You are special and you need to know and remember that you are special.  You are special because God created you and has an amazing plan for your life.  Do not allow anyone to take this reality away from you, especially the enemy.

My Bible teaches me that I am God’s family, adopted as a child of the King.  It teaches me that we are friends, we get to walk and talk together everyday and will spend all eternity together.  It teaches me that I am free, because I have been bought and redeemed at a great price.  It teaches me that I am filled with the Holy Spirit, which means that God flows into and through me.  It teaches me that I am forgiven, not because I’ve earned it or deserve it, but because God’s grace is amazing and His mercy is sweet.

We need to learn to remind ourself, others and the devil everyday that “I am who God says that I am and it does not matter what you say!”  Go ahead, say it out loud.  Now say it again, c’mon – say it like you mean it!

Now believe it, live it and watch God do incredible and amazing things in, through and with your life.

You are special and you need to know and remember that you are special.  You are special because God created you and has an amazing plan for your life.  Do not allow anyone to take this reality away from you, especially the enemy.

My Bible teaches me that I am God’s family, adopted as a child of the King.  It teaches me that we are friends, we get to walk and talk together everyday and will spend all eternity together.  It teaches me that I am free, because I have been bought and redeemed at a great price.  It teaches me that I am filled with the Holy Spirit, which means that God flows into and through me.  It teaches me that I am forgiven, not because I’ve earned it or deserve it, but because God’s grace is amazing and His mercy is sweet.

We need to learn to remind ourself, others and the devil everyday that “I am who God says that I am and it does not matter what you say!”  Go ahead, say it out loud.  Now say it again, c’mon – say it like you mean it!

Now believe it, live it and watch God do incredible and amazing things in, through and with your life.

Every have one of those weeks when everything you planned didn’t really matter?  Someone pushed the gas pedal on your week and all you could do was hold on and hope to survive?

This has been one of those weeks for me.  I had all kinds of things on my agenda that I needed to get done.  At the beginning of the week, I thought this was going to be one of those amazing weeks.  The kind where you get so many things accomplished and I was very excited about  jumping in and getting it done.

Monday hit and within the first couple of hours, I was already way off the track that I had planned to be on.  And with every hour and day that passed, I lost track of my plans as they floated out of sight.  I was thinking last night:  “I have not done anything that I planned to do this week!”  But I don’t feel bad and I am not frustrated, because while I did not get any of the things accomplished that I had planned and hoped on accomplishing, I did get a lot of ministry done.

Most of my accomplishments this week came from running from one person to another.  I did not really feel like I did much for me or for them, but the Spirit is teaching me that it’s not always in what I can see.  There are so many hurting, lonely and frustrated people out there and many of them are our family and friends.   The important thing is that I was willing to take the time to have a conversation, share a touch or try and meet a need.  We often get so busy with our living out the pursuit of our own personal agendas that we miss the opportunities that are begging for our attention and focus.

Take the time to step out of your plans and into the possibility of being used by God to help someone know that He loves them and has an amazing plan for their life.  The beautiful thing about doing this, is you start to tap into the love and amazing plan He has for your life too, and this is never a waste of time!