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😀💝🌺🎁🌹🎀MORNING TEA. THE WORD FOR TODAY
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 2025.
"LIVING IN THE FLOW OF GOD’S BLESSING"

‘…Take over the land…flowing with milk and honey.’ Deuteronomy 11:8-9 NIV

WHEN THEY were slaves in Egypt, the Israelites had to pump water from the Nile River to irrigate their crops and put food on their table. Can you imagine slaving every day on an old foot pump just to get by? But then things changed for the better. God told them, ‘…Go in and take over the land…flowing with milk and honey…not like the land of Egypt…where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot…’ (v. 8-10 NIV). There’s a lesson here. You can reach a place in your walk with God where you get ‘off the pump and into the flow’; where you stop ‘sweating it,’ because God’s goodness flows into every area of your life. But this promise is conditional—it’s for those who obey God: ‘Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land…’ (v. 8 NIV). Obedience is like having the right access code. It enables you to make withdrawals on God’s blessing because you are walking in His will. We all want to live in the flow of God’s blessing, right? Yet too few of us do. Who are these ‘blessed’ people? 1) Those who act on God’s instructions. 2) Those who confront the giants of fear in their life. 3) Those that refuse to be swayed by the ‘wilderness mentality’ of others. 4) Those with the faith to say, ‘The Lord…will lead us into that land…[He] will give it to us…do not be afraid…’ (Numbers 14:8-9 NIV). And you can be one of those people.

Bible In A Year: S of Sol 1-4, Matt 25:41-46, Ps 3, Pro 21:4-8. Courtesy Grace So Amazing Foundation🌹🎀

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😀🌹🎀🎁💝🌺MORNING TEA. THE WORD FOR TODAY
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2025.
"THE JOY IS IN THE JOURNEY"

‘…I have come that they may have life…to the full.’ John 10:10 NIV

SOMETIMES WHEN we achieve the things we strive for, we find they’re not very fulfilling. As we look back we realise that our greatest joy was not in the goal we reached, but in the growth we experienced on the way to it. Scientist Koichi Tanaka describes this phenomenon and how it can come about during the enjoyable pursuit of a dream. As he worked on trying to create an ion with lasers, he says: ‘I failed for weeks and months before I succeeded in making an ion. Why did I continue the experiment? Because I enjoyed it. It was fun for me to come to know something that I had never known before, and that fun enabled me to persist.’ That persistence helped him to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry. You have the potential to make many wonderful discoveries in life, and none greater than what you discover about God, and yourself.
One leadership expert writes: ‘The pursuit of my dream has taken me out of my comfort zone, elevated my thinking, given me confidence, and confirmed my sense of purpose. My pursuit of the dream and my personal growth have become so intertwined that I now ask myself, “Did I make the dream, or did the dream make me?”’ When your mind accepts a new idea or learns a new truth, it’s forever changed. And once stretched, it takes on a new shape and never goes back to its original form. When that happens, you experience true fulfilment. No wonder children’s book author Elizabeth Coatsworth said, ‘When I dream, I am ageless.’

Bible In A Year: 2 Cor 11:16 – 13:14, Matt 25:31-40, Ps 19, Pro 21:3. Courtesy Grace So Amazing Foundation🌹🎀

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