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Author: burgerjonanda
To who’s voice are you listening?
I hear Father wispering in your ear: “I think you are so beautiful! I love the way you look, just the way you are! You do not have to change anything, you dont need to loose one kilogram or one centimeter for me to think that you are truely beautiful! I have created you, i have designed you and i am madly, crazy and beyond words in love with you! The question is what do you agree with? What I say about you or what the world says about you, what the media expose as ‘beautiful’? You see, what you agree with will manifest in your life. If you keep on allowing the media to tell you you are not thin enough, beautiful enough, smart enough or good enough then that will manifest in your life! But if you agree with ME, YOUR MAKER, that you are enough, you are smart, you are beautiful, you are you, and therefore you are beautiful and good enough then that truth will start to manifest in your life!!!”
“But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.” Isaiah 43:1, 4 NIV
“Therefore, I will charm her, and bring her into the desert, and speak tenderly to her heart. From there I will give her vineyards, and make the Achor Valley a door of hope. There she will respond to me as in the days of her youth, like the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. On that day, says the LORD, you will call me, “My husband,” and no longer will you call me, “My Lord.” I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in devoted love, and in mercy. I will take you for my wife in faithfulness; and you will know the LORD.” Hosea 2:14-16, 19-20 CEB
Are you sabotaging your own efforts in life by agreeing with the wrong party? Or are you living life to the full by agreeing what God says about you?
You can choose what you think about!
Every action we have is rooted in the thought that produced it! Wrong thinking makes a way for negative behavior! If we want to change we need to think like Jesus thinks! We need to take every thought captive under His obedience(2 Cor 10:5).
What is Jesus saying about your challenges, life etc. ….? How would He think about those things? Choose to think in the same way because that would determine the way you act and your outcome!
Head or heart knowledge?
God loves you completely and unconditionally! His love for you can’t be change! He loves you as much as He loves Jesus! His love can’t be earned! Even if you do the greatest thing right now, lead a thousand to Christ etc. will it not make His love for you more because His love for you is complete, overflowing and unchanging. Even if you never change or sin or do the most horrible thing (even constantly) it will not make Gods love for you any less! He loves you because that is who He is!
The thing God wants to change is our ability to receive and experience His love in our hearts.
For a long time in my life I new God loved me, I mean Jesus died for me on the cross and there is no greater love than that!!! But in my heart that true knowing and feeling wasn’t always there and it showed in my actions. Not experiencing Gods love caused me to feel lonely even though people where around me, i was afraid of rejection, i was always ready to fight for myself etc. But then God changed my ability to receive and experience His love and that changed me whole life!
You see, Gods love hates rejection, fear, anxiety, loneliness, depression and anything negative! When you ask and allow God to change you in order for you to truely experience His love in your heart, circumstances and peoples actions doesn’t determine our emotions and behavior anymore because we are rooted in His love, we experience His love and walk in it! Nothing can satisfy like Gods love!
But we must make time to experience it in our lives! I challenge you today to take a few moments everyday for the rest of you life and put some worship music on and ask God to pour His love on you and help you to experience it. Believe me, its life changing and deliberating! Pure joy!
Father God I pray today that you will touch each person reading this article right now and continue to touch them with your love! Change their ability to receive and experience your love! In Jesus Name
Where do you put your confidence?
What is giving you confidence in every day life? Or in what area in your life do you have confidence and what is causing it?
We all want to know that we are important, have a purpose, that we have value and that we mean something to someone or to society! Is it wrong to have these needs? No, not at all. God designed us all with three basic emotional needs: the need to feel safe; the need to have value (and be significant ) and the need to belong (and be loved).
What is wrong, is if we look to our spouses, children, money, status etc. to satisfy these needs. Yes, God want us to encourage each other and tell one another how valuable we are but people and the world should never become the source of these needs. If we always look to other people to determine our value, safety or significance we will always come short or never be all God created us to be!
Some days people may fail to encourage or affirm you because they might be tired, in a hurry, not feeling well, self centered etc. and if you depend on people to show you your value and significance, those days you will live a mediocre life and feel unworthy, which is a lie! You are worthy, valuable and significant because God created you and you belong to God!
“What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it—we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are. But that’s also why the world doesn’t recognize us or take us seriously, because it has no idea who he is or what he’s up to.” (MSG)
When i need approval or validation, I should ask God what He thinks about me, about how i have done at doing my work or how much i am worth. That will never fail and excell me to my true value and purpose!
God has taught me that its all about where i put my confidence and trust. Do i trust Him and what He says about me to be the truth and to determine my true value or do i put confidence in my looks, my job, what others says about me, how i feel or think about myself (which are not always the truth) …. to determine my worth? The latter will give me a false and inadequate identity!
“Open up before GOD, keep nothing back; he’ll do whatever needs to be done: He’ll validate your life in the clear light of day and stamp you with approval at high noon.”Psalm 37:5-6 MSG
Prayer: Father God please forgive me for putting my trust and confidence in flase hopes and things which can never show me my true value! Help me to see myself as you see me, to accept myself the way you accept me with complete acceptance and to love myself unconditionally like you love me unconditionally. Lord if at anytime, I doubt my own worth, help me to turn to you to hear what you say about me and experience in my heart you love and acceptance for me!
Desires?
“[Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.” Philippians 2:13 AMP
What are you struggling with today? Do you know that right now as you are reading this article God is changing your desire into His desire? Do you know that at this very moment He is giving you the power and strength to do His will?
My friend you are not alone in your battles, God is with you and it is actually He that has been changing your desire into His desire in order for you to change. He is busy renewing your thoughts and that will change your behavior (Rom 12:2).
Just tap into and use this power that He has available to you through Holy Spirt.
Falling in love all over again
I just sence that God is putting a desire in your heart to fall in love with Him all over again! As soon as you give in to this desire He will answer the call and it will be to you like when you fell in love for the first time! Nothing else matters, everything taste, feel and looks so much better, circumstances doesn’t have such a great impact on you etc. because you will have only eyes for your Beloved! As soon as this happens God will put the great exchange into place! Major things will shift for you and breakthrough will happen in significant ways!
Why dont you take this momnet and ask God to fall in love with Him all over again? Its the best thing to do and the best ‘thing’ to be in love with!
“[Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.” Philippians 2:13 AMP
Oil of joy
“All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances].” Proverbs 15:15 AMP
Can you imagine living a life that is a continual feast regardless of your circumstances, challenges or the way people act towards you? How is that at all possible? Well humanly it is not possible. Usually, what is going on around us influence our mood, like whether we have money or not, what your partner or children is doing or not doing, who ever upset you etc. But there is a way, a way that brings freedom, that is above the worlds way and that is Gods way where He touched us, our heart and anoints us with oil of joy in order for us to have a feast regardless of what is going on around us!
“You love righteousness and hate wickedness. No wonder God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy more than all your companions!” Psalms 45:7 CEB
“to provide for Zion’s mourners, to give them a crown in place of ashes, oil of joy in place of mourning, a mantle of praise in place of discouragement. They will be called Oaks of Righteousness, planted by the Lord to glorify himself.” Isaiah 61:3 CEB
I can honestly testify of this in my life where God has touched me to experience this joy regardless of whats happening around me! Sometimes i can feel the pressures and how it taps my energy and peace but as soon as i make time to tap into God and His presence, the oil of joy flows over me. Sometimes i burst out laughing other times its just a joy bubbling up in me but always i feel relief even though nothing has changed in my circumstances! God is truely our outcome, excape, comforter and relief! And it is His will that we would rather turn to Him for joy then to anything else for short term escape.
So, what is stopping you from experiencing this joy? God promises it, He actually expect it of you and will also give it to you when you turn to Him for escape and joy!
“They will come shouting for joy on the hills of Zion, jubilant over the Lord’s gifts: grain, wine, oil, flocks, and herds. Their lives will be like a lush garden; they will grieve no more.” Jeremiah 31:12 CEB
God wants you to enjoy Him!!
Does the idea of enjoying God sound strange to you? Well i believe experiencing God is the answers to most of our problems! When we experience the fullnes of who He is, His love, goodness, warmth, joy etc. in our hearts it satisfy our whole being which in return stops us from turning to worldly things to satisfy a need which only our heavenly Father can satisfy! The Bible state many times how we should and could expereince Him:
“O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him. [I Pet. 2:2, 3.]” Ps 34:8 AMP
“You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. [Acts 2:25-28, 31.]” Ps 16:11 AMP
You who sit down in the High God’s presence, spend the night in Shaddai’s shadow, Say this: “ GOD, you’re my refuge. I trust in you and I’m safe!” Ps91:1 MSG
““Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.” Matt 6:6 MSG
“All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances].”Prov 15:15 AMP
To experience the presence of God should not be a religious act but just seeking Him and then living in that presence! Gods primary purpose for creating you is to have intimacy and connection with you and to bestow His radical love upon you!
I pray that His presence and love will become such a reality in your life that you will be filled with over flowing joy and that all other temptation will just fade away!
What do you believe?
“Then Jesus touched their eyes and said, “It will happen for you just as you have believed.””Matthew 9:29 CEB http://bible.com/37/mat.9.29.ceb
What do you believe about your life, health, relationships, finances, safety….? Because it has so much power! Positive or negative, true or false your believe system and what you think about yourself has power and will happen!
So, where does your believe system come from? Romans 10:17 has both the answer to where our believe system come from as well as how to change our believe system:
“So then, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes through preaching Christ.”
You believe certain things because either you (even if it was only in your thoughts) or somebody else told you those things over and over again.
The way to change believe systems is to find the truth or what you would like to see in your life and proclaim it over and over again in order for you to start believing it! Which in turn will influence the way you feel, then the way you act and then your life! Hallelujah thank God for the power to be able to change!
Jonanda Burger 