Monday, February 25, 2008

Into A Spacious Place

Today's version of Today God is First is good again.. God yearns to bring us into a spacious place.. a place without limits, without boundaries.. not for rest not to relax but to set us up to step out in faith.. today i went to my spacious place..


Sungei Gedong Camp at Lim Chu Kang


i set off from tamp at around 12pm and i found myself home at 5pm.. and the thing is i only spend half an hour there and the rest of the time was either waiting for bus, on the bus, waiting for train or on the train.. OMG!! i was thinking what did i sign myself into? a pool of deep shit..


but when i was there.. faith arise in my heart.. i got a strong and good feeling about everything minus the distance.. i am going to like it there, minus the distance. it is just as though in the TGIF for today, God put me in a Peter situation, to the edge of my boat and ask me, would u step out and try out walking in a different way..



YES GOD I WILL STEP OUT!!




February 25

God's Motives

2 Samuel 22:20
He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

Questioning someone's motives for their activities can become an overriding response to those to whom we relate. Wrong motives can result in broken relationships, poor business decisions, and falling out of God's will. Sometimes we do not know the motive of another person. It is wrong for us to assume what their motive is until we have confidence that we know their intentions. When we respond or react prematurely, we become judge and jury over them.

God has a motive for every one of His children. His desire is to bring us into a spacious place. He wants us to go beyond our borders of safety and security so that we might experience life at a level that goes beyond ourselves. What do you think of when you think of a "spacious place"? No limitations? A large, grassy field? Open air? These are positive images. Sometimes these spacious places encourage us to step out in faith into areas where we've never ventured. Sometimes we need to be rescued by the Lord. When Peter walked on the water, God was inviting him to a spacious place. He went beyond the borders of his boat and ventured into a whole new world. He didn't have complete success in his venturing out, but it was a process that would lead him to the next victory in his faith walk with Jesus. Sometimes failure is what is needed in order to move us to the next level of faith with God. However, we must be willing to fail and let God rescue us.

The Lord delights in this process. His motive for His children is always love. It is always to bring us to a new level of trust and dependence on Him.

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