Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 17 Nov 2007 to 19 Nov 2007

Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 17 Nov 2007

You are one out of 6.6bln people. Out of all the people created He chose you and me. Imagine, each one of us, created uniquely, created with talents and gifts, and created with a purpose. How is it possible to have so many people and yet each of us have a unique calling? That is the power of God.

Today's word of encouragement is simply answering this question: Why did God create you? As I have written in the first sentence, You are one out of 6.6bln people, so why did God create you?

I hope and pray that we would be able to answer that question, because if we don't know the answer to that question, we are basically wasting time, and we are living life aimlessly.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

© Oct 2007 Shaun Lee
Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 18 Nov 2007

Are we driven by people, friendships, relationships, or driven By God? We are meant to be relational people, but we have to be reminded daily that people do not drive us or control us. There is only one person who can do that, our Lord.

How do we know if people control us, our friends? Simple, we would do everything together, to the point where we are even jeopardizing our own unique calling and destiny.

How sad it would be to jeopardize and give up our purpose, because of friendships, relationships, and people. Maybe God's called us to work as a team together with like minded people, for a purpose and plan together. If that is so, we still have to be reminded that God is in control and not people.

Job 29:4 Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God's intimate friendship blessed my house,

© Oct 2007 Shaun Lee
Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 19 Nov 2007

The power of prayer. May today's word of encouragement be a reminder that we must pray in advance. The people we are praying for, Nations that we are praying for, our futures, our children, our marriages, we must pray in advance.

God see's our heart. He knows what is inside us, the rotten parts as well as the good stuff. Sometimes in our prayer mode, we ask God for things the WAY WE WANT IT. So, when things happen exactly the opposite or not how exactly we wanted it to be, we get upset and bitter at God.

Sometimes in our prayers, we are focused ON THE ME, MY NEEDS, when we should be praying and hearing what God is saying to us. We should be praying for the needs of what God is revealing to us.

Our Father is a just God, He is in control, let Him be in the drivers seat. Today, let us reflect on our prayer time with God, is it growing or is it dead? Some of us don't even pray daily, how could we ever expect anything from God if we don't even pray.

Psalm 5:2
Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray.

Psalm 42:8
By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.

Proverbs 15:8 The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

© Oct 2007 Shaun Lee