New Perspective

choose to see with your spiritual eyes...something good is going to come from this. Don't settle with the old man ways! When we accept Jesus into our hearts and we have been baptized in His name and filled with His Spirit...we have a change starting in us...at that very moment! The Holy Spirit will help, lead, direct and aid us, but it's up to us to kill off the old man and choose each day to live in the new creature mentality. 2 Corinthians 5:17-Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 1 John 4:4-Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.  Ephesians 6:12-For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 
What are we wrestling with? What are you fighting? Is the devil attacking you or is the Lord redirecting you and maybe even chastising you? 
Don't be so self-absorbed...rise up! Pray, fast, read and worship! Say your prayers out loud and believe as if they already happened. We have to open our spiritual eyes! The devil wants us to keeping seeing as the world does. Quick fix, now and my way! That's not how the Lord works! The Lord calls for long-suffering, joy, peace, patience....to think on these things...
Sometimes we just gotta pull our heads up and look up! Change your thinking...your mind set...CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE!!  When are we going to really get a hold of this!? When are we going to believe what we pray and pray so victoriously! I feel like in this life...in this season...we are just going to keep going through this never ending cycle until we change our mind! We just need to say, "YES LORD" and obey. I want nothing more that to be pleasing to my Lord. I want to be in unity with Him. I want to be in line with Him. I want to see how he does...hear as he does...I want to be more like Him! I am NOTHING. I am worthless, ugly, mean, wicked and evil without Him! I know He sees my heart and the changes He has done in me so far. I really have come a LONG way. The Lord isn't done with me yet and He will complete what He has started-Philippians 1:6-Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. I can never explain how grateful I am for a loving, merciful and forgiving God! I have failed and failed and failed...tried to work it out on my own...leaning on my own understanding...doubting...heart full of fear and anxiety...I quit! I'm tired of that-me! My Momma told me she prays, "get me outta your way, Lord!!" and it's so true!!! 
Provebs 3:5-6-Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.This is really a model prayer and perfect example of how to live! I go back to the scripture often! I must decrease, so he can increase!!  John 3:30-He must increase, but I must decrease. We have to start resisting the flesh and being carnally minded, which is enmity against God! Romans 8:7-8-Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. The more we surrender, the less control we have over ourselves and releasing it to God. Mold me, melt me, fill me and use me! I want to be anointed and have revival in my own heart and my church, but it has to start within us! Without His presence I am lost, hungry and thirsty for Him! His presence is captivating and His Word is meat to my bones! Where else could I go? What else could I do? Nothing will ever satisfy that urge or craving for the Lord's Presence than His Presence!! Nothing else will do!!! 

Ya know Jesus thought I was a big deal! He died for me. We say that so loosely nowadays. But when you really get that revelation; of how much He really loves you; you will start to love yourself! Fear, doubt, depression fade away because we are one with Him and the worries of this world become less.