Terri's Wellspring

Trust God from the bottom of your heart;  don’t try to figure out everything on your own.

Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go;  he’s the one who will keep you on track.  

Proverbs 3:5-6 Message

We often come to making big decisions loaded with preconceived notions about what is best for our lives. We take all of our experiences, what we think we know and our feelings and collectively they influence what we desire for an outcome. We may pray earnestly for God’s will in our lives to be done around this particular outcome not fully recognizing that our Heavenly Father is all knowing and able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we ask or think.

What if we were to approach each situation with an open heart and mind about God’s grace and ability to lead us and to make full provision for the path that is chosen? Yielding our hearts creates space for God to show us His superior plan. Surrendering what we think we know to the Father, who is all knowing, allows His perfect plan for our lives to reach clarity in our vision. When we seek His leading first without all the baggage of what we think is possible, it opens our eyes to a limitless God. Let’s open our hearts and our minds to His vision and His plans for our lives.

You will show me the way of life. Being with You is to be full of joy. In Your right hand there is happiness forever. Psalm 16:11 

I love this passage because it describes our journey a way of life or a life path. We want our journey to foster life and vibrancy for each of us. I believe this path is based on thriving and moving beyond a state of mere existence. It is focused on meaningful service that emanates from our knowing and pursing God’s purpose and destiny of our lives. Our Father promises to provide direction and the way forward. We thank God for His leading along this path of peace and joy.

Now you’ve got my feet on the life path,

all radiant from the shining of your face.

Ever since you took my hand,

I’m on the right way.

Psalm 16:11 Msg

The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.  John 10:10 (New Living Translation)

I often think about God and His gift of His Son to us. Jesus came that we might have an abundant life. When I think about God’s abundance, I imagine having more than enough. An overflowing supply of the fruits of the Holy Spirit: peace, joy, love, patience, kindness, gentleness and self-control. This translation describes it as a rich and satisfying life. Another says that He came that we might have everything that we need.

What an indescribable blessing! This journey into abundance begins with accepting His Son and grows as we mature in our walk with Him. Wherever we are along the path, I believe there is always more available to us based on our walk with Him. As we pray, give praise, study His word and walk in His ways, I believe this satisfying life grows. I am so thankful for a risen Savior and that each of us can begin this journey when we open our hearts to Him.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. Ephesians 3:20

Many of us approach life with some knowledge, a portion of common sense and hopefully a good dose of wisdom. Armed with these components, we often think we can move forward in making good decisions. We try to figure what to do, how to do it and even when to make the right moves. We pray and ask for His leading and sometimes His favor in opening the right opportunities for our lives. We remember His word in Proverbs, “In all thy ways acknowledge Him, He shall direct they path.” And God is faithful to hear our prayer and is also faithful to who He is as God. Despite our best thinking we know that God’s thinking is above all. His ways are above and beyond all that we can ask or think. We may think that He is moving on our behalf in one way and then He moves in way that is best that might be totally different than we can ever imagine. I am so thankful to God for his unlimited ability to work in us and on our behalf. He is able to bless us with His Best.

God can do anything, you know-far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.  Ephesians 3:20 MSG

Therefore, it is of faith that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Romans 4:16-21

I am so thankful that we serve the God who is faithful to keep His promises to His children. We can put our full trust in Him that He is able to accomplish what He has promised. Sometimes what is in front of us, makes it harder to believe that the promise can come to past. It may be the pain in our bodies, the bills that need to be paid, the situations on our job, our children who are on the wrong path. But when we concentrate of the situation, our focus is in the wrong place. Whatever we are facing today, we should be challenged to put our focus on God’s word. We can focus on His word concerning healing; By His stripes we are healed. We can stand on His promise concerning our finances; My Father will supply all my needs according to His riches and Glory. We can trust Him for our children; as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.

In the passage today, Abraham was given the promise to become the Father of many Nations. Even in His old age, the Word says that He considered not His own body or the deadness of Sarah’s womb. Abraham was not focused on His situation, but “He was fully persuaded” that God would do what He had promised. We can approach our walk with the Lord being “fully persuaded”, not living in doubt or fear, but fully trusting that He is well able to do what He said what He would do. We can live fully persuaded of God’s promises to us.