In our day to day lives, we often cling on to promises from the Word of God in the sincerest hope that it’s going to work. God promises to bless, to protect, to provide, to heal , to comfort, to satisfy, to prosper, to raise up…wow! This is going to be a long list…God really does promise a lot of things doesn’t he? So how much does He really mean to follow through on these words of promise? The Bible is quite clear of this in
Isaiah 55:10-11: For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Wow! How Awesome is that?!!! The very same God who said “Let there be light” to create light says let her be blessed, or let her be healed, or let her be comforted…through His many many promises in His collection of promises and love to you. And so, we are quite simply, without a doubt, blessed, healed, comforted, protected, prosperous ….and the list goes on! Now the question would arise as to why is it that a lot of these things are not manifest in our lives. If this is true then why is it that we don’t seem to experience all of this? It is understood that we experience some of these blessings without much effort on most days, but there are a few of these that we don’t see realized in our lives. The reason for this is that we experience the promises of God that we find easy to believe, our faith is pretty high when it comes to promises of protection, of rest, of comfort…well it comes easily to those of us who find it easy to expect it from God. Some other promises like healing and prosperity appear a bit challenging on a human level and so we project that same assumption on God’s abilities to follow through on them. Jesus says in
Mathew 9: 29: … According to your faith be it done to you.
As simple as that! If you can believe it….you can receive it, because God’s promises are never empty as His word clearly says. So let’s all throw those doubts out the window and try to remember who it is that has promised….if He can make the Sun and Moon with His words, then let’s not waste anymore time doubting them!
P.S.: A special thanks to all of you have sent me encouraging words about this blog. They have truly been ‘sweetness to my soul and healing to my body’! God bless you all abundantly!
Today let me share an excellent recipe for Banana Cake.
Ingredients:
Medium Sized Ripe Bananas – 3
Self Raising Flour – 2 cups
Sugar – 2 cups
Salt – a pinch
Oil/Butter (according to your health preference) – 1 cup
Milk – 50 ml
Baking Soda – 1 teaspoon
Vanilla Essence – 1 teaspoon
Eggs – 4
Powdered mix spice – 2 teaspoons
(4 Cardamom pods, 4 one inch Cinnamon sticks, 4 Cloves, a small piece of nutmeg (nutmeg is optional))
Instructions:
1.Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2.In a bowl beat sugar, oil and eggs with an electric beater. To this add the salt and vanilla essence.
3.Dissolve the baking soda in the milk. Now mix in some of the flour into the batter and alternate with the milk. So first you put some flour, then pour some milk, then again some flour, then milk and so on till you’ve added all of it into the batter.
4.Add the mix spice powder and beat it into the batter. Now mash the bananas and add this to the batter as well.
5.Spread oil evenly with your fingers onto the baking dish to prevent the baked cake from sticking to the sides. Now pour the cake batter into the dish and bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 170 degrees and bake for another 35 minutes.
6.Please be sure not to open the oven door for the entire duration of baking, or the cake may fall. After the specified time, wet the blade of a knife and stick it into the cake, if it comes out clean the cake is done. Wait for it to cool before attempting to drop it out of the dish.
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