Lord, please change my environment.

Hey everybody!

Tired of the negative people around you. Even the ones that you can't do anything about because they happen to be family? Want a better life for yourself and/or husband, kids? Want your surroundings to be peaceful and positive? You may be saying yeah, but how? I know what you mean and there is a way. No, you don't need money for it to happen. You don't even have to move to another place, far from the ones you love. Ask God to change your environment.

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Ok. So. Sometimes when I am on a roll in getting things done according to what I presented to the Lord about my future plans, I sometimes can get discouraged by an environmental source (people that I am around often, lack of material possession). The people that I am around and the things I possess are part of my environment. As for the people, they can often cause distraction or discouragement intentionally or not. Nevertheless, distraction or discouragement is caused. These people or things can be family, friends, significan other, finances, or health. I get tired of being distracted or reminded of what status situations are currently in or what happened in the past that I can't do anything about. I get tired of also behaving according to how people perceive me, which often times causes me to regress in my progress. All of these things and then some can cause serious delay in reaching my goals. So I decided to blog about it. Maybe someone out in net land can relate and have some light shed on a situation you may be facing. Maybe, even a comment can help me along this journey we call life.

Listen. We can't help the families we are born into or the environment we are born into. But, we don't have to go with the flow with what our environment is dishing out to us. I don't know how growing up was for you or what things you had to face but one thing I do know is that God has always known you and that you were born for a purpose (Psalms 139). There are times when we feel like we can't get out of what we've known all our lives but we can. How? By letting God shift us. Let him catch us in the Spirit and literally take us to a higher place. A place where we are empowered, focused and not defeated. A place that will ultimately lead us into greatness, our destiny. In this place it doesn't matter what mommy said to you or how daddy wasn't there for you or even how brother and sister don't get along. When I let God take me to that place of kingdom mindedness I am liberated to move forward and operate in a realm that brings me not only peace but fulfillment. You can have that too. I'm not trying to be clicheish but truely in this place you can do all things through Christ that strengthens you. Looking beyond the circumstance and seeing the reality of who God says you are will change your environment. Your environment will change because your sight will change. You will begin to see what God sees. Then you will go where you were created to go, do what you were created to do, be who are created to be. All of the things that has been around you all these years seems like the reality of who you are but it really isn't. What God has and sees in you IS the reality. What you've been through and your current circumstances are there to shape you. It's all about how you respond and the best way to respond is to give it over to Jesus and let Him fight your battles as He gives you a new perspective, His perspective. While you give it over you will find who you truely are in Him and let that be your reality because it is. That very place in God is where you will find your vehicle for change.

Please pray with me...

Lord Jesus. I love you and need you. Please help me understand my purpose and how much you love me. I need you to show me the plans that you have for me so that I can be liberated from all the things that have been penetrated into my spirit because of years of being around a negative environment. Anoint my life and mind that I may walk in your environment. The environment of liberty, confidence and boldness. I want to be shifted in you. I love you Lord. Cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Make me free and Lord, please change my environment. In Jesus name. Amen.

Love you for reading. God bless and keep standing.



~ Royalbutterfli