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While the Glue is Setting, the Clamps are Needed.

I needed to glue two bits of wood together recently.

It was an easy enough task to do. Apply the wood glue. Bring the wood together, then apply the clamps, making sure the wood is correctly lined up. After any excess glue is wiped away, then leave alone, for the glue to set.

As I looked at the wood with the clamps on them, the thought,
“While the glue is setting the clamps are needed.” came to my mind.

For the two pieces of wood to become one piece, the the clamps are needed. The clamps apply a strong pressure, that then means that the bond the glue makes will be better, because of them and the pressure that they bring.

It made me think, “Are there times when we are feeling that we are caught in a clamp that we would rather not be in?”

I dare say that we can all go through difficult times at some point in our lives. But is it that sometimes the difficult times, can be the things that make us who we are?

Now it may not be that Our Lord God has brought the clamps to our lives, (or He might even be the One to bring them,) but regardless of how they came, what if He is using the clamps to allow a glue to set within us?

If there is any truth to this idea, then, can we try to see these clamps (situation we are in) in a different light?

Instead of just fighting it, could we try to ask, “Lord, is there something that You are trying to teach me through this?”

If there is a lesson to be learned, then could it be the sooner we learn the lesson, the sooner the clamps can be removed???
Or even if the clamps do remain, will we be able to come to a place where we are no longer bothered by them, even if we continue to not want them?

Once the glue is set, then hopefully we will be a better version of ourselves, as we allow Him, our Loving Heavenly Father, to have His way in our lives.

Father,
No one really likes it when we go through tough times.
Please help us go always look to You for Your help and guidance.
Help us to let You have Your way in us, so that we can then be more like how You see we could be.
Thank you that You are there for us, to help and guide us.
Our Loving Heavenly Father.
Amen.

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Lord, Help me please, to Not get a Big Head!

How many peple have needed to speak out the title of this post?

Unfortunately I have. I’m not too pleased with myself for needing to say this to myself, but the need remains.

In some ways I do try to keep this thought in my head somewhere, even if it is towards the back of my head. But there can be times when it might need to be brought to the front of my mind.

The reasons for this could be many and varied, but one scenario is playing through my head at the moment.

It’s the scenario where you step out and do something for The Lord Your God, and then you are successful in your efforts. Then people see what you are achieving and say something along the lines of, “Your doing really good there, well done.” You then listen to this praise, and then think something along the lines of, “Didn’t I do well.”

If you have ever reached this point, then maybe you need to re-read the title of this post. 🙂

I’m trying to not count how many times I’ve needed to re-read it. 🙂

It’s good to receive praise though, ….. isn’t it?

Hebrews 10:24-25
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Romans 15:2 2 Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.

A quick search and I have found a couple of scriptures that says it is good to build each other up. (I know that there are many more.) So it is good to recognise something well done and then give encouragement.

But how will that encouragement be given and received?

Will you receive the encouragement and think, “Didn’t I do well.” And then get a little bit too much head growth?

Is there a better way to receive encouragement?

Give the praise and glory back to God….. maybe?
Hopefully the answer to that one is a resounding “YES!”

In the first instance, this could be saying, “Thank you Lord for giving me success in ….. and for the praise that people are giving to me now.”

In the second instance, could it be trying to give the recognition for a job well done, back to God in an outward expression?
Such as “It was the Lord who enabled me to ……”

I really struggle with doing this one. I can become a bit tongue tied and self conscious and can feel that I’m putting on a coat of false humility, when in actual fact, all I’m trying you do is actually acknowledge that anything good from me, is more about The Lord My God having His way in my life.

This blog site could be one such example of this.

I’d like to think that what I write here are not my words alone, but that there is something extra. That extra being The Lord Our God, speaking through what I write.
I’ve already written a post about this called,
My words don’t matter, But His Words DO!!

I do actually believe that the good worth reading on this site are His words and not mine. But to speak that to someone who is saying well done to me, still kind of feels awkward to me.
So I do try to keep the first instance in my mind of saying, “It’s more about You Lord.” Hopefully I’ll be able to move onto the second instance of actually being able to speak this out (without looking and feeling awkward whilst doing this. 🙂 )
A phrase comes to mind, “practice makes perfect.” Maybe I need to practice a bit more. ???

My next thoughts on this are leading to, “Can we give praise in such a way that we give glory to God whilst encouraging the person in front of us?”

How could this work out in practice???

For me personally, I would like it, if when people speak to me about something I have written or said to them, that The Lord Our God then speaks to them about, that they would try to not say, something along the lines of, “What you wrote/shared was really good.”
Instead could they try to say something along the lines of, “The Lord spoke to me through what you wrote/shared.” and then just leave it there. That would be enough, for me to know that I am opening a door and leading someone closer to Our Lord God. (This site is called “Wannabe Christian Doorman”, opening a door that leads to Our Lord God, is the aim. 🙂 )

If you do go to say anything of praise to me (or anyone else), but you then hear a small voice that says, “Keep quiet.” Then please, listen to it and keep quiet.
It could possibly be that my head is already getting too big and it needs to shrink a little. 🙂
Yes I do long to hear a well done, just like everyone else, but I want to remain in step with Our Loving Heavenly Father more than anything. If that means just doing what He asks of me, and not seeing the results, then that’s OK by me.

I’m beginning to think that this post could end up being a non stop ramble, so for a last thought I’ll look to ….

Psalm 27:4
One thing I ask from the Lord,
    this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
    and to seek him in his temple.

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Will you Draw your Confidence from The Lord?

I was speaking to a friend just recently. As I was speaking to him I asked how the family dog was doing. The reason that I asked this is because I knew that the dog in question had (and still does have) a bit of a nervous disposition. Because of this nervous disposition, my friend was/is very protective of the family dog.

This protectiveness of the dog, if left unchecked, could lead to the dog becoming even more nervous. I’ve seen it before on the TV programme, “Dogs behaving badily”.

The scernio can kind of go, the dog is a bit nervous, the owner tries to protect the dog from anything that makes the dog nervous. The dog sees the owner being concerned about….. So then the dog thinks, “My owner doesn’t like that. Is that something else that I need your steer clear of of as well?”

The more the owner tries to protect the dog, the more the owner can make the dog nervous, of all things.

When the dog whisper (expert) comes in, he then basically takes the owner through the process of, you the owner are doing this all wrong.
You need to give your dog, your confidence, whilst exposing it to the things of the world that make it nervous.

The dog may well start with a nervous disposition, but it doesn’t have to stay that way. What the owner feeds the dog, will have a great impact on how happy the dog will end up being.

If the dog is fed nervous energy, then the dog will become more nervous, but if the dog is fed confidence, then the dog can be slowly weaned off of its nervousness. It might always be a slightly nervous dog, but it doesn’t have to be ruled by it’s nervousness.

As I was speaking to my friend, I think that I said something along the lines of, “As we can draw confidence from Our Heavenly Father, so you need to bring a source of confidence to your dog.”

I can see this to be a truth for a nervous dog, and I can also see it as a truth for us who might be nervous of something that we might need to go through.

We have a Heavenly Father who Loves us and is for us. As such we can call on His Strength and His Confidence, if we find that we are running a bit short and in need of an extra boost.

Just as a nervous dog can draw confidence from a confident owner, so we can draw our our strength and confidence from The Lord God Almighty, who Is All Powerful and is Able to help and support all, who call on Him.

Isaiah 40:28-31
28 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
    the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
    and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
    and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord
    will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.

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Try to Cultivate a Smile on the Inside.

This is a bit of a random thought, but there it is. 🙂

Where did it come from then?

It came to me at church, this morning (at the time of writing this, which is some time ago now.)
There were several singers on the stage. Some were old hands and some were a bit newer.
One singer looked as if she was rooted to her spot, whilst singing.
It reminded me of a conversation I had with a different person when they had been on the stage with the worship team.

They had said, that they were so nervous, that they just stood rooted to the spot and focused on their singing.

The singer I saw today looked as if she was experiencing something of the conversation I had heard, on some level.
I don’t know if this was actually the case or not, but it still started a thought process in my head.

My thoughts went to, “If you could help this singer, then what would you do, say to her?”

Try to sway a little, perhaps?
Could you try to rock on your heel or toe, on both feet or just one?
Maybe you could just try to move your shoulders in a very slight twisting motion?
Or any kind of movement that might help to ease any kind of tension?

Then my thoughts kind of went, “That’s all external, how about something for the inside?”

The thought, “Try to cultivate a smile on the inside.” Then came about, in a round about way. 🙂

OK, the thought is there, but what does it actually mean to cultivate a smile on the inside?

Take a breath and smile?
Not so helpful if you are singing as you need your breath to sing. 🙂
But could you try to take a spiritual breath and smile on the inside, whilst still singing???
Could we all possibly do this whenever we are feeling a bit (or a lot) nervous about anything?

I am reminded of a scene in the film Sully. The film about the Hudson river landing, of an airplane.

In the scene, a young Sully was just about to take his first solo flight.
His instructor gave him a lot of instructions/reminders of what he needed to do.
Then he said something along the lines of, “and remember to smile, this is meant to be fun after all.” The young pilot, Sully’s face, then lights up, and you can almost see his thoughts of, “of course, I’m going to enjoy this” play out across his face.

Instead of feeding our nervousness, could we try to starve it, and feed Our Heavenly Fathers thoughts, of who He says that we are, and as such try to smile on the inside?

What we are on the inside tends to make its way out to the outside.
So if we can work on the inside stuff, then hopefully it will filter through to the outside, and then we could all be better off for it.

1 Samuel 16:7
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Luke 6:43-45
43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. 45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

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Not this again?

Have you ever had an inkling to do something that your just not that interested in doing, for it to then just keep coming back to your mind?
If you are like me, you can end up thinking, “Not this again?”

There is a something that keeps coming back to me at the moment. To me, it seems like complete nonsense. It’s something that I thought was completely dead. A song did come to me when I thought it was dead. “Dead things coming back to life again, I feel that there’s going to be another resurrection.”
So there I was with this something, that I thought was dead, with a song pelting out, “Are you sure it’s dead?” It’s all a bit confusing.

The latest time it came back to my mind was when I was asking God, “Why has it gone all quiet with You, at the moment?” Then the something comes back to my mind….
Another time of, “Not this again?” 🙂

“OK then Lord. If You really want me to, then I’ll try to have another go at this, again.”

I then had some thoughts go through my mind.
Does it sometimes go quiet with Our Lord God, because we are saying no to Him?
Do we sometimes ask, “What shall we do Lord?” Which Our Lord God answers with the something that, we just then say to, “Not this again?”

If we ask, and He then answers us, for us to then say “no.” Then would it be a surprise if He then just steps back and waits for us to say “yes”.
Leaving us thinking, “Why has it gone quiet, all of a sudden?” …..
I wonder what the reason could be??? …. 🙂

I think that we can all agree that obedience leads to blessings, so does disobedience lead to an emptiness?
To a quiet, that we would rather not have?

If we ask, and Our Lord God then answers us, then shouldn’t we listen to Him, and do whatever He asks of us?

Matthew 21:28-31

28 “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’

29 “‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.

30 “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.

31 “Which of the two did what his father wanted?”

“The first,” they answered.

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.

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Can I see Your Grace, today, while I wait for …… ?

I’ve just watched the Brandon Lake YouTube video, Tear off the roof.
It shows The Chosen scenes of the roof being taken off and the paralysed man being lowered through it, to then be healed. It also shows the woman who was subject to bleeding, being healed, as she touches the tassels of Jesus’s clothes.

It’s great you see people get answers to prayer, but when you are waiting for …….. , then there can be a tendency to think, “When will it be my turn, Lord?”

Yes, that was my thought as I watched it.
My wife is still in need of a healing touch, being a stroke survivor of plus 20 years. But then a thought along the lines of, “Help me to see Your helping hand to me, in the here and now.” kind of came.
Hence the title of this post,
Can I see Your Grace, today, while I wait for …… ?

Sometimes, it’s just not easy waiting. It can be all the more difficult to wait when you know One who is able to do, all the more, than we can imagine.
The Lord God Almighty, who is able to do ALL things.

So how do we cope when the answer to our prayer for ……… appears to be, not yet, or even, no?

Will we jump up and down a little bit (or a lot) and then try to explain to God, why He should listen to our point of view and then tell Him how things ought to be done?? …. ???

Who’s the one who is really in charge?

God IS God!
Only He knows what the the best outcome is.
Will we remember this as we deal with ……. ?

Will we be able to come to Our Loving Heavenly Father, and hear and follow His way, while we are dealing with …….. , so that we can then see the grace that He has for us today, in the here and now, while we struggle with ……. ?

I’d like to continue this post with a host of helpful advice about how to do this, but I’m struggling to know where to go with this next.
However I have just listened to the latest message from Elevation Church, and it’s so in line with the title of this post.

If you want or need something extra on this subject, then do a search on YouTube for,
The God Of Answers Holly Furtick Elevation Church
It will bless you.

The final note on this post has to be the scripture that many of us may already be thinking of.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

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Denial, can be a Tricky thing.

Have you ever needed to deal with a situation where denial is playing it’s part in some way?

If you have, then you might see a truth or two in this week’s post title.
For denial, can very much so, be a tricky thing to deal with.

I am coming to the thought that one of the first things that denial does, is state (ever so quietly), “I’m not here, there’s no problem here, the problem is somewhere else!”

How can you deal with a problem, if you don’t see it?
Hence part of the reason why denial can be so difficult to deal with.

You can be hit with a wall of,
It’s not me it’s you!
What’s your problem.
I’m not upset, you’re the one who’s upset. (Upset could be changed for, angry, disappointed, annoyed, and many other emotions.)
You’re talking utter nonsense, I’ll just not listen to it.
(I dare say that denial has many more tactics than the few that I have listed here.)

If there is denial working in me, then I can possibly do something about it. But if denial is working in others, that we are dealing with, then that can be all the more challenging.

I’m just going to ask the question of, “What can I do if denial is working it’s will out in me?”

The first thing to do is ask the question of, “Is there any denial in me?” Then be willing to hear the truthful answer, and act accordingly.

You could try to clear the decks, by asking in your Heavenly Fathers presence, “If there is any denial in me, then please take it away, and fill the space with You and Your Truth instead.”

The essence of the above paragraph is to try and ask, “How much of the problem is me?”

John 8:31-32
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Have you also found that, sometimes it can be easier to see others faults, so much more easily, than our own?
Is this possibly because denial is playing a bigger part in us than we would like???
Could we try to follow David’s example instead?

Psalm 139:23-24
23 Search me, God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.

If we seek The Lord Our God, and ask for His help, then He can lead us in the path of, the right way to go.

The words of a prayer, have come to my mind.
Instead of seeking to be understood. Please help me to understand.

If you are lead to, then try to dwell on the above scripture for as long as The Lord Our God directs you to.

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1 John 1:5-10

Light and Darkness, Sin and Forgiveness

5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.

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AND!!!

A bit of a strange tittle for a post, but there it is. 🙂

It’s how I have been left feeling after an incident at work, or more to the point, as I was trying to leave work.

The short version, (I tried to write the long version, but it just didn’t work) is that I go through a security gate as I cycle home that is monitored by a camera and an intercom system. On one particular day, it just didn’t quite work, as I was trying to go home. I had to call the security on my phone instead, and even then, not only did I find out that the intercom was not working, but the gate release was also having a moment. I was effectively at the gate (rattling it a bit) inwardly screaming, “Let me go home!”

Eventually the gate did open, and I could go home.
I was just a bit annoyed, but looking back I wasn’t as annoyed as I think I could have been.
Is a previous post of “Take a breath, and remember to smile.” starting to become a part of me??? 🙂

I hadn’t reached the point of “And!!!”, just yet…. but it was coming.

The following days at work, and a number of emails titled, “When my day is finished, then let me go home!” Managed to bring me to it though.

The final email was very short. It stated that, “it was a switch that was stuck.”

I just looked at it and thought, …. “And!!!” …… “Are you going to fix said switch then???”

I spoke to my manager, and part of his response was, “you’re only going to annoy people if you keep going on about this. Perhaps they will fix it now that you have brought it up?”

It just left me thinking, “You’re just not getting this. It’s all well and good knowing there is a problem, but it’s not going to mean much, unless someone commits to fixing the problem.”

It brought back memories of “One Vital Step… Just not Done.” When the slow cooker was prepared, but not switched on.
Doing that last step does make all the difference.

I have to admit that I then went on a bit of a sulk mission, or a bit of a quiet quit.
I kind of thought “I can’t be confident that I’ll be able to leave the site without any problems and no one seems to care. So why should I care about any of my work that I’m expected to do? I’ll just do what I have to.”

Thank fully it didn’t last too long. I was soon reminded of the, “Accept, Repent and Forgive” way of thinking (I perhaps didn’t listen to it as quickly as I should have though. 🙂 )

It also got me thinking, do we quiet quit or go on a sulk mission when things don’t go the way we want them to in the church?
What I mean is, do we stop giving our best because we are upset with …… ??

Unfortunately it can be all to easy to fall into the wrong mindset, if we are not on our guard against it. We need to be on our guard against the enemy. Taking offence for anything and then going on a sulk mission could be one of the enemies biggest weapons that he has against us.

Instead, can we try to bring whatever is causing us grief to Our Heavenly Father for His input?
When He gives us His input, then will we be able to follow His leading?
Will we be able to take the path that He sets before us to take?

Will we be able to seek forgiveness and reconciliation in place of, I’m right and your wrong?
Will we be willing to ask, “Is there any offensive way in me?”
Will we be willing to listen to the answer, if Our God brings something to us?
And, then will we be willing to work on anything that we need to?
Following the prompting of Our Loving Heavenly Father?

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The Defective Screw

This is something that I wrote quite a while back now, it’s just that now seems as good a time to publish it as any.

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I was building a stud wall just recently. I was building my stud wall using 4″ screws instead of nails.
Well, it just seemed easier to me. Screw them in rather than bang them in and make all that noise.

I was using my electric screwdriver to power these screws in. It’s a lot quicker and easier to do that than to use a hand screwdriver, it’s a lot of hard work to use one of them.

So there I was quite happily building my wall using my electric screwdriver powering these screws in and making good progress with it.

When I came to one screw, I put the electric screwdriver on it, as I had so many times before, and pushed the button to drive the screw in.
The head of the screw wobbled and the screwdriver was thrown out of the head.
“OK, try that again.” I thought. So I did, and it did exactly the same thing again.

That seemed a bit strange as the screw was in the hole and everything was just as it should be. So I thought I’d take the screw out and have a look at it.

When I did I saw that the screw was slightly bent. That’s why the screw was wobbling.
So I just threw the screw to the side and I went to my big box of screws to get another one, as I’ve got plenty of them.
So I did just that. I picked my new screw up and put it in the hole and powered it down with no problems.

Then THE WORD OF THE LORD came to me.

A bruised reed he will not break…
(Sounds a bit like Matthew 12:20)

I stood there and just looked over to where I had thrown the screw and thought,
It’s strange that I should get a word like that when I’m doing this.

Well, anyhow. Seeing as I’ve got it I’ll just ponder it a little bit.

So as I was pondering things, I looked at the screw and I thought,
This screw, I suppose is a bit like me, and every one else.
I don’t mean that I’m bent because I’m not.
What I mean is we’re not quite right.
We’re not quite fully as we should be.
I mean we should know this as we’re told we’re sinners often enough, and that means that we not perfect just like this screw.

OK, so what?
What does this mean now?

Well, this screw, could I still use it?
Ultimately I think the answer has to be yes. It would still do what it was meant to do if I was able to screw it into the wood. The only thing is I couldn’t use my electric screwdriver and power it down.
After all that’s why I threw it away in the first place.
But if I used a hand screwdriver, I could quite easily screw this thing in and it would do it’s job.
It would hold firm and keep things held together as it should do.
It’s just that I would need to take a little bit more time and care with it and treat it slightly differently compared to the ones which are perfect.

Now the thing is, if I’m like this screw and so is every one else in my church who I know, then does that mean that we all need to try and take a bit more time and care with each other, rather than ploughing on through with the electric screwdriver.
Do we all need to stop and slow down a little?
Spend a bit of time and care with each other?
With a little bit of care and attention we can get the job done.
It might not be as quite as quick as we would want it to be done, but it could be done.

I suppose that this screw isn’t quite so defective after all.

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Do not fear the Pressure of, Before the Break-Through

Have ever been told, “There’s a break-through coming.” To then only face nothing but pressure?

The Israelites knew something of this, when they were in Egypt. In Exodus chapter 5, the Israelites were told to make the same number bricks, even though they had to go and gather their own straw.

The pressure on them was turned up, just as Moses and Aaron had delivered a message of God coming to set them free. (Exodus 4:29-31)

Instead of just being set free, the Israelites had to make bricks without straw. Then they saw all the signs that God performed against Egypt.
The pressure was turned up, and they did get the break-through, and they were set free.
They did get to the good bit, and saw God’s hand at work in their being set free.

Just before the Israelites went through the Red Sea, they felt that same pressure.

Exodus 14:12-14
12 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

13 Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

You only need to read the rest of Exodus chapter 14 to see how God sets His people, the Israelites, free.

If you find that the pressure is being turned up in your life, then is a break-through just waiting to happen?

Can we then press on in all that much more to Our Lord God Almighty, and then see the break-through happen?

Hebrews 10:36-39
36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37 For,

“In just a little while,
    he who is coming will come
    and will not delay.”

38 And,

“But my righteous one will live by faith.
    And I take no pleasure
    in the one who shrinks back.”

39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

Heavenly Father,
No one likes the pressure of before break-through.
Please strengthen and empower anyone who is feeling this pressure.
Lead and guide them in Your way to go.
Give them Your strength and wisdom to take Your path, that will lead to the break-through.
Our Loving Heavenly Father.
Amen.