#332 Sunday, Dec. 28/14, 5:30 am, at home
I come to My People in the quiet of the early morning.
I come with Great Good News. Your God Loves you, cherishes you, aches to behold you, treasures you, seeks you out, invites, is gentle, not demanding, just ALL Loving.
I come to caress My People. I eagerly want to hold you in My Heart.
I offer you refuge in My Heart. I want to fulfill your life.
I do not want you to feel abandoned, because I am with you ALWAYS.
If you have a splinter, I know about it and care about it.
I do not live in the magnanimity of situations but in all happenings.
You can find Me at the seashore as you watch the waves, or in the middle of a threatening storm.
I am with every cell of your body.
Cast Me over every cell of your body whether it is well or not.
Tell Me you Trust that I am with every cell of your body caring for it.
I want to be your first reference at all times --- whether it looks good to you or bad to you.
If you reference Me, you also reference My Will for you. You cannot say Lord thank you for being here now at this and every moment, if you don’t accept My Will for you at each and every moment.
Isn’t it great when you can surrender all of you to Me!
We may only see it for brief moments, but that is certainly a moment to build on.
It is giving yourself over to My Will and not looking for it to match yours.
If it does it is a bonus, yet it is more of a bonus when it doesn’t. Eeeegad eh?
Because if it matches your will/thought you will think it is like a magic potion; yet if it does not match your will/thought, and yet you keep returning to surrender to My Will, it shows your increasing Trust in Me and not in your will/thought.
It is always about letting go of more of you isn’t it.
So. if I surrender myself to God today and all does not go as I would like it to, will I return to Him tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and continue to surrender?
So many times we get caught in the trap of thinking that if we surrender it will turn out our way!! Right?
And if it doesn’t, then we think God has not heard our surrender prayer correctly.
Funny eh? We surrender yet we still have a plan of our own in mind. Crazy but True.
So of course, right away we realize as we are reading this that we really have not totally surrendered ourselves to God this day, and the next.
We are still holding back aren’t we.
Are you willing to surrender your day --- that is all your thoughts, words and actions to Me?
Are you willing to thank Me at the end of the day when nothing turned out as you had hoped it might?
Because we surrender with a plan. ‘If I surrender, God will most likely let it happen as I would like it to happen.’ Right?
And yet we do not realize that what happened that we had hoped might happen was
God’s Will in action, not my wishful thinking.
Yet, I will credit my surrendering with His compliance.
Do you see what I mean?
We still want to own part of God’s Will in our lives.
It is not that His Will is in agreement with ours, but quite the opposite. God wants our will to come alongside and coincide with His.
Are we willing to let God’s Will take over and become our will, even when it is not something that we would will for ourselves or others.
Our will is most times our exerting control over the situation so it looks good/right in our eyes.
Am I willing to forgo my control and let it all play out in God’s Good Time?
Ask Me each day “Lord help me to make my will agree with Your Will.”
How many times have we said “well it was not how I would have planned it to turn out.”
How many times?
So we may accept the situation and how it turned out, but we are not boiling over with enthusiasm and thanks that it wasn’t our will that brought it about.
How many times have we said “It turned out just as I planned.”
And then we sometimes add “thank you Lord.”
Do you see what is happening here?
We are thanking the Lord that our will was done.
Somewhere along the line we have missed that it was God’s Will, not ours that deserves the credit.
Definitely we have our own free will and with it we can mess things up. Oh yes we can!
Yet out free will can lead us to do good – which ultimately is to do God’s Will – because He wishes good for each one of us.
Our free will is able to choose to do God’s Will and accept God’s Will and be thankful for God’s Will in every circumstance,
OR it can lead us to believe that our will and ours alone is in charge of and controlling all that we do.
But when you think you are in control or want to be in control you are not recognizing who has ALL control.
It is like having a false god before you.
You don’t even think of it that way, but rest assured it is and that is how the devil worms his way in to keep you from relinquishing your whole being to the Lord.
So you do not even think of this as a sin, do we?
Wanting to control, wanting your own way takes you away from the ONE who says “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life.”
Choosing to follow My Will for your life by surrendering to Me daily is not an easy task.
It takes lots of your will power to turn away from serving you, to joyfully relinquish to serving Me.
When you get angry, upset, cross, whose will do you feel is not being nourished --- your own of course, otherwise you would not be angry.
Giving up your will may feel like a hard sacrifice, yet it must not be used as a sacrifice!!!
Otherwise, you guessed it, you are still exerting control over this surrender!
That’s why, when you serve Me, you cannot have a long face.
If you are not serving Me with great Joy, you are still serving you who wants someone, anyone to know that you are making a sacrifice.
We want to be credited by someone that we are doing something very good. Our ego still craves to be stroked! So, we obviously have not surrendered that part of ourselves to God.
It makes us laugh to read this but it is True and I want to make sure that I explain the finer points to you or else we cannot grow in our union together.
I have given you something to think about. Ask Me to open your heart daily to more and more understanding of ‘surrender’.
“ O God strengthen my soul.”
“ O God open my soul to surrender.”
I can only strengthen your soul when it is ready to daily surrender to Me.
Ponder that!
Good Morning. Walk in My Ways this day.
God Bless. I treasure each of you with a tender Joyful Heart.
You are Loved. You are Mine.
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