Help me to Love you in my life

Help me to love you in my life, so that I can see the direction you are guiding me in.

Help me to love You first, before myself. Help me to love myself so that I can love others. Help me to accept Your life in me that You have put forth- then I can love myself.

All things work together for good for those who love God.

Do I object to the life that I have at this moment? Yes, I DID. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. Greater He is who is in me, than he who lives in this world.

Help me to love You, so I can then love myself... then I can love my enemies.

Do you understand how you are reacting to others when there is confrontation? There may be people of hatred in your life that cause strife in your lives. God is using them to tell you not to focus on them, but on Him and how He wants you to minister to them. You see, the enemy is using them, in accordance to God's will, to drive that thorn into your flesh. And to accept their torments is to let that thorn pierce you where it hurts most. Then we have a tendency to put up walls and when we do that, we also block out God.

This area could be a stumbling block that the enemy uses to twart God's will for our lives. Because, He tells us that He has great plans for us and the enemy doesn't like what that will be- so he derails God's glory in our lives by casting lighting bolts upon our hearts.

We need to focus living by faith, not by sight. We need to think about how to respond in/by grace, mercy and love. Not by lashing out, but by providing an explanation to the scenario. We need to be prepared, we need to be nestled in Christ's arms, we need to be ready for the opposition's attack and repay Him- NOT by hatred, but by truth and righteousness, according to His salvation and gospel, by faith and by His word. So, as we put on the Armor of God, we are protected by the elements of this world. We are protected by what this world has to offer- which is strife. We are to be Holy men of God, not fleshly men of this world. We are to be blameless. We are to be obedient... if we claim that we 'believe' in Him and His ways.

So, are we praising Him in our 'turmoil' or are we grumbling like the Isrealites? He is putting us through famine to see if we can FULLY TRUST IN HIM- NOT JUST WHEN AND AFTER WE FAIL THE TRIALS! The trials will come to pass, rest in Him who rests. He knows the way to pass this level of testing. Ask Him what is going on... and if you listen, He will tell you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will open for you, ask and it will be given.

No one is greater that his teacher

How do we expect to do the things that Jesus did... and even greater things that He did.

I look at this world and see all the troubling things that we go through and experience. Hemorrhoids, cataracts, back aches, messed up teeth structures?

Do we walk in the spirit? Are we an empty vessel for His use? Are we responsible with what we got, so that He can give us more responsibility? Are we ready to serve Him in the path that He has prepared for us???

Are we just sitting around hoping He fills us with His spirit so that we can do something miraculous? Or are we actively praying just as Christ did. What do we expect when we say that He has prepared a path before us?

If you want to serve Him... start looking for Him. Seek and you will find. Ask and it will be given to you. Knock and it will be opened.

We gotta build in our relationship w/ Him so that we can learn how to listen to what He wants to do. He continually talks to us, but do we know how to listen to Him?

Are we laying hands upon each other so His spirit can flow through us and upon the one we are praying for?


No one is greater that his teacher.


Prepare yourself as an empty vessel, putting our flesh aside so we can focus on the Lord as He has prepared our path for us. He has great plans for us. He is going to bring people across your path... are you going to be ready to engage those people?

God's provision for tomorrow

Lord, thank You for opening up this scroll.

Are we prepared to receive what God will put forth in our lives?

More often then not, we are not. Last week the pastor asked what we worry about in our lives. Both he and I went through the very things based upon that question. We were put through our fire of worries- and it was not fun. The pastor shared that he went through a troubling time w/ his wife. I certainly experienced and lived the worries that had caused me to rebel against God.

Hindsight has shown me that God was putting forth an action in our lives that we struggle on- based on the question. And we were not prepared for it... we never are.

Learning to listen and recognize God's direction that He reveals to us, is going to take a lot of practice. He does actively live in our lives. Christ did nothing on His own, but only that of which God had told Him to do. Jesus didn't 'do-nothing' in order to find out the will of God. He had to work at it. He continually prayed for the provision God was going to put forth for the up coming scenarios. So, as we continue to do 'nothing' to prepare us for what God is going to put us through.

Peter wasn't very prepared to walk on water, although he did momentarily. But, God put waves upon the waters that attacked his weaknesses. He wasn't fully prepared and ended up sinking, only to call out to the messiah. It is okay to fail, but only if we learn from our trials so that we can rest in His peace and learn to trust in Him to look for His helping hand as we sink into the water.

So, my question is... will you be ready tomorrow for what God is going to put you through.