From The Heart of God...

When God starts working on you it is one of the most powerful things you can experience.  You will be blown away by how supernatural it all obviously is.  Things you couldn’t change before now change with ease.  Doors that were shut to you before, now open without any effort or struggle on your part.  When you bow your knee before God and begin to say yes to him in every area of your life the spirit of God is free to move and the impossible begins to happen.  God is so faithful.  All you have to do is trust Him–not in word only, but in deed.  Your trust will begin to manifest in the form of total obedience.

God is not a man that he should lie; everything in his word is true.  Everything that he has spoken to you or about you is true, and when you take the death grip of your own control off of your life, he begins to show you just how true that is. 

You don’t have to be perfect, he is the one that perfects you. 

You just follow where he leads and obey whatever it is he has already told you to do. 

Don’t discount the word of God by always looking for a new word from someone else, even in the church.  This is the mistake that I made for so long.  I was bored by God’s word.  I was discouraged by the process of it all. 

But I was missing the main ingredient to following Christ...

If anything at all does bring somewhat microwave results it’s obedience. 

Submitting to God and serving him will almost immediately shake up just about everything in your life and propel you forward in the will of God.  But if you don’t obey, if you refuse to obey, if you continue to make excuses, then disobedience will have its way and leave you stagnant in the wilderness or even worse, propel you deeper out of the will of God for your life. We often don’t want to be obedient to God in all things though, because it requires suffering and sacrifice, two words that every christian says they understand and accept but in reality run from and avoid at all costs.  I did this for years and all it got me was deeper lack of health, deeper confusion, deeper sin, and deeper discontentment with my life.

He’s faithful to forgive you, faithful to cleanse you from any unrighteousness.  Faithful to change your heart and mind and ways.  Faithful to reveal himself to you!  Faithful to perfect your life, your purpose, and your vision according to his sovereign will.  We have to do things in God’s timing, though: first you obey. I hope if you get almost nothing else from anything that God uses me to say or to explain through this blog, that you get what I just said:

We don’t know everything, we don’t understand everything, we don’t even realize how all things work or how every piece of the puzzle connects and move. How then can we think to undermine God and decide our futures, our lives, even our extent of obedience on our own? Sneaky self sabotage masquerading as empowerment from a God who is actually not seeking to subdue or debase us.

We don’t even fully know just how much our disobedience impacts not just ourselves but others.

What are we doing with what we've been given, with the word we have, with the opportunities set before us by God Himself, with the time allotted to us on this earth, with the people put around us and in our lives? 

What are we doing with the health and strength God has allowed us to have, with the portion that is our life that He has meted out to us?  Will we have nothing but excuses to offer after our time is done? 

“I was too afraid.”

“I was scared, because I didn’t have a lot of money.”

“I was too confused, so I didn’t do anything.”

“I was too busy with my partner or job.”

“I didn’t feel like it, so I did my own thing.”

“I got discouraged, and I just quit.”

We have to stop with the excuses, with the distractions. 

Every day is a new day to try again and get it right.  Step by step in the right direction, God will lead us there (check out my blog post entitled Baby Steps in the Right Direction).  God is faithful and able to handle all you think is holding you back–even if it’s yourself. 

Will you surrender to Him?

Marie