IT IS WELL

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

When peace like a river, attendeth my way,

When sorrows like sea billows roll;

Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say

It is well, it is well, with my soul.

My dad has been a worship/song leader for 62 years.  Yes, that is not a typo.  He has been in the pulpit with my mom accompanying him leading music for more than six decades.  And if you ask him, that lyric, that old hymn, “It is Well” is one of his favorite to lead.  My guess is he has easily led it more than 1000 times.

And what a message that is hidden within that powerful verse!

Yet it is the proclamation of the chorus that truly resonates.

IT IS WELL, WITH MY SOUL, IT IS WELL!

What is well? 

We are!

Life, challenges, circumstances, pressure, or uncertainty, attack, mess or upheaval they all succumb to the PEACE like a river, the WELLNESS of our souls covered by GOD’S promises and GOD’s protection!

Yet it was yesterday as our praise and worship team shared Bethel’s remix of that powerful declaration (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txg5nOIZYO8) that inspired me to remind all of us that regardless of what o shareal they all succumb to the PEACE  the pulpit with my mom accompaningyou may be facing today, seas billowing, a "mountain" of a problem or as the Bethel lyric expresses, when “eyes can't see”, that any “mountain that's in front of me (you) will be thrown into the midst of the sea…and it is WELL”

That is the truth.

GOD is bigger than any mountain you face today.

GOD is your stabilizer in the storm today.

GOD can and will make today “WELL” with your soul.

Regardless what you are facing!

All that is needed from you is the FAITH to realize and the FAITH to take GOD at His word!

“God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.”  ― Charles R. Swindoll

...or every protection!

Isaiah 46:1-3

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fill into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.

It is WELL!

 

Love you all

Freedom Church