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OVERCOMING OUR PAST

"Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah." ~ (Judges 11:29a)

We've all heard stories of individuals who have overcome extreme hardship during their childhood years. Children of alcoholics, orphans who never have parents, loss of parents to a fatal crash, childhood disease - these are all difficult circumstances to overcome.

Jephthah was a man who overcame his obstacles and refused to allow his circumstances to prevent him from becoming great in God's sight. He was born to Gilead, a result of his father's adulterous encounter with a pr******te. Gilead's wife, who had bore more sons, decided to reject Jephthah, and drove him away from their home saying, "You are not going to get any inheritance in our family because you are the son of another woman." (Judges 11:2) Imagine the rejection this young man felt as he was cast away from his own family.

This experience taught Jephthah to become a hardened warrior. Today he probably would have been part of a street gang. As he got older, his reputation as a warrior became known to those in his country, so much so that when the Ammonites made war on Israel, the elders of Gilead went to Jephthah and asked him to be their commander. Jephthah had to fight off those feelings of rejection from previous years.

"Didn't you hate me and drive me from my father's house?" he responded. (Judges 11:7) He overcame his hurt and pain, and responded to the call God had on his life.

It is said that if we were to help the butterfly remove itself from the cocoon, the butterfly would not be strong enough to survive. It is the struggle that prepares the butterfly to become strong enough to fly. Without the struggle in the cocoon, it could not survive as a butterfly.

The Lord prepares each of us in similar ways. Some of our childhoods seem to have been harsh and born from a seemingly unloving God. However, the Lord knows our struggle and will make our life an instrument in His hand if we will follow Him with an upright heart. He does make all things beautiful in His time if we are willing to be patient.

"But this one thing I do: Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth toward what is ahead, I press on toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14)

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." (Romans 8:28)


Source: The Daily Encourager
Good morning!!!!

Dear Child

As your father, I just wanted to remind you today of how beautiful you are because there is the "father of lies" who will try to deceive you. He will try to tell you that you are...
not good enough,
not attractive enough,
not thin enough,
not strong enough,
not smart enough,
not righteous enough,
and that you are simply unimportant to Me.

He will try to tell you that you have...
broken one too many promises,
fallen one too many times,
lived one too many lies,
been going in the wrong direction so long, that it is pointless to turn back now.

But guess what? You do not belong to him. He is NOT your father. I AM!!!

You see, you are
My creation.
My workmanship.

You have been born of My thought, every part of you placed together by My hands.
You have my thumbprint upon you.
You are My child, the child of "THE KING"!

I look at you and see a precious, priceless pearl. There is...
no ocean I would not swim,
no mountain I would not climb,
no price I would not pay to have you and to be with you and call you My own.

In fact, I already have. I have done all that I could, given all that there is.

I desire to be with you every moment of every day. How I long for you to talk to Me every day.
My love for you never grows cold.
My promises are never broken (contrary to what he might lead you to believe).
My character never changes. And you, my child have been made in My image.
I love you dearly, unconditionally and completely.
I understand every emotion that you have.
I've been there.
I count every tear that you cry.
I know every hair on your head.

And do you know what? I even know your weaknesses and your failures and your fears. I know those hidden parts of you that you wish would go away. Those dark corners of your world that you stuff deep down, praying that no one will ever see.
I have already seen them and they will not change my love for you. Nothing will.
I love your heart and I desire all of it.

I just wanted to remind you today of how beautiful you are and how precious you are to Me.

With Unmeasurable Love,
Your Heavenly Father

Source: The Daily Encourager
Good morning!