Technical difficulties prevented this from being posted on Thursday.  This is for last week.  There will be another on Thursday.

GOD HAS NOT FORGOT

June 19, 2015

For the past few weeks I have had a tugging on my heart to direct a blog specifically to my foreign brothers and sister in the faith who faithfully follow this blog in: Russia (50) France (33) Germany (21) Romania (21) Ukraine (19) Philippines (18) UK (15) India (15) Poland (9) Dominican Republic (5) Japan (5) China (5). WOW, look at GOD! Russia has the highest reader-ship behind the US (1569) who has read the blog at one time or another since it began in December, 2013.  Even with the 6 month hiatus they still read past posts and are still coming from all nations not for my glory but for GOD’s glory.

I don’t know what it’s like to live in a country where your rights and liberties are limited.  Where there is no democracy.  Where in some areas reading the Bible, praying or speaking the name of JESUS can lead to death but GOD does know.  And in my feeble attempt to minister to the masses in a manner that GOD has chosen, HE has been able to enter the hearts of those HIS children abroad through this blog.

So this is what GOD has given for all YOU all this week.

Isaiah 49:12-17 (NIV) ¹² See, they will come from afar some from the north, some from the west, come from the region of Aswan. ^[b]”¹³ Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.¹⁴ But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.¹⁵ “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!¹⁶ See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me. ¹⁷ Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.

There are times when GOD is so close to us and our circumstance that we can almost feel HIS breath.  We can see HIM move and orchestrate HIS will in a situation and turn that storm into a calm sea.  HE reverses our destiny and puts us on track towards victory and freedom.  But then there are other times where we know HE’s there, yet we don’t see HIS hand in or on the situation and we feel that we’re alone.  And when this happens the enemy tries to get us to believe that GOD has forgotten us.  And in our weakness and desperation, sometimes even the strongest CHRISTIAN may entertain this thought. 

2 Corinthians 1:20 says: For no matter how many promises GOD has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of GOD.  There are many promises in the Bible some conditional and some unconditional, some are promises for the good of GOD’s children that we should want for any good thing and others are for the spiritual good that relate to GOD being GOD.  Nevertheless, HE is our GOD which includes HIS ever-lasting, non-failing love for us, HIS unseen presence and HIS protection.  In a nutshell, GOD is always there, HIS eyes fixed on us, and HE is just an ear shot away to our prayers and our cries of joy and sorrow.  

GOD HAS NOT FORGOT US NOR HIS PROMISES TO US OR HIS LOVE FOR US.  Nothing can separate us from the love of GOD.  Romans 8:38-39 says: “38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  If this doesn’t prove to us than GOD has not forgot then all we have to do is to take that next breath.  My brothers and sisters we are still here, we have life to be lived, love to be given, service to be performed and a voice to be heard for HIS glory.   

This is one of those guarantees you can count on.  Remember this if nothing else, the GOD of the universe, the GOD who is the great I AM, the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the GOD that never slumbers or sleeps, the GOD that can’t lie, the GOD that knows the number of hairs on our head, the only true and LIVING GOD has not forgotten YOU and HE has not forgotten me.  For our LORD is a GOD of compassion take comfort in it.  Live each day knowing that you are precious in HIS sight and that HE is with you.  HE HAS NOT FORGOT!

GOD BLESS!