Are You Trusting God Through Your Process Of Pain?

Do you realize that healing is a process and sometimes when you are being healed, pain comes alongside of your healing?  Take a moment to think about when a person has surgery.   When a person has surgery, there is usually some type of incision made.   An incision is a cut that is made to your flesh.   It is a surface cut.   It is something that can be seen and in many cases it leaves a mark that tells the story about what you have been through.   

When a person goes through surgery, it is for their good.   There may be things taken out, like tumors or cysts.   There may be veins rerouted.   There may be things added like pacemakers or stents to help with the flow of blood or to help repair organs that have sustained damage in your body.   No matter what the purpose is for your surgery, it is suppose to be for your good.   

However, after surgery there may be a season of pain as your body heals.    But understand, just because you are experiencing pain, that doesn’t mean healing is not taking place.    With healing there is sometimes pain.   That is not just for surgical procedures that pertain to the flesh.   There is also a healing process that we go through in life. 

With life comes situations that we don’t always understand.   The situations we encounter in life will sometimes bring with them pain.   It may be that we lose someone.   It may be that we are sick in our bodies.   It may be that we are suffering because we don’t understand the situations we are encountering financially.   Whatever it is, God wants us healed and we have to understand that pain is sometimes part of the process that leads to our total healing and victory over our situation.  We have to just trust God through the pain while the process is taking place. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 147:3 

King James Version (KJV)

3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Are You Pressing On Even When You Encounter The Unexpected?

What if things don’t go the way you planned them in your mind?   Will you give up and quit on God based on what you wanted or expected to happen or will you trust God to do what He said He would do when He said that He would take care of you?   We have to stop limiting God.   We tend to limit Him based on what “we see” happening in the world and in our lives.   We have to understand that faith sees beyond what is happening in the natural realm. 

God is all powerful and all knowing.   He’s not limited to doing things the way that we think they should be done.   We have to have faith and trust the fact that God knows what is best for us.  When we look at something, we look at the outward appearance of a thing and sometimes we don’t even know the purpose of it.   We tend to judge and come up with conclusions about our circumstances based on what we see and not what God said.   However, when God looks at a thing, He knows its purpose.    He knows how to work everything together for our good and His glory.   So understand, God knows your purpose for being here in the earth.   He sat you in place and He wants your life to be a tool that He uses to draw others to Him.   

Things don’t always work out the way we think they should but they do work out the way God knew that they would.    We have to know how to press on even when we encounter the unexpected.   We have to continue to move forward with God.   We have to know that each day that He gives us is filled with His love, mercy, and grace.   We can’t be stuck on what happened yesterday because each new day that we are given is filled with new opportunities and new blessings.   Trust God and no matter what you encounter today on your road called life, know that He is going to work it all together for your good.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Isaiah 46:9-10 

King James Version (KJV)

9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Are You Allowing Your Prayers To Reach Outside Of Your Household?

Are you judging people for where they are or are you praying for them to be where God wants them to be?    So often people judge another persons life without looking at their own lives.   They fail to recognize that they didn’t just get to the point of trusting, believing, and waiting on God overnight.   They didn’t just wake up saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost.  That’s not saying to agree with another persons lifestyle if they are wrong.   That’s saying pray for the person to get it right.   Pray that they not only hear God’s voice but pray that they obey it.   Pray that they have the knowledge to make the right decisions and the strength to do it.     

God is a good God and He is a faithful Father and friend.   He is loving, merciful, and kind.   He forgives us and we have to understand the fact that not everyone’s sin is the same.  Sin is just that, sin.    Sin comes in many forms but it is still sin.    So just as we pray for ourselves, we need to also make sure we are praying for others.   People tend to pray for themselves and once they are delivered, they then judge others.   Don’t allow your prayers to stop at just you and your household.    

We have to understand life happens.   We don’t know the full story of why others live and act the way they do but we do know the One who can help them.   God knows their story.   He knows everything about their past, present, and future.  So our job is to talk to God in prayer about those whom we know and love instead of gossiping to others about them.   As we talk to God in prayer, we have to trust Him to help bring healing and deliverance to the lives of those whom He has placed in our lives.   

Remember, miracles happen if you just believe.   So as you pray, believe not only for yourself but believe that those whom you pray for will be healed, strengthened, and delivered.     

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

James 5:16 

King James Version (KJV)

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much

Are You Walking In Faith or Are You Allowing Fear To Take Over?

Are you sticking with it?   Are you sticking with what God has told you to do?   Are you walking in faith or are you in fear for what will happen next in your life?  God is a good God and things don’t always work out the way we expect them to in life.   Sometimes what we want  turns into what we need.   Sometimes what we need, we have to wait for but we have to remember, God knows what is best of us and when it is needed. 

Do you realize your test is not just for you?   Do you realize the lessons you learn in life are so that you can help someone else make it in life?  Sometimes as we are going through things in life, we think its all about us.   We don’t understand how our hurt and our pain can help someone else get through their hurt and their pain. 

Again, God is a good God and we have to trust Him.   We have to let our trust in Him go beyond our understanding.   We have to know that in this world we will have suffering and pain but there will come a time when our tears will be washed away and we will suffer no more.     

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalms 56:3-4

3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

What Are You Allowing To Be A Substitute Or An Alternative In Your Life?

What has you distracted right now?   What has taken your attention from God?   Look over your life and ask yourself what it is that has gotten you off track?  Are you going to let the world and the ways of the world take you over or are your going to take a stand for what is right and do what is right?   The choice is yours.   No one can make you do anything, you just have to choose to do the right thing.    

To choose means you have alternatives but understand, an alternative can be a substitute.    When something is a substitute, it acts or serves in the place of something else.   Are you allowing anything or anyone to take the place of God in your life?   Are you spending time with God worshipping and giving Him praise or are you taking time from Him and doing things the worlds way?  What about your family?  Are you allowing anyone or anything to take the place and time that your spouse and kids should have in your life? 

Remember, everything we do is a matter of choice and God has given us the free will to choose.    The question is, what are we choosing?   Are we choosing to appease our flesh or to please God?   Our choices matter and we must remember a life without guidance and direction is a life that will surely go astray.   If we have to guide and direct our children, surely we understand that we too need the guidance and direction of our Heavenly Father.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Colossians 3:2 

King James Version (KJV)

2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Are You Allowing The Toxins Of The World To Mix Into Your Thoughts and Control Your Actions or Are You Filtering Your Life Through God’s Word?

How you live your life shows who and what you have respect for.   Are you living your life in a way that shows you love and respect God or are you doing what you want to do when you want to do it with no filter on your life?  In other words, are you living your life according to the flesh?  When we live our lives according to the flesh, we don’t respect God, we don’t respect others, and in most cases, we don’t respect ourselves.    

Living an unfiltered life is living a life where we have allowed the toxins of the world to mix into our thoughts and to become a part of our daily actions.  A toxin is something that is poisonous.   It is a bacteria that doesn’t show any symptoms until after a period of incubation.   So it is something that lies dormant in your life until it has had an o

pportunity to develop, grow, and multiply.   If we never do anything to filter our lives, the wrong thoughts and the wrong actions will continue to develop within us and they will multiply to the point where they take over the good thoughts and the good actions in our lives.    

We have to first understand what it means to filter something.   A filter is a device that is used to remove impurities or unwanted materials.   In life we need to be filtering our thoughts and our actions through and by God’s Word.   We need to allow what God has said to be the filter which tells us what is right and what is wrong.    If what we are thinking and doing is not in line with what God has determined to be right, we must begin to cast down those thoughts down and line our actions up with what God has said.   

Filtration is not an easy process but it is a necessary one.   Don’t allow the impurities of the world to cause you disrespect God, others, or yourself.   Make sure you put God’s Word in so that you will know what things you have to cast out.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Proverbs 3 

King James Version (KJV)

3 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

It’s Day 2 Of The New Year, Are You Still Celebraing or Are You Allowing The Issues Of Life To Deflate Your Hope and Cause You To Feel Worried and Distressed?

It’s day 2 of the new year, are you still celebrating?   Are your hopes still high or are your hopes being deflated by the reality of what is coming against you in this world.   You have to understand, whether it is day 1, day 2, or day 364 of the year, God is still God.    God doesn’t stop being God because your hype and your celebration of entering a new year has stopped.   God is God every second of every day.   He said in His Word that He changes not.    

Where is your hope?   What is it that you are hoping for this year?  Are you hoping for new things or is your hope in God?  God is well able to give you the things you want and need in life but He wants your hope and your trust to be in Him.   He wants you to look to Him, call on Him, and to have your hope, faith, and trust in Him.   Is that you?  Do you have your hope, faith, AND trust in God? 

At the beginning of every new year, many people set “their” plans in motion.   They set timetables and make agendas concerning their lives but what everyone has to understand is the fact that sometimes plans change.   Sometimes things don’t work out the exact way that “we” plan them to.   We have to always remember, no matter how things in our lives are coming together, God is with us.  He has promised to never leave us nor forsake us.   As we do our best to live our lives for Him, He is going to work everything together in our lives for our good and His glory.     So if things in your life seem to not be working the way you have planned, just remember to trust God’s plan.   Don’t give up and don’t quit.   Remain in faith and know that your Heavenly Father is working everything in your life together for your good.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 Corinthians 2:9

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”