Prayers & Goals for 2017
It All Begins Here
I have what it takes to live at my best. I am grateful for who I am. God has made the way for everything. I will use what He has given me and continually trust in him. He is my strength and my shield.
Jesus is my example. I do not need to wait for a certain time to be the best of me. The best of me is happening every moment. I do not have to strive. I can trust in the next move and trust that I have all it takes for it to be successful. Everything is in the hands of my loving Heavenly Father. He is working faithfully behind the scenes and ensures that my life on stage is according to his will. He will not allow the godly to fail.
The best is yet to come even though the best is already happening to me. I have come so far and I will keep moving forward. I was designed with the right gifts and qualities for abundant living. My God is my supply. I am confident in his grace. His love, mercy and faithfulness is my joy. Every day I am getting closer to my dreams and breakthroughs can happen at any minute. It’s ok if things take time. Love is patient and love will take care of everything. I am grateful for time with my Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit while all things come together. I live feeling humbled and thankful for how good God has been to me. My life is expanding and thriving. As I grow more rooted in love, wisdom and humility, I am growing more like Jesus and deeper into the life I am called to.
Every day, I have a wealth of grace, joy and encouragement for others. Abundance and the creativity for new things will come as I move forward in confidence and hope. I use my words effectively, for things that truly matter. I live a life worthy of being attributed to a woman who loves God. I overflow in goodness towards others and I am a spring of godliness, grace and femininity.
I live smartly and have the courage to do what is right for the life God calls me to. I do not waste the time, energy and the moments in the now that have been generously provided for me to rightly steward and enjoy.
I am grateful for health, financial provision, peace, people who love me, Jesus who sacrificed his life for a sinner and the joy of being perfected as my Father is perfect while I walk with Holy Spirit.
Father help me.
Amen.
I wrote this for someone who God is pursuing passionately.
I once asked my Father to speak to me about my life and he told me to read Exodus 32. In Ex 32, the Israelites grow impatient waiting for Moses and in their impatience created an idol and began to worship it. In my own life, I was not waiting for God. I was impatient in having what I wanted and basically began to worship something else - I had taken a gift he had given me and elevated it above Him. I had taken my eyes off the goodness and greatness of God and placed my attention on the gift. After a while the gift became so important that instead of resting in God and trusting him to handle the gift, I was trying to manage the gift myself and was only growing more tired. God-sized blessings are not meant to be managed without his leadership - it's the best way to lose it or lose ourselves.
I am learning more of what it means to let go when he asks me to. It is not easy trying to move according to the demands of an unseen world in a place where everyone expects that decisions are made according to the seen - the world, the flesh, the intellectual and logical, the norm. I believe he wants you to remember your heavenly identity and that the supernatural follows you - yearning for your allegiance in the new challenges of growing your business and your public presence.
He hopes for your heart to grow more rooted in Christ and that his work in you will be firm and immovable.
I am reminded of Psalm 1 - of a tree that is sturdy, lush and fruitful because it drinks from living water. A tree that simply exists at the riverside - trusting that light and water is provided. A tree that is at peace and finds rest in the idea that it's existence is enough to bless others or that it's design is already perfectly fulfilling what needs to be. A tree that after years and decades of patience, trust and reliance has developed deep roots that keep it upright and with a trunk, branches and foliage that is to be admired - that provides 'shelter' and whose fruit is nourishment and gives life. This tree is to be admired for it's natural ways and patiently waiting for the provision of everything it needs to become the glorious landmark that it is - a symbol of how good God is in providing everything we need to become what we are meant to become.We just need to be willing to wait on him - and trust that the Artist knows his creation better than we know ourselves. I think he wants us to know him so well we can rely on him that much.
Sometimes goals take time not because we are not working hard enough, but because while our plans are more about an outward manifestation of what he has planted in us, he is more concerned with our ability to manifest Christ during the course of the journey. I suppose it is his grace that keeps us from having our dreams before we are capable of handling them. I am learning the importance of taking small steps and staying near his heart for me than taking large steps towards my dreams and accidentally walking away from him.
I once asked my Father to speak to me about my life and he told me to read Exodus 32. In Ex 32, the Israelites grow impatient waiting for Moses and in their impatience created an idol and began to worship it. In my own life, I was not waiting for God. I was impatient in having what I wanted and basically began to worship something else - I had taken a gift he had given me and elevated it above Him. I had taken my eyes off the goodness and greatness of God and placed my attention on the gift.
After a while the gift became so important that instead of resting in God and trusting him to handle the gift, I was trying to manage the gift myself and was only growing more tired. God-sized blessings are not meant to be managed without his leadership - it's the best way to lose it or lose ourselves.
No matter how many times I have walked away from him, he has been so faithful. His love has been so pure and healing. He has not once abandoned or disowned me but he gives me strength, protection and love without condition. As I learn to stay closer to him, I am renewed in my purpose, but it is sometimes a lonely place and a lonely journey.
He always provides! I hope you can believe that with All of your trust - not just some of it - but ALL...
He loves you. Literally. Wholeheartedly. Unconditionally. Eternally. We often know this theoretically. Knowing it intellectually is not the same as knowing it in your heart and with every decision that you make.
All of heaven knows you and they want more of you.
I can see you dressed as royalty. In white and gold. You are perfectly whole - healed and healthy. No scrapes, bruises or ailments. You are standing with your head bowed. You are standing in a high place with a view behind you - a kingdom. It was built with righteousness. It took much wisdom to build the kingdom in your heart. You have everything you could possibly want and your greatest possession is Christ in you.