Trust In God

1 Corinthians 13:11-13

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¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Thank You Lord for today. I am here again so that means there is more for me to do. I am a child of God so I will worship my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My worries and anxieties for today will be given to you Lord. I will affirm my trust in you I know my mind has a lot to do with how I react to this day but Lord, I am trusting you to lead me through. You know my thoughts, my anxieties and the concerns that I have of this world. I will guard my thoughts and practice trusting you with all of my thoughts. I will keep you close to me. My prayers are to improve my relationship with you and to have a long and fulfilling life together. Lord you are my rock and my strong tower. I lean on you and rely on you. I hold your hand through it all. You are with me on this journey and I love knowing you are there. I trust you Lord. I am developing my trust. I want to trust you fully. Love you unconditionally. Be forever faithful to you. I love you Lord for walking with me on my journey. You are mine and I am yours. I trust you.

Mad In God's Image

2 Corinthians 10:5

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⁵ We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

 

Thank You God for today. I am blessed to be here another day and I thank you for it. I will keep my focus on you today. Bring every thought captive to you Lord. When my mind wanders, I will bring it back to your presence. Judgmental thoughts, I will try to stop them.  More unconditional love, all the things that keep me in your constant peace. I will focus on you today.

I am Not Alone

Father God you woke me up this morning. Thank You. You are present in my life in so many ways. You know what I think, what I do and what I say. You are continually with me. I know this as truth but I can still believe that I am alone in my daily life. Walking by faith and not by sight requires the inner soul of my being to be reminded that you are with me. Your presence must be the focal point of my life. I have to view the world around me through your perspective, Nothing is greater than you Lord. You are my rock and my strong tower. I can forgive those that attack me. I can move forward. You are aware of my life on a day to day basis. All that I do, say and think, you know. You know the desires of my heart. The man that I love and the promises that you made to me. The prayers that I have prayed are for you and you alone. I love you so very much. Help me  to say yes to your will Lord. I am ready and willing to walk that walk with you. I didn't know how you felt.  If you still feel the same or have you changed. Time will make a heart grow fonder or make the heart wander. Time heals so that you can move forward. I am not in the past, I am moving forward towards my future. I want a new beginning. The past is in the past, its prologue. Close that chapter, close that book. The Red Sea is behind me, even though I am stepping into it now. As I walk through, there may be stuff around me to scare me but I just keep walking. The winds are blowing, the army is closing in. I hear the horses and the shouts of the army, but I just keep moving forward. Lord, the enemy is real but so are you. So are you Lord and my faith is in you. Whether you save me or not, you are real, I am loved by you and you are present in my life daily. Thank you Lord for reminding me that I can call on you for you are with me always. YOU ARE REAL!

Trust

John 14:1-3

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Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God^[a]; believe also in me. ² My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

 

I have trust you. At the end of the day, when every thing else fails, I have to just you. Trust is the golden path. The belief that when the pharaoh's heart has been harden, I have to trust God to take me through that Red Sea. I have to rise above my circumstances. I can not let the circumstances win in my faith walk.  Pharaoh's army may be bearing down to kill me, and that's real. But I have to trust in God to bring me out. I pray for my dreams and wishes to come true. You are my dream. I don't want to miss my opportunity for a loving relationship. I trust God. Why we even have this is because of God. How would we even know this much I it wasn't for God being in this. You could have never known how I felt about you and I would have never know how you felt about me, but we know. We know because of this. So while I have to trust God for a better life on the other side of that Red Sea, I know God is watching and involved I my life right now. I trust you Lord. I love you so much. I just have to trust you absolutely. I trust you.

Problem-Free Life

 

John 16:33

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³³ I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]

 

 

 

Thank You Lord for today. I give p the illusion that I should have a problem free life. I am part of this world and the world has problems. I am not consumed with my problems, I understand that we all have problems and difficulties. My hope is linked to your Lord. I know I can't solve my problems in this life. I look for the problem free life in heaven. I do not try to seek perfection here on earth. That's impossible, its a waste of energy. I put my energy into seeking you Lord. Without you it is impossible for me to find any enjoyment. My light shines the brightest when I seek you. I am the calmest and full of trust, when I seek you. When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, I seek you and trust you anyway. I trust you in the dark places where I can't see what's going on but I know I have to trust you. The journey is more interesting because I have given you control. I'm not leading or guiding. I am not fearful, because I greatly trust you. I am confident in your love and I trust you Lord. I will not fear the unknown. I am strong and confident in your Love. You have given me hope and I have faith in you. I am faithful. I believe that all things are possible. I believe in you and your promises. I am walking in faith because I trust you. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. I am trusting you. The truth shall set us free. I give glory to God. Thank You Lord for your blessings. I love you.

Strengths and Weaknesses

2 Corinthians 12:9

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⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

Lord, I am here again. Thank you for today. I am blessed to have another day in your presence. Lord I now that I am not perfect and I don't want to be. Help me to do what I need to do. I seem to have started a snowball effect and I want to be proactive, not reactive. I haven't been in this situation before and its time I bring in my rep. If that is wrong then we will squash it right there, but if it is with merit then I have to press forward. The sleepless nights and irritability have to stop. I'm not liking me.

Trust

Proverbs 3:5-6

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⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;
⁶ in all your ways submit to him,
    and he will make your paths straight.

Lord I am here another day. I have to trust you in every area of my life. When I fail to trust you in my life, I am anxious and I want to avoid the challenges. Lord when I trust you I run to the challenges and see them as a growth opportunity. I want to gain the knowledge that's there from the challenges. There are blessings in the mess and I don't want to lose my blessings. I will not waste energy regretting the way things are or thinking about how things could be different if I had only done it differently This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. I woke up with you on my mind Lord and I will walk through this day with you leading and guiding me. I pray that I listen when you speak. I pray that I move when you prod. I belong to you Lord. Keep me close and never let me go. I am trusting you on this journey. I love you. I trust you, I am confident in you, I am encouraged that you are with me.

Truthful

 

John 2:1

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Jesus Changes Water Into Wine

2 On the third day a wedding took place at

Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,

 

 

Thank You Lord for another day. I am praying for a day filled with doing your will. I am yours Lord. Wen me from my idols and things that are not of you Lord. As I go out today, have me depend only on you. The places that I go, let me show them God. Let me be a light in a dark place. My love for you is everlasting. I have not given up on you so don't give up on me. I trust you Lord and I am not afraid of falling. I know you will catch me. I love you.

Faithful

Colossians 2:5-8

 

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⁵ For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.

Spiritual Fullness in Christ

⁶ So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
⁸ See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces^[a] of this world rather than on Christ.


Father God I am so thankful that you have given me a chance to live and learn today. I am so blessed to be here another day. I have been complaining the past week and I am sorry for that. Forgive me for not trusting in you more. I know that the problems and concerns that I have are of little consequence to you. You have so many things to be concerned with that I feel self centered when I complain about my problems. I am not dying, hospitalized or homeless. Everything else is just a formality for living in this world. I will adjust, prepare and be ready. Ready for my 2014. I'm looking for the best for me emotionally, spiritually and physically.  Lord I will work hard to be the best I can possibly be to satisfy you. My heart's desire is to in your heat and mind on a daily basis. I love you and pray that my service to you is a worthy one. Be Blessed and be a blessing to someone.

God Will Not Force Himself

 

God is awesome. God you are awesome in this place. God you forgive me before I forgive myself. Lord I worship you until I am able to worship you in spirit and truth. I didn't go to church today. Forgive myself, don't live in guilt. It wasn't planned for me to not go. I got up, did the usual stuff for dad. Gave him his medicine, emptied the urinal, setup the meds for next week, prepared breakfast, the same everyday. I went back to bed just for an hour and before I knew it, 10:30am.
So here I am. Forgive Me, Forgive Me, Forgive Me.
Isaiah 43:18-21
A New Year Demands a New Me!
God can take us through any situation or circumstance. God can use your situation for his purpose. God can make all things work together for my good. God is still in control. God has his hand on us. We have to have a knowledge rooted that God can override anything the enemy has done. God can override anything the enemy has done. Receive this in your spirit. In 2014, God is about to make us brand new. This is for those that want it. God is going to usher us into a new season, new turning point, something different. There will be something new about our look and our life. God is getting ready to do something brand new. God is getting ready to relocate some of the craziness in your life. Glory to God. God is getting ready to relocate me from some of the madness, drama and craziness in my life. The devil is trying to make you think he is in charge, but God is in control and I am in the palm of his hand. Even when the devil tries, he can't get me. I don't care what it looks like, I am still in his hand. I'm in his hand.
God is speaking in my spirit that I am to live in the brand new spirit. God is prophesizing through Isaiah to a people who are in captivity. God speaks to us in captivity so that we don't forget who he is and who we are. God needs to remind his people that he is our God and we are his children. We can go through traumatic situations that can cause a temporary amnesia that we are the children of the King. Our midnight hour makes us realize that when we go through some situations we have to reach out to our spiritual daddy. When you go through situations, realize God is still God. Don't be intimidated by situations you go through.
My God is Bad. I am He, I can deliver. When God comes into a situation, God can do it. God is Bad. Don't let your situation get more attention from me than God. In the tongue there is the power of life and death. Don't keep talking about your problem. Stop talking about the problem. Look at my situation, call it by name and say that you are not more powerful than my God. Look at bills, heart problems lupus, cancer, and what ever it is, name it and say "you are not more powerful than my God".
I'm looking to get delivered this morning. God will back you in a corner, it looks like you have no place to go, but God wants you to know he is your breath, your daily bread. Sometimes God will get you into stuff so that he can show you he has your back. When stuff has been tormenting you for a long time you can give in, give up or get used to it. Refuse to get use to evil in your life. Sometimes the enemy is so good, he can make you think its over, you just have to deal, but it isn't over. You might have to go into overtime, but the fight is fixed.
Verse 17 - God drew them out and snuffed them out like a wick. God says don't be intimidated. God is getting ready to snuff my enemies out like a wick. God wants me to understand, He is King over he affairs of my life. Everything is under King Jesus. When I walk in the lordship of God, in the obedience and submission of God. God says I can handle it. If God allows it to come in my life then it is a setup for what is getting ready to happen in my life. Forget the former things, don't dwell on the past. If I understood how awesome my future is, I would stop dwelling on the past. Learn the lessons from it but forget about I holding hostage in my life. Don't let your future be held hostage based on the past of your  pain. Neighbor don't let your future be held hostage, based on the past of your pain.
Don't keep holding on to stuff. Let it go. God says I need you to let it go. I am getting ready to do a new thing. Something so awesome. God is getting ready to show out in my life. What God is getting ready to do in 2014, making a way in the desert, streams in the wasteland. God is getting ready to do stuff that doesn't make sense.
Lupe Fiasco expressed, its getting ready to go down. Everything I have allowed you to go through was to prepare you. Its time to come out, its done.
Verse 19- God is doing a new thing, it springs up. The new thing will come up out of the pressure of what you are going through. Stop being afraid of the pressure. The pressure is just pushing the new stuff out of you.
Verse 20- Now the wild animals they honor me. The jackal and the owls give me glory. Because they learned to trust me. Now I need to know that my people can praise me because they believe something new is going to happen. I believe in the power of praise. The wild animals will not give God more praise than me. The ones with the greatest heaviness need to step out and come to the altar. If there is something on your spirit, bring it to the altar. Refuse to be held hostage and not receive the devil's dealings in your life. God can take you to a new place. Get what we need wholeheartedly. We can't be lukewarm, we need to be excited and hot for our future. We can't let anything hold us back. God's Christmas present is the new thing God is getting ready to do in our life. Are we ready to receive it. Devil I'm tired of you messing with my heart, mind and spirit. Devil the blood of Jesus is against you. Let me go now, NOW, NOW. The new thing is coming now. NOW get my anointing, my miracle, my new thing. I want I now. I join all the animals of the land to let loose a praise. The greater the pressure, the greater the promotion. New heights for 2014. When I get it, they will get it. God is waiting on me. Enough, let the hurt go, let God heal me. Don't let the hurt destroy you. God wants me to let go of the hurt, anger and bitterness. God has something for me. God will not sit with our anger and hurt. God will remove the bitterness and hurt. God is getting ready to take us places. God is getting ready to fix things in our life. A joy in our life. The real peace and real joy. God hears our pain. We have felt mad and abandoned but God has never let us go. It was God holding us, he never left us. God is getting ready to show the love that has always been there. While we were mad at God, God still loved us. Now we are anointed. Our souls are one with the Lord. Our God loves us. Why did we ever think that he stopped loving us? We love the Lord and the Lord loves us. I love you.

Today

Well it begins. This is all fussing, complaining about People who are in charge  and want you to understand them. Its all about them. Read this book so you can understand me. This is my first time in this role, give me a break. You are expected to understand me and know that I  just want to be able to celebrate. I just got this Phd and I am hot. I am in charge of a magnet school, look at me. I, I, I, I.....ITS ALL ABOUT ME. I blame all my problems on my staff because I'm new. I didn't get to pick my staff, I do nothing to unite my staff because they really are not my staff, I didn't pick them. Any problems, its them, not me. I'm going to talk about their problems to others but not to them. I place nothing in place  for them to improve, but I will complain to parents and students and any one else who will listen. I give the kids no consequences. I just want to be their friend. I don't back my teachers and support staff. This will be a very interesting week. Three days and I already know its going to be a problem.  She expexts me to purchase every thing missing for science upfront and then get reimbursed. She  hardly pays us for meetings and after school programs as it is. I need these things to do my job. I was trying to be patient in the beginning, because of the moving and all, but when you blame me for things that are missing, then I have a problem. I didn't pack it or move it. So I complain about a bad rating. I'm suppose to be able to comment on it but she doesn't know how to do the evaluation and doesn't click the invite button. Not her fault, oh well, my bad. I have to spend an hour trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong and its nothing I  can do but send my comments as an attachment. Now I'm just mad. Then its said maybe I would be better in intermediate, with the younger kids. What's that suppose to mean? You can't handle middle grades anymore or I have someone I want for this spot. I think she has someone she wants for my spot. That's understandable, she didn't get to pick her staff. She has all these deficits that she is working with. She talks about how dissatisfied she is with the upper team yet she doesn't talk to us as a team. She doesn't meet with the student's to express her expectations and to put her foot down with them. Its all celebrate and playing the happy song and dancing. They are not held accountable by the administration. Teachers are left to fend for themselves when it comes to discipline. The kids run the school. They know there are no consequences. They do whatever they want. OK, I'm done complaining,for now. I just had to get it off my chest, this has been going on and will continue for the rest of the year. This school needed an experienced leader to really make it. Everything and everyone new is just too much disconnect. Noone knows how to unite. Leaders unite. United we stand, divided we fall.
Leadership is so important. I understand why you want us to be effective leaders at church. Poor leadership demoralizes the team, creates discontent, and doesn't move the team towards their goal. The journey is difficult enough without bad leadership. Stepping up to do your best can only allow for so much. Effective leaders are able to unite and move the team forward. We are not perfect but together we are better. Some times you can't be with the crowd. The truth is we are expected to do our best in all situations. We are human beings and we have frailities. Perfection is hard to come by. Challenges are all around. Can we make a difference in this world? Can we really work together? I believe we can. I love you.

Reflect and Learn

Jeremiah 17:7-8 NIV

But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.”

Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Good Morning Lord. I have trying to get back to sleep since 3am with no success. Now I have a long day and I pray for your help in this day. I am looking at this informal observation summary which is just terrible from my principal. We seem t but heads constantly. I have a conference on Friday about an observation that took place in December. She doesn't like me. I already know this. She wants me out. So now I have to prepare for a conference with her on this unannounced visit from December. She sends the feed back yesterday so I have one day to look and respond. Maybe that is what was in the air for me and kept me awake. I will do what needs to be done. Its just the informal, its not the final. This too shall pass. I thought I was just stressed out about something else. Whatever the situation, it will be just the way its suppose to be. Worrying and losing sleep is not the way.
I will focus on the situation at hand. Now you were on my mind too. I thank God for you and pray that you have a good day today. God hears my prayers for you. My Love, My Love. My prayers go out to you. I love you. Be blessed and be a blessing to someone.

Happy Birthday Dr King