Success and Trials

    Success and Trials
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow
 
Have you ever noticed that your greatest trials can often appear shortly after your greatest times of success? Why does this happen? God allows this for love’s sake. He allows it to keep your heart from entertaining the one thing that can bring you down quicker than any other sin—pride!

    God wants to bless you, use you, and cause you to prosper. God is a good Father, and for love’s sake, He does not want any of His blessings or favor to puff you up or lead you away from His presence and into self-confidence or self-sufficiency.

The next time you experience a great trial after a great success, keep these four things before you and hide them in your heart:

1.     Without Jesus I can do nothing. 
2.     God is using this trial to show me my weakness and to help me to continue abiding in His strength.
3.     I have more grace working for me than the trial that is working against me.
4.     Anything that exposes my weakness and helps me to be fully dependent upon God is something I can respond to with thankfulness.

    A final reminder…
Put your hand down if you’re trying to pat yourself on the back. Lift it toward heaven instead!
 

    I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud. Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong (2 Corinthians 12:7-10 NLT).

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My Morning Prayer: His Wonderful Name

My Morning Prayer: His Wonderful Name
-Roy Lessin and Marina Bromley
 

His Wonderful Name
-Roy Lessin

The name that is above every name (Philippians 2:9 AMPC).
 
Wonderful Counselor: Place yourself at His feet, hear His words, follow His wisdom, go with His plan, yield to His strategy. Do not set any limits upon what He can say to you.
 
Mighty God: What a King! Warrior. Victor. Lord. Without flaw or weakness. Clothed with glory. Crowned with majesty. Do not set any limits upon what He can do for you.
 
Everlasting Father: He is the best. Kindest. He is full of compassion. Grace. Lovingkindness. Draw close to Him. Walk with Him. He is always the same. Do not set any limits upon what He can be to you.
 
Prince of Peace: He is Peace. Perfect peace. He can use you as His peacemaker in a restless and troubled world. Do not set any limits upon what He can do through you.

My Morning Prayer
-Marina Bromley

Good morning, Father. Thank You for sharing Your names with us, that we might know You better. I need to remember who You are so I can remember who You want to be to me. 

Help me to turn to You for counsel and advice instead of turning to the popular opinion and ideas that others may have. You are my Wonderful Counselor and I need to bring my concerns to You. Help me to listen for Your voice, Dear Lord.

When I need to be led through difficulties remind me that You are my Mighty God, and You are the Creator of all things. You make all things new and can set my feet in the right direction. Remind me that You desire to work in me beyond what I can imagine!

When I am disappointed in myself and those around me, help me to remember that You are my Everlasting Father. You will not let me down and Your ways are always perfect. You love me as your child, and I can revere you as my Father. Remind me that You desire to have a relationship with me, and You love me as only a Father can

And with all the discord in the world, I need to lean on You as my Prince of Peace. Lord, there is so much fighting going on, in our homes, our communities, our churches, and our countries. Our world needs you to be our Prince of Peace, not as a political person, but as our Spiritual Leader. Remind me to take my concerns to You instead of creating strife in my relationships. Help me to turn to You, to pray for Your will, and to accept Your answer and timing in events and circumstances. Lord, use me as only You can, working in me and growing me to be all You desire me to be for Your kingdom and glory.

I love You God, and do not know why I forget your names so easily. In Your names You are everything I need, and more! In Jesus' Name, amen.

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Timely Tidbits of Truth 47

Timely Tidbits of Truth 47
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,  to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons (Galatians 4:4-5 NKJV).

Ever since that perfect time came for Jesus to be born, anytime is the perfect time for you to be born into God’s family through His Son.

Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2 NKJV).

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2025, Come Holy Spirit!

2025, Come Holy Spirit!
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

 
The River of the Holy Spirit begins at the throne of God. He flows from the highest place in heaven and descends to the lowly place of every humble heart that calls upon the name of Jesus and drinks from Him.
 
The Holy Spirit is God’s River, not His pond. Life, not death, happens where His river goes. The Holy Spirit doesn’t sit motionless or become stagnant in the heart of the one who receives Him. He is fresh water. He flows! He renews, revives, restores, and refreshes.
 
The Spirit-filled heart overflows its banks to bring His Life to others.
 
Come Holy Spirit!
 
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water (John 7:38 NKJV).
 
Everything will live wherever the river goes (Ezekiel  47:9 NKJV).

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My Morning Prayer: Experiencing God’s Best In 2025

My Morning Prayer: Experiencing God’s Best In 2025
By Roy Lessin and Marina Bromley

Experiencing God's Best in 2015
- Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow
 
(Inspired by the ancient hymn, Be Thou My Vision)
 
Jesus is the very best thought my mind can dwell upon, regardless of the day.
 
My fellowship with Him is the deepest relationship my heart can experience, and His honor is the purest motivation my will can choose. 
 
Pleasing Him raises the level of my joy to its highest level and leaves me without regrets.
 
Fully trusting Him empties my soul of all the fears and worries that fuss about within me.
 
Jesus—the light I need to walk. The strength I need to stand. The truth I need to truly know what is best! 
 
He is first in everything (Colossians 1:18 NLT).
 
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily... (Colossians 2:9 NKJV).
 

My Morning Prayer

-Marina Bromley

My Sweetest Lord Jesus, as I come to You on the cusp of the New Year, please keep these things in my heart and on my mind. Make them my song and my prayer. That You and Your Words alone are truly the very best thoughts my mind can dwell upon. My fellowship with You is the deepest relationship my heart can experience, and Your honor is the purest motivation my will can choose. That pleasing You raises the level of my joy to its highest level and leaves me without regrets. That fully trusting You empties my soul of all the fears and worries that fuss about within me, distracting me and taking my eyes off of You, and that You, Jesus, are the light I need to walk, the strength I need to stand, and the truth I need to know what is truly best. May the coming year see Your will for my life come into bloom, as I set aside my wants and heed to Your leading in my life—mind, spirit, soul, physically, and emotionally. I want to be all that You desire of me. In Jesus's name, amen.

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