Hey!
This post is inspired from an epic texting session me and my AP had the other day! Hope you enjoy!
Basically, God really sparked something in me a few days ago. He revealed to me that I need to throw out the survival guide.
Huh?
Yeah, that was my response too.
Let's rewind, and start with the text. You know when you're speaking/texting/writing or whatever, and the words just flow and you end up with an EPIC revelation that by no means you could have come up with yourself? Well, this was that kind of situation, God showed up while I was texting.
He said this to my AP, but I believe that this is relevant for all of us!
"YOU have a calling on your life.
YOU need to realise that you're significant.
YOU need to stop comparing your walk with me to other's walks, because no two journeys are the same.
YOU need to realise and believe that I have put something in you that the world needs."
Now to the crux of the text message that sparked this new revelation about survival guides (It will make sense at some point, and yes... it was a long text!)
"OPEN UP. LOOK UP. SPILL OUT."
That's the key. We need to be open to God, we need to look to Him and we will spill Jesus out. So, how did I get from that to the survival guide?
Well, God said, "You're not just surviving, you're thriving."
This has really stuck with me. God's been showing me that in certain areas I've taken back control, referred to my own edition of survival guide and tried to fix or work out a situation myself. God's saying we need to depend on Him. We need to lean on Him.
So that when things get tough, we can realise that God is saying in the midst of it,
'Open up to Me more.'
When we feel down or 'struggling' God says,
'Lift your eyes to Me.'
When we feel pressured to let people know about God, God says,
'Remember I spill out of you anyway.'
God created us to thrive and to sing of His name. When we lean on him whole-heartedly we will soak up so much of Him and learn so much, that it would be impossible to not thrive. God is for us. He cheers us on. He has everything we need to not just survive, but to thrive.
Colossians 3:2
Living the New Life
He Is Your Life
1-2 So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.
(The Message)
It's so easy for us to get 'absorbed' in the activities of our lives, what our challenges are for today and what we need to get ticked off that 'to-do list'. God's convicted me of this recently, there is a bigger picture. He is more than willing to share it with us if we could only lift our eyes to Him, instead of pandering to the circumstances of now.
When we get so involved and focussed on the 'now' it's easy to feel run down when things crop up or become too much. It's easy to feel like we are just surviving. But God has so much more for us, when we come to this realisation, that is when we thrive. Knowing that God is for us... wow.
And guess what? When we thrive with God, people will notice, and God will open up opportunities to sow into people's lives and tell them The Good News.
This post is inspired from an epic texting session me and my AP had the other day! Hope you enjoy!
Basically, God really sparked something in me a few days ago. He revealed to me that I need to throw out the survival guide.
Huh?
Yeah, that was my response too.
Let's rewind, and start with the text. You know when you're speaking/texting/writing or whatever, and the words just flow and you end up with an EPIC revelation that by no means you could have come up with yourself? Well, this was that kind of situation, God showed up while I was texting.
He said this to my AP, but I believe that this is relevant for all of us!
"YOU have a calling on your life.
YOU need to realise that you're significant.
YOU need to stop comparing your walk with me to other's walks, because no two journeys are the same.
YOU need to realise and believe that I have put something in you that the world needs."
Now to the crux of the text message that sparked this new revelation about survival guides (It will make sense at some point, and yes... it was a long text!)
"OPEN UP. LOOK UP. SPILL OUT."
That's the key. We need to be open to God, we need to look to Him and we will spill Jesus out. So, how did I get from that to the survival guide?
Well, God said, "You're not just surviving, you're thriving."
This has really stuck with me. God's been showing me that in certain areas I've taken back control, referred to my own edition of survival guide and tried to fix or work out a situation myself. God's saying we need to depend on Him. We need to lean on Him.
So that when things get tough, we can realise that God is saying in the midst of it,
'Open up to Me more.'
When we feel down or 'struggling' God says,
'Lift your eyes to Me.'
When we feel pressured to let people know about God, God says,
'Remember I spill out of you anyway.'
God created us to thrive and to sing of His name. When we lean on him whole-heartedly we will soak up so much of Him and learn so much, that it would be impossible to not thrive. God is for us. He cheers us on. He has everything we need to not just survive, but to thrive.
Colossians 3:2
Living the New Life
1 Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 2 Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. 3 For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.(New Living Translation)
I think The Message's translation is cool, check this one out too!
He Is Your Life
1-2 So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.
(The Message)
It's so easy for us to get 'absorbed' in the activities of our lives, what our challenges are for today and what we need to get ticked off that 'to-do list'. God's convicted me of this recently, there is a bigger picture. He is more than willing to share it with us if we could only lift our eyes to Him, instead of pandering to the circumstances of now.
When we get so involved and focussed on the 'now' it's easy to feel run down when things crop up or become too much. It's easy to feel like we are just surviving. But God has so much more for us, when we come to this realisation, that is when we thrive. Knowing that God is for us... wow.
And guess what? When we thrive with God, people will notice, and God will open up opportunities to sow into people's lives and tell them The Good News.
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