Song of Solomon 2:15 Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
We all understand that good choices make for a better life. The more good choices we make the more breaks we get, and the more bad choices we make the worse our situations become. The Bible says it is the small things that ruin the vine. Those of you that grow a garden look how small a bug is and yet it can destroy your whole garden. Those of you that are in the medical profession, look how small a germ is, and yet it can kill a person or make them very sick. Those of you who like to play sports think about what one mole or golfer can do to a golf course.
It is the same way in our lives. It isn't the big decisions that carry the most weight in our lives, it is the small choices we make everyday. As a counselor I have people asking me advice all the time, and as a prophet they are looking for me to give them a Word from the LORD. What I see often is that they have a huge decision to make and they can't seem to find the right course of action. 90 percent of the time the answer is simple but NEVER easy to live out. Why do people have such a hard time finding the answers in life? It is because they do not submit the small things to God, so that makes it almost impossible for them to submit the big things to God. None of us want to miss the big things in life because with big issues come big consequences. But you have to see it this way. If you are not nice to people and friendly on an everyday basis, then when you need help on something that is really important it is awkward and rude to ask people to help you through your crisis. More than likely they will find something else to do when you really need help because you didn't do the small things like smile and be friendly when you had the chance.
It is this same way in our everyday life. What are the small things? The things you think. The things you do with your free time. The things you spend your extra change on. The people and activities that you allow in your life. We think nothing about these things most of the time. But then when the bills are due and we are 300 dollars short we suddenly want to know what God wants us to do. When our relationships are falling apart and we are at a cross roads with someone suddenly we want to know what direction God wants from us. Every time you have a thought you are making a decision, and while a thought may seem like a small thing, your thoughts are going to shape your life. Making good decision has to start all the way back to the thought life or you will find yourself in a mess with no options trying to figure out what God wants you to do. Direction if life starts with a thought, that leads to a desire, that end in an action and all of that produces outcomes for our life. The problem is that we choose our own thoughts independent of the Will of God, and that produces a desire that takes us down the wrong path. And once we are completely lost we begin looking for God's purpose in all of this. And I have walked along side of people, helped them out of that mess they got themselves into, and what do they do nine times out of ten? Once their circumstances are a little better they take the reins of their life right back into their own hands and go right back to doing things like they always did. And guess what? You guessed it, within just a few weeks and months they are calling for help again, they got right back into another mess. I'm going to say something and agreeing with it is not enough. You have to agree with it enough to DO IT. And if you do this, your life will eventually straighten out for good.
YOU CANNOT FIND THE WILL OF GOD IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR MIND TO THE WILL OF GOD.
YOU CANNOT FIND THE WILL OF GOD IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR DESIRES TO THE WILL OF GOD
YOU CANNOT FIND THE WILL OF GOD IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR LIFE TO THE WORD OF GOD.
Over and over people violate the Word of God, get into a mess, cry out to God long enough for things to get better than they go right out and violate God's Word again and get into another mess.
Life isn't about us doing what we want and then God making a way for us to live in that mess and find a way to make things work and us be happy in that mess. Surrender your life to the will of God and you will find that everything begins to work for you. What is the will of God? It is written in the Bible, we cannot violate the Word of God and find God's Will for Our lives. There is someone reading this right now, you have prayed and prayed and sought the Lord, you want HIs will, but you violate God's Word with your lifestyle, your attitudes and your behavior. You can't find God's will while you are violating God's Word and that is why you have prayed and sought God for years and yet nothing changes and nothing gets better. You are waiting for God to 'fix' things for you, but you won't submit to the Word of God and do things by faith God's way. MONEY is the number one reason people violate God's Word. It takes faith to obey God even when it is going to cost you money. If you want to find God's will prayer alone won't get the job done. Obey the Word of God and live by faith. Living by faith means you do what the Word of God says even when you think you can't afford to.
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