Saturday, April 24, 2010

Who's Dancing in Your Head?

So many times I cry out to God in my place of fear, suffering, humiliation, etc. needing to make sure He sees what I'm going through.

I need to make sure He has a full understanding of my situation, just in case He was off somewhere having coffee with Abraham, Moses and the gang and missed what's going on.

So many times I feel like I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth. On one side I'm thinking O, pity me, Lord look at me, see what I'm going through. Out of the other side, I'm saying God, You are well able.

Acting like the petulant child I allow myself the luxury of having a come apart, whining to the Most High God about my situation, while the other side of my head it telling me He's all ready got it taken care of for me.

Oh please someone, tell me I'm not the only one that has two decidedly different visions of their situation doing a version of Dancing with the Stars inside their head!

Much has and can be said on this dance competition. Coming before God in prayer for help is a topic greater Christians than me have written about, but I'd like to share my take on this.

Psalm 100

1. Shout for joy to the Lord
2. Worship the Lord with gladness
3. Come before Him with joyful songs
4. Know that the Lord is God, He made us, and we are His.
5. Enter His gates with Thanksgiving.
6. Enter His courts with Praise.
7. Give thanks to Him, Praise His Name.

Do this because the Lord is good, His love endures forever, and His faithfulness continues through all Generations because of His Covenant with His people.

I think once we've gone through these steps the things that are messing with us will grow strangely dim and His presence will move the mountains far from us.

We with our finite minds will be able to put our situation in the proper perspective, that would be God's perspective not ours.

Proper protocol goes a long way in approaching the King, and I think approaching our King, Father with praise and worship will get us a lot closer to His ear than our incessant whining about our situation.

Nothing surprises Him, and he all ready knows exactly what's going on. He doesn't take coffee breaks, He's ever present, always watching, waiting for us to approach Him with thanksgiving.

When we get so full of thanksgiving we bubble over, the dance competition will be over and God will be the winner!

Blessings,
Princess, Daughter of the King of Kings
Mother of Princesses and Princes
Grandmother of Royalty

2 comments:

  1. Hi Wendy,

    I too had found myself crying out to God this week. Yesterday, I was reading Proverbs 16 when the answer dropped on me like a (soft, pillow-shaped) brick. My concerns, doubts and fears were cast inward, instead of being cast on Him. I repented and felt an immediate release of the peace of God. I'm so thankful for His word.

    "The plans of the heart belong to a man,
    But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord...
    Commit your works to the Lord,
    And your plans will be established.
    "

    Blessings my sister, you are in my prayers.

    MTJ

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  2. You just know I love Psalm 100! Great post. I had to tell you that I just found you on Twitter! I'm totally new to it & excited that I am finding my peeps. I am @boldhope
    Wylie

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