IMAGINE INCREASE!

Psalm 115:14 says, "The Lord will INCREASE you more and more.  You and your children."

God has said of His Words that none of them will come back void!  Each word  He has spoken MUST bring back the harvest for which is was sent.  

God also compounds the assurance of the effectiveness of His Words that He has promised to honor His Words above His Name!

If all of this is true, imagine the power that is released when we release His Words by speaking them out over our lives?  

The Bible tells us that His Words are like seeds.  When they are sown, they bring a harvest every time.  Imagine when you speak His Words you are sowing seed that has a specific harvest in mind.  Now think about what would happen if you spoke Psalm 115:14 over your life right now.  It would be like sowing seeds for INCREASE over your life in places that are experiencing lack;  sowing INCREASE all over your life.   

Not only increase but MORE and MORE increase!  Not only more and more increase, but increase more and more for YOU and YOUR CHILDREN!  

Imagine if you took the next 28 days and spoke it EVERYDAY over your life;  speaking increase more and more for your children 28 times.  

Knowing that God has promised you that every

word that comes from Him will not come back void and that He will honor those words above the greatness of His name, your release of the His word with your faith attached to it - well just IMAGINE!

But, maybe it's not true....or maybe it IS!   JUST IMAGINE!

Why don't you take the next 28 days and speak His Words, Psalm 115:14, over your life every day!  

Editorial note:   After reviewing my blog page I see the paradox of my blog on "INCREASE" and the many notes and pictures regarding the need, poverty and desperation of Haiti.  I have this to say about this word on "INCREASE" seeming to be a contradiction these two realities.  Jesus said that we will always have the poor with us and this is why I believe that those who are in positions of ability to gain increase should do so with all their heart.

The Bible is specific in it's regard that the "love" of money is the root of evil, not the possessing of it.  For those who gain increase  and abundance financially, physically and emotionally, they have been given it to pour out on others who have not.  

The Bible is clear that God will provide "seed to the sower".  In other words, every bit of gain should freely flow from our hands to the hands that are reaching out in desperation.

How can we help the poor and suffering when we ourselves are lacking and suffering?  We are blessed therefore to be a blessing and this is the purpose of "INCREASE"

Even God desired "INCREASE" in His own house when in Malachi chapter 3 He challenged us to bring the whole tithe into the storehouse that there might be "PLENTY" there.   You only need "PLENTY" when you are looking to distribute it.

So INCREASE!  If we could INCREASE - IMAGINE what we could do for the Haitian people with all our new store of excess!  How blessed they will be!

 

HAITI RELIEF

New Destiny International Church is helping Haiti by collecting medical supplies and taking donations.

At the request of Mayor Jean Gael, Delmas, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, we will be taking a team along with Relief Supplies as soon as flight transport into PAP is possible.  

Drop-off locations all over Central and the West Coast of Florida have been receiving generous donations of Relief Supplies.

If you would like to take part in this effort to bring relief to the people of Delmas, contact the ministry

at 727.576.7374 today.  Any contribution is welcome!

Dripping In Pearls Pt.1

Pearls come from pain.   They're formed when a grain of sand or other foreign object lodges itself in a mollusk.  If the mollusk is not able to dislodge the object it becomes an irritant causing friction and discomfort.  It is at that point that the mollusk begins to secrete mother of pearl, which builds layer upon layer of a sheen over the irritant.  When this layering process is complete, it produces a perfect pearl of great value and desire.

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Not every pearl has a great value, because the value of the pearl comes from the process that produced it.  There are synthetic which come from a fabricated enviroment.  They are engineered with synthetic or man made materials and are the cheapest of all pearls and very common  and have little value.  Next, there is a cultured pearl, coming from the natural source but in a fabricated enviroment that is man controlled and manipulated, and the actual pearl is made by man infusing the elements that created the pearl process. These pearls are expensive but not rare and do not hold the highest value. But the natural pearl – is the pearl that is one in hundred and found in it’s natural enviroment created by the Creator Himself.  They are from the enviroment that God ordained the creature to abide in, under the conditions He engineered to produce the most pure and unadulterated beauty known as the "pearl of great price."  Many of these pearls, the natural pearl,  will sell for millions of dollars.

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God gave us a beautiful display of the process of pain in our lives through this natural process of the, might I say unattractive, mollusk,  that produces one of the most desired gems in the world.  If pearls are birthed from irritants – from pain and from friction – then we see that a pearl of true value comes from allowing GOD to have his way and do HIS WILL in our lives without our interference and without our interjection and without our help!  We must allow God to have His way in us, even in the most incomprehensible and disturbing pain in our lives.  .

These pains and irritants come from the circumstances and situations and perhaps relationships we experience. Pearls are not made from passing circumstances or fleeting things that don’t affect us – they are produced when the pain and irritant lodge themselves in our souls and in our spirit.  No one but you knows the depth of your own heartache and the carried wounds of private pain & suffering.

The heart knows its own bitterness Prov. 14:10

Yet to embrace His perfect work in your life You must first accept His sovereignty, power and authority in your life and with the pain you experience and you must trust HIM.  You can trust Him because He "feels you".  Remember:  God the father has known the bitterness of heart over the betrayal of Lucifer and his angels.  The most beautiful creations in heaven who offered the most beautiful of all worship to him, rose against Him.  Jesus knows the bitterness of the soul over the mutiny and hatred of people.  Jesus is referred to in Isaiah 53:3 as “rejected by men”,  and John 1:1 he came to His own and His own did not receive him.”  The Word also tells us that He was tempted in all ways without sin, and I can imagine that some of that temptation was His reaction and response to those rejections. 

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We can trust a God the Father, we can trust Jesus, who has endured pain and through pain obtained the highest value and reward.  He knows that ultimate reward and perfection are achieved through suffering. We must trust His judgements and His ways because He has a wisdom about our suffering that sees the pearl at the end of the process and that natural pearl that is of the highest value can not be produced through a process without that pain.

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Job said in chapter 11:7 “Can you search out the deep things of God?  Can you find out the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than heaven – what can you do? Deeper than Sheol – what can you know?Their measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.”

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Many times we question, "why do I have to go through this?"   We wonder why God can't just tell us the truth we need to know or just sit us down and lay it out and show us.  Why are we enduring such pain?  The answer is this; He is not interested in us just knowing a truth, but He desires us to become the truth.  He is interested in a transformation process where we aren't just knowing the Word but the Word of Truth is transforming the very core of who we are.  He wants us to become the living example and testimony of the beauty of His redemptive ability.  He wants people to gaze upon the beauty of His power and grace and without doubt recognize us as a handcrafted work of God.  Remember, we are the objects of His grace...an object of desire...a pearl.

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There is an African folklore story of the sea that says this: There once was an oyster who said to another, "I have a great pain within me.  It is heavy and round and I am in distress.  And the other oyster replied, "I have no pain within me.  I am well and whole both within and without."  At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole, but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding great beauty."