Bill Phillip's | Transformation

Don't fear...TRUST!

It boils down to trust and this is something that I learned in my first challenge. Trust God. Trust His plans he has for me. God has favor on me, he has wonderful plans in store for me no matter how I may view the present...sometimes the great plans don't reveal themselves until the long-term. In the short term they can appear as adversity but he does things for a reason. God doesn't even think like us so we can't even comprehend what his plans are. If I feel the fear creaping in I have to look at that thought...is it a thought from God or is it a thought from the enemy? I have a choice in every thought that enters my head .... I can choose to listen to it and cultivate it and let it take root or I can discard it to the side. We want to keep the good, positive thoughts that come from God and discard the negative thoughts from the enemy that try to take root.

I've continued on my smiling quest and it's very difficult for the negative thoughts to take root while there's a smile on my face. The positive thoughts over rule!

I also continue to tell myself that God has favor on me, he loves me, I am his beloved daughter. He's not going to let anything bad happen to me so why should I fear anything? Enjoy life! Be the best that I can be!

Edited to add one more thing that God spoke to me about in my quiet time this morning....

We are like a farmer who gets his fields ready for the crops.  The farmer lets the soil rest, he tills the soil, he plants the seeds, he fertilizes and he irrigates....he readies his crops and does all that is within his power - the rest is up to God and in God's hands...God controls nature and what happens to those seeds and how much crop there will be at harvest time, it is out of the Farmer's hands as long as the Farmer did everything within his power to give the crops the best chance that they had.  Our hearts and lives are the same...we are the Farmer and we need to stay in the Word, pray, meditate and keep with our spiritual fitness, our spiritual disciplines...soften our hearts so they are ready for everything that God has in store for us and so they have the right conditions to have a wonderful hearvest and bear beautiful fruit.  Do our part just like the farmer does his and we will have a great harvest, wonderful blessing poured on us!

Love ya! m'wah!

Jan