Good Morning Sunshine! You Must Commit Your Works To God, So That Your Thoughts May Be Established!

Proverbs 16:3 AMP ~ “Commit your works to the LORD [submit and trust them to Him], And your plans will succeed [if you respond to His will and guidance].”

What do think about when you hear the word “discipleship?” If you are like me, your mind should have immediately thought about what to do for someone else. But in the terms of discipleship, you must first be a disciple yourself before you can help someone else to become one!

When you gravitate toward the process of helping others mature in their faith and you are not mature yourself in your faith, that’s a problem. Most people tend to think of discipleship in terms of a program that you do rather than you are being someone. It is with this mindset that you are “Trying to put the cart before the horse.” This phrase means, that you are trying to reverse the proper order of things. You must be, before you do! Being must precede doing! I’m going to say this again, you must be a disciple before you can make a disciple! There are no short cuts in this process! You must follow the proper order of things in order for you to be successful and established!

Just as a horse needs to be trained first, before he can pull the cart, so does you, you must be spiritually trained, you must be focused, you must go through an internal transformation in your life through surrendering, prayer, learning the Word of God and developing an intimate relationship with God as you pursue your faith. So, before you do anything, before you say anything, you need to Commit yourself to God and every thought you think today, so that every thought will be Established by God, Himself!

First thoughts God, second thought God and so forth, so everything that you think of and everything that you do, the work that you do will be Holy Spirit led, which will determine your success for this day. Trusting totally in God and not in yourself or in your own abilities so that every situation and every plan that you make today will be successful, because you committed your work to God and He established you!

You need to commit everything that you do to God, with your whole heart! So many times, you can fail at committing whatever you do to the God, by being superficially. Think about it, you say that you are doing this for God but in all actuality, you are doing it for yourself, and then you try to call it God! That’s not going to work! Then there are other times that you will give God the initial control only to take it back the moment things stop going the way that you expect. You expected God to do it all and you give or do nothing, and you wonder why you did not succeed. It’s all because of what you did not do, you didn’t commit it or you to God!

You must have a balance, as you commit your work to God, you need to trust God as if everything depended on him, while working as if everything depended on Him. For you can do nothing without God! You must commit everything that you are doing to God from the beginning! I want to let you in on something, the truth is more often caught than it is taught. You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are! You cannot reproduce anything that is not in you! If you don’t know the Word, then you can’t teach the Word, if you don’t know how to be a disciple, a servant then you surely cannot tell or teach anyone else how to become either!

For you to be an effective disciple, you must know the Way, the Will, the Word and the Truth of God, and you need to recognize this, that discipleship, means that you must know your identity in Jesus Christ before you can show someone how to be an active disciple, you must to take Jesus seriously when He tells you to, “Abide in me, and I in you.” John 15:4-5. Discipleship begins with abiding in Jesus, that it! Then, and only then, can you say like Paul, “follow me as I follow Christ.” As a Christian, you should always put the Gospel and the Kingdom of God before anything else you have planned that your thoughts may be established in Him!

Let’s Pray:
Thank You Father for establishing my thoughts today. Father, I roll every care and concern over on You, that my thoughts to line up with Your thoughts, so that my plans will be successful. Father, I want Your Will to be my plans, and I want Your Glory to be my goal. Father please remove from me and my mind any plans that will not bring You Glory. Father remove every influence and distraction that is in my way, that I may see clearly the work that you have put in place for me to do! Father, guide me into areas of blessing where Your Grace leads and I will commit ways, my plans, and my works to You and to Your Glory. Father, I commit every idea that I have to You, for I know that it came from You in the beginning. Father use me to be a blessing to others and may others be a blessing to me to. Father, I trust You for everything, I trust You to make things happen in Your time and that what is not part of Your divine masterpiece for my life, they You will remove it! Father, thank You for the work that You gave me to do, for I know that Your plans are always best and include my eternal welfare. So, I will rest securely in Your wisdom as I do what You have entrusted me to do, thank You God for establishing me and my thoughts today. It’s for Your Glory and my good. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean