BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women Pamela Crim | Daily Devotional for Women

This special unscripted episode is a study on thinking right so we talkright. Join us as we dig deeper into Proverbs 4: 24, James 3: 2-6 and 2Corinthians 10: 5.







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God desires for everything you do to first be presented to him. Before you make your plans, before you decide what to do, before you commit, talk to God about it.







It’s easy to assume God doesn’t care about the details of your coming and going, but my sister, if God cares about the birds you hear chirping outside your window, I assure you, God cares about the decisions you are making. If he’s concerned about dressing the lilies of the field with splendor, he’s concerned about everything concerning you. And, not only does God care, but God KNOWS. He knows what is next. He knows what is best. He knows where this leads. And he knows how this ends. So really, if God knows everything, and he cares about everything, why aren’t you talking to him about everything?







Oh, I know … because it doesn’t seem that important. It almost seems silly to consult God on everything. We tell ourselves God doesn’t have time to be bothered with our little problems and every day decisions … but we’re wrong.







James 4: 13-17: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.’ Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring – what your life will be! For you are like a vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes. Instead, you should say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’ Bat as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.”







Harsh? No, straight forward.







Stop making plans without God. You do not know the future, God does. You do not fully know where this path leads, God does. You do not know the perfect timing, God does. God wants you in the middle of his perfect plans instead of your own impulsive ideas.







For many years now, I’ve prayed a prayer that has likely saved me from the mess of my impulsive ideas and touchy feely heart. The prayer is simple: God, if you’re in it, I want it … If you’re not, I don’t.







This is a surrender of what we think we want for what God, in all of his wisdom, wants. It’s an intentional turn toward a divinely better plan, even when we don’t see it. This is what allows God’s greatest work in our ordinary, every day lives. We are then aligned to be where we are supposed to be for divine encounters and perfect timing.







You know what else this does … this teaches us to not be pitiful and pissy when things don’t work out the way we wanted. If I turned it over to God, I can’t be vengeful when he vetoes it. I can’t be resentful when he redirects it.







Closed doors are just as much a blessing as open doors when God is the one directing the doors. Invite him into your hallway to direct the doors. ALL THE DOORS.







How do you know if God closes a door? Well, there are the obvious ways. No is pretty clear. Too late is also clear. Sold out. Not available. Not possible. Cancelled. Delayed. Lost in route. But also recognize what this final little verse in today’s scripture is really saying. “It is sin to know the good and yet not do it.”







What does that mean? This means, for girls who have accepted Jesus as their Savior, we have the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, guiding and prompting us continually. That Spirit confirms and denies things within us. When it is confirmed within by a holy prompting, and we don’t do it, it is sin. It is wrong for us to ignore God’s promptings.







But understand, God’s promptings not only direct us to go,

Sometimes I get in my head, worried about all I will need for the future, and totally miss the fact that I have what I need for today. Sometimes, here in my head, I will talk myself out of doing what I could and should do today, because I’m worried about how I will keep doing it in all the days to come.







Do you do that too? Do you get all in your head about what will be needed later and miss what you have right now?







Steven Furtick says in his book, Do the New You, “Go into the day from a place of abundance, not lack.” Do you wake up saying you didn’t get enough sleep? Do you face the day thinking you don’t have enough energy? Do you count the demands and declare you don’t have enough money, enough help, enough time? This is a lack mindset.







God lacks nothing. He’s never running on short supply. Ever. And if God is the Lord of your life, as Psalm 23:1 says, you will lack nothing. Everything you need will be provided. Every single thing you need for today is here for you through the grace of God at work in your life. It’s miraculously here for you today. Do you see it?







This is going into the day from abundance. I have everything I need for TODAY. I have enough NOW.







What this does not mean is absolute certainty about tomorrow. This does not mean 100% security in what may come next. This is not an independence. Your creator designed you for dependence. He crafted you to need him DAILY. Your stress often comes from your fight for independence and attempt to control what was never yours to control.







You needed God to provide for you today, and here you are waking up to those provisions. You have the time you need. You have the help you need. You have the energy you need. You have the food you need. THAT IS GOD!







I know you may have worked hard to earn that money, but never forget who enabled you to work. Who blessed you with those abilities? Who opened those doors for you?







I know you may have gone to the grocery store and bought that food your own self, but how did you get there? Did you walk there? Oh, who gave you those legs that can walk? God did that! Did you drive there? Who provided for you to get that car? God did that!







Without God, you have none of this. With God, you have everything you need for today.







Jesus teaches us to pray to God in a very humble, simple and relational way. Matthew 6:11, he says to pray like this, “Give us today our daily bread.” Notice this does not say our monthly bread. It’s not about our 1 year plan for bread. It’s not about the future 10 years worth of bread. It’s our DAILY BREAD.







Bread represents our needs, everything we need. And Jesus says talk to God daily about everything you need.







Why is that? If God already knows our needs and promises to supply for our needs, why should we pray about the things he’s already going to do every day anyway?







I wonder, did you pray about your food for today? Really, did you ask God for food to feed your family for breakfast this morning? Most of us, void of crisis, did not. Yet, there was food today, wasn’t there? That was God being faithful, even when we weren’t. Now, don’t fail to thank him!







Jesus teaches us to pray daily over the things God is so faithful with because it increases our awareness of God’s provisions in our lives. It makes us humbly grateful. When you asked for something, then you receive that something, you know whoever you asked came through for you. This is how we recognize GOD DID THAT FOR US!







My sister, God cares about your needs.

Who could you become? What could you do? You’ve been given this one life to figure that out and give it all you’ve got.







Honey, if cauliflower can become pizza and chickpeas can become pasta, you my friend, can do anything! Nothing in your past can hold you back from your future. You have been set free to move forward. Today is a step in your journey towards the life of your future, make sure you’re stepping in the right direction.







Where you are today is a result of steps you took in the past. Maybe you walked out of something behind you, or maybe you walked into something right now. Recognize, it was your choice one step at a time. Understand God never expected you to wander blindly through this life. He has promised to be your guide. He has promised to direct your steps. He is always available to show you the best way.







Will you simply seek him here? Will you surrender your way to seek his way?







In the New Living Translation of the Bible, Isaiah 30: 18-21 is titled “Blessings For the Lord’s People”. With a title like that, understand this is for you. Don’t excuse yourself from this blessing. YOU are God’s girl. You are his prized creation. You are here seeking him and he is responding to you personally. Verse 18 says:







So the Lord must wait for you to come to himso he can show you his love and compassion.For the Lord is a faithful God.Blessed are those who wait for his help.







Woah … God has been waiting for YOU. Waiting for you to come to him so he can show you love and compassion. That’s what has always been waiting for you. As you ran. As you tried everything on your own. As you failed. As you made a mess. God has been waiting. Not waiting with punishment. Not waiting with judging eyes and condemnation. No, waiting with love and compassion specifically for you. All this time he has wanted to bless you, but you have to come to him.







I have this image of God leaning over his mighty throne in heaven, looking down on us with his loving eye, hopeful that today will be the day we let his love catch us. Hoping today will be the day he gets to show us his goodness.







Won’t you let him catch you today? Won’t you come to him and receive that love and compassion? Won’t you let his blessings pour over you now? Won’t you let him help you? He can and he will if you will come to him.







For the past 5 years I’ve been in a personal season of understanding God’s waiting on a deeper level. We’ve been waiting on one of our own who has left our family, believed the lies of the enemy and stepped into his plan of danger and destruction. She imagines I wait with judgment, but truthfully I wait with a hope she will return to the goodness that was always here for her. The goodness of a family who found her, fought for her, adopted her, and called her their own. A goodness she can’t dismiss. A goodness that will still be waiting 30 years from now if that’s how long it takes.







And even more so, God waits for each of us to come to him to receive the goodness he has always had for us. He waits and he hopes today will be that day. Why wouldn’t today be that day? Why not take that step today? It’s not condemnation that awaits us, it’s redemption. It’s a life far better than we have ever dared to dream of.







If you can imagine me awaiting the return of my daughter, imagine your heavenly father awaiting the return of his girl. Yeah, it’s like that! Condemnation doesn’t await you upon return, love, forgiveness, healing and restoration await you! But honey, you have to accept it and turn to it.

This past week, I’ve prayed the same prayer daily. “God, show me the limitations I’ve settled for so I can overcome them. Reveal to me my potential so I can grow into it.” The past 2 nights in a row, I’ve woke up praying this prayer in my sleep.







Just how bad do you want to overcome the limitations you’ve settled for? Just how bad do you want to live up to the potential God has put within you? When you want it bad enough, it’s there for you, but action will be required.







We all have tremendous potential within us, and we all have something threatening to cripple that potential. I wonder what your potential is. Your unique design is for the purpose of being absolutely phenomenal in some way. The thing is, you may not have even discovered it yet, but the potential is still inside of you. Your creator is using every detail of your life to release that potential.







Lord, reveal the potential you put within us so we can grow into it! I’m no longer satisfied with settling for anything less.







Is that where you are? You’re tired of settling for less? You’re no longer satisfied with just getting by? THAT’S FANTASTIC! WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE OF AWAKENING YOU FIND YOURSELF IN!







All this time, you’ve had a world of potential within you, but it has been crippled. It’s been held back and unable to perform it’s full intended function. What has crippled your potential?







I know about being crippled. Today, our travels have brought us back to the specific place where I literally COULDN’T get out of bed. My legs no longer worked. I couldn’t feed myself. My arms no longer worked. I couldn’t speak. My mouth drooped and words could not be found. My brain had suffered injury in a stroke and I was crippled. All that I had once done with ease was gone in an instant.







And I’m back here in Savannah, Georgia. This is where that hospital bed was that held me. It held me crippled, but I was still FULL OF POTENTIAL. I can’t help being here in this city without remembering that hospital bed. I can’t be here without remembering how crippled I was laying there.







But I’m not laying there any more!







You want to know why I’m jarringly excited about a new day of life every darn day, THIS IS WHY! (Several years ago, someone left a review of this podcast on iTunes saying they couldn’t handle my morning pep and referred to me as jarring. I still love that review! I appreciate her honesty and it still makes me giggle. I am jarring, but dang I can’t be boring after what I experienced!)







Want to know why I have crazy energy the moment my feet hit the floor every morning, THIS IS WHY! By God’s grace and divine touch, I’ve overcome the thing that threatened to cripple me and I’m getting to experience my potential.







I get to see these once crippled legs can run marathons. I get to see this body that once couldn’t get out of bed can now climb mountains. These eyes that once went blind and couldn’t focus get to see the beauty of the horizon as I jump out of an airplane at 14,000 feet. These hands that couldn’t hold a spoon to feed myself can hold a paddle while whitewater rafting. And this mouth that couldn’t form words can now speak to thousands to help them wake up. Literally … wake up!







Yes, wake up. We’ve been sleeping while our potential lies within in wait. Wake up, my sister.







This was always my potential, but you couldn’t see it when I was crippled. I couldn’t even imagine it at the time, but it was there.

Join Pamela for this Friday unplugged devotional on God’s grace.







Because of God’s grace, I am ridiculously blessed, I am highly favored, I am fully equipped, I am supernaturally strong, I am divinely guided, and I am radically different!







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