Listen and live

"Hear, and your soul shall live" (Isaiah 55:3). To hear means to believe that something is being said that has the power to drive to the center of your nature and release you from any crippling thing which has dwarfed or frustrated your personality.
 
An important daily practice is to take your mind off of the tensions of life.  Instead of producing clarification, a tense mind brings confusion.  The mind cannot think best under pressure.  You have to break the tension of thought and relax the mind.

Consider asking God to guide you and show you His best as you follow this week's Action Steps:

1. Take time right now and each morning this week to visualize, "God is for me". Really see God being for you and visualize how much God loves you! If you believe God is for you, who can be against you?

2. As you read the following passages of scripture imagine God's power flowing through your mind, emotion, body and future.
 
"Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28).
 
"The Lord will work out His plan for my life" (Psalms 138:8).
 
"Jesus went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed" (Acts 10:38).