I Want to Show You All I Have
“The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down” (Psalm 145:14).
Daughter, I speak confidence in you. I speak love in you. I know how you feel when you mess up, when you think of yourself first, when you don’t trust Me, when you run after what you think you need and not what I know is best for your heart.
Oh, girl, confess your heart to Me, pour out your heart to Me. Keep turning, keep looking. Keep turning over your heart for Me. I want to show you what is underneath the choices you make away from Me.
When you choose selfishness instead of Me, you forget who I am.
When you choose greed instead of Me, you idolize this world.
When you choose envy instead of Me, you doubt I have given you enough and believe I am a God who doesn’t care for His children.
When you choose judgment instead of forgiveness, hard-heartedness instead of kindness, self-indulgence instead of self-forgetfulness, I am forgotten, too.
When you choose to keep ignoring Me, reading my words but following your own path, you are blind to my steps in front of you, deaf to my words whispered in you, closed off from possibility of new directions, new hope, new places where I want to take you.
Hear this: You are not stuck. You can be moved. You can change. More hope is right around the corner. More possibility and further direction.
I want to show you more of what I have for you. I want to have you trust Me more. I want to take you in deeper, deeper still. My love has no end, the possibilities of hope and future strength in Me is beyond what you can see now.
So you need to keep turning over those things that feel safe and hold you back from trusting Me more. You need to stay close and willing to move into uncomfortable and unfamiliar places with Me.
Do you want to know what awaits you, child? Do you want to know what is around the bend?
Keep listening. Keep confessing. Keep reaching and looking and going deeper.
I am with you.
I am with you.
I move you in deeper. I want to show you all I have.
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Every spring, Joseph Clair’s wife fills their property with flowers he didn’t even know existed. Their beauty and sweet smells may not help him be more productive or accomplish all those “important” things on his to-do list, but they do help him slow down and remember … remember grace and hope and peace. “That such things are so obviously outside of our control continually reminds us of our status as guests in some much greater cosmic house, and that we too are subject to these same forces,” he writes. His article is a breath of fresh air—and you can find it over at Rapt.
Take a deep breath, dear one. Close your eyes. Take a few more deep breaths. Can you tuck away to a quiet place now for 30 minutes? Can you let your hands fall at your sides, coax your feet to stop moving? Yes, close your eyes. Together, let us relax; let us consecrate our minds, hearts, and bodies to God. Let us surrender everything we are holding—emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Now, from that place of quiet, let's bring everything to Him: Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit, thank You that You are here with me. I invite You in, even deeper, into my heart, my mind, and my soul. I consecrate my whole self to You. → To finish this prayer and meditation exercise, go to Loop Encounter No. 90 (“Stay in the River”), where we use Lectio Divina as a guide. It’s one of my favorites. ♥️
As women, so many of us grew up feeling that we weren’t enough—or perhaps that we were too much. That something was wrong with our bodies or our minds or our personalities or … any part of who we are. I have a feeling women in the Bible often felt the same way, like Sarai, who lived 90 years not being able to have children. And yet, God became what Sarai lacked, and He supplied what she felt she was missing. I love how Jennie Allen puts it: “Faith believes what God can do. Identity believes what God can do through you.” Do you believe this, sister? Yes? No? Either way, let the rest of Jennie’s words strengthen your spirit today.
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