Are You Walking The Path God Chose For You? Let’s Get Started.

What you’ll discover by reading this: 

1. Are you unsure what God’s plans are for your life? You’ll learn how to know if you are living the plan God has for you.​
2. Maybe you know the plan God has for you, but you’re having trouble sticking to it.  You’ll uncover ways to stay on his path.​

At the beginning of a new year, we reflect on our accomplishments and decide on the goals we want to achieve.

This usually lasts for the first month and then most people tend to get back into the hamster wheel of life. 

But in the back of our minds, we ask ourselves 

• “How can I continue on the right path and do the things that I know will make my life better?”
• “Why do I continue to get back into the old routine even after attempting to change.” 

CHOOSING THE RIGHT PATH in a world full of hardships

So many of us make our own path - to find a job that makes money to pay our bills. 

And research has shown most people dislike the job they have but do it in order to make the money to pay bills. 

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Most of us have a dream. 
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Maybe it’s to be an inventor, a dancer, a farmer, a small business owner -  but when we see the struggles involved in the path to get there we fall back on our jobs and give up on our dreams. 

Those very God-given talents we dream about maybe the path God has in mind for us.

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The big mistake that people make is taking an easy way out: 

• Take a job and don’t go through the struggles
• Sell your soul for worldly success 

There’s only one path to the right way. 

​God loves us so much that he gives us possibilities along the wrong path to get back on the right path - we just have to be open, humble, and willing to see those possibilities. 

The path God has for us, even though it’s a struggle,  doesn’t require evil acts in order to progress or gain.  

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While the path the world offers involves endless evil choices to get ahead such as: 

• stealing people’s ideas
• stepping on somebody to get up the ladder
• using your body to influence

With God, even though it’s hard work, in the end, it pays off, 

• we are not asked to lower ourselves
• or hurt others to get the success God has planned for us. 
• and we are doing what we love

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HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT PATH

Have faith that God will guide you to your purpose: 

• Explanation: If you are unsure what steps to take to fulfill your purpose, spend time with God. Pray to God and ask for guidance. You may not hear it in words. God works through people, places, and things. You may get a phone call from a friend or from family sharing an idea or advice. You may get a text, email or letter, perhaps see a commercial on television or hear a song playing on the radio. God will make sure you get the message to help guide you. 

 

• God’s word to remind you: Jeremiah 29:11 - “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” 

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• What you can do today: Take a moment of silence each day to thank God for the day, for your heart still beating, for your thirst to know his joyous plans for your life. ​

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HOW DO WE GET STARTED ON THE PATH GOD HAS FOR US?

So how can we do it? 

How can we stay in the right frame of mind to make the best decisions for our life without letting temptations, frustrations, and worry change our path? 

Procrastination happens to all of us, but how did Jesus stay so disciplined with all that he was set out to do? Jesus constantly spoke with his father, and now we have Jesus and Father God to speak to. 
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Philippians 4:13 - I can do all things in him who strengthens me

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Jesus asks us to come to him and to give him our burdens.

Pray to Jesus and ask him to take your burdens.

We know it’s hard to ask for help and to even think of giving someone else your burdens, but Jesus welcomes this.  He has already died for us, is ready, and has plenty of capacity to handle all of your burdens and all of the world’s sin, hurt, and pain.

​He waits for your prayer with open arms: 

Mathew 11:28-30 - Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Start with this prayer: 
Dear Lord, 

You say that your yoke is easy.  I humble myself and ask that you take my burdens from me so that I may do your will and follow the path that you set before me. 

I ask this in your name, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. 

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HOW DO WE DISCIPLINE OURSELVES TO DO WHAT GOD WANTS US TO?

Our Faith is the spark of motivation that gets us going with our purpose. 

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 - Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

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Have Confidence in the abilities God gave you: 

• Explanation: 
  • God created us for a purpose. Since God created us for a purpose, and God has love and faith in us to complete that purpose more than anyone on earth will ever be able to show us, when we doubt the abilities God created us for, then we doubt God. Do you not realize that God’s plan for us is better than anything we can ever think to plan for ourselves? It’s hard to understand at first that while people love us here on earth, they can never love us the way God does. 
  • We were purposefully and specifically made for our unique purpose. It is the ways of the world that try to stop us from fulfilling God’s will for each of us. 
  • When we feel we are not worthy, less than, pitying ourselves, do we not know that believing in these lower levels of feelings actually distance us from God? Because God is love, and is of the highest emotional intelligence and expression of love, when we feel anything less than, our belief in these lies removes us from the understanding of God’s love. And if we do not understand God’s love, then how can we live it, express it and demonstrate his light that he gave us to represent Him here on this earth? 
  • That is why the evil one whispers lies in our mind to try to distance us from God because the evil one no longer has a chance to be with God like we do through Jesus Christ. Not only do we have a chance to be with God, but we also have a unique purpose to fulfill God’s will for each of us here on earth. It is a double gift.
  • When you find yourself on God’s path, you’ll find yourself with much more peace in your life than you would be creating your own path and your own destiny. 
  • This is all a spiritual battle,  and we need to use our free will that will allow us to bring ourselves back to our original home, with God, Jesus, and the holy spirit where we belong. 

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• God’s word to remind you: Romans 12:6 - We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.  1 Peter 4: 10-11 - Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
• What you can do today: reverse the phrases of doubt you hear in your mind which come from the evil one and you will hear God’s love for you. I.e.
  • “You will never be enough.” ← reverse →  “You are more than enough.”
  • “You will never amount to anything.” ←reverse→ “You can amount to anything.”
  • “No one loves you.” ← reverse→ “God has always Loved you.”

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Guess what? 

God knows these affirmations are true about us more than we know this about ourselves. 

Have faith that God will guide you to your purpose.

Have confidence in the abilities God gave you.

Know that you ARE worthy of his love.

God created you specifically, uniquely, and is waiting for you to reach out and have a conversation with him.

So,  what are you waiting for? 

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