♕ Today's Promise: “After the seventh time the servant replied, “I see a small cloud coming this way. But it’s no bigger than a fist.” 1 Kings 18:44 CEV
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Dear Brides, have you missed the opportunity to praise and rejoice with your Heavenly Husband for the little victories He has given you because it's not the big one you have been waiting for? If you have, repent unto Him on missing that golden opportunity to glorify Him. He will send these little victories to test the position of our hearts. I know that I have missed several of these opportunities because it wasn't the "BIG" one I have been waiting for.
Praise my Heavenly Husband for His mercy and grace that I have come into this knowledge in Chapter 5 "Small as a Man’s Fist". I now see the tests that I have failed and missed opportunities that I had to rejoice and praise Him for. Precious Bride, REJOICE! REJOICE, PRAISE AND WORSHIP especially the small "stuff" because You don't know what will lead to the big "stuff." Pass the test so you can step into that new level of victory in Him.
I was reminded of the small "stuff" that I am seeing happening, spiritually, financially, mentally, in my family, in my marriage, in my home, in my kids, in my husband, etc.---I need to rejoice, praise and worship Him. I need to remember that the small is the indication of the BIG, so it is time! It is time to rejoice, praise and worship. It is time to celebrate because the BIG is coming now!!! My Heavenly Husband is faithful. He is good and He is showing me that He is doing things. He is moving in these areas. He is working it all out for my good. He is prepping me and preparing me for that final cross over and step into the Promised Land. Hallelujah!!!
In the area of my finances, as with many others in my position, it is hard to trust how I will pay all of my bills. As I speak, I have a bill that has sat unpaid for 1.5 months. I need to pay it but being that it's a credit card, others take priority. I could have not tithed and paid my bill like I used to do BUT I have learned that I have to give back to my Heavenly Husband not the world. He will provide.
I struggle because I have never been one that has received an unexpected check and I have always wanted to see that miracle. I need a lot. I want to be debt free. I want to build up my finances and my savings, especially so I can move my kids into a home. I am responsible for the mess of our finances. When I needed to provide food for my children, instead of using my credit card, I should have found some other way and brought it before the Lord instead of trying to do it myself. As a result I have a large credit card bill again. Instead of watching the money being pulled out of both accounts, I see that I am being reduced to a loaf of bread with my husband because of this situation.
I need to remember that my Heavenly Husband is my Provider and He owns it all. I need to remember that He will bring me what is needed and I need to be in expectancy of it. Won't He do it?
I have started to rejoice and praise my Heavenly Husband in advance. I am now praising, worshiping and glorifying my Heavenly Husband for everything, great or small. I can see the victories He has given me. The deliverance He has brought me through. I have started to say this to others again. I was saying it before but shifted and forgot about it. In doing so, I missed several opportunities to worship God because I was disappointed that it wasn't the "BIG" miracle I have been waiting for.
So I need to be like Elijah, looking for that small cloud, staying in expectancy and when I see that small cloud, REJOICE like never before because the downpour is coming! Hallelujah!!!
Heavenly Husband I have been struggling a lot lately, in doing so I haven't journaled. I have read but didn't feel like journaling and oh how stupid that was. That is when I needed to journal even more. My Heavenly Husband, I need You more and I want You more. I have struggled to keep my eyes on You. I feel myself looking to my husband again. But I know that it is because I have had my eyes in the wrong place.
I had that revelation the other day on our anniversary, that I don't deserve to have my husband home and You are right to not bring him home as of yet. I have been angry with him especially during the holidays, because we should be a family, not a divided time of him being here and then there or vice versa. I have been very judgmental towards him and this other girl. Not understanding the logic and justification of this relationship in the first place because of the age. I have been angry towards her as well. I see the manipulation and how he falls for it. I have been angry as I watched the money we should have, be depleted and repeatedly be depleted for this adulterous relationship. I have been contentious. I have been manipulative. I have been self-righteous. I have been prideful. I have been ashamed. I have been selfish in wanting it all to be for me.
So as I came to this revelation on our 15 year wedding anniversary a few days ago, I realized that my Heavenly Husband was right in not bringing my husband home and ending that relationship. I have been in the wrong place and position. There is no way, it would have lasted and my husband would have left once again. I would have lost it all again. So I praise my Heavenly Husband for taking the blinders off and showing me this.
Dear my Precious Heavenly Husband, I have needed You even more and yet I have been too lazy and struggled to even open my mouth at times to pray and praise You. I need Your help and I need You to change and mold me.
Let's join in prayer: My Heavenly Husband I want to be used by You. Make me Your vessel. Guide me on how to help others on these platforms You have given me. Bring the ones that need guidance and desire You. Beloved, I am shouting USE ME!!!! I want to help bring others to You and what You can do. Show me how to go about it. Show me how You want me to reach them. Bring them along my path. Help me. Beloved, I want to become closer to Jesus, my Groom. I want to become a bride again. I want to be held and wrapped up in His arms of love. Amen
Dear Brides, what seems small and insignificant, is the precursor to the victory for the "BIG" one. Don't miss the opportunity to worship and praise your Heavenly Husband because this could be the very test to see where your heart lies. When you encounter a "small" victory or a far distant "cloud" in the sky, get into position, expectancy and rejoice with all you got for your HUGE victory is under way. Hallelujah!
“Now Elijah said to Ahab, ‘Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy shower.’ So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he crouched down on the earth and put his face between his knees. He said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go back” seven times. It came about at the seventh time, that he said, “Behold, a cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And he said, ‘Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.’’ In a little while the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower” 1 Kings 18:41-45.
I have read this scripture before and first the number seven sticks out to me because (it's my favorite number lol) it means completion. And the following part is how with just the slightest indication of a cloud Elijah acted as if it was a massive storm. By his faith and his action to prepare, the storm indeed did come. I have come to learn that the small "stuff" is often a check in my spirit. Will I celebrate the small "stuff," even if I don't see the big "stuff" happening after?
This Living the Abundant Life book is an additional book of life. So often, we go through life just enduring it and letting it just happen. That is not how our Heavenly Husband intends life to be. He intended life to be abundant unto Him. With Him on our side, there is nothing that He can't do. The generational curses that have proceeded before you, He has a way for it to end with You. Grab this book and see just exactly how to bring your family into a new identity and abundant life.
~ Olivia in California
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