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.