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Have you ever
looked at a logjam and thought about how they begin?
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Logs, or tree
trunks, or other debris are easily floating down river until the meet a barrier
of some sort. Perhaps the waterway narrows or the opening under a bridge isn’t
wide enough to allow the floating material to continue downstream. Usually this
material gets “crosswise” to the bridge or waterway.
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The openness of
the bridge or expansiveness of the river become limitations to what the flow of
the river carries.
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Once something is
stuck at the bridge opening, increasingly smaller and smaller debris piles up
behind it and pressure is created because the flow of the river is continuous. When
enough pressure is created on the bridge, it will collapse.
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Isn’t this just
like our life and our thinking can be!
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Big things, big
challenges in our lives come along; get crosswise with our personal limitations. If we don’t get busy doing whatever we need
to do to loosen up these “big things” as they occur and get them back into the
flow of God that caries all things safely along the river of life we increasingly
experience pressure as more and more unattended issues pile up. When we
experience too much pressure…
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Being in
resonance with the flow of the river prevents logjams.
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Being in
resonance with the flow of God prevents lifejams.
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We want to identify
with God and get all our cares, concerns, worries, confusions into the flow of
God to let them be “carried away downstream.”
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Too often we
identify with the limitation rather than the flow.
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When we say
things like, I am not smart enough (or unhappy or sick, or poor, or not good enough,
etc.) we are declaring to all the world that we are our limitation.
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These limitations
are what you perceive you are.
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You are not your
limitations.
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Perceive
(identify with) something different like the Power and Presence of God working
in you, though you, and as you.
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When we are
pressured with something, BEGIN WITH GOD.
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Sometimes we end up
with God being our last resort. That’s the hard way of doing things.
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Before every “miracle,”
Jesus blessed what He had, or what He was about to do. He always began with
God!
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This week, if
you’re willing, bless everything you have, whether you think of it as a lot, little,
or a perceived void… and bless everything you do before you do it (or bless it
after you do it if you forgot to bless it beforehand. Blessing is not limited
by time or space).
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And when you find
yourself in times of doubt, worry, fear, or confusion, bless yourself with this
reminder, “There is no place for these things in the mind of God”
