Daily Huddle - Wed Jun 17, 2020 Cordless

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word – it’s not just possibilities or platitudes, it’s real stuff, that you can apply right now!  It’s success and how to reach it, and how to stay in it.  There’s nothing flash in the pan about it, it’s eternal truths and how to walk in them.  Psalms 129:2 – They have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me.  Praise God, oppressed is not defeated.  Just because you’re oppressed doesn’t mean you are defeated.  And oppressed isn’t depressed, it’s just something or someone(s) coming against you.  That’s life!  Jesus said in this world you will have trouble, but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.  The oppressor is the enemy.  He wants you to reject God, doubt and disbelieve God, and accept sin.  He wants you to cede control to your sinful nature, rather than walk in the Spirit.  A friend yesterday said something so true…  “I often feel like my thoughts betray me."  That’s what thoughts and emotions can do sometimes.  But there was an even deeper truth in that statement.  I often feel like…  Feel is different than is.  Is – is what is.  Feels like - is what it feels like, not what it is.  I can so relate, can you?  Feels like is just what it seems, not what it really is.  The reason that it feels like thoughts betray us, is because God said My thoughts aren’t your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.  Praying that PiVAT is your priority.  Before dinner for tomorrow and throughout the day for today.  PiVAT exchanges your ways for His ways.  PRISM exchanges your thoughts for His thoughts.  What a trade!  That’s like getting the Honus Wagner rookie card for a box of discards.  Sometimes people will try to manipulate or criticize or demean or condemn you – but they’re just underlings.  The real oppressor is your enemy, the devil.  Psalms 129:4 – But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.  Sometimes un-submitted, and un-surrendered thoughts or emotions become the cords the devil tries to oppress you with.  Sometimes we even give them credence through our mistakes or poor choices, and the tangle gets worse.  But the LORD is righteous and we ride with Him!  He cuts us free from those cords of doubt, unbelief, guilt, discouragement, and hopelessness.  He said that He will finish what He started, nothing is too great for Him to redeem.  His plans for you are good.  You are not derailed or defeated by any mistakes or failures.  He will turn them around for good!  Any cords that bound you – He will cut you free!  He does it through His Word of Truth!  PRISM is the sword that cuts those cords, that establishes your words on His Word – so your thoughts and emotions are re-directed by His truth.  Do PRISM out loud.  See what cords He wants to cut off of you today!  Praying that you will walk in the momentum of obedience!  So the joy that comes with it overwhelms your thoughts, words and emotions – so you will always choose Kingdom thoughts, Kingdom words, and Kingdom emotions - where His truth reigns.  That you will seek first His thoughts and His ways – so yours are established.
 
Love you all,
dad