Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Tuesday 12/14/09)

Has Your Morning Arrived?

Psalm 30:5 (Amplified Bible)

⁵For His anger is but for a moment, but His favor is for a lifetime or in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

The other day during my devotional time I was listening to some praise and worship music and Israel, came on and He was encouraging his listeners by saying, “weeping May endures for a night but joy comes in the morning,” he went on to say something to the affect that, morning isn’t at the beginning of a day, but morning comes when we realize or have a sense that God can move and change our situation.” It is not the awakening of the day but the awakening that occurs within us. “Let God arise and His enemies be scattered,” (Psalms 68:1(a)). It is when what was sleeping in us now becomes awakened to the awareness of God’s power, abilities and that He is the entire source, we need.

I was talking to someone recently and they were asking me, “when is God going to move for me, when is He going to change my situation?” I wanted to say when you come into obedience to Him and realize who He is and what He is able to do. It is true that God has “ALL” power and is capable of anything, but we have to have the knowledge and the awareness of who He is and His capabilities, for without it the word says that we will perish, (my people perish for lack of knowledge, Hosea 4:6a). He already knows who He is, but do we know who He is? God is capable of doing all for us, but where is our responsibility in the changing dynamics of our lives? Are we not responsible to know who we are in Him and who we have with us and what He is capable of? Or is our role just to whine, weep, worry and complain because we are in despair or in an uncomfortable situation that we do not like? Romans 13:11 says, “Besides this you know what [a critical] hour this is, how it is high time now for you to wake up out of your sleep (rouse to reality). For salvation (final deliverance) is nearer to us now than when we first believed (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ, the Messiah).” If you stay asleep you circumstance remains, it is only when we wake up and begins to move that change, in our thinking, our confession, and our believing; it is here when morning comes and the new day dawns upon us, and joy can replace sorrows. It is when we embrace our morning, our new day dawning that we can stop crying, stop hurting and stop feeling forgotten, because we now realize that God has the ability to make the day new!

Today don’t let this day end on your weeping, your hurting, and your cry for assistance, your foreseen or unforeseen circumstance without you waking up. I guess the question is will your alarm go off and you meet your morning or will you continue to sleep through another potentials day’s dawning? God is waiting for you in the morning, with joy, love, peace and deliverance, will you meet Him there?