I want to encourage you to remember the Lord's goodness and to be extremely attracted to His mercy and complassion. I've been reading in Psalm 107 several times lately and I want to remind you of these thoughts and promises.

"Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broken their chains in pieces" (verses 13, 14).

In verse 13 the word "distresses" means to be in a place of narrowness - trouble - anguish or oppression. It's also a word that gives a picture of "something hemmed in or constrained." This is a powerful picture of God's saving and healing power.

When they cried out to the Lord (real effective prayer) then He saved them out of their distresses. The Psalmist concludes with a great declaration:  "Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men" (verse 15).

I ask the Lord to reveal His heart to you in a new way and open the windows of heaven with many blessings. May the favor of the Lord rest upon you and His peace and provisions be released for you.

Are you activating the Word of God in your prayers? "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall my word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it (Isaiah 55:10,11).

The Word of God is so alive and powerful that it has the ability to return to the Father with fullness. This verse says that it will not return void (empty or ineffectual). How does the Word return to the Father in heaven?

We can send it back to the throne in our prayers and positive confessions. In our meditations and pondering over scripture, we're activating the presence of God over situations, places, and things.

Joshua 1:8, "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success."

What does the Bible say about wealth coming to your home? Is someone getting and collecting for you this moment?

"One who increases his possessions by charging excessive interest rates and extortion gathers it for him who is kind to the poor" (Proverbs 28:8).

"A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous" (Proverbs 13:22).

You are NOT locked into your set salary. Believe what the Bible says:  Be helpful and generous to the poor and weak. It is the Lord who will reward you. (Proverbs 19:17)

 "...but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God" (Ecclesiastes 2:26).