Sowing Seeds

Casting your cares on Him. In ones life when there are issues that they need to be dealt with there is generally multiple small problems surrounding the root cause. This is a tactic of the enemy to try to keep you from seeing the root cause (sin) from being exposed and dealt with. Once the smaller problems are dealt with which usually are seen as symptoms of the root problem then you are able usually to see the root cause and repent of it. I have done this many times but som...etimes when the root cause is exposed you still can't see how to break it off even if you do repent of it because the enemy or our flesh has booby trapped the root cause to prevent you from succeeding. When this happens you will need to do something a little bit different, you need to not worry about it or try to figure it out. This is a problem for God to deal with. You need to cast your care on Him and go on with life until He either takes it away or shows you what to do. Casting your problem on God was difficult for me because I would try to figure it out but I couldn't and this caused me to go around and around the mountain trying to figure it out when that problem(s) were on a God level of understanding rather than a human level of understanding. So I have found it to be fruitless to try and figure it out. So I finally learned to cast my cares even if I continued to do what the problem was. I have learned a few things. Usually after you cast your problem God doesn't fix it overnight. He can and will on certain things that come up but for those problems that have plagued you for years He generally does it differently. What He will do is train you in a few ways as you allow Him to fix the problems. Waiting is one of the things. Waiting causes patience and long suffering. Waiting builds trust in God. Waiting helps us understand that God's ways are not our ways and causes us to lay the problem down and enjoy peace while He fixes your problem. One problem that commonly occurs is we have a tendency of giving it to God and if it isn't fixed right away we pick it up or take it away from God and try to figure it out because God is too slow. This is a sign of little trust that God can fix it. But we must leave it in His hands for it to be fixed. So what I am now doing is casting the problem on God and trying not to do what I was doing as the problem but if I do the problem then know that God is working on it and you can just go on and enjoy life until He fixes the problem and know it is His hands to fix. Also knowing He knows you need this fixed and He has much love, grace and forgiveness toward you in what you have casted on Him. Be at peace and wait upon the Lord. The peace that passes all understanding will reside on you. Blessings! Richard

Walking in Love I had a revelation about love this morning that I never saw before. Because of my past I have struggled with love. I didn't really understand love and I didn't know how to love so I gave it to God to fix and did the very best I could. This morning Joyce Meyer said something to make me look at the way I look at love in a whole new way....Continue reading

Temptation. Are you falling for temptation that no matter how hard you try you keep submitting to the temptation. Well I do. Today I was reading Luke 22:46 where Jesus was telling them to pray so they would not be tempted. As I read that I realized another reason for prayer and its benefits. I was trying to make this one temptation stop and not fall for it but it kept grabbing me. I have read and read the scriptures against the sin but I kept falling. ... Over the last few days I have been shown the different things about prayer and how important it is to pray. The benefits of praying and not fainting or a better way to say it is pray and keep praying when the enemy or the world tries to stop me from praying as perseverance prayer will gain much. Now I am seeing another benefit of prayer and that is so you won't be tempted. So if you are having issues being tempted lift up your temptation to the Lord the issue and pray. The Word will not come back void so this will work. Blessings! Richard

Things God will give you. Matthew 6:33. Today I was looking up scriptures to combat worry which lead me to Matthew 6:25-34 and as I got to verse 33 I began to think about the things He would give us. As I thought I began to realize that Jesus said to seek Him first and His righteousness and these things will be handed unto me. The key is to seek the Lord and His kingdom not seeking the things. I have looked for the things and here of late they have only been things of necess...ities such as food, clothes, important bills but that isn't what the scripture said to seek. It says to seek God. If we seek God and His righteousness then according to His Word He will give us what we not only need but want. Throughout the scriptures it shows that if we diligently seek God and His Word we would prosper. Psalm 1 talks about prospering by meditating on His Word day and night. Hebrew 11:6 talks about he who draws near to Him must believe He exist and that He rewards those who seeks Him. Throughout the Word it talks about the rewards of drawing near to Him and prospering. So if you are needing things ask God for what you need and seek Him. Do this day and night and do this 8 days a week. Jesus says if you will abide in Him He would abide in you. Blessings! Richard

If you have recently learned to lean on God and not on your own understanding but you find yourself back to trying to figure it out. Give it back to God and don't fall to condemnation. When we fall unless you have already learned this don't get condemned. Satan and yourself has a tendency to try and condemn you. Just cast it down and give it back to God. Cast your cares on God and He will sustain you.