We’ve been making this way too hard.
Our relationship with our Heavenly Father was never meant to be about striving or trying to force ourselves into a mold of someone else’s making.
It’s a discovery process.
An adventure!
Am I saying that we throw up our hands and say, “Everything I do is okay. I don’t even have to try.”
No.
We are simply looking at our relationship with God in a whole new way.
Now we’re listening for His voice rather than trying to fit in.
Now we’re celebrating how God made us and asking where that fits in His plan, rather than trying to be a clone of someone else.
Sure, we’re taking the harder paths of faith, but not to earn points, or look good or holy, but simply because God is leading us into deeper relationship, to freedom, to wholeness, shedding man-made layers along the way to discover who we are in Him.
It’s time to rest in the truth.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5 ESV
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139:14 ESV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 ESV
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Matthew 10:30 ESV
Suzie
As we end week one of #youandGod, would you consider leaving behind anything that has made your relationship with God complicated?
Q: What might that look like? Speak it out loud. Share it here. Let me know if I can pray with you.
Write a prayer in your journal praising Him for His love for you.
If you are struggling to rest in the truth, read the first chapter of The Mended Heart: God’s Healing for Your Broken Places {<–Click to read it free} which shares three ways you can rest in Jesus beginning today. (Page 23-32)
Thank you to Rebecca Drake of bdrakephotography who gave permission to use her beautiful photo.
I could use prayer. My husband and I. Our marriage has struggled so much and Satan attacks so severely when we begin to grow for the better. I am scared and struggle with finding rest in Christ. Wanting so much my husbands love and companionship. I don’t know how to love him and be around him and be okay when I am not feeling his love or seeing it shown. And that just escalates things into a mess. I want to be okay in Christ so that he may work in us both. I have tried and I have had those moments but feel lost once again.
thank you for any encouragement or wisdom….even if its harsh.
First, may I celebrate with you that it’s growing for the better. Sometimes the tools the enemy uses is to distract us from those miracles. Today I pray with you over your marriage, and for guidance and counsel and tools to help your relationship heal. I pray that you can rest in how loved you are by God, and how that He finds us right where we are, and that even when things seem a mess that God’s best plans for the inside of you are not destroyed but somehow strengthened. You are treasured by God, seen by Him, and today I pray that peace begins to take root in your heart in a God-filled overflowing way.
Tiffany, I am praying for you and your husband that as you rest in God’s eternal and everlasting love this love will overflow to your husband and bring God’s peace to your home and your relationship. I love the lyrics ” His love is relentless.” God is always pursuing us with His love. He is pursuing you and your husband today. I pray that you are able to rest in His unconditional love!
Srzie,
I would like to ask for your prayers. I long with every ounce of my being to feel the love of my God. I am floundering. I belong to Him, but I am feel completely alone. I just want rest. No, that’s not completely true. I want HIS rest. I want the peace in my soul that only my Father can provide. I want to lie down at night and actually rest. I miss being in fellowship with Jesus.
Thank you for your words. They speak to my soul and give me hope.
Jessica
Lord, thank you for Jessica, loved by you and placed on this earth with your mark upon her heart and life. She feels alone, but your word speaks truth over this feeling. You are with us. You walk with us. You know the number of hairs upon our head. You offer rest, and your burden is easy. Thank you for taking care of Jessica today, and all her tomorrows. In the powerful, mighty name of Jesus, amen.
Suzie,
Thank you for your post. I need peace, rest, acceptance and clarity.
There has been so much dishonesty and manipulation of situations and events and all of this just hurt me that much more. My marriage ended and this caused extreme damage to my relationships with my parents that I am not sure if it can be reparable due to their actions, decisions and omissions.
Lord, cover Jodi with wisdom and peace today. Calm her heart. Set her eyes on you and no other. Share with her the words to say and not to say, the actions to take, and those not to take. Let this be a place of filling up with you, of discovery of who she is to you, and of what it looks like to trust God when it doesn’t make sense in the natural. You are faithful. You are wise. You are present today, and tomorrow, and the next day.
I know exactly what I need and that is to quiet my mind by finding first a time of day when I won’t be interrupted. I have been busy for the past year taking care of my aunt, whom I loved very much and very rarely resented not having more time for myself and for my Lord. I knew I needed it more than ever during that time and did some Bible studies on my own and with others. Also never missed church unless it couldn’t be helped. My aunts health in the last 3 months (she turned 90 in May) steadily declined and she needed me more and more. Finally she began to give up ( I could sense it and she quit eating and just slept a lot of the time) and ended up on hospice this past Monday. Early yesterday morning I got the call but didn’t make it quite in time, just by minutes, she passed into her life with the Lord and also to see her husband again. I know she is at peace now, she can breathe easily and is no longer in pain but I I had a hard time losing her. We had gotten so close over the past 4 years when we bought a house five minutes from hers. I said when we moved here we would be able to help her and my uncle by being so close and I know it was God that planned it out that we bought this small house. But it has a huge yard with so many plants that flower for birds and butterflies and squirrels. So now that I am going to have time I want to really spend time listening for the Lord to speak to me, something I have always had a hard time doing. I felt like I couldn’t hear him like other people say they do and I don’t know why. I want to with all my heart. I am also having a fusion in my lower back that is going to be a painful recovery and also a long one on August 4th which is almost upon me. I have your book the Mended Heart and a bookcase filled with Christian books and of course more Bibles than I know what to do with, I really want a laptop so that I can keep in touch with the women I follow. One of whom is you. I would appreciate any ideas and also prayer. This has been a rough year, but also a blessing to spend so much time with my aunt, she was Mother’s older sister who passed away in 2006. Thank you for this study, I am really enjoying it now that I have time and it has helped me already. God bless Suzie.
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