Words Of Encouragement For Your Day ( Monday 11/28/2011)

For Once In My Life…

1 John 5:8-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)

⁸and there are three witnesses on the earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree [are in unison; their testimony coincides]. ⁹If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [if we are willing to take human authority], the testimony of God is greater (of stronger authority), for this is the testimony of God, even the witness which He has borne regarding His Son. ¹⁰He who believes in the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] has the testimony [possesses this divine attestation] within himself. He who does not believe God [in this way] has made Him out to be and represented Him as a liar, because he has not believed (put his faith in, adhered to, and relied on) the evidence (the testimony) that God has borne regarding His Son. ¹¹And this is that testimony (that evidence): God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. ¹²He who possesses the Son has that life; he who does not possess the Son of God does not have that life. ¹³I write this to you who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) the name of the Son of God [in the peculiar services and blessings conferred by Him on men], so that you may know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have life, yes, eternal life. ¹⁴And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us. ¹⁵And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.

            This is an awesomely strange season of growth and maturity, and it is also causing me to see that for once in my life I am truly more concerned about pleasing God with my whole heart and self than ever before, because of the way I am seeking the face of God, my approach to loving and serving Him and others, and my consistency to seek Him and remind Him of His word and stand on it believing that it is for me!  Not that I didn’t seek Him before or remind Him of His word before, but I let people distract me, or make me feel unworthy.  I heard Stevie Wonder’s song, “For once in my Life,” yesterday and it made me reflect on what had been, what is now and what I was seeking for and seeing for in the future.  The entire song is powerful it says, just what I am feeling:

For once in my life I have someone who needs me…Someone I've needed so long…For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me…And somehow I know I'll be strong.
For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of…Long before I knew…Someone warm like you…Would make my dreams come true.
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me…Not like it's hurt me before…For once, I have something I know won't desert me…I'm not alone anymore.
For once, I can say, this is mine, you can't take it…As long as I know I have love, I can make it…
For once in my life, I have someone who needs me.

          When we come to really realize who is with us, and who loves us, we begin to change and evolve, into a person that views the world differently and views our relationships differently as well.  My prayer for the last month has been, God I want to be right in your eyes, and I want to keep my heart clean and clear of anything that can hinder me from being in your will. No I am not perfect and I have still had my moments that have challenged me, but the blessed thing is that, I get back on track, just about in an instant.  In this time in my life, I am determined not to be scared of people and what they think or don’t think of me, or what they have to say about of to me.  You see I know where I am with God and I am focused on blessing those I can, touching those I am lead to touch, reaching out and back for those that truly need a hand and desire to move forward.  Now in this season I realize, truly that God has called me and has need of me and I have become determined to stay focused upon that fact.

            I am sharing this because I have come to find that many of us, need to get delivered from people, position, possessions, careers and our pasts.  They are the things that we have allowed to have us.  It is great to have all of these things, but it is when they have us, and change our moods, our mannerism and the way we relate to life and especially the way we serve God, there is something wrong.  For once in our lives it is time to realize we have a God that has need of all of who we are and He desires so much more for us.  He desires that we be whole, and that we prosper in and out of the Kingdom.  He wants us to know He is not like people He will not leave us or forsake us, and that we may get lonely but we are never alone. He wants us to understand that if “WE” determine it no one can take us from Him or Him from us.  He wants us to realize that in this season if we are rolling with Him that dreams will come true and that He will bless us and use us for His glory.  He wants us to understand our worth and why we were really created, that He had a purpose and a destiny before we even took our first breathe in the earth’s realm.

See for once in my life I am realizing if it not edifying, glorifying, uplifting and placing God in position of first, I don’t need it or want it in my life.  If it is hurtful, depressing, degrading, spiteful, negative or mean, it is not the road for me to take or the attitude for me to receive.  For once in my life, I have someone who needs me and that someone I have come to see has needed me all along, He was just waiting for me to realize it, just as He is waiting for all of you to realize and see the same.  For once in your life…See the truth of who you are, who God made you to be and what He desires from your life!