Sweet Grace for Your Journey

God knows our hearts. He knows what we need. He speaks right to us whether it comes through me, you, or someone else. We need to always have an attentive ear to listen to Him. We need to learn to listen to Him.

This podcast contains words that God asked me to share with you. These are words directly from Him.

There’s a recurring question that has been playing throughout my mind. Are we fighting for God or are we maybe unknowingly, or knowingly, fighting against Him? As Christians we better know that we are in a war. The problem is we likely really aren’t cognitively aware of the war until our attention is called to it.

Why does God want us to be living sacrifices? Is it the same thing as surrendering to God? What does it mean to be a living sacrifice? Why would God even want us to do that?

Being a living sacrifice means that as God’s children, we do what He says and go where He leads. This is paramount as a child of God, but its also really difficult.

If I came up to you and said, “Do you believe God can do anything? Do you believe He is all powerful?” You would say an unequivocal, “Yes!” You would say that you serve a mountain-­‐making, mountain-­‐moving, earth shaking, sky shattering, miracle working, raising the dead, healing the sick God who can do anything! But I want to ask do you really believe that when it comes to your life?

Years ago I did an activity from a workbook where I wrote down every desire I had good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. I thought about what I really wanted in life and what my desires or passions were. With each desire I asked is this a true, God-given desire? Many were good desires, but they were in conflict with another good desire. So I had to make some well-defined choice. I learned that to get anywhere on my journey conflicting desires will keep me stuck. We can’t do everything, but we must do what God wants us to do.

Are you stuck? Do you want to do something to change how you feel and how you can get out of the funk you find yourself in daily? Do you want to renew your life? You can but it will take intentional effort.

Stories are the fabric of our lives. God loves stories. The Bible is made up of true stories of success and failure in life. God uses the stories of failures of people to show the fall of man, but also the redemption of man. He shows how those destined to create better stories follow Him to their destinies or their demise.

What does every mom say when toddlers are crying they don’t want to leave a fun place? Something similar to, “Stop crying and you can have an ice cream after you eat lunch.” Like magic, the wailing stops. What has Mom just taught that child? Food comforts.
As we will discover in this podcast, the way we eat can cause a curse that we can pass down through the generations. It definitely happened to me, but we can break these.

We all know that if we want anything in our lives to change we have to intentionally make different choices. If we continue eating the same way we always have, we will either stay the same or continue to gain weight. So the big question is how do we make intentional choices that lead to a permanent change in our behaviors? God wants to help us create the intention to make the right choices so that our desires are aligned with His desires.

What kind of mind games do you allow to take residence inside you? One of the biggest mind games I allowed was that I have to act on every directive that enters my mind. This is a lie that the evil one loves to perpetuate.

Write the Vision“Write the vision. Make it plain so that those who read it will run with it.” Habakkuk 2:2  What is your vision? What is your message? What is the passion that grabs your heart? What do you desperately want people to know? Make it plain. Be sure people...

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