Several years ago I woke up in the middle of the night and this acronym popped in my mind. JESUS: Just Live Today, Expect Miracles, Speak Truth, Use Your Gifts, Start Now! I put it in my cell phone and it stayed there for about a year before I ever did anything with it. Today I’m thrilled to say this acronym is in Part 2 of my book Worthy of a Miracle.
This week let’s talk about E … Expect Miracles.
If we are really honest with ourselves, we have all wrestled with the question, “Is God real?” On page 185 I wrote …
“Most of my life, I only knew how to do religion. I never understood how to be a believer in Christ and how to have a relationship with him. I often wondered why I didn’t know the Jesus of the Bible like the amazing Christian speakers I so admired, or the friends I interacted with daily.
Why did they seem to “get it” and I didn’t?
I accepted Christ as a teenager, but somehow my belief never traveled from my head to my heart. I tried everything, from teaching children’s Sunday school and volunteering at church to leading home Bible studies and following annual Bible reading plans. This was the “good church lady” way to live . . . to gain God’s favor and earn angel wings. I thought that if I followed the rules perfectly, one day I would know Jesus and believe I was worthy to be God’s daughter.”
Have you ever got caught up in the performance or the “doing” to find God? We go to church, listen to sermons, do the bible studies, listen to Christian music but all along there’s still a disconnect from the head to the heart.
It wasn’t until I got to the end of my rope and got over myself, that I stopped performing to find God in my own strength and that is when a miracle happened! Page 186 I wrote …
“This is what I hold true now: God will not force himself on us. He waits patiently (giving us freewill) for us to turn to him. That’s what he did for me. When I finally got desperate enough, I found him and fell in love with Jesus when he unveiled the truth in my heart. I am worthy. I am valued. I am his daughter. I am adored. I
am perfect in his sight just the way I am.
It is a miracle I never expected.
Out of brokenness, God restores our messes, our mistakes, our lives.”
Today I want you to take a moment and be completely honest with yourself. You don’t have to share here if you’re not comfortable. Have you wrestled with your relationship with God? Have you struggled to find him through doing? Have the words of the page of the bible been flat to you and not really come alive in your life? I want you to pray today, I want you to Expect a Miracle! Just like the miracle I had in my life, God WILL reveal himself to you.
What miracle would you never ever expect to happen in your life? That is what I encourage you to pray for today.
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I will seek Him with all of my heart. I know God gives us miracles each and every day. We need to take time to notice the miracles, big and small, that God provides for us.
My prayer is that I will thank God for all the miracles in my life and in the lives of others. I am worthy! 🙂 Hugs!
Melissa, this is my prayer today too. Thanking God for the miracles around me no matter what my circumstances are I MUST see the miracles. Each day is a gift no matter what challenges we face. Thank you for being here. xo
I remember when I was more of a Martha in my Christian walk than a Mary… I was busy busy with multiple positions in the church but when j realized working for the Lord and having a relationship with the Lord was two very different things what a difference it made in my walk with the Lord!
Working for the Lord is not a bad thing, but it is not a true relationship with Jesus. I was so busy doing Jesus work, that I neglected the most important thing… spending time with Him. I finally came to the realization, during a revival, that working for the Lord is not the same as living for Him.
I began to slow down on working and serving and I made my relationship with Him a priority. When I started spending quality time in His Word (reading, praying and letting Him speak to me) what a difference it made in my life. When I take the time to sit at Jesus’ feet and allow the Holy Spirit to feed me, then I am better able to serve others. I first fill myself with the Holy Spirit by spending time with Him so that I can share the love of Jesus with others. I want to be more like Mary first, so I can be a better Martha. I am thankful that the Lord revealed to me how to be a little less like Martha and a lot more like Mary… to pause and sit at His feet.
1 Chronicles 16:11 says,
Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually. KJV
Kelly you wrote this beautifully. It is so true that we must sit with Jesus and be filled up before we can serve. Joyce Meyer this week is talking about how important it is to sit, stand, walk and then run the race. So many times I’ve gone ahead of myself before simply being.
Thank you for sharing your heart here. xoxo
Oh my goodness Linda, you have put into words what I have felt! I went through the ‘good girl’ actions thinking I was doing the right things so God would notice me. He already notices me and died for me! I too, “believed in God, but didn’t know how to believe God.” This is a miracle to me, that He could break into the spaces of my heart that so needed Him and shed His light! Thank you!
Thank you Kelly for sharing your truth here too. It was a hard thing to admit but by God’s grace He freed me when I gave up trying so hard.
HE BLESSES US WITH MIRACLES EVERY SINGLE DAY!!! And boy oh boy that was a huge miracle for me. 🙂 xoxo
We have a grandson born with a horrible disease called EB. God has truly been working on that baby. He is doing so well compared to thousands of other EB children, but we pray every single day for total healing. He still gets blisters on his tummy, his head, his feet but we expect a total healing and we are bragging constantly to believers and non-believers that Colt is a walking miracle because we didn’t expect him to crawl, walk, speak, run when he was born. He does it all and is so smart. Thankful and expecting and knocking.
Linda your video makes me think about other miracles my family is praying for right now. #worthyofamiracle