609 God's Plan Back

*** This is a safe place. You will never hear a political message here. We protect this space to keep it positive and allow one thing to permeate our hearts, GOD’S WORD. When things get real, as they sure have over the past few days, more than ever we need a safe place to find our peace and guidance. I pray that is what you find here. It is my heart’s deepest desire today to bring you a powerful and personal message fulfilling 2 Corinthians 13:11 which says “Rejoice, be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace be with you.” *** God’s Plan Back Before there was a problem, God had the solution. Before you even prayed, God had an answer. Before it ever went wrong, God had a plan to make it right. There is a way back. Isn’t that what we need to hear right now? THERE IS A WAY BACK. Not back to the way things used to be, because honey they were broken before this. But back to God’s original plan of goodness, unity, and peace. The Lord’s Prayer is the example Jesus used in teaching us to pray. It says “thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.” Praying, “Thy Kingdom come,” means asking the heavenly Father to help us in our own lives to be faithful, obedient, authentic, and effective. We spread God’s kingdom not only with words but also through our actions. This is earth, it will never be Heaven, but we can be part of bringing his kingdom here. We can be part of doing his will here. We can be part of the solution instead of the problem. Today would be a really good day to seek God in being part of the solution. Ask God to examine your heart, your words and your actions and reveal where you may need to personally make a shift to be in alignment with his will. God has made a way back, now let’s seek the way. Remember Adam and Eve lost their way. They did the one thing God told them not to do. They ate from the tree of life, and that act of disobedience changed everything. Life as they knew it changed and at the center of that was the evil one trying to thwart the good plans of God. They lived in a paradise of perfection until his nasty self slithered his way in with deception. The evil one still works in this way. He twists the words of God, makes us feel justified and righteous. He tempts us with a little hidden wrong that puts us on a path of complete destruction. If the enemy offered you a match and said, “here, set your whole house on fire and destroy everything you’ve worked for”, you would never do that. So instead he offers one little wrong attitude, one skewed perspective, one bad habit, one unhealed hurt, and it starts an infestation from within. When left unchecked, untreated and unhealed, that infestation tears the whole house down. Ruined from the inside out. This is how the enemy works. Within communities, within our homes, within our hearts. He starts with an attitude. He starts with a perspective. He starts with a bad habit. He starts with a hurt. And his goal is to tear it all down. Destroy the good and stop the kingdom. Will you let him win in your life? Will you let him deceive you with an unchecked heart? CHECK YO’SELF BEFORE YOU WRECK YO’SELF. Are you part of the solution or are you part of the problem? And before you say what you always say, ask God to examine your heart and reveal any twists the enemy has put on the truth. When Adam and Eve messed up and ate the fruit from the one tree God told them not to eat, God revealed his plan back to restoration. Did it change everything, yes. But God was merciful in his plan for them to return. In Genesis 3 we read the whole story, and we see that God made clothes for them out of animal skin to cover their shame and guilt. God will cover us now too. God, we haven’t always been right.