It doesn't go there!

Are you struggling today with what you should be doing next in your life? Maybe there is a big decision looming over your head. It’s so important to be willing to let go of all of our own preconceptions of what we think we need to do or how things should happen and trust in God’s Higher plan. 

The Spirit of God has been speaking to me over and over this year that He is in control and He has a plan. He knows the Big Picture. I believe it but do I live my life like I do?

In a recent conversation with my Prayer Partner we talked about our plans vs God’s plans. A visual was shared straight from God of our lives as a big puzzle thrown up in the air and in our quest to help Him we try to grab a piece of the puzzle and place it down where we think if should go. While God is saying, It doesn’t go there, let it go!

5 Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own. 6 Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He's the One who will keep you on track. Prov 3:5-6 (MSG)

10 Don't panic. I'm with you. There's no need to fear for I'm your God. I'll give you strength. I'll help you. I'll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you. Isa 41:10 (MSG)

I have found that when I am willing to let go of my own thoughts and desires and entrust them with God, then I am able to rest in His Peace, His Timing and get better clarity of what's going on. I'm able to move forward in my day with confidence knowing that Someone Who's a great deal smarter then me is sorting out all of the details of my life and has my back.

What about you? Are you striving to make things happen in your life that maybe don't belong there? Are you stressing over what the future holds for you? I think it's time to throw the fragmented pieces of your life up in the air and let God put them where they need to be.

There's a phrase that has been used over and over again, but I think it really applies, Let go and Let God!

I encourage you to do it today and just wait and see what He will do in your life. I venture to say it will be more then you ever dreamed possible!

Lord- Please help us to trust You with every area of our lives. Forgive us for trying to cram things in where they don't belong. We choose not to panic about what we think the future holds but to rest in the knowledge that You are in control. Thank You that You know the Big Picture and have the Master Plan. We surrender to You Lord. Have Your way God in our lives today, we pray in Jesus Name, Amen!

Jesus cleared the path

How do you approach God? Do you feel like you have to be all cleaned up, dressed in your Sunday best before you can talk with Him? Do you skulk in, begging and pleading for Him to have mercy on you? Do you cower down while waiting for His mighty fist to pound you to dust because of your sin? Here's what the Word says:

19 So, friends, we can now - without hesitation - walk right up to God, into "the Holy Place." 20 Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. 21 The "curtain" into God's presence is His body. 22 So let's do it - full of belief, confident that we're presentable inside and out. 23 Let's keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps His word. Heb 10:19-23 (MSG)

The devil wants nothing more then to convince you that you are unacceptable before God. He does not want you to know who you are because of the sacrifice of Jesus. Once you realize that you can boldly walk into God's Presence you will be changed. When you stand on God's promises that you are a New Creation, Holy and acceptable before Him, you will be changed.

Jesus did it all we just have to believe it!!!!!

Friends we should be walking with our heads held high in a spirit of rejoicing. We should freely dance before the Lord like David did because the path to God has been cleared by Jesus. Our sin is washed clean by His blood.

Quit letting the enemy rob you of the knowledge of what you have been freely given. Run into God's Presence. Live in an attitude of thanksgiving and rejoicing because of the Grace (unmerited favor) He has given you.

24 Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, 25 not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching. Heb 10:24-25 (MSG)

Do you need to be encouraged today? Seek Him out, seek out His children. Hang out with the Body of Christ, offer your help if it's needed and talk about the goodness of God. Encourage each other about His Promises and share the miracles that He is doing in your life. Share God's goodness with non believers who are searching to be free too!

Read His Word, find out more about Who He is and who you are because all that He has done for you, just because He loves you!!

Brothers and sisters don't walk in defeat today, that is playing right into the devils hand. You are a child of the Most High God. You were bought and paid for with a price, the blood of Jesus. He cleared the path for you to walk continually in God's Presence. As one of our Pastor's at church says, WOW!

Lord please forgive us for listening to the lies that we are no good, that we can't talk with You directly. Forgive us for seeing You as a mean task master at times and not throwing our arms open wide, with a thankful heart and rejoice in Your Presence. Help us to cast off our hesitations and run into Your arms today, confessing those times of missing the mark and graciously accept the forgiveness that You died for us to have. 

Finally remind us to take time and encourage others in the faith. As we share the goodness You are doing in our lives it not only builds others up but it builds us up too!

Thank You Jesus for making a way for us to live today in Victory and spend Eternity with You!

Are you under construction?

30 "Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain." Ex 26:30 NIV

This is God, The Architect, speaking to Moses, the foreman of the project.

Being one who has gone through a home remodel project and likely going to go through another, this really speaks to me about trust in someone else's vision and the willingness for construction to take place where I live. As well as the willingness to let go of something that's relatively comfortable to be changed to something spectacular.

God had a plan for His dwelling place. He knew what the Tabernacle etc. needed to look like and what it would take to make it happen. He knew the length of the panels, wood and all. He even SHOWED this to Moses in a drawing of some sort on the Mountain. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around that one. He pulled out the blueprint, maybe drew it out in the dirt and revealed the big picture to Moses.

Throughout Exodus we read all of the specifics of the design. Moses had to trust and obey all of the instructions. God continued to emphasis that Moses needed to solicit the help of skilled craftsmen to do some of the work. God knows all that needs to happen in our lives. He knows what it will take to create the end result that is needed. The work wasn't done over night,  it took along time to accomplish.

How does this affect us today? We must put our trust in Him and let Him take His Temple, where He dwells, and remodel us to look like Him. We need to let Him be the draftsman and follow the blueprint that He has laid out for us in His Word. He has shown us what the Big Picture should look like, in the Person of Jesus.

19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. 1 Cor 16:19-20 NIV


10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator. Col 3:10 NIV

15 He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Col 1:15

Now it's up to us to respond when He says get rid of this or that and replace it with such and such.
He has provided skilled workers in our lives to help us be all that we can be. People who may have already gone through something that we need to change or learn about like our Pastor's, Bible Teacher's, a mature follower of His that we see His Image, Jesus, revealed through.

Let's let Him be the Architect in our lives. Let's read the plans He's laid out for us and make the changes needed so we can be all that He has created us to be. All leading to the end result of being conformed into the Image of Jesus Christ. It won't happen overnight, it will take a lifetime of construction.

The good news is we don't have to do it alone. He has even given us the Foreman and Workman, His very Spirit, dwelling within us to give us the ability and strength to follow the plans. But we must be willing to surrender our thoughts and will to Him and let Him do the work in us. We must step out in faith and trust that He knows what needs to be done next and then we do it, through His power.

He knows what it's going to take to become the beautiful Image of Himself today, here on earth. His Temple in us; a place where His Spirit freely dwells and is able to move through to reveal Jesus to others.

Are you willing to be a construction site? Are you willing to let Him draw in the dirt of your life the Big Picture and go from someone relatively comfortable to someone spectacular?

Trust Him

The Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace. Ex 14:14

When you go through life doing what you feel God has told you to do sometimes it can feel like you’re fighting the gates of hell to move forward. You can feel very alone and isolated. No one seems to understand you and few seem to care. Know this, as a follower of Christ He has made you a promise that He is with you and will fight on your behalf.

This passage in Exodus is referring to God’s hand being at work on behalf of His children as He was bringing them out of captivity. They continued to grumble and complain because it wasn’t happening the way they expected it to. They needed to TRUST God that He was at work.

We, as His grafted in children through the sacrificial blood of Jesus, have a right to the same promise. He will and is fighting for us to accomplish what He has called us to do. What do we do, grumble and complain. Why? Because we don’t understand how He is working. We think we’re battling the situations we see before us but there very well maybe other battles that are going on that we are purposely in the dark on.

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Eh 6:12

Are you stepping out in faith and doing what you feel God has asked of you? Hold fast and let Him work it out. Let Him fight the battles.

5 Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own. 6 Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he's the one who will keep you on track. Prov 3:5-6

Don’t be discourage brothers and sisters. God has a plan. He is at work in your life. Stop looking at the circumstances you’re in as your enemy and begin to Thank Him for them. He has made a promise to you. As His child He will never leave you nor forsake you. He will give you all you need, when you need it, to do what He has called you to do.

More than anyone this is a strong reminder to me. While I’m in the midst of so much activity, I must hold, treasure and guard my peace and know that I am right where He wants me to be. I need to let Him lead me and fight any battles that need to be fought. I need to stand against the lies of confusion, fear and discouragement. I need to put one foot in front of the other and know that as I press into Him He will lift me up.

Thank You Jesus for this reminder again. Thank you that I must rejoice and look forward with great expectation to the natural and the supernatural victories that are mine as I put my Trust in You!!