God leads us.

He is the best leader that there is. His plans exceed above all we can imagine. If we just sit and think of all he has done for us, it is possible to become overwhelmed with awe. Our lives are made up of lessons, memories, experiences and much more. It all is for us to know God greater and deeper.

He has shown me so much this year and brought me to a place where I could never have thought I’d be but it’s the best place to be because I know God is with me. He is with me wherever I go. No matter where I am, God is there. He’s always there and when I allow myself to be aware of his presence, my heart becomes full of peace and wonder.

Even if I’m not entirely sure of where I’m headed next or what my next steps are, I know God is already there. He has divine appointments set up and lessons for me to learn and experiences for me to have. If God knows, then I don’t need know. I just want to trust that he knows what he’s doing and believe in all his ways.

Are you content? Are you really? If you lost everything you owned today, how would that make you feel? How would you react?

Let’s say you’re on your way to a very important meeting and all of a sudden you hear a weird noise coming from your car. You pull over and see that you have a flat tire. Ok, so, you could either get really upset or you can calmly call the right people who you know could help you. Or let’s say you’re out of a job and a friend of yours really needs to borrow $10 from you but it’s the only money you have left. Will you give it to your friend? Did your boyfriend just break up with you? Oh man. Now I guess you’re gonna have to give up on love and never get in to a relationship again. Or did you’re friend just stab you in the back? Oh ok, so, now this means you’ll have to put up walls around people and try not to let anyone in too fast or let people see the real you.

Is your current circumstance dictating your attitude? Are you letting whatever is happening in your life right control your happiness? Letting your current situation stop you from celebrating another day of life is a quick way to become bitter and doubtful.

Just know that your current situation is not your final destination.

You aren’t gonna be where you are forever. Seasons change and things don’t remain the same.

“Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-184

If things are going well,praise God. If things aren’t going so well, praise God. 

Life is more enjoyable when your attitude is determined by knowing that you have Christ in your life he’s all you need. If you have Christ and nothing else, you have EVERYTHING.

Remember the time when you were lost. You were trying to figure out who or what could fulfill your longing  for fulfillment. You thought you finally got something that could solve all your problems until realizing all it did was create more problems. Then finally after being fed up with living in lies of sin, you said to yourself, ‘no more’ by the grace of God and you got to start over. You got to begin again. You already accepted Christ in your heart now it’s time to get back to him. Get back to your first love when you first desired all of him. Nothing added, nothing less, just him. He’s brought you through low lows and high highs. He took you to a place of great blessing but with that blessing came great responsibility, great hardship, great trials, and great mistakes. You learned and you grew. Yet are still reminding yourself of your past mistakes? Will you let that hinder your present? No, my friend. Rise up. Stand up. Ask God to strengthen you to keep going. You find yourself when you find Jesus. He tells us our identity. He sees us as greater than we see ourselves. Your past has been your maturing tool and you will continue to mature. But you gotta bounce back . Get the fire burning. Get it flaming and don’t stop. Have that won’t stop, can’t stop, never gonna stop attitude because your next glory is coming.

Jesus Culture- In the River

NF- Oh Lord

Lauren Daigle- Loyal

 

Hillsong Young & Free- Trust

 

 

 

Breathe. It’s the moment you realize you’ve been taking on a role you weren’t meant to have. You’ve been carrying a load you aren’t meant to carry. The reason it’s been so hard for you is because you’re not the one who has to handle it.

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest”.- Matthew 11:28

You try and try and keep wondering why it hasn’t happened the way you think it will play out. I have my own agenda and my own dream of what I would want my life to look like. I look at my life and see what it could be and maybe what could be next but I end up not to be right. I didn’t see that I was putting more worry and stress on myself because I’m trying and trying and trying to do what I think I need to do.

I try to convince God that what I want is what I really need and that I don’t want to go on without it. I keep searching for that blessing and praying for it to come but I never say, ‘Lord , your will be done’. Ok now. Now I see myself and my soul is awaken to the me that I am. I surrender. I give it to God. All my wants, all my desires, all my needs, all my thoughts, all my heart.

I surrender because I want to see God’s work in my life. I surrender because I want to know God more. I surrender because my will is not greater than God’s will.

Now I can breathe. I know I’m taken care of. I know I’m in good hands.

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

Needtobreathe- Testify

Charlie Powers- Hell Bent

William Matthews – Glory to glory

 

 

Tauren Wells feat KB- Undefeated

 

 

 

Is anything really ever a waste of time? Yes you’re just sitting there and time is ticking by and you’re not getting anything done. You’re waiting in the waiting room and can’t seem to keep still. The clock keeps ticking and it seems like life is passing you by.

Why is it that if we’re not doing something every second of every hour, then it’s as if we’re either lazy, unproductive or wasting our time? How is my time being wasted?

It’s been given to me and I have the privileged of using it how I choose. Waiting is still much work. Being patient is not easy. When you got in to that relationship and realized that person wasn’t who you thought they were, you didn’t waste your time with them, you learned a lesson.

When you’re in a rush and someone tries to talk to you but you say you don’t have enough time, you actually did have the time but that person or problem or thing just wasn’t a priority for you at the moment.

We all have the same amount of time as the person next to us and the person in the country across the world from us.

We may believe that the simple things in life that we have to do or sit around for are wasting our time because it’s not happening fast enough for us in the way we would like. We all have our own clock, our own watch, our own time that we even wear it on our wrist everyday just so we can look down and know the time and how much or how little we have left. We get bummed when it’s daylights saving time and we have to spring our clock forward one hour or fall our clocks back one hour. How dare the universe mess up our sleeping cycles!

A mother has to calculate the time for all her kids, daycare drop off and pick up, homework, breakfast, lunch, dinner, bills, soccer games, dance class, date night with the hubby etc. She is constantly on the go and time is what she needs to get everything done.

It takes time to go to school from kindergarten to twelve grade then to college then to serious “adulting”(paying bills, getting a real job, living on your own). These things don’t happen overnight and take time to develop.

Why? Why does time have to take so long?

We need to grow. We need to mature. We need to suffer long because it produces endurance. It produces character. We may have little now but that little will make you work hard for your big dreams and you’ll appreciate it more when those dreams come true because you know the little that you came from.

Who you are right now is because of what you went through over time. Time caused you to learn how to read. Time caused you to learn the alphabet and numbers. Time did so much for you and all we can do is complain and whine about how we don’t have enough time. How what we want isn’t happening fast enough. How I’m wasting my time standing in this Starbucks line when all I ordered was a cup of water. Hello Barista, you are wasting my time because I gotta be somewhere and I gotta do something and don’t need to stand here until you finish everyone else’s drink because my drink will take two seconds to do and my time is being wasted.

When time is the one who got me the necessary possessions that I needed to even be able to go to the nearest Starbucks and stand in that very line. Time!

Time. We all need time.

Use that time. Love that time. Cherish that time.Before you know it will be over. It goes by faster then we really think.

A Time for Everything