Every New DAY, He Does NOT FAIL…” Declares the Word of God! And That’s A Promise You Can Take To The Bank!
Understand that there has Never been and there Never will be a DAY that our God has failed us! On different days our spouse may have failed us, our family may have failed us, our boss, friends, coworkers, folks at church; even our income, car or our health has failed us. But “…Every New DAY, He Does NOT FAIL…” declares the Word of God! And that’s a Promise You Can Take to the Bank! Why? Because:
“God is not like people. He tells no lies. He is not like humans. He doesn’t change his mind. When He says something, He does it. When He makes a promise, He keeps it.” (Numbers 23:19 GWT).
Believe that every wall that's been holding you back is going to come tumbling down. Don't focus on what's tearing you apart, focus on Who is holding you together. Everything we do for God may not always feel good to our flesh. Regardless of your circumstances. Let every unholy agenda against you be exposed and terminated immediately by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ! Let combat angels pursue and subdue wicked people who intend to harm you! The harm they intend on you, shall be their own undoing!
God Has A Plan And He Wants Us To Take One Day At A Time: Never Cast Away Your Confidence In The God That Has You Covered!
The message today is from: Zephaniah 3:5, “…Morning by morning He dispenses His justice, and every new DAY He does not fail…” (NIV)
Some of you today have had unfair things to happen; life has not turned out like you hope. God is saying "If you rise up out of those ashes, put on a new attitude, I'll not only bring you out, but I will bring you out with twice what you had before." Every season needs faith to get us through it. God's dawn of deliverance often comes when the hour of trial is darkest.
If you are not anchored in the Word of God right now…the waves of bitterness, strife, malice, anger, hatred, lack of compassion, & fear are at high tides. You’re either joining the waves or anchoring down in what God says about ALL these things.
If we are living our life in Christ, we will always be more powerful than anything that comes our way. But the Bible is clear that we aren’t to be ignorant of our enemy. Paul points out, “We are not ignorant of his schemes.” I have often heard the phrase, “Ignorance is bliss,” which suggests that if I don’t know something, then life is more comfortable, relaxed, and peaceful for me. But ignorance is not a godly way of living. Being ignorant of the enemy’s schemes only leaves us vulnerable to his tactics.
Being spiritually illiterate doesn’t mean the enemy will leave us alone. It means we are more likely to make critical mistakes due to a lack of full understanding. Ignorance will hurt us and leave us confused, dejected, and deceived. God did not call us to be spiritually blind; he called us to be spiritually alert.
Jesus did not live-in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father. We should be aware of Satan, but not impressed by him.
God knows how to balance Your Grief with His Goodness! He knows just when you need encouragement, and He sends it! He knows just when you need a hopeful sign, or comfort and rest, or an extra shot of strength, or a miracle at the last minute! And He sends them all right on time! God knows when you’ve had all you can take and He raises His almighty hand and says, “Enough! No More!” He’s promised to NEVER let you have “more than you can bear” (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Question: If God is all-powerful, why does He allow Satan to be the “god of this age” (2 Corinthians 4:4)?
Answer: Scripture makes it clear that the devil—Satan—is currently in charge of planet Earth. Even Jesus Christ Himself, shortly before His arrest and crucifixion, acknowledged Satan’s authority: “I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me” (John 14:30).
Was there always a Satan? No! God created a powerful and beautiful archangel named Lucifer, who—along with Michael and Gabriel—served at God’s throne in heaven. Why did this Lucifer (Latin for “light-bringer” or “morning star”) fall and become Satan (Hebrew for “accuser” or “adversary”)? You can read about this in Ezekiel 28:12–15 and Luke 10:18.
Lucifer and a third of the angels (Revelation 12:3–4) rebelled against their Creator. At some point in the distant past, Lucifer led these angels “above the heights of the clouds” to take the throne of God (Isaiah 14:13-14), leaving their “proper domain” or assigned responsibility (Jude 6) below the clouds here on Earth. Unsuccessful, they were cast back down to the Earth (Isaiah 14:12).
Satan failed in his rebellion, but he remains in the office God gave him, where he is ironically still instrumental in God’s plan. You see, human beings are spending 6,000 years living their own way, influenced by Satan’s spirit of selfishness and evil. They are writing with their own blood, sweat and tears the history of what it is like to live in disobedience to God’s way.
You see, you have (‘a promise’; ‘a word from God’) and the enemy is worried and ready to attack because he cannot let you have that ground, then gain more! God knows that the enemy is ready to attack, you see suddenly Satan is interested in you. He did not have to bother you when you were not a threat. He did not bother you when you stopped fasting, became lazy in reading/studying the Word, started slacking in your prayer/devotion time with God, when you stopped going to Sunday School and started making excuses for skipping Bible Study. The enemy did not think 2 cents about you. You didn’t even appear on his radar, in fact he may have said something like this: “But the evil spirit retorted, “I know and recognize and acknowledge Jesus, and I know about Paul, BUT AS FOR YOU, WHO ARE YOU?” (Acts 19:15 AMP)
The enemy does not bother those who do not bother him! If you are not reading the Word, in prayer, fasting, obeying the commandments, fellow shipping with your brothers and sisters in Christ, walking in the Spirit, being directed, and guided by the Holy Ghost, what does he want with you? After all, what can you do to attack his kingdom, when you are not armed with any of the weaponry of the Kingdom yourself!
Satan gets busy whenever God has made a major landing in your life. Maybe you have recently made a new surrender of your life to Jesus, or you have said yes to His call on your life. You have stepped up to leadership. Could it be that you have begun a new work for the
Lord? Made a new commitment to be the marriage partner or the parent you should be, to give more to the Lord’s work, to live by new priorities? Guess what? If so, alarm bells are going off in hell!
But do not get discouraged. Do not go back to the old ways. This is just your old enemy trying to stop this progress while it is new and fragile. If you keep going this way, your enemy’s going to lose big time, and he knows it. So, step up and launch a Biblical counterattack. In the words of James 4:7, “Submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Come near to God and He will come near to you.”
Time seems to stand still when a pressing problem is making us worry. It is emotional pain that suspends itself across all other daily experiences. Satan wants us to worry, be anxious, rush, doubt God’s timing, but God is saying take one day at a time.
Zephaniah 3:5, “…Morning by morning He dispenses His justice, and every new DAY He does not fail…” (NIV)
We should be mindful of Zephaniah 3:5. It’s just seven reassuring words, but in those words, God points us to the way He wants us to handle things called Our Life! It simply says, “…Every New DAY He Does Not Fail.
God is saying to you Today, “Instead of trying to do Weeks, Months and Years, would you please do yourself a huge favor, and simply do Life in the 24-Hour Increments that I’ve obviously wired you to handle! I’ve even given them a special name says God, I call them “DAYS”!
Think about it: If GOD Even handled HIS creative work by “DAYS”, what makes you think you can handle them by Weeks, Months and Years?!
The Bible says, in the beginning:
“…God called the light day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the First DAY.” (Genesis 1:5).
“…And the evening and the morning were the Second DAY.” (1:8).
“And the evening and the morning were the Third DAY.” (1:13).
“And the evening and the morning were the Fourth DAY.” (1:19).
“And the evening and the morning were the Fifth DAY.” (1:23).
“…And the evening and the morning were the Sixth DAY.” (1:31).
“And on the Seventh DAY God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the Seventh DAY from all his work which he had made.” (2:2).
Do you see the Pattern here? Learn how to handle your LIFE in “DAYS”!
When we try to drag Yesterday, with its baggage and its failures into Today, we become stressed, overwhelmed, feeling incompetent, even bitter, angry, and resentful! When we try to drag Tomorrow into Today, with its worries and its fears, we run ahead of His resources, which are issued each new DAY for that DAY!
In a Nutshell: I’ve got Wednesday’s resources for Wednesday’s needs! When I start worrying about Thursday, or a week from Thursday, I’m on my own and I’m going down…FAST!
You need to learn how to handle your life in the days that God has given you. He has promised that we will always have ‘sufficient for each day.’ Which means, daily we will have what is satisfactory, acceptable, and equal to the needs of that one day! So, stop worrying about October; stop worrying about the holidays (that have not yet arrived); stop worrying about the September school year; and stop trying to plan every day of 2024, and for some of you, even 2025 in advance! Live in this DAY! Embrace this DAY! All you have need of God will grant you, for this DAY!
And just in case you need something short and sweet: “Give us This DAY our DAILY Bread.” (Matthew 6:11).
“My word, which comes from my mouth, is like the rain and snow. It will not come back to me without results. It will accomplish whatever I want and achieve whatever I send it to do.” (Isaiah 55:11 GWT).
“Then the Lord said to me, “Right. I am watching to make sure that my words come true.” (Jeremiah 1:12 GWT).
“For as many as the promises of God, they all find their Yes in Him [Christ]. For this reason, we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him [in His Person and by His agency] to the glory of God.” (2 Corinthians 1:20 AMP).
In other words, GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES…YOU HAVE HIS WORD ON IT!
“Because of the Lord’s great love,” you are “Not Consumed.” And You NEVER Will Be! You serve the God of DAILY Bread; the God of the “strength that will equal your DAYS” (Deuteronomy 33:25).
The God of whom you can say Every New DAY: “This is the DAY my Lord has made…” (Psalm 118:24). Not the day my condition has made, or my boss has made, or my frustrations have made, or my disease has made, or my spouse has made. My LORD Made This DAY And He’s Promised Me Everything I’ll Need To Live In It, Therefore I Will Rejoice in it and Be Glad!
So instead of stressing, seek God; instead of panicking, pray; instead of worrying, worship; instead of fear, have faith; instead of planning tomorrow, just give God praise for TODAY! Live in this moment, this DAY!
Blessings
J.P. Olson
www.journeyintotheword.com
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