God first – My Grace Untold

“God First”…Is HE Really? – part II

“But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Deuteronomy 4:29

Putting God first takes complete surrender. Putting Him first means putting your thoughts second to His for His ways are so much higher. The wisdom of the creator trumps everything we think we know. HE IS GOD!

Friend, can you imagine how different our lives would be if we actually did allow God His rightful place in our heart, mind, and soul? Can you imagine the transformation that would take place if we give God His due honor and let Him come FIRST?!

I rebuke that spirit that says it is impossible. I cast down that high thing that dares to question the possibility of God being first in our lives in Jesus name! I know that it can be done because the blood of Christ made it possible! We are not righteous by our own strength or might but by the grace offered to us on that sacred cross.

No it’s not easy. It won’t be easy, but it should not have to be easy before we obey. His will be done in Jesus name.

If it was impossible for us to love and obey God with everything we have and to put Him FIRST in everything, HE would not have commanded us to do so through His Word.

I urge you today to consider ALL your ways as I am considering mine too. May the Lord grant us the courage to discard our disobedience and to heed His word. May God help us to cast away all our doubts and fears so we may surrender completely and put him FIRST in all things in Jesus name. Amen.

“God First”…Is HE Really? – part I

“But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Deuteronomy 4:29

“God first.” That’s a saying I have uttered more times than I could ever count. It’s also a statement I have heard more than enough believers say as often as necessary. You are probably one who has said it too.

But Is God really first? Does God really come before any and everything else?

Do your thoughts, your words, your deeds, your attitudes, your behaviors, your friendships and alliances, your job, your career, your lifestyle, and all that encompass your individual air, all put God first?

Or does God just come first when you feel the world needs to hear a believer say, “God first?”

Do we even really know what it means?

Friend, if you are like me, you acknowledge that God wants to be in EVERYTHING we do. God wants to ALWAYS lead us EVERYWHERE we go. So why do we struggle to practice what we so boldly preach?

The word of God is indeed light to our path, but what light or illusion of light leads us when we are not actively living on the WORD that says to put God first?

Before the amazing grace that opened my sight to see the light through the eyes of the Savior, I too in an absent mind professed that God was first. I professed that God was priority over everything else in my life. I know now that my words could not have been farther from the truth.

The truth was, I wanted God to be first. I also wanted to be in control of my life. I wanted God to always lead and for nothing or anyone to hinder my intimacy with our heavenly Father. I also wanted the alluring enjoyment of worldly pleasures that looked too good on the outside to ignore. I thank God for His grace and wisdom to surrender.

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Is God Your First Or Last Call?

“Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?”

Job 5:1

This word first came to me last week when I heard a sermon by Bishop T.D. Jakes. God bless His messengers all over the world! Then it came again to me by another through bible study. God is so thorough.

I remember as a child, when a stranger approached you, you know to turn towards your mother, or father, or guardian that you were familiar with. Or if a person gave you some sort of gift or present, you went to a guardian first to show them before proceeding to open it or keep it or what have you. That was my story at least.

As you grow up, you become a little more independent, trusting more and more in your own wisdom and authority. Sadly, many of us have gotten ‘too grown’ to call on our Father first before taking a step in a direction.

Friend, the Spirit told me to ask you today, “Is God your first or last call?”

I can think of one too many people I know that try to keep God in the backseat while they drive their own worldly desires. They count on their own wisdom and knowledge and fail to check in with the Maker of their destiny. It’s as though we rely on our own understanding until…

When that opportunity, or friendship, or courtship, is first presented to us, the idea of what could be based on our own sight, is often good enough to accept what is brought to us. Unknowingly, the road ahead is a dead-end. Unknowingly, the dream promised is a nightmare. Unknowingly, the friendship offered is motivated by mischief…God could have told us that. If we first called Him who knows all…but we don’t.

See the thing about many believers and disciples, is that we sometimes forget that He who is, was, and is to come, is the beginning and the end. God knows the bad breaks ahead even before we embark on the path. And I can’t help but wonder if we too, would be blessed to walk in the wisdom of God if only we call Him first. Ask Him first. Consult Him first!

I thank God for His mercy and grace that nothing we could ever do or say counts us out from God’s own divine purpose.

But friend, I can’t help but wonder what glory you and I continue to miss as we fail to call God first. Why is God our last option, not our first? Why are we so eager to talk to this one, and that one, and ask for guidance from this person, then that person, but not God first?!

Is He not the Maker of heaven and earth?!

Is He not the ‘Great I am?’!

Is He not the author and finisher of our race?!

Is He not GOD?!!!

So why is GOD our last call? Why should things be chaotic or miserable before we call on our heavenly Father?

I wonder if the blessings that God promised would pour down like rain if we call Him first before we say ‘Yes’ to any other. The word in Matthew 6 vs 33, says,

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness…” with emphasis on FIRST.

I know as one in a place of solitude that seeking God first is a must for anyone who wants to see the fullness of God in His glory. And I understand the temptations all around us. Believe me, I get it. But the thing about that, is that the enemy gets it to.

And one might think that the subtle little steps we take towards our ambition does not have to be based on God. But I am here to remind you that it does. EVERYTHING you do has to do with HIM who gave you life to do it!

I pray to God in His All-knowing, All-capable wisdom, to grant us the understanding we crave to walk closer to Him and with Him to receive all that has been prepared for us by the Creator in Jesus name. Amen.