Good morning.
I don’t know how you are feeling today.
I was going to share with you about Encounter, but then I was praying and reading my Bible notes for the day, and they felt… well, more important to share with you somehow. The following is based on what I have read from UCB -although I am adding my own thoughts in with it too! (Let’s face it, I wouldn’t be me if i didn’t!!)

I know that I have written many times on the subject of God’s promises and how they will ALWAYS come to pass. But somehow I needed to remind myself of this today.

Many of us spend almost all of our time caring for others, building up other people’s ministries, working for others, or facilitating other people’s dreams. This can, in and of itself be our calling.

But there are some seasons where we are called to build things ourselves; things that we have been dreaming about and called to do.

Whether you are in a time of building your own ‘thing’ or helping build someone else’s, God speaks a word over you today. It is this:
‘I will remember my covenant…’ (Genesis 9:15)

God has a great memory! If He has sown a seed, He will always remember where He has planted it and how often it needs watering in order for it to flourish and grow.

The rain of the flood was a symbol of God’s sadness about His world and His judgement upon it. But after the flood God spoke out, ‘…Never again…’ (Genesis 9:15 NKJV). He told Noah, ‘…the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you… the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy…’ (Genesis 9:14-15 NKJV).

From that point on in Scripture, rain became not a symbol of judgement or God’s sadness, but of huge and abundant blessing! ‘
…”I will… open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it”‘ (Malachi 3:10 NKJV).

Are you afraid that the heartache and confusion of your past is going to return? Don’t be! Just keep walking with the God who promised, ‘Never again!’ When God uses the thing that should have destroyed you to develop you, you’ll look back and say, ‘It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes’ (Psalm 119:71 NKJV).

Without hard times you wouldn’t have discovered certain things; for example, that stress can create in you a passion to seek God more and other things less; the power of your own prayers; what God can accomplish in spite of adversity; that when He heard you crying, your tears were so precious that He collected them in his bottle (Psalm 56:8);that the angel of the Lord protected you when the enemy wanted to take you out (Psalm 34:7); that God didn’t need your friends to support you in order to bless you and that He brought you through, because He saw the rainbow and remembered His promise.

Today remember that God remembers you and what He has said over you. This is the most important fact you will read today!

May God bless you in all your endeavours for Him.