Greetings!

This week, I am back on my mission to find out why I have been procrastinating. I am determined to find out why I am living a life that vacillates between being motionless and pressing forward in God. In my study time, God led me to read the book of Romans...especially Chapter 12.

At first, I couldn’t understand how this could tie into my issue with procrastination. Then, I went to noon day prayer at my church and one of the associate ministers spoke on how we have to watch the words we speak, and how we claim things that really don’t belong to us. For instance, she spoke about how we will say things like, “my diabetes,” or “my high blood pressure.” She said we claim these things as if we have to have them…like we have no choice in the matter. That started me to thinking about how I have been claiming “my procrastination.” I say it as if it is a part of me…like I don’t have a choice. That was a huge breakthrough for me. I have been speaking that over myself, and wondering why I have been stuck not only in my ministry, but in my life. If I want to live a life that is prosperous and fruitful, then I have to first be renewed in my thinking…and that’s where the book of Romans comes in.

In Romans 12:1-2 it says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (KJV).

What a revelation! This feels like the beginning of the end of something. Maybe for the first time, I am really ready to let go of that thing that has been holding me hostage, because I have read this scripture   many times, and never looked at it this way before. In this moment, I feel God’s spirit speaking to me, and He is saying that I can choose to live a life of defeat, believing that I am at the mercy of my circumstance, or I could be empowered through the spirit of God that lives inside me. I love how God’s word reaches out to us. How it speaks to us and gives us exactly what we need at the exact moment we need it.

Our God is bigger than any situation or circumstance…and even though I know that. Every now and then, I need to be reminded.

Until next time…

Be blessed!