Opening Our Eyes

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

God gave Elisha’s servant ‘spiritual’ eyes to show He was already on the move against the enemy. ..... Hmm!

God is often much closer than we think. The answers to our many questions and healing for our hurts are not as far away as we sometimes think. Our difficulty comes when we look in the wrong place, or we are too fretful or anxiety ridden to see what is right there; and still other times when we just plain fail to see Him working because we cannot possibly believe God would be kind enough to care about us in such a small minute issue. We only need to open our eyes. Seeing eyes are eyes of faith, where we can see beyond the problem, see beyond our own unworthiness, and have confidence that He is the God of all grace and mercy. Knowing and trusting God is ever near means our seeds of hope are already present, we just need to water them through faithful obedience and perseverance. He will make the end results known.

Until tomorrow…

Pastor Botts

“Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.” – Psalm 119:18

Wait for The Promise Keeper

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. – Boiste

In spite of all his physical suffering and his friends accusations of sin in his life, Job still wanted an audience with God. Hmm!

Life itself is our greatest blessing, but often we see it as only hardship, suffering, toil, and lack. Sure, we’ve been sick or down on our ‘luck’, but we only know these things in comparison to the many times we’ve been well and on top of our game – all blessings from God. Discouragement may come, but from what we know of God and have tasted of Him, it should never rob us of our confidence that God’s promise to care for us is true. So just as sure as God is on His throne, and He is; and just as sure as Christ is risen and alive, and He is; we hold fast to the promises of God – for we are the sheep of His pasture.

Until tomorrow…..

Pastor Botts

“….Blessed are all who wait for Him!” – Isaiah 30:18

Confidence in God

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. - L. Aikman

Though Paul expressed 'concern' for all the churches, he was a very 'content' man. Hmm!

WORRY, FRET, ANXIETY! Words no one really likes in their daily lives, and neither does God want them there. Why does God tell us not to worry? Well, if you think it through, worry is the opposite of faith. To worry is to practice 'negative' meditation (going over and over things in your mind/heart). Instead of thinking on the goodness, grace, favor, and mercies of God, when we worry we're saying "I can't trust the Creator of the Universe with this." In truth, this is an actual insult to God when we act as if He isn't big enough, strong enough, resourceful enough, or close enough to meet or overcome the challenges we face in life. If scripture reveals quite the opposite, maybe we ought to begin believing it. As life arises today will we be completely confident in the God we serve?

Until tomorrow.....

Pastor Botts

"....was my arm too short to ransom you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert....." - Isaiah 50:2