Word of the Day
Beloved, even though I have encouraged you so many times…given you so many Words, I can still hear the rumblings of your wayward thoughts. I can hear them as they sometimes challenge all I have promised you. The enemy often incites you to say, “How can this be? Don’t you know and see all my weaknesses Lord?”
The answer is, “Yes I do and always have.”
I knew them before you ever were and still I am not dissuaded…still I chose you first (John 15:16). It delights Me to be strong in your weakness. Take time to think on this and let a revelation of this truth abound in your heart. Ask for it. I will not withhold.
The enemy wants to exaggerate your weakness and make you forget I take the foolish things of the world to confound the wise…to confound even your own wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:27). Yes, the enemy prefers for you to concentrate on your own self and what you consider to be your lack…to focus on your failures…your mistakes; not your successes. You have succeeded more than you have failed and must learn to see the glass half full and not half empty.
Remember, the enemy wants to keep you sin conscious and not God conscious. Self-forgiveness is the way out. It is just as important to forgive your own self as it is to forgive others. Often you deal with the big crisis in your life…the big offenses more than the little ones along the way. The big ones are so big they cannot be escaped or gone around. Like a mountain range, they must be gone over or cast into the sea. They are so big that to deny them is impossible so you deal with the issue. The little ones are a whole different story. Selah (meditate).
You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you.(John 15:16 Amplified).
Prayer
Lord, I praise You and I thank You for choosing me. For it is written; many are called but few are chosen. It is a privilege and an honor to be called and chosen by You. Help me Lord to have a heart of revelation concerning You…a heart which understands the reality of how unique and valuable I am.
I am so thankful You chose me even though I have so many faults. Forgive me for being so caught up in my own thoughts concerning my weaknesses and short comings…for becoming so caught up that I become sin conscious and therefore not God conscious.
Thank you for helping me to forgive myself, as well as others. Open my eyes Lord so I am aware not only of a big crisis in my life, but aware of the little things that might otherwise be unnoticed. It is the little foxes…the things often unattended which stand between my intimate fellowship with You. Open the eyes of my heart to the fullness of who You are. Today I choose to focus on You and not on myself. My mind is renewed and I become like what I give my attention to; You. Amen
Reflect and Journal
- Write a paragraph about the meaning of being chosen by God, and your response to the fact you also are called according to His good pleasure.
- Write what you believe the Lord has called you to do and ask Him how He wants you to go about accomplishing it. He doesn’t give you a destiny or purpose without telling you how to achieve it.
- Meditate on the successes and blessings God has given you to enjoy and share with others because you are chosen. Name some.