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John 14:16-17 (HCSB)
16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.
17 He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive Him because it doesn't see Him or know Him. But you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be in you.
Observation:
I have heard some people say that I need to see it before I will believe it. I invite you to consider what you are missing if you hold that belief.
Look around you, and everything that you can see will perish. It behooves all of us to not discount the things that are invisible. Where is your focus? This is where the Apostle Paul put his focus.
2 Corinthians 4:18 (HCSB)
18 So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Are you building you hope on things that are temporal or eternal? I have built my hope in the God who is my maker and my redeemer. I know that He is real because He is alive in me. I love the lyrics of this song, and I share it with you with the prayer that it will speak into your life.
The author is Mary Jane Bane Wilson. If you want some additional encouragement, look up the story of her life. She was an invalid from the age of 4, but she was lifted above her physical shortcomings by the infinite God who came to take up residence in her heart. This is her song.
"1 Time is filled with swift transition,
Naught of earth unmoved can stand,
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God's unchanging hand.
Refrain:
Hold to God's unchanging hand,
Hold to God's unchanging hand;
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God's unchanging hand."
2 Corinthians 4:17 (HCSB)
17 For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.
Prayer:
Father, I bow in humility, and look up to You in awe at your wonder, wisdom, and works.
Father, your Word declares, and I believe, that you are infinite, invisible, and inescapable. Father, I believe that nothing is impossible with you.
Father, I surrender my all to you, and in exchange I am blessed to have all of you; not just for a moment in time, but forever and ever, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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