You always have God’s presence. For hasn’t he promised you, “I will never leave you, never! And I will not loosen my grip on your life!”So we can say with great confidence: “I know the Lord is for me and I will never be afraid of what people may do to me!”Hebrews 13
Grow At Your Pace
I know I am not perfect. I know God won’t leave me or forsake me, He will grow me through. I have no doubt about that. God waits on me to learn and grow. He doesn’t place conditions or ultimatums on my life, and He doesn’t restrict or punish me when I mess up. He corrects my course. He forgives and forgets, and His mercy is new every morning towards me. God believes in me, He doesn’t give up on me. God sees me finished and completed, and I know confidently that God, He will finish what He started in me. Sometimes people reject you, they ghost you because you won’t do exactly what they want you to do, when they think it should be done. God is not like that… He sees how far we have come, He sees us, He sees our heart, and He stays in fellowship with us as we grow through to be the person He designed us to be. People try to get you off your game, they want to set your pace to what they are comfortable with. We should keep our pace up with God and grow through with God’s Holy Spirit, with how He is navigating us. We grow at the pace God sets for us, and we are not dictated by people and their comfort zone. Listen up to this 1 Minute Encouragement Video:
God Has The Final Say
The way I am being shaped is way different from the way God is designing other people. I know He has a specific destiny for me and as He finishes what He started in me, I know I am God gripped by His Mighty Right Hand. Some people may be uncomfortable with the way God has specifically shaped you up to be. They may try to tell you that what you are doing is wrong, because the way that you are growing through life, it makes them feel comfortable. Why are they uncomfortable? Because they are not you, the God shaped you, and they only see things from their point of view and if you don’t agree with what they “think they know” you are wrong. When we make people uncomfortable with the way that God has designed us, should we change so that they can be comfortable with us? The real question is, is the bottom line of godly integrity in your life still intact? You may follow after the way of God, but your method is determined by your uniquely shaped God giftedness. If someone is uncomfortable with your God designed giftedness, and your life foundation is setting upon the rock of Jesus Christ, and you follow after His ways, then the only ONE who gets to speak life transformation into your life is Him. The broad road is one of following after the acceptance of others, letting others control you, shape your destiny, and set boundaries on your God giftedness. The narrow road is putting Your identity in Jesus Christ, and giving no one else permission to speak into your identity, to shape your inner spiritual core, but Him. Does God use people to speak into our lives? Yes! But you never take anything people say at face value. People have “say so” but GOD has the final say. When someone wants to speak something into your life, You ask God: Did you say this? #ListenUp to this 1 Minute Encouragement Video:
You formed my innermost being, shaping my delicate inside and my intricate outside, and wove them all together in my mother’s womb. I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex! Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking. It simply amazes me to think about it! How thoroughly you know me, Lord! You even formed every bone in my body when you created me in the secret place; carefully, skillfully you shaped me from nothing to something. You saw who you created me to be before I became me! Before I’d ever seen the light of day , the number of days you planned for me were already recorded in your book. Every single moment you are thinking of me! How precious and wonderful to consider that you cherish me constantly in your every thought! O God, your desires toward me are more than the grains of sand on every shore! When I awake each morning, you’re still with me. Every single moment you are thinking of me! How precious and wonderful to consider that you cherish me constantly in your every thought! O God, your desires toward me are more than the grains of sand on every shore! When I awake each morning, you’re still with me. Psalms 139:13-17
Who Said That
Jesus Christ is the “Spirit of Truth” He is not going to devalue us in anyway, He will always speak the truth in love to build us up, to teach us, to grow us through and to correct our course. Jesus Still Speaks And Still Speaks The Purest Truth Ever Known To Mankind. So if someone just spoke something negative to you, and it got in your head, and you are mulling it around in your thoughts, and you are entertaining it in your soul, and the negativity gets stronger, and you feel very devalued, ask this: Who Said That? Was it God Or The Enemy Of Your Soul?
But instead we will remain strong and always sincere in our love as we express the truth. All our direction and ministries will flow from Christ and lead us deeper into him, the anointed Head of his body, the church. For his “body” has been formed in his image and is closely joined together and constantly connected as one. And every member has been given divine gifts to contribute to the growth of all; and as these gifts operate effectively throughout the whole body, we are built up and made perfect in love. Ephesians 4:15-16
Perfectly Loved
Because of our love for God, because our life has been freely given to Him, we will become people of integrity, and if you look at our life in heavenly hindsight, our life will reflect, a moment to choice decision to follow Jesus, to mirror His way, truth, and life, because this will be our heart’s desire. As a Christian, we are flesh, we still have a human condition that needs to have self-control. Yet, there will be times where we will not make the godly choice, we are not perfect. Yet, we are perfectly loved by God, who will convict us of wrong doing, will teach us, and course correct the crooked places in our heart, and we will grow through our life being transformed by His Holy Spirit, positioned under the Rulership of His love.
God Shaped
As for me, most of my life I have been in relationship with Jesus Christ, I’ve made it personal with the God of the universe, this is what I was created for. My heart is connected to His heart, and I listen up to Him every day to hear His thoughts, directions, and step by step navigation of my life. When you get into a situation as a Christian where people want to question your integrity, and want to tell you what you can do and what you can’t do, and they want to control your behaviors, then you need to fall back on this truth: You are fearfully and wonderfully made by God. You are not created by another human being or shaped or designed by them, this is all God.
How deeply intimate and far-reaching is God’s love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding—this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God! Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of His love will become the very source and root of your life. Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you. Ephesians 3:17-20
Imperfectly Perfect
The truth is, for me personally, I am positioned underneath the Rulership of God, and I yield my life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit of God is my navigator. God knows my heart, He hears my thoughts, and He knows every motive behind my actions. God knows me best and loves me most. People do not know me that well, they can’t know my thoughts or my motives. I submit my life wholly-holy to Jesus Christ, He is my identity, He is the only One, Who shapes my life, directs my life, and instructs me in the day to day living out of my life issues. It is impossible with our human condition to be perfect, and with Jesus Christ, we are perfectly-imperfect. We are gripped by God. God is our Way-Maker and with Him, nothing is impossible. God is our Cleft of the Rock where we find clarity and healing in times where human beings have forsaken us. God does not forsake us. We trust God. We may not be perfect, but He is and that makes us imperfectly-perfect. Listen up to this 1 Minute Encouragement Video
He said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name ‘the Lord ’ before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” But he added, “You cannot see my face, for humans cannot see me and live.” The Lord said, “Here is a place near me. You are to stand on the rock, and when my glory passes by, I will put you in the crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Exodus 33:19-22
I am gripped by God with a strong freedom of spirit and truth. I can absolutely positively state I give no permission to anyone else to shape or control my destiny. You will not restrict me or control me, I belong to God, therefore I give no human being power over me. I position myself underneath the authority and leadership of God’s love, and He sets godly authority over my life. The banner over me, over my life is God, His kingdom and His love. No, human being has permission to control my speech, my action, or any of my thoughts. I will obey God from every moment to every choice, I will put God first and serve His kingdom. My destiny is found in the life of Jesus Christ, I have a future, and a hope that is not in this world. No one can take freedom from me, this liberty Jesus Christ gave His life for me to have, it is my inalienable right to live freely. Listen Up to this 1 Minute Encouragement Video
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