Enjoying God's Blessings

 

    Part of joy is how you visualize.  That means when you wake up you envision how your day will go.  It will directly impact how you handle the day's events.  If you expect it to be bad, then you only see the negative.  If you expect it to be a good day, then you see all the blessings.

    Your visualization does change as your day happens.  You can see for only the day, but also the extended future.  It may be a win in a project, graduation, marriage, having a family, getting out of debt, paying off your mortgage, retirement, or something else that motivates your direction for the future.  

    Be intentional with your imagination.  Focus it to drive you to succeed and see God's blessings along the way.  Do not allow yourself to get stuck in the past that you can't change.  Do not allow your moods to dampen what could be.  

    God designed you to have a creative mind.  Your mind has the capacity to do far more than what you allow it to do.  If you are being held back in life it is because of how you have bound your mind.  You can see just how much you allow your mind freedom by how you pray.  Are you specific?  Do you ask for things that could only happen if God opened the doors or made it happen?  Do you pray with expectation or just expecting everything to stay the same?

    You have the power to experience what you visualize.  Do not keep it vanilla.  Do not keep your mind in the status quo.  Really visualize the life that you want.  It is the only way for small changes to happen to get you to that future.  Without a vision, you will only drift through life.  You are passing up on all that life could offer you.  You are not allowing blessings to happen.  If you aren't blessed, then you can't enjoy your blessings.

    If you have never tried to visualize a good future for yourself, then start small, but don't stop building until you have a wonderful vision.  It starts with giving your most dominant thoughts focus.  If they are not thoughts that you want, then you replace them with thoughts that you do wants.  Your thoughts become goals.  Your goals will remove mental blocks to get you to the finish line.

    The next step is to feed your mind what it needs to get you to your future.  That includes what you read, watch, and listen to.  It will affect your activities.  You may have to change your daily routine.  The beginning is the hardest part, but once you get going it becomes much easier.  Pray over it every step of the way.  Tune it as needed.  If you still do not have any vision, then pray for God to put a visual in your mind that brings you joy.

Psalm 16:9-11, Jeremiah 29:10-14, John 15:9-17, 2 Corinthians 9:10-15, Philippians 4:18-20, & 1 Timothy 4:3-5