Believe!
I had an incredible day.
Which started yesterday. And may end sometime tomorrow, as far as I know...and please keep in mind I'm speaking of Monday and Tuesday. I get today is Wednesday, but not for me until I wake up in four hours.
Bible study day, you know.
Anyway, the message of today was about living in the past. Saw quite a bit about that, heard some about it too. But it made me stop and think about what from the past I was still hanging onto.
Cindy is on my mind a lot these days, so of course my mind went there. There's some stuff going on there that's not really for public consumption, but it made me reflect on whether or not I was grasping at something from the past. I'm gonna get to this more in a minute. But first, I had to come to the well-thought-out understanding that Cindy, although we're not in the same relationship we were once, is very much part of my present.
What I came to understand was that what I needed to let go of was a bunch of fear, and of Wendi. I need to quickly qualify that....I let go of Wendi the minute the ink was dry on the divorce papers. I haven't once tried to reconcile, attempted to reconcile, etc... I tried to save my marriage. God let me and used that time in my life to teach me many lessons and to mold me into the man He wanted me to be. I'm not holding onto Wendi, but because of that experience, I realized I was holding onto a lot of fear that was keeping me from really, and earnestly, trusting God where some other things are concerned.
What I was carrying around from the past was fear that thins wouldn't work out because they didn't with Wendi.
They weren't supposed to.
If God has a plan for my life (and He does!) it would be foolish of me to think He wouldn't tell it to me or somehow reveal it to me. How He chooses to do that works for me, and I share lots of it on Facebook. Mostly it's something from a young woman named Autumn Miles, who is on fire for Jesus. When this is all over, I'm going to write her a long letter and send her a big check for her ministry because of how blessed I've been from it. I still haven't liked her Facebook page because her ministry is for women, primarily. Mostly, I'm content with letting the posts show up just kind of randomly. When they do, I pay extra attention to them and they usually fit.
I shared a little six minute video clip the other day from her. She talked about a three step approach to knowing the will of God. I did all three of those things she said without even knowing I was doing them at the time. There was something missing in my little road trip which I'm not telling you about, so I paid particular attention to the part where she emphasized the answer would come from God's Word. I saw something so personal, so specific, that there could really be no way to mistake it. But it didn't come from God's word
Sometimes you get thoughts that just kind of come from the ethos; you have no idea where it was. I'm a believer so on some level I have to believe those come from the Holy Spirit. One of those thoughts yesterday was that OK, I'll look for validation of what I thought what I saw actually meant and that I would find it and know it when I saw it. I wasn't to look for it though. I didn't deviate from my daily reading. I didn't go out of my way to find it. I let it come to me, and it did.
I got it in the most obscure way: Someone in Anaheim's post about an event they're having. Here's the text:
The Anointing of Precision Vision in 2016
The Lack of Perception is the Root of Deception
Why wait another day for the new year message?
Dear Friends,
Throughout the scripture, the text teaches without a vision the people perish. Proverbs 29:18
The Bible teaches that the vision is the fire that fuels your PURPOSE.
Habakkuk Chapter 2:2+3
2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Write the vision make it plain upon the tablets that he may run that readeth it. You will pursue your purpose and chase it when the vision is revealed to you.
This week, I will be speaking about the different types of spiritual visionary impairment disorders.
Some of us are suffering from spiritual myopia (nearsightedness). We cannot see past our problems. We can only see whats happening at the moment. Like a person who is nearsighted who cannot see far away, some of us have been stumbled and are unable to reach the highest summit of spiritual purpose because our spiritual vision is so impaired. Others, suffer from farsightedness. We only want what's ahead but we cannot see what is in front of us which are the blessings and the gifts that are inside of us.
My prayer for you is that you will reach the highest spiritual stratosphere in 2016 that God had for you.
Don't miss this Wednesday night, January 6th.
Anyway, I got the Habakkuk verse from Mrs. Miles several months ago. Felt it spoke to where I was in life at that minute so much so that I underlined it. The other verse mentioned is one all too familiar to me. My friend Lefty's ministry, who I kinda sorta do their website for, uses it. The first one made it real personal for me, the second, drove the point home.
In short: confirmation.
God does have a plan for me. And after realizing I needed to let go of that fear, I think I'm gonna be OK in the waiting room. Good isn't going to be a problem for me anymore. There is no doubt in my mind that I'm on course.
Romans 8:28 says in part that "all things work together for good for those who love God". When a pussycat gets smashed in your chair, which is the worst fear of the person nursing the pussycat when you're celebrating "out with the old, in with the new." shortly after returning from scrubbing your basement floor after removing a ginormous glob of hair from your floor drain which is connected to the main sewer pipe (ewww. lots and lots of ewwww.) it's hard to see how any of that is good.
But, then there are lessons God can teach you in tragedy. If the pipe didn't get clogged, I would have been unable to drive because I bought some beers to enjoy as part of my celebration. They're still in the fridge. I learned a big lesson about taking care of what God gives you. Often, those lessons come as warnings before blessings.
So, how does letting go of the past play in to the future? I think this illustration helps explain that: I mentioned Valentine's Day to Miss June, who reminded me that I hate that day. I've had my heart broken and two marriages essentially end on that day. The news would come later, but the death knell for both rang on that day. Her advice to me: Don't go changing how you feel about something. My advice to me:
Let go of the past.
Romans 12:1-2 also helped me realize that in a lot of ways I was doing this. I hear the part where it says to keep our eyes on Jesus on average four times a week. And I forgot that, too. If I'm focusing on the fears of the past, I'm not forgetting the past and looking to Jesus. If I'm looking to Jesus and what today is going to bring, then I'm not living in the past. I can draw from past experiences, but I don't have to live there.
The cool thing about today's post is that you can look at my Facebook page and see how all this played out, except for the stuff I copied and pasted which is in red. All I could do with that was share the event, which is in Anaheim, where none of us are today. You'll just have to trust me on that one.
And do a little digging in the blog archives if you want to cross-check the story with what happened last fall. It all fits.
To close this rather long post, I'm reminded of a lyric to a song I like: ♫That was then, this is now!♫ and I don't live in "then" anymore. Glad that Cindy is part of my present and that God decided to keep things that way. And looking forward to whatever else today will bring.
Have a blessed day!
Which started yesterday. And may end sometime tomorrow, as far as I know...and please keep in mind I'm speaking of Monday and Tuesday. I get today is Wednesday, but not for me until I wake up in four hours.
Bible study day, you know.
Anyway, the message of today was about living in the past. Saw quite a bit about that, heard some about it too. But it made me stop and think about what from the past I was still hanging onto.
Cindy is on my mind a lot these days, so of course my mind went there. There's some stuff going on there that's not really for public consumption, but it made me reflect on whether or not I was grasping at something from the past. I'm gonna get to this more in a minute. But first, I had to come to the well-thought-out understanding that Cindy, although we're not in the same relationship we were once, is very much part of my present.
What I came to understand was that what I needed to let go of was a bunch of fear, and of Wendi. I need to quickly qualify that....I let go of Wendi the minute the ink was dry on the divorce papers. I haven't once tried to reconcile, attempted to reconcile, etc... I tried to save my marriage. God let me and used that time in my life to teach me many lessons and to mold me into the man He wanted me to be. I'm not holding onto Wendi, but because of that experience, I realized I was holding onto a lot of fear that was keeping me from really, and earnestly, trusting God where some other things are concerned.
What I was carrying around from the past was fear that thins wouldn't work out because they didn't with Wendi.
They weren't supposed to.
If God has a plan for my life (and He does!) it would be foolish of me to think He wouldn't tell it to me or somehow reveal it to me. How He chooses to do that works for me, and I share lots of it on Facebook. Mostly it's something from a young woman named Autumn Miles, who is on fire for Jesus. When this is all over, I'm going to write her a long letter and send her a big check for her ministry because of how blessed I've been from it. I still haven't liked her Facebook page because her ministry is for women, primarily. Mostly, I'm content with letting the posts show up just kind of randomly. When they do, I pay extra attention to them and they usually fit.
I shared a little six minute video clip the other day from her. She talked about a three step approach to knowing the will of God. I did all three of those things she said without even knowing I was doing them at the time. There was something missing in my little road trip which I'm not telling you about, so I paid particular attention to the part where she emphasized the answer would come from God's Word. I saw something so personal, so specific, that there could really be no way to mistake it. But it didn't come from God's word
Sometimes you get thoughts that just kind of come from the ethos; you have no idea where it was. I'm a believer so on some level I have to believe those come from the Holy Spirit. One of those thoughts yesterday was that OK, I'll look for validation of what I thought what I saw actually meant and that I would find it and know it when I saw it. I wasn't to look for it though. I didn't deviate from my daily reading. I didn't go out of my way to find it. I let it come to me, and it did.
I got it in the most obscure way: Someone in Anaheim's post about an event they're having. Here's the text:
The Anointing of Precision Vision in 2016
The Lack of Perception is the Root of Deception
Why wait another day for the new year message?
Dear Friends,
Throughout the scripture, the text teaches without a vision the people perish. Proverbs 29:18
The Bible teaches that the vision is the fire that fuels your PURPOSE.
Habakkuk Chapter 2:2+3
2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Write the vision make it plain upon the tablets that he may run that readeth it. You will pursue your purpose and chase it when the vision is revealed to you.
This week, I will be speaking about the different types of spiritual visionary impairment disorders.
Some of us are suffering from spiritual myopia (nearsightedness). We cannot see past our problems. We can only see whats happening at the moment. Like a person who is nearsighted who cannot see far away, some of us have been stumbled and are unable to reach the highest summit of spiritual purpose because our spiritual vision is so impaired. Others, suffer from farsightedness. We only want what's ahead but we cannot see what is in front of us which are the blessings and the gifts that are inside of us.
My prayer for you is that you will reach the highest spiritual stratosphere in 2016 that God had for you.
Don't miss this Wednesday night, January 6th.
Anyway, I got the Habakkuk verse from Mrs. Miles several months ago. Felt it spoke to where I was in life at that minute so much so that I underlined it. The other verse mentioned is one all too familiar to me. My friend Lefty's ministry, who I kinda sorta do their website for, uses it. The first one made it real personal for me, the second, drove the point home.
In short: confirmation.
God does have a plan for me. And after realizing I needed to let go of that fear, I think I'm gonna be OK in the waiting room. Good isn't going to be a problem for me anymore. There is no doubt in my mind that I'm on course.
Romans 8:28 says in part that "all things work together for good for those who love God". When a pussycat gets smashed in your chair, which is the worst fear of the person nursing the pussycat when you're celebrating "out with the old, in with the new." shortly after returning from scrubbing your basement floor after removing a ginormous glob of hair from your floor drain which is connected to the main sewer pipe (ewww. lots and lots of ewwww.) it's hard to see how any of that is good.
But, then there are lessons God can teach you in tragedy. If the pipe didn't get clogged, I would have been unable to drive because I bought some beers to enjoy as part of my celebration. They're still in the fridge. I learned a big lesson about taking care of what God gives you. Often, those lessons come as warnings before blessings.
So, how does letting go of the past play in to the future? I think this illustration helps explain that: I mentioned Valentine's Day to Miss June, who reminded me that I hate that day. I've had my heart broken and two marriages essentially end on that day. The news would come later, but the death knell for both rang on that day. Her advice to me: Don't go changing how you feel about something. My advice to me:
Let go of the past.
Romans 12:1-2 also helped me realize that in a lot of ways I was doing this. I hear the part where it says to keep our eyes on Jesus on average four times a week. And I forgot that, too. If I'm focusing on the fears of the past, I'm not forgetting the past and looking to Jesus. If I'm looking to Jesus and what today is going to bring, then I'm not living in the past. I can draw from past experiences, but I don't have to live there.
The cool thing about today's post is that you can look at my Facebook page and see how all this played out, except for the stuff I copied and pasted which is in red. All I could do with that was share the event, which is in Anaheim, where none of us are today. You'll just have to trust me on that one.
And do a little digging in the blog archives if you want to cross-check the story with what happened last fall. It all fits.
To close this rather long post, I'm reminded of a lyric to a song I like: ♫That was then, this is now!♫ and I don't live in "then" anymore. Glad that Cindy is part of my present and that God decided to keep things that way. And looking forward to whatever else today will bring.
Have a blessed day!
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