My Thoughts, Gods Thoughts....

Isaiah 55:8 and 9 says; "My thoughts are completely different from yours," says the Lord.  "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are highter than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."

Sometimes in life we feel as though we know what God has planned for us, but we find out that it isn't so.  Alot of times we put God in a box and we feel as though the small capacity of that box is all that God can do.  God can not be molded to your way of thinking or being.  He expands as far as the east is from the west.  He can not be contained into a small area of anyone's life.  When we feel as if God is doing all that He will in your life, something will happen that will stir things up in you and then you will come to realize that God is even greater than what you were thinking.

That is why His word says that His thoughts are completely different from ours. We think small, God thinks big! God likes to think outside of the box and He wants us to do the same. 
He encourages us to be open minded through His word that says; "I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can shut.  You have little strength, yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me." Revelation 3:8

We are foolish when we try to make God's plans and purpose fit into our own.  What we should sort after to do is to fit into God's plans.
The word says that His thoughts are completely different from ours!

His thoughts are of good things for us and not evil towards us.  God's thoughts are of peace, joy and love in abundance in our life.

Are you thinking good thoughts towards your life?
What plans are you making for your life?
Are they lining up with what you feel God has instore for your life?
Are you living and walking in your purpose at this time, and if you are, are you willing to step out of your complacency box and allow God to take over completely?
Our God is so much bigger than our plans and our thoughts. 

When we are thinking just apples and bananas, God is thinking of a complete fruit salad!
When we are thinking about just getting through a situation, God is thinking complete restoration!
What are you thinking about? 

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Are You Self-Sufficient or God-Sufficient?

Isaiah 50:4-11(nlt)

 

The Sovereign Lord has given me his words of wisdom, so that I know what to say to all the weary ones.  Morning by morning he wakens me and opens my understanding to his will.  The Sovereign Lord has spoken to me, and I have listened.  I do not rebel or turn away.  I give my back to those who beat me and my cheeks to those who pull out my beard.  I do not hide from shame, for they mock me and spit in my face.   
Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be dismayed.  Therefore, I have set my face like a stone, determined to do his will.  And I know that I will triumph.  He who gives me justice is near.  Who will dare to oppose me now? Where are my enemies?  Let them appear! See, the Sovereign Lord is on my side!  Who will declare me guilty?  All my enemies will be destroyed like old clothes that have been eaten by moths!
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys his servant?  If you are walking in darkness, without a ray of light, trust in the Lord and rely on your God.  But watch out, you who live in your own light and warm yourselves by your own fires.  This is the reward you will receive from me:  You will soon lie down in great torment.
 

The book of Isaiah chapter fifty, clearly states that God gives us His words of wisdom so that we would know what to say to those in need.  God wakes us every morning and opens our understanding to His will.  He speaks to us and we are to listen to His voice, and not turn away from it in defiance.

This means that we are God-Sufficient!

This means that we rely on God to make our moves in life.  We depend upon Him to guide us in the simple things of life such as opening our mouths to speak.  Without God controlling our tongue, we tend to say the wrong things.  A wise person would think and quickly pray, before opening their mouth to respond to a situation. 

This wise person is God-Sufficent!

James 1:19 says: My dear brothers and sisters, be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to get angry.

God wants to put His sufficiency in us so that we would not have to stumble in anger or fall into a fight because of our words. He will help us so that we would never have to be distressed. All God wants is for us to look to Him always and do the will that He has carved out for our lives.

We know that we will walk in victory, joy and satisfaction when we are God-Sufficient!

Self-Sufficiency has a way of raring its ugly head within us, by making us believe that we can do anything through our own strength and not from the strength of God.

Philippians 4:13 says: For I can do everything with the help of Christ who gives me the strength I need.

A self-sufficient person is a foolish minded person who relies on their own source and strength and not the power, wisdom and understanding that God has placed inside of them. They place their confidence in themselves, and allow the world to let them believe that through their own intelligence, looks, power through accomplishments they are self-sufficient.

Unfortunately for the self-sufficient made person, these things that they have relied on will slowly diminish and they will become tormented by their own independently foolish mind!

This torment brings darkness without a ray of light, which is Jesus Christ. And the more we rely upon ourselves the greater the torment within us will grown. 

But, when we trust and obey God and rely upon Him, His sufficiency will bring us a glorious ray of light and hope through Jesus Christ our Savior.

Who makes you sufficient?  Share your comment.......