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's the challenge? What is it that is testing your ability and endurance? Understand today that your power and your might is not in your own ability. The Bible says to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. The reason we get weak is because we try to face the challenges of life in our own ability. In our own strength. That's not God. It is not God's will that we go face to face with the enemy. God's will is that we trust Him to win the battle for us.
Take time today to get into God's word. Find His word for your life. Apply the word to your situation and couple God's word with your belief. Let your belief in God's word override everything else in your life. Trust the word within. Trust the truth that God has revealed to you. Believe that He will do everything that He has promised. God will not let you down. When it comes to His word ... it is not in Him to do.
What is it that you are encountering? What is it that you are meeting up with in life? To encounter means to unexpectedly meet up with or face. What is the unexpected thing that is happening in your life? How are you handling it?
Understand that life is full of encounters. Some are encounters to challenge your faith and some are encounters to build your faith. Some are God encounters and some are encounters that offer distractions and destruction. How are you discerning the encounters in your life? Are you weighing them by the revelation of God's word?
No matter what is going on in your life, you should always look at it through the lens of God's word. Everything and everyone brings something with it. The question is .... how are we handling the encounter? Are you living your life in a way that God can send forth encounters where you will lead others closer to Him? Or are you allowing your encounters to break your communion with God? Whether it be a person, place, or thing ... always let your encounters lead you closer to Him. Always let your stand and stance be on and in Him. Life will sometimes bring the unexpected ... but the one who lives in you ..... is never surprised. Trust Him and let "life" encounter the "word" in you. Amen.
Will you let go? Let go of what you think about it. How you feel about it and what "they" said about it. Will you let go of your assumptions and your plans and let God be God. We have to learn that it is not about what we think, how we feel, or what we want to do. It's about what God thinks, how He feels, and what He wants to do through us. We are putting ourselves in God's place and thinking it is about us. Will you let go?
Understand today that there are things that God desires to do in you and for you. Understand today that you are part of His divine plan. We did not plan Him ... He planned us. We did not design Him .... He designed us. It's time we let God be God. It's time we trust God to be God. It's time we lay down and allow God to arise within us. Within our thoughts, our emotions, and our motives. Get God motivated. Think God thoughts. Be God ruled.
So my question again is ... will you let go? It has nothing to do with what you think about it, how your feel about it, and what you want to do about it. It has everything to do with what God has already done and what He wants to do in our lives.
What has caused you to change? To move away from your passion and your compassion? What has slowed your roll in God? Where you were going so fast for God and now you are barely moving. Was it sickness? Disease? Money struggles? Somebody or something? What has interfered and caused your mind, your will, and your emotions to go astray?
We have to be careful. The enemies goal is to intercept God's plan for your life. The word intercept means to obstruct as to prevent from continuing. What is preventing you from continuing on with the same tenacity you had yesterday, last week, last month, or last year? What is pulling you back when God is trying to get you to press forward? It's recognizable and you know what it is. Is it pain? Is it disappointment? Is it weariness? What ever it is .... let it go.
Understand ... anything that pulls you away from God. That causes you to slow up and slow down for God ... is not sent by God. Whether it be a person, a place, or a thing. It's not about letting everyone go in your life. Understand that relationship with people can be challenging in our lives but it is at that point we should be pressing more into God on their behalf. It is only when those relationships pull us back into our past and cause us to slow down or even stop moving in God that we have to let it go. Don't get me wrong ... this is not telling married couples to leave their spouse. There is a covenant that comes with marriage .... and it includes for better or worse.
Everything in your life needs to be pushing you into the plan, purpose, and will of God for your life.
How do you get from here to there? How do you get to that place God is telling you that you are to be? You know the plan and you see the plan ... but how do you implement the plan? The word implement means to carry out, perform, and fulfill. How do you get from where you are at to the place where you are carrying out, performing, and fulfilling the will of God for your life?
The answer is ... you wait. Isn't that funny. You are trying to get somewhere ... but the answer is you have to wait. You have to wait on God's timing and you have to go through God's process. The thing is ... your destiny is connected to God's process. God's process is what launches you into your destiny.
Psalm 27:14 says to wait on the Lord ... to be of good courage and He shall strengthen your heart. Understand strength comes when you wait on the Lord. Psalm 37:34 says to wait on the Lord and to keep His way and He shall exalt you to inherit the land. Understand inheritance comes when you wait on the Lord. Proverbs 20:22 says to wait on the Lord and He shall save you. Understand salvation comes when you wait on the Lord.
So if you are wondering how to get from here to there ... to the place where you know God is calling you. The answer is be still and know that He is God. Wait on the Lord and He will get you exactly where He wants you to be.
What is prompting you? To prompt means to cause someone to go in a certain direction. What is causing you to go in the direction you are going today? To shift and to move? Is it God's word or your friends? Is it God's word or your feelings? What is causing you to do what you are doing right now? Or what is prompting you to do what you will do tomorrow? Is it fear or the feeling of failure?
We have to learn how to let our "prompts" only come from God and His word. We have to learn how to recognize the voice and pull of the Father. When we recognize His voice and His pull we won't be taken by surprise and pulled based on fleshly pleasure. Understand the word prompt also means to move quickly. When we recognize that we are being "prompted" by the Father ... we have to begin to move "promptly" in the direction that He is leading us. If we don't learn how to step out quickly with God and move when God is telling us to move ... we leave ourselves open. Open to various suggestions and directions that the enemy will present.
Today and everyday ... let's seek God "on" purpose. So that when He calls ... we will hear, know, and recognize His voice and His pull. So that we will be able to distinguish when we are being prompted by the Father versus something the enemy may be trying to use as bait. Understand the difference between a God prompt and the enemy's bait. Recognize that bait is used to entice, lure, and decoy. Don't get caught in the enemy's trap. Amen.
Do you realize just how much God really loves you? How much He gave for you? The price that He paid for your life? Understand that this price was paid so that you could walk in victory. So you could be free. So you could walk in peace and have understanding. This price was not paid for you to be still and walk in defeat. You are greater than that. You have already been sealed with victory. Understand the victory was in the blood. The power is in the blood. Your strength is in the blood.
Think about your body. The blood flow carries oxygen and other nutrients through your body. If your heart stops pumping and the blood stops flowing ... you die. It's the same spiritually. We have to understand that the physical lines up with the spiritual. If we fail to allow the flow of Jesus' blood to cover and to keep our lives ... we subject ourselves to spiritual death.
Get in the flow. Get in the flow of God's love. God's peace. God's protection and God's direction. Get in the flow of the blood.
