For
sometime I have been thinking about the possibilities of 2013. With all that has gone on in 2012, it is
evident that God is working in us and through us to do much in the upcoming
year. I believe that with all my heart.
Heading
in that direction I would like to share a couple thoughts that God won’t let
leave my mind and my heart. Yet I also
want to give you the premise or the foundation that I speak from. I believe that God is in charge of all
possibilities and that He still does miracles.
Further, God cares far more about people than he does things. Last, God is more interested in our heart
than in our ability.
With
that said here are two things that God has in front of me for 2013:
We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people
from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.
As I
have preparing for our church family to go through the Daniel fast in January I
have been reading and working through a 40 day prayer challenge from Mark
Batterson based on his book The Circle
Maker. In one of the readings Mark
talked about this verse and how often we are encouraged to use it to deal with
negative stuff that comes in our lives, but we ought to use it also for the
positive.
God
wants to widen our possibilities. He
wants to increase our effectiveness. He
wants to flow through us with faith that moves mountains and allow His love to
flow live a flooded river out of control.
The only way for that to happen is to take captive the positive and the
faith thoughts that come our direction.
Do we
believe God still does miracles? Do we
believe that God has greater days ahead for us?
If we believe those things, we ought to be acting on them. Write down what God puts in your heart. Write down the promises that God gives
you. Don’t those things slip out of your
mind and heart.
When
we take those things captive, we give God the ability to work through them in
our lives because we are watching, we are thinking about them and praying over
them. I have done this for several
issues in my life and for many, many needs.
God shows up. He works in ways
that no one else can. All that happens
because God is able and I am ready for Him to do what God alone can do.
Hebrews 12:1-2
NLT
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge
crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that
slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run
with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because
of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he
is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.
I get
tangled up from time to time. Do
you? It might be because of a habit or
sin in my life or from something that I have allowed to occur. Life is not meant to be a situation of
coincidence happens. Life is meant to be
a path of glory to God and abundance in our lives.
What
gets in the way of God working? What
gets in the way of the abundance in our lives?
There are many answers. But a few
of the answers make me shake my head.
It is
easy to take our eyes off of Jesus.
Therefore we have to chose to keep our eyes on Him.
It is
easy to allow things to trip us up.
Things such as sin or possessions or relationships or any number of
things keep us from following Jesus.
It
could be a lack of faith. Being saved is
not just fire insurance to keep you out of help. Faith is assurance that God can and will move
in my life now.
I
believe that 2013 is going to be a great year, but for that to be true in my
life or in your life, there are some things that need to take place now. If we chose to take the great thoughts
captive, we might just see our greatest days and the greatest miracles. If we don’t let ourselves get tripped up or
have our focus taken off the Father, we may see things and experience things we
have never seen or experienced before.
2013
will be a great year. I am preparing for
it because there are new possibilities, God possibilities ahead!
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