A New Start

I am up early this morning with a sense of great expectation. It didn't begin like that. I woke up around 2am and couldn't get back to sleep. At first it was no big deal, I just lay silently before the Lord, but then the weight of some things began to press on me and I was becoming discouraged and even fearful. I began to pray. Not a fancy or even fervent prayer but more like repeating back to God the "Lords Prayer" (Lk 11). I wish I could tell you that the presence of God swept into the room, a light shone from heaven with a booming voice or an angel came and visited me, but none of those things happened. I ended up getting out of bed and doing a crossword puzzle on Yahoo Daily games. After finishing I logged on to Facebook and began to read the "Most Recent" news. Someone had posted a very encouraging quote from Joyce Meyer. The basic idea is to follow what God has told you above your feelings! Many times we allow how something looks or feels to move us out of our purpose, usually if things become difficult and we can't see the way out, we must  remember that God is the way out, and our situation is never so dire that He can not rescue us. Just as the three Hebrew boys said in Daniel 3:18 "...but if not...", no situation can be allowed to move us. Sometimes we simply have to activate our will to force ourselves into agreement with Gods will despite everything else. Our emotions as well as our thoughts will betray us because they can only process things out of this visible kingdom that is passing, yet our will can fixate on what is not yet seen and push through all contrary thoughts and emotions, this is faith in action.