PROMISE #102 - APRIL 12
Promise #102:
I will always build you up, not pull you down.
Jeremiah 24:6 (WEB)
For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land:
and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
One way insecure people build themselves up is by pulling other people down. By making somebody else look inferior, the person doing the 'pulling down' might feel superior, at least temporarily. While this is a very unhealthy way to live, many people think that God is waiting to do the same thing to us. He is just waiting for an opportunity to criticize us and point out all our shortcomings.
The truth is that the exact opposite is true. God is not waiting to find fault in us; He is looking for every opportunity to lift us up! In today's promise, we read of God's heart for His people and His desire for only good things for them. He promises to only do good things for us, to build us up, and to plant us on solid ground.
Our God and Father is the most secure, loving, kind and compassionate father in the universe! He is always looking for new opportunities to encourage us so that we might fulfill our destiny as His beloved children. My prayer today is that we would simply believe that this is true. God is FOR us in every way!
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Responsive Prayer:
Father, thank you for always looking out for my well-being. Even in times when I stumble, you are there to lift me up again. I pray for the wisdom today to discern the difference between your loving, encouraging voice and the voices that surround me in this broken world, which seek to pull me down instead of building me up.
In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen.
I will always build you up, not pull you down.
Jeremiah 24:6 (WEB)
For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land:
and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
One way insecure people build themselves up is by pulling other people down. By making somebody else look inferior, the person doing the 'pulling down' might feel superior, at least temporarily. While this is a very unhealthy way to live, many people think that God is waiting to do the same thing to us. He is just waiting for an opportunity to criticize us and point out all our shortcomings.
The truth is that the exact opposite is true. God is not waiting to find fault in us; He is looking for every opportunity to lift us up! In today's promise, we read of God's heart for His people and His desire for only good things for them. He promises to only do good things for us, to build us up, and to plant us on solid ground.
Our God and Father is the most secure, loving, kind and compassionate father in the universe! He is always looking for new opportunities to encourage us so that we might fulfill our destiny as His beloved children. My prayer today is that we would simply believe that this is true. God is FOR us in every way!
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Responsive Prayer:
Father, thank you for always looking out for my well-being. Even in times when I stumble, you are there to lift me up again. I pray for the wisdom today to discern the difference between your loving, encouraging voice and the voices that surround me in this broken world, which seek to pull me down instead of building me up.
In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen.