Scripture: Ezekiel 36:
27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. 28 Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.
In transition a lot of nothing happens. You run the danger of doing too much or doing too little either way you miss the danger of missing the opportunity God tailor made for you. Motivational speakers always say the first step is knowing what you want. And I don't know... I want a lot of things right now. Things that are so out of reach its stupid, even when I've compromised. But in the end I want to get to the promised land. And while I'm doing what I can to get there what can God do for me? He says it above. In other ways I can run around all I want but all I have to do is yield my spirit to God's spirit and HE will move me to do what's needed to get me to the place He promised me. "Seek yea first the kingdom and the financial prosperity, social stability etc will be added unto you"
...so help me God...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
My emotions vs my Promises.
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1 vs 19
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. 20 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.
I have noticed how I make emotional decisions. I have come to a place where I'm able to keep calm outside when I'm boiling inside. And I used to think that was enough, never stir unnecessary strife, never elongate painful situations and what not. Self preservation and all that. But not until I started to feel like the children of Egypt going in circles in the wilderness for 40 years when better has been promised to me.
So instead of making decisions off of "I'm never doing that/again because I never want to feel like that\again." I want to decide by yes I have the power to trample over the scorpions and serpents of this earth, yes I am the head and not the tail, yes whatever I ask in His name I will get, yes all things will work out for my good and yes I can, yes I'm enough, yes I'm significant coz why else would I have been fearfully and wonderfully made?
The reason is not only because if I focus on myself more than on Him I will be cheating myself of all that's been promised to me but because I will never have pure motives if I work off of how I feel. Everything I do, however good, will be to make me feel good. It won't edify others or glorify God.
So in pursuing the testimony I will strive for a grip on my emotions. Get it together. So I can walk by faith and not by feeling/sight.
...so help me God...
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. 20 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.
I have noticed how I make emotional decisions. I have come to a place where I'm able to keep calm outside when I'm boiling inside. And I used to think that was enough, never stir unnecessary strife, never elongate painful situations and what not. Self preservation and all that. But not until I started to feel like the children of Egypt going in circles in the wilderness for 40 years when better has been promised to me.
So instead of making decisions off of "I'm never doing that/again because I never want to feel like that\again." I want to decide by yes I have the power to trample over the scorpions and serpents of this earth, yes I am the head and not the tail, yes whatever I ask in His name I will get, yes all things will work out for my good and yes I can, yes I'm enough, yes I'm significant coz why else would I have been fearfully and wonderfully made?
The reason is not only because if I focus on myself more than on Him I will be cheating myself of all that's been promised to me but because I will never have pure motives if I work off of how I feel. Everything I do, however good, will be to make me feel good. It won't edify others or glorify God.
So in pursuing the testimony I will strive for a grip on my emotions. Get it together. So I can walk by faith and not by feeling/sight.
...so help me God...
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