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He is thinking about you!

We all think about things that are important to us. We normally do not bother thinking about boring, unimportant things. In the same way, God thinks about us. His thoughts toward us are of peace. He thinks about giving us a future and a hope.  He loves us more that we will ever realize. When we are open to  receive His love, He can then begin to reveal His precious plans for our lives. A doctor cannot help a sick person that refuses to go to his office to be helped. A lawyer cannot take the case of a person that refuses to retain his services. In the same way, God thoughts toward you are to bless you, but if you refuse to receive His bountiful grace, you will simply be closing the door to that blessed future. Make up your mind today that you are going to embrace His peace, and divine provision for a better future. He is waiting on you!

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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Who’s in your boat?

While we were on the boat in the Galilean sea today, I couldn’t help but remember that there was a time where a storm arose in that very sea while Jesus and the disciples were in a boat. He was asleep during the storm while the disciples feared for their lives. A colleague and I discussed two scenarios here. The first one was that even though the Lord of Lords was in the boat, the disciples feared the storm because they didn’t realize who Jesus really was. The second was that even though Jesus was in that storm, He was peaceful. What I realize is that true peace is not the absence of storms all around you. Peace is Jesus being in the “boat of your life.”. He is the one that can give us true peace. When we embrace His Lordship in our lives, even though there might be storms all around you, you will be at peace in your heart and mind, because you know that He is greater than the storm, and He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). Are you in a storm right now? Cry out to Jesus, and He will calm the storms!

Luke 8:23-25 “But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm. And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him”.