God’s Vibes Matter Devotional

About the Devotional My friend, this 30-day daily devotional is an invitation and a challenge for you that I believe will change your life! Over the next 30 days, I’d like for you to explore greater intimacy with God. God wants you whole. He wants you to live with peace that surpasses understanding and an unshakeable confidence in what he has done for us. Too often we live life in resistance and we miss out on the fullness of the season we’re in because we’ve yielded to wrong thinking and believing which results in defeat, guilt, fears and addictions. Trials come when we allow the busyness, stressors and distractions of life to overwhelm us and draw us away from what we know to be true. Sometimes God infiltrates our cozy Christianity with His unconventional methods so that we can emerge better for it. When you make a bold decision to set your mind to believe in God’s love for you, you will let go of the life of heaviness and defeat and pursue your divine destiny full of victory, security and success. No matter where you are at or what challenges you face, God is a precise God with perfect timing. Just like you would find encouragement and renewed perspective from a coach, invite Jesus to an intimate chat with you. Meet with God with an expectant heart and allow God’s Word to refresh and reshape your thinking, speaking and decision making. As you begin, reflect on the season you’re in. This is merely an exercise to assist you in proactively partnering with God. Once you have a sense of the season you’re in, let the scripture references and daily devotional provide a context of how Jesus, your coach, might inspire and encourage you where you are. I’ve noticed that the Holy Spirit tends to show up in many ways and often when you least expect Him, so be open to cultivating new ways of hearing His voice and sensing His presence. All I ask is that over the next 30 days you set aside 15-30 minutes with the Lord to discover what season he has you positioned in and how he wants you to discover personal restoration and revival where you are. Here is a breakdown of how God helped me to hear and how you might approach this book: 1. God is your coach! God is a champion in your absence and a friend always. In other words, no matter how many times you may neglect or run from God, he has never wavered in his love for you. He delights in you and enjoys spending time with you just like you would experience with your best friend. If you can view God as all his wonderful names, but particularly during this devotional as your greatest counselor, guide or coach, this grants you permission to come boldly to him with your questions, cares and hearts desires. He’s always ready to meet with you. “For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace” (New American Standard, Isaiah 9:6). 2. There is a time and season for everything. Discerning the voice of God is a divine mystery because it is the supernatural work the Holy Spirit does in us. There is no formula that gives us 100 percent accuracy in hearing from God, but growing in wisdom and discernment is something that we can ask God for and it is something we can practice and mature in. We tend to struggle when we compare our season to someone else’s, when we resist where we are or when we become frustrated because we can’t see God working in our circumstances. God is always working whether we are aware of it or not. What we all can become practiced at is working our seasons with all diligence rather than resisting them. For example, if we are in a season of development, it would be healthy or wise to approach the season like you’re supposed to be flourishing. God started his mighty work in you and he is faithful to complete it. Will you be content in encounters with Him and fully convinced of His goodness or will you frustrate the grace He’s given? “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace” (King James Version, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8). Reflect on the season God may have you in right now. This exercise will support your process of being fully present where God has you. While we may often find ourselves sowing in every season, there are also, times that are primarily about preparing us for the next level in God or maturing what we’ve learned. For example, if you are in a season of development, it would be healthy or serve you well to try to harvest, but bloom where you’re planted. If you can discern you season, you won’t be tempted to run out ahead of God or get overwhelmed in the waiting. Here are some examples of seasons: Sowing-a season of development in one of more areas of your life. We can’t expect a harvest if we are not planting any seeds. This is a season where you are intentional about what and where you are sowing because you’ve received glimpses through your eyes of faith of what God’s promised. Growing-a season of maturing and preparing for your what’s to come. Sometimes we think we’re ready for so much more than our character and soul capacity can manage. This is a season of tests and trials to bring to light where your faith is, where you have room to grow and how you can deepen your experience with God. Blossoming-a season of breakthrough into a new level, anointing or intimacy with God. We love hearing messages about victory and elevation, but when it comes, we can’t be trying to get prepared, we must be ready to act. An example of this could be when a someone seemingly out of nowhere and no way emerges from an unknown lifestyle to a public platform. The elevation however is not as instant as it seems but often reflects years of sowing and growing. Now without the same covering as before, it is important in this season to maintain the character and integrity disciplines that keep you strong and stable in God and ready to move at a moment’s notice. 3. Pray always! Prayer is one of the best ways to open your heart completely to what the Holy Spirit wants to teach you and the way he wants to teach it. In our own understanding we are limited in our knowledge of God’s character and His purposes. As we embrace opportunities to process with him and pray through what we’re facing, we become greater receivers of who God is and what God has for us. For the next 30 days, set you mind focusing on your relationship with the Lord. Invite God into your life using the PRAY model to heighten your spiritual senses. “This is the confidence that we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us” (New International Version, 1 John 5:14).