TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT

He takes us just the way we are, in order to make us just the way He wants!

Good morning sir!

Welcome to day 20! Please join me in prayer: Lord Jesus, I thank You for life!  Life is beautiful, but it is also complicated.  And You knew that, so before You left, You told us: “I will send to you the ‘Divine Encourager,’ from the very presence of My Father.” John 15:26 TPT.  I open my heart to You.  Take Your rightful place inside of me and transform me according to Your original design for me!  Amen!

It’s time to take your place as a man who has embraced his God-given identity found only when the ‘Divine Encourager’ resides inside the core of your being!  

This summer, Pastor Paul summarized this very well!  

“Men in the room, it is time to step in to your God-given IDENTITY of protector & leader of your family.  It’s time to stop hiding behind your wives or your T.V.’s or your jobs or your hobbies.  By shirking your God-given responsibility, you are leaving your family vulnerable to the snakes that are roaming the garden.  You are in a place of authority in your home and the buck will stop with you, just like it stopped with Adam.”

So many of us men feel that we have to get more of our spiritual life together before we can embrace His identity for us.  And what I sense He is telling us is this: “My son, today is the day!  Yield all to Me.  And for every deficit you think you have, give that to Me, too, and start to live in My identity I have for you to be protector and leader, first, over yourself, and then for your wife (if God’s given you one) and then your family!  I’m invisible to the world, until you start to allow Me to live in you and through you!  Trust Me!  I made You!  I know you and I wanted you!  I love you!  You are Mine!  Do not fear for I am with you, forever!”