Long ago I gave God permission to wake me with songs, this stopped Satan from filling my thoughts with negativity every morning.
In the beginning I was just happy wake up and start the day out on the right foot. I did not pay much attention to what the song was.
But slowly and surely God started to focus my attention on what I was hearing. And nine times out of ten, what I heard corresponded to what happened during my day, or what God wanted to happen during my day.
This morning the lyrics
We raise our white flags
We surrender
All to you
All to you
were looping over and over in my mind before I even opened my eyes.
And I realized something. While I do trust God, while I do believe in His ability to lead me, I have never fully surrendered to him in the morning, allowing Him to fully lead and guide me in everything I do throughout the day.
It looks like this will be the day that I do so. Join me?
Father God I am fully surrendering to you this day and every day. Lead and guide me so that I may walk in your perfect will. May I be able to look back on each day from here on out and say alongside David, “This is the day the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it.”
Lyrics = Chris Tomlin
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Although my ability to trust God with ordering the steps of my life, has come a long way from where it used to be, there is still (and I fear always will be) room for improvement.
Often times I realize that my impatience over seeing God work in my life stems from my distrust of His ability to work due to my own actions.
I start to wonder did I dot every “i” or cross every “t?” Did I do everything right in order for God to work in my life?
Then God taps me on the shoulder and says gently, “Child it is not about you. It is not about what you do.
Right or wrong your actions do not determine my ability to work in your life.
As long as you have a heart that is open to do my will, I will bring you to where you need to be.
Trust Me! Trust that I am forever with you and will not let you self-destruct. I AM all that you need. Lean into me.”
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“If just a few of you would step up and be like Jonathan … as you step out in faith, you know what’s going to happen? There’ll be people like Saul who’ll say, “God’s doing something through that guy, God’s doing something through that girl. I want to be a part of that.” – Francis Chan
I love when God moves in my life, when He wants to give me that hope for a better future.
I have to admit though, that while I love the thought of change, the messiness of it can freak me out.
I want God to hand me my future in a nice tidy package with a big bow …but that is not usually how it works.
Gods leading is more a matter of his putting something on my heart, and as I step out he confirms what he wills for me, with signs.
So ever since God first called me to England I have been getting signs from him to remind me that it is indeed His leading me, and that I am not loosing my mind.
A lot of the signs are simple and yet are clearly from God as there could not be that many “coincidences.”
Although I live just outside of Seattle, Wa…quite a distance from England… I have run across more things from England in the last few months than in my entire life.
I will not surely remember them all but will list a few here…
A customer thought he was paying with a penny…it was a pence. He had no idea where it came from, and I now own it.
English book, flags, plates, spoons, jigsaw puzzels, ets…have been everywhere I looked.
I run into someone from England about every 5th day.
I dream about England (I have been for a year before I knew was going). I also have dreams about England in which parts have come true in Real life.
Whenever I question God’s plan for me to move to England something “English Related happens”
The two last “Coincidences” were to do with Manchester (the city I am going to)
And
It had bright red letters and on the top half said Manchester.
When I turned my head in disbelief at the timing, and look in the opposite direction he walked again in my view and again turned his back to me….
So although I want everything tidy and in a nice package with a bright red bow, so that I don’t “have to” worry, the fact is…I not only don’t have to worry….I am not supposed to!!!
And if you are a Christian, neither are you… you are NOT flying blind!!!
God tells us through His word that…
“The LORD will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.” (Isaiah 58:11, NET)
When God is leading you and you are finding it hard to believe…Ask Him for a sign. He has promised that as He leads you H e will revive you when weak.
So while you may not always get the tidy package from Him that you want…you can be sure that you will get the bow, because while God plans for our live are rarely, if ever, tidy…the signs are often as noticeable as a brightly colored bow.
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