Portion of Mercy

Originally written and published in Spanish on September 27, 2012

I want to share with you all about a topic that is very important. God's Mercy. We are all familiar with the Scripture: Lamentations 3:21-23:  "But this I recall and therefore have I hope and expectation: It is because of the Lord’s mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not.They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness.   

Great is Your faithfulness!

We know that God's mercies are new, but, do we really understand what that means? The simple fact that God gives us new mercies each morning should be enough for us to take on each day with joy, determination and perseverance, knowing we will achieve what we have set out to do in our hearts. Why? Because His Mercies are new each morning!!  Because whatever happened yesterday is in the past and it should not affect me. Today is a new day, a new morning and I should be completely sure that today my Father is with me, His favor and blessing and mercies are with me!!


"Surely or only goodness, mercy, and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, and through the length of my days the house of the Lord [and His presence] shall be my dwelling place.." - Psalms 23:6  
This promise should be engrained in our hearts each morning when we wake up, and each night before we sleep!! His mercies are new each morning and they follow me. I don't look for them, they follow me! That's how good and generous and loving our Father is. His mercies, His favor, His goodness is for me and He gives then to me EACH DAY. I don't have to work or fight for them, I don't have to wonder if I behaved good or bad, ha, His mercies are mine, and they are new each morning and He sends them to me! Now that deserves a shout of Praise! Hallelujah!!!

Have you ever wondered why there are days when we wake up upset or angry or cranky? Why is it that sometimes after sleeping the entire night, I wake up sad, depressed, worries or cranky? I heard a pastor once say that this happens because the enemy knows that God's mercies are new each morning and because he knows, he wants you to wake up upset, depressed, angry so that you won't come before God's presence to receive those mercies and blessings, that favor, all that goodness that He has for you. It was like a light bulb went on when I heard that!  Yes, it's true! The devil's intention is to destroy you, make you lose focus, trick you, and he knows that when we wake up, the first thing we should do is come before the Lord, give Him honor and glory and acknowledge His mercies and favor... and He is there, waiting for us to come and receive with open arms what He has for us. So, the devil begins to bring thoughts into our minds early in the morning to distract us from those mercies that are new for us each morning. We cannot allow the enemy to come and steal our mercies and blessings. Our Father is faithful and loving, He awaits for us with open arms, with blessings, favor, goodness and mercies each new morning. We should wake up to give Him glory and thank Him for a new day. We need to get used to when we open our eyes, we need not think of anything else, don't think of the time, the things we need to do, just think of your Father, hugging you and giving you His mercy and favor, his blessing and goodness to start your day with joy and do everything you do in joy. Just hear Him say, "Good morning my son, daughter, here is my gift to you, it's new mercies that are yours each day, favor and blessings and goodness for you to rejoice in all you do..." I know that if we get used to saying Good Morning to our Father, and if we come in gratitude and gratefulness into His presence and receive what He has for us, our days will be better, we will conquer, we will fight and overcome and win!  What else do we need? He said we are more than conquerors through Jesus, if we have Him on our side, who cares who is against us!?!?

I declare that each morning as you wake, you get up with new strength and with your spirit full of thankfulness to receive His Mercies, which are new! I declare that as you begin your day with thanksgiving, giving your Father a smile, talking to Him before going about your day and receiving all He has for you, you will see His glory and His presence in your life and in your daily walk! Don't let anyone or anything steal your mercies! They are yours, He has given them to you each morning!  Take them and go conquer!!

It is my prayer that this reflection be a part of your daily portion.

Love & Blessings,
Michelle

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Success Is Yours!

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Continuing with the topic of Success, I want to share some Scriptures with you that talk about success. The one thing I want to stress is that it IS God's will for us to succeed, be blessed and have favor! This is something we need to be reminded of daily. Faith, not fear, will get us there and we need to know that God is on our side, He will bless and favor us, we are His children, and He wants only the best for us! As we continue to trust Him, trust His Word and follow His instructions, success will begin to bloom in our lives, in everything we touch, because that has been His plan and purpose all along!  And that is so amazing!!!

This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success. Have not I commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. -Joshua 1:8-9

Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!) Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who fears (reveres and worships) the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments. His [spiritual] offspring shall be mighty upon earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed. Prosperity and welfare are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.   -Psalms 112:1-3

May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. May we shout for joy over your victory and lift up our banners in the name of our God.  May the Lord grant all your requests.

-Psalms 20:4-5

Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.   -Proverbs 16:3

Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the Lord gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.   - 1 Chronicles 22:13

Remember that fear and discouragement are success and faith's enemy!  Lift up your head and Conquer! 

It is my prayer that this reflection be a part of your daily portion.

Love & Blessings,
Michelle

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Portion of Hope

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Originally written on March 21, 2012

For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome. -Jeremiah 29:11 [AMP]

As I prayed and talked with my Father this morning, I was declaring some Scriptures over my life, my family and my businesses; and as I started to pray in the spirit, my Father reminded me of this specific Scripture and I began to declare it. Suddenly, I felt His Presence ever so close to me and I knew He wanted to tell me something. I started crying and repeating this verse over and over and as I understood that He was visiting me then and there, I knew He wanted to be with me to let me know, to reassure me that what I was declaring (that He knew the plans He has for me, and that they are plans for good and not evil) is a truth that NEVER changes, that it's a promise He has given and He fulfills it.

But, what He then showed me, as tears ran down my face and as I groaned in my spirit, is something that I will never forget and that I immediately knew I must share. He showed me a sadness, burden, heaviness because not many people understand this Word and Promise as He had revealed it to me at that moment. As I wept, he was showing me such a loving side to Him, a real, and true and pure Love, a Love that does not hurt, nor wound, nor destroys; and He showed me that there are people, that even though they love Him, they have not yet been able to understand that type of Love that our Father has for us. They have not yet understood that that Scripture has such great meaning. They cannot understand it, because in their lives, in their minds, they have so much hurt and so much confusion that they believe that the circumstances and situations they have gone through, are a result of a God that has hurt them. As I saw at what He was showing me, I could hear Him say that if we all would be able to fathom His Love and His Plans for good for us, and if we could be able to trust that His plans are the best ones for our lives, our days would be easy days, happy days, joyous days and blessed days... If we could understand that this Scripture is a key to His love for us; not only be able to read it and believe it but also understand it, see it, make it a reality, make it our own, we would come before His Presence acknowledging all the times we have been wrong to blame Him for what has happened to us. We would come to Him and ask Him to forgive us for thinking He has hurt us. We would just simply allow Him to heal all our wounds, allow Him to hug us and show us that
He truly HAS plans for us, plans that will completely transform us! 

What happens is that the devil comes to play with our thoughts, he comes to destroy and lie to us. Sadly, the majority of the time we tend to think that God was the one that hurt us. It's happened to me; I have thought at one time that all our financial problems we were facing were due to the fact that God did not want to bless us! Can you see how confused my mind was? If my Father tells me in His Word that He knows the plans He has for me, plans for good and not evil, plans for a prosperous future, then how can I think that even though He said that, He wants to do the opposite in my life? I think we all know where that lie came from...

As I talked with Him and He showed me all of this, I knew that this revelation had to be shared because I know there are many people that are going through so many different situations and today, God wants to tell you that His plans for you are for good and not evil; they are plans for a better and prosperous future. Don't let the enemy come to lie to you and confuse you, or take away your vision of a prosperous and better future, full of hope, favor and blessing. The devil has taken on the duty of distracting us from looking to God and has given us fake "lenses", in which we can't see God in His true form, we can't know Him and who He truly is. Today, I just want to share with you the experience I had with my Father this morning and I want you to know it was real; His presence poured into the room and He only came to tell me that He loves me, that He wants to bless me and for me to continue trusting completely in His plans for my life. And, now, I say to you, let His Presence flood your heart and trust in His plans and purpose for your life, because they are all for good and to bless you. He has promised it, His love is so grand, let Him embrace you today and let Him whisper to your ear.

It is my prayer that this reflection be a part of your daily portion.

Love & Blessings,
Michelle

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The Portion of March 8, 2012

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Originally written March 8, 2012

As I was praying this week, I immediately knew that God was telling me that one of the purposes for which He has called me and put me here as a representative of His Kingdom, is to help others, to give them His Word. Well, let me re-phrase it, this is something He reminded me, because He had revealed this to me a long time ago, but due to the circumstances and situations life presents at times, which many of them are obstacles from the devil himself sent to distract us and for us to lose focus on the call God has for our lives, I had forgotten that revelation, and I was beginning to get used to a life where I no longer would write, as I had done before. In the midst of my prayer with my Daddy, I heard Him say "Write. Write again." And I received those words, and I meditated on His Word; but as I did that, the same thoughts would saturate my mind (thoughts that did not come from Him), 'why am I going to begin to write again, who will this help?' But, even as those thoughts came to my mind, trying to distract me and make me lose focus once again, I held on strong to those precious words that my Father had whispered to me, that He had placed me here to help and encourage and edify His people. "Write. Write again."

And I find myself here, again, sitting in front of my computer, coming back to a place in my life where I felt happy, when I would write and share the fresh revelations that He would give me. You don't know how much joy it gives me to write again. And, really, I'm not worried if this will help or encourage someone or not; if He told me to do so, then I will do so, and with joy in my heart will I do it!  

I was reading His Word this morning, and I found this scripture that I am going to share with you. I will be honest, I don't remember if I had already read this before... it was as if a fresh, stream of water was filling my heart and my spirit as I read it today. For me, in my innermost being, it was the very first time I read this passage and it was like meeting for the very first time a new love! And oh how lovely it feels when God gives you His Word and He gives it to you as a revelation for your life, for the NOW, for a Rhema moment where He opens your eyes, your spirit and understanding so that you may know Him more in a deeper and more intimate manner!

You may ask yourself what is the Scripture I am talking about. I want you to read it slowly, I want you to meditate on it with your heart, re-read it a few more times until you understand, feel and see what He is telling you: "And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]!"  Isaiah 30:18 [AMP]



Did you hear that? He is LONGING to show you His Love. He waits for us, expecting and looking for us to come to Him so He can show us His Grace, His Love, His Mercy, and His Justice! We are blessed, all of us who wait for Him! Could it be true that He awaits each morning for us to come before His Presence and talk with Him? Could it be that He is anxiously awaiting to bless us with His grace and favor and His mercies and forgiveness? I am not telling you yes, He, himself is telling you that He is!!!

To read these Words and know that my Father awaits for me is like a child that has a secret, good news to share and can't contain his joy or happiness and wants to yell it to the whole world... like a child that has received a gift that he really wanted and wants to show everyone, he can't keep quiet or keep it hidden... I can imagine my Daddy like that, each morning anxiously awaiting to bless me, wanting to give me His grace and favor, waiting for that moment where I come into His presence and say, Daddy, here I am, I've come to tell You how much I love you, how much I need your favor, forgiveness, grace...  How do you feel in knowing that He waits for you, to bless and favor you, to give you His grace and love? I am overjoyed and full of peace in knowing that THAT'S my Daddy, who crowns me with favor and blessings!



As you can see, I can't keep what He told me this morning all to myself. I had to share it with you, because just as it has been a refreshing revelation to my spirit, I know that it will be also to your life. Forget about the situations the devil has been trying to get you to remember or stay focused on, just concentrate and meditate on how your Daddy awaits to bless you. He awaits for you to go to Him and receive what He has for you. We are blessed! Seek His Victory, His Peace, His Joy... Be a conqueror, He has created us to conquer!


And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]!  Isaiah 30:18 [AMP]

It is my prayer that this reflection be a part of your daily portion.

Love & Blessings,
Michelle

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