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Arise!

Written by FAVORED1 on April 15, 2009 – 9:17 am -

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.

[Isaiah 60:1]

Good Morning Beloved,

Happy Tax Day!

(SMILE) Arise! I love that simple phrase. It is gentle, but insistent. Full of hope and promise. I’m reminded that God’s Word never tells us to do something that is impossible for us. God is just, and He knows what we’re made of. Arise. God has endued us with strength from on high to arise out of whatever we’re lounging in. Whether it is despair, loneliness, self-pity, laziness, fear, wrath, hopelessness… whatever it is arise. Jesus asked the lame man at the well, if he wanted to be healed. The man had lain there at the spot where miracles occurred for 38 years. It seemed like a weird question to ask an infirmed man. The obvious answer was yes. Who wants to stay weak and sickly. Yet, it was a critical question, because sometimes we have to do something we don’t necessarily want to do, to get the outcome we desire. It will cost something. At the very least trust and then effort. Trust in the God who gave the directive. The more we begin to trust God in an area, the clearer we hear His will for us. We start to hear our ‘marching orders’ and we start to move in the direction we need to go. Make the phone calls we need to make, visit the places we need to visit, gather the information that we need, prepare ourselves for where we’re going. We want that promotion, we may need to start dressing like we already have it. We want to sing… start singing. Dance? Start dancing… in church, in the community, in the living room. Got a burning Word in your heart that you know is from the Living God, tell somebody. Don’t wait for a spot to open up in the pulpit. Your gift will make room for you … Arise!