Do you ever feel like you are butting heads with God?
You ask for one thing and He gives you the exact opposite?
Or, maybe he “ignores” your request all together?
You ask for strength to help you move on and yet…you find yourself still struggling to even stay afloat?
It’s in these moments where I have to ask myself,
“Am I asking for HIS will? Or, could it possibly be MY will?”
“Asking for strength does no good if we are going in the wrong direction.”
-Pastor Wayne Corderro
Think about that for a minute…God’s desire is to protect us and to guide us. If we see a prayer request going unanswered, there is a reason for that. Perhaps, it’s not what He has written in His plan for us. Maybe He knows that giving us that request leads to unfavorable consequences down the road. Maybe, leaving the prayer unanswered is, in fact, a blessing even.
We need to remember His will is what is best for us. When we pray “thy will be done,” we are allowing God to work freely in our lives. Once we line up our desires with God’s desires THEN we can ask for strength because we know it is strength to carry out His will rather than OUR OWN will.
Friends, we need to stop fighting Him and start following Him!
Have you ever found yourself butting heads with God?
How do you think stopping and asking yourself if it was HIS will or YOUR will would change the outcome of your prayers?
It can be difficult to give God free-reign of our lives. But, the rewards for doing so speak for themselves, don’t you think?
I encourage you to stop fighting Him and start following Him and see how it changes things in your life! If you have already done this, I’d love to hear HOW it changed you!
With Aloha,
Lacy
Basically all my posts are about years of following my own will before I realised that I had to follow His. It’s not easy but we can try harder always. Thank you. Great post. ❤️🙏🏻😊
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I just took a glance at your blog! It looks incredible. I’ll be looking at it closer for sure! Thanks for reading and for the encouraging comment!
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I 2008 comedy I saw last night, “Ghost Town”, seemed to have this as its theme although it was not explicitly expressed. The dentist finally stopped butting heads with God.
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Nice you could relate it to a story. I haven’t seen that movie. I’ll have to check Netflix for it! Thanks for reading and commenting!
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Lacy, I love the way you write, transparent, honest and so open. Thank you for this great post. I do believe it is so important for us to question our motives and seek God’s will for our lives before we do anything!
Love Hayley 😊💕
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Thank you for saying this! It means a lot to know you enjoy it:)
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My pleasure 😊
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Phenomenal post. So inspiring and motivational. I can’t tell how how many times I’ve butted heads with God but I know in the scheme of things he’s just doing whats best for me . I really like your quote, the one that says stop fighting with God.
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I’m so glad this resonated with you! It is so easy to disagree with God. But, when we realize His way is the best way and we accept that, the disagreements are at least understandable!
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Oh, how I love this! I even read it to my husband!
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Glad you liked this one. I hope your hubby enjoyed it too;)
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He did 🙂
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I love that–Asking for strength does no good if we are going in the wrong direction–how so very true!
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It really is! I think back to some of the things I asked God for. I can’t help but thank Him now for not answering those prayers bc I was definitely not going in the right direction.
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I am right there with you!!
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I’m at the pool…I’ll have to watch this when I can hear it better 😉
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Swim a few laps for me!
https://jamesclarkthenextiteration.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/swimming-in-the-pool-of-life/
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I’ve been tossing kids like a sling shot in the pool! When daddy’s gone….mom has to step it up a notch 😂😂😂
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“Thank you for saying no.” Great lyrics!!! Thanks for sharing! Although I was half expecting it to be the group you shared about yesterday!
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And, since you asked :-)…
It’s a tall order, to find what fits well with your topic…
But I’m always up for a good Challenge, so here’s a few possibilites:
I also ran across this website with a list of 607 of their songs:
http://apologetix.petrafried.com
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Yessssssssss! Thanks!
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Interesting. I just noticed that those YouTube links I posted don’t show up in the comments on the WordPress Mobile App Reader, but they do in the comments of the web browser Reader.
So, for those like me who use their phones way more than their computers, I’ll have to start including the titles along with the links so those readers can do a quick search for them on YouTube if they want.
So, for those interested, here they are:
Baa! We’re Lambs
Crowd of Foreign Girls
Walk His Way
Enjoy!
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I’ll have to experiment with this too. I’ll be spending more time on this & catching up tomorrow 🙂
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I think that often God cannot send us the answer to our prayer as quickly as we would like because we wouldn’t be able to handle the responsibilities that would come along with it. We need time to grow first.
“I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.”
Exodus 23:29-30 NKJV
http://bible.com/114/exo.23.29-30.NKJV
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Very good point! It is all about His timing, isn’t it?!?!?
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I loved your post, I am currently struggling to teach my son to follow Gods will. I can’t wait to read more of your work. Here is a link to my blog https://knockingplanboutofthepark.wordpress.com/
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Thank you so much for stopping by! Its encouraging to know that I can be an encouragement to you.
Trusting and following Gods will is a hard one even for adults. I’ve found verbally saying it to my son when I’m going to “give it to God” helps him incorporate it into his own life.
He told me just this morning that he prayed to God last night about Christmas. He’s been bummed out because we can’t find all of the pieces to his mini tree for his room. And, even worse, his star won’t light up. He said, he prayed to God that he wasn’t going to let those little things stop him from celebrating Jesus’s birthday. He was going to trust that God will help him make it a great Christmas anyway.
It made me want to cry to see such strong faith coming from such a little boy. I find myself learning so much from him when I should be the one teaching him.
How old is your son?
I will check out your blog for sure 🙂
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He is almost 3. Right now we are learning to pray for what we are thankful for and following Gods will.
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Great job starting him young! My daughter is 5 and it cracks me up when she prays for what she’s thankful for 😉 It almost always includes chocolate! ha
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