God Turns Chaos into Peace!

Have you ever felt like your mind is an absolute mess? Like it is so fuzzy that you can't even see past the cloud- or like you are thinking 1,000 thoughts at once? Something that I went through not so long is just that, it's like you can't even open your eyes because your mind is just a fuzz. I felt like I couldn't escape the thousands of thoughts, like I had to think them all at once.

That was until I realised what I was missing. My mind was so fuzzy because I had shifted Jesus from my focus, I let my mind become a occupant of the things of this world and not fully on Jesus. In times like this, we literally just need to be still but also, we need to re-align and reset ourselves with Jesus. This is about laying everything at His feet, giving Him control back of everything that occupies you and your life- it is about asking God to take out the things He doesn't want and to place/keep what He does. It calls for a time to examine ourselves to look at what we have been consuming and asking God to clear it & then re-aligning us with Him.

The moment I sat down with worship blasting through my ears and with my journal and some pens, I promise you that there and then God started to cleanse the fuzzy mess to bring my focus back to Him. I had a peace cover me, my mind no longer thinking thousands of thoughts but it was being re-centred back to Jesus! Sometimes we can go off on one, but you know who is always there waiting to grab us in His arms? Yep, you got it, Jesus. No matter how many steps you have taken, He still will have His arms waiting for you. Countless times we can get eaten up by this world, and countless times God has grace & mercy to bring me back on the narrow path. Sometimes in this crazy life, we need reminding of who holds our future and who holds everything from beginning to forever and it is HIM! Praise the Lord that He has a plan for each and every one of us because we would be walking in twenty different directions at once. He has a reason behind every turn, every direction and every path but it is to ultimately keep you on the narrow path that few find to reach Him in eternity. 

So, do not panic on those days where your mind feels messy and your life feels messy, God is waiting for you to just simply turn to Him- to fix the chaos back into His peace. He is always letting us know that He is there and He is the answer for all your needs. He turned my fuzzy mind to a clear, peaceful space. He has re-aligned me to seek His will and not my own nor this worlds. 

Lord, keep us walking down the narrow path, keep us focused on You, let it be You that occupies our minds and lives and not this world. Reset us Jesus, we need you every day. Even though we may feel fuzzy and messy, remind us that all we need is You, because You alone can turn the chaos into peace.

In Jesus' name, Amen

God Bless! Thank you for reading!  ♡

Deepening my series: talking to God

Last time for this 'Deepening my...' series I covered prayer where I uploaded a prayer journal resource so to continue with the topic of being able to talk to God as part of our personal relationship with Him.

He is our Father, and always has His ear ready to listen to our needs, our requests and when we just need to vent- anything, He is there. 

Feel free to use this to just pour out what is on your heart to our caring Father and let Him know everything. This comes with two sections: 1: can be to write random words, phrases or anything  2. can be to just pray and ask God for anything, on whats on your heart or even just to tell Him what you need to.

God Bless ♡

Stop pointing your fingers.

Something that constantly keeps appearing to me, in recent and distant events is that we need to stop pointing our fingers. Jesus told us to take the speck out of own eye before removing the plank from others. This is because He knows that humans are hypocritical. Believe it or not, we all can be hypocrites, some know it and some are too blind to see it. Ultimately, there needs to be change. 

Something I saw before was that when we point our finger, three are pointing back- it is a reminder to check yourself instead of being quick to point at others. We point our fingers, always being confident that the problem is not with us, but with the person we are pointing at. Do not take pride in yourself, do not be a hypocrite. We must examine ourselves as Jesus tells us, so we can seek Him to be changed. We most definitely are not perfect yet we judge and point to others as if we are. My point is, who do we think we are pointing fingers when there is only ONE who can truly judge us.

Change needs to start with yourself. As much as we would like to, we can not change others but we can change ourselves through asking and seeking God. The message that I'm trying to put across is, as followers of Christ, we are not meant to be like the world and we shouldn't be so quick to point people out. Pointing at others should not make you feel good or better about yourselves. If you want to point at anyone- point at yourself and begin to ask for change. If someone has offended you, pray that God will help you to not be quick to offence, that He will shape you to deal with the things that may offend you.

Pointing fingers also does not just come down to judging- but comes down to spreading harsh words about someone- ultimately you aim these words at them for someone else to begin to think and point negatively and harshly. It literally comes down to doing to others what you would want done to you. With having such an attitude and harsh outlook towards someone, if that was to be applied back to you, how would you feel? Of course, you would think it is not fair, or that you haven't deserved such treatment. This is why it is so important to think before we speak and act- our words and actions ( especially as Christians,) are being watched more than most people so by you saying that one harsh thing, think about how that is representing Christ. In all honesty, we can slip into moments like this, we all have, but start re-aligning yourself with God and His truth- ask yourself 'How does this represent Christ?'- don't be selfish to please your flesh. Be self-less to please God and put Him first.

Jesus teaches us to love, He teaches us to encourage others, to serve, to be kind. Pointing fingers, having a bad attitude or acting ungodly does not serve God, it does not edify you, it does not have any good impact. Light and darkness does not mix, God has made that pretty clear. We need to serve God and not serve this world nor our flesh. Change starts from you. Stop pointing your fingers and seek God to change you.

Thank you for reading! God Bless !

♡

What's Love Got To do With it?

Love. We all think we have got it right? I mean you say you love your family and friends? Yet your actions speak different. You say you love your enemies right? Until they actually do something against you? But I mean you pray for them? But how can we pray for people we don't actually genuinely love? Love comes from deep within your heart and your heart is what God knows perfectly and with detail. God- who knows our thoughts before we think them; knows our prayers before we pray them; our actions before we do them and our words before we speak them. He knows all. And He most definitely knows our hearts.

To be able to pray for others, it has to come from a place of LOVE.

To be able to help others, it has to come from a place of LOVE.

Why? I mean why can't we just act without love? 

Because without love- it is nothing.

God is Love. In John 14:15- Jesus says to us ' If you love me, keep my commandments'

You know why? Because obedience to keep commandments comes from a place of love- you want to listen to them because you genuinely want to do what they say because that is love. You can easily avoid most sin when we have a genuine heart of love. 

The greatest commandment surrounds love. 

But why is this SO important?

Because in a world full of hate and evil, there is limited space for actual love. The love you see in the world is not love. Love is laying one's life for the whole world after living a perfect life. Jesus did just that. He is love. He shows us time and time again what love is. Most people think love is just a feeling. It is so much deeper and more than that. Look how God loves us endlessly- in fact, we turn from Him daily and disobey Him- and He still LOVES us! Most of our backs have turned on Him- and He still loves us. The love He has for us is true Love. 

The world's love does not even come close. 'Love' today is full of lust, is full of sin, is full of pride. 

God defines love to us time and time again. 

Look at the words Paul writes showing the definition of Love- THIS IS GOD BREATHED. This is God telling us- look this is love not the kind you think. The world defines love yet is parading it around. Yet God tells us- Love does not parade itself. Satan has corrupted the most greatest commandment to turn it into sin. This is so true Christians are deemed against the world and different. From what may seem so small- Satan and this world has corrupted it into evil- it is all setting up towards his overall plan through the great tribulation.

I ask you all to examine your hearts. Ask God to show you if you have love and to create love within you- to let His love pour over you and surround you. To let His love be the only love you need and to be the only definition you follow. I pray you feel God's love today and that it is poured over you all- that He sets it in your heart to love.

Thank you for taking your time to read this post! Praise God for He is love!

God Bless! xx