God is not limited to location.
You can pray wherever you are because wherever you are, God is there.
He is not limited to a time or space.
You can pray in your room, in your car, in the kitchen or at your job.
You can pray for minutes or for hours.
The world you live in may not be aware of God but God is aware of your world.
What are you dealing with?
What do you need God’s help with?
“Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion.” Ephesians 6:18 NLT
Forgiveness is not a feeling. It is a choice to let God have it, hold it, and be responsible for it– whatever it is.
“Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.”
Colossians 3:13 NLT
Forgiveness is taking the power away from them and giving it back to God.
You don’t have to trust them to forgive them.
Forgiveness is not about restoring trust in them, it is about trusting God with your heart.
They don’t have to be sorry in order for you to forgive them.
They don’t even have to know that you have them released them to God.
What you have to do is make the choice to forgive them today and remake that choice every day after.
Eventually the feeling of releasing them to God will line up with the decision.
One day you will be able to remember what happened without reliving the pain what happened.
“When we forgive an offense, we set a prisoner free, only to discover that we were that prisoner”.
– Freedom Groups, Week 7
“He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”
Isaiah 40:29 NIV
Real strength doesn’t come from pretending you have it but in admitting that you don’t.
Real power comes from knowing you can’t do this on your own and that you need help.
Needing Jesus every day is not admitting defeat.
It is the key to victory.
You will have many things to worry about today.
Some things you worry about all the time.
Some things you can’t anticipate until they are upon you.
Either way, you can collect worry like it’s your job or you can choose peace.
You have peace with God through Jesus Christ and because of that, you can receive peace from God in every situation.
That doesn’t mean the day before you is not full of challenges, it means that you have already decided to face them with the peace of God ruling your heart rather than the anxiety of man.
“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.”
Colossians 3:15 NIV
Recognize that out of all the decisions you will make today, the most important one will be what you choose to hold onto God’s peace or your worry?
Why are you here?
Not to collect more things.
Not to become an expert.
Not to be happy all the time.
Not to look good all the time.
Not to feel good all the time.
“Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.”
Philippians 2:14 MSG
You are here to be a light.
A witness.
A glimpse of grace-living.
A glimpse of God living through you.
A breath of fresh love-laced air in the sin-stained world.
That is why you are here.
Don’t get so caught up in yourself or in the present circumstances that you miss your God-empowered purpose for today: SHINE.
My prayer for you is that you are so filled with the Light of Christ that it spills out of you in every way possible, to every person you meet, in every moment of darkness or discouragement or overwhelming circumstance, in spite of the current crisis, through the present obstacle. May the Light of His Love be uncontainable and contagious through you today.
“Have faith in God,”Mark 11:22 NIV
Failure is not fatal.
