Intentional Thinking Verses Feelings

I have found that there is so much easy to say, but yet harder yet to do it. It is easy to say that I can keep my eyes on Jesus even in the storms, but yet when the storm comes it is so easy to look at the storm, see the trouble, see what I am facing and in doing so lose sight of what Jesus is trying to teach me. I have seen and continue to see that life has to be intentional, it isn't just when things feel good, or when I get the warm bubbling feeling, but it has to be even when I don't. If I look at all I have to be intentional about, I am surprised at how much it goes against the worlds point of view.

The world says, do it if it feels good to you, when you fall out of love it is over and there are so many more cases of this. If I base my choices on the world, I do not live intentionally. I can see that I need to do things not because they come naturally, but because it becomes a choice. Who said life would be easy, being a Christian doesn't mean that life will be easy. It is through being intentional that the difference is made.

In the Bible it says pray without ceasing, but to do this we need to be intentional about doing this, if I try to do it in my own power I will not be able to, it is about complete surrender, which also has to be intentional.

I live a life, it is by choice that I live this life, if I am going to live with a better frame of mind, I must be intentional about doing so, if I am going to see things for positive, I must be intentional in doing so. The excuses I have heard is it is to hard, it isn't natural and the list goes on, but I can honestly say that being intentional about things I do, it becomes more a part of who I am, then living just because I am alive.

Is it time to live intentionally, instead of just living. I want to live life intentionally and be the man that God calls me to be and I will have hard times, I will see the negative in things, I will struggle, but it is in all this that I am learning how to truly be. It is a battle, but I believe that with God all things are possible. He is the God of the I'm Possible.

A thought for tonight

I woke up tonight and I was singing a song. I am never sure what wakes me up, but I try and just ask God who I should pray for during the time I am awake.. I don't always succeed at praying because I get caught thinking about all the sleep I am missing. But then after I wake up in the morning I wish I had prayed instead of thinking about poor me.

Tonight as I woke up, I started down the road of poor me and I got off the ride. I just sensed I needed to write down what I was going through. And put this song down.

Crown Him With Many Crowns

Crown Him with many crowns,
The Lamb upon His throne;
Hark! How the heav’nly anthem drowns
All music but its own!
Awake, my soul and sing
Of Him Who died for thee,
And hail Him as thy matchless King
Through all eternity.

Crown Him the Lord of love!
Behold His hands and side—
Rich wounds, yet visible above,
In beauty glorified.
No angel in the sky
Can fully bear that sight,
But downward bends His wond’ring eye
At mysteries so bright.

Crown Him the Lord of life!
Who triumphed o’er the grave,
Who rose victorious in the strife
For those He came to save.
His glories now we sing,
Who died, and rose on high,
Who died eternal life to bring,
And lives that death may die.

Crown Him the Lord of heav’n!
One with the Father known,
One with the Spirit through Him giv’n
From yonder glorious throne,
To Thee be endless praise,
For Thou for us hast died;
Be Thou, O Lord, through endless days
Adored and magnified.

When tough times come, remember that God is with you. He has come to set you free. He has conquered death and has brought you life. He rules victorious and is with you every moment. He chose you from the foundations of the earth, He knew your bad days and good and He has given us hope for more, for even in the bad we are to thank Him. When we stop looking inward and start looking upward we are then allowing God.

Make a choice today to allow God to order your steps. We see what happens when we do it, now do it His way.