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.
God has given you the power to overcome the challenges that seem to keep arising in your life. You are not defeated. No matter how it feels or what it looks like, you are not defeated. You are an overcomer. The battle against life and death has ALREADY been won on your behalf. Jesus has fought the battle, won it, and given us the victory.
Whatever your situation is ... KNOW THAT IT IS NOT PERMANENT. Learn how to trust God for change. Trust what He has said. Trust that He has told you that He is working things together for your good. Trust that He will never leave you nor forsake you. Trust that He is God and His Word is true.
Sometimes life gets hard. Sometimes we don't know what to do.
Sometimes it seems as though the pain is overtaking every good feeling
and thought we have. But we have to press past what is happening
sometimes. The word sometimes means occasionally or from time time to time.
We have to know and understand that there are times and seasons. A
season is a period of time where things take place or are permitted.
We have to know that seasons end.
Think about what we do when seasons change. When Winter turns into Spring. When Spring Turns into Summer. When Summer turns into Fall. The different season require different clothes. We prepare. We prepare for the change. That is what you need to do in life. Start preparing for this season of your life to change.
Another word for prerogative is "birthright". A birthright is a basic entitlement. It is that which comes along with birth. Understand the birthright that has been bestowed upon you. When something is bestowed, it is given even when it is undeserved. There is nothing we could have done to earn the eternal life that we have been given through the sacrifice of Jesus. Eternal life is a gift that has been given to us by God. When we are born again, we receive the birthright of eternal life.
A birthright is a right, possession or privilege. In the Bible Esau sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for something to eat. Eating appeases the flesh. To appease means to pacify or to satisfy a need or desire for something. Don't sell your birthright by appeasing your flesh. Understand the rights that you have been given through salvation. Learn how to wait on God to give you what you need and what you desire that lines up with His Word and will. Don't let go of God's promises for a "temporary" fix to your situation.
What's the difference? What is the difference in how you are handling your situations now in comparison to what you would have done in the past. What is the difference? What has changed? Are you giving them over to God or are you still trying to figure them out and work them out? What is different?
What is the difference in how you relate to others? When others let you down, what do you do? Do you walk in unforgiveness, hurt, and pain? Or do you release them and what they have done to God?
We have to get to a place of releasing everything to God. Where we cast our cares on Him and put our faith, hope, and trust in Him. We have to learn how to let people go while trusting God for their deliverance. We have to know, see, recognize, and remember that God is real.
Don't lose your faith or your hope. Sometimes we put our faith, hope, and trust in people and they let us down. However, you cannot determine the faithfulness of God based on what people do or do not do. We want to believe and we want to trust, but we have to remember that people may let us down. We can't judge the faithfulness of God based on what people do and don't do.
We have to begin to understand that people change. God does not change. People may lie. God cannot lie. People will take away life. God is the giver of life. Therefore we know that our faith and our hope MUST be in God. It is God who is faithful and who will keep us when people let us down.
Are you taking on a battle that God has already told you that He would fight for you? Are you trying to figure it out and work it out. God has a plan. You have to trust it. He said that He knows the plans that He has for you. Now He just wants you to know. To know means to be certain about something. God wants you to be certain about the fact that He has a plan and that He will take care of you.
So right now come to a point of surrender. Where you surrender your all to Him. Where you trust Him. Where you believe Him. Where you are walking in faith concerning His promises that He has given you in His Word. Let Him fight the battle. Understand right now that the battle has already been won. Stop fighting and start walking in victory.
Why not now? Why not trust God now? Why not believe God now? Why not make a move for God now? It's time to stop procrastinating. It's time to move forward. It's time to trust God and to step out in faith.
What is it that God has told you to do? Have you taken the steps necessary to make it happen? Have you moved out on faith showing God that you trust and believe Him? You belong to God and He has said if you delight in Him, He will give you the desires of your heart. (Psalm 37:4)
In order for you to completely surrender to God, you must trust Him completely. You must also believe Him. If you don't trust Him or believe Him, you will always hold a part of life in reserve. Your thought process will always be one that says "just in case God doesn't do it ... I will do this or that". It's time to truly let go and let God.
