No tags yet.
We can have the best of intentions and end up in a place we never dreamed we would be. We can genuinely
want to do the right thing and mess it all up in the process. Have you ever had the best of intentions for a friendship, a relationship, or a career path, only to have it implode or end? The bible says it this way; there is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to the death and/or destruction of our life (Proverbs 14:12 NIV).
The truth is we can have the best of intentions, we can want to do good and help people, we can want to love people, and become something that means something to people. But, if it is not the truth, if it is not what God created us for, or who He created us for. It will be for nothing and no matter how good it seemed, it will not last (Psalms 127:1).When I first surrendered my life to Christ I began to loose everything. The jobs I had pursued, the friendships that I had, and the life I had built was imploding right before my eyes and there was nothing I could do to stop it. After things settled down a bit, I asked the Lord, "When will you make satan give me back everything I have lost (referencing all that I had lost when I began to follow Christ). He said, "I didn't build that." I realized when He said that what He was saying. He was saying that everything I had build was built in vain, because it was not something He was in, so there was no promise or protection for those things. It was a hard truth to swallow, but it taught me an invaluable lesson.
A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain (Psalms 127:1 NIV).
It won't matter how well thought out and planned our life is, if we continue to live as we so please, do as we so please, and never surrender to the unsurpassable work of the Cross, we will miss it. We will miss Him and we will miss everything God intended for us. We will end up wondering where God was in it all and why He just set back and watched it all happen too. When it was not Him, it was us. God is the ultimate gentleman, He will not force His will on us. We must welcome Him and His will into our life and in what we are facing and then surrender to His leading (Matthew 6:10). We must welcome Him into who He would have us to marry, where He would have us to work, and even where He would want us to live. We must tap into Gods plan for our lives, by recognizing and understanding HE IS GOD (Psalms 46:10).
Your kingdom come. Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10 KJV).
He says, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." (Psalms 46:10 NIV).
Prayer
Father, thank you for your goodness and mercy. Forgive us for thinking we know better than you what is
good and right. Help us to surrender to your way and partner with your word. Thank you for loving us where
we are, but in that same love refusing to let us remain in our condition. Thank you for the cross and the
blood you shed for us so that we could be washed clean and overcome every lies satan ever sent to destroy and weaken us. In Jesus name. Amen
Have you been saved?
If you are someone who has not been saved. I would like to ask you, do you believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead? If you believe that then declare openly with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. If you do these things, then you are, in fact, saved, and I would like to welcome you to the body of Christ.
If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved (Romans 10:9).
Have you been filled with the Holy Spirit?
If you would like to receive power in your walk with God, welcome the Holy Spirit into your life today.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8 NIV).”