Think Victory! THINGS TO BUILD YOUR LIFE ON

THINGS TO BUILD YOUR LIFE ON

Here is one of those texts that preach for itself from 2 Peter 1:3-10 (The Message)

3 Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! 4 We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you - your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.5 So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, 6 alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, 7 warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. 8 With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. 9 Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books. 10 So, friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off; do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing, 11 the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Being a "list" keeper, I loved the building blocks that Peter suggests we build on to our faith:

1. Good character.
2. Spiritual understanding.
3. Alert discipline.
4. Passionate patience.
5. Reverent wonder.
6. Warm friendliness.
7. Generous love.

In fact, note that there are seven building blocks. I've added them to my daily prayer list to ask God to make them a part of the fabric of my life.

Thanks for praying for me yesterday. The meeting went very well and we certainly felt the presence of the Lord in the room. The bottom line is that we believe that God has been faithful to go before us. The difficult part for my personality is to WAIT. But everything God is giving me in my quiet time is exactly that: STAND AND WAIT! I loved the words from the devotional this morning that I believe came from His lips to my ears through the writer of the daily devotional, DAILY WITH THE KING ...

"To stand uncertainly at a crossroads does not mean that God has abandoned me. In those times He watches me with an extremely watchful eye, and He waits until patience and trust are perfected in me. Then He gives the signal to move. Until I receive that signal clearly, I must stand where I am at all costs. If God brings me to a crossroads, it is HIS business to get me BEYOND it. I can rejoice in a God who is never mistaken, never late, and never nonplused. Only He can "declare ... the things that are coming and the events that are going to take place."
(Isaiah 44:7) Therefore, He has told me, "Do not tremble and do not be afraid" (Isaiah 44:8) This God is our God forever!"

Way too cool. But just another step in the process of His leading and guiding in our lives. And He wants to do the same for you.

Great quote: He knows when we go into the storm, He watches over us in the storm, and He can bring us out of the storm when His purposes have been fulfilled.Warren W. Wiersbe