We like whatâs easy, but God is saying, âTake those things that are difficult for you to do and give them to Me because thatâs how youâll grow.â When God speaks to those difficult places, Heâs speaking to your potential, to becoming everything you were designed to be.
Someone said, âDonât desire someone so deeply that youâre willing to disobey God just to keep them close.â Whew. That one will make you check your heart đźâđš
Grace is not just Godâs kindness to you; itâs divine power to enable you to do things you could never do in your own power. Grace is supernatural favor that moves you into Godâs highest and best.
Too often, we get out of agreement with God when we make a mistake or when things donât go our way. We have to remind ourselves that we are not failures; we are learners.
When you keep thanking God for what He promised, you keep talking like itâs on the way, youâre constantly meditating on what He said, then youâre going to see the faithfulness of God. Heâs going to make things happen that you couldnât make happen.
Blessing your enemies not only shows God that you have the character to go higher, but it shows people who you really are. Anyone can be good to someone whoâs been good to them, but when you can be good to someone whoâs done you wrong, youâre an exceptional person. Youâre the kind of man, the kind of woman who God can entrust with greatness, who He can use for His highest purposes.
You canât judge your future by where you are right now. Proverbs says, âThe path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter.â As you step into new seasons, where you need more strength, more wisdom, more grace, youâre going to unpack things you didnât know were in you.
Jesus said in John, âYou didnât choose Me, I chose you.â God loves to choose strangers: people who donât seem to fit, people who werenât raised in faith. You wouldnât be reading this if you werenât chosen. He handpicked you. Donât go your whole life thinking you donât measure up.
1 John 5:14-15
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Confession
This is the confidence I have in Him: that when I ask anything according to His Word, He hears me; And since I know He hears me, I know I have the petitions that I desired of Him.
#InHim
Are you fighting endings, bitter over what God stopped, discouraged over what didnât last? What if you knew that it had to happen, that even though it felt like a bad break, it was God leading you into the fullness of your destiny.
Some people in your life have never seen you at your full capacity. They met you in a hard season, a transitional moment, a version of you still being built. Do not let their limited experience of you become your ceiling. You are more than the chapter they witnessed.
It will not be overnight. It will take time. Sometimes it will hurt. But if you stick with it, you can also be free from all those things that are a problem for you. #JoyceQuote