Stop Spinning Your Wheels!

“I would have lost heart, unless I had believed 
that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the 
land of the living. Wait on the Lord, be of good 
courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; 
Wait, I say, on the Lord!” 
Psalm 27:13-14

I was speaking to a friend the other day and she was expressing some frustration with the unknowns in her life. She’s out of work and in a new space with her relationships and simply trying to find her footing as she goes through major transition. Like many of us who are trusting God to sustain us, she doesn’t always understand where her provision will come from. I listened to her as she talked in circles and worked herself up into a tizzy the possibilities that life may bring her way.

As she spoke, the Lord gave me a word for her (and you)—stop spinning your wheels…stand still and know he is God! I gave her the example of being in a car that is stuck in the mud in a ditch. You’ve called for AAA and are waiting on help to arrive, but for some reason you anxiously still keep trying to work it out on your own. And the wheels spin as you get deeper and deeper in—when all the while, help is on the way.

This image came back to my mind as I read this verse in Psalm 27. It’s so easy to lose heart and feel as though your help is never coming. However, the God who made Heaven and earth never misses a call. He’s more dependable that AAA Roadside Assistance. Once you call Him, you can count on the fact that He will come and He will make a way. Isaiah 48:21 talks about how people in the desert didn’t thirst because He made water gush from a rock! If He can put faucets in rocks, how much more capable is He of coming to your aid. It may come from the most unlikely source and it may not come when you’d like, but in His sovereignty His timing is perfect.

So, stop spinning your wheels—stop worrying—and let God do his thing. "Wait, I say, on the Lord!"

Be encouraged!

MinD

Nothing Is Missing!

Do you ever feel like something is missing in your life? There's a void in life? Sometimes you feel like you missed an opportunity or you’re missing a relationship or you’re missing…well you get the point…With life not quite where you want it to be, it feels like SOMEthing must be missing. But there’s a Word from the Lord today and a reminder of his power:

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things,

Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name,

By the greatness of His might and the strength of His power;

 Not one is missing. (Isaiah 40:26)

Not one is missing! In this day, God wants to remind you that He is the Lord of all details. Not even a leaf on a tree is out of place. In our finite minds, we think that perhaps He has forgotten this or not seen that. As we endure life’s uncomfortable moments and experience life’s awe-inspiring times, we sometimes forget that God is a part of it all. He skips nothing. He leaves nothing out. Sometimes we have to be reminded just how grand and sovereign He is. His power extends beyond what we will ever understand. One of the following verses says “The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.” His greatness is incomprehensible! Though you can’t understand why he/she died or you’re getting tired of all the madness on your job or you are losing faith in whatever promises He made to come to pass, be rest assured that the Lord we serve understands all and has seen to every detail.

And when you catch hold of that, it is then that you can truly celebrate the ending of the chapter…the popular verse that everyone remembers:  “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.” (vs 31) God has truly got your back. He’s more efficient than the greatest of event planners and has orchestrated this event we call life to a Tee. He has called you by name. He has seen to every detail. Not one is missing.

Be encouraged!

Blessings,

MinD

STILL STANDING...Good Enough...

I haven’t been writing, because I feel this obligation to have some redeeming quality about what I write. It can’t be all doom and gloom. It has to, in some way, encourage someone else out there. But, to be quite honest, I haven’t been feeling encouraged. I was finding hope in the Scriptures that I was reading, but every time I have thought to write, the words have been blocked by the enemy’s whispers in my head that the victory I was writing about, I wasn’t experiencing; or the authority I was speaking of seemed elusive to me; or the confidence and esteem I pronounced didn’t match how down I was feeling about myself.

So as another week began to slip away without having written, I was doing my morning devotional and read the words: “For You have delivered my soul from death. Have You not kept my feet from falling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living?” (Psalm 56.13) I shook my head at the fact that I’d allowed the enemy to silence me for the last month or so. All I could do was praise God for the mere fact that I’M STILL STANDING! No, things aren’t rosy and the spiritual battle I’m in is the battle of my life, but I’M STILL STANDING! No, I’m not sure how this month will be taken care of, but I’M STILL STANDING! Yes, my heart is still healing after the bashing it’s taken over the last two years, but I’M STILL STANDING!

A new year…a new opportunity to praise Him…and I’M STILL STANDING…And THAT is good enough!

Be encouraged.

Blessings,

MinD