Define        Confine Refine Incline

We define ourselves by what we can and can’t do. We don’t dare dream or think we could go beyond what we have done in the past. Our limited human minds and resources keep us trapped in our own safe space, the place we know and where we are welcome, our comfort zone!

We confine ourselves to what we’ve known and have done before. Fear keeps us from trying new things, locked up in our own minds, imprisoned by wrongful thoughts of doubt, far away from our imagination. Fear of failing, fear of flying or even trying. We become locked out of what we could know or be if we dared to step out in faith. Faith only requires one small step at a time, as small as a mustard seed, then mountains would move and we could be freed from our human limitations.

He refines us, preparing us to do what we could never do on our own. He takes us beyond ourselves into the realm of the unknown. There we must rely on total abandonment of ourselves so that we might enter the place of great faith, trust and true happiness. Happy are those who are poor in spirit, happy are the meek, happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled. God will pour out His Spirit on the one who endures His refining fire.

We incline ourselves to hear what He’s saying and by faith we receive all that He has promised to do in those, who by faith, receive His word, His righteousness, His promises. Because He speaks a better word than what we attempt to define ourselves by and confine ourselves to!

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Confine
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All words of action. There’s a better way, a better course of action. Put Him first; His Kingdom and His Righteousness and everything else will follow !