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.
What is the word that is stirring in you? It may be one word .... but you have to understand that one word has meaning. Is it "peace". Is God trying to use you to tell someone that their life is free from disturbance in Him. How about "holiness"? Is God trying to use you to tell someone to go deeper ... to become sanctified and separated in order to be used for His purpose. How about "strength"? Is God trying to use you to tell someone that their power, their force, and their might are all found in Him?
What is it that God is saying to you? That He wants you to get out. A friend taught me a long time ago that words have meaning. Of course I knew that. But he encouraged me to begin to look up words .... to go deeper. In many cases we are so accustomed to surface living. We even read things on the surface and never take the time to go deeper. When we talk to people ... we practice surface listening. Which causes us in many cases to not truly hear the heart of what is being said.
It's time to go deeper. It's time to draw out the word that is within you. The word that God wants you to share. Remember one word can change a persons life. Just think about it. LOVE is one word and "God Is Love".
Are you feeling pressed on every side? Do you feel as though you don't know where to go or what to do? How do you get out of that? How do you get that feeling off of you? Do you pray? To you praise? Or do you sit still?
Understand today .... you have to shift. Shift means to move, change, or transfer. The key word here is transfer. You need to transfer whatever is on you that is causing you to feel pressed from you back to the enemy. Some packages you just can't accept. Understand your agreement with your situation is your seal of approval. When you say .... "oh well, that's just the way it is". You are agreeing. You are accepting. You need to begin to uproot and cast down the appearance of evil. You need to say .... "this is not my portion" or "I thank you Lord that this state that I am in is only temporary and you are turning it around for my good". The only time you should be agreeing is when your situation is in line with God's word. Don't be quick to agree.
It's time for a transference to take place. Everything that has been holding you or locking you into a thought process that you are not who God created you to be .... we bind up and cast down now. Understand .... you have the authority to bind and you have the authority to cast down. When you operate that principle .... heaven aligns with your words. After you bind it up and cast it down ... you must release God's will, purpose, plan and provision in your life. Again utilize your words and let the world know what God has said about you and your situation.
Always understand who you are and what God has called you to do. Never accept anything that goes against the knowledge He has given you.
Why are you looking around when everything you need is set before you? We tend to look around for something different. Why? Something new? Why? Most of the time we want to be intrigued. The word intrigue means to arouse the curiosity or to fascinate. Our curiosity is based on a strong desire to learn or to know something. Whereas fascination is based on attraction. What are you being attracted to? What is it that is magnetizing you? One definition of magnetize is mesmerize. When you are mesmerized ... it is a though you are hypnotized. Understand that hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness where your mind is receptive to suggestion.
We have to be careful about the things we allow to intrigue and fascinate us. What we are doing is putting ourselves in a place where our mind and our will are open to things that are connected to those things that arouse our curiosity. Understand that "things" can suggest. That is the whole point of advertising. Think about it. You look at a picture of cake ... and you get the desire to want it. You look at a video of a car ... and you get the unction to buy it. Let your focus and your passion be God. Let it be based on the things of God. Let your mind and your will be open to His word and His will. Get curious about Him and His plan. So that your mind will be influenced by His word and your actions will line up with His will.
What would you do if today was the last day that you were able to get a message to the ones you love? What would you say? Would you say I love you? Would you tell them about your God and your Savior? Out of all the tools you have to use .... phones, internet, word of mouth .... what would you use? How are you using those tools today? Are you calling those that you love? Are you sending them messages to just say you care? Take time today to tell them you love them. You may not see them as you like or even as often as you should ... but don't allow opportunity to pass you by. The word opportunity means the circumstances are right in order for you to do something.
Today is an opportunity that God has made. He has set everything in order for you to do what you need to do. Even if it is just sending a message .... take time for those you love today. Let them know that through your businesses ... you still care. Through your stresses ... you still care. Through time and distance ... you still care. Sometimes that is all someone else needs to hear. Amen.....
Why do you think said to stand still and know that he is God? When you stand still you are in one place. You are not shifting or changing positions. God wants you to be still. When you stand still it shows that you are not afraid. Have you ever seen people who run from bees. Most of the time the bee still follows them around. No matter where they run ... the bee is still following. We have to get to a place where fear and running are no longer options. The Bible says that perfect love casts out all fear. That is where God wants us walking. He wants us walking in His perfect love. The love that says ... I trust you Lord and I believe you Lord. The love that says I will not move .... so the situation has to move.
Get into position. Get into the position where God can bless you. Stop shifting your thoughts and your beliefs. Stop shifting your trust. Let God be the final authority in every situation concerning your life. Let His love lead you, shield you, and protect you. Let His love cast out all the fear that is trying to arise in you. Let His love be the driving force in your life.
Why are you still living in your yesterday? What happened .... What they said ..... What they did ..... How can you walk out God's plan for you if you are still living in yesterday's outcome and yesterday's results? When someone writes a plan .... the plan is based on expectation .... not history. A plan is not about what occurred historically. It is about the new design and the new expected outcome. God has a plan for you. Did He not declare in Jeremiah 29:11 that He knows the plans that He has for you and that they were to give you a hope, a future, and an expected end.
You have to start living according to the plan. You have to stop living your life based on history. In Isaiah 43:19 .... God said that He would do a new thing .... shall YOU not know it. Start living in the newness of life and stop being led by your past.
It's time to watch, wait, and expect God to move for you, in you, and through you. Today is a new day. Yesterday is gone. Let the results of yesterday go with it. You can never truly walk out your future as long as you are living in your past.
How much faith do you think you need? The Bible says in Matthew 17:20 that if you have faith as small as a grain of mustard seed ... you can move mountains. Imagine what great faith moves. We try so hard. We pray so hard. Yet we feel that we have to try harder and pray harder .... when God is saying just have faith. To believe Him. To trust in Him and to wait on Him. It's not about prayer harder or in a certain position or like someone else. It's about knowing that God is who He said He is and resting in the waiting. Just because you don't immediately see the answer or because the answer looks a little different than you expectation .... doesn't mean God hasn't answered. What you have to understand is that God's plan is already established. You have to learn how to trust His plan.
You also have to understand that God's sovereignty and power are also established and there is nothing the devil can do to change that. So no matter what your situation appears to be .... it is established that you win.
