Trust That He Knows What He's Doing

As I was doing my devotions today, I began to read John 6 and in this chapter you see an array of things. I almost feel like going verse by verse, occurrence by occurrence and sharing ALL that He was giving me, but I wont because it would be a BOOK literally. But as I began to pray about what to write today, I simply heard
"Trust That God knows what He's doing"

I can recall a number of times where I needed to get something done, or some bill was due, or some healing needed to take place, and I checked my spiritual bank account and it was TREMENDOUSLY overdrawn...I had no faith, I had no plan, I had no way of getting out of the hole that I was in. But today as I doing my devotions I came across this story John 6:1-15 of how Jesus fed the multitudes.

Now there is a great temptation to just read this story and say "oh that was cool" without really grasping the lesson The Holy Spirit is trying to teach us. If you read the story you'll find that:

1. Jesus had been performing miraculous healings that were attracting the multitudes.
2. He Saw the crowd coming to look for Him as He and his disciples climbed a hill to sit.
3. Jesus asks Philip, "Where can we buy bread to feed all these people" He did this to test PHILIP (not the other disciples..well get to this later)for "HE ALREADY KNEW WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO"
4. Philip says "If we Work for MONTHS we wouldn't have enough money to feed them.."
5. SO Andrew sees that a boy has 5 loaves and 2 fish and says "But what is that to such a Huge crowd?"

Ok..So There are SOO Many Nuggets that you can take from just those 5 points that I listed, but Here's the gist of the entire story... There was a DILEMMA and it is this...

THEIR PROBLEM SUPERSEDED THEIR RESOURCES

But the awesome thing is that Jesus asks Philip a Question. Now, in my head I was like..."Why did He ask Philip specifically and not the others, and why did the scripture point out that He was testing Philip exclusively?" The Holy Spirit said to me "It is because He represents the person who can only see the PROBLEM and not a SOLUTION!" Philip represents a person, who though in the company of a Jesus who has JUST HEALED, DELIVERED, and performed wondrous things in His sight, STILL thought that He had to do it ALL by himself...He Counted God out!!

And that is like MOST of us..We've see what God can And WILL do but We look out our situation that were facing in our marriage, we look at the negative balances in our bank accounts, we see the doctor's report, we look at the empty seats in our churches, we see the rebellion in our children, we see the temptations and old habits beginning to arise again, we SEE The BIG PROBLEM...But we Fail to recognize The SOLUTION Which is Jesus...

So Andrew speaks up and realizes something and FAILS at something within the same breath..He recognized an avenue to meet the need but He LACKED IN FAITH!!! "What are these loaves and couple fish to SO MANY PEOPLE?"

Its almost as if he says.."Jesus I believe you can do the healing thing, but THIS situation is different..THIS Problem that I'm facing is beyond what I've SEEN you do..No one in my FAMILY has EVER Experienced this type of breakthrough that I need RIGHT NOW..."

So, Jesus recognizes the little faith that Andrew has and they feed the multitude..There's SOOO MUCH more, but for time and length sake..I leave you with this..

Before Jesus saw the problem..He ALREADY KNEW What He was Going to do...The lesson that we take from all of this is that, God sees the MULTITUDE of things that are coming to LOOK for us and the ones that are present in our lives...

Listen..ALL GOD requires is that we Believe HIM...Nothing is TOO Hard for Him...Dont count Him out..He KNOWS what He's going to do and what He's doing...No Need to TRY TO MAKE it Happen..Identify an avenue that God can use..Just Trust Him, Obey Him, and WATCH Him multiply the little in your hands to provide the BREAKTHROUGH TODAY!!!

**ok..last thing and I'm gonna close (lol) notice that Jesus didn't put off the breakthrough till next week, a month from now, a year from now..once there was an seed identified..there was a HARVEST that was Multiplied in THE SAME DAY!!!

I Know this one was a little longer than the others..so hopefully you endured till the end!

Yall be Blessed
~T.Scott

Matthew 19:26

My LIFE Changed..Just 10 hours ago...

I was sitting in my brother in law's room last night rocking my son to sleep and my mind shifted into going over the past few weeks that I've been here in NY. In my mind I rehearsed all of the things that I had failed to do and experience here in NY, and I began to get bothered because I couldn't believe that I had allowed so much time to pass by without doing certain things that I KNOW would've amplified my business, my livelihood, and the furtherance of my goals...

I went a little further and even began to reflect on the past 10 months of transition that I've been through in moving my entire family to California based off The Word that I received from God some time ago and how I spent SO MUCH time WORRYING about...."What will people think about me, What DO people think about me, How will we survive, How will I Pay the bills, How can God require me to do something SO unstable, What will I do, I'm not ready, I'm not pure enough, I Don't know Anyone out there" and things of that sort...that it stole SO MUCH TIME away from me getting in The Presence of God and seeking The Lord the way I COULD HAVE...

It was in the midst of this brewing storm of thoughts, regrets, negative emotions, and shortcomings that The Holy Spirit Interrupted me and said....

"Son, Quit letting what you didn't do stop you from doing what you CAN Do!"

This statement brought so much peace because, it gave me permission to accept that the past was the past, and it freed me to embrace the fact that ALL I have control over is what I do IN THIS MOMENT...

It reminds me of that passage in scripture when Jesus stood firm in the midst of a boat tossed around helplessly in the midst of Raging Waters of the sea and howling winds, and declared "PEACE BE STILL!" Mark 4:35-41..He Calmed the storm in my mind...

You see that is a tactic of the enemy..to keep us in bondage, always looking back..this is why he is "the accuser of the bretheren" (Rev 12:10)..Meaning that his chief joy is to REMIND you of the THINGS YOU DID and DIDN'T do..never what you WILL and CAN do..

SO it is with great conviction that I tell you today..Let GO of the PAST..Stop beating yourself up for what you didn't do..or what the state of your life has been...FOCUS on what you can do NOW..you STILL have time to drop to your knees and Ask God for Help, You STILL have time to do what is necessary to reach your goals, to turn your family, your finances, and your health around..ITS NOT OVER!!!

And you know the Great thing about ALL of this is that though I may have not done ALL that I should've or could've done in the past to get me to the place of destiny that God intended for me to be at..God says, JOEL 2:25-26 <- click to see the end of the message

Its ALL in Your Head!

TRUST Me when I Say This...ITS ALL in Your head...

The things that aren't seemingly working out, the plans that you have made that have fallen through...The relationships that you hold dear that are being troubled..THE BILLS THAT ARE STACKING UP...THE WORRY...ALL That..Its IN YOUR HEAD...

And that's the problem...

I've found that the more we focus on a problem the LARGER IT Gets...Its no different from your science class, when you would put the culture of some VERY SMALL organism, under the microscope that a small speck of dust became so HUGE so much so that you couldn't even look at it all in one glance..

Well this is what MANY people have done, especially over the past few years with the emerging of the "recession" they've taken the dust mite of losing their job, the loss of a relationship, the expansion of debt, the delaying of a dream and have focused on it so much that it consumes their very lives..to the point where the possibility of a positive outcome is far fetched...

So THIS IS WHAT I'VE DONE...I encourage you to do this as well...

Take ALL of the Things that you're Worrying about and the things that have been in your head..The debt, the lost loved one, the threat of losing your job, the broken relationship, the sickness, etc..and I want you to write them on a piece of paper and then...after you have written them down...in a SEPARATE COLOR OF INK (I Like RED) and write

I CHOOSE NOT TO STRESS, FEAR, or WORRY ABOUT THIS, I PUT IT IN GOD'S HANDS

And then RIP IT..Don't Shred it in a machine..RIP IT with your bare hands as Small as you can and THROW IT AWAY!!

You'll find that you'll probably feel a little lighter...and your mind will be clear enough to think up positive solutions and you'll be free to see the big picture again!

Check out these scriptures:



Psalms 55:22
1 Peter 5:7
Hebrews 4:15-16

Left Alone...

I recall the days of my childhood when my mother and I would be on an errand run, and we'd hit Kroger, then the Nail Shop, then Grandmother's house and after it was all done and my day was full of excitement, that on that ride home, I would comfortably fall asleep in the back seat to the tranquilizing rumble of the car gliding over the grooves in the road...

It was in these times that I would be so far gone in dreamland, that I would miss the fact that we had arrived home and either my mom or my father had taken me out of the car, and placed me quietly in my bed. It wouldn't be until HOURS later that I would wake up in a dark room to the sound of nothing but distant voices of my mother or father downstairs visiting with friends...It wasn't until I got up out of bed and verified for myself that I wasn't left alone in the dark and that the voices that I was hearing were that of my father and mother. Which brought me comfort in knowing that though they weren't near...they were still THERE!

The same holds true today with our walk with Christ. Many times we walk through life and we've been active in so many things throughout the day and we fall asleep in exhaustion of all of the busyness of life and Its not until Darkness and Distance jolts us into the realization that the Presence of The One we loved is no longer ever present. That Communication has come to a halt because our awareness is not there anymore..there's a distance in our pursuit..

But there is yet a Still Small voice that compels us to come closer to verify.."I've never left you..I was just waiting for you to draw closer so that I could draw closer to you"

I'm not sure what state you've fallen asleep in, but as I asked God what to write to you today..this is what He gave me...

"Though I may seem distant, though my Presence may not seemingly be as tangible as it was before, though the place you laid down is not the same place you woke up..You're NEVER alone! Im just a simple 'I need You Lord' away...and you'll find that when you require of Me as a Vital Necessity...that I was never gone in the first place..."

"SO whats the moral of the blog Torrian"..

It is this..Unlike my parents in this story...God NEVER leaves us...He's actually closer to you than you know, but it takes you waking up, and pursuing Him, to realize..He NEVER left you Alone...

Matt 28:20
Heb 13:5 (AMP)
Psalm 139