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From Paralyzed to Empowered

 From Paralyzed to Empowered

Do you ever feel paralyzed?

Unable to take the "next step"?

Maybe not knowing what that "next step" might even be?

We all have been there!

Have you heard things like "We all have a God given gift and purpose" only to find yourself, on the "struggle bus"*?

"I do"? you wonder. "What is it"? you wonder. "What is wrong with me"? you wonder."Oh no, I am not fulfilling my pupose," you fear.

Oh please. Do not fear.

Rest in God's love for you.

Do not feel overwhelmed or intimidated or discouraged.

But rather, just rest in Him.

Rest in His love for you.

Rest in the fact, that what He wants most is relationship.

To be with you. To commune with you. To lavish His peace and love and joy on you.

Your God given purpose is to be with Him. To delight in Him. To love Him. To trust Him.

And as you do, as you spend time, reflecting on His Word and on who He is....

He will meet you there. 

And He will guide you, show you, just what He has for you that day. Will show you "step next".

He will lead you towards His plan for you, day by day.

Know that just being His child, is truly your number one purpose.

Rest in that and delight in Him.

Be empowered.

He gives us seasons, He gives us purpose, He has a role for each of us.

But our number one role and purpose...is to just be His loving and trusting Child.



"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will you give you rest." Matt: 11:28

"The Lord has appeared of old unto me saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you"   Jeremiah 31:3

"But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness unto his marvellous light."  1 Peter 2:9

 "For I know the thought that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."  Jeremiah 29:11

 "He hath made every thing beautiful in his time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." Ecc. 3:11 

                                          


*read this term recently in someone else's post
 

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