Welcome to Daily Moments with God, an online sanctuary written by Christian author R. Lynn Moore. This space is a dedicated resource for your everyday walk with Jesus. Through daily devotionals, scriptural studies, and deep reflections, this blog aims to build, edify, and exhort believers. Our mission is to help you silence the noise of the world, stay rooted in faith, and trust God's sovereign hand through life's unexpected turns.
Are you willing to let God be God? God wants to be God in your life. He wants to be your Creator and King. He wants to be your source and your supply. He wants to be your peace and your understanding. He wants to be your love and your joy. The question is ..... are you willing to let Him be your everything?
So often we try to do it all on our own. When we try to do it all on our own .... we become producers. At that point you become a manufacturer. A person that makes things. The difference is .... when God creates something He takes it from who He is. He is peace ... He is love .... He is joy. Nothing exists without God. So it is impossible to manufacture anything without Him. If you are wondering why you can't make yourself be at peace .... it is because it is impossible without Him. You can't produce resources without God ... because He is your resource. Understand who He is. Understand that it is much easier to rest in who He is than to go through the process of trying to work things out on your own and getting to the point of knowing that it is impossible without God.
What are you expecting God to do? Are you expecting Him to move on your behalf? Are you expecting Him to give you direction? Are you expecting Him to provide for your needs? Or are you living in a state of whatever happens ... happens.
We have to understand that faith can be defined as "confident expectation". To expect God with confidence. When you are expecting someone or something .... when it arrives it is not a surprise. How is it when God blesses our lives we are sometimes surprised. We should be living in a place of confident expectation. Where we are watching and waiting for the hand of God to move in our situations and our circumstances.
Step out of just hoping for a good result and step into confidently expecting God to move. Confidently expecting the bill to be paid.. Confidently expecting your body to be healed. God's blessing are not supposed to be a surprise. He has already revealed the things that He desires to do in your life through His word. Amen.
What is it that you are being encouraged by? Or should I say who is that you are being encouraged by? The word encourage means to inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence? What is it that is inspiring you? Better yet, what are you being inspired to do?
What exactly are your putting your confidence in? If you are putting your confidence in anything other than God you need to revamp. The word revamp means to renovate, redo, or revise. In order to renovate a house there are various steps you must go through. Understand that you are God's house. His dwelling place. Are you allowing a renovation to take place in your life?
The first step to renovating a house is design. You have to have a design in mind before you can begin a renovation. Understand .... God has a design in place for your life. The second step is to secure the foundation of your house. This is to insure that your house doesn't collapse during the renovation process. When your life is in the process of renovation, you have to secure yourself in God's word. This is to insure that you don't give up, quit, or give in during the trials of life.
Then you have demolition. This is when everything that is no longer needed is taken out of the house. When a house goes through demolition ... walls are knocked down .... there is a gutting process that takes place. Does this sound familiar?
Then you have the carpentry process. This is when things are shifted and moved. New beams installed ... new windows installed. In life this is where new doors begin to open and your vision becomes expanded to the things that God desires to do for you. Then there is the insulation process. This is when the word of God secures and insulates your life. Where it prevents the passage of the enemy's attacks against your life. Finally comes the point where the new walls, floors, carpet, etc are installed. This is where your life begins to show forth God's glory. Where the rebuilding becomes evident to those around you.
Understand .... you are in the process of renovation. But after you have been processed.....you will reflect God's glory. Amen.
Are you forfeiting your blessing based on doubt? Understand that the word forfeit means to lose or surrender as a result of wrongdoing or neglect. There are things that God has promised you. Are you losing out on them based on your neglect of His word? Are you losing out on them based on allowing doubt to contradict what He has told you to be true. It's time to stop forfeiting the things that God wants to do in your life.
The Bible tells us to trust God with all our heart and to lean not unto our own understanding. To acknowledge Him in all our ways and to allow Him to direct our paths. Why is it that we think we can get to the end of the path without doing what He has said to do. He said to trust Him. If you trust God that means you believe in His reliability, truth, ability, and strength. It tells us to lean not to what we think about it. We are to acknowledge Him in everything that we do. To acknowledge means to confess and recognize God's existence in whatever we are doing. Understanding that everything we do should lead back to who He is.
It's time to stop forfeiting the life that God has designated for you to have. In order to do that we have to trust, and obey His word for our lives.
Two questions for today .... Where are you going to and what is it that you are seeking? What are your goals and what are your objectives? Are your goals in line with who God is and what He wants for your life? Or are your goals centered around you? Are they based on how you feel or where you at or are they strictly based on God and who He is and what He has designated for your life?
We have to make life about Him. About fulfilling His plan, His purpose, and His desire in our life. We tend to make it all about us. How we feel and what we want to do. Understand today that God has set before you the prize of eternal life and it is His desire that you run the race and obtain the prize. Most runners in a race have their mind set on obtaining the prize. That is their goal. My question is ... what is your goal in life? Is it to be an achiever on your job or in the things of God? Is your mind set on Him as your prize or man made things? We have to get to a place where our ultimate goal is to obtain eternal life and be pleasing to the Father. In most cases we make choices based on our outward flesh. How things will affect us outwardly. What we can see, feel, and touch. Did you realize that the marrow inside of your bones is also a soft fatty tissue. The difference is .... the marrow is where the blood cells are produced and where the blood flows. It is the place where strength and vitality are produced. Understand it can't be seen ... but that is where your physical strength comes from. From the flow of the blood.
When you look at your life and you follow your goals ... do so based on the flow of the blood of Jesus. Your strength, your vitality, and your power to achieve are all found in the flow of the blood. Let your mind stay on the prize of eternal life.
Are you still living on the edge? On the edge of God's promises. On the edge of His purpose? It's time to submerge. To submerge means to go below the surface. It's time to step out of living for God on the surface only. Where what you do is done where others can see and think that you are who you say you are. It's time to go deeper with God. God doesn't just want you on the surface. He wants all of you. He wants your life and your lifestyle to be lived out for Him. That means whether you are with people or alone .... He wants you to be unchanging, immovable, and always abounding. He doesn't want your alone time to be BAU (Business As Usual). It's time to allow ourselves to be purged by His word and covered by His blood.
Living on the edge means to live a dangerous every day life. It is a place where you are exposed. Whereas, living in Him (completely and totally) is a place of safety and peace. It is a place of protection and direction. Understand that everything that He did .... He did with you in mind. To provide a place of safety and comfort for you. Understand that comfort means to be at ease and free. That is where God wants you to be.
Do you pray before you leave your house in the morning? What about when you are in your car or at work? As Christians we have an amazing incentive and that is prayer. We can pray for favor. We can pray for peace, and we have the kingdom of heaven on our side working to provide just what we need. So before you start your day you should pray that it be blessed, pray for your peace, and pray that God and his angels would go before you. Pray when you get in the car, and if need be, pray at work. Do not only pray for yourself but pray for others as well. Pray for your children, family, friends, coworkers, and even church members. We are to be intercessors, which is someone who prays or petitions for another. Pray blessings over yourself and others. Remember the Bible says ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you in Matthew 7:7.
Worship For Today...
"I Need You to Survive"
Ministered by: Hezekiah Walker and Love Fellowship Choir
