What are you Magnifying?

Whatever you focus on gets bigger, so get a bigger revelation of God.

In the last few weeks I have felt challenged to check my perspective and how I am looking at my life. As things change in shifting seasons, when you step out and go after what you feel is in your heart make sure you get your thinking lined up for the long haul and guard your heart.

People don’t always understand whatever you are seeing inside yourself, so trying to explain everything can end up creating more frustration or anxious thoughts for you and for them. I allowed and magnified the small thoughts of fear and what if’s, instead of the faith that I can.

It caused me to get lost in my head listening to the wrong voices and my perspective started shifting from
Faith - I believe I can, to Fear - I not sure I can.

I believe any idea we carry, birth and start to feed the enemy tries to steal, kill and destroy in its infancy. We need to protect and guard what matters most as we grow our dreams.

I started listening to the voices around me, some were negative or other people’s opinions of what I should do and they began to grow and rob me of what I started out so passionately to walk out.

This month I wanted to share,
Whatever you put your focus on you end up magnifying.

Anything you keep thinking about or keep your focus on grows bigger. One of the greatest things you can do is stop leaning on your understanding and allowing others to speak into your life.

Magnify the God given dreams and watch how shifting your focus shrinks everything that was rising up in your world, like weeds in a garden growing around a new plant protect it.

Magnify what matters most and follow your peace.

For where your peace is, creativity, rest and wisdom to what you really need are.

Matthew 6:6
"Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage.

The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.

Re-alignment

Trapped in a mind set - 

Whether you think you can or think you can't you are right.
I never realised how powerful our inner thoughts can be when we say the same negative things over and over again. Having had some training and reading about vicious cycles in our minds, I'm seeing that they keep us stuck and hold us back from fulfilling a new desire.
This week I have had a trapped nerve in my bottom of my back which hasn't felt great, but as the pain from this nerve started to release I started seeing something.

While the nerve was out of alignment there was a painful problem, things didn't work as they should. My walking was slow, my balance was off centre, I struggled to put my trainers on. The pain was stopping the action I couldn't do anything, I had to wait till the nerve re-aligned. After the nerve went back into a correct position, I felt a shift in pain and I could now correct my balance, put my trainers on and start to forget the pain.
The difficulty was the memory of that pain, this was stopping my complete healing. Every time I started to pull my trainers on the memory made me straighten to avoid a pain that I was expecting, but it was not real. 
The memory was stopping me now, not the pain.

I believe this principle is a great deception the enemy is using for a lot of people today. When you risk and try new desires in 2010 watch out for the memory of past hurts try to overwhelm you. You are allowing the thought of the pain to stop you from achieving your goals. Refuse to be trapped.
I believe as you step out in what God is re-aligning you in and what you want to achieve, you will find complete strength to become and do as your heart desires. 
"Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of our hearts" - Psalm 37:4

The Yellow Brick Road

Transformation -

The story of The Wizard of Oz is a pretty old story but I believe can show us something that within our normal lives we end up doing today. Too often we go through life believing if we can just get some secret ingredient that we will be different and our lives will become as we feel they should be. But the deception that we live with something missing is a lie, it started back in Eden when Eve was tempted with the belief that they weren’t like God, that the fruit would give them that ability. The truth was they were created in God's image, they were like God but they believed a lie.
Here in The Wizard of Oz the Lion, Scarecrow and the Tin man, the same story is playing out, what they needed was already within their being.
In trying to chase after what they believed was needed to allow them to live a full life, or to complete their destiny kept them doing allsorts until a defining moment required them to Be different.
They stopped thinking about themselves and what they believed they needed and stepped out to help Dorothy who was trying to get home. And so we see that all the time they were trying to get something they already had. They allowed their minds to deceive them to chase after a thought of lack. When God created you, you were complete. Everything you need for your future is in you now, there is nothing missing.
Maybe the missing ingredient for you is focussing on others rather than yourself then watch how the real you awakens.
Our powerful God does not do things by half, look at creation around you nothing is half grown or lacking, everything God put His hands to he said It was Good.
Today believe that you do not need anything added to make you whole, just Be who God is calling you to be and believe what God's word says. You are who you are; enjoy the fact that you are complete.
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Living a Fluid Life

Definition of Fluid -

pertaining to something that easily changes its shape; capable of flowing. 

changing readily; shifting; not fixed, stable, or rigid: fluid movements. 

This month I was thinking of water and the properties that it has. It has an ability to flow and pick things up, like at tide lifting boats in a harbour. Water is a fluid; it can change direction or find a way through or around where there seems no way.

Water can be poured into soil and soften the hardest ground, water can evaporate turn into small clouds and become relief for famine lands, water can be risky and dangerous or gentle and refreshing.

Water can bring new life, sustain life, water can be beautiful or practical to clean the dirtiest object.

Water has the ability to flow through its surroundings, smaller streams pushing through and creating waterfalls that are uncontainable. Small streams coming together to become a force to be reckoned with. Water is the biggest part of our planet and the biggest percentage of our body.

I think we should have a fluid lifestyle, have the ability to change and move in whatever the direction requires. To join with others, to risk, dare to try new things and not be contained, become fluid in our thoughts flowing, shifting, growing and not become rigid. Find new ways  to include others and bring life, clean, grow and sustain those who need living water.
In 2010 lets bring refreshing and reveal the nature of the One who directs what we do.

^{2Pe 3:5} But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.

The Little Things

The Little Things - Do they make a difference ?

January is slipping away and February is quickly approaching, What I wanted to start this month, by default is now going into next month.

My initial goal was to regularly use the treadmill, spend time reading and overall find my innercompass to establish foundations for a strong start and new direction this year, but somehow so many other distractions have cried out and robbed me of that time.

Some doors I have been pushing have closed, this creating new ideas and thoughts rapidly landing which I guess is all part of the journey.

This week I had a piano lesson which reminded me that small things do make a big difference. Trying to read the first bar of music I thought, if I dont get the individual notes, timing, pauses and position myself right the whole piece will never be played properly and if rushed it would be ruined.

Looking into our lives I believe this same principle applies -

Getting the small things in place this year will set us up for the great things, that we are destined to walk into. Practical things like healthy eating, right sleep patterns and exercise all add to a better physical lifestyle and so do the spiritual things, spending time in prayer, reading the word, exercising our faith in speaking into our future.

How can I possibly play a full piece of music until I get this one small part right, likewise how can we expect to have a great lifestyle without getting the little things right. A pocket watch needs all the small pieces in the right place, connecting and active to allow it to give a right time whenever it is needed. If we want a right, connected fulfilling life it starts with getting the little things in the right place before any more time runs away from us.
Matt 25:23 - Be faithful with the little ...

What do you need to start doing today, to bring your best life into alignment ?

Less is more

Less is more,

the more we get, the less space we have,

the more we buy, the less money we have,

the more we work, the less quality time we have,

the more I think of me, the less I think of others,

Get less, it is definately more.

Patience

Patience - the one thing we dont like doing, is waiting for things.

How hard is it to do nothing, without feeling like we should be doing something.
Like when we go away on holiday, it seems to take the first few days for us to slow down, creating that all important "head space".
Letting our essential self slow down and relax.

When we find that place, our inner core slows and that is where our hearts can really breathe, allowing deep feelings and thoughts to rise up expressing what passions, desires we have. Away from the busyness of life and the trying to keep up, we find a serene place of being still and unwinding.
I think life could be less stressful and more enjoyable if we planned more moments to really listen. Despite not liking the waiting seasons in our life, they do become listening seasons.
Maybe we should have more moments to pause, unwind and press refresh.

G