December 28, 2023
My Dearly beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, I greet and bless you all in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. May the name of the Lord be glorified. On Dec.28th, it is a great pleasure to meet you all through this auspicious message. May the Lord bless you. Take with me from the book of Psalms 23:6, Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, This is a Psalm of faith. It is a Psalm of His faith. You can even call it a proclamation of his faith. God did not say that Goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life to David. But David Himself says, this statement by faith to the Lord. That means by faith He makes this verse as His own, or claims it to be his own. Today let the words of faith come out of your mouth. Words of unfaithfulness should not come out of your mouth. Some children will always say negative words. They will think negatively. Though there are many reasons for David’s success in his life, he was a man who thought everything positively. By Faith he would think and speak.
The word of God says, He considered that which does not exist as though it existed. So when you think so then that which does not exist will remain as if it existed. David applied this formula in his life. That is why he says, “GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE. ”It will follow me. Maybe until today evil could have followed you. Loss could have followed you. Poverty and famine could have followed you. Shame and failure could have followed you. While you have been thinking as to when all this will come to an end, My children of God. As per this verse, keep repeating this verse throughout the day. Say” Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.” Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. If you really feel the importance of this verse then there will be confidence in you. There will be faith in you. You will start believing that something good is going to happen to you. It would be as if you received some assurance in your life.
Not only Goodness but mercy also shall follow me all the days of my life. Why is the Lord saying goodness along with mercy, there may be something lacking for you to obtain goodness from the Lord. Because God will give you the grace to receive it. Based on grace God wants you to receive goodness therefore God includes both goodness and mercy. My dear children of God in this situation, we need to remember what Job says in the scripture. He says, I who expected good to happen received evil in life. Maybe you too like Job could have waited for good to happen but instead of good, evil befall you. So God is going to put an end to all your evil and change all the evil to goodness. That Day Joseph’s brothers decided evil for him, But God changed that evil into good. Hereafter whoever tries to do evil for you, I don’t know who has planned to do evil for you, but God is going to intervene, and he will change that evil into Good. They threw Joseph into the pit. Then they themselves lifted him up. From the pit. Then later they sold him to the Egyptian merchants. After all that had happened, he became the governor of Egypt. God changed all the evil into goodness for him. So God is assuring you that as long as you live goodness shall follow you. As long as you remain alive the grace of God will follow you.
Prayer: Dear Lord, we thank you. Lord, I pray and bless all the children who are reading this message in the name of Jesus. Lord, as long as the children live, let goodness and mercy follow them and not any unnecessary loss or death or any kind of evil should follow them. I submit all the children to be under their direct control and keep a watch over them. Lord they waited for good to happen but evil came upon them this is true of them. But Lord you changed that evil into Good. And that is all the more true. Lord I don’t know what happened in their lives until today, But from today may the children learn to lean on the Lord and continue their life. Help them to hold on to the hand of the Lord and walk with grace in their lives. Let such grace help them to reach great heights in this world. And may they be decorated by the inheritance of Jacob.
In Jesus Name we pray.
Amen.
