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T.O.D.A.Y.'S ENCOURAGEMENT for Sept. 03, 2008
T.O.D.A.Y.
Ministries
14745 Merrilltown #1611 Austin TX 78728 Good Morning!
"MANY
ARE THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE RIGHTEOUS . . . BUT, THE LORD DELIVERS US OUT OF
THEM ALL"! (Psalms 34:19)
It
is so good to be back with all of you guys and gals! Thank you all for
your prayers! I also want to thank Judith and Karen for "stepping
up to the plate, and pinch-hitting" for me . . . don't you think that
they did a great job? I am going to share some more about the kind of
"team work" that we have going on here in T.O.D.A.Y. Ministries, and
will probably do that next week. But today, I want to expound on the
above scripture.
I
have experienced many "afflictions" over the last six months, and
this scripture has been such a comfort for me as I spoke it out of
my mouth every day! No, I did not find "comfort" in the fact
that God's Word said that I was going to have
"afflictions"
 . . . my comfort
and encouragement came from His COVENANT promise to deliver me!! I know
that most of you have been experiencing a bunch of afflictions yourself!
If you have received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then you are one of the
"righteous" (not because of your good works, but because of the
blood of Jesus), so this scripture also applies to you. That is why I want to
expound on it. So, let's look at what it "says" and what it
does not say ~~~~~~ It does not say that just because we are
"righteous", we will not have any afflictions. It does not say
that we will only have a "few" afflictions...it says that we
will have MANY afflictions! Well, how many of those
"afflictions" does God promise to deliver us out of?
The answer is ~~~~~ ALL of them!!!! How many?
I will let you answer that!
I
am going to take this back up again on Friday....The Lord is wanting us to
learn how to take His COVENANT promises and "speak" them over our
situations! In other words, instead of focusing on the
"afflictions" . . . focus on the "deliverance"! It
is called "rightly dividing" the Word of Truth!
Have
a Blessed Day!!
(ALL means ALL!)
In His Love, Luanne
www.todayministries.org
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