Are You Resting In God and Expecting Him To Move On Your Behalf?

There may be times in your life when you feel helpless and you feel hopeless.   What do you do when you encounter those times?   Do you run to God or do you run from God?   Running to God will give you strength and running from God will cause you to become weaker because at that point you are trying to do everything in your own strength.    

Jesus said in the New Testament to come to Him.   All that are weary and heavy laden, He has told to come so that He can give them rest.    We have to know how to go to God and we have to be ready and willing to lay our burdens down.   

Understand, helplessness and hopelessness is not of God.   He is our help and our hope is in Him.    He is our strong tower.   He is not only our source, He is our resource.   Everything we need is found in God so when we have a need we should be running to Him and we have to trust what His Word says when He says He knows the things we have need of and He is faithful and just to provide us with those things.    

Trust God to do what only He can do.   Rest in Him and expect Him to move on your behalf.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Matthew 11:28

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

Are You Looking At Life From A Low Point Of View or From God's Point Of View?

What is your view point?   In other words, what is the point of reference you are viewing your situation from?    Are you viewing your need for healing from God's point of view?  God not only sees you as healed, He told you in His Word that He is the Lord God that heals you.    What about lack?    Are you looking from God's point of view and basing your belief on what He said?    He is the All-Sufficient God! He is more than enough and He said that He knows the things you have need of and He is faithful and just to supply you with those things.   

So often in life we see our lives from a low point of view.   We look at situations from our downward fall instead of rising up with God and seeing ourselves as He sees us.   It's time to stop having a low point of view.   It's time to see what God sees and it's time to say what God has said.   It's time to rise up and to let God be our point of reference.    

A point of reference is a benchmark.   It is used to help you judge and to understand situations.    If we use God and His Word as our point of reference, we will begin to see our situations from His point of view and we will begin to understand that our tests will soon be our testimonies and it is with our testimony we are well able to help others on this journey called life.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 Peter 2:9 

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

Are You Allowing Your Heart and Mind To Be Troubled or Are You Casting Your Cares and Fears On God?

What is it that is hard for you today?   What has your mind wandering and what has you walking in fear?   Whatever it is, it's time to bind it up and cast it down.   God's Word tells us over and over again to not be afraid.   It says to fear not.   It tells us to let not our hearts be troubled and it tells us that God has not given us a spirit of fear and yet, situations sometimes catch us off guard and fear comes in and tries to infiltrate our lives. 

Take a moment today to speak God's Word over your own life.   Make the confession that you will not be afraid.   Say with your own mouth that fear shall have no control over your life.    Believe in your heart and your mind that if you speak it, so shall it be.    Believe that God is watching over His Word to perform it for you, in you, and through you.    

Life is not always easy and living in a place where your faith overrides your fear is not always an easy thing to do but we have to live our lives based on what God said and that is not always in line with what we see in the natural.   We have to live in expectancy.   Expecting the change we need to come forth from the spiritual realm into the natural realm.    We have to live knowing that what we can't control, God can and we have to know that He is working every situation in our lives together for our good and His glory.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 Peter 5:7

“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”

We Get To Choose What We Believe and How We Respond. If You Remember What God Has Done, Let It Fuel Your Faith For What You Need Him To Do!

Are you willing to let God be God?   Are you willing to let Him take the leading role in your life?   Are you willing to surrender and to submit?   It all starts with willingness.   When you are willing to do something, you accept doing it by choice and you are not reluctant.   God wants us to be "willing and obedient" so that we can eat the good of the land.    

Life will always present to us choices.   We have to choose right from wrong.   We have the blessed ability to make choices in life about what we want to do with our lives.   Even when things don't go the way we plan or want them to go, we still have the ability to choose how we respond to those situations.    We can choose to continue to trust and believe that God will honor His Word in our lives despite what we see.   We get to choose to believe that He is working everything in our lives together for our good and His glory.    We choose what we believe and we choose how we respond. 

As you walk out each and every day in life, walk it out knowing that God is God all by Himself.   Walk it out knowing that He will never leave you and He will never forsake you.   Walk it out  remembering what God has done and let that remembrance fuel your faith for what you need Him to do.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Mark 11:22-26

King James Version

22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Are You Keeping Your Shield Of Faith Up So That You Can Quench The Fiery Darts Of The Wicked?

Are you wading in the water of what someone else has done to you?   Are you angry, mad, depressed, or overwhelmed with the emotions of what "they did"?    If so, it's time to rise up out of it.   People choose to do wrong and the wrong that people do sometimes is directed directly towards you.   But you have to choose to not let what people do to you control how you respond.   

If you serve God, there is a target on your life.   A target is a marked surface that is aimed or fired at.   As a servant of God, the enemy sees the mark that has been placed on your life and his sole ambition is to aim and fire at you so that he can hit you in areas that will hurt.   Areas that will hurt you emotionally.   Areas that will hurt you financially.   Areas that will hurt you physically.    The Bible tells us about the fiery darts of the wicked and we are to quench those fiery darts with our shield of faith.   Understand, that our faith has to remain in God despite the fiery darts that are aimed at our lives.  

So today, make it a point to let it go.   Let go of the anger and the disappointment you may have in people because of what they did to you or against you.   The devil will use any willing vessel but it is still his tactic.    Know that you are shielded by faith and protected by the Father.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Ephesians 6:16

King James Version

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

What We Do Next Is Up To Us But Remember, God Has Already Told Us How To Respond To Every Situation We Encounter In Life

What is your next?   What will you do next?   When situations occur that are not in line with the vision you see for your life or the vision God said for your life, what will you do in response?   Will you still trust and believe what God has said?   He said He would never leave you nor forsake you.   He said He would make a way out of no way.   He said He knows the things you have need of and He said that He is faithful and just to provide you with those things.   So what will you do in response to the trials and the temptations that present themselves to you on this journey called life?   

We have to know what to do next.   We have to know how to respond.   Our response needs to always be a response of faith.   Our response needs to always be in line with God's Word.   God has told us in His Word to be strong in Him and the power of His might.   He has told us to be still and to know that He is God.   He has said that no weapon formed against us shall prosper.   He said that greater is He that is in us than anything in this world.   If we remember what God has said, it should help us to respond to every situation coming against us in life.   

So trust God when He says that He will raise up a standard when the enemy comes against us like a flood. Trust Him when He says that He is watching over His Word to perform it in our lives.   Trust Him when He say that Jesus died so that we can have eternal life.   Trust God and trust His Word.   His Word still speaks and it is speaking to us every day.   Trust not that God is working everything out in our lives for our good and His glory. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Jeremiah 17:7-8

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Are You Living Your Life According To God's Plan and Adapting To His Vision?

What is it that God has called you to do?   Are you doing it?    Are you writing the book?   Are you feeding the hungry?   Are you ministering to the homeless?    Are you living your life in line with what God has asked you to do and not just what others are asking you to do?    

God has a plan and He has a vision for our lives but it is up to us to live our lives according to His plan and to adapt to His vision.    In Jeremiah God said in His Word that He knows the plans He has for us and those plans will give us hope and a future.    We have to understand that God's plans fail not.   He takes everything that is good in our lives and everything that we consider to be bad in our lives and He works it all together for our good.   He builds us up and He makes us stronger.   He undergirds us and He keeps us even at our weakest moments.    

God gives us His Word to live by.   We are strong in Him.   Everything we need is found in Him.    So we have to seek to know His will and once we know His will, He will then reveal His plan.   God has a plan and included in His Master plan is His will for your life.    As you seek Him, trust Him to reveal and to unveil all that He would have you to do for Him as you live out your life here on the earth.     

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

 Jeremiah 1:5 

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.