Welcome June...my Awesome Month

Finally it's June!!!!!!!
I'm always excited about this month. basically it's because of my birthday. This year I'll celebrate my 23rd birthday..am getting older.. (Thank God). everyone must be very excited about their birthday for that's the time when we realize the protection of God. i always feel that way every year on my birthday. i feel like I'm such a very tiny grain of sand among the million sand (actually sand is uncountable so "million" cannot ever measure its amount) but still the LORD is mindful of me.. isn't it very special?

Sometimes i ask God why i should have been born on 28 June, why it wasn't on 28 May, July, April, or December? don't you think that 28 June is very special that God sent me to this world into my family? Absolutely.. for God says in Jeremiah 1:5a " Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; " and in Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the purposes which I am purposing for you, says the LORD; purposes of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."

God has known me and has designed my days before i walk into my days.. wow..amazing!!! so, today in the first day of this very special month i wanna share something I've been learning lately. it's about covenant. I've been reading the book of the second kings and now am in the chapter 15. you know that the kingdom of Israel broke into two; kingdom of Judah and of Israel and the kings who reigned over them have various characteristics. most of them forgot the LORD whom has been worshiped by their father. i never think what they (the kings) felt about but what God felt about His people. i wonder how broken He was when His people ignored Him and worshiped other gods. it must have hurt His heart and He must have been angry with them. because of anger we may think that they deserved all the affliction..they didn't deserve His mercy.  what makes me surprise is when i read 2 kings  14: 26-27 "14:26 For the LORD had seen the affliction of Israel [to be] very bitter. And one was bound, and none [was] free, and there was no helper for Israel.
14:27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash."

you see, God can't stand seeing His people afflicted. i used to question Him why till i finally realized "the Power of Covenant". God Himself has bond His everlasting covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel) that's why He is always mindful of  Israel His people regardless of their wickedness still He remembers them. His covenant is everlasting, there's no end. if somebody promises you something you may still question his certainty, whether he'll fulfill it or not..but will you question God for an assurance??

I wont doubt it..


today, before i walk into a lot of surprises this month, He reminds me about His everlasting covenant. Galatians 3:29 says: " And if you [are] Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise."
so I am, you are, we are the heirs of God's promise in Christ.


i gotta face a battle this month; struggle for my dream, preparing my application for a scholarship to continue my study in Australia. i know my God is bigger than the scholarship so i wont ever be afraid of it all.
i believe He's designed my days. all i need to do is to prepare the vessel for the oil as the widow did in 2 King 4:1-7 coz walking with faith means being active.

welcome June!! I'm waiting for ur surprises... :)

stay blessed in this awesome month,
Haniva