Losing Focus

Have you ever had a night where you're just hit between the eyes by God. "Hey, _____! Listen Up! I'm for you!"

Let me just tell you that GOD IS GOOD! Even in the bad times, He is Good!!

So, I'm just going to be honest. I've been in a self loathing stage of my life this whole entire week. Bad, bad thing to do girls. But, at some point, it's probably going to happen.

Do any of you have this one girl, or one person in general that can make you feel terrible without them even doing anything? Just knowing they're going to be somewhere you're going to be makes you insecure. If you don't, praise the Lord, because that is truly a blessing.

Well, there's this girl that makes me really nervous. She's a manipulative person and if she doesn't want someone to like you, she'll twist things around to make you sound how she wants people to look at you. She's just a poisonous person- I'm not saying she's a bad person at all, we all have our flaws (I have so many I can't count them!)-- but she has that effect.

I have been stressing out and hating myself all week because we're probably going to be in the same place this weekend. And that makes me uneasy and insecure and worried. Let me just tell you that during all of this I did not run to God--I didn't really run to anyone and that caused a lot of problems in itself.

Tonight, I was catching up on some devotion reading and God just slapped me in the face!

God wants to live a life in constant communication with Him. We HAVE to turn to Him in EVERY circumstance we encounter. "Accept each day just as it comes, and find ME in the midst of it all!" It never tells us in the Bible that everything is going to be easy-but it does say that He won't leave us! He wants to be that best friend we run to- the one we tell everything! We have to remember that we are not in control-He is!
This part really got me (I'm a BIG BIG "to-do" lister): Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life. Instead, ask My Spirit to guide you moment by moment. He will keep you close to Me."

God has PROMISED to meet all of our needs (not our wants, our needs.)Our deepest need is God's Peace-he wants us to seek Him in troublesome times to find our peace. Thank Me for troublesome situations; the Peace they can produce far outweighs the trials you endure.

Just remember that you are complete in God. You are fearfully and wonderfully made! The Lord looks at our hearts (1 Samuel 16:7).

I love you girls and you are NOT alone!

Here are some verses to go along with today's blog:

"Pray without ceasing"- 1 Thessalonians 5:17


"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not into your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path." Proverbs 3:5-6

"But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus"- Philippians 4:19

"For our light affliction[trouble], which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

"Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think"- Ephesians 3:20