Focus on what your Heavenly Father does

Your heavenly Father isn't trying to catch up the devil; it's the other way around. It's the devil that is trying to catch up your Father! There is no contest between them. Jesus already won!

What do I mean? We usually think that when we have problems, our heavenly Father has to do something to solve the situation, that's to say, that the devil attacked first and then your Father comes to solve the problem, but I think it's the other way around. It's your heavenly Father the one that is already doing something to bless you and the devil is trying that you don't receive it, and that's why he attacks!

Those problems just are the devil's attempts for you to not receive what your heavenly Father is doing for you.

Your Father isn't with arms crossed seeing how you go through trials and waiting for you to ask Him for help so He just start doing something about it. Not so! He has started doing something even before the foundation of the earth and has finished all with Jesus, and it is the devil the one trying to lie to you so you don't take the blessings that belongs to you.

So that, when you go through many trials, take them as a sign of the devil's desperation that tries to do something so you don't receive what your Father has already sent. Don't be discourage looking only the problems, because that's exactly what the devil wants. Many times we focus more on what the devil does than on what our Father does, and that's why we get discourage and don't take our blessings.

When Jesus was born, the devil tried to do something to kill him (Matthew 2:16-18). The same happened when Moses was born (Exodus 1:22). For the people back then, that time was the darkest, and because of their discouragement, they didn't see the blessing that'd been born, and that already was among them.

I encourage you to open your eyes and see what your heavenly Father is doing. All those trials, many of them inexplicable, are just the devil's attempts to get you discourage, to get you think that your Father hasn't done anything, that He's forgotten you, so that you decide not to take what's yours.

When the Bible says that the earth is filled with His glory (Isaiah 6:3), or that He loads us with blessings that each day (Psalms 68:19), or that you're already blessed in Jesus (Ephesians 1:3), isn't a lie so you may feel better, nor a motivational trick so you may see the glass half full instead half empty. It is the truth!

Be strong and courageous and dare to look only at what your heavenly Father is doing, and you'll see that you'll get encourage, you'll start to see what He's doing and you'll note the opportunities and blessings where you hasn't seen them before!

Hope this may blessed you! 😀

There is more for you

Many of us think that the end of a good period of our life is our end. A divorce, a love one's death, getting unfairly fire of a job, the end of a friendship, etc., are examples of periods of time that we enjoyed, that have blessed us, that have formed beautiful memories, but they are no more and, when we pass through experiences like that, we fall apart.

Moses represented for Israel that good period of time. The time the Jews lived with him were glorious, because it was him the one used by God to deliver them from Egypt, to defeat dangerous enemies and to keep them alive for 40 years in the desert. During that time the Jews witness many extraordinary miracles and experienced great victories. They felt safe with Moses. But that season was up. Moses died, and I pretty sure that more than one thought: "And now, what?"

It was in that time that God told Joshua to arise and to take the promise land (Joshua 1:1-3). In other words, God was telling him that THERE IS MORE for him and for his people. As humans, Joshua and all the people wanted to cling to the past, to the good they lived, and maybe they thought that it'd be impossible to live something better, but God was telling them that they were wrong, that the best was yet to come, that that season with Moses was good, but better things are coming.

I want to encourage you to cling not to the good you lived, because your Heavenly Father has better things for you. It's true that you lived excellent moments with that person, or that that job was the best you had so far, or that the times you shared with that friend were marvelous, but your Heavenly Father that loves you wants to tell you that your live has not finished, that you don't have to cling to your past, but arise because there is still much promise land for you.

Keep the good memories, but don't get stuck there. THERE IS MORE for you. There is more life, more wonderful people that will mark your life. Believe that the best moments of your family, of your personal life, of your sentimental life, and for your ministerial life are still ahead of you, and that your Heavenly Father will take you by the hand so you may enjoy it to the maximum!