Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Medication

We go to a medical doctor, they give us medicine to take to help us feel better, help us live longer and etc. we take those kinds of pills without thinking. We do what they recommend, because we want to feel better. We take them, because this doctor knows what we need. We generally do not question them much at all, we do it, we feel better and we move on with life.

However, in our Christian lives, we question the will of God daily. We question where He has us, we think we know better then God. He is the Grand Physician and He has given us a pill to take daily, He has told us how to live life the correct way, but yet we want to live it our way. The doctors of the world may have knowledge, but they do not have the knowledge of God, yet we question Him. He has told us how to live our lives, but yet we don't do it and we struggle in life daily, because we think we know better, but it is all lies, we do not know better, He does.

There is great power in prayer, it takes the power out of our hands and gives it to God. He taught the disciples to pray, Lord your will be done.

He says Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. This makes living not about ourselves, but about God.

He says pray without ceasing, just having a mindset of prayer. Focus effort to keep our mind on Him. He is right there with us all the time, but yet we struggle to call out to Him for Help, for thanksgiving, for anything.

He says seek Him first, do we? It can't be about what I want, but what He wants. It isn't me, it is Him in me.

There are examples about how marriage should be, but we think our way is better, but He has shown us time and time again that His way is the best way, but yet we try to do it our own way.

Christ Jesus knows the best way, we need to seek Him first and let Him show us that way. We need to take our daily pill, not just once but throughout the day. Are we getting into the word? Are we taking the time to study it, to learn what Jesus wants of us? Today is a new day, let us rejoice and be glad in it, let us praise God for a new day that He has given us and start today differently.

Proverbs 3:5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding

Lord, I thank you for the chance to learn to take Your medicine. Let me put You first before everything else, let me seek You. Guide my heart, convict me of my wrongs, teach me Your right ways, help me to walk in it no matter how difficult it may be. Lord you are my strength, my refuge, let me seek You, lean on You, rely on You. Not my strength, not my will, but Yours Father. Thank You for a new day to do it Your way, let me walk in it with Joy in my heart. I love you Lord and I lift my voice to You. Help me to seek You in all I do. Thank you for this new day. Lord I praise You with my words and actions. Thank you Jesus for dying for me, thank You for choosing me. I love you Lord.
Amen

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Song of the morning

The song I woke up singing today. I think it is so easy to say that it is my life, you can't tell me what to do, but when God is in control, I give it ALL to Him, not just part of it. When we sing songs, I think it is important to really think about the lyrics, because we are giving God All, don't just give Him part. This season, it is about what Jesus did for us, what are we doing for Him? He isn't asking for part or half, He is asking us for it all.

Lift My Life Up
Unspoken


You brought me this far
So why would I question You now
You have provided
So why would I start to doubt
I’ve never been stranded, abandoned
Or left here to fight alone
So I’m giving You control

Chorus
I lift my life, lift my life up
I give it all in surrender
I lift my heart, lift my heart up
You can have it forever
All my dreams, all my plans
Lord,†I leave it in Your hands
I lift my life, lift my life up
Have Your way in me
Have Your way in me

If peace is a river let it sweep over me
If I’m under fire I know it’s refining me
When I hear You calling out I follow now
Wherever the road may go
I know You’re leading me home

Chorus
I lift my life, lift my life up
I give it all in surrender
I lift my heart, lift my heart up
You can have it forever
All my dreams, all my plans
Lord,†I leave it in Your hands
I lift my life, lift my life up
Have Your way in me
Have Your way in me

Bridge
Take my life let it be
All for You

Take my life let it be
All for You

Chorus
I lift my life, lift my life up
I give it all in surrender
I lift my heart, lift my heart up
I lift my life, lift my life up
I give it all in surrender
I lift my heart, lift my heart up
You can have it forever
All my dreams, all my plans
Lord,†I leave it in Your hands
I lift my life, lift my life up
Have Your way in me
Have Your way in me
Have Your way in me
Have Your way in me

Take my life and let it be all for You


Today ask God if you are holding anything back from Him, is it time to make the changes that He desires. His way is so much better than my way. Allow Him the control of it all. He knows what is best and He has taught us all so much, lets not forget what He did for us every day, not just this season of Easter.

Lord thank you for all that you have done in my life, thank you for dying so that I may be set free from the sin that is trying to hold me back. Lord I pray that you will continue to direct me, guide me and allow me to be the man of God you want me to be. Help me to do it all for you, Help me to surrender it all and not hold anything back. Guide my heart, give me the direction and Lord my life is your, let it be all for You.