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I just finished watching the praise on a zoom meeting from our Board of Directors and they always begin with praise because it says “enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.”² So in each of our Ministry Team Member meetings, including the Board of Directors, it always starts with everyone sharing a praise. And the one praise that was shared was from Paula, our minister in Brazil, and she shared how she and her husband (she has a restored marriage) that their house was actually paid off! But... because there were all these other bills and things being thrown at her at about the same time— and she was distracted from the praise—and this is just a common scheme of the enemy who loves to come in and steal what is rightfully God’s! That's his scheme— he wants to “kill, steal and destroy!” “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”³

And that's why we need to be diligent and step away from being in the midst of the storm and really look at what's going on because it's in those storms that the most amazing things happen. That's when miracles happen and the storm a lot of times is the enemy's distraction from what God is doing or has done. So we need to keep our focus on Him, we need to stay under His umbrella, under His wings of protection so that we don't miss out (which is right in front of us) and to look for all the good that is coming at us during these really difficult times. Because this is it and we're going to be blessed in the midst of it “all things work together for good” because “we love God” because we're “called according to His purpose as His bride. “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”⁴

Week 21 “Sleeping in the Storms”