The disciples found themselves in between the old familiar ways, and the shore where Jesus was waiting. We all have storms, both around us and inside us. Our storms are not too big for God, they will not blow Him away. We all have storms, but those storms obey Jesus. Jesus is here in every frustration and disappointment we have right now. 

Are we willing to leave behind our coping mechanisms, our cultures, our thoughts and emotions, and just swim to Jesus today?

The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in Him. The Lord directs. He orders a man's steps. Those steps are established by God. God goes with us along the way. He walks with us. We have to keep on walking. To press in. Our steps have to be pressing steps so we can take hold of what God has made for us to take hold of. We gotta press in if we want to grab those things. Sometimes we have stopped pressing. 

What about the steps God has shared with you from before? Are you pressing in?

As your desires are trying to corrupt you, be renewed in the spirit that Jesus gave you. We need to move away from the old things in order to repent and be restored. Jesus came to restore your life in even this moment. Only the brave are able to repent. Only those brave ones are the ones that allow Jesus to be near. 

Do you want to be brave? Or do you want to stay stuck on your mindsets and thoughts of yesterday? We need renewal for today, yesterday's renewal is already old. It's time to be brave.

Nehemiah positioned his heart into alignment with the heart of God, and it was months of preparation of him being in the heart of God before he saw movement. But when God was ready to move, Nehemiah was ready to move as well. He had the favour of God and he was ready. He stayed ready even as he had to wait for it. God is bringing a new revival. 

Are you willing to wait for it? And have you aligned yourself with the heart of God?

The grave was found empty not just for us, but for others. God has hopes for you that do not end with what you have lived. He is not afraid of our scars or wounds. 

There is nothing impossible for the one who overcame death for you and me. Today is a new beginning. We will keep on moving forward.

Today we put ourselves in the shoes of the people who were looking at the cross in that moment, the people who walked with Jesus. 

My story becomes what He created it to be. This story doesn't finish here. This is Good Friday.

Jacob was born clinging, grasping at the heel of his brother. He had a need to be blessed. God had already blessed him but he didn't understand it  so he tried to achieve it his way. All the running he did led him to lose his perspective. Maybe you've been pushing in your flesh to gain, and maybe you have lost because you've been pushing in your own strength. 

Today God asks us to stop. Stop wrestling. Stop fighting on your own. You need a touch of God. 

Maybe it won't come to build what you think it  will, maybe it will break something so that you can understand the grace that is for you. God is the one who has overcome your struggle.

Through everything in David's life, God kept David close to His heart, He gave David the tools of worship so that no matter where he was pushed by life, he would remain close to the Father. Although we don't understand we can trust in God. God is not lazy or forgetful or uninterested in your life. He has not just one, but both of His hands on your life! 

God is keeping us near to the promise even if He takes us away from the parts of the promise we understand, He always keeps us near to His heart.

Sometimes we think we need to be pure and perfect before we come to God but God will intervene for us even at our worst. All of us have a little of Saul and a little of Paul in us, we have that tension, that push and pull in us. You might feel blind right now but keep following. You don't need to know where God is going in order to follow. 

Are we going to bow to the Lord or are we going to continue to be blind? We need to stop pushing in our flesh and start being pulled by the Spirit.

What makes us the people for the job? God has designed us to be passionate, and in that passion He reveals His heart to each one of us. 

And in this season God is inviting us to believe that even in between the push and the pulls of the season, we are capable of the things that He is calling us to do.