Activate Faith Not Fear And Change Your Life - Joel Osteen (+playlist)

This was so encouraging to me today. Take time and listen...it's good!!

You're not big enough

As a woman comes walking up toward me so weak and frail and prays for some comfort...the first words out of her mouth are "I want healing but I need to get right first. I've gotten in the way of God's plan for my life and I'm ready to step out of the way". My heart screamed so loud "You're not big enough to get in the way of God lady!" But I could never have said that to her....

Have you ever been there? Been at a place where you think "your sin" or "your issues" or "your doubt" or "your past' is getting in the way of God's blessings and provisions and healing in your life? Have you ever thought you weren't good enough or did enough, that if only you would step out of the way THEN God could do something? Well here is your answer to that. YOU'RE NOT BIG ENOUGH. God is infinite and mighty. He created the vast universe that we live in. The universe that not even the most knowledgeable scientist can understand. He created the air we breath, the words we speak. He created the human body and mind. He created the heavens and earth and the billions of stars in the sky. He spoke existence into motion with a word from his mighty lips. He parted waters and raised the dead and continues to do those things today. You're not big enough to stop God when he wants to make things better for you or change your course.

So the next you think you're in God's way remember how big and great and might God is. You're not big enough to stop God from loving you, blessing you, healing you, changing you from the inside out. He desires the best for you, believe him for it! Remind your mind that God is bigger than anything and anyone and he wants to work on your behalf. Believe Him for it!!!

John 10:10 John 10:10 John 10:10......

Have you ever had a scripture or maybe even just a thought, verse, song, memory stuck in your head?? And you just keep hearing it over and over and over again? No matter what you do, you can't get rid of it. Typically it's that song someone was humming that is the most annoying song and now you're singing it because you can't rid it from your mind.....well for the last two days I've had John 10:10 stuck in my brain. It's not that annoying song but a great encouraging scripture and I'm good with it reminding me often who I serve and surrender to.

John 10:10 "The thief comes to kill, steal and destroy: But I came that you may have life and have it more abundantly."

Anything that may be stealing your joy, peace, patience, kindness, love toward someone, positive outlook, contentment, or happiness isn't from God. His plan isn't to make you miserable or cast down your own burdens upon you. He wants to pick up your burdens and remind you that he laid down his life for yours. He suffered so you would never need to. He died so we could live forever in Heaven with him.

Sometimes I feel like I allow the enemy to have too much space in my life. I struggle with the "if only's" and the "one days". I have to remind myself every single day that Jesus doesn't want me living in the past or future but in the right now, right where he is with me. He has taken care of my past and he already has my future in his palms so I'm going to dance in the now with him. I'm going to remind myself that he came to give me life and give me ABUNDANT life at that.

Take that devil!! Jesus has my life and my plans and I surrender them to him daily......right where they should be. Nobody on this earth or in it or around it can provide for me and love me and care for me like my Savior can. Nobody loves me with the greatest love like Jesus does. So when scriptures like this one plays over in my mind and booms like an alarm while I'm driving or reading or watching tv....I will stop and thank my Jesus that he is alive in me, bringing to remembrance his promises for me.

The devil still comes with accusation but Jesus CAME already and took care of all the accusations and threats and plans of the enemy. That my soul knows very well.........