December 1, 2009
October 29, 2009
Strategically Placed by the Hand of God
God's love for us is extravagant and and He is strategically placing us, the children that He loves immensely, all over the world... In places that we are uniquely suited for. But more importantly, in places pre-ordained by God, with us in mind, to bring forth His purposes in the world... His plans, His dreams.
We can be at the Right Place, at the Right Time, with the Right People, all of the time. We do not have to figure it all out ahead of time, but rather, it is our job to fully rest in God's all knowing power and wisdom, and then allow Him to get us and keep us in position for victory!
God's blessing and power will do their work and as they do, the favor of God will follow us everywhere we go, placing us just where we need to be... stragtegically placed everyday... everytime.
It is God's way. It is wonderful. And it is yours.
We can be at the Right Place, at the Right Time, with the Right People, all of the time. We do not have to figure it all out ahead of time, but rather, it is our job to fully rest in God's all knowing power and wisdom, and then allow Him to get us and keep us in position for victory!
God's blessing and power will do their work and as they do, the favor of God will follow us everywhere we go, placing us just where we need to be... stragtegically placed everyday... everytime.
It is God's way. It is wonderful. And it is yours.
October 8, 2009
Reflections
As I sit at my computer in the late afternoon of this cloudy, wet, and cool day, I remember a time not very long ago.
A time of questions, of doubt, of the unknown. As I look back over that time and then bring my focus back to the present, I am amazed at Our God, and what He has done.
Make no mistake, God uses very ordinary people to do very extraordinary things. And that, my friend, means that He is very ready and actually excited about you and your place in His plan for this year, this month, this day.
As you sit and look around you, as you press into God's presence, you may not see anything unusual or spectacular. But that is ok. In fact it is very ok. It is just the environment for God to begin His undercover workings inside of you. And one day, it will no longer be undercover.
It will explode from its former boundaries of your mind and spirit, and will be revealed for the whole world to see and appreciate. And you, my friend, will be walking in your destiny.
Be blessed today and seek God's face with earnest expectation.
He is working.
A time of questions, of doubt, of the unknown. As I look back over that time and then bring my focus back to the present, I am amazed at Our God, and what He has done.
Make no mistake, God uses very ordinary people to do very extraordinary things. And that, my friend, means that He is very ready and actually excited about you and your place in His plan for this year, this month, this day.
As you sit and look around you, as you press into God's presence, you may not see anything unusual or spectacular. But that is ok. In fact it is very ok. It is just the environment for God to begin His undercover workings inside of you. And one day, it will no longer be undercover.
It will explode from its former boundaries of your mind and spirit, and will be revealed for the whole world to see and appreciate. And you, my friend, will be walking in your destiny.
Be blessed today and seek God's face with earnest expectation.
He is working.
October 1, 2009
I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
O LORD you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you, the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you...
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139 God's Word to you today. He loves you. There is nothing that you could do or have done that can cause Him to not love you. All the ugly can be washed completely away and you can have a fresh start... today.
If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1John 1:9
Let Him make you brand new. His hands are outstretched to you. Let Him heal you. Let Him wash you clean. And let Him grant you His gift of eternal life filled with goodness and purpose.
Just tell Him... Father, I am so sorry. I've messed up things. But I know that you love me so much that even in the midst of my mess up, you sent Jesus to pay my debt, to take my punishment, to make a way for me to have a new start. I am so glad. Please forgive me and wash me clean. I surrender my life to you now and forever. Take complete control. I am yours.
And with that you can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that He has heard you and has made you His child. He has washed you clean and now He will show you what He always wanted to from the very beginning... A destiny and purpose beyond your wildest imagination!
Grab it with a smile in your heart and a spring in your step. The past is gone and the future is yours!!!!
Aren't you glad!!!
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
You hem me in behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you, the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you...
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139 God's Word to you today. He loves you. There is nothing that you could do or have done that can cause Him to not love you. All the ugly can be washed completely away and you can have a fresh start... today.
If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1John 1:9
Let Him make you brand new. His hands are outstretched to you. Let Him heal you. Let Him wash you clean. And let Him grant you His gift of eternal life filled with goodness and purpose.
Just tell Him... Father, I am so sorry. I've messed up things. But I know that you love me so much that even in the midst of my mess up, you sent Jesus to pay my debt, to take my punishment, to make a way for me to have a new start. I am so glad. Please forgive me and wash me clean. I surrender my life to you now and forever. Take complete control. I am yours.
And with that you can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that He has heard you and has made you His child. He has washed you clean and now He will show you what He always wanted to from the very beginning... A destiny and purpose beyond your wildest imagination!
Grab it with a smile in your heart and a spring in your step. The past is gone and the future is yours!!!!
Aren't you glad!!!
September 28, 2009
A Hope and A Future
A Hope and a Future...
These are more than words on a page. They are your destiny.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
What is a plan? It is a purpose, a goal, something to reach toward, to yearn after. Something you were created to do... to be.
There are gifts and talents within you that no one else can claim... those things that make you so very uniquely you. Perhaps they have been buried so far down within in you that no one else can see them any longer. Maybe you can't even see them yourself. But they are there. Way down deep inside of you. Yes, perhaps pushed way down, but there none the less.
You may say, I have pushed these things so far away from me for so very long that they are of no use to me any longer and surely they are no use to anyone else. Look at my life, you may say. Look at what it has become. Look at the mess I've made of it. There could have been something powerful in me at one time but it's too late now.
And in answer to that I say... No! It is never too late. God is the repairer of the breach, the hole, the cavern. In relationships, in yourself, in everything. God is the one who is the restorer of all things broken and lost. He says in His Word that... I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten. Joel 2:25
Trust Him to do it. He loves you with an everlasting love and His desire is for you today, never against you. Let Him give you a new start... today. What do you have to lose? Go for it!
These are more than words on a page. They are your destiny.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
What is a plan? It is a purpose, a goal, something to reach toward, to yearn after. Something you were created to do... to be.
There are gifts and talents within you that no one else can claim... those things that make you so very uniquely you. Perhaps they have been buried so far down within in you that no one else can see them any longer. Maybe you can't even see them yourself. But they are there. Way down deep inside of you. Yes, perhaps pushed way down, but there none the less.
You may say, I have pushed these things so far away from me for so very long that they are of no use to me any longer and surely they are no use to anyone else. Look at my life, you may say. Look at what it has become. Look at the mess I've made of it. There could have been something powerful in me at one time but it's too late now.
And in answer to that I say... No! It is never too late. God is the repairer of the breach, the hole, the cavern. In relationships, in yourself, in everything. God is the one who is the restorer of all things broken and lost. He says in His Word that... I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten. Joel 2:25
Trust Him to do it. He loves you with an everlasting love and His desire is for you today, never against you. Let Him give you a new start... today. What do you have to lose? Go for it!
Please feel free to share your comments with me. Click on the comment link right below this post. I'd love to hear from you.
September 23, 2009
Your Dream... Unreachable?
Have you ever had a thought or a dream but as you began to ponder on it, it just seemed too wild or bold or unreachable?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to reach for the stars and actually touch them or hold the sparkling moonbeams in your hand?
If thoughts like these have danced within the depths of your heart and into your thoughts then know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you are among those through whom destiny unfolds.
It takes a person who dreams to change the world, to make it a more wonderful place. You my friend are a gift to many, a gift that perhaps as yet has not been opened.
Allow God to unwrap your special gift that is hiding somewhere deep inside of you. Let him unveil it and show you the wonders of his radiating presence. And let Him do the miraculous through you.
There is nothing impossible with God. Let Him work the impossible in you.
Please feel free to share your comments with me. Click on the comment link right below this post. I'd love to hear from you.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to reach for the stars and actually touch them or hold the sparkling moonbeams in your hand?
If thoughts like these have danced within the depths of your heart and into your thoughts then know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you are among those through whom destiny unfolds.
It takes a person who dreams to change the world, to make it a more wonderful place. You my friend are a gift to many, a gift that perhaps as yet has not been opened.
Allow God to unwrap your special gift that is hiding somewhere deep inside of you. Let him unveil it and show you the wonders of his radiating presence. And let Him do the miraculous through you.
There is nothing impossible with God. Let Him work the impossible in you.
Please feel free to share your comments with me. Click on the comment link right below this post. I'd love to hear from you.
September 22, 2009
Grab Hold of Your Dream!
Every dream God gives begins with a picture, a picture of that dream. You have to see it on the inside before you can see it on the outside.
Words create images. So speak the Word and let it create images inside of you...images of greatness and purpose.
These images will become very real to you, more real than what is happening on the outside.
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
Dreams give us the start we need to position ourselves to be used of God.
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9
Words create images. So speak the Word and let it create images inside of you...images of greatness and purpose.
These images will become very real to you, more real than what is happening on the outside.
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
Dreams give us the start we need to position ourselves to be used of God.
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9
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