When you get what you asked for, use it!
In last week’s post I suggested that we each pray for the Lord to give us opportunities to speak of him to others. Well when I prayed that prayer myself I wanted these chances because I love the Blessings I feel when I do speak out about him. My problem as I touched on in the Perfection not required post is that I second guess the thoughts God puts in my mind. Well in church last Wednesday night I was filled with thoughts from God that I knew needed to be shared, but I never did share them. I shuffled them around in my mind for so long I never got to say them. Not doing that laid heavy on my mind from that night on through the whole week until Sunday during worship when once again the Lord gave me my post for the week. So here goes raw and unedited.
Have you made a covenant with the Lord that in your heart you knew you would not keep? When Joshua left the Israelites he told them to put God first not break his laws and that he would then keep their enemies at bay. Joshua knew from the Lord at that time that they would not keep this pact and told them that when they did not they would suffer for it. We pray to the lord so often saying if you bless me in this way I will follow through and use your blessings in the right way. This is our covenant with the Lord just like the covenant the Israelites made with God. God always follows through in his way but we fall short over and over. I pray now and each day that he will show me all the convents that I have not fallen through on so I can. I want to be one with the Lord and I want nothing between my soul and him.
So often the reason I do not speak up is because I do not feel my thoughts or my feelings are important enough to share. I feel that this is something we all deal with and it comes from a feeling that deep down inside us is this thing we did that makes us low and worth little. The lords wants us to take down the walls around this thing and let his light shine on it and burn it to dust. I want to take down these walls but it is scary so I look to the lord for his help to do this.
I will walk around my walls everyday like the walls of Jericho and through the power of his word the walls I cannot bring down will fall. I feel this for us all we all have walls you feel them you know they are there keeping your whole heart from serving God. We say we can’t do this or that because there is not enough of use or we are not good enough. Well we are not good enough, not without the Lord in us. Break down the walls give all yourself to him even the darkest corner you do not even show yourself. He will shine the light on it and burn it away and we will shine with that light and all is possible.
Keep your covenants with God the Lord and our Savior in his strength we can do great things, so very great.
THANK YOU LORD!!!
ONLY IN YOU, AM I!!
KRE
thank you klaven. god bless you and your family as you journey together.