Always True

Well, here goes my journey with blogging...

    So, if anyone has talked to me lately and asked about what the LORD has been teaching me.. the first thing that probably comes out of my mouth is "The Promises!" I don't know if you have heard of Dr. James MacDonald but his ministry with Walk in the Word has kicked me in the rear quite a few times. God has put me in a workforce where as I work I listen to A LOT of sermons and recently went through one on this book. With where I am at in life I feel like I am on some sort of timer.. I have felt consumed with where is the LORD leading Andy and I as far as endeavors go. LORD, are you wanting us to start a family now or wait. Do you want us to invest here or there. And sometimes life just feels like it is holding a stop watch in front of your face, implying you need to do it now or never. If we do not figure the career out now.. we will NEVER find it. If we do not get pregnant now.. we will NEVER have children.. if we do not invest now.. we will have NEVER feel set financially. 

   These are just a few lies that Satan likes to feed. Lately at my church, Hope Church, we have been studying the fall in Genesis 3.. it is all pretty ironic when you REALLY look into it. Satan via the serpent asks the FIRST question in the bible "Did God really say..." He plants doubt in Eve of the intentions of our Heavenly Father who knows best! Know EVERYTHING! Doubt is such a deadly thing... Satan likes to feed into our minds this idea that we know better than God.. that he did not really say this or that.. In Matthew 4, Satan tries to tempt Jesus... messing with the Word of God.. trying to bring across something that God did not really say.. What did Jesus do? He fought it with TRUTH. He clung to what His Father said! That is what these promises help you to do!

                    

James 1:6,7--"For the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person MUST NOT suppose that he will receive ANYTHING from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, UNSTABLE in ALL his ways."

The definition for doubt in this book is "a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep His promises. That has been something that has choked SO much joy in my life. Simply doubting God. It is something that I hear from my closest loved ones... when they are in there moments of darkness... and they are in a world-wind of confusion... lacking the confidence that the God who loves his children.. who created us.. will not keep His promises...

Proverbs 3:5-6--"TRUST in the Lord with ALL your heart, and DO NOT lean on your own understanding. In ALL your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."

If we are leaning on our Savior.. our Maker... and NOT on ourselves... he will lead.. He will Shepherd us! He will protect us and lead us to the pasture he sees fit for us! Oh how I need to be reminded DAILY... every MINUTE, that I am but a sheep! Who thinks that it know what is best and in the end gets lead astray.. instead of remaining in the comforting arms of my Shepherd.

In this book MacDonald discussing 5 key promises to hold onto with verses tied to them. Time and time again I catch myself repeating them.. reminding me where to fix my eyes.. on my Lord! Because He is always WITH ME! Always IN CONTROL! Always GOOD! Always WATCHING! And always VICTORIOUS. I have no reason to fear, doubt, despair, falter, or fail! 

Psalm 73:25--"Whom have I in heaven BUT YOU? And there is NOTHING on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, BUT GOD is the strength of my heart and my portion FOREVER."