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.
Whose lost? Who is it that God has put on your path of destiny to build up ... to edify ... to encourage that you have let go of? Where are they? What are they doing? Are they hurting? Are they stressed? Have you allowed your entertainment to be blockage to the plan of God? Understand that entertainment is defined as the things that "you" enjoy. Whether it be people, places, or things .... what is occupying you to the point that you have let people go that you know God called you to be connected with?
Did you let them go based on hurt? Did you let them go based on fear? When you know it was a divine connection .... why did you let go? Why did you give up on them? Why did you quit? Was it offense? Where you feel like they violated you or did something against you. We have to begin to understand the tactics of the enemy and the manipulation of the mind.
Understand that there is power in prayer and strength that comes from encouragement. You may feel strong but the other person you were connected with may feel weak. How would you know if you continue to allow the gulf of disappointment to be between you?
Are you trying to dictate to God what you want Him to do? Are you getting discouraged? How can you tell God the Creator of the Universe ... the Creator of you what needs to be done? Are you not trusting that He knows the needs of that which He created? Understand today that discouragement is inevitable when your life is out of balance. You become out of balance when you begin to think that you should dictate to God what He is to do. Your job is to trust God ... not dictate to God. You job is to believe God and not try to change His mind.
Why do you think it is the Bible tells us to have the mind of Christ? Understand that Christ had the mind of the Father. He knows the things that pleased God. He didn't have to change God's mind .... He just had to live out God's plan. That is what we are called to do. To live out God's plan. God is not called to live out your plan.
It is time to try a different approach. Instead of telling God what you want Him to do .... ask Him what He wants you to do. Ask Him how do you walk in the fullness of His word. Ask Him to take away your way of doing things and fill your heart and mind with his way of doing things.
Discouragement comes with "weight". When you get things out of balance and think that you must do what God has already done .... discouragement is inevitable. You are at that point carrying the weight of God. His load. Did He not say for you to cast your cares on Him for He cares for you. Don't try to carry what He has told you to cast ... at that point you are out of balance.
What is the message turning over inside of you today? The word that God is trying to get out through you? The thing that God is stirring through your heart and your mind? It's time to let it out. It's time to share it. Understand that there is a word that God is trying to release through you. A word that will minister to those around you. There are some people that God has ordained to be reached through your destiny. Many others may talk to them .... but they will truly be touched by the word that is inside of you.
You are a point in God's kingdom connection. Understand that there are people connected to your line of destiny. They are searching and they are seeking. Understand people respond to sound differently. I can hear a sound and it may affect me differently than it affects you. There is a sound that can come from only you. A sound that will resonate in the hearts and the minds of those whom God has placed in your life. It's time to release the sound. It's time to blow the trumpet within you. You have a sound within you that will set off a sound like a trumpet does. A trumpet initially was used as a signaling device. Used to announce and proclaim something relevant. It's time for you to be as the trumpet .... to set off a sound that announces and proclaims your Father and King.
Preparedness....
To be in a state of readiness. Are you prepared? You say you want God to move you ... to elevate you .... But are you really ready? Are you ready for the battles that might come because the enemy knows you are getting closer to God? Are you ready to stand no matter what? You say or said that you want to be married. But are you willing to fight for the marriage that God has given you or will give you? Always understanding that a house divided will fall. Are you willing to do what it takes to eliminate division in your house? How about the job that you have been asking God for? Are you really ready for the responsibility that will come along with the promotion? And what about the return of Christ .... is your life and love walk in line with God's word? We have to become prepared. Are you really ready for the next level God is taking you to?
Every level that you go to, is a different level where you should display who you are in God. Your faith is on display. Your walk is on display. How you talk is even on display. You are a representation. The question is .... are you allowing people to see the beauty inside of you? The God in you? The love in you?
Take time to prepare yourself. To empty yourself of any and all things that do not benefit your Kingdom walk. Fill yourself with His word and allow the fruit of His word to be made manifest in your life.
Are you speaking to the destiny that lies inside of people? Not just to the person you see or the actions they do. So often we get caught up on what someone is doing or how someone is acting .... we forget that they have a destiny and there is royalty inside of them. In just thinking about how my daughter addresses my son .... she always calls him "bru". I don't think I can remember many times in the past 20 years that she has called him by name. She always calls him by who he is. The same with my grandchildren ... they call her "auntie". They don't call her by name. We have to get to that place. The place where our conversations and our attitudes address the destiny in people and not just what we see physically.
Make it your purpose to see inside those around you today. See what God has called them to be. Don't just be moved by their actions and want to call them what the flesh is trying to dictate. See what God has said and speak to their destiny. Address them according to their destiny. Look inside of your children and look beyond where they are and what they have been doing. Begin to declare and to decree what God has said about their lives and who they were created to be.
How often do you say Lord help me and then you stop and wonder if He is there? You ask yourself can He hear you? Then you ask Him do you hear me? How often do you think that God is ignoring your prayers? Your petitions? You wonder why everyone else seems to be getting blessed .... but you. How often do you cry aloud to God saying help me? Understand .... God wants you to need Him. He wants you to trust Him. He wants you to cry to Him.
It is not that God is ignoring you. What you have to understand is that time is "in" God. What we see as now .... is actually yesterday, today, and tomorrow in God. His day is not based on what we see or how we feel because He can see your tomorrow. He sees your need met in Him. He sees the exact moment that He has prepared to give you your request.
It's hard to rest. It's hard to trust when you don't know what to expect. Shift your expectancy. Let your expectancy be in God and God alone. When your expectancy (no matter the situation) is in God ... you realize that He will work all things out for your good.
If it was your birthday and you were given the greatest gift of all .... how would you react? That thing that you have wanted so long and you thought was out of reach ..... what if you got it? What would be your response?
Understand today .... God has given you the greatest gift of all. He has given you eternal life through His Son .... so what is your reaction? Is it a reaction of praise and thanksgiving or stillness and complaints about what else you think you need? Isn't it funny how we have the ultimate gift and yet sometimes we constantly talk about what we don't have? When will we get to the understanding that God does not give us things bit by bit. He has already given us everything we need. The problem is ... we haven't learned how to access the things that are contained within the gift.
We have to get to a place of understanding that everything we need is within the seed of His Son. We need to stop looking for things to come. When we do that we are trying to separate the blessings from the "Son". We have to understand that the blessing is in the gift of His "Son". As we honor, respect, and acknowledge the Son.... the gifts that are contained within the blessing of the "Son" are opened up, revealed, and poured out upon our lives.
