I Open My Hands and the Lord Fills Them Up

It amazes me how much the Lord is able to provide for me.  Today I had a serious issue that I had no ability to solve and even before I could pray I got a knock on my door with my solution.  God even sees my intentions to pray and sometimes answers me before I can ask for what I need.  God is just that concerned about my circumstances.  I think God is showing me again and again that he is worthy of my trust.  If I weren't taking time to analyze how things are working in my life I don't think that I would recognize just how much God is doing for me.  Luck has nothing to do with it. When things work out in our lives it isn't because we are lucky it is because God allowed it and even willed it to happen for us. Oddly enough this goes along with consecration.  I was studying consecration and the actual definition of consecration is filling our hand to the Lord. It's an offering of our hands to receive what the Lord gives us.  It's a posture of humility, and willingness to serve the Lord; it is an offering of ourselves.  It is our posture that helps to determine how much the Lord will entrust us with. It is our past posture that has us in our present situation and it is our present posture that determines our future situation.  I am going to continually posture myself to be available and reverent to God.  I will continue to consecrate myself for whatever the Lord wants to fill my hands with.  I will take on his yolk and learn of him for his yolk is easy and his burden is light.  I also am learning that in order to fill my hands to the Lord I must being willing to let go of what is already in my hands.  What are we holding on to so tightly that our hands are not open to what the Lord is trying to give us?  I keep asking myself that question and it makes it easier for me to let go of what is unnecessary in my life.  I don't want to hold on to shame or anything else that could hold me back from receiving from the Lord all  the he has for me. When I fully give my issues to God in return he gives me a revelation and an assignment.  I gave you Lord my life and in return I have received the one that you want for me.  I receive it Lord and I am grateful. 

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