Got a Plan?
Do You Know Who You Are?
“Continue your love to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart” (Ps 36:10).
Someone once said and now I see it for myself, that for me: “Success is when those who know you the best are those who love you the most.”
When we really understand how much He loves us, we will no longer fear the circumstances He allows in our lives.
“The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; Whom shall I dread?” Psalm 27:1
Hab. 2:1 What’s God going to say to my questions? I’m braced for the worst. I’ll climb to the lookout tower and scan the horizon. I’ll wait to see what God says,
how he’ll answer my complaint.
Full of Self, but Soul-Empty 2 And then God answered: “Write this.
Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. 3 This vision-message is a witness pointing to what’s coming. It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie.
Don’t give up, and don’t lose faith. Gods plan in your life will take place in His timing. You were created for that purpose, as long as your after His heart….you won’t miss it!
Proverbs 16:1 We may make our plans, but God has the last word.
Verse 2 You may think everything you do is right, but the LORD judges your motives.
The Apostle Paul said, “Pray that I may proclaim the mystery of Christ clearly as I should.”
The prophet Habakkuk said, “Write down the revelation and make it plain.”
REAL transparency in communication takes place when those we associate with us know who we are after WE discover who WE really are.
See if you can identify what category you might fall among these four:
1. Transparent Life
The transparent life is the life we should desire. I know who I am and others know me. There is nothing hidden. I have come to know who I am as an individual and basically people get what they see in me.
2. Bull-In-The-China Shop
This person is blinded to the things that others recognize about him. The solution to becoming a transparent person is to get feedback from those around us about the blind spots in our personality. We must ask for the feedback and be willing to respond to their input.
3. Aloof/Hidden Secrets
This person lives in a secret world. They don’t allow others to know about themselves. They know themselves but are fearful of letting others know. Those around them do not know them either. What do others really know about you? Have you allowed yourself to get close enough to others to share who you really are INSIDE?
4. Hidden Potential
This is a combination of Bull-In-A-China Shop and Aloof/Hidden Secrets. It is the saddest of all conditions.
These people don’t know themselves and others don’t know them either. This means both parties have to invest the energy to communicate and get feedback from one another.
How about you? Why not take a step to find out who you really are in the eyes of others. It could change your life.
Having a transparent life is the life we should desire. I know who I am and others know me. To me his is true fellowship. There is nothing hidden, the past is the past and we move forward on what we can now do, keeping our eyes on Jesus. I have come to know who I am as an individual(God’s masterpiece) and who I am in Christ.
Steps to help.
1. Get Spiritual-
Now I didn’t say get religious or churchy!
* It’s time to really speak to the curses, spirits and things in your life that mean you no good.
* It’s time to cast them down and out! You’ve got to connect with God on a greater level and it starts with you connecting more with yourself.
Genesis 1:26 tells us that we were made in his image and his likeness. So if you want to know more about God, you’ve got to know who you are!
Knowing the more of YOU forces you to know the more of God.
2. Get real-
Christians have this balance issue real bad! You can’t be all spiritual and no real! No more than you can be all frosting with no cake! Some of us Christians are all sugar and spice and everything nice but we aren’t real(Transparent)!
And folks can see right through your “Praise-the-Lords” and your “I’m-blessed-and-highly-
John 10:10b says I’ve come that you might have LIFE! Be real and Yes enjoy life. Through Jesus name, we have been given authority to reclaim our total freedom from satan and his works. It is not God’s will for us to bow to satan’s whims but we are to resist him. We are also to be a witness for Christ where we live and work. Through our lifestyle, prayer and sharing we are to lead people to submit to Christ’s Lordship. Today, in the name of Jesus, I declare that I am free and I rebuke Satan and all his works in my life.
3. Get Empowered-
You’ve got to uplift your spirit. It’s hard to be depressed when you’re always around people who are having a good time. You may have your moments but get around people, places and things that empower you.
Get empowered! Read your word more, pray more, get involved more with family and friends and Live!
4. Get a plan-
You can do the first 3 and get nowhere without this one. Habakkuk 2:2 tells us to WRITE the vision. Get out your pen and plan out the rest of this year and the next five years! And work towards what you plan!
If what you’re doing doesn’t help get you towards your goal, stop it or minimize it! And that includes people too!
5. Get some discipline-
You say I have all ready got a plan-Well-All that planning and you ain’t did nothing! It’s just sitting on your dresser in your Bible collecting dust!
You got a plan; you better learn how to implement it!
**God won’t do it for you; he’ll only do it through you.
6. Get FREED-
Yea it’s time that you free yourself from the chains that bind you.
Whatever or WHOever may be holding you back (and that “Who” can be YOU!) get freed from it (by doing #1)!
7. Get it together!-
It’s time to get this thing called life together. You’ve been on your practice run long enough. It’s time to start handling business.
You’ve been practicing on that job. You’ve been practicing in that church. It’s time to really get it together. You only get one shot at life; do you want to waste it or not enjoy it?
I was faced with some very difficult circumstances in my business. I had no income for some time, and I saw no immediate remedy to the situation.
* The circumstances created fear in my heart.
*The anxiety began to grow until, one day after my evening prayer, the Lord said, “How long do you want to keep your eyes on the circumstances instead of Me? Do you think I have brought you this far to throw you into the water?”
The truth was that I was halfway in already because my eyes were looking at the “big waves” surrounding my boat, instead of keeping my Eyes on Jesus.
* We can not keep our eyes on Jesus and our circumstance at the same time-eventually we are going to follow one or the other.
God calls us to pray, stand up, watch, wait on Him, rest in him and be amazed at what He is going to do.
-Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
-When you have long term vision the short term problems will not affect you as much.
-It is not important where you came from, it’s about where you’re going.
-Vision w/o action is a hallucination.
-Vision has a lot to do with values.
But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me! (2 Corinthians 12:9 AMP)
How’s your heat shield today? Can it withstand the heat that would want to burn up everything in your life not based in Him? Christ said, “My grace is sufficient.” Is that really true in our lives? Let His grace be your shield today.
Remember: It is not important where you came from, it’s about where you’re going. Got a plan?
Proverbs 16:3 Ask the LORD to bless your plans, and you will be successful in carrying them out.
Amen