Mother’s Day

So is My word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. – Is 55:11

If God brought you it
– He’s going to bring you it

Our God is a planner – And He has the final say

We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps. – Prov 16:9

Nothing takes Him by surprise

Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish. – Is 46:10

He said He would never leave us, never abandon us

It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed. – Deut 31:8

Then the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, valiant warrior.” Then Gideon said to Him, “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.” – Judg 6:11-13

THE LIE

If God were WITH me, this wouldn’t be happening

THE TRUTH

God didn’t bring you this far – to just bring you this far

And the Lord looked at him and said, “Go in this strength of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” But he said to Him, “O Lord, how am I to save Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” – Judg 6:11-16

Yet the Lord said to him, “I will certainly be with you, and you will defeat Midian as one man.” – Judg 6:16

The trouble didn’t come to you
– It came to create something you

And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, valiant warrior.” – Judg 6:12

For I consider that the sufferings of the present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us! – Rom 8:18

We can’t live in the or the
– We have to live in the

Jesus is not from my pain

Jesus wept – John 11:35

All scripture is from the New American Standard Bible unless otherwise noted