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Saturday, January
23, 2010
Shopping List
We all have a shopping list of some sort,
whether we write it down or not it is still on our minds, although there
are times that we forget because we have not written it down. Our mind can
only hold so much information, but the heart is the storage place. When the
mind is looking to recall something it seeks the heart to see if it is
there and can be retrieved.
Now our Father said that He would supply
all of our need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. And we
have been given the mind of Christ, a mind that is in union with the heart
of God where all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are located. God has
a shopping list already written down in the heart, those things that He
would have His people go seeking after in His realm which is Spiritual,
where all our answers to the issues of this life and answers to those
things which are to come are located.
Although we have a shopping list with
many things that are on it, it can’t be fulfilled unless we do something. To
have our shopping list fulfilled we need to ask, but it needs to be
according to our Father’s will. We need to line up our list with His Word
since there may be things on it that can be crossed off for they are not
needed, or may be found to be harmful to us, or are found that we already
have it.
Now, how often do we sit down with our
shopping list (supplication) and seek Father (prayer) for that which we
have need of (to bring forth life) and then give thanks for the provisions
that we know will come whether they are physical or Spiritual?
Philippians 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing;
but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
requests be made known unto God. (7) And the peace of God, which passeth
all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (KJV)
Remember, you have not because you ask
not. Make sure that what you are seeking lines up with our Father’s will,
because if it is not His will you will be asking amiss and you know that He
will not fulfill that which is harmful to you.
So what is it that you are shopping for
today? God’s will, or your will; His ways, or your ways; His thoughts, or
your thoughts? Are you seeking those things above where Christ sitteth on
the right hand side of the Father? When it is His will that you are seeking
to have supplied, His peace will keep your heart and mind through Christ
Jesus.
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