“My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you.  I, whom you have redeemed.”  Psalm 71:23 (NIV)

At a high school commencement, one graduate said, “I barely finished. If I’d blown it, my parents would’ve killed me!”

Another student, adopted from an Asian-Pacific country, had a very different perspective.  She said, “I want to express my deepest appreciation to my American parents for loving me.  I want to do everything I can to show them how much I love them and to make them proud of me!”

What a difference in their two perspectives!

So friend, how about your motivation?  Do you serve your Heavenly Father out of fear that He would punish you?  Or is it because you appreciate His great love and what He’s done for you? The Bible says, “My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you.  I, whom you have redeemed.”

Thank Jesus for what He has done for you!

by Vonette Bright
used by permission

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As blind Bartimaeus heard feet running hurriedly. The stench of begging was now unbearable to him!

The woman who had the issue of blood heard that a man who could heal, had come to her town which stirred the stench of her sickness to go and see him!

The stench of the sickness of his servant’s daughter caused the Centurion to search and find this man who could heal all manner of sickness and diseases!

What about you? What stench is driving you?

Allow the stench that you are bearing to awaken your faith to do something that you have never done before!

Bartimaeus threw off his begging garment, the woman who had the issue of blood she risked her life by going to get her healing! The Centurion made the long journey to seek out and find the man named Jesus!

What about you? Only you know what you are going through! But, are you willing to do something about your situation and as the stench becomes more unbearable do something? Take a leap of faith today and you will receive your breakthrough of the greatest miracle of your life!

Get this, the enemy meant the stench for evil, but God is using it to bring Glory and Honor to His name!

By Margaret Mullings
used by permission

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