Journals of the Heart

Word of the Day

Beloved, cease and desist from your striving. There is a better and more effective way to walk out your life. You cannot add one hair to your head by striving. When you struggle to do things your own way, frustrations abound and you do things I have not called you to do.

All this self-effort causes self-inflicted burdens that weigh you down with guilt. These burdens have the power to remove your joy and the victory of walking in daily purpose. Before you know it, you have entered into a place of doing and not being.

Do you find yourself agreeing with the prognosis of your circumstances, those contrary words spoken by men or the enemy? Do you fear disappointing men more than you fear disappointing Me? Do they determine the walking out of your destiny? Or do I?

There are many times the constant contemplation of negative attitudes creates the very thing you long to be free from. Your biggest enemy is your own thought life. When you contemplate your negative attitudes they come out of your mouth and release words of death. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. Negative attitudes and words of death create blinders on your eyes. They become like sunglasses, obscuring My beauty and the true colors of My love for you.

If pessimistic thoughts are dwelt on long enough they can lead to a tendency to blame Me for the circumstance. This creates much frustration and leads to walking according to the flesh, not the spirit. Simply stated, it leads to unbelief. Therefore, let your contemplations be on My Word and not on wrong thinking or what you see, hear or feel. Let Me and My Word have the last word in every area of your life.

It is time for a new set of glasses, a new way of seeing. I am coming to open the eyes of your heart and free you from your self-defeating ways. I love you too much to let you stay where you are. Not only am I going to deal with your own self-assessments, I am going to deal with those infiltrating from the outside as well. So?look up and see?I am shining on you….Read Complete Love Letter…

Need to rest in Him. Try listening to “Rest In Me” a 45 minute Soaking Session

…for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart?(Hebrews 4:10-12 NIV)

Prayer

Father, I cease from striving and worrying. My own frustrations have seemed, at times, to be much bigger than You. You lead and guide my every step and I need not fear. Words of men do not matter to me. They do not hold the final authority in my life. I choose to think on what is pure, lovely and upright. I choose to think on You. Should I fear men who have no power over my soul? No. Purify my heart and cause my eyes to see the way You see. I receive new sight. Revelation and truth are my portion. You are shining on me today and every day. I am looking up. Amen.

Reflect and Journal

1. In what areas or ways have you been more afraid of displeasing men than displeasing the Lord?

1. What words have been spoken over you contrary to the promises of God?

1. Take authority over these words and break their power off your life with the blood and name of Jesus.