What ARE you Wrestling With?



            Dan took this picture yesterday and while suppose you can say I have a habit of turning a Bible lesson out of just about everything …I couldn’t resist this one.  How many times in life to we find ourselves wrestling with something that seems to be so big in our mind.  We don’t move, fear tries to overtake us, and we’re convinced the situation or circumstance is so huge.  It’s the whole making a mountain out of a mole hill mentality.  However in all actuality if we could really see the situation from God’s view point we’d know that that mountain is really a mole hill.  That situation isn’t as big as we might think.   That circumstance would be nothing if we just sat up and took the authority God has given us.  But instead we stay down for the count and cry because things seem so grandiose. 
            The things that we seem to make so big in our mind, really aren’t if we can see them through the eyes of God. 
Matthew 10:1 Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.
            Jesus gave us authority over whatever may come at you.  You are an overcoming through Christ Jesus.  That thing that seems so big in your mind is really tiny in the grand scheme of things.  Cast that thing on God and see it for what it is!!!  God can turn that situation around; use your authority…and TRUST HIM!
            Remember, God has awesome plans for your life.  Get excited.

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