Facing Long-Standing Problems- Here’s How To Qualify for an Instant Breakthrough

Facing Long-Standing Problems- Here’s How To Qualify for an Instant Breakthrough

by | Nov 20, 2024 | Christian Walk, Identity & Calling

Life is filled with challenges that test our patience, resilience, and most importantly, our faith. Whether it’s illness in the family, a troubled relationship, or any financial struggle, we face difficult situations in some or the other stage in our life.

In our walk of faith, we have seen the faithfulness of God and breakthroughs in our lives in many situations.

But!

Many times we have this one problem, that we have been praying for many years, however not seen any changes. It almost feels like it is too big to overcome.

Well if this is about you, read on…

Here are 2 keys I have learnt from John 5, the incident of “the healing at the pool”, to build my faith in a challenge that I have been facing for many years, just like you.

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  1. Overcome doubt

John 5:6, we read, “Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time.” This powerful verses tells us that Jesus sees and understands our struggles. When we face long standing challenges, it’s common to wonder in our hearts, “Jesus, do You see me? Do You know what I’m going through?”

In times of prolonged struggle, it can feel like our prayers are going unheard, and the weight of our burdens can lead us to doubt. Yet, this encounter reminds us that Jesus sees and knows our situation. He isn’t distant or indifferent; He is fully aware of our pain and the length of our trials.

Let us take a moment to reflect on this truth. Together, let’s repent in our hearts for any doubts we may have had. Let’s choose to believe, without doubt, that God is with us in our struggles. He walks alongside us, offering comfort, strength, and hope.

  1. Be quick in faith

Now in John 5:8-9 we read,

“Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.”

The key word here is immediately!

When Jesus told him to rise up, take your bed and walk, the man didn’t hesitate. He responded to Jesus’ command with action. This is a crucial part of faith, not only believing but also acting upon that belief.

Do you believe when Jesus speaks, change happens? This man had gone through years of suffering, but the transformation was instant. His quick faith and obedience in the words of Jesus altered his life —no more waiting.

I believe the one thing that attracted Jesus to this man is the thirty eight years of faith he had shown by remaining near the pool every day and believing that at that pool he will receive his breakthrough.

And rightly he received his breakthrough at that pool.

Where you keep going back to, is where you put your faith in for your breakthrough.

Don’t give up, continue to be in the presence of God daily and be renewed by the Word of God; because I believe that Jesus has located you and so has your breakthrough.

XOXO

Sheryl Gadre

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This is How God Sees You

This is How God Sees You

by | Nov 6, 2024 | Christian Walk

My 11 year old son taught me a lesson about the heart of God, which I want to share with you. Recently, as I entered our bedroom, it was a sight. There were toys and books all over and everything was in so much disorder. The culprit was my son, Jeremiah.

Trying to be a calm mother, I asked him, “Son, do you see the mess? What can you do from your side to help?”

And He did something out-of-the-box. He opened an umbrella over him and hid his eyes under it and said, “Mama, now I can’t see the mess, so I don’t have to do anything.”

 

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When God sees we are messed, He doesn’t put His head down in shame – that’s what we do. And we hide. Or like Jeremiah, try to put things out of our sight thinking it’s all ok.

But that’s only a temporary solution. God looks at us beyond our present state and gives us the permanent solution by settling all our fears down and calling us the way He sees us.

When Peter the fisherman encountered Jesus, in Luke 5, it was a miracle meet. He had worked all night without any catch. But at Jesus’ Word he lowered the net and his nets were filled with fish.

Peter’s reaction was something different. It was not “wow” or “thank you” or “amazing, what a miracle”. But he immediately fell on his knees and said to Jesus – Go away from me, I am a bad guy. You don’t want to see what a mess I am.

Again, Jesus’ response to this was not – “So true, you need to repent”, but He says: You think you are bad ah? Do not fear. From now on, I am going to use you to bring “bad” men to me.

That’s how passionate God is for us. Today no matter what you are hiding from God, or what you are trying to shove in His presence, remember God is not looking at that, God is looking at you… and not even looking at you in your mess, but looking at you as He sees it- a conqueror!

XOXO

Author Kim D’Souza

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Friends in Pub 🍻

Friends in Pub 🍻

by | Oct 26, 2024 | Christian Walk

Wanna Save Your Friends in the Pub?

That’s a genuine and a good desire. But there is a problem if this good desire is leading you to the pub or discotheque where your friends are. The Bible says, “The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray.” Proverbs 12:26

Let me throw light on what you cannot see.

The friends you keep, or the people you surround yourself with, can snatch the destiny that God has in store for you. This is the most deceptive way how the devil subtly causes addictions, wrong desires and temptations to be transferred.

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I have heard many youth say, “I need to go to the pubs with my friends in order to win them for Christ. After all, even Jesus was found in the company of tax collectors and sinners.”

 That’s immature thinking because if you study the life of Jesus, He never went pursuing after anybody. Instead, He always asked people to follow Him. He would pass by fishermen and tax collectors, and tell them “follow me”, and they would drop their nets, their businesses and follow Him.

 This is consistent throughout the Bible. So when you talk about Jesus being in the company of sinners and tax collectors, remember He wasn’t found at their location, instead they drew near to where He was.

 Luke 15:1: Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.”

 Again in Matthew 9:9-10 we read,

 As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Him and His disciples.

 It was the tax collectors and sinners who drew near to Jesus’ location, and not vice versa.

 Girls! don’t take your friendships lightly

The Bible says in Psalm 1:1-2, Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.

 Every conversation that you have with a friend who speaks the language of the world is a seed that is thrown in your heart and sooner or later, it will bear fruit. Instead, choose to be found in the company of people who celebrate your God and His Word. Your maximum time has to be spent in the company of people who are not just like minded, rather Christ-minded. Remember Mary and Elizabeth? When Mary received a word of conception from the angel, she rushed to Elizabeth who had also conceived through the same powerful Word.

 So what is the right approach to win your friends?As a child of God, you don’t have to feel condemned or guilty over your friends who don’t know Jesus. Pray for them, share the love of Jesus with them. But in your friendships, be led by the Spirit of God and be wise in the Word of God.

 If your friends don’t listen to you, don’t take it as your personal calling to convince them. Instead grow in knowing your God and your self-worth in Him. As a child of God, you have to shine your light bright and be an influence on your friends through your life, more than your words.

 Excel in your work, studies, character and all you do. It is by leaning on the Word of God and obeying what it says that will cause fruit to manifest in your life, and those around you will be drawn to the Jesus in you.

 XOXO

 Author Kim D’Souza

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These 2 Things Are Following You!🤫

These 2 Things Are Following You!🤫

by | Sep 23, 2024 | Christian Walk, Identity & Calling

Sons of God, I want to declare over you. Sickness shall not be your portion. Debt shall not be your portion. Anxiety is not what follows you. Fear is not suppose to chase you.

In fact, according to the Word of God, as a Son of God only 2 things can follow you:

1. Goodness & Mercy

The Bible tells you that goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life. Wherever you go and whichever part of the world you go, goodness and mercy will never leave you.

“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.” (Psalm 23:6)

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2.Signs

 The second follower is signs. Mark 16:17-18 says, “And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.“

Remember, when you walk behind Jesus you have these two guaranteed followers who will never leave you.

All you got to do is to believe! Rise up and take authority over every thing that is coming against you and your family to steal, kill and destroy. Rise up knowing you are enveloped in God’s unfailing goodness. Rise up knowing that all darkness has to hear you when the sons of light speak.

 

XOXO
Author Kim D’Souza

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How To Receive God’s Blueprint for Your Life- Part 2

How To Receive God’s Blueprint for Your Life- Part 2

by | Aug 24, 2024 | Christian Walk

In the last post we talked about what a Blueprint is and why Blueprints are important for our lives. If you missed it you can read it here.

In this post we will talk about 4 Keys to receive God’s blueprint over your life.

How to receive God’s Blueprint over your life? 4 Keys:

1. A custom of intimacy

A custom of intimacy with God will give you the blueprint for your life. However, the problem arises when we limit God to a prayer-answering machine. If all we can ask God is, “Let me have a good day,” “let me get a good job,” “let me find a good partner,” then there is a problem. If we can seek God beyond our daily needs, He can give us the blueprint for our lives.

“Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. And Simon and those who were with Him searched for Him. When they found Him, they said to Him, “Everyone is looking for You.” But He said to them, “Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because for this purpose I have come forth.” (Mark 1:35-38)

Jesus had a custom of spending time with God early in the morning. And because of that, He knew the purpose for which He was sent. When you follow a custom of fellowshipping with God, you will receive the blueprint for your life. When you don’t have a custom of spending time with God, you will drift off your purpose.

There were so many things crying for Jesus’s attention. If Jesus didn’t know the purpose of His life, He would have gone to the people who were looking for Him. The more quality and sacrificial time you give to God, the more you will be planned and sharp in what you do.

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2. A custom of thanksgiving

Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days. (Daniel 6:10)

It was Daniel’s custom to pray & “give thanks” to the Lord. In order for something to become a custom or a lifestyle, you must believe in its power. Daniel believed in the power of thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving will propel you to receive blueprints for your breakthrough. Thanksgiving is a sign of faith. When you make it a custom, you show God you believe in its power.

3. Be in the right environment

“So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.” (Nehemiah 1:4)

The reason why Nehemiah received a blueprint was because when he heard the words of Hanani, he wept, prayed and fasted for days. In his consistent seeking of the Lord, the Lord gave him the plan to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Blueprints are given to you when you genuinely and consistently seek God.

Be surrounded by people who are connected to the living stream and bring you the “Now Word.”

“that I gave the charge of Jerusalem to my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the leader of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.” (Nehemiah 7:2)

Nehemiah remained a cupbearer until Hanani brought a word to him. It was a word from Hanani that triggered Nehemiah to seek the Lord in prayer & fasting. Nehemiah 7:2 talks about how Nehemiah put Hanani, along with Hananiah, in charge of Jerusalem, indicating his trustworthiness.

This shows how Hanani was not an ordinary man but a prophet himself.

Make sure you surround yourself with the voice that triggers you to seek the Lord. The more you align yourself with the living stream that is bringing you the now Word, the manner in which you receive blueprints will accelerate in your life.

4. Grow in your identity

Blueprints are handed over to you when you begin to understand who you are.

Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, “Where the word of a king is, there is power;”. You are that king. When a daughter of God stands up and says a statement even the devil will have to agree because she knows who she is. Your words will be very casual when you don’t know who you are.

The same offer that God gave to Abraham is available to you because you are a child of Abraham. If God gave the blueprint of nations to Abraham, that belongs to us also.

You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance
(Psalm 2:7-8)

Our God is a God who deals in blueprints. Every child of God has access to these blueprints, but the question is, can God trust you with it?

XOXO
Author Kim D’Souza

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