Get the sap!

 John 15:4 "Remain in me, and I will remain in you.  No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine.  Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.  5 "I am the vine; you are the branches.  If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."   Fear and anxiety over things in our lives are symptoms that we are not 100% trusting God.  We can only see things from our human perspective, He sees things from His divine perspective.   He is constantly pruning us and helping us be conformed to His likeness.   During our pruning we have to TRUST or it’s like we are cutting ourselves off from the tree of life.  Gods timing, Gods plans are not ours.    Today be inspired to fully remain in Him!! Meaning fully TRUST Him in whatever obstacles you face.   When I don’t 100% TRUST God plan I become a branch that withers and dies, cut off from the tree.  Cool thing is no matter how many times I cut myself off from branch He miraculously attaches me!!   Unfortunately it usually takes a tough time for me to realize I’m not relying on Him.  Today, be the branch attached to the vine!!

He has plans for you!

 Jeremiah 29:11 “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.”

He has plans for us!!!  Are we walking in His plans or trudging through our own?   His yoke is easy, His burden is light…..sometimes things are hard and you need Gods strength to get though and sometimes we are simply on the wrong path and we need to get back to His word.  Today let’s let His word be a lamp to our feet.   Lets enjoy the plans God has for us, plans to prosper us and not to harm us, plans to give us hope and a future.. 29:13. “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart 14 I will be found by you”, declares the Lord.

Pray first, act second

 Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before hand, that we should walk in them.”  Are there good works you know you should do that you are not doing?  Paul said, “Why is it that I do the things I don’t want to do and don’t do the things I want to do?”  This is our human condition.       We are not to wallow in our flesh but to rise above and walk in His Spirit!  I can talk myself in and out of all kinds of behaviors.  When I pray first and act second this helps me embrace the ways of the His Spirit and reject the temptations of my flesh.   We are His workmanship, let’s pray first and act second today and always!😇❤️🙏

Grow where you are planted

 Galatians 2:6 “As for those who seemed to be important-whatever they  were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by external appearances- those men added nothing to my message.  7 On the contrary, they saw I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been to the Jews. “.   Paul had ben entrusted to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles as Peter had been to the Jews.  Each of us have a demographic of people we are uniquely equipped to reach.   Who are the people you uniquely  equipped to reach for Christ?  Are you?  Today, let’s plant, grow and water the seeds in the garden we have been planted!!! He has uniquely equipped us to “Shine” for Jesus,  right where we are at!!

Endurance and patience joyfully?

 Colossians 1:10-12 “And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to to His glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”

We have been redeemed!   We are strengthened with ALL POWER according to His glorious might!!  So we may have great endurance and patience and joyfully giving thanks to the Father.    Endurance and patience are often produced because of suffering in verses 11&12 it states joyfully giving thanks!! Can we be joyfully giving thanks in our sufferings?