pivot chords

A lot of things have been flowing my way at one time recently.
All of them because I chose to live a lifestyle where God is the one who directs my path. Lately, I have developed an idol called Security. This idol is a bitch. If i don't have some sort of security..whether it be financial, educational, or investment in my future, I flip. And it all came from the great habit of making future plans. Future Plans I decided that I wanted to happen, without really praying about it..just deciding that's the way it's going to be. Luckly I have an amazing mentor, who gives me amazing workbooks, that somehow are alive. I swear, this beth moore workbook i am going through, has been unfolding questions and topics that have to do exactly with what I am going through. Whether it be doubt, uncertainty, fear, pride, selfishness, etc. I have learned SO much in SO little time I just can't blog about it as much as I would like to. So this is a collaboration of the thoughts, quotes, and scriptures that are/ have been helping me get rid of the idol of security, the fear of uncertainty in my own life on earth, and the box i put God in.

" No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God First."~ Oswald Chambers

"Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul." ~ Psalm 143:8

"The Key to Peace is authority. Peace is the fruit of an obedient, righteous life." ~ Beth Moore.

"You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on yoru pleasures." ~ James 4:2-3

"Discipline - somehow at times of great temptation and weakness,discipline flies like a bird out the window.
Lessons from The Past - We don't think straight when we get a surprise hard core attack.
What is Best For Us- our humannature is much too slef-destructive to automatically choose what is best in our weakest moments."
~ Beth Moore.

"It is God's will that you should be sanctified; that you should avoid secual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionat lust like the heathen who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or should take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you. For God did not call us to be impure but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you His Holy Spirit."
~ 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8

"If Any of you Lacks wisdom he should seek God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from hte Lord; he is a double minded man, unstable in all he does." ~ James 1:5-8

"Some of you say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to some city. We will stay there a year do business and make money. But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. yu can see it for a short time, then it goes away. so you should say, 'if the Lord wants we will live and do this or that." ~ James 4:13-15

"Humility is not something we have till humbling ourselves is something we do." ~ Beth Moore.

"He feeds on ashes, a deluded heart misleads him. He cannot save himself or say, 'is not this thing in my right hand a lie?"
~Isa. 44:20

"When we are not satisfied in Christ, we develop 2 things; a negative focus that leads to self righteousness and blindness, and a satisfaction vacuum that pulls us toward false solutions." ~ Beth Moore.

"Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God as called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if at some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. Only let us live up to what we have already attained." ~ Phillippians 3:13-16