Have a very Merry CHRISTmas and Happy & Prosperous New Year!🙏🏽~The Fords🎁💖🙏🏽
MERRY CHRISTmas TO ALL!⭐️✝️🎁
Words of Encouragement Blog
RAISE YOUR PRAISE!🙌🏼
RAISE YOUR PRAISE!☝🏾🙌🏼
Your Praise should NOT depend upon your predicament.
When JESUS is the CENTER of your JOY you can always find a reason to RAISE YOUR PRAISE!
Give GOD your Highest PRAISE TODAY!🙌🏼~M. Ford
“Then suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host (angelic army) praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest [heaven], And on earth peace among men with whom He is well-pleased.”” (Luke 2:13-14 AMP)
THE PRESSING
The pressing and pain that you are experiencing was never meant to break you, but to Shape you!
GOD, The Master Potter, is into TRANSFORMATION. If HE can transform a Caterpillar 🐛 into a Butterfly 🦋, Sand into a pearl 🦪, and coal into a diamond💎, then what a Masterpiece we will be when He finishes with you and me!
Be patient…GOD is STILL WORKING. When He says, “It’s Finished”, we will be a miraculous masterpiece!☝🏾🙌🏼🙏🏽~M. Ford
The Birthday Party for Jesus Continues!🎂⭐️🎁
What shall I GIVE to The King?🤔
🎁GIFT #1: Give Christ your whole Heart.
🎁GIFT #2: Give Him your Obedience.
🎁GIFT #3: Give Him your Service.
🎁GIFT #4: Give Him your Praise!🙌🏼Praise Him for WHO He is and ALL He had done! Worship Him In Spirit and Truth…Withholding Nothing!☝🏾
“Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; Praise Him in the heights! Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all you stars of light! Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD!” (Psalms 148:1-3; 150:6)
STIR UP YOUR GIFTS!🎁
This CHRISTmas Let the BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR JESUS Continues!🎁
🎁GIFT #3: Give Him your Service! Use your spiritual gifts for HIS glory as he continues to write your story! Remember…God qualifies and equips those He calls; And He uses those who make themselves available.🙏🏽~M. Ford
“Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8)
“For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.” (Romans 12:4-8 NKJV)
“When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” (II Timothy 1:5-7 NKJV)
4 GIFTS OF CHRISTmas!🎁
🎁GIFT #2 The celebration of “The Christ” in CHRISTmas continues!⭐️✝️
🎁Give Him your Obedience. In thought, action and deed—Obey His Word in every way and every day!
Lord Jesus…I freely submit and surrender to you ALL of me—heart, soul and mind…withholding nothing! Thank you for the Greatest Gift of all—SALVATION! Amen🙏🏽~M. Ford
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!🎁
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.” (2 Corinthians 10:5-6)
A PERFECT GIFT 🎁
🎁A PERFECT GIFT🎁
CHRIST is God’s Perfect Gift to mankind. Now that we have received THE Perfect Gift of Christ, what shall We give to HIM for HIS Birthday celebration?🤔🎉🎁
🎁GIFT: Give Christ your whole Heart♥️! Be READY and WILLING to RESPOND to the CALLING HE has on your Life—STIR UP YOUR GIFT(S) FOR HIS GLORY!☝🏾🙏🏽~M. Ford
#HAPPYBIRTHDAYJESUS!🎁
“When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.” (2 Timothy 1:5-6)
A PRAYER FOR MARRIAGES💍🙏🏽
“A PRAYER FOR MARRIAGES”
Heavenly Father, You designed marriage to be a tangible representation of Christ’s love for the Church. Therefore, as we seek you first in doing our marriages Your Way, Yahweh, three cords will not be easily broken!
For we know that the enemy will try to come into our homes and into our marriages to KILL LOVE, STEAL JOY and PEACE, and DESTROY the COVENANT of our godly marriage!
Therefore, this day we stand on your Word, united in Prayer, crying out and pleading the blood of Jesus over our marriages! NO WEAPON FORMED against us by the enemy will prosper and put our marriages in jeopardy of destruction!
We TRUST YOU ABBA to heal, restore and even resurrect any areas of our marriages that have grown stale, become complacent or decayed over time. For we know there is wonder-working POWER in the BLOOD OF JESUS to RESURRECT DEAD things!
Jehovah Mekoddishkem, The Lord Who Sanctifies us, breathe LIFE into the dead areas of our marriages—causing husbands and wives to submit and surrender their concerns to you and to bring forth Good FRUIT of a Godly Marriage that will function and THRIVE as designed by its Creator!
Father God, you’ve given us death and life in the POWER of our TONGUES, so help those who may be hurting, discouraged, broken, frustrated, and about to give up and walk out…TO SPEAK LIFE back into their Marriage this day!
LORD GOD, just as You Commanded dead Lazarus to “COME FORTH” alive again…You have given Your children that same RESURRECTION POWER and AUTHORITY to CALL FORTH into their Marriage those things that are not as though they were, and to call that which is seemingly DEAD back to LIFE! Therefore, WE CRY OUT IN A LOUD VOICE…
•LOVE UNCONDITIONAL…COME FORTH!
•FORGIVENESS…COME FORTH!
•SELFLESSNESS…COME FORTH!
•SELF CONTROL…COME FORTH!
•PATIENCE…COME FORTH!
•GENTLENESS…COME FORTH!
•KINDNESS…COME FORTH!
•FAITHFULNESS…COME FORTH!
•JOY…COME FORTH!
•HAPPINESS…COME FORTH!
•PEACE…COME FORTH!
•COMPASSION…COME FORTH!
IN THE MIGHTY & MATCHLESS NAME OF JESUS…WE DECREE AND DECLARE BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST…COME FORTH!!!
WE BELIEVE, TRUST, and WALK in the POWER and AUTHORITY that You have given us in The Strong & Mighty NAME OF JESUS! Hear our bold, but humbly cry this day…Amen! 🙏🏽~M. Ford
“And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.” (John 11:43)
GOD SEES YOU👁️
“GOD SEES YOU”
Society teaches us to accept the things that GOD has rejected. We embrace that which is morally wrong, spiritually impure, and forbidden by GOD simply because it’s pleasing to the eye, appealing to the flesh or approved by the culture of the world.
But God does not see things the way we see them. What appears to be beautiful on the outside could be a sepulcher on the inside to GOD. Looks can be deceiving, but not to God—Nothing escapes His holy vision!
Therefore, strive for the kind of BEAUTY that gets GOD’S attention. The kind that starts from the INSIDE and works its way out! GOD SEES YOU!🙏🏽~M. FORD
“But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7)
TAKE THE LIMITS OFF!
“TAKE THE LIMITS OFF”
The beauty of being in Christ is…Nothing is dependent upon you alone.
When your strength fails, HIS strength prevails! No matter how many times we fall down in Life, we can always get back Up again.
There is No ceiling or floor when GOD is in the Middle of the Matter—HE takes the LIMITS OFF so that we can SOAR!🦅🙏🏽~M. Ford
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” (Psalm 73:26)
“Are You Enjoying Jesus Yet?” 