He Has You

Has God given you a dream of all that you might do? Has God given you a vision of how He wants you to serve Him? Perhaps it is a subtle feeling of something circling around your heart that you’ve felt for a long time about how you should serve Him. Treasure these things in your life.

If God gave you a vision, you can be sure He will make the way. “For God may speak in one way, or in another, yet man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on their beds, then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction” (Job 33:14-16 NKJV).

Too often, we don’t shoot for the stars because we don’t feel we can ever reach them. We have a dream but lack the resolve or ability to make it happen. Rebuke such thoughts as surely not one of them is relying upon our God, who can do anything.

Nothing is impossible for God, and it is to that height we should pray to. “But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible'” (Mark 10:27 NKJV).

We must be careful not to limit ourselves to what we can do when we are serving the Lord. He doesn’t call the self-made man or woman to do anything for the kingdom. No sir, no ma’am, He calls the foolish and the weak because it is those who know they need Him.

God chooses the foolish and the weak because they rely on His wisdom and strength. “But God has selected [for His purpose] the foolish things of the world to shame the wise [revealing their ignorance], and God has selected [for His purpose] the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong [revealing their frailty]” (1 Corinthians 1:27 AMP).

You can always shoot for the stars when you are being helped by the One who created them. Never think God expects you to rely only on your own strength and abilities. He expects that you will rely on Him, and the moment you do, He will travel the galaxies to help you.

You wouldn’t have to try so hard if you’d pray for God to help you. “There is no one like the God of Israel. He rides across the heavens to help you, across the skies in majestic splendor” (Deuteronomy 33:26 NLT).

Sometimes, we think it would be prideful to shoot for the stars. We consider our humble choice to remain less effective as the greater way we can serve Him. Rebuke that thought. God does want you to remain humble, but He can use the humility to do great and mighty things for the kingdom.

The humbler you are, the more He can exalt you. “And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Matthew 23:12 NKJV).

Moses led a nation out of bondage and right up to the promised land. Yet, in the Word, it is said he was the humblest man ever. Moses didn’t think he could be used by God either. But when God called him to go, Moses most certainly went. What will you do?

It doesn’t take a great man to do great things for God, but a humble man willing to be used by Him. “(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any person who was on the face of the earth.)” (Numbers 12:3 NASB).

Many of us have a cloud of self-rejection hovering over us. With as many of us as there are, there are as many different reasons as possible why we always feel rejected from doing anything great for God. Rebuke that thought. God loves you so much that He sent His own Son to save you.

Father God loves you unconditionally, and Jesus saved you unequivocally. Now be the son or daughter of the King you were meant to be. “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. …we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son…” (Romans 5:8,10 NKJV).

Some of us fear rejection from others so much that we dare not give anyone an opportunity by which they can reject us.  We don’t shoot for the stars because we fear what people might say about us even trying. Rebuke the thought that prevents you from doing the will of God.

Sometimes, it’s in the rejection of men that we show ourselves right with God. Jesus taught, “If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you” (John 15:19 NKJV).

Sometimes, we have been shooting for the stars and failing even to get one inch closer to them. We have tried and failed, so we think it’s not even God’s will that we can do so. Rebuke that thought as it is in the classroom of adversity where God is training up His greatest warriors.

As a diamond is formed in adversity, so it is that the Lord allows His servants to be formed. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me” (Psalm 23:4 NKJV).

Child of God, keep shooting for the stars. Keep chasing the dream God has given you. Keep believing in the vision He has shown you. Keep pressing into the belief that God can use you beyond what you are able to do. Let God take you where only He can take you.

You can’t even dream to the limit of what God can do. “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Ephesians 3:20 NKJV).

Blessings to you,

Paul Balius