Wasting Time

John 8:23-24 The Message Bible
Jesus said, "You're tied down to the mundane; I'm in touch with what is beyond your horizons. You live in terms of what you see and touch. I'm living on other terms. I told you that you were missing God in all this. You're at a dead end. If you won't believe I'm who I say I am, you're at a dead end..... you're missing God in your lives."

My biggest obstacle in receiving the favor of God is less about my faith in God's ability to deliver on His promises and more about my ability to accept what He gives me simply because He loves me.

This morning (Sat. April 18, 09) God told me to "waste" time with Him today! He said there are lots of ways make more money, but no amount of money can buy back time. And the BEST way to "spend" time is with Him.

My circumstances/situation should in the natural be seen as a cause to panic: I'm without a job, my bank account is dwindling, there is nothing in the "natural" to be seen as "the answer", or provision. BUT my "spiritual" eyes see a table loaded with a feast fit for, and prepared by, a King. My spirit is saying to my heart (where God says we "think"... the same as my mind) "peace, be still. Nothing has snuck up on God. He was seeing this before He ever laid the foundations of the world. It's taken care of.... HE has a plan... and He is revealing it to me as I need to know."

This is an opportunity for me to invest my time wisely: to ponder what I'm doing... what I'm hearing... how I am spending my life, a precious gift from God. Are my days filled with what matters most to me, and Him? Am I allowing God to employ the talents and gifts He has placed in me? What better time than now to allow Him to take control of my schedule and begin to live a life that matters?!

God is saying to me, "If you'll SIT with Me, I'll help you remove from your life everything that's holding you back and preventing you from doing what is most needed in this season of your life. So, what about it? Come sit at My table... feast on what I've prepared especially for you. Taste... isn't that scrumptious?! Just feast.... and LISTEN... just sit back, be still... and hear ME."

There is never a wrong time to do the right thing.... it's time to experience success with DIVINE DIRECTION:
LORD, will You rock the world through me, istead of in spite of me? Here Lord, I'm surrendering to You my plans, my will, my agenda... and most of all, my failures. Use them, employ them. As I "spend" my time with You Poppa, spend all of theses things, and me, to change the world into Your Kingdom, on earth... TODAY. I'm gonna bloom where You plant me. How can I not trust You?! You DIED for me! That is true Love.... Love that I can trust.

Bill Godwin says in his book The Power of A Dream "When we believe the lie that we can't possibly know for sure what God plans for our life, we can't focus clearly. And if we can't maintain focus on what God really wants for us, then will be distracted and decieved by the counterfeits that come down the track."