October 24 - Daily Message - Psalm 23:3

I believe this is a message to us from God, written from His perspective – Sherri 

Psalm 23:3 ESV “He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.”

I restore your soul. I lead you in the paths of righteousness.
 
Do you feel the power of these statements?
 
I am the one who restores your soul. You are not. Rest in Me!
 
I am the one that leads you in the paths of righteousness. You are not. Follow Me!
 
Lean into Me. Really lean into Me. Do not think about what you will do the rest of your life or where you are going next. Lean into Me. I will show you the next step. I don’t do this to test you or to make life difficult, I do this to glorify My name and for My name’s sake because it is when you lean into Me that the world can see Me.
 
You wonder if you can trust Me fully. You can! Simply trust Me. Don’t question or think about it anymore. This is where miracles happen, when you simply trust.
 
You wonder if I will provide for you. I will. Simply trust me. Don’t question or think about it anymore. This is where miracles happen, when you simply trust.
 
You wonder if I am good. I am. Let go of any thoughts that contradict this. Put them out of you mind – oh yes, I know that you cannot do this. Ask Me to do it for you.
 
I know that it is impossible for human beings to have the faith they need and to trust Me the way I desire – for My name’s sake. But if you are willing to ask, I will do it with you and for you.
 
I know there are so many things that surround you in this day and age that disturb you and cause you to question what I am doing. I know it looks like evil is winning. But know that it is not. It looked like evil was winning the day Jesus died but clearly that is not the case.
 
Psalm 46:10 ESV “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
 
Don’t try harder.
 
Instead, lean in so deeply that without Me showing up you will fall.
 
What is something in your life that you are unhappy about right now or you want to shift?
 
Consider for a moment that it is not about you. It is about Me and My glory. Let go of needing to do anything at all about it. Sit in the uncomfortableness of knowing that only I am able to bring the fullness and abundance that you want in this area of your life.
 
You see in human history that the more people rely upon themselves, the worse things get and yet people keep trying to fix everything. Lean into Me instead.
 
Do you have a health crisis – lean into Me even more than you are currently.
Do you have a mental health crisis – give Me your brain and your thoughts and let Me think for you.
Do you have a financial problem – ask Me for what you need, and I will provide.
Do you need more time, energy, resources, let Me rearrange your life so that you will be focusing on what I created you to focus on.
 
Your life has gotten deeply focused on things that do not satisfy. Let Me take them away and replace them with what truly matters.
 
You ask, “where is the power in this?” and “why don’t I experience this more?” and I say to you…you have not given yourself over to Me yet. You ask Me to do what you want rather than asking Me what I want. You want to conform to the pattern of this world but I want you to be renewed (Romans 12:1-2). You want Me to take away your pain and suffering but I want to use it to resurrect life (Philippians 3:10-11).
 
As you seek all the fruits of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23)) ask Me how you can suffer so that you can experience these fruits. I know this sounds strange, but people are so afraid of suffering right now that they don’t know how to suffer for a purpose. They fixate on avoiding suffering so much that it becomes an obsession. There is power in suffering. I know this doesn’t make sense at all but when you exercise a muscle to make it stronger you first have to suffer and then the strength comes into your muscle.
 
Lean into the suffering and find that I will restore your soul and I will lead you on the path of righteousness for My name’s sake.
 
Joy comes when you know that no amount of suffering can take over your life.
Love comes when you have suffered for the ones you love, and you experience them being returned to you.
Peace comes when you have suffered through hardship and found peace that passed understanding (Philippians 4:7).
Patience comes when you have endured so long you don’t think you can handle it anymore and you find patience in the waiting rather than the desire to get out of your situation.
Kindness comes when you find that you can be kind to people even when you don’t feel like it.
Self-control comes when you find that you can rely upon Me to make choices for you when you are unable to make them for yourself.
Goodness comes when you experience evil and darkness all around you and you discover that My light shines through you into that darkness.
Faithfulness comes when you recognize, through suffering, that there is nothing remaining in this world but to trust and have faith in Me.
Gentleness comes when you have suffered at the hand of another and desire so much to protect yourself and yet you let Me have the vengeance (Romans 12:19).
 
Do not walk away from suffering. Lean into it even more and do not ask for it to go away but ask for the fullness of it to be experienced so that you can find the fruits of the Spirit within the suffering.
 
Psalm 23:4 “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,
for you are with me”
 
You cannot fully experience My presence with you until you have walked through the valley of the shadow of death and found that you do not need to fear any evil. This is when freedom comes. Not when the difficulty is removed, but when you trust Me so fully in it that you feel My presence when you are surrounded by darkness. That is when you find that the light shining within you overpowers all darkness.
 
Stop trying to find comfort and lean into the suffering. It never goes away in this world. You can ask My why this is when you see Me face to face but right now simply lean into it. The suffering will not overtake you but if you lean into it the fruits of the Spirit will.
 
Lean into the unknown, the uncomfortable, the difficulty. This does not mean I am asking you to stay in a situation that is dangerous or bad for you. I am telling you right now to get out of that situation rather than fear the suffering that will come when you leave it.
 
How many things do you do each day in order to find comfort, ease, and happiness and to avoid suffering. Turn it around. There is so much suffering in the world, it is not like you have to go find it. You are suffering from something even as you read this. I will not bring more into your life if you lean into it. I am telling you that if you lean into it and accept it as part of life and stop trying to fix it or avoid it, you will find freedom from it. This is how I restore your soul and lead you in paths of righteousness and it is how I am glorified throughout all the darkness and sin in the world.
 
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