Through the Terrains with Jesus | 024
“Lord, you have this day and you have me. You have what is going on and you have said to stand for you and reverse what was spoken over me. Show them in that room Lord, once again, nothing is needed because you are our intervention. But, if it is needed Lord, I do trust you. I do trust that your plan for me in this is higher than what I know for myself.”
I spoke that underneath my breath as I was fixing my hair before we headed out the hotel room for our recheck appointment. I stared in that mirror knowing God is with me in all of this. Even though I know no one who had encountered the same or similar of what I am walking, I know God is with me in it.
I wanted to handle things, I wanted it in my control. Not in that way but in a way where if things spiraled out of control I thought I could “fix” it or handle it properly. I thought I could be the fixer when ultimately God was showing me the opposite.
We tend to think we can control these certain matters that really are out of our hands.
We think that if our children are with us 24/7 we can protect them better than when they are off to school. (Though this goes to a much deeper conversation but I hope you get what I am saying here!)
We think we can fix the other person who seems to struggle.
We think we can control someone else’s attitude.
We think we have total control over all things.
We think we….
But that is the problem. WE.
What we lack is the understanding that we have no control, only God. This is where God revealed to me, my own heart, that I had an ounce of control in me that wanted to grow into more ounces. Just a small ounce of it can grow and flow and cause other damages within. It causes my mind to spiral in anxiety and my faith to waver. It causes this disbelief and places this falseness in me that I am beginning to place myself as God, and that is a dangerous place to be.
I am not God. And neither are you friend. I hate to say it but we cannot hover over and protect our children like our minds think they can. Only God is the Ultimate protector. We cannot control these unforeseen circumstances, we can only control our attitudes and emotions towards it, such as, who and what we will run to. We can’t fix the other person, we simply love on them and pray for them allowing the Holy Spirit to do the ultimate interceding and intervention, not us.
Control. The branch off the root of fear. Fear hides itself in control and anxiety.
I have zero control of what today holds. I have zero control of what storm we encounter. But what I do have is the control to gaze my eyes to be seen on the Lord and off the circumstance. I do have the control to surrender to Jesus and allow Him to lead me through the storm. I do have the control to not let my emotions steer me wrong but rather to steer me to Jesus, the Ultimate Higher One.
So friend, let me ask you this. How do you react when things spiral out of control, circumstances are out of your hands, when storms arise and become stronger…. do you try to control it?
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7
“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Matthew 6:34
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. Psalm 34:7
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. Psalm 56:3
When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. Psalm 94:19
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9