Daily Huddle - Fri Oct 16, 2020 Run To

Love you all, praying for you,

I just love God's Word.  It's the greatest success book ever written.  It is guaranteed to make you to succeed.  Not temporarily... permanently, eternally, not in certain areas, in all areas.  It's the way of God versus the way of man.  It is truth for every generation, success for all who choose to follow it.   There is a word that God uses, that David uses often.  The word refuge.  A place to run to for protection.  Like a little kid getting startled by something, that runs behind his Daddy, grabbing on to his pants leg.  David says You are my refuge and my strong tower.  Refuge is where you run to.  Some people run to God (the One with all wisdom and knowledge) as a last resort, others run as a first reaction.  Praying that you will be the latter.  Praying that you will always run to Him first.  He has wisdom and success and joy for you!  So what next?  Those who are time management experts often say the most successful people do the hardest thing first.  It's the way they recommend you defeat procrastination.   But there is something more important than defeating procrastination.  Obedience.  Because obedience is the number one priority if you want to be effective.  Why?  Because His ways are higher than yours, and his plans are the best for you. Praying that you will want to be effective, even more than you want to overcome procrastination.  Praying that you will will want to obey, more than anything else.  What is procrastination?  Doing something different than what needs to be done now.   What is effectiveness?  Doing what needs to be done in the right order.  But who knows what the right order is, and if these things should even be on the list?  Only God knows that.  Gods' way is so much higher than man's ways, that what some people think is the most difficult thing, may not be the most important thing.  Praying that you will run to the battle, just like David, but more importantly you will know what the battle is - because you ran to Him first.  Your greatest enemy is not procrastination, it's delayed obedience.  But if you lack discernment, you cannot obey, so you cannot succeed.  That's why your PiVAT time with God before dinner is the greatest priority of your day.  It's God's presence, from which you derive the thing that is most needed in this moment.  So you can finish what He told you to do today... so you are reminded of the testimony He has given to you which comes from a surrendered day.  So you can hit the ground running in the morning, having received His confirmation in the night season, and doing in order the most important things, at the assigned time.  Sometimes He wants you to tackle the toughest thing first. Sometimes that's the obstacle you face today, and sometimes it's the greater obstacle of consistency in those things He has for you every day, which develop your character and your DNA.  Praying that whatever God tells you to do, you will do it with joy.  How?  Do it with Praise, and you'll do it with joy.  Are things difficult right now?  They could be much worse.  Praying that you will run to Him first and constantly, that you will know what He has for you in this hour and do it with joy.  Praying that you might review the Relationship Topic - Thankful 100, and the PRISM Topic  - What Does God Give, so you can can be reminded, and praise Him for it.  Remember what you praise - increases.  Praying that you will encourage others in their obedience walk with Him, so He can bring you and them to the testimony of His faithfulness, and His power and to the joy, that always follows obedience.  Praying that you will run to Him today, as your initial and continuous reaction, that you will run to the battle that He assigns, in the sequence He directs, and that Praise will be the atmosphere that you create - so His power is released in your life today, so you are effective, successful, rewarded, so His joy remains. 

Love you all, 
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