“For with God nothing will be impossible.” Luke 1:37 NKJV
When God drops a promise in your heart and an opportunity in your lap, you must have faith to go forward.
Grab on to faith like it is your job and obey whatever God asks you to do.
Not because it is easy.
Nothing worth having comes easy.
But if God asks you to do it, He will give you what you need to do it.
With God nothing is impossible.
With God, you can.
A simple pencil in the hand of a master writer is a tool to tell a powerful story. In the same way your life, in the hands of God, is a story of grace waiting to be written.
You have been carefully chosen, gently held, directed and purposed in the Hand of God to be used by Him, right where you are.
“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.”
Psalm 139:9-10 NIV
The most powerful thing you can do today is to surrender completely, restfully and trust Him to guide you to be an instrument of hope, love, encouragement, and strength to those around you. God knows where you are.
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” – Mother Teresa
What story of grace is Jesus telling through your life today?
Rest doesn’t have a season.
It isn’t optional.
You need it, every day.
You need rest for your body and for your soul, spirit, and mind.
“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.”
Exodus 34:21 NIV
You need to rest, refresh, recharge in all seasons but especially in the busiest ones.
It isn’t optional.
It’s how God made you and it is the way to optimize the gifts He has given you to fulfill the purpose He has placed before you.
What refreshes your spirit?
What rejuvenates your mind?
What feeds your soul?
How will you rest today?
God has not equipped you to do everything but He, God, has equipped you with everything you need to do His will today.
Wherever you are, with what you are dealing with right now.
God has equipped you for today.
Don’t worry about tomorrow.
Forget about yesterday.
Be fully present today.
“Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
Hebrews 13:20-21 NIV
What has God equipped you to do today?
“I pray to GOD —my life a prayer— and wait for what he’ll say and do.”
Psalm 130:5-6 MSG
Today is a good day for you to pray with open hands.
Instead of trying to hold on so desperately to what you are afraid of letting go, give it to God.
Trust God with it.
Pray and let God be God.
Present your requests, petitions, hopes, and desires to Him and then let Him do what only He can do.
Give them to Jesus and leave the results to Him.
Release your expectations of how he should answer while at the same time knowing that He will.
It will transform your life.
He wants to.
He will.
Begin today to pray with open hands.
How hard is it for you to leave the results to God?
What does it mean for you to let God be God in your life?
“That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.” Numbers 14:1 NIV
Why did the people of Israel weep?
Because 10 of the 12 spies that Moses sent into the promised land came back saying it was impossible. And the people believed them instead of believing God.
They mourned as if they were already defeated when in truth, they had not even begun.
Be careful about how you use your imagination. You can feed your worst fears or you can feed God’s best hopes for your life.
This nation of former slaves looked at the promised land in fear because it was going to be difficult.
They wanted the promise but only if God was going to make it easy for them.
Stepping into your promised land isn’t going to be easy.
You are going to have to fight for it, face the giants and trust God to take you to a new level of trust in Him.
God has brought you this far and He will take you all the way in.
Getting there is going to be one step of faith after another.
It will always be a walk of faith.
You can trust God to give you what you will need, when you will need it to do what He has called you to do.
Wipe your tears, lace up your shoes and start walking toward your promised land.
I will join you.
It is exhausting to live your life grasping for security but not ever really holding on to it.
“A grasping person stirs up trouble, but trust in GOD brings a sense of well- being.” Proverbs 28:25 MSG
It can be triggered by envy, fear or sometimes a sense of personal failure. It is always triggered by focusing on “me, myself and I .
It is based on the belief that you don’t have what you need or enough of what you need to be secure, so you keep grasping for it in relationships, personal accomplishments, financial security and so on.
The original Hebrew word used for “trust” in the verse above means “secure”.
You can live your life from a place of security instead of insecurity.
That security is found in the love of God.
Put down the worry and fear that is plaguing your life and lift your hands in worship.
Spend some time in the presence of Jesus. You will find more peace in worshipping God than you ever will by focusing on yourself and what you lack.
You do not need more of you (or a better you, a better relationship or more stuff) to be more secure- you need more of God.
You are His precious child. That doesn’t mean life’s journey will be easy, it means that He will supply you with what you need to live it.
You can stop trying to feel secure in who you are and embrace the reality of whose you are.
Your identity comes from Jesus, not your family or lack thereof, not from your accomplishments or shortcomings, not from your success or failures but from Him.
My prayer for you today is that you unfurl the grasping grip of insecurity and lift them up in worship to God. May you worship Him for who He is and be reminded whose you are.
