SPEAK IT! * BELIEVE IT! * RECEIVE IT!

There are so many neat things that the Lord has sent my way in the last few weeks, I can hardly contain it.  I may be repeating some things here, but it all started with the phrase. . "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning how to dance in the rain."  When I would try to tell my mother several years back about trying something new, or let's go over here, or can I drop you and dad off at the. . . she would say, "I've been there and done that, don't want to do anything. I just want to sit here!"  I would get irritated to say the least.  "Well, I am not going to be like that when I am her age!"  "There will never be enough time to do everything, reinvent myself, experience all the things I want to do." 

Yeah! Right!  My experiences over the past couple of years have been quite interesting as I look back.
Not only do I not have the ability, vitality, and desire to do all those things, I hear a negativity creeping in.  I told a friend today, that I feel like someone has their hand on top of me, and is pressing down.  When I made that statement, it came from a conviction that I need to step away from that thought.  I woke up to, Speak it!  Believe it!  Receive it!  Okay, I heard that, I wrote it in my journal, what and how am I suppose to do that.  Speak what?

See, I don't know how you operate or what committee you hear in your head.  But, I hear a lot of things.  I've experienced a lot in my life.  I have observed a lot in my life and yet when Anna Bell said - God's Got It, I was taken totally by surprise at my response.  Of course, I know God's Got It!  I teach it, preach it, counsel it and live it.  His Word is full of how we are to trust Him, lean on Him, and focus on Him.  And, yet the true meaning of He has got this covered rolled over me like a two-ton metal rolling machine.  It was going to be very important for me to DISCOVER what all that entails and why is He impressing me with all this fever to Let Him have it!  In today's world, our Lord and Savior has to yell sometimes over the busyness of life and the tyranny of the urgent.  Therefore, I knew that all this stay-in and can't go anywhere due to the weather put me in the right place to FOCUS on Him.  I have had weeks of great mornings and so much input, I can share with you these things for weeks.

So while the snow storms were wailing outside, I lent myself to be captive to new thoughts and lassoing my attitudes through negative thoughts to the cross.  II Cor 10: 5.

It begins with practicing in your mind that you are sitting on His lap and while you do that, being quiet.  What does He want you to know about your life right now?  If He has it covered, If He has Got this!  This situation you are going through with your family, or a friend, or a boss, or a career choice, or the loss of someone important in your life, or the anger/resentments;  it is nothing He hasn't taken care of before, seen before, and fixed before.  Stop arguing, stop worrying, stop fretting, fussing, stewing, and steering.   If you are and that is your thing, tell if it is working for you?

Next we will talk about how to Speak it!   I will be back with that first one, Sunday!