God's Unfailing Love

From the pit of depression, we call on the Lord to hear our prayers. We trust Him and know that without Him, we would surely die. We ask Him to reveal His lovingkindness with each new morning and to show us what to do and how to live through this latest trial that we are experiencing.

The key to survival in this world is to give our self completely to the Lord. We run to Him and hide our self in Him. When we do, He rescues us from our enemies. We trust Him with each moment of our life.

We know that we are not guaranteed a future. We only have this one moment of time in which to live. Do we really want to waste it in remorse over the past or fear of the future?

Do we really want to spend this one moment of time in any mindset other than singing the high praises of God? We may not live one more moment. We may be in heaven with our very next breath. O glorious day!

God teaches us to do His will and His gracious Spirit leads us on solid ground as we trust in Him. He preserves our life for His glory and for His name's sake.

Through His faithfulness, He brings us through the darkest trial into His glorious light. He silences all of our enemies and destroys everyone who comes against us because we love Him with our whole heart and soul (Psalm 143:7-12).

We serve God with our life and make Him our only priority. We work in the vocation to which He calls us and serve Him in the church to which He leads us. God's unfailing love delivers, encourages and nurtures us.

  

As we totally surrender to His will for our life, He empowers us to overcome our depression, addictions and shortcomings and to accomplish all that He planned for us to do before we were even born (Ephesians 2:10).

Prayer:

Father God, thank You for Your restoration and healing, which allows us to break down the walls we erect in our life. We forge better relationships with people and enter a more intimate union with You than we ever thought possible. 

Life's trials are not challenges; they are great adventures with You at the helm of our life. Even if we experience future wounds, loneliness and dark valleys, we are assured that You are traversing them with us and working them all our for our ultimate good (Romans 8:28). 

Thought for the Day:
When we choose to give God the obedience, preference, attention, love and praise to which He is due, He makes victories possible for us and triumphs and successes the normal order for our life.

The Secret of a Fulfilled Life

 

The secret of living a fulfilled life is surrender. Surrendering every thought, goal, ambition and desire to Jesus Christ brings total peace and joy regardless of our circumstances. The only way to successfully and sanely survive at work, or with an unloving spouse, with rebellious children, with handicaps and with the grief of loss is to live in submission to God’s will. He gives us the grace and mercy to endure the hardships accompanying these negative issues of life. Then, once He uses them to bring about His purpose in us and in the world around us, He resolves these issues for us.

As we live in daily submission to the will of God and to the leading of His Spirit, we tread the troubled waters surrounding us without drowning in them (Luke 9:23). The price of contentment is a daily surrender of our dreams and aspirations, as well as acceptance of God’s will and purpose for our life (1 Corinthians 15:31). We live in the realization that our humanity is already dead and our life is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3). Our old sinful nature died and Christ raised us to walk in a completely new life (Romans 6:4).

As we change our self-centered focus in life to a Christ-centered focus, the present circumstances lose their power over us. Our spirit is reborn and our soul – our mind, choices and emotions – is transformed through the work of God’s Holy Spirit within us (Romans 12:2). We lay our selfish needs for self-gratification, self-pity, self-absorption and self-centeredness on the altar of God. Trials are no longer a burdensome cross to bear. The lure of sin grows dimmer by the day. The battle with temptation in this world dissipates until it is non-existent.

Most of humanity still lives in a narrow minded reality. They cannot see the fullness of life in Christ, because their eyes are blinded (John 12:40). They seek immediate pleasure regardless of the consequences. They consider the brevity of life and decide this is all they get (James 4:14). They seek the most satisfaction by living in the extremes of degrading sin. Conversely, authentic Believers live in submission to the Spirit of God moment by moment throughout the day. When we accept Christ’s sacrifice for our sins, we embark on the journey of the Christian life with our faith and hope centered in Jesus.

God transforms every aspect of our life for us. He gives us new eyes to see the world with multifaceted vision now, rather than in one-dimension. Trials no longer devastate us, because we view them as new adventures in Christ. We stand back and watch for the salvation of our God in them, as we walk through them with His complete peace and joy (James 1:2-4). Nothing can separate us from the love of God (Romans 8:35-37). We live by the leading of God’s Holy Spirit and have constant victory through Christ (Galatians 5:16-17; 1 Corinthians 15:57; 2 Corinthians 2:14).

Prayer:

Father God, remind us that the overwhelming issues of life, which we see, are temporary and they will pass away. The reality of life is in the unseen aspects of life, which we cannot see, but which we can experience once our spirit is Born Again (2 Corinthians 4:18). Help us to progress through life’s trials sustained by Your joy (Nehemiah 8:10). Give us Your peace, which transcends all human reasoning (Philippians 4:7). Allow us to focus on the victory, which You already gave us, rather than on the battle at hand. Give us true triumphs as we follow the leading of Your Spirit moment by moment throughout the day.

Thought for the Day:
We not only have hope in Christ for this life, but also for eternity as well. - 1 Corinthians 15:19