AWE- ALMIGHTY GOD!
Week Of May 13th 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Romans 11:33
Only The Infinite Can Know The Infinite!
A.W.Tozwer
Infinitely So! Infinitely Sufficient!
"Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unfathomable (inscrutable, unsearchable) are His judgments (His decisions)! And how untraceable (mysterious, undiscoverable) are His ways (His methods, His paths)!" (amplified bible)
Developing My AWE-GOD With An Attitude Of Gratitude!
Lord Jesus, I am grateful for the Kingdom of God. It is my home, a secure future. It is an Infinite Hope that this world can not disturb in any way. I am so grateful for the stability of this hope. Thank you for preparing it for me. Just as I am specifically designed for now, YOU have gone to prepare a place for me in the Kingdom of God. I am so grateful to YOU, Jesus for this everlasting Kingdom. You Reign! AWE-GOD!
Romans 11: 34-36
For who has known the mind of the Lord and who has understood His thoughts, or who has [ever] been His counselor? 35 Or who has first given God anything that he might be paid back or that he could claim a recompense? 36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. [For all things originate with Him and come from Him; all things live through Him, and all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in Him.] To Him be glory forever! Amen (so be it). Amplified Bible (AMP) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
victorious voyage With a Great God in seasonal time tours
This week of fasting from the internet has been just perfect for me, I am hearing so much of where I need to grow in my life. Putting my roots completely into the Kingdom of God, my home, the place of my real citizenship will bring me a new certainty, a strength in the foundation of my spirit. This is an uncertain future as I live one day at a time, the Kingdom is a certain future. If I am deeply rooted in the Kingdom, invested fully in the Kingdom of God all of my reactions to the things that I face here in this world will change. My first reaction to everything will be leaning into the Sovereign Sway of God, a sweet surrender, a willess response and a YES that is always on the table before You, Lord God present the opportunity. This is where I truly need to be! Deeply Kingdom Rooted. More of YOU, Less of ME, More of Your Kingdom, less of this world.
Holy Spirit Inspired…. He speaks, I listen and obey… Thank you for teaching Me!
Galatians 1:12 (NLT) I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ.
Becoming A Woman of Beauty And Strength By Elizabeth George Page 34
Ester was "taken" to the palace complex. Can you point to any pivotal days in y our life, a day and a happening that everything changed. In Ester's case, God began to work in her difficult circumstance. Being taken into the King's palace meant that Ester would most likely never leave the place. If she pleased the King she would be made queen and live in the palace. If she didn't become queen, she would pass the rest of her days as a concubine in the kings' large harem. Have you ever faced an uncertain future? Was your first reaction fear, worry, or surrender to God?
My Thoughts About This = Miraculous Musings! J
Ester needed to "charm" the King. It was a choice in her situation to go with her womanly "charms" or to let God make a way for her. It was her genuine kindness that caught the attention of the King, it was not finite that captured his attention, it was the Infinite Favor of God. We can't "charm" our way in this life, we must develop the Godly characteristics of His Holy Spirit and be led by HIS FAVOR. The ways of the Kingdom of God are not our natural reaction when things suddenly change in our lives, shaking up the future we have planned here. But as we get more rooted in the Kingdom of God, the response to our "suddenly situations" become more supernatural, less focused on gain here, more focused on our future and hope. We "grow through" situations without the weight of earthly perception and can clearly step into the purposes of God in play in our now as we set our gaze on our future and hope. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain, therefore our fleshly grip on this life is loosened and we can be used by God with greater clarity of His purpose at hand that is always Kingdom related.
Proverbs 11:16
A woman who has a kind heart gains respect. But men who are not kind gain only wealth.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV) Copyright © 1996, 1998 by Biblica
Proverbs 31:10
A capable, intelligent, and [a]virtuous woman—who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls.
Footnotes:
Proverbs 31:10 It is most unfortunate that this description of God's ideal woman is usually confined in readers' minds merely to its literal sense—her ability as a homemaker, as in the picture of Martha of Bethany in Luke 10:38-42. But it is obvious that far more than that is meant. When the summary of what makes her value "far above rubies" is given (in Prov. 31:30), it is her spiritual life only that is mentioned. One can almost hear the voice of Jesus saying, "Mary has chosen the good portion... which shall not be taken away from her" (Luke 10:42).
Amplified Bible (AMP) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
Proverbs 31:30
Charm can fool you. Beauty fades. But a woman who has respect for the Lord should be praised.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV) Copyright © 1996, 1998 by Biblica
My Thoughts About This = Miraculous Musings! J
Purposefully developing my AWE of God has truly brought my respect of God up to a whole new level in my spirit. God has a "kind heart", a heart of compassion and it brings about great AWE for me and it is out of this position of AWE that I hope huge to be a reflection of God's heart. A kind heart is not a natural human condition, it has to come from a Spirit that is completely given over to God to His Kingdom plan. Kindness comes out of selflessness, which to me is a fruit of a will surrendered completely to God. Kindness is a symptom of a heart surrendered, a will leaning into the Sovereign Sway of God. If I am vested here in this world instead of invested in the Kingdom of God, I will not walk in the kindness that is truly genuine, I will have a worldly charm that does not extend past my comfort zone. Charm can only extend itself to the point of the object of my comfort, it does not stretch past the objects wants, it serves the human nature. God's Kindness, knows no human bounds, it is willing to sacrifice all, it serves no human condition as it stretches past the finite worldly capability to the Infinite characteristic of Kingdom life, taking on God's nature. Charm is a façade of a people pleaser, kindness is a genuine trait of a God pleaser. Kindness is a sure sign of living deeper than for now, roots established in Kingdom soil
Holy Spirit Inspired…. He speaks, I listen and obey… Thank you for teaching Me!
Galatians 1:12 (NLT) I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ.
Power Thoughts By Joyce Meyer Page 134-138
Excerpts From The Book Power Thoughts By Joyce Meyer:
"The thought of getting started with a serious workout routine was overwhelming to my mind, so I had to put Philippians 4:13 to work in a very practical way and discipline myself to say, "I can do this. I can do whatever I need to do in life, and God says I need to be on a serious workout program." Joyce Meyer
"I strongly urge you to face your challenges one day at a time. Looking too far down the road only tends to overwhelm us in our thinking. Trusting God requires that we believe He gives us our "daily bread." In other words, we receive what we need as we need it and usually not before." Joyce Meyer
Philippians 4:11-13
Not that I am implying that I was in any personal want, for I have learned how to be [a] content (satisfied to the point where I am not disturbed or disquieted) in whatever state I am. 12 I know how to be abased and live humbly in straitened circumstances, and I know also how to enjoy plenty and live in abundance. I have learned in any and all circumstances the secret of facing every situation, whether well-fed or going hungry, having a sufficiency and enough to spare or going without and being in want. 13 I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who [b]infuses inner strength into me; I am [c]self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency].
Footnotes:
Philippians 4:11 Literal translation: "self-sufficient."
Philippians 4:13 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
Philippians 4:13 Note that in Phil. 4:11, the Greek autarkas, translated "content," is literally "self-sufficient."
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My Thoughts About This = Miraculous Musings! J
The timing of our seasonal life changes is always perfect in God purpose. Every season on this earth has a challenge that is worked out in God purposes for the intent of building His character in us and rooting us in His Kingdom. When you feel you can't stand another day in this season of life, God is working in the unseen and purposefully stripping you of a worldly trait and shaping in you a Kingdom characteristic. Towards the end of every season we always feel so vulnerable and this causes a spiritual restlessness that we have to discipline ourselves not to impulsively react to. Discipling our flesh is responding with trust, hope and faith and not moving forward out of our discomfort, unless compelled by the Holy Spirit. There may not be enough light to see ahead, we need to walk step by step in the Light God purposefully provides. If we kindle our own fire and walk by the light of this fire, it builds a personal comfort zone that does not stretch past our finite human condition. God wants to stretch our tent pegs past what is comfortable into the unknown, because it is here in complete followship of Him, that we grow in Kingdom character. Persevering in the flow of God's Kingdom purposes is a finite discipline when anchored to Christ's Sufficiency, always pays off in Infinite breakthrough to Kingdom living. Pressing through our comfort zone of self sufficiency and leaning into the Sovereign Sway of God is disciplining our flesh is shedding our finite and gaining more of Kingdom Infinite. More of YOU, Jesus, Less of ME, more of Your Kingdom Jesus, less of this world. Let it be so! I can't do life through my own self sufficiency, it is never enough. I can simply-significantly be found in a Kingdom sufficiency, rooted in Christ Jesus and His Great Kingdom Of God! AWE-GOD
Philippians 4:12-13
I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. 13 For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
"Don't let your mind get in your way; you can do whatever you decide to do. Our motto here is 'No excuses, only results'," With that encouragement, I thought, Okay, I'm going to get a good mind-set about this. I can do this." Joyce Meyer
"Whatever you need to do in life, you can do it. Remember, Philippians 4:13 says you are ready for anything and equal to anything because God gives you strength. Nothing is too much for you when He is on your side." Joyce Meyer
My Thoughts About This = Miraculous Musings! J
I know how…. Confessing: I Know… Is a huge sign that the person who wrote that has a "Infinite Sufficiency Mind-Set" I know that it is my finite mind-set that keeps me from living an Infinite Kingdom Life. Lord please teach me how to have an Infinite Mind Set so that I KNOW… I know that I can do all things with Your Infinite Sufficiency in me.
You Are For Me! Kari Jobe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_35gB76xV_Y
Faithful, Constant, Loving, True, Powerful In All You Do
You Fill Me With Infinite Sufficiency.
I KNOW You are For Me! I KNOW You will never forsake me in my weakness
You Have Written Who You Are On My Heart! It Is My Constant Reminder That You, Jesus Are For Me!
Patient, Gracious, Merciful And True! Wonderful In All You Do! Jesus!
Forsaken! Judged Conditionally! Disappointed? Accept Jesus Christ! He Is FOR You. He Will NOT Forsake You! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_35gB76xV_Y #MWanted
Joyce Meyer: Promises for Your Everyday Life - a Daily Devotional
Romans 8:6
Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].
You Can Win the Battle Today By Joyce Meyer
Right now, you and I are in the middle of a war. As long as we live in this world, we are going to have to resist becoming like it. Joyce Meyer
It's a daily battle, and sadly, the church today is full of worldly, carnal, fleshly believers. But if we want to live in a way that can change our world, then we have to stop living in the flesh and start living in the Spirit.
Every one of us needs to continually make adjustments to put our fleshly desires under the Holy Spirit's control and not let our emotions or mind rule us. Scripture explains that the spirit wars against the flesh and the flesh wars against the spirit, so they are continually antagonistic toward each other.
It's a war! The devil hates us, and he is constantly working overtime trying to make sure that we give in to the flesh. Joyce Meyer
Ultimately, you decide who wins in your life. You don't have to be subject to your flesh. You can live in the Spirit, bringing your flesh in line with His Will. You can win the battle today.
Prayer Starter: God, I want to win the battle today. My flesh will lead to death, but living in Your Spirit leads to life. I choose Your Spirit today. Help me bring my flesh in line with Your will.
My Thoughts About This = Miraculous Musings! J
Yes Lord and from what YOU have been speaking to me today, I pray YOU Bring my flesh in line, in Holy Alignment with Your Kingdom, My home. Jesus! Give me a desire and a call to Your Kingdom, My Home. Keep me walking feet on the ground here, but heart in The Kingdom of God. Jesus!
YOU VERSION NOTE – GOD INSPIRED- GOD WRITTEN
God's Infinite Sufficiency
If you are invested in the Kingdom of God more than this world, you will know a self sufficiency greater than one the world can imagine or ever hope to give. Contentment is not easy to come by in this world. Our culture lives in a harried state of discontentment. We are never satisfied, it is the human condition. No matter what happens that is good for us, it is never enough, we always want more.
Satisfy yourself! Get all you can get! Do whatever makes you the happiest! Pleasure yourself at all costs with a whatever attitude towards the consequences. We crave self sufficient independence that feeds on getting our "more than enough" Our culture doesn't help, it cranks out every kind of variety of the things of life to help try to satisfy our insatiable human wants!
We never have what it takes personally to keep up with the enticements of this world. The craving we have to experience every flavor of life never stops, yet even so, when the latest and greatest has been procured, having it "ALL" never satiates our hungering for more.
Jesus Christ is the self sufficiency to our "More Than Enough" and His Kingdom is our "Completely Enough", were we find the strength to live and have our being! The Kingdom of God is a soil of satisfaction with ONE Object of desire, Jesus Christ. As our desire for Jesus grows foremost, our self-sufficiency is fed with His abundant sufficiency. He is simply-significantly enough. We become content with a Kingdom Culture that is unchangeable in power, glory and strength; instead of a worldly culture whose enticement feeds on our carnal "want" nature and never seems to satisfy us.
Contentment and self sufficiency is never achieved as we invest more and more in this world and we become a self centered, dissatisfied, disappointed people!
The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy, three things that are so necessary for Godly contentment. It is these things that God seems to work in us through hard seasons of human discipline, design and fabricate in our human condition, a Christ sufficiency, a strength beyond finite measure.
God uses long seasons of finite discipline to shape us Infinite sufficiency! Our human condition is stretched further than we can imagine or think we can endure during theses purposeful God seasons of our life. The timing of our seasonal life changes is always perfect in God purpose with a mission of transitioning our finite strength into Infinite Sufficiency. Every season on this earth has a challenge that is worked out in God purposes flowing in our lives in His Way, which is pretty much never the way we would have chosen. God's purposes flow in our lives in so many creative ways, on His purpose, for the intent of building His character in us and rooting us in His Kingdom, His Infinite Sufficiency.
The endgame of God is to dead end our finite strength in weakness that when infused by His Infinite Sufficiency, has an unmistakable Kingdom Glory Glow, that overtakes the finite mess with a Kingdom message. God has an endgame, a spiritual bookend to this season of your life and with purposeful timing, He will place it. Transition time is near when you feel you can't stand another day in this season of life! God is working in the unseen and purposefully stripping you of a worldly trait and shaping in you a Kingdom Characteristic steeped in Infinite Sufficiency.
Towards the end of every season our feeling of finite vulnerability is ramped up! This heightened state of soul emotion, causes a deep spiritual restlessness and we have to discipline ourselves, activating the gift of self control, to keep us from not impulsively reacting finitely! Premature breakout from the discipline of God while His purposes are still in play for us does not bring us to a God Break-Through! If we run from finishing what God started in this season of our life, He will bring us full circle right back to that place, because His endgame is our Infinite Sufficiency, our weaknesses being found in HIS Infinite Sufficiency and He will finish what He starts in this season of our lives. He will bookend this season of my life with a mind set of His Infinite Sufficiency!
Discipling our flesh is responding with trust, hope and faith and not moving forward out of our finite discomfort, unless compelled by the Holy Spirit. In the transition time, there may not be enough light to see ahead, and we need to depend upon the Infinite Sufficiency of the Holy Spirit and learn to walk step by step in the Light God purposefully provides. If we kindle our own finite fire and walk by the light of this man made fire, it builds a personal comfort zone that does not stretch past our finite human condition and it's sufficiency will flame out, leaving us completely tortured by the hopelessness of the dark in a time of transition. Not Good! This is a great wisdom warning to keep in our spirit, to help us stay put in the flow of God's Infinite Sufficiency during times of seasonal transition:
Isaiah 50:10-11
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys his servant? That person may walk in the dark and have no light. Then let him trust in the Lord and yet depend on his God. 11 But instead, some of you want to light your own fires and make your own light. So, go, walk in the light of your fires, and trust your own light to guide you. But this is what you will receive from me: You will lie down in a place of pain.
New Century Version (NCV)The Holy Bible, New Century Version®. Copyright © 2005 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
God wants to stretch our tent pegs past what is comfortable into the unknown, because it is here in complete followship of Him, that we grow in Kingdom character. Persevering in the flow of God's Kingdom purposes is a finite discipline anchored to Christ's Sufficiency, and it always pays off in Infinite breakthrough to Kingdom living. Pressing through our comfort zone of finite self sufficiency and leaning into the Sovereign Sway of God is disciplining our flesh, is shedding our finite and gaining more of Kingdom Infinite Sufficiency. More of YOU, Jesus, Less of ME, more of Your Infinite Kingdom Jesus, less of this finite world. Let it be so! Infinitely So! I can't do life through my own finite self sufficiency, it is never enough. I can simply-significantly be found in Kingdom Sufficiency, rooted in Christ Jesus and His Great Kingdom Of God! AWE-GOD! Infinitely Sufficiently So! GOD IS For Us! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_35gB76xV_Y
******Ramah From God******
Ramah Word! Selah …pause, and calmly think of this :
Romans 14:17
[After all] the kingdom of God is not a matter of [getting the] food and drink [one likes], but instead it is righteousness (that state which makes a person acceptable to God) and [heart] peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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Romans 14:17
God's kingdom isn't a matter of what you put in your stomach, for goodness' sake. It's what God does with your life as he sets it right, puts it together, and completes it with joy. Your task is to single-mindedly serve Christ. Do that and you'll kill two birds with one stone: pleasing the God above you and proving your worth to the people around you.
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"[Doxology] Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!"
Romans 11:33 NIV
Notes From Listening To Romans 11:33
Did God reject His people! No! God does not reject those Who He foreknew. People try to kill us, God always has a remnant chosen by grace not works, grace is not grace through works. God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they could not see or ears that they could not hear. Eyes darkened so that they could not see. Will bent forever. Did they stumble beyond recovery, no… because of their transgression, salvation came to the gentiles. Their fullness will bring great riches as they accept Jesus Christ. Arose people to envy to save some of them. Acceptance is life from the dead. If the part of the dough is holy, all of it is holy. If a wild olive shoot is grated in, it shares in the nourishing of the root that supports you. Branches were broken off so I could be grated in, broken off by unbelief so you could be grated in. Do not be arrogant towards the Jews, because there disobedience caused them to be broken off and caused us to be grafted into The Vine. God wants us to continue in His kindness, if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grated back in. The natural branches will be grafted into their own olive tree when they accept Jesus. Israel has experienced a hardening until all the gentiles are grafted n the deliverer will come. God extended His mercy to the gentiles because of the disobedience of the Jews. We received mercy because of their disobedient hardened hearts, they have become disobedient to receive the mercy given to us because of their disobedience. God will have mercy on us all. Who has known the mind of the Lord and been His counselor. To Him is all things, to Him be the glory forever. AMEN!
Carry Me To The Cross By Kutless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8LSd31PESI
We Are Not Alone! He Carries Us Everyday – All The Way "Growing Through" To The Cross!
His Love Moves Us To The Foot Of His Glory! We Are Not Alone!
All Of Creation You Gave Life With Your Hands! With Those Hands You Carry Us!
AWE-GOD! You Carry Us With The Very Hands That Created Us!
Graced Again! leadership wisdom from Ron edmondston
Years ago I was serving on a team where there was a consistent idea killer. Whenever anyone on the team presented an idea, regardless of the idea's merit, this person would shoot it down. It was annoying, but was allowed to continue by leadership. Everyone talked about it outside of the meetings, no one respected the idea killer, and even the leader admitted it was a problem for the team, but he insisted he had counseled with this person privately, and it never seemed to improve.
It led me to the conclusion: Sometimes as a leader you have to address the "elephant in the room"…in the room. Everyone knows it's there. You can't miss an elephant. It keeps being repeated. You've handled it individually. Nothing has changed. It may even be getting worse.
At some point, the leaders may have to address the elephant in the room.
You can't ignore the elephant. While everyone is in the room, address the elephant.
You may have to call out the person causing the disruption in the presence of everyone else in the room. It's hard, uncomfortable, and you don't want to do it often, but it may be necessary.
If you don't. Everyone will assume poor performance is tolerated. The negative activity will be copied by others. Team dynamics will never be healthy. Address the elephant!
Everyone already knows it's there. You can't hide the elephant. Do I need to repeat that again?
It's time. Do it now. Have you ever served on a team where the elephant wasn't addressed and it negatively impacted the team?
My Thoughts About This = Miraculous Musings! J
Yes and this is such good wisdom that I learned the hard way! Thank you! My experience with this was life changing. A staff person was hired ie.. "elephant". I was the administrative secretary that served under the old staff person. I had all the relationships with the team. It became evident right away that the "spiritual mask of overestimated ability" of the "elephant" would not stand up to the reality of the task they were hired for. The elephant's God-walk did not line up with the elephant's talk-the life style did not match Godly living. Therefore the ministry team came to me individually bothered by what they were seeing and experiencing and I did my best to soothe them, knowing that things were not right. I took it to my core director, he said, his executive director was the one who hired the "elephant" and I needed to "grow with" that decision and trust it and not talk negative about the "elephant" to him again and if I could not do that, I needed to go. His perspective was my loyalty to the old staff person, impaired my judgment to the new one. So in every staff meeting I sat with the reality that I knew something was spiritually wrong with the "elephant" and never confronted the "elephant" or what we were experiencing in the life of our ministry team for fear of losing my job. I never confronted what I knew was dangerous behavior; I never took it to our core staff group. All hell broke loose and that "elephant" ended up crashing and burning… hurting the reputation of the ministry and the church and costing thousands of dollars. I felt responsible for not taking that next step after I took it to my core director, who was unwilling to see that the executive director had misjudged this "elephant"! I did not have the courage to confront the "elephant" in the core staff meeting, where there was safety set up in a multitude of counselors.
A Seasoned Servant Of God Has Encouraged Me Today
More Consistency Anne Graham Lotz
"Abide in Me, and I in you." John 15:4, NKJV
The branch is totally, absolutely, completely dependent upon the Vine, not only for fruit, but for life. Whether because of pride or fear or some other reason, we as branches seem to struggle with being totally dependent on the Vine.
In what areas of your life are you acting independently of the Vine? I can usually determine these areas by just checking my prayer life. The items I have not prayed about- the people and problems, the relationships and responsibilities, the activities and attitudes, the schedules and stress, the entertainment and exercise, the pleasures and pastimes, the decisions and dreams, the desires and diets, anything and everything-are those areas of my life where I am not dependent upon Him. If my heart's cry is for more of His fruitfulness, then one of the goals of my life needs to be more consistency in my dependency. Would you make this your goal, too?
Blessings, Anne Graham Lotz
My Thoughts About This = Miraculous Musings! J
I do Lord, it is my hearts desire, especially after this week of special time with YOU, that I have a more consistent relationship with YOU, my dependency growing to a completely and my alignment with Your Kingdom horizontal, with a full focus on YOU and Your purposes in play in this world around me.
http://wisdomhunters.com/ Boyd Bailey
"I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken." Psalm 16:8
Jesus deserves my undivided attention, yet I struggle with distractions. My mind is drawn to musing over pressing issues at work that never seem to go away. My heart engages in emotional cares for others in crisis that I am unable to control. My eyes look ahead in worry or behind in regret. It is at these pivotal points that I desire my eyes to stay fixed on Jesus in prayer and not on others or myself. Faith makes Christ the center of attention.
The eyes of our souls can be blind to belief or they can open wide in anticipation of the Almighty's faithfulness. If we close our spiritual eyes we extinguish hope and miss our Master's comfort and instruction. It is when we gaze into the eyes of Jesus that He sees right through us to the heart of the matter.
What matters to the Lord, becomes what matters to us. Like reading glasses, the Bible brings into focus the character of Christ.
"Come," he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!"
Matthew 14:29-30
You will sink into the waters of doubt if you stare at the winds of worry. Walk on the water of God's will when you look unto the face of Jesus.
Your faith in Christ replaces fear with the fortitude to follow in His footsteps. It is much better for you to be in a raging storm walking toward the Lord, than to be on the dry shore absent His presence. Make God the center of your attention and you will persevere through pain.
Perhaps you give work less attention, giving more attention to understanding the needs of your family. Maybe you spend less time and money on hobbies and more on serving the poor. Furthermore, your resolve to lean into the Lord means you will not be shaken by circumstances or conflict. He is your rock of refuge and your strength to endure. Keep Christ the center of your attention and receive His loving attention.
"And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith." Hebrews 12:1b-2a
Prayer: Lord keep my eyes of faith fixed on your loving face of hope and grace.
Related Readings: 2 Kings 7:2; Psalm 25:15; 2 Corinthians 8:21; 1 Peter 3:12
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My Thoughts About This = Miraculous Musings! J
My focus is key to my mind-sets, it is the foundation of them. Jesus! Foundation! Mind-Sets Good! It is all about Jesus, it is all about His Kingdom and how I relate to HIM and my future. I live in the now with a huge hope of my real future, my real home. I have eyes for Jesus 1st, His Kingdom is my most valuable heritage. My heavenly hindsight should be filled with nostalgia of His miraculous musings, of the AWE of HIM and gratefulness for HIM.
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Kimberly, act now!
Romans 12:17-18,21 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
One minister tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. "I do not only want to get rid of him, I want to get even! Before I divorce him, I want to hurt him as much as he has hurt me!"
The minister suggested an ingenious plan "Why don't you go home and act as if you really love your husband. Tell him how much he means to you. Praise him for every decent trait. Go out of your way to be as kind, considerate and generous as possible. Spare no efforts to please him. Make him believe you love him. Then -- after you've convinced him of your undying love and that you cannot live without him, drop the bomb. Tell him you want a divorce. That will really hurt him.
"With revenge in her eyes, she smiled and exclaimed, "Beautiful, beautiful! Boy, will he ever be devastated!" And she did it with enthusiasm. For two months she showed love and kindness, she listened, served and reinforced. When she didn't return to his office, the minister called. "So, are you ready now to go through with the divorce?" "Divorce?" she exclaimed. "Never! I discovered that I really do love him."
This woman's actions changed her feelings. Whether it's a tough relationship, a long-time fear, or a task that seems too big for us to accomplish, sometimes we need to act in faith in order to see it conquered for the Kingdom!
Kimberly, whatever it may be, let's give it to the Lord today and ask Him to motivate us to go forth with strength and passion -- for His sake!
Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Baht Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah
Negev Desert, Israel
My Thoughts About This = Miraculous Musings! J
That is so true and I believe that a mind set in doing what is right also changes your actions. I saw a movie the other day and a character said this: I forgave because I did not want to live out the consequences of my unforgiveness because I had chosen the perspective of the one thing that person did wrong instead of a life time of things they did right. Wow… that touched me so deeply.
I Give Myself Away! By William McDowell!
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