{"id":506,"date":"2026-04-08T00:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schealingarts.org\/?p=506"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:07:35","slug":"april-9-daily-message-luke-723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schealingarts.org\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"April 9 – Daily Message – Luke 7:23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Luke 7:23 NLT \u201cAnd he added, \u2018God blesses those who do not fall away because of me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you read the Bible, you discover some very difficult passages, verses, and words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you willing to believe in Me anyway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you ask something of Me, sometimes I answer in very different ways than you ever imagined\u2026.to the point that you believe I am against you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you willing to follow Me anyway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I ask you to do something very difficult, are you willing to trust Me because I am doing a greater work than you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I take something away from you that you love, are you willing to love Me more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bible has many encouraging and exciting passages, verses, and words but it is impossible to ignore the passages that really trouble you and make you wish they were different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you willing to stick with Me even though it seems that I am misinterpreted in the scriptures sometimes? Are you able to trust that who I am in the Hebrew scriptures is the same as who I am in the New Testament? Are you able to trust that I love My people and My creation more than you do, even though it appears that I am hand picking certain people to go to heaven and leaving the rest to hell? Can you trust My goodness even when you don\u2019t understand it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I invite you to follow Me in the uncertainty, in the doubts, in the questions recognizing that anything else is less than what you truly desire within you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let go of the easy answers, the platitudes, the \u201cit must be God\u2019s will\u201d sayings that hurt so badly and hold onto the truth of Me instead. I am good, I am God, and it is challenging to walk with Me. No one ever said it was going to be easy to stay with Me during all that has been planned and prophesied. But there is nothing better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe this is a message to us from God, written from His perspective \u2013 Sherri <\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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