Immediately

Immediately: without lapse of time; without delay; instantly; at once. Matthew 14:30+31, " But when he (Peter) saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, ' Lord, save me!' IMMEDIATELY Jesus reached out His hand and caught him. 'You of little faith, ' He said, 'why did you doubt?"

The reason for my post today is not to bring up the subject of fear and doubt once again. I am truly at a place in my relationship with God where He has just proven Himself to much for me to sink back into fear and doubt. I am not saying it won't ever happen again, I am just saying that my faith is in a place where I am not struggling with that to the extent that I used to, Praise God! I trust Him because I know Him so much better these days.

As I was reading this scripture this morning the word IMMEDIATELY looked exactly as I typed it. Big and in my face. Neon sign. There have been so many times in my doubt and in my fear and in this journey that I have cried out to God and honestly He hasn't answered me immediately or at least our Webster's dictionary definition of immediately. But when we look at this interaction between Jesus and Peter, Jesus did have to act without lapse of time; without delay; instantly; at once or Peter would have drowned.

On my walk this morning, I was submitting to God and just getting things going for the day and I found myself asking God for immediate relief from a lot of the physical things that I am still having to overcome on a daily basis. I know this sounds really bad, but I don't usually get an immediate reaction from God and the affliction that I feel doesn't immediately go away. But I learned something new about affliction. Affliction is a force, whatever kind it may be, that wants you to submit to it (thanks Beth Moore :-). So if we can get ourselves to intentionally submit to the Holy Spirit in our lives as opposed to the affliction in our lives then I really believe the IMMEDIATE can happen.

I don't know about  you, but I need some immediate in my life! I'm not saying that this will happen every time, obviously, I'm not God. But I know God desires more than anything for us to be in constant relationship with Him and His Word. And as it is a living and active force in our lives it will immediately change us if we submit to it.

Our church is going into 21 days of fasting and praying and God has already spoken to me about what I am to fast and what I am to really focus on within the 21 days and I am excited about it. I am excited to see how my submission and obedience to Him always and will continue to change me from the inside out. It's not going to be the easiest thing for me to do but I would do anything to hear God's voice and know Him better!

I pray that God will IMMEDIATELY answer you today as you submit to Him and His Word. Sounds hard, but we are all just 3 words away from our IMMEDIATELY, " Lord, save me". That is total and complete submission.