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Your strength, joy, peace, power and wisdom are in God’s word and Presence!

Are you in a place of joy, peace and faith? It might be a great time to review your walk and ministry. Have you had an opportunity to identify whether or not you’ve been operating by faith or by sight? Are you ministering with frustration?  This might just indicate that you’ve lost your peace at the moment.  All you need to do is to get back walking in faith love love. Have you lost your vitality and energy?  You need to spend some quiet time with the Holy Spirit and ask Him to fill you to overflowing.

Eph 5:17-19 17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord NKJV

Isa 40:31 But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.  NKJV

Oh, and one more thing. Don’t forget to ask for daily wisdom.

James 1:5-7 If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him. Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord (AMP).

Stay in God’s presence this year. That’s where your strength, joy, peace, power and wisdom are!

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Paul said this to encourage and comfort us!

The Apostle Paul knew the importance of mutual encouragement. He taught the brethren  to watch over each other and to continually encourage each other in the faith.  In Ephesians 6: 21, 22 (AMP), Paul told the Ephesian brethren:  “Now, so that you may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will tell you everything.  I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know how we are, and that he may comfort and encourage and strengthen your hearts.” He was very aware that the brethren went through many difficulties, so they needed encouragement. He also knew that they were praying for him, so he wanted to update them on how he was doing. He also shared this very important point in Hebrews 3:13: “But exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” Part of the strength of their fellowship was that they guarded each others’ hearts from being hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. The fellowship of the saints mutually protected, encouraged and uplifted them. They continually prayed for each other, and watched each others’ backs. Now it’s our turn. We need to watch over each other, encourage each other, minister to each other, pray for each other and be accountable to each other. In the fellowship of the saints, there is strength, stability, confidence, joy, peace, provision, wisdom, and the blessing of being part of the family of God!

1 Thessalonians 5:11 “Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.”