Some one very close to me, told me about how he likes the phoenix. While the phoenix is mythological, the story behind it is what intrigued me. This amazing bird is said to set itself on fire in a bed of twigs and then is reduced to ashed. Then, a new phoenix is reborn! From nothing but ash comes something so beautiful!
Some of us are in something that is wearing you down. Some are about to go through something that will try them. Others have gone through and are there to give you hope for a better tomorrow! Some things will reduce you to nothing, literally nothing at all! Loss of money, possessions, health, emotions and more! There is nothing left to you but that faith you have gives you hope.
God can heal. God can deliver. He can mend your brokenness! God just can, if only we trust him we could see these things come to pass. You can rise from your depression. You can rise from whatever sickness you may have. You can be set free. You can have the victory over your situations. You can do more than what you even know you can do! You can rise from the ashes, looking more beautiful than ever! Remember who enabled you to be reborn. Remember who lifted you from those ashes. Remember God gets the Glory!
Isaiah 58:1-8
Some of us are in something that is wearing you down. Some are about to go through something that will try them. Others have gone through and are there to give you hope for a better tomorrow! Some things will reduce you to nothing, literally nothing at all! Loss of money, possessions, health, emotions and more! There is nothing left to you but that faith you have gives you hope.
God can heal. God can deliver. He can mend your brokenness! God just can, if only we trust him we could see these things come to pass. You can rise from your depression. You can rise from whatever sickness you may have. You can be set free. You can have the victory over your situations. You can do more than what you even know you can do! You can rise from the ashes, looking more beautiful than ever! Remember who enabled you to be reborn. Remember who lifted you from those ashes. Remember God gets the Glory!
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward.
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Well AMEN now - this is good stuff Pastor Fuzzy!
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