Yes You Can! In His Word 5-26-2020
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| Sometimes it is a matter of perspective! |
I praise
you, Lord! Teach me your laws. g my own mouth, I tell others the law that you
have spoken. Obeying your instructions brings as much happiness as being rich. I
will study your teachings and follow
your footsteps. I will take pleasure in your laws and remember your words. Psalm
119:12-16
Sometimes
we have days that are not so great. On these days we need to remember to share it
with God and begin with praising Him. When we begin our time with praise, then
pray and request that He show you what to do, then it helps us to focus and to
realize what those desires, those needs, really are.
Sometimes
we think, I can tell this friend, or I can tell that person and they will give
me the needs I desire. Needs of encouragement, hope, consolation, even
direction, can come from our friends and sometimes it is because God has sent
us to them. There are times though when God wants us to listen to His voice. To
listen to His Word and He writes it on our hearts and minds and not only
directs our path (Proverbs 3:5-7) but encourages us that we will make it to the
end!
When
situations come upon us and we know where we are supposed to be, but cannot get
there due to those situations, it can be troublesome. Frustration can arise and
we can begin to complain and whine because we are not getting what we want,
just like a child.
I often
wonder, when I go through this type of thing, what would some of our Bible Hero
people do if they whined instead of walking in faith?
What
would have happened if Joseph, the time he was thrown into prison for not being
promiscuous with his boss’ wife, had sat there in the cell and whined and complained?
Instead of keeping His focus on God and whatever God had for him? I don’t think
he would have gotten the good favor of is coworker who put in a good word for
him that lead to his release and rise to fame and power!
If Daniel
did not resolve to do the will of God for them, in keeping pure hearts and
bodies, through prayer and restricting the foods they ate as God directed them
specifically to do, would he have been saved from both the fire and the lions?
We need
to remember that people, are just people, and circumstanced happen that ruin
our plans.
When we adjust our attitude and follow
God’s lead things work out in the timing He has planned, not always ours, but
His!
When a
man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him… A
man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. Proverbs 16: 6-9
We just need to remember where to keep
our focus, on the Lord. He puts things in perspective, and no matter how huge
the situation you are in feels the moment you are in it, God will bring you through
it! Our blessing comes when we focus on God, because its like we an say the ‘jokes
on you!’ to our situation we are in, and focus on where you are going not where you are in the
moment.
Hope comes when you remember this, peace
comes when you walk in it… and joy comes in the realization that you are almost
there!
Like the old song says “heaven is just a stone’s
throw away” … look toward heaven, and the Lord God who directs our paths today!
He will bring you through, but its in your hands to rejoice!
Heavenly Father give us strength to
endure, patience in the problem, and encouragement as we live out the extreme
today. Thank You for being here with us and directing us where to go. Open our
eyes to see and our ears to hear what Your spirit tells us today. In Jesus. name,
amen.