Are You Trusting That God Has Your Back Even When You Feel Like You Are Falling?

Are you willing to let go and let God?   Let God be in control.   Let God lead you.   Let God strengthen you.    So often we feel as though we have to be in control.   As though we have to do things our way.   It's time to let go AND it's time to surrender all.   

In order to let go, you must first get to a place of trust.  Trusting God truly with every aspect of your life.   When you trust someone, you are willing to relinquish control.  When you were a child, did you ever play the game where you would have someone standing behind you and you fall back trusting that they will catch you?   That's how you have to be with God.  Even when you feel as though you are falling, you have to trust that He has your back and know that He is going to catch you and keep you.  

Think about how a person sets up a power of attorney.   A power of attorney is enables others to act on your behalf.   If we trust people enough to act on our behalf, how much more should we trust God?   Remember, God knows all and can do all things.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalm 18:2 

“The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”    

Are You So Caught Up In The "Busyness" Of Life That You Fail To Give God Thanks?

How did you start your day?   Did you get up and tell God thank you?   Did you worship Him?   Did you give Him praise?   Or did you get up thinking about all the things "you" have to accomplish today.   All the commitments "you" made.    All the places "you" have to go and all the things "you" have to do.    If you got up with a "busy" mind on all the things you have to do, STOP and take a moment to tell God thank you.   

Thank Him for this brand new day that He has filled with His love, grace, and mercy just for you.   Thank Him for never leaving you and for never forsaking you.   Thank Him for making a way out of no way in your life.   Take time to thank Him in advance for going before you today and for making every crooked place straight.   Thank Him for loving you even when your actions proved to be unlovable.    Thank Him, worship Him, and give Him praise.

There is one thing we have need of in life and that is God.   Without Him we are nothing, can have nothing, and can do nothing.   So as you go about the busyness of day ... take moments throughout your day to just tell God thank you.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Philippians 4:6-7

King James Version (KJV)

⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Are You Understanding That Your Praise Will Strengthen You and Encourage Others? You Have To Praise God Right Where You Are!

It's not about where you have been and it's not about where you are going.   It's all about what you are doing right here and right now to reflect the presence of God.   Are you believing God in your present state?   Are you trusting Him right where you are right now?    Are you holding on to your faith?   Are you confessing His Word?   What are you doing right here right now in the midst of everything you are experiencing in life.  

It is so easy to get off track by thinking about what happened in the past or what you want to happen in the future.   We get so focused on what we have been through or what we want God to do that we fail to praise Him right where we are.    We have to make sure we are praising Him in the midst of all that we are going through.   

Understand, your praise will strengthen you and it will encourage others.    There may be someone in your circle of influence today that really needs to see that God is good and that He is gracious.   They need to see that they can trust Him no matter what they are going through.   They need to see God's light being reflected through your life.     Remember, its not always about what you have been through or where God is taking you.  Make an impact today and help strengthen someone else's faith by believing, trusting, and worshipping God right where you are.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Philippians 4:12-13

King James Version (KJV)

¹² I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

¹³ I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Have You Released The Fear Of Failure and Made Up Your Mind To Glorify God No Matter What You Are Going Through In Life?

What are you glorifying in your life?   Are you glorifying God or are you glorifying your situation.   To glorify means to exalt, elevate, enhance, reveal, or make clearer.    What are you focusing in on more?   What are you talking about more?    Are you talking more about what you are going through or your God that you know will bring you through?  We have to make sure we are glorifying God no matter what we are going through in life.


We have to get to the point where it doesn't matter what we see or how we feel, we have to still rest our hope in God's promises.   We have to release the fear of failure.    Even when things don't work out our way, it doesn't mean we have failed.   It just means that God has a different plan and He is going to use whatever we are going through together for our good and for the good of others.   Understand, others will be strengthened and encouraged as we share our testimony of what we have been through and how God has brought us through.  


Take a moment to breathe.   Take a moment to glorify God.   Lift Him up and exalt Him.  Worship Him and praise Him.   Make sure your life and the light that is coming from your life is shining brightly for Him no matter what You are encountering in life.    Remember, we were created to worship God and to glorify Him.    He is the glory and the lifter of our heads.   So lift up your head and glorify the Father. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalm 3:3

But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

Times Are Changing ... Are You In The Right Position For The Change? What Is Your Mindset?

What is it that "you" want to do?   Isn't that how we tend to look at life sometimes.   We look at what we want instead of seeking to do what God wants.   It's time for a shift to take place.  A shift in the way we think and in the way we act.    A shift is a slight change in position, direction, or tendency.   We need to begin to change our position, our direction, and the way we tend to do things if we are not considering what "God" wants first.

What is your mindset?   It all begins with our mindset.   What is it that your mind is "set" on doing?   One definition for set is to be hardened or stiffened.    When something is stiff, it is not easily bent or moved.    What we tend to do is set our mind on something and it becomes difficult to change it.   Having our mind set can be a good thing if our mind is set on God and the right things.   

Times are changing and we have to be in position for the change.   We have to make up in our mind that we are going to do what God wants us to do and not what we desire to do in our flesh.    If we are seeking self pleasure, we need to begin to seek to please God.    It's not too late to change.    It's not to late to shift positions.   Remember, a shift is a slight change in our position, direction, and  our tendency to do things a certain way.   

Commit to changing for God.   Commit to living your life to please Him.   After all, God was so committed to you that He sent His Son to die on the cross for you.    Understand the love that comes with commitment.    Love God more than the pleasures that appeal to your flesh.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Galatians 1:10

King James Version (KJV)

 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Learning How To Release Your Hurt, Pain, Anxiety, and Issues of Life To God ...

What do you do when you don't know what to do?   What do you say when you don't know what to say?   Are you always feeling that you have to move and that you have to do something?   It's time to try doing what God said.   He said for us "to be still and to know that He is God".   


Being totally still is one of the hardest things to do.   It is our inherent nature to do something.   We tend to think that if we do nothing, something is going to get messed up.   However, there are times when our interference is exactly what messes things up.  


One thing we must settle in our heart and in our mind is that God is God alone.   He is all powerful and all knowing.   He doesn't need our assistance.   In essence, it is us who needs Him.   There is nothing we can do without Him.   However, with Him, nothing is impossible and we can do all things.   


Again, God told us in His Word to be still and to know that He is God.   To be still means to be quiet and not to move.   It means to let go and to rest in God.    To let go means to release something.   Learn how to release your hurt, pain, anxiety, and issues of life to God and know when you do that, He WILL take care of you.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Exodus 14:14

King James Version (KJV)

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Is God the MVP (Most Valuable Part) of Your Life or Are You Laying Him and His Word On The Sideline For Possible Future Use?

Have you realized that you need God "more" yet?   More than the people, the places, and the things.   God is not just someone or something that we can pick up and drop off.    We need His love, His power, His goodness, and His grace every minute of every day.   We have to stop laying God aside.    When you lay something aside, you lay it down for "possible" future use.    God should never be placed on the sideline of your life.  Your time with Him should never be just a possibility.   It should always be a necessity. Remember, when someone is on the sideline in a game, they are unable to be on the team and be a part of the game.   


God should always be the "MVP" (the Most Valuable Part) of your life.   His Word, His Will, and His Way should always take priority in what you say, do, and the way you go in life.     We have to remember that it is through God that we live, breathe, and have our being.   How is it that we so easily put His purpose and His plan on the sidelines of our lives.    When we sit back and look at the MVP in a game, we understand that that person played a integral role in the success of the game.   When something is integral, it is necessary to make something whole, complete, essential and fundamental.   God is a necessity our lives. 
 
We need God.   His role never changes.   He should never be in competition with any other part or person in your life.   He should always be the MVP.   In other words, He should always be the "Most Valuable Part" of your life.   We have to understand that our relationship with God is necessary to make us whole and complete.   For we are complete in Christ.   Without Him we can never truly experience wholeness.  Our time with God is essential and it is fundamental.   When something is fundamental, it is the core and it is absolutely necessary.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

 Colossians 2:9-10

King James Version (KJV)

⁹ For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

¹⁰ And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: