With every thought there is a choice. Is it from me? Is it truth or a lie? What will you allow to take root and grow in your thinking?
With every step there is a choice. Will you follow truth or lies?
As you submit to me, I will lead you and show you the way forward, but you have free will. You can make your own choices. You must allow my spirit to lead and actively choose how to spend your time; choose who to align with; choose your words wisely; choose to trust me; choose to follow peace; choose to live from rest.
I will help you and guide you but you must partner with me and choose the path of life.
God gave us his Spirit. And the Spirit doesn’t make us weak and fearful. Instead, the Spirit gives us power and love. He helps us control ourselves.
2 Timothy 1:7 (NIRV)
This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.
Be selective about what you put your energy into and where you invest your time and efforts. As things are shifting and moving like tectonic plates beneath you, hold everything lightly. Deliberately submit it all to me and leave it there.
We are in a place you haven’t been before and your journey so far will not inform the road ahead. You won’t help anything by trying to analyse and figure things out for yourself.
Submit to the spirit and focus on me alone; trust that I can handle it all and will guide your steps. Hand me all your responsibilities and let me show you what to drop, what to pick up, what to build.
The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Exodus 14:14 (NIV)
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Renewing your mind is the doorway to a new era. Hand me your knowledge and let me multiply it. Submit your mindsets to me and let me upgrade your thinking.
You cannot operate in old thoughts, old defaults, and believing the old lies. What worked before won’t wash in the future. As you hand your mind to me there will be a complete change of perspective. I will provide a fresh map for this new landscape. Suspend your earthly thinking and let me bring the expansion you need to steward the new.
Prayer: Lord, I submit to you every aspect of my mind and thinking. I give you everything I know and understand. I repent for every place where I have believed lies which have affected my thoughts and my life; where I have carried wrong mindsets that are not in alignment with truth. I give you permission to rewire my thinking and ask Lord that you would transform me by the renewing of my mind.
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 4:8 (ESV)
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
For some there is waiting, others rest. Some are regrouping and many are recovering. Some are to clear out, some are to wind down, while others are to rise up.
There is a great reshuffling under way but it is not a time for fear!
Engage with the process and embrace this season. Find joy in the journey because it’s all in my hands.
Activation: Ask God to clarify where you are in this great reshuffling. What is your focus in this season? Are you to rest or rise, wait or move? Submit your timings into his hands.
But I trust in you, Lord; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.
Psalm 31:14-15 (NIV)
Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
Sometimes it can feel like you are back where you began. Things can suddenly come full circle and you wonder what the point of the journey so far has been. Maybe you feel a sense of déjà vu. Maybe it appears in the natural like you have walked around the mountain many times and ended up back where you started from. Rest assured, you have come further than you know.
I am not a linear God – I am in the cycles. Completion in itself is a process. The extrication from the previous requires unwinding, unravelling and tying up, in order to move on to the next.
Like the rings in the core of a tree trunk, your life has many nested cycles, and each is larger than the previous. All of these build you, grow you, prepare you, and become part of your story, your strength, and your character.
5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip,“Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?”
6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages[1] to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”
8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up,
9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”
10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there).
11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”
13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
Sometimes it can feel like you are back where you began. Things can suddenly come full circle and you wonder what the point of the journey so far has been. Maybe you feel a sense of déjà vu. Maybe it appears in the natural like you have walked around the mountain many times and ended up back where you started from. Rest assured, you have come further than you know.
I am not a linear God – I am in the cycles. Completion in itself is a process. The extrication from the previous requires unwinding, unravelling and tying up, in order to move on to the next.
Like the rings in the core of a tree trunk, your life has many nested cycles, and each is larger than the previous. All of these build you, grow you, prepare you, and become part of your story, your strength, and your character.
5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip,“Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” 6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages[1] to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”
8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up,
9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”
10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there).
11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”
13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
You are coming into a place where you are beginning to experience me in a more intimate way.
I love when you seek and press into my presence with all your heart. Did I not say that those who seek me will find me when you seek me with all of your heart? I love my time with you. I love your undivided attention. In my presence there is fullness of joy, there is peace, there is love. In my presence is freedom to move into what I have called you to do and be.
Allow me to strip away any and everything that has the potential to keep you stagnant. In my presence you will find the refreshing and refiling you so desperately long for.
You have asked for revelation and insight, and it will be found in my presence – in the secret, hidden place, with me. Come away with me, my beloved. Let me share with you how I see you. Let me reveal my secrets, the plans that I have for you.
This is my invitation to you – COME INTO MY PRESENCE! COME AWAY WITH ME!
Activation: Find a quiet place to spend with the Lord. Relax in His presence and allow Him to shower His love on you. Ask the Lord to show you how He sees you. Let Him know how much you love Him. Write down what the Lord is speaking to you.
You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
Unapologetically Marcia 