Are you given power to fear and anxiety? Do you have a plan when the negative thoughts come? Are you going through a storm today? Are you on a ship today and your ship is going down? Do you worry that you are going to drown? 

There are so many “what if’s” in life. When the enemy has a plan to take us out, God has another plan to keep us in. 

Do you know how many times in your life when the enemy wanted to kill you, but God stepped in? Do you know how many times you would have been in a car wreck if you hadn’t of went back to the house to pick up that one thing that you forgot? 

In the Bible we read how Paul went through so many valleys. However, he never focused on the problem, he focused on the purpose. In Acts 27, after Paul was arrested, he and some others boarded a ship and sailed for Rome. First, they went through a terrible storm. Miraculously he and all the people on the ship survived the storm. On the fourteenth day they worried they wouldn’t make it to land. In verse 43 and 44, “But the centurion wanted to spare Paul’s life and kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land. The rest were to get there on planks or on other pieces of the ship. In this way everyone reached land safely.” 

Wow, I think about how Paul made it to land hanging on a piece of a ship and how this could not have been the way he thought it would go. Even when the ship went down, he still had faith he would make it to the shore. 

Friends, you are going to make it. It might not be the way you planned on it, but you are going to make it through whatever you are going through. Don’t put your faith is not in the how, but in the God that says you will!

Do the hits keep coming this week? Are you tired from the storms in life? 

From the scriptures we know that God is always with us. For example, in Psalms 145: 18-19 states, “The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.”

In Acts 27, Paul survived a huge storm with hurricane winds and then a shipwreck. In Acts 28, Paul made it safely on shore. When they all made it shore, Paul gathered some brush and built a fire. “Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “The man must be a murderer; for those he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.”But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.” 

Paul shook the snake off! Friends, I could only imagine what others were thinking when Paul shook the snake off. They could have thought that he would surely die now. It didn’t really matter because God had other plans! 

Friends the enemy will attack our thinking and our plans. The fear that the enemy brings will try to attach itself to you, but God is saying today, “shake it off.” 

2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” 

When you draw closer to God, the enemy will throw everything against you. Do not fear, God is with you! 

Have a blessed weekend! 

Kam XOXO

Happy Monday! I hope that you had a great weekend! 

Did you know the book of Esther is the only book in the Bible that does not mention God? 

Esther was an orphan raised by a man named Mordecai who had “taken her as his own daughter”(Esther 2:7).  

“When the king’s order and edict had been proclaimed, many young women were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king’s palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem. She pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned her seven female attendants selected from the king’s palace and moved her and her attendants into the best place in the harem”(Esther 2: 8-9). 

I ask you! Do you think it was by sheer luck that Esther came to the palace and was the favorite among all of the girls? 

I say no! I believe Esther was blessed and highly favored. Esther was thrust right in the middle of God’s plan for her life. 

What is God asking you to do today and you keep putting it off? Take a minute to ask God what he wants you to do? Remember, God uses everyone for his divine purpose. 

Have a blessed Monday!

Kam XOXO