HEALING TOUCH< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

Matthew 8:1-17

Only God sees and hears about all that is humiliating you; all which is causing pain; all which is grieving you and all that is making you shed tears in this journey of life. 2Chronicles16:9 and Zechariah < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>4:10 confirm that the eyes of God go to and fro the earth. He alone sees all and hears all at the same time. If you will come and look up to Him with expectation for a manifestation, God will not look away from you. He will touch you just as He touched the leper that came to Him. Matthew 8:2-3, ÒAnd behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, ÒLord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.Ó 3 Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, ÒI am willing; be cleansed.Ó Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.Ó In His touch, there is healing and there is restoration. Today is your day of receiving His touch. Come to Him in your heart knowing fully well that there is no limitation in how He works. In the same chapter, it is written that through touching, PeterÕs mother-in-law was free from the sickness of fever. Matthew 8:14-15, ÒNow when Jesus had come into PeterÕs house, He saw his wifeÕs mother lying sick with a fever. 15 So He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she arose and served them.Ó Wherever you are, remind Him concerning the miracle that is inhabited in His touching and make yourself positioned by coming unto Him in prayer. Ask for His touching that will release you from all that has remained problems in your life. God is a faithful God.  

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Luke 19:28-37

Just one Word of God is enough to terminate every struggle in the life of a believer or non-believer. Whenever the Word of God finds an entrance in the life of the hearer, it will not leave without putting its mark of deliverance on the receiver. Luke 19: 30-31, ÒSaying, ÔGo into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. 31 And if anyone asks you, Why are you loosing it? Thus you shall say to him, Because the Lord has need of it.ÕÓ All that the Lord Jesus gave His disciples that went to get the colt was His Word. There was no note or any evidence of persuasive means but the Word of God which is power. The Word of Jesus was received by the disciples without questioning Jesus. The disciples didnÕt have second thoughts about the word by asking, Ôwhat if they did not let the colt go for themÕ they also did not present any suggestion for getting something different if the colt was not available. The disciples went with the Word and the colt owner responded by asking why the colt was being loose. In response, the Word of Jesus went out in Luke < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>19:34, ÒAnd they said, ÔThe Lord has need of him.ÕÓ  The colt owner responded without any questioning or investigation of the Word and he let the colt go. Often times when the Word sounds in your direction, your knowing too much hinders you. Your questioning and investigation leads to your stagnation and the miracle for your breakthrough ceases. As you enter into a new day, week, or month, let the Word and not your world, have its way. Allow the Word that sounds in your direction release you unto serving the One that has created you for His glory and service.

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Isaiah 1

This is what is written in Isaiah 1:4, ÒAlas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, They have provoked to anger the Holy One of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel, they have turned backward.Ó The Lord was provoked to anger. He is a living God that can be provoked to anger. If God can be provoked to anger by His children, surely He can also be provoked to being calm with His children. What would you want to see from God? Would anyone prefer His anger to His calmness? Without any doubt, when GodÕs calmness is in place, being in His rest will reign. Once in the journey of the children of Israel from bondage to the promise land, Moses needed direction in the way, Exodus 33:13-14, ÒNow therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.Ó 14 And He said, ÒMy Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.Ó The point here is that the presence of God generates rest. When He is provoked by virtue of one doing what is good in His sight, having His rest will be activated and His rest is His presence. GodÕs presence will give and lead in the right direction. Do you think of provoking His hands for good? Isaiah prescribed what it takes to provoke Him for good, Isaiah 1:16-17, ÒWash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor: defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.Ó It is always good to be on GodÕs side. There is no need in provoking Him unto anger. God cannot be deceived and no man can hide from Him. Above all, in as much that He will not overlook sin so He will not overlook that which is right. Encourage yourself in the Lord today. Let all of your way be of positive provocation of the hands of God in your favor.  

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Job 34:21-30, Isaiah 5:11-17

Going backward is a way to captivity. There is no accidental entrance into captivity, but gradual backward steps from the way of God will undoubtedly lead into captivity. The children of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>IsraelÕs way into captivity were a demonstration to all that want to end up in captivity. Isaiah 5:12-13, ÒThe harp and the strings, the tambourine and the flute, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of His hands. 13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.Ó When there is a failure in regarding the work of God, there will be no regret for doing what does not glorify His Name. Also, not to have affection for what God has done will deny respect to what He is doing or what He can do. Furthering journey into the backward is a failure to constantly consider how the hands of God operate. Without a mindset or constant consideration on the operation of His hands, there will be a smooth journey into the backward. Going backward is a way of captivity and it was the same way that led the children of Israel into Babylon. The children of Israel failed to regard the work of God nor did they consider the operations of His hand. Therefore, they ended in captivity. It is iniquity not to regard His work or consider the operation of His hands because He is a Jealous God. It is a demonstration of not paying Him attention and being occupied by what goes around us. Whatever it is that is taking away your attention is actually taking you into a backward journey that is away from God. Job 34:22, ÒThere is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.Ó The act of not paying God attention is iniquity. Attempt of hiding iniquity is a failed attempt; it is impossible to hide from Him. Take a step into the forward going. Give God all the attention for He is the Almighty Creator and there is no turning from Him.

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Matthew 24:1-13

Developing cold love is dieing silently. In walking in the way of the Lord, there is no cold love and there is no justification for cold love. In the conversation of Jesus with His disciples, He mentioned in Matthew 24:12-13, ÒAnd because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.Ó Lawlessness is the major generator of cold love. Lawlessness does have its root when there is inconsistency in the word of God. Spending time studying the living word of God is the main medication for not entering into cold love. Have you has a believer been drifting from your time of studying in the word of God? The time we are now living is a time that the deceiver has taken a strong stand against the children of God. Lawlessness is increasing while love is growing colder and colder. Love is a ticket to heaven and when there is no ticket, there will be no way for entrance. All that the Lord has put in place for His children to endure has been turned around by the enemy to end them all and cause them to miss salvation. Racing to the expected end is not only in the beginning but also in the end. Every believer does have a need for the grace to endure because only the ones that endure to the end shall be saved. Is your love getting cold by virtue of what you see and what surrounds you? If what you are seeing or all that surrounds you are the effects of developing cold love, enter into the word of God and let the word have its way in your life. Pray to God for consistency in faith. Knowing God and remaining in Him is the greatest miracle. It is written in Jeremiah < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>23:29 ÒIs not My word like a fire? says the LORD and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?Ó Ask God for the fire nature of His word to keep burning in you so you will never run cold.