KRIS TERRY Ministries

Maybe you don’t really need rescuing, maybe you just need to stand up…..

Have you ever been or seen someone in a body of water and they think they’re drowning and can’t touch bottom but someone else knows it’s not as deep in that spot and it’s shallower than they think it is? And someone’s watching the struggle to stay afloat and finally someone yells…just stand up!

Maybe you feel like that today. You’re struggling to stay afloat and your wondering if the Lord is watching. He is. He says just stand up. Just stand on my word and my promises to you and for you. Just stand up.

Sometimes we think it has to be, or we make it so difficult in certain areas of our life and it’s really so simple just to trust him and just to stand.
So today, just stand up. Take a stand against the enemy and what he’s stirring in your mind and heart and just stand on Gods word and his promises for you.

From my devotion this morning....”YOU ARE CHOSEN”, GODS SPECIAL POSSESSION”, “THAT YOU MAY DECLARE HIS PRAISES.“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭2:9‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Goodness, if we could just allow that to sink in to our very being and allow our minds to absorb the reality of that. It’s quite difficult to do in the times we’re currently living in but oh my does it bring a refreshing to the soul.
Enjoy my devotion I’ve pasted below.....

LET GO AND LET GOD

Every one of us know the heartache of loss and most people are in need of a comeback of some sort. Maybe you are as well. A comeback is a reversal. It is where a defeat is turned into a victory or a crisis becomes something to celebrate instead.

There are a lot of categories where comebacks are needed. Maybe it is in the area of broken relationships, disastrous finances or even a career that has gone off course. Whatever area you are facing right now, I want you to take heart. Because God is the master of comebacks, and He knows exactly where you are and where you need to go.

But, bear in mind, God does often think and act differently than we do. He steers us in directions that, at times, make no sense. Isaiah 55:8 tells us, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways.”

Being willing to follow God in His thoughts, rather than your own, is the first step toward achieving your comeback. Friend, thinking differently affects everything. After all, that’s what faith is.

Joshua had to think different when God told him how to tear down Jericho’s walls: March around them, blow trumpets, and shout.

Gideon had to think different when he raced out with a skeleton crew and some trumpets, jugs, and torches to face a huge enemy army.

Mary had to think different when the angel told her she carried the Son of God in her womb.

Martha had to think different when Jesus told mourners to roll the stone away from her dead brother’s tomb.

Faith is all about thinking differently—about taking God at His unconventional word. That’s one reason walking in faith is sometimes so ——simply because what God asks us to do is often so different, it makes no human sense at all.

But if you want your comeback, you’ll have to start right there. Right at the place where you are willing to let God’s thoughts overpower your own. When you do, you’ll be on your way to the greatest comeback of your life! ~Tony Evans - Making Your Comeback