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It is very easy to become frustrated, concerned, depressed or even angry when everything seems to being going against us.  It is part of our growing relationship with God to learn to understand that He is always with us and always in control.

We will live in total peace when we come to the place of understanding where we are completely comfortable in our circumstances because we know that God has willed or allowed us to be where we are.  Our peace will come from knowing that He promises that He will work out all things for our eternal good.

God pours out His never ending love upon us.  If we receive His gift of love, we cannot contain it.  His love must spill out from us to the world around us.

From the depths of His never ending love, He provided His Son to die on the Cross for us.  If we receive Jesus as our Savior, we cannot keep Him to ourselves.  The presence of His Spirit within us will flow into the lives of those around us.  It is our responsibility to live in such a way that we facilitate the flow of God’s love.  To limit this flow is to grieve the Holy Spirit.

We have been taught by our environment to seek visions in our lives.  We seek them and build on them by focusing on our work, our family and our friends.  

All is for nought, however, until we realize that the only visions of real substance and value are those that are originated through our focus on our relationship with our Heavenly Father.  When we learn to cast our visions through His focus, then we develop visions that allow us to be truly fruitful.  Until then we are only building on stubble and hay.

God, in His sovereign rule, has placed each one of us exactly where He wants us.  He did not place us where we are to stand alone.  He places each one of us in a location among others where we are perfectly linked together for the good of the entire body of Christ.

Each one of us is a beacon extending it’s light 360 degrees.  It is our individual responsibility to let God work through us so that the fullness and abundance of His Son can flow through us to the world that surrounds us.

The fruits of our work are the outpouring of the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us.  They are not the proof of our goodness.  They are the proof of our submission to Jesus in every aspect of our lives.

If our works ever become a way in which we seek to gratify ourselves, they will become a burden that will drag us away from the Cross.  Our works must be an outpouring of our spirit-filled love.  Then they will flow with great ease and draw us to the Cross in complete thanksgiving.

Life in Jesus Christ is about fullness and growth.  It is never about reduction and decline.  God places us where we are in life just as sovereignly as He rules over any aspect of His kingdom.

He calls us to be obedient to serve the needs around us at any given time in our lives.  Then He, subsequent to our obedience, adds to us and grows us according to His perfect will and plan for our lives.

When Jesus died on the Cross, every evil was defeated for all eternity and every good work was completed.  When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, every evil that is in our lives is dead and every good work in us is completed through Christ.

All we have to do is believe in the one who made it all possible to receive it all.  Unfortunately, we cling to our old lives all too long.  We hinder our ability to receive all that is freely and completely available to us.

“My grace is sufficient.  My strength is perfected in your weakness.”  This is God’s promise that is available to each of us through our salvation.  

When we receive Jesus as our Savior, we receive the Holy Spirit within us to counsel us.  Then each day, moment by moment, we make choices.  With each decision, we either choose to act according to guidance of the Holy Spirit or we choose to act according to the guidance of our flesh.

The perfect choice, as provided by the Holy Spirit, is always readily available.  We simply have to access the perfect gift that we have been given.

As children of God, we are all going to be tested by difficult circumstances to see if we will remain in the will of the Father for our lives.  Just as Jesus stayed with His Father’s plan when He was called to die on the Cross, we will be called to stick with our calling during difficult challenges.

Jesus was able to meet the His test because He had a life filled with events where He abided in the will of the Father.  We will be victorious through all trials if we make it a life practice to abide in the will of the Father in all matters. 

To have a vision is to see the completed work before the first step is taken.   God had a vision for each of us before we were born.

True visionaries are able to see the completed work and then are capable of devising ways to reach the desired end.  God is the truest of visionaries.  He always has the perfect plans for the completion of His visions. He never fails to complete His work.  He never rushes to complete His work.  He always moves continuously toward the perfect completion of His work.  We are His work.