Thursday, 31 January 2019

January 31 Devotion - Be strong and courageous


I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous. 7 Be strong and very courageous. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.


لَنْ أتَخَلَّى عَنْكَ وَلَنْ أترُكَكَ
6فَتَقَوَّ وَتَشَجَّعْ،
  ألَمْ آمُرْكَ بِأنْ تَتَقَوَّى وَتَتَشَجَّعَ؟ فَلا تَرتَعِبْ وَلا تَخَفْ لِأنَّ إلَهَكَ مَعَكَ حَيثُما تَذهَبُ. فَقَط تَقَوَّ وَتَشَجَّع

Je ne te délaisserai pas et je ne t'abandonnerai pas. Prends courage et tiens bon. Simplement, prends courage et tiens bon. Je t'ai donné cet ordre: Prends courage et tiens bon, ne crains rien et ne te laisse pas effrayer, car moi, l'Eternel ton Dieu, je serai avec toi pour tout ce que tu entreprendras.

Joshua 1: 6, 7, 9

I believe that every promise, order, direction and encouragement that God said in The Bible still holds truth today. Do you? God is telling us that He will never leave us nor forsake us. So why do we still live in fear? He told Joshua to be strong and courageous and I believe God is telling me also to be strong and courageous. Why did God repeat it three times and the last time He said have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? God knows our hearts and our frailties and how we doubt. He must have sensed that Joshua, like me, (and maybe you) sometimes don’t internalize it right away. It takes time to travel from the head to the heart, we need to know in our hearts that God will never leave us; the believers and followers of Jesus; nor forsake us. Let us be strong and courageous and not be afraid; nor discouraged, for the LORD our God will be with us wherever He takes us.

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:
Abba Father, I pray that out of Your glorious riches You strengthen me and spiritually energize me with power through Your Spirit in my innermost being and personality, so that I can obey Your command and be strong and courageous. Help me Lord to believe in my heart and to know that I know that You my God will never leave me nor forsake me. Abba Father, help me to shift my paradigm to Your paradigm so that I can achieve quantum change. Teach me O’ Lord to meditate on Your word and help me God to continue to declare to the world that Christ is my Lord and Saviour and Jesus may continue to dwell in my heart through faith. Thank You Father God for loving me with a deep and everlasting love, thank You for Your abundant blessings in my life, and for the riches of Your grace upon my life. Father in the Holy Name of Jesus I pray to You. To Jesus be the glory, majesty, authority, power and the dominion before all time and now and forevermore. Amen.

Jesus loves you,
In Him,
Wagdi Henein

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