WE. ARE. ENOUGH! – Repost from August 2020

Attractive ENOUGH

Beautiful ENOUGH

Bold ENOUGH

Important ENOUGH

Successful ENOUGH

Intelligent ENOUGH

Sexy ENOUGH

Handsome ENOUGH

Shapely ENOUGH

Slim ENOUGH

Kind ENOUGH

Strong ENOUGH

Pretty ENOUGH

Smart ENOUGH

Fat ENOUGH

Talented ENOUGH

WE. ARE. ENOUGH!

When will we think that we are enough? Society, family, friends, acquaintances and colleagues, can put so much pressure on us both knowingly and unknowingly. This can make us feel insecure, ugly, stupid, guilty, weak and any other negative connotation out there, but who is right? Who made the heavens and earth? Who made YOU? There is NO THING or NO ONE that our Most High God has made that is wrong, so YOU, my dear, are exactly as you are supposed to be!

You may feel as though you are finished with; at the end of your days. You may feel as though you are a lost cause. You may feel as though nothing can be done for you. You may feel as though you deserve every negative thing that has been thrown your way…but MY God…YOUR God…is telling ME/US that WE. ARE. ENOUGH!

This is no matter what age, colour, ethnicity, intellect, sex, size or whatever other way humans are categorised.

The world may try to tell you to improve in different ways so that you fit in or comply with your surroundings but, how about becoming at peace with yourself. It is when you are at peace with yourself that you will make amendments that you deem necessary. Now, with me saying that you may feel that I’m saying it in a ‘nicer’ way that you are not enough but I’m not. Our mental existence is a state of mind. You may have heard the scripture that says ‘how a man thinketh in his heart, so is he’ (Proverbs 23:7). One interpretation of this, for me, is that an individual can think negatively about themselves and live in turmoil or acceptance that they really are as they think or believe. They will live a sheltered life and not to their full potential because they do not believe they are worthy. However, putting it into that context, when there has been a complete change of mind; you begin to see yourself as what you really are and who The Most High God says you are. It is then that what you think of yourself will overflow into your life and it will truly begin. You’ll be able to walk with your head held high and life will truly be golden. How one feels is down to the individual. In the beginning our Most High God created Adam and Eve, and as when everything else was created, He saw that it was good! Affirm it!

AFFIRMATIONS

An affirmation is the confirmation or acknowledgement that a statement or something is true. Placing an ‘I am’, ‘I can’, ‘I will’ or ‘I must’ before a statement can solidify it and make it concrete. Below are a few that I have said haphazardly. You can affirm them any number of times per day and for as long as you think it is needed. I have found the longer and more consistent you are, the better. However, it varies for each person. Depending on whether it’s your first time or according to your brain capacity (i.e whether or not you can retain a lot of information), start off with one or as many as time will allow. As you build up momentum, increase the amount or replace some. It sometimes helps to do it before a mirror, looking into your eyes and telling yourself what you are affirming. Decree and declare it!

Here are a few that have worked for me!

  • I am enough
  • I am fearfully and wonderfully made
  • I am in charge of how I feel and TODAY I am choosing happiness
  • I am made in His image
  • I am whole
  • I believe that nothing is impossible, if I only believe
  • I deserve the best and I accept and create the best now
  • I have the power to create change
  • I let go of ALL that no longer serves me
  • It’s a good day to have a good day
  • Today I abandon old habits and take up new, more positive ones

Remember, The Most High God has given YOU this AMAZING, DYNAMIC POWER, to do, be, have and create ALL that you desire, so go out and make it.

Friday Morning Prayer (Wk47/2021)

Abba! Father, I thank You for the brand new day before me and continue to give You all glory and honour and praise for getting me through this week.

Today, I focus on Your promises and the power that I receive via the Holy Spirit. I thank You that You are a never-changing God. It is because of this I am able to stand in confidence knowing I am not alone, as You will neither leave nor forsake. Since the beginning of time You have established promises with Your people, who choose to live their lives directed by You. As You have done it in the beginning You continue to do it today. The Holy Spirit is given for me to know You more; know Your thoughts; receive direction; and to be sanctified. Help me to acknowledge Your closeness, as I go through this day; I will be the head and not the tail; above and not beneath; You will be above, below, beside, in front and behind me; I will walk in full health and exactly where I am supposed to be on this day ordained by You. Help me to walk with purpose today. My Father and my God, I trust in You.

8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

9 “Now behold, I am establishing My covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you and with your descendants after you

10 and with every living creature that is with you—the birds, the livestock, and the wild animals of the earth along with you, of everything that comes out of the ark—every living creature of the earth.

Genesis 8:9-10 (AMP)

Prayer Promises

23 In that day you will not [need to] ask Me about anything. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name [as My representative], He will give you.

24 Until now you have not asked [the Father] for anything in My name; but now ask and keep on asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be full and complete.

John 16:23-24 (AMP)

20 Now may the God of peace [Who is the Author and the Giver of peace], Who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood [that sealed, ratified] the everlasting agreement (covenant, testament),

21 Strengthen (complete, perfect) and make you what you ought to be and equip you with everything good that you may carry out His will; [while He Himself] works in you and accomplishes that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ (the Messiah); to Whom be the glory forever and ever (to the ages of the ages).

Amen (So be it)

Hebrews 13:20-21 (AMPC)

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – 03.12.21 – I Am With You

I am with you in moments of joy. I am with you in the moments of loss. I am with you when your back is up against the wall. I am with you when you feel nothing at all.

Come to me when you’re tired and weary. Place your head against My chest. Listen to My heartbeat. This is where you’ll find your rest.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Matthew 11: 28-30 (NIV)

One of His disciples, whom Jesus loved (esteemed), was leaning against Jesus’ chest.

John 13:23 (AMP)

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)

Prayer and Activation:

“Lord, thank you that You are always with me and nothing in my life is unseen by You. Lord, I cast My cares upon You and come to You and receive Your rest.

“Take some time with the Lord, listening to Him and ask Him to reveal His heartbeat for you.

#lionbites

Friday Morning Scripture (Wk47/2021) – Psalm 90

Book Four

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

God’s Eternity and Man’s Transitoriness.

1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place [our refuge, our sanctuary, our stability] in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were born or before You had given birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God. A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

3 You turn man back to dust, and say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”

4 For a [1]thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

5 You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone]; in the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

6 In the morning it flourishes and springs up; in the evening it wilts and withers away.

7 For we have been consumed by Your anger and by Your wrath we have been terrified.

8 You have placed our wickedness before you, our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.

9 For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we have finished our years like a whispered sigh.

10 The days of our life are [2]seventy years—or even, if because of strength, eighty years; yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone and we fly away.

11 Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?] And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?

12 So teach us to number our days, that we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.

13 Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be? Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.

14 O satisfy us with Your lovingkindness in the morning [now, before we grow older], that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us, and the years we have suffered evil.

16 Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants and Your [glorious] majesty to their children.

17 And let the [gracious] favor of the Lord our God be on us; confirm for us the work of our hands—yes, confirm the work of our hands.

Psalm 90:1-17 (AMP)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:4 This was understood by the ancient rabbis to mean that a “thousand years” are literally only one day in God’s reckoning, and Peter seems to confirm the idea in 2 Pet 3:8.
  2. Psalm 90:10 This psalm is credited to Moses, who is interceding with God to remove the curse which made it necessary for every Israelite over twenty years of age (when they rebelled against God at Kadesh-barnea) to die before reaching the promised land of Canaan (Num 14:26-35). Moses himself lived to be 120 years old, Aaron 123, Miriam several years older, and Joshua 110 years of age; but it is conceivable that Moses considered such longevity the exception. The ancient rabbis taught that by the time of David, 70 was the age of death for an old man and 80 for a vigorous old man.

Friday Morning Scripture (Wk47/2021) – Isaiah 63:15-19

“You Are Our Father”

15 Look down from heaven and see from Your lofty dwelling place, holy and glorious. Where are Your zeal and Your mighty acts [Your miracles which you did for Your people]? The stirring of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained and withheld from me.

16 For [most certainly] You are our Father, even though Abraham [our ancestor] does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O Lord, are [still] our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Your name.

17 O Lord, why do You cause us to stray from Your ways and harden our heart from fearing You [with reverence and awe]? Return for Your servants’ sake, the tribes of Your heritage.

18 Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for [only] a little while; our adversaries have trampled it down.

19 We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, like those who were not called by Your name.

Isaiah 63:15-19 (AMP)