God has not forgotten you my friend, he has not given up, he is simply perfecting that which concerns you!! He is working to bring you into total freedom, not just liberty from your suffering which were caused by the hurts you went through, but all the abuses of your past.

1. ‘Free at last… praise God
free at last’

2. A wonderful song from a by-gone age
and yet it still resounds where ever
hurting, broken people are to be
found…

3. ‘The Lord will perfect that which
concerns you: his mercies endure
forever: he will not forsake the works
of his own hands’ Psalm 138:8

4. God has not forgotten you my friend,
he has not given up, he is simply
perfecting that which concerns you!!

5. He is working to bring you into total
freedom, not just liberty from your
suffering which were caused by the hurts
you went through, but all the abuses of
your past.

6. His mercy endures forever; it didn't run
out when you were hurt, it still
prevails and it’s keeping you alive so
that his divine purpose will be seen in
you.

7. He will perfect everything concerning
you, your body which was broken, your
voice which has been imprisoned, your
mind which has been in turmoil.

8. He will perfect everything, he will
not neglect any part of your being;
he will make you whole!!

9. God will not forsake you, you are the
work of his hands, you were fearfully
and wonderfully made, your substance
is not hidden from him...
Psalm 139 verses 14-16.

10. Best of all you are His!!

11. Ask yourself; could you forget your
own child? Could you neglect them
when they are in need, if they took ill
would you not turn the world upside
down to bring them health?

12. Of course you would!

13. How much more then will your
heavenly Father bring you complete
restoration and health when you’re in
need?

14. ‘How much more will your heavenly
Father give good things to them that
ask him? Matthew 7:11

15. God is not your enemy, he is your
friend, one that sticks closer than a
brother, Proverbs 18:24,

16. God is for you and not against you, so
begin to thank him for the life that you
now live and it will get even better.

17. Thank him for the breath you breathe
and then use that breath to give him
thanks for each new day.

18. Thank God for the sense of being
despised and rejected … Isaiah 53:3
for you have simply drank from
the cup that Christ drank from;
(Matthew 20:22)

19. Thank him for pain you are suffering
for it serves to remind you of the agony
he suffered on the cross…

20. Thank him for the ‘grief and sorrow’
that has touched your life for in them
you have tasted the cost of your
salvation. Isaiah 53:4

21. Thank God for the feeling when you're
‘stricken and smitten of God ‘for now
you can see that it was God who struck
down his own Son; for you!! Isaiah 53:4

22. Give thanks that Christ was chastised on
your behalf’ so that you could have peace.
As for the stripes you bear let them be a
constant reminder of the cost of your
healing. Isaiah 53:5

23. Thank God for the wounds and the
bruises you carry for they are a reminder
that Christ was ‘wounded and bruised
for your sin’ not his own. Isaiah 53:5

24. Thank God that when you went astray
like a sheep the Lord laid on
Christ your iniquity. Isaiah 53:6

25. Give thanks that Christ was ‘oppressed
and afflicted, he was brought as a lamb
to the slaughter, that he was taken
from prison and from judgement’
Isaiah 53:8

26. Praise God that he cut his Son off from
the land of the living and that it
pleased Him to bruise Christ and put
him to grief for your sake ...
Isaiah 53:8

27. What ever wounds you carry, whatever
the roots of your pain turn them into a
source of thanksgiving…

28. Let your wounds be a reminder, a real
reminder that Christ loved you enough
to die for you.

29. A reminder that Jesus came to make it
possible for you to live an abundant
life… John 10:10

30. A reminder that Jesus bare your sins in
his own body on the cross and by his
stripes you were healed... (1Peter 2:24)

31. The Apostle Paul wrote; 'giving thanks
always for all things unto God and the
Father in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ Ephesians 5:20.

32. Can it be he was reminding us of
Calvary's pain and its ultimate victory?
When he wrote…

33. 'Looking unto Jesus the author and
finisher of our faith; who for the joy that
was set before him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and is set down at the
right hand of the throne of God…

34. For consider him that endured such
contradiction of sinners against himself,
lest you be wearied and faint in your
minds' Hebrews 12:2-3

35. This is not the time to be weary and
faint in our minds, it’s a time to
remember the whole plan of God.

36. A plan that is eternal, and sure;
purchased in full through the blood of
Calvary’s sacrificial lamb… For you, for
me, for all who would believe and
receive Christ as Lord and saviour.

37. Its time to remain steadfast for there is
a joy set before you, a better tomorrow;
so endure…one day we who believe
will all sit at our Fathers side and
sing…

38. ‘Free at last, praise God
free at last’

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