Questioning God

Most of us know Mary, the mother of Jesus. Have you ever really stopped to think of Mary as a heroin? We are not to worship her, but use her example.
Think about this and see if you can relate it to your own life.
Have you experienced fears in your life? Fear is an emotion created in you for a reason. If there is a fear of danger in your presence you will probably take notice of it and get out of the way.  Have you ever experienced a fear and questioned God about it? That is what Mary did. 

Luke 1:34-37

New King James Version (NKJV)

³⁴ Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
She freely asked God a question with freedom, the great news is that God can handle all of our questions. Fear and doubt can actually keep us from a deeper relations with God. We've bought into the lie that God is uncaring and begrudging. Mary went straight to the source with her confusion and emotions, she was honest in her response after being told  the Holy Spirit was going to come upon her and the power of God was going to overshadow her for the Holy One to be born, Jesus Christ.  I believe if that if an angel appeared to you, you'd be a little frightened and confused too. No more could Mary hide her heart's confusion than we can. We've all bit into the lie that we can hide from God, but he already knows our fears, doubts, confusion and questions. We just need to be strong and courageous in approaching Him and trusting in Him to receive us.
There are two types of questions. There are the questions that are filled with accusation or vain insistence and questions that interact and engage.
Looking at the way Mary handled questioning God has helped me to change my questions towards Him too.

Recently in prayer I had a few questions for God. Normally my questions would sound something like accusation "Lord, if you want this to happen then I need this, this, and this." Instead, my prayers changed to "Lord, I know you have done this thing and I know you have a plan. I choose to surrender to your will.I ask you Holy Spirit to show me what to do because I believe you will supply all that I need to accomplish your purpose. What do I do next?"
God spoke to stars into existence, he set the moon and sun into place. We can't limit God if we do, we limit all that He wants to give us.
This season I am taking notice that God used the lowest of lows to accomplish His purpose. A young woman, an older man, shepherds, a stinky stable, and perhaps a wooden crate to sleep in for a manger. He can use you and me; if we could change our accusing questions into engaging questions,  but none the less He can handle our questions and He will answer us.

What are you asking for today and how are you asking Him? I encourage you to not be afraid to ask God anything. He is loving, caring, kind, gentle, and most of all love and in love with you.

~Marjorie

I Can't Never Could..Why?

As I was in conversation with the Lord this morning, He has me pondering on the following questions and thoughts.  I want to share them with you.
Do you think about what you are thinking about? Do you truly listen to the words that you speak? I, the Lord, tell you that life and death are in the power of the tongue. You have a tongue and you can choose for good things or bad things to happen in your life.
I, the Lord, tell you that nothing in impossible with God, but you continuously say "I can't."
Why do I give the Lord Lordship over my life when I limit Him? This question is heavy on my heart today.
By saying I can't do something is saying that I agree with the enemy, Satan. He comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Therefore, if I am limiting God to work in my life, then God's BEST just might be taken away because of choices.
The Lord tells us to take every thought captive. Therefore, before a word is spoken, it would be best to think about what we just thought about, right? Why? What the Lord revealed to me is that once we speak what we just thought, we could have changed the course of our life forever.  The words "I can't" or "I am unable to"  can be a real killer when God wants to do an amazing thing in our lives
Just for today, I challenge you to take every thought captive, to believe in what God says you can do and watch life and death happen in your world.  Yes, I accept my own challenge as well.
I don't know about you, but by accepting this choice of good fruit today, I am excited to see what Jesus is going to do in my life.  I hope you will send me a message letting me know how your day went or what good / bad things happened in your life.

~Marjorie

1. Philippians 4:13
   I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
2. 2 Corinthians 10:5
   casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
3. Proverbs 18:21
   Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.