ENTER GOD’S REST

Hebrews 4:11 NIV Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

I wonder if you’re one of those people who like to work everything out, to have things under control? If you hear of a problem your mind immediately jumps into gear as to how to solve it!😊

The trouble is there are so many things in life that we have no control over, we have no answer to, and if we’re wise we learn to just hand situations over to the Lord and ask Him to sort it out in His own good time, in the way He knows best. If He wants our help He’ll soon let us know.😊

We’ve probably all tried to tell God how, when and where, but God is very patient and gracious with us and carries on dealing with it perfectly anyway, because He sees the end from the beginning.

Abraham’s wife Sarah was the sort of person who liked  to get things moving and she told Abraham to sleep with her maid so they could help God out and have a baby that way. Big mistake, and we can all learn from that lady not to ‘help’ God when He doesn’t need helping!

God wants us to relax! He’s never late and He’s never in a hurry. Today’s society seems to want everything yesterday but God works on a different time scale, which our ‘time focused’ minds struggle with.

So what’s the answer? We need to remember we’re dealing with the One who cast stars into space, who does the impossible on a daily basis at the speed of light if He wants to, but trust Him enough to let Him do it over a lifetime if necessary. He wants us to enjoy the journey and not become fixated on the destination.

It’s called trust, and resting in the God who knew us before we were born, who only wants the best for us. In order to do that He may take us on some unknown paths, and take the clock off the mantelpiece till we learn to rest in Him, and thank Him for the answer in advance, no matter how long it takes.😊 In Jesus name Amen.

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UNLIMITED

Psalm 78:41 NKJV Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.

Do you ever go to the food cupboard and find out of date tins of food that need to be discarded? Well we may all benefit from going to our ‘thought’ food cupboard and checking if we need a fresh supply of something, or need to throw out some thoughts which are pulling us down, which are unhealthy.😊

If we want to, we can go online and order in the weekly shopping, but our spiritual online is in our prayer time with the Lord. It’s when we fill up on a fresh supply of God’s thoughts about how He sees us if we’ve been feeling low or someone has thought ill of us.

I have a friend who gives her friends a hug and tells them they are a treasure. It’s such a lovely blessing to receive.😊 No matter how we feel on any given day, whether we’re on a high or a low, God calls us His treasure. So when you have thoughts which tell you otherwise, sort those thoughts out and discard them. Allow the truth to sink in that God thinks of you as one of His great treasures, as one of His masterpieces, who He thinks was worth dying for.

Perhaps you have some mouldy thoughts in your mind’s storage cupboard which have started to infect everything else in the cupboard? If so, let the Lord restock your cupboard with His thoughts of love, that He wants to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. Thoughts of believing it’s never too late, never too old, never too anything for God to come in and turn things round for you, because you are still His treasure.

We don’t want to be like the Israelites who limited God by their unbelief. Our God is the God of breakthroughs, of giving us an unlimited future if we’ll take the limits off Him in our thinking. We are God and Sons Unlimited. God and Daughters Unlimited. I like that thought, don’t you? It’s time to throw out the ‘Limited’ tins and put a new tin of ‘Unlimited’ in our thinking cupboard today. In Jesus name. Amen.😊

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