Therefore Will He Be Exalted...

And therefore will the LORD wait,
that he may be gracious unto you,
and therefore will he be exalted,
that he may have mercy upon you:
for the LORD is a God of judgement:
blessed are all they that wait for him.
Isaiah 30:18

Recently I fell into my circumstances and asked God if He would let me leave the field that He placed me in. I asked Amber to help me pray for a billboard and I got two. The first day was in Isaiah 20 and the second day was in Isaiah 30. It's so easy to fall into walking in the flesh, but God is faithful.

In the moment
of my weakness
You give me grace
to do Your will...
-- None but Jesus (Brooke Fraiser)

I never really understood until I went through this all of last week that God gets EXALTED when He gives us mercy and gives us grace. God is EXALTED when we, as probably one of the most difficult things to do, wait for Him.

Prayer

Three things that I will start to pray for every morning when I wake up:

1. LORD, that You will have Your way in me today
2. LORD, that others will be blessed by me today
3. LORD, that I would receive the wisdom You've instructed me to ask for today (James 1:15)

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:37-40)

I'm also trusting God to stir up people in my life dedicated to regularly praying for the lost, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY the stirring up of my own heart. There are only two things on earth that will last into eternity, God's Word and the souls that He's created. Let God stir in our hearts that the harvest that is plentiful is a field that will only exist on earth.

Flesh

NOTE TO SELF:
Two natures beat within my breast.
One is foul, the other blest.
The one I love – the one I hate
The one I feed will dominate.
- Author Unknown


FLESH= EVERYTHING ABOUT ME MINUS GOD.
Results of working in the Flesh = Frustration, Fatigue, Failure


And I get it now... I really get it now... I am free.


A real Christian is an odd number anyway.
He feels supreme love
for One whom he has never seen,
talks familiarly every day to
Someone he cannot see,
expects to go to heaven
on the virtue of Another,
empties himself
in order to be full,
admits he is wrong
so he can be declared right,
goes down
in order to get up,
is strongest
when he is weakest,
richest
when he is poorest,
and happiest
when he feels worst.
He dies so he can live,
forsakes in order to have,
gives away so he can keep,
sees the invisible,
hears the inaudible,
and knows that which passes knowledge.”
- A.W. Tozer