Slow down...observe.

Good morning family,
If you haven't taken time to spend with God I hope you can prayerfully and intentional read through this and be with God for however long it takes you to finish reading it.

Remember this truth today, that our Father in Heaven, who is Almighty God, acts for those who wait for Him.
In other words,
He will not delay according to His perfect timing and your perfection.
He is a God who acts for those who wait for Him.

Slow down.

Take time.

If you think you don't have time, then you're gravely mistaken.  Time is the same for everyone.  Every minute you go through, is the same minute everyone else goes through.  But it's in how we use our time that is different from person to person.  Time is a gift from God that we are called to steward for His purposes.  And He says to wait for Him, meaning take Him into your time until you really believe He is with you.  Personally, this usually takes me an hour if I'm really trying to focus on Him for that hour.


You can have a good day WITH God, or He will have a good day WITHOUT you.  Better to join in the One who created joy and pleasures forever!

Stand in the Presence of God.

"No eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him”
(Isaiah 64:4).

A REMINDER about our goal and vision today:

“Not that I have already reached the goal
or am already fully mature,
BUT! I make every effort to take hold of it
because
I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

(A way to experience the transforming power of Christ is to begin living a transformed life even if you don't reach your goal in your timing.  When your heart begins the effort, God WILL complete it.)

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.

(Drop all the unnecessary thoughts about what happened in the past that makes you a failure or a liar, drop the past and go today!  Part of walking in your calling is also receiving grace everyday which means full pardon and full blessings ahead!)

Therefore, all who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.

(Meaning, don't worry how much or little the other person knows or is doing, you just do your part because it is God who will reveal what you need to know step-by-step.  You have all the knowledge you need in this moment to follow God, but all the knowledge you have is not all the knowledge there is...so be humble/thankful in the amount you have!  God has given this to you, and He will give you more as He sees fit.)

In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained.

(What you know now is enough, so live by it until God reveals more.)

Join in imitating me, brothers, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us.

(Who can you observe as an example of Christ?  Are they like the apostle Paul in some ways, more or less?
If someone observed you, would they find attributes of Paul in you too.
Paul was an example of a sinner following Christ, and the New Testament is full of his letters so you can get to know him pretty well.
It's helpful to observe how much of Paul's example we see in other believers as well as in ourselves, since he's probably the closest thing to what we should expect as we follow Christ.
Don't just choose anyone as an example of what a Christian is!  That's unwise.  Choose Paul, and anyone who looks like Paul in your life, because he said it in God's Word.  Paul was not perfect, but get to know him more and you will find a more accurate standard for how you should expect your own walk to be like.)

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3:12-19

Breathe in truth as you steward your time, your thoughts, your priorities, and your money for the One to whom it all belongs to.

Love you guys.