Thursday, May 10, 2012

You don't have an obedience issue, you have a love issue.


 “When you know Him, you will love Him. When you love Him, you will believe Him & you’ll trust Him, when you trust Him, you will obey Him.”

“You don’t have an obedience problem, you have a love problem”

I stole these two lines from the book ‘Experiencing God’
Sometimes in life we get so caught up in the living in the future (For what’s to come, what we want to achieve, or what we want to get eventually) that we don’t fully embrace where we are now…when we don’t do that, we don’t see God working. Our eyes are too far off in the distance.

How to you expect God to PROVIDE when you won’t give sacrificially?
How to you expect God to PROTECT when you won’t step out of your comfort zone and do something that you don’t feel comfortable doing? Like putting your heart out there to get hurt again…
How can you expect God to show you that he LOVE’S you when you’re not willing to be vulnerable & work through your shortcoming like He’s asking you to?
How do you expect God to MOVE if you won’t let go of control?

  “When you know Him, you will love Him. When you love Him, you will believe Him & you’ll trust Him, when you trust Him, you will obey Him.”

What is He asking you to work through that seems daunting to even bring up again? You’ve been down this road a million times, why does the same thing keep coming up?
Because you’re not allowing God walk it out with you.
He wants to surface it, so you acknowledge it…then He will place you in a situation to give you an opportunity to walk it out, He will be right there with you the whole time, don’t be scared.
Stand and face what you do not want to face.
Someone said to me the other day “Run towards what you fear the most”
God is saying:
“I want to show you something you have never seen before...but you have to be willing to do what you've never done before. 
I will keep bringing situations in your life until you fully embrace one... I want you to walk it out with me... trust me... lean on me, place your heart in my hands.”

Are you willing?

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