Paint, Repentance, Refocus

Today I reflect back on when my Mom came to visit us and how we wanted everything just perfect for her. We wanted to honor her, as she made many sacrifices to come and join us for our daughters graduation. One of the things we did was paint, we chose delightful pastels in green, blue, and caramel. After we painted nearly every room I looked at the edges and noticed that they weren't blended well. I felt a little discouraged as we had worked so hard only to end up having "light areas" between the edges of the upper wall and ceiling. As I sighed in frustration immediately the LORD spoke to me and said, "Don't focus on the imperfections, just enjoy the beauty of the colors on the walls." Who else but God can speak to a situation and bring such liberating revelation!
As I'am going through the book of I Kings there is a passage of Scripture that stands out to me and blessed me so. It is God's comments to Solomon regarding his father David. Now as human beings we sometimes are very good at spotting imperfections not just in ourselves, but others as well. I rejoice because truly God's ways are NOT our ways and His thoughts are NOT our thoughts. Read with me God's description of David to his son King Solomon I Kings 9:4a

As you follow me with integrity and godliness as David your father did... WOW! RRRRRRewind!!! Stop right here and think about you for a minute. If you are reading this God has already declared that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, but what is it, what imperfection(s) do you dwell on in your life that keeps you from enjoying who you and what you do? What devastating mistake(s) have you made that you can't quite take your focus off of? Please be encouraged today. Whatever it is or was stop beating yourself up. Did you repent? Yes?! Then guess what? God isn't focusing on where you've missed it in life, He's focusing on helping you to continue in Him and finishing well.
Think about this fact God knew about all the mistakes of David, but in the end God said David followed him in integrity and godliness. As we live a repentant lifestyle like David, learning from our mistakes and not living in them, and continuing on in Him we will be able to enjoy more fully who we are in Him, and this wonderful life He has given us. I believe that as we refocus and see the beauty we bring to God and not just the mistakes made, in the end God will have great things to say about us as well!

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Worship the Lord ONLY

In the world today there are sooo many talented people! People that have melodic voices, astounding business acumen, great athletic ability, multi media empires, incredible political savvy etc... While we may admire the gifts and talents given to others we should not be willing to look the other way when he or she does wrong or make major life decisions based on the lifestyle or advice of that celebrity. We should never put another person or thing above God or His Word. If God says He demands we walk in "holiness" and your favorite "star" says,"Awww that's old fashioned" who's report will you believe?! One of my favorite lines in a song is, "No one deserves worship unless he's perfect." Jesus is perfect and He is the only "Superstar."
He is sinless. We never have to worry about Him causing a scandal in Heaven, we never have to worry about Him disappointing or hurting us because He made a move we didn't agree with. We never have to worry about Him abandoning us because He said, "I will NEVER leave you nor forsake you." Jesus is PERFECT! He gives, He corrects, He helps, He blesses, He LOVES! As we go through life let's keep in mind that it's ok to appreciate and honor the gifts in people, but only Jesus is PERFECT and deserves worship, because only JESUS IS LORD (-:

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Keeping God Front and Center As We Lead

One of my favorite authors on leadership is John Maxwell. My husband blessed me with his leadership Bible, which is simply the Word of God with John Maxwell inserting his leadership expertise in between. Today I want to share with you some of his wisdom and what I've learned as well. A good leader will get great results, and a bad leader well... I have had the opportunity to lead many things in my 29 years with Jesus and the one thing that has kept me steady and grounded is realizing that my security as a leader rests in God alone. When God is your focus you know it only through Him and His power that you are able to do anything worthy for Him. When God is "Center Stage" you realize that it is His Word that helps people ummm... not you. When God's ownership is clear you know that you exists for the people and not the other way around. I look at ministry this way. God's Word is the food and we are just spoons and forks delivering His Word to hungry souls.
Below is some great advice from Bro.Maxwell.

1. People cannot provide security for a leader.
2. Leaders should never put their emotional health in the hands of someone else.
3. Spiritual and emotional health requires the truth.
4. Leaders must remember that hurting people naturally hurt people
5. Trouble arises when leaders depend on people to do what ONLY God can.

Have a wonderful day today and remember if we keep God at the "center" of our lives and ministry He will always be the "Star" and we will stay healthy and grounded. He will also help us,to help His people to focus soley on Him too (-:

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