Whether we’re living in manifested promise or experiencing the opportunity for trust at its sweetest, the lifted gaze will enable and empower the enablement and preservation of all that has been prepared for those who love Him. Rather than being depressed by the misguiding messages on the deceivers’ placards, the condition of our spirit can be defined by the joy and peace produced by the message of grace. Always on the way and in great measure is a sufficiency that is greater than all our sin and its judgment of destruction. It will be one for the record books as the Creator demonstrates a favor without merit by producing a victory through us where there had once only been the possibility of defeat.

James 1:3 (WEY) Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance. Why bother? Why not just sit back, enjoy a Big Mac or Krispy Kreme donut and watch the Andy Griffith marathon? When those challenges come along that cause your heart to fail and your vision to blur, why not [...]

Heb 12:1-2 (WEY) Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us, 2 simply fixing our gaze upon Jesus, our Prince Leader in the [...]

10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: 11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 12 And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. Mark 1:10-12 [...]

14 For we have, all alike, become sharers with Christ, if we really hold our first confidence firm to the End; Heb 3:14 (WEY) Almost sounds like financial counsel- if you just hold these shares through all the difficult times there will be a great payoff in the end. How sad it will be, however, [...]

17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 2 Cor 4:17 (KJV) The load gets lighter, the time gets shorter and the difficulties have meaning once it is known there is purpose and reason for it all. There is such [...]