God is
preparing you for great things
.
Don’t
let your dream die in the valley! If you’re in a season of refining, lean in.
Trust the loving hand of your precious Savior and know that He will lead you to
the other side. Refuse a sense of entitlement and don’t demand to be
understood. Instead, humble yourself and seek to understand what the Lord is
doing around you. He will faithfully lead you and you will be strengthened as
you go. On the other side of this refining time is a fresh perspective and new
mercies.
Susie Larson
God puts dreams in
our hearts and writes a destiny over our lives.
And if we trust Him
enough to take Him at His word, we will find ourselves on a journey toward the
fulfillment of that dream.
Unfortunately, the
path that takes us to the promise is always wrought with thickets and thorns.
Nothing worth having ever comes easy or without opposition.
Storms will come,
lions will roar, and our fears will be confronted.
God allows the path
to be difficult because He intends on refining us and preparing us for our
place of promise.
He is intent on
extracting from us, that which our enemy would love to leverage against us.
God loves us too
much to promote us before we are ready.
And so, as we follow His lead, we will at different times, find ourselves in a valley – a valley of decision.
Marriages die
there.
Dreams die there
too.
We all have weak
spots and areas of inconsistency in our character.
Until we see Jesus
face to face, we will need His guidance and correction. He wants to take us
from strength to strength; from glory to glory.
Ephesians 3:20
tells us that He wants to do abundantly above and beyond ALL that we could ever
ask or think, but there’s a clincher in this verse… it’s according to His work
within us.
To the extent that
He’s allowed to work in us, will be the extent that He does great things through
us.
After pondering
this idea a little more, I envisioned a valley of dry bones.
Bones from
marriages, relationships, and dreams abandoned because many people refused to
die to themselves, to humble themselves, and to let God have His way in their
lives.
Don’t let your
dream die in the valley!
If you’re in a
season of refining, lean in.
Trust the loving
hand of your precious Savior and know that He will lead you to the other side.
Refuse a sense of
entitlement and don’t demand to be understood.
Instead, humble
yourself and seek to understand what the Lord is doing around you.
He will faithfully
lead you and you will be strengthened as you go.
On the other side
of this refining time is a fresh perspective and new mercies.
Humble yourself
under the mighty hand of God; in due time you will be lifted up and honored
before a watching world.
Here’s my question
for you: Do you have a sense of how God is using your current circumstances to
prepare you for a great calling?
God never calls us
to do something for Him that He does not empower us to do if we are willing to
do the work and time. Please, take the time to get to know God in an intimate
way.
As your
relationship with Him grows, you move up in rank and are assigned harder
missions. Your purpose on earth is to shine God’s love to a lost, dying world.
Your mission, if
you should choose to accept it, is waiting for you!
Open your ears and
your heart to the Lord and be excited about your new future serving Him in truth
and spirit.
God has made it
possible for you to know Him and experience an amazing change in your own life.
Serve Him.
Wait on Him.
And expect … for He
is able to do much much more than you can ask or imagine.
Settle that sin
issue ...
“Father God, I confess I am a sinner and my sins have
separated me from You.
I am truly sorry. I now want to turn away from my past
sinful life and live a new life pleasing to You.
Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again.
I believe that Your Son, Jesus Christ died for my sins,
was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer.
I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule
and reign in my heart from this day forward. Thank You that according to Your
Word, I am now born again.
Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and
to do Your will for the rest of my life. I promise to study Your Word – the
Bible.
Use me for Your glory.
In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.”
Susie Larson, host of Susie Larson Live, engages in conversations that bring Scripture to life, and shares stories that inspire you to last long and finish strong.
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