Episode 19 - Good Times Are Ahead

Have you been wondering if God still remembers His promises?

In this encouraging episode, Val Mitchell reminds you that God's faithfulness never changes—even when life feels heavy. Through Scripture and personal encouragement, you'll discover why this is not the season to give up, but to trust that God is working behind the scenes. If you've been waiting, praying, and believing, this message will strengthen your faith and remind you that good times are ahead.

Key Scriptures: Deuteronomy 13:18, Ezekiel 16:8, Psalm 34:10

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Each week, Val Mitchell shares personal stories, biblical insights, and powerful revelations from her own walk with God. Through real-life experiences and practical faith lessons, you'll discover how God speaks in everyday moments, guides us through difficult seasons, and invites us into a deeper relationship with Him.

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Transcript

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God is faithful. Know if he made you a promise, it's going to come. So it may stand back. Now is the time that the Lord is speaking and he's letting us who have been working diligently in the field to do not get weary, do not get tired, do not get stressed, because good times are ahead. God says those who have been continually faithful to his ways, you should know that good times for you are ahead in this season. If you have been continually faithful to his ways, you should know that good times are ahead. Amen. And that itself, oh my goodness, that is exciting news. I want to just personally say that I know that many of us have been out here and it seems like it's just been a struggle. It's just been a loss. We're saying to ourselves, hey, what's going on? I'm working. I see others coming around me getting blessed, but you stayed faithful. You stayed continually in his work. You did what was asked from the Lord for you. So I am here to tell you and to let you know that good times are ahead for you in this season. Deuteronomy 13 and 18 says, Because you have listened to the voice of your God to keep all his commandments, which I commanded you today, to do what is in the right in the eyes of the Lord. Good times are ahead. Amen. When trouble hits and it seems like despair is everywhere, and the atmosphere is so thick that you can't even breathe because of all the chaos that is surrounding you. We forget that we have a father that loves us and looks out for us and takes care of his child. He takes care of his. I mean, any parent, when they see their child going through, going through, and you give that child instructions, you give that child direction and they follow your direction, but that child is still hurting, that child is still struggling. You as a parent are going to intervene and make sure that child is all right. Well, I come with the good news to let you know God says He takes care of his home. God says, I am here. I have never left you, I have never forsaken you. So good times are ahead for you, my daughter. Good times are ahead for you, my son, and this, this season. Amen. Amen. Ezekiel 16 and 8 says, Then I passed by you and I saw you. And behold, you are at the time for love. So many of us, if God was, he's telling us he walked past us, but if he looked into your window now, many of us, including me, God sees that we are in need of his love. We personally are in need of his love. The world and the chaos that we are experiencing every day on the news and the media, the world is in need of God's love. So Ezekiel was telling us as he passed by you and he saw you, and behold, you were in need, the time for love. So what did God do? God said, I spread my skirt over you and I covered your nakedness. He saw you in despair. He saw you are hurting. He saw right now, my child is in need of love. So he acted. He didn't sit back, he didn't let you go through what he knows that you are hurting with. He says, I spreaded my skirt over you. I covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became mine, declares the Lord. He didn't leave us in that despair. He didn't leave us in that hurt. He didn't leave us out being feeling naked. How many of us have been so hurt from the inside out, from the challenges and the struggles? I'm about to scream hallelujah on that one. That you felt lost. You felt naked. You felt stripped of your identity. You felt stripped of because of the hurt, because of the shame, because of the disgrace, because of everything that felt like it was coming at you, not just in one form, not just even in three forms, but from everywhere you turn, you are getting hit where you felt stripped away of everything from you, that the nakedness goes from you. Well, I am here to encourage you. I am here to let you know that God sees you. God passed by in Ezekiel 16 and 8 says, I saw my child and I spread my skirt over you and I covered you. Do you know what it is when God covers you? God is shielding you, God is protecting you, God is strengthening you, God is pouring in love. When the love gets poured in, peace and peace settles the mind, peace settles the spirit, peace settles the soul. When you get that comfort, because God is telling us He did this only because you are His and He takes care of His. Allow yourself to rest in that covering, shielded from everything from the world that has been challenging you, that stripped you naked. Allow yourself to receive all that love so he can continue to clothe you in him. Amen. Amen. So, my brother, my sister, there is no more need to worry. There is no more need to fret. If you are standing true to his ways, you are going to reap that which was so. You're going to receive that harvest because you were continually faithful to his ways. Amen. So God says now is the time to invest in you. Invest in yourself. And me, us as women, me specifically, we care for everyone else. Kids, significant others, family, even strangers if they come our way. And we are so far down on the totem pole that we can't even look up because we have lost ourselves in the mist. Well, God's saying now is the time that He wants us to invest in ourselves. Take a few minutes out. Find some time for you. And it doesn't have to be anything fancy or big. It doesn't mean taking a walk, taking a bath. I remember you've heard my old saying, Calgon, take me away. That's for those of y'all in my generation. Whatever it is, God said, take time out for you. As He is clothing us, covering us, shielding us from that storm. While we're inside of there, while we're alone receiving that love, God wants you to take time out for you. When is the last time you took time out for you? Me, it's been a while. It's been a long while. That, you know, honestly, I may not even know how to do it. But I think yesterday I went out and I sat on my patio, had dinner by myself. All my babies are just scattered everywhere. Money is almost out the door, and the little one is gone with his dad. So I'm like, God, I got a lot of free time on my hands. And then this word popped out about God covering you, shielding you, and allowing me while I'm hidden under the covers to find time for me. That helps strengthen you, refresh you, restore you, rebuild you. So when God re-exposes you back to the world, you'll be bold, confident, and ready to go. Take advantage of that covering. Take advantage of that downtime. And I'm talking to myself, Belle, take advantage of the downtime. Because remember, our daddy, he's gonna see us through this. He's gonna get us through it. He doesn't want us to worry about it anymore. We've done enough worry. Lord knows I do enough worrying for about 20 people. But right now, in this moment, in this season, my sister, it is time for you to focus on you. My brother, it is time for you to invest in yourself. Proverbs 34 and 10b says, Those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing. What is it that good thing that you are feeling you're lacking? So you're worried about it, you're stressing about it, you're just going mad about it. Is it finances? Is it paying the bills? Is it a relationship? Is it lack of love? Is it lack of being heard, being seen, being appreciated? Whoo, that's a big one for me. Being valued. We don't, we know we don't have to worry about basic needs. Food, clothes, shelter. God has already told us that's a requirement off the table. If he can give the Israelites in the wilderness manner in the day, quail, I believe it's quell at night, he can feed them in the morning, feed them at night, wore them. The clothes never got worn in that whole 40, 40 years that they were out in the desert. They never, you know, worried about the clothes going bad. Those are basic necessities right off the top. We can take off our worry list because God is automatically gonna do it. We don't know how it's gonna be, but we know we're gonna have food on our table. We know we're gonna have a roof over our head, clothes on our back. God said, You hang with me? That's a need you don't even have to think about. So we pull those off the worry list. And then Psalms 34, 10 is telling us those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing. What is that good thing that you are still feeling you're lacking? Is it any of those things I just described? Love, finances, making sure everyone's taken care of in the family. If it's a good thing and you're seeking after the Lord, and you are obedient to his wills, you will not lack no good thing. So knowing that, believing that, God said now is the time to invest in yourself. Rest while he has you up under that cover and find you again, strengthen you again, restore you again, because you, everyone around you, can't make it if you aren't built up to where you need to be. Amen. So, what I want you to do now, God has made us a promise. God made me promises. Some promises, we haven't seen any evidence whatsoever that they're coming to pass. Other promises, we see God in the works. What I mean by seeing it in the works, where he's giving you indications he's working on it. You see little signs here and there, or you may get a word here and there that just remind you, I got this, but it hasn't officially manifested yet. There is power in your tongue. There is power and strength when you speak that which not have yet manifested, but you believe it is so, you shift the atmosphere. You change the spiritual realm that where it just automatically shakes down and flows onto the earth according to God's timing. So God has given me some instructions because we are right now going to shift the atmosphere. Are you with me? I can't see the chats in the comments, but I am praying that you are saying, yes, Val, I am with you. We're gonna speak over those promises. We're gonna tell that atmosphere that I believe the word of the Lord. So on the count of three, I want you to put in your head that promise that God said He was going to deliver. And maybe more than one. For me, I got a couple of them. One, I see nothing that even comes close to it coming to pass. And I am, I'm being transparent. I mean, it is so far gone in the natural that I am even second guessing if I want it. That's how bad it is. But God tells me, I am going to give you every promise I told you. So what am I gonna do? I'm gonna ignore what I'm seeing, and I'm gonna speak that out and speak his word. The other promise I got, I see God in the mix. I see little stuff dropping here and there, but the hundred, it hasn't 100% manifested. So I'm holding on because I see it started, all good things shall come to pass. What's your promise? What has God told you? What has God promised you about yourself, your children, your marriage, family relationships, job, business, or self? What has he said to you specifically that he's going to do? And I want you on the count of three, I want you to shout it out. Now I'm not gonna shout mine out, I'm gonna whisper it. I'm personal, yeah. I don't want y'all to know too much, but I'm personal. But I'm gonna do the assigned task. Amen. So on the count of three, I want you to say, I decree, I declare that which God promised children will come home, meet tuitions will be paid, whatever that promise is shall come to pass. Are you ready? Are you ready? Alrighty, I can't see you coming, so I'm praying. You're ready. One, two, three. I decree, I declare that that promise that God has made for me, that promise of shall come to pass. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We're gonna trust God. We're gonna believe in God. We're gonna tell the natural and the enemy. I don't care what you are showing me right now, I believe the word. I believe God. I don't care what I'm seeing right now. God said it so it's coming to pass. It may not look like it, may not feel like it, but I trust and believe in the Almighty God. So therefore, I believe God. Amen. Woo! I'm getting excited. I'm trying to come. Amen. Amen. Do you receive it? Do you receive it? Declare it over your situation. You prophesy to that situation, you tell that word that my God said this is coming to pass, and you speak it into the atmosphere. Write it out every day if you have to. With me, I got stickies everywhere. And go and make sure every morning you say you coming to pass because God says so. Make sure you got a scripture to back up your promise. And then when you go into your prayer closet, you speak that word when you say your prayers. You tell God, hey, your word says XYZ. You specifically promised me XYZ, which I can relate back to scripture, Psalms 34, 7, whatever that scripture is. And you hold on to that. You hold on to that. And I promise you, if you continue to do that, God gonna say, my child is listening. My child believes me. My child is ready to receive what I have for her to receive. And then he's gonna deliver. He's going to deliver. Amen. Amen. So release it. Speak it. You can't hold it in. You can't whisper. You gotta shout it out into the atmosphere. You gotta let the atmosphere know that this is coming to pass. You better move out of the way, God's way, because I'm gonna receive his word never, never comes back boy. Amen. Amen. So speak the word over your circumstance because God stands by his word. And remember, he told us today good times are ahead.