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Isaiah 14:24 ‘The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:’
DAILY READING •Acts 7:23-8:1a; Deuteronomy 31-32; Job 19
In 2011, Pastor Gustavo Banda and his wife moved to Cañón de Alacrán, or Scorpion’s Canyon, on the U.S-Mexico border.
Pastor Gustavo Banda moved there after hearing from the Lord in a dream to go there and build a Church. He obeyed by faith and travelled to Scorpion’s Canyon even though there was nothing promising in that place.
There were no paved roads, no sewage system and crime was rampant. Most of the people there were poor farmers.
Pastor Banda and his wife were touched by the overwhelming needs of the community and tried to help.
For eight months, they worked day and night to fulfill the mandate from God to build a Church in Scorpion’s Canyon. Pastor Banda had no clue about what was really going to happen, but he trusted in God’s Word and promises and knew God was going to do something special.
That year, the Church “Ambassadors of Jesus Church’, was born in the heart of Scorpion’s Canyon.
Banda held services on Sunday, then hit the rugged roads the rest of the week going house-to-house, ministering to physical and spiritual needs.
Five years later, in 2016, things drastically changed, when thousands of Haitians, escaping poverty and natural disasters in their nation, began to make a dangerous 7,000-mile journey to the U.S-Mexico border.
Many landed on the church’s doorsteps.Within months, 22,000 Haitians had arrived in the city and
the Church became a place of refuge.
Since then, migrants from all parts of the world have passed through the doors of the Church which Pastor Banda built trusting only in God’s promises.
The Church has become a safehouse to many lives that could have been lost, as thousands sleep there and receive physical and spiritual care.
Pastor Gustavo started the Church by faith back in 2011, and today, he has seen God’s divine purpose manifested as thousands of migrants from around the world find hope and salvation in Christ in that place.
After Jesus was born, Mary and Joseph took the long trip to Jerusalem, for the purification rites.
As they walked into the temple at Jerusalem, there was an old man named Simeon who was already waiting there.He had come by the Spirit into the temple that day to see the manifestation of God’s promise to him. God had promised him that he would not die until he had seen the Messiah, the Savior.
When Simeon saw Mary and Joseph with the Christ Child in their arms, he knew that this was the moment that he had been waiting for all of his life. He took the baby Jesus up in his arms and praised God. He blessed God and said, ‘ for my eyes have seen your salvation”
Simeon had been living in expectation, watching and waiting, and never giving up hope until he saw God’s promise manifested.
Truly as long as we have faith, we will see the manifestation of God’s promises made to us.
A prophecy you don’t believe will not find expression in your life because every prophecy delivers primarily by faith.
When you believe, there will be a performance. (Luke 1:45).
Therefore to see prophesies fulfilled in our lives, we must work on our faith.
We need to persevere in prayers, warring with prophesies, even if we do not see anything happening immediately.
Truly, we have need of the patience to persist until we obtain the promises.
Persistence means not becoming discouraged no matter how contrary things may seem.
Whatever, we are believing God for, as we remain steadfast in faith, God will not only answer, but will exceed our expectations.
Numbers 23:19 says ‘God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?’
Indeed it is God’s plan to perform every Word of prophesy over our lives this year. But to be correctly positioned to take delivery, we must remain expectant.
As we remain strong in faith giving glory to God, surely we shall see our Isaac and laugh at last before this year ends
PRAYER: Lord, I thank You Lord for the grace to wait for Your promises. Certainly, I know You are able to do what You have promised to do in my life in this season in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
The battle you are faced with today is a good warfare because God has already foreordained victorious end for you. WORDBITE 222
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