"Life Changers!"

Reflections4Life™ January 1, 2023

“Life-Changers!”

“Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, ‘Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:16, 18-19

Scripture Contemplation: Isaiah 61:1; Psalms 95:8-9; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Jeremiah 29:11; Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 13:5; Jeremiah 31:1-12

©Ruthe McDonald.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, BELOVEDS! GOD is calling us to be the catalyst that sparks the change in people's lives. Life Changers! We are on the front line for Jesus! Boldly professing the Word of the Lord, living out loud in Christ! Covered by the Blood of the Lamb!

I decree this week’s Reflections will be a continued source of encouragement and inspiration for your heart, mind, and soul. Beloveds, let this New Year find you with a determined heart to follow all that God has ordained for your life. Everything that did not work last year? Those are your life lessons for this year. Learn from them. Grow from them. Allow God to show you how to see the lessons and opportunities in them all. Follow God's lead and start living the life that He has ordained for you before the beginning of time.

Can you believe it? It's 2023! You made it! You are here! Through all the trials, troubles, setbacks, and heartaches, you are still here in the land of the living, having made it through! A year that you often wondered how'd you make it to another day. Here you are, Beloveds! God kept you. He delivered you. Though it may not feel like it, He has blessed you!

We all have a testimony, whether we see it or not, where GOD has brought us through and is bringing us through. Some situations would have destroyed us if it were not for God's grace and mercies. The goodness of GOD knows no bounds. There are no limits to His love for His children. 

There are things that occur in our lives that we sometimes just can’t explain or, are too exhausted to give an explanation for, other than to say, THANK YOU JESUS! You deliver me out of all of my troubles! The life of believers is changing moment by moment, day by day. Sometimes it feels like everything is the same and nothing is happening–nothing that we want to happen. However, things are happening. Some things we cannot see. Things that change our lives and cause us to be the catalyst of change in the lives of others. God did not save us to be quiet and keep the secret of His salvation, healing, and greatness to ourselves. No. He called us to be, Life Changers; spreading the good news: the Gospel, the truth of His word, and His soon-coming return.

When we yield to GOD, His word and Spirit fill us. Pouring into us messages of His grace and mercies. Testimonies of His love, righteousness, and hope for those lost in a world of sin and fear. Bound by their present and past actions; crying to be free. Who doubts anything can change their current circumstances or the trajectory of their lives. But here we are–His witnesses. His Ambassadors. The recipients of His grace and good news. The Called. The Anointed. The Appointed. The Life-Changers that He has chosen in this hour to bring the good news.

Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the suffering and afflicted. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted, to announce liberty to captives, and to open the eyes of the blind. (TLB)

In the process of our own lives being changed and God using us to change lives, do not harden your hearts or allow yourself to be filled with doubts concerning the promises of GOD for your life. When trials and tests come, as they always do, do not doubt GOD, His word, or His ability to come through. You cannot hold GOD to a clock, to a specific time on a watch, when GOD is outside of time. Be careful of the words you allow to escape your mouth. Complaining does not bring manifestations sooner, nor do they move GOD in your favor.

There is not one person, any one of GOD’S creation that He has not a plan for. There are people in this world, right now, waiting for the word that you have hidden in your heart. The word that the testimony that GOD has provided, living in you, waiting for the time to come forth and change someone’s life. Though the world looks crazy and it seems as if there is no hope for some people; GOD says not so. He is indeed restoring, renewing, rebuilding, and He is still healing, saving, and delivering. But we must be in our position. We, who GOD has chosen as the frontrunners, are the first-line responders. We have to have an ear to hear GOD and to do just as He leads.  Though we can look and cast judgment and say they won’t receive, who are we to tell GOD He is wrong?

My Beloveds, may the spirit of peace and prosperity finds permanent rest in your lives. I decree that every good thing that God has ordained for your life will become evident to you. Sometimes we lose our way when going after the desires of our hearts. Some of us forget that God will meet all of our needs. That, He will never fail us or forsake us. To know that, yes, GOD is indeed real. You are blessed. Now go…and be a blessing!

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