New Year’s has never been one of my favorite holidays, it’s probably because I am an 11 years’ breast cancer survivor, God healed me. I have come to learn how precious life is. Each day, not only one. We act as though we are “promised” tomorrow. We take today for granted; the truth is today a gift. God does not “owe” us tomorrow. We need to savior to the best of our ability each moment that we have because life can turn in an instant and catch us unaware. That’s what happened to me when I was diagnosed 11 years ago with breast cancer. No one expects to get cancer. God healed me – Oh yes, our God beloved is STILL in the business of healing. Why does that surprise us? Although years have gone by and times have changed, God hasn’t. The Bible says in Hebrews 13:8:
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.”
I find such peace in that; I hope you do too Remnant. Ol’ slewfoot would have us think that the Bible is full of stories from the past, but the truth is God’s Word IS ALIVE. Everything you read in the Bible is still current for teaching today. God STILL is in the healing business. Adam and Eve’s sin in the garden of Eden brought sickness, illness and disease as part of sin and death. But “God so loved the world, that He gave us His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16). Jesus BROUGHT life. We need to believe what we read in the Bible. We need to apply it DAILY to our lives. We need to walk in and study it and apply it and CLING to His Word. Are you clinging to Him Remnant? I know I am.
Many of us have had valley experiences that are still making our heads spin in 2021. That’s okay, God knows it. Lately Holy Spirit has brought into my mind and in my heart one of the names of God, “El Roi” THE GOD WHO SEES ME.” GOD SEES YOU. Oh yes! Does that hit a cord within you? I know for me, in this day and age it made me emotional. He IS the God who sees.
God is concerned about you. You are not alone. God sees what you are going through. Stop pushing down the pain. Stop walking around with that false bravado. Stop living for others. Stop seeking approval. Stop living in the flesh, you are a spirit who has a soul that resides in a body! STOP seeking approval of those who are walking in the flesh or who live in the world. You are NOT of the world. We just reside here. Those that are living according to the flesh and do not recognize who He is, cannot understand what it is that God is saying to you. It is as if you are speaking a different language to them. They can’t understand or see or hear spiritual things until they come to know Him personally. Throughout the Bible we are given examples of people who were mocked because of their faith in God. Why should that surprise us now? The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 1:9:
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
Stop living for the approval of man. Jesus said in John 15:18-21:
“If the world hates you, understand that it hated me first. If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. Remember the word that I have spoken to you, ‘no servant is greater than his master, if they persecuted Me they will persecute you as well. If they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.“
But you who are reading this are part of God’s Remnant. You know who He is. You know who God sent. Although you may have forgotten it – God has a purpose, a calling for you. You are part of His chosen remnant. Instead of seeking the exhausting approval of man – seek GOD’S APPROVAL. Listen, He is speaking to us. We only have to have ears that hear above the noise. We have to redirect our thoughts, refocus, renew and receive.
Some of us have lived with emotional pain for so long that we have repressed it. We have ignored it. We have accepted it as part of who we are. We have “kept that stiff upper lip.” We have “sucked it up.” But until we face it, until we walk through it, until we recognize it, until we give it to God, it hinders us. Even when we are not aware of it. It becomes like an emotional form of leprosy, taking away from who you are and what God has for you. Remember Jesus said in John 10:10:
“The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy, I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.”
Are you having life to the full? If not, what is it that you need to lay before the alter of God before the New Year begins? What is it that El Roi is saying He wants you to do before 2022 comes? He is the God who heals. He IS the same today as He was yesterday as He will be tomorrow. What IS it that we need to do to trust Him more?
Whatever you are going through right now, before the New Year starts. Let’s give it to the God who sees us, “El Roi” and leave it behind in 2021. What is it that is distracting you? Keeping you downcast? Let’s determine together to give it ALL to God. Jesus was in the business of healing. HE STILL IS. But we have to bring whatever it is before Him, so that He can touch those parts of us that need restoration, we ARE the redeemed in Christ. He HAS called us by name. WE BELONG TO HIM. It’s time to stop listening to the lies of the devil and to focus on the One Who Sees Us. El Roi. HE SEES YOU. HE SEES ME. He knows! Don’t try to hide your pain, He’s waiting for you to give it to Him. Don’t bask in it. Let Him heal you! Perhaps you have been holding on to it for so long that it has become tethered to you. Luke 4:18-19 says:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”
As we head into the New Year let’s take back the ground that the enemy has tried to steal from us. Let’s remember that “greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.” Let’s look for God’s approval and NOT that of man. Let’s stand firm and renew our minds and our strength so that we can go forward in ALL that God has for us in 2022. We are NOT defeated, we are victorious! Let’s remember WHO it is God has called us to be and if we don’t know who it is He has called us to be, let’s 2022 be the year we find out! Let’s SEEK Him first in EVERY aspect of our lives! Let’s lay aside ALL that hinders us by giving it to Him right now at the foot of the cross. God is with us. God has redeemed us. God desires us to walk in the fullness of Him. Let’s lift up our heads and place our eyes on the El Roi, the One who sees us. Let’s us determine that in this upcoming year, WE WILL SEE HIM. Let’s choose to seek Him! Won’t you pray with me?
“Father, I thank you that You are El Roi, the One who sees me. YOU SEE ME! I thank You that YOU are the LIFTER OF MY HEAD. Forgive me for the times that my head has been downcast and although You have seen me, there has been times when in the midst of my misery, I have not seen YOU. You have not called me to life a life of defeat. The battle has already been won! YOU won it on the cross at Calvary! Forgive me for my sins Father, for the times I have missed the mark. For the times when I have wallowed in defeat when You have told me that You came so that I could have life and have it more abundantly. Forgive me for when I have looked for the approval of men and dwelt in the rejection of people instead of shaking the dust off my feet and kept my eyes focused on YOU. You have called me by name. YOU SEE ME. What is around me is temporary, but YOU are eternal. I love You Father! Father, as this year comes to a close, I come before you and I lay whatever has hindered me (NAME IT), whatever has kept me from walking in the fullness of You at the foot of the cross. Father, please heal within me whatever it is that needs healing. I choose this day to LET IT GO and GIVE IT TO YOU. Forgive me for when my eyes have been on people and not on You. Please restore me, please heal me. I believe You can and I know You will. I love You Father. I need You. Thank You that ALL of my days have been written in Your book. YOU HAVE CALLED ME BY NAME. I AM YOURS. Walk with me Father and restore to me the joy of my salvation. Go forward with me in the New Year, I thank You for it! Let Your Good and perfect will be done in my life on earth as it is in Heaven. Bind anything that would hinder me from walking in the calling You have created me for. I love You Father. I love You Holy Spirit. I love You Lord. As You see me, please give me eyes to see YOU. Please give me ears to hear and a heart to receive ALL You have for me. Thank You Lord. In Jesus precious name I pray AMEN.”
God SEES you. God HEARS you! Hold fast to His Word. LISTEN for His voice. He is with you. And He is with ME. Praise be to our God. El Roi. The God Who Sees ME, the God who sees you.
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