocks your happiness--put it on His alter and walk away from it. Speak the name of Jesus now and be blessed.

Beloved, my desire is that you have a Life in Abundance according to the script that has been written for your life when the world was created. God loves you best and so do I.

Stephanie