Daily Journal: 1 June

Jesus Loves Me.

This I Know.

God finds a way to restore me. Layer by layer.

Each layer brings a new wisdom, a deeper level of understanding. But each layer doesn’t begin with a revelation or lightning bolt. It often begins with my mind falling back into old, stuck thinking when I’m feeling weak or dissatisfied.

Often, I don’t realise I’ve become stuck again until I'm in pain and I think, ‘hold on, why am I so stuck? Why am I thinking this way again?’

You don't feel pain if you're set free. You only feel pain when you're still stuck.

Romans 12:2 (NCV)

Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.

Stuck thoughts are based in false beliefs. False beliefs are entrenched but what are false beliefs if not lies? Lies need recognition to expose them to the truth.

Instead of letting my mind become a caboose that runs around the same old train tracks, I need to dig deep battle trenches of truth.

If I fall back into false beliefs, or lies, I need to begin by repenting because lies are built in distrust and disbelief in what the Word of God says about me and about life, and that’s offensive to God. Lies make a mockery of His truth and distort the perceptions God wants me to have.

God loves me. God has a way for me. He wants the best for me. He wants to accomplish something in me. He can’t do that if I’m disbelieving Him and believing lies.

Do you know what I’ve realised? Labouring over Jesus loves me, will bring birth to, this I know.

There is nothing that the devil wants more than to defy Christ in me.

James 4:7 (AMP)

So submit to [the authority of] God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you.

I must dig down into the trenches of truth to uncover where I still believe lies. There are things deeply wired in me that need God’s rewiring. That takes faith when I’m at my weakest. I understand my spirit must overcome my emotions and my mind. All I can do in those moments is come into the refuge of the name of Jesus, where I can take His authority over my thoughts and the rot that’s deeply buried within my heart. My spirit (God’s Spirit in me) needs to cleanse my soul. God’s Spirit in me is greater than everything else that tries to dismantle what He has been doing in my life.

1 John 4:4 (AMP)

Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].

Now I need to meditate on that, day and night and let the Spirit renew my mind and transform my heart. I need to find the grooves of those trenches of truth and dig in.

Zechariah 4:6 (AMP)

Then he said to me, “This [continuous supply of oil] is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel [prince of Judah], saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit [of whom the oil is a symbol],’ says the Lord of hosts.

I don’t have to strive. I don’t have to despair. I can sit in the Presence of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, lift my heart in faith and allow His oil to flow.

All that the bible teaches is because of this one thing:

Jesus loves me. This I know.