Daily Wisdom

 Isa 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.”

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose. The Father surpasses our dreams when we let go of  our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path, He has for us. Our spirit will continually be dissatisfied in and with this world until we grasp that the Father’s plans are higher than our ways; not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

The true battle in life is between hanging on to what you think, or letting go to what God knows… HSAY

Daily Wisdom

1 Col 1:18b “… that in all things he might have the preeminence.”

Jesus was not revolutionary because He said we should love God and each other. Moses said that first. So did countless other religious/spiritual leaders. The world is poignant about the importance of love. Christian leaders will tell us that the point of religion is to get us to love each other. "God loves you" doesn't stir the world's opposition. However, start talking about God's absolute authority, holiness, Christ's substitutionary atonement, justification apart from works, the necessity of a new birth, repentance, baptism, communion, and the future judgment, and the mood changes considerably. Even love is not true love if separated from the “preeminence” from Jesus’ authority, Jesus is to be given preeminence (total supremacy). All too often, however, believers give Jesus eminence (importance), but not preeminence (finale say).

You can give without loving, but you can’t truly love without sacrificial giving…  HSAY

Daily Wisdom

 Lk 9:24 “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.”

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves. God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. Once you have surrendered yourself, you make your heart more receptive in receiving from God, you then become more perfected and completed.

Addition by subtraction, less of self-equals more of Christ. Learn that formula by faith… HSAY

Daily Wisodm

 “because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:  I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, because thou hast obeyed my voice.” Gen 22:16-18

IF man could grasp the fullness of God’s goodness. Learning that when, at God’s voice, they surrender to Him the one thing above all else that was dearest to their hearts, that same thing is returned to them by Him a thousand-times over. Abraham gives up his one and only son, at God’s call, but Isaac is restored, and Abraham’s family is greatly blessed. This is how God meets every one of us, when we surrender our will to His, God restores, replenishes, and rewards with His blessings greater things that we could garner on our own. Think not that Abraham was unique and solitary, he was the example of surrender we’re all called to.

Intimacy with God isn’t the result of trying harder, but of surrendering more… HSAY 

Daily Wisdom

“There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” Jos 1:5

Christianity is not man surrendering to the power of God but surrendering to the love of God. It’s not that man’s will is crushed, but that man’s heart is broken. Doing so is not a sign of weakness, but acknowledgment that God can bring a power into our lives that can accomplish greater things than we can in the flesh. Which then empowers our faith that He will never fail us or forsake us!

God can only work with what you give Him, don’t expect a mansion if you only give Him a brick to work with… HSAY

Daily Wisdom

“Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.” Jm 4:10

The most nullifying act against victory in our life is the unwillingness to surrender. “The Christian life is the only battle where surrender brings victory” (Debra). The extent of our willingness to surrender to the Lord’s purpose will proportionally determine the victories experienced. God’s desiring to build Ark’s with our life, like Noah, and we’re thinking rafts. That’s the problem, rafts don’t deliver victory against the storms. Surrender the pieces of your life to the Lord, He’s got the blueprints to build something beautiful and victorious with them!

Absolute surrender is absolute success… HSAY