You will receive God's best!
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Has a treacherous storm ever forcefully blown through your world? Did it leave you in shambles and feeling as if your life had completely fallen apart? Have you ever looked at the wreckage and ruins and thought that the damage was irreparable? Have you been in a position where you lost security and stability—the very things you thought you needed to make it through?
If so, God sent me to give you this New Year’s Day word and assure you that it’s not over, friend. God has declared good things over you. He is turning your worst days into your best days so that all will see and know that the hand of the Lord is mighty.
A few days ago, God told me to go to Jeremiah 18 because there was a word that He wanted to unpack for me. This chapter contains a familiar story that I have read numerous times about a potter molding clay on his wheel.
God directed my attention specifically to verses 2-6, where He spoke these words to Jeremiah the Prophet:
“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
Then the word of the Lord came to me. He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel” (NIV).
As soon as I finished reading the text, God spoke to me and asked this question: “Dianna, do you trust Me to make something good?”
The Lord then walked me back through my 2019 health crisis that resulted in a traumatic brain injury. He reminded me of how the new difficulties I faced left me feeling marred or ruined just like the clay on the potter’s wheel in Jeremiah 18. Defeat said, “You are irreparably broken, destroyed, and unable to be used for God’s glory.”
On my worst days, I believed the lies and sank into depression. But through His word, God led me to a new realization and revelation. God the Potter has been reforming me, reshaping me— the marred lump of clay—into something even more amazing and beautiful.
God then directed my attention to Jeremiah 18:4, a verse which notes that the potter refashioned the clay into what “seemed best to him.”
God then asked me another question: “Is My best not good enough?”
Whew!
That question hit me hard. Instantly I felt simultaneously convicted and enlightened. I realized that I had been mourning for nothing. Despite my plans being marred, God’s good plans for me are not ruined. They are still very much intact.
This is true in my life and yours.
Listen, friend. Negative life changes do not change the fact that you remain in the unchanging hands of the Father whose plans for you are good (Jeremiah 29:11). Through it all, He is molding you into what seems best to Him.
Now ask yourself this question: is anything better than God’s best?
Clearly the answer is no, right?
Therefore, you can be confident that because you are on the Potter’s Wheel, meaning that you are in the center of the Father’s will, something good is happening. You are not ruined; you are being remolded, restored, renewed, and rebuilt by the powerful hands of Almighty God.
Now that’s something to get excited about!
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Just stay on that wheel – in His will – and you will receive God’s best. His best blessings. His best plans. His best breakthroughs. His best provision. His best manifestations of His unlimited power to cause all things to work together for your good (Romans 8:28).
You’re in the Potter’s hands which is why in 2023, you will receive God’s best. You no longer need to mourn yesterday’s losses, perceived failures, and brutal setbacks.
Don’t be sad; be glad that old things are passed away and all things have become new. Embrace this new and better season wherein you will reap the absolute best harvest God has to offer. Lift your bowed down head and celebrate that you are in the best hands which are the Potter’s hands.
Today, God told me to remind you that He allowed the storm to seemingly get out of hand for a specific purpose found in Joshua 4:24 ESV—which is the sweetener I’m stirring into your cup of inspiration: “so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty.”
As you drink down the contents of your cup, remember that when life feels out of hand, you are still in the Potter’s hands. And His hand of restoration is mighty. His hand of healing is mighty. His hand of provision is mighty. His hand of favor is mighty and outstretched toward you.
And since you know that you are in the best hands, you can confidently and prophetically declare, “The best is yet to come.”
I pray that you will receive this word and rejoice for the good things that the Potter will do for you, in you, and through you in 2023. Happy New Year!
Now pray this prayer with me.
God, thank You for assuring me that the best is yet to come. I enter this New Year full of faith and expectation that You will reveal Your glory and fulfill Your promises. In the meantime, I will remain on Your wheel and in Your will, for there is no place I’d rather be. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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As always, thanks for reading and until next time... may today's cup of inspiration uplift, encourage, and empower you!
