When you ever get to feel down and discouraged remember some of the things God says to you and about you in his word.

As a Christian, if you have asked Christ in to your life as Lord and Savior, God says he has forgiven you (Col 1:14). He has given you a new spiritual heart in fellowship with him (John 3:3, 5-6; Ez 36:26). You are a new creation in Christ Jesus, a species of being that never existed before (2 Cor 5:17).

You are a child of God (John 1:12-13), seated in heavenly places with Christ (Eph 2:6); a joint heir with Jesus (Rom 8:17). This all means you are in Christ and all he is and has is yours, now and forever. Jesus dwells in you as the Holy Spirit (John 14:16-18) and God’s word says that no evil force in this world is greater than the Holy Spirit that dwells in you (1 John 4:4).

Jesus defeated satan and took all power and authority back from him (Col 2:15); you are victorious in Christ (1 Cor 15:57). God loves you with a never-failing love, no matter what you have done or who you are (Rom 8:38-39); he will never leave you or forsake you (Heb 13:5). God says you are his workmanship, his work of art (Eph 2:10), designed for good works that he has for you (Eph 2:10).

Wow, that should rev your motor.

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“For he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me (Heb. 13:5b,6; KJV).

This passage leaves no doubt in our minds about God’s presence with us. We don’t need to pray and ask God to be with us because these verses show he already is. If you can’t feel his presence, just confess these verses and thank him that he is with you whether you sense it or not.

Joshua 1:9 and Deuteronomy 31:6 and 8 also tell us that God is with us and because of that we should not fear. So, as you go through your day remind yourself of God's presence with you, wherever you are and whatever you do and that he is there to help you.

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“And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to bottom” (Mark 15:37-38 KJV). In the Old Testament only the high priest could enter the holy of holies in the temple and that only once a year (Lev 16:2). The priest went through the veil that separated the holy place from the holy of holies. When he did this, he entered into the very presence of God (Lev 16:2).

When Christ died on that cross the veil was broken. Jesus paid the price for our sins and opened the door of access for us into the very presence of God (Heb 4:16; Eph 2:18).

In the Old Testament Moses acted as an intermediary between the people and God. The word says they were baptized into Moses. (Ex 17:3-6) They trembled at the awesome presence of God (Ex 21:18-21).

We have been baptized into Christ (1Cor 2:3-6) and God the Father dwells in us in Christ Jesus. (John 17:23) As Gods children we can callout Abba, Father (Rom 8; 15). Abba is an intimate word for our Father, like our children calling us daddy. What a wonderful picture of free, intimate access to a loving, forgiving, awesome daddy, with whom nothing is impossible.

Get on your own with God today and let his love, forgiveness and acceptance just surround you like a daddy’s arms.

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There is something so very pure, simple and beautiful about Gensis 24:67. Isaac saw Rebekah for the first time and the bible says he: “took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her” (KJV).

God’s love is an unconditional love; a love based in faith, not on anything the other does or does not do for us (1 Cor 13:1-13). God’s love never fails (1 Cor 13:8) and we are commanded to love with the God kind of love (John 13:34.

Marriage was God’s idea (Gen 2:24) and to be successful it must be done God’s way. In Ephesians 5:21 married couples are told to submit: “one to another in the fear of God”. This means to listen, communicate, submit, defer and agree in unselfish love. Husbands are to love their wives as Jesus loved the church and gave himself for her (Eph 5:25). Husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies (Eph 5:28).

In an environment of harmony, the sacrificial love of her husband and mutual submission, the wife is to submit to her husband as head of the home (Eph 5:22).

God knew, that in all facets of life, we needed order and authority for his peace and fullness to be experienced. A marriage based on God’s love and with God at the center is a pure, beautiful, simple and successful thing (Eccl 4:12). 

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"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help" (Psalm 121:1; KJV). Hebrews 12:2 tells us we should LOOK to Jesus because he is the beginning and the end of our faith. The meaning of: "LOOK" in that verse means giving Jesus our undivided attention.

In Numbers 21:5-9 we read about the Israelites who had been complaining to God and as a result God sent fiery serpents amongst them. However, Moses interceded on behalf of the people. God told Moses to hold up a bronze serpent and that if a serpent bitt anyone and they LOOKED at the bronze serpent, they would live.

In John 3:14 Jesus compared the raising of the bronze serpent to his being lifted up on the cross. If we LOOK to Jesus (with believing eyes) then we are delivered from spiritual death. Plus, if we look on Jesus with the eyes of faith he will deliver us from all the works of the devil.

Jesus also had to look to God in his life; John 5:19-21 reveals that Jesus could only do what He SAW the Father doing - all the more reason for us to keep our eyes on him from whom our help comes.

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