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The most difficult part about getting in sync with God’s plan for our lives is recognizing that He is the one in control.  We get out of sync with God when we try to control our lives instead of submitting to His lordship.  We have difficulty keeping in sync with God when we let our trials distract us from His perfect plans for our lives.

We will begin our synchronization with God when we begin to understand the blessings that come from our trials because God has allowed them for our good.  We will accelerate the synchronization process when we look forward to each day without fear or worry because we know that He is in control.  We will perfect the synchronization process when we stand before God and hear the words “well done good and faithful servant” because we trusted in the wisdom of God instead of our own.

In 2 Corinthians 12:9, we are taught that His strength is made perfect in our weakness.  God knows how weak our flesh is.  Through His loving kindness, mercy and grace, He provides a way for us to overcome our weakness.

When we come to realize that there is nothing in us that is worthy, we open ourselves up to receive the perfecting work of Christ.  As we submit to His lordship, our lives are transformed.  As we die to selves and allow His Spirit to flourish within us, the evidence of His presence in our lives is visible for all to see.

Throughout our lives, we have been instructed to set goals and to develop step-by-step plans to reach the dreams that we have for ourselves.  Most of us have followed our self developed plans to some extent or another.  In the eyes of the world, some have been more successful than others.  Regardless of success, trying to live the dream is what the substance of life has been about for most of us.

God’s supernatural world is totally different.  His plan for us has nothing to do with our earthly dreams.  His plan is to prepare us to live with Him for all eternity.  Everything we go through in life is part of the process that God puts us through or allows us to go through in order to prepare us for life with Him in new Jerusalem. The good news is that following God’s plan will lead us to a life beyond the imagination of our fondest earthly dreams.   

Whenever trials arise in our lives, the natural response is to focus on the problem, the issue or the pain.  The supernatural response is to focus on the solution – Jesus Christ.  Not only will He take you through the trial to a better place, He will bring you out of the trial stronger than ever. 

Peter wanted Jesus to avoid the Crucifixion and all the trials associated with it.  Had Jesus done that, we would not have a plan for our salvation.  Jesus rebuked Peter because He knew that the trials of the Crucifixion were necessary.

Actions speak louder than words.  Nowhere is this old adage more applicable than in our living testimony.  No one wants to learn about Jesus unless they have seen Jesus in us.  Our greatest orations will never win a soul without a visible expression in our lives that we are living what we are teaching.

Let those around us see peace, love, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control expressed in our lives.  Then they will seek the source of these gifts without us asking, teaching or preaching.

Praise and thanks to the Lord for He will faithfully fulfill His promise to finish every good work in us that He begins.  He will steadfastly stand by us even as we stumble over and over again.  Just as a loving parent who is training a child to ride a bike will pick up their child over and over again until they get it right, God will pick us up time and time again until we get it right.

Of course, we will never get it completely right until we stand before Him in heaven.  Nonetheless, He never forsakes us as we learn to fulfill His purposes for our lives.  Hallelujah!!

We are commanded to love one another as we love ourselves.  How can we be called to that level of love?  Doesn’t God know how impossible that is for us to fulfill that level of love for others?  Of course, He does.  That is precisely why He expressed His perfect love and forgiveness toward us through the life, death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus.

When we accept Jesus as our Savior, He indwells in us, giving us the capacity to love as He does.  If we try to relate to others through our own capabilities, our frailties will be exposed.  If we let the power of His Spirit reign in our lives, we are enabled to become vessels of His perfect love and forgiveness.  We are then able to meet the great command to love one another as ourselves.  

We naturally associate the idea of clouds with the idea of storms forming.   If clouds are building up, we think “look out.”  As we grow in Christ we come to realize that when storm clouds build in our lives, we need to think “look up.”

Just as God used the clouds to guide the Israelites to the promised land, He can use the storm clouds in our lives to cause us to be dependent on Him to provide our protection and our provision.  He provides the perfect pathway through the storms in our lives through our relationship with Jesus Christ.

Life is not a game of “who can achieve the most.”  Life is the process of preparing ourselves for our eternal resting place.

The process is complete when we seek the Father in everything that we do regardless of our circumstances.  The process is complete when we have surrendered all that we are and all that we have to the Father.  The process is complete when we have surrendered all that we will ever be and all that we will ever have to the Father for all eternity.  The process is complete when we rejoice in knowing that we will serve Him and bring glory to Him forever.

When Adam and Eve sinned, they ran and hid from God.  They were ashamed to be in His presence.

God did not leave them.  He was there with them the entire time.  So it is with us.  When we are disobedient, we separate ourselves from God.  He is there, but we are running from Him because of the shame of our sin.

When we turn back toward Our Heavenly Father by recognizing our sin and repenting, we feel ourselves getting back in relationship with Him.  The fact of the matter is that the miraculous cleansing blood of Jesus kept us in God’s presence and grace the entire time.