Here's my prayer for anyone who is in deep water...
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all you ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight" Proverbs 3: 5-6
"Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn away from them. Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her and she will watch over you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it costs all you have, get understanding" Proverbs 4: 5-7
Answer me quickly, Lord: my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will be like those who go down to the pit. Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, and for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life" Psalm 143:7-8
Father, I plead to you that you may lead me to the things that you want me to understand. I do not trust myself for I know that my knowledge is limited and I may be biased on how I perceive the events that are happening right now, Teach me your ways so I may be directed to the place that you want me to be. Help me to understand what you are teaching me right now, help me forgive despite the pain, help me change the things that are not pleasing in Your eyes and give me courage to do so. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen
YOU ARE CALLED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS
TO TURN TO GOD
NOT TURN AWAY
Setting yourself apart from the chaotic battlefield in your mind. Focus on what God is trying to tell you... You might have an idea of what God is planting in your heart but you are refusing to let it sink in. It's a common defense mechanism that we do; we refuse the truth and we try to manipulate the situation to what we want it to be. It's our fallen nature. Do not feed your mind with thoughts that will corrupt your character. Always remember that you are loved by the greatest lover, He chose you to be His treasured possession.
You are where you are for a reason. Try to look past the pain and see what God is teaching you. Oftentimes when God is telling us something and we are too stubborn to listen... Things may seem to constantly happen and this is in a way God is telling us to pay attention and take action.
"always learning and never be able to arrive to the knowledge of truth" 2Timothy 3:7
Feed your mind with the Truth for you know in your heart that this is the only cure. For everything is temporary in this world... Pain, exhaustion, anger, doubts and even your happiness. It will always die down any other way. But God's Word is forever. MERONG FOREVER OKAY?
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work" 2Timothy 3:16
During my quiet time I asked God to guide me and help me as I write another entry because it has been so long since the last time I've written something lengthy. And these are the verses that I've been led to. Soooo let me share to you these harsh truths:
"but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death" James 1:14-15
Selfishness is the root cause of sin. We think too much of ourselves that we forget who we hurt along the way and also, we don't realize that during the process we hurt ourselves too because we are too blinded by our own desires and we end up wounded.
"We have so much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!... But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil" Hebrews 5:11-12,14
HARDDDD!! But really! Sometimes we must go back to where we started. The times when we knew how to think straight. The times where our standards haven't been compromised yet. We have to admit that there are times that you think you got it all figured out but breaking news! NA-AH! Sometimes the simple things are the things that we tend to disregard. We've compromised so much to the point that we forget what should really matter. You forget that you are already loved, that you are a new creation, that you are worth more than many sparrows, that you need not to exhaust yourself in performing for God because really it is a heart matter, that you shouldn't be afraid of change because God is control, that what you see now is just a bit of what's yet to come and that God's promises will never be broken and that the end of the day, it is only God that you can trust because if you put your trust on something or someone other than Him you know that it's only about a matter of time that you'd be let down again.
"The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have departed from these and have turned into meaningless talk" 1Timothy 1:5-6
We talk too much. Actually sometimes there's no depth in whatever we converse about. Sometimes we also avoid talking about the important matter. Another thing that struck me in this verse is about love... LOVE is the GOAL. And how do we know if this is the right kind of love? It comes from a PURE HEART-GOOD CONSCIENCE-SINCERE FAITH. Now, isn't that clear enough?
I don't know how to end this but... Let us all assess ourselves. Forgive people who hurt you. Forgive yourself too. Forgiving can be really hard but you have to do that in order to have peace. From there have a fresh start; move forward and be wise.
