Week 2: Conversations with God

Thanks for filling your cup with me again this week, girls! It's one of my favorite times of the week. If you missed it or simply want to take another look at what we chatted about this week, here you go.

We tackled some big topics this week in our quest to put God first in our lives. There's no doubt that putting Him first is a big challenge. How do we get there? What do we do? How do we live a Christ-directed life? (See illustration below).

First, we learned that we need to be in a relationship with Him to make that happen. When we think about the people in our lives right now that we have good relationships with, we think of how special they are to us. We talked about how those relationships make us feel good about ourselves; they know how to cheer us up, help us through a tough time, make us laugh, smile and how we trust them with everything going on with our lives. Ultimately, we know that no matter what this person(s) is going to love us - unconditionally. It's that kind of relationship that God wants to have with us too.

What holds us back?

Our sin, our guilt, our doubt. We often then we're not good enough to receive such a cool relationship with God. Thankfully, God loves us too much to let those silly things get in the way of us having a relationship with Him. Instead of leaving us to try to and reach Him on our own, He sent Jesus to pave the way. It was Jesus who paid the ultimate price to take that cloud of sin, guilt and doubt away. Jesus is our link to God - guilt-free, debt-free, yes, absolutely free.

To be in relationship with God means to have conversations with Him. Continual prayer, continual conversation means making nods to God - the acknowledgment that He is present in your day. When we start to do this, we start to put him in the front of our thoughts which is ultimately First Place in our lives.

Verse of the Week:
 1 Peter 3:14 "The Lord sees the good people and listens to their prayers."

This week's assignment:
Take your Third Place notebook and start jotting notes of how God was present (those little conversations with Him) in your life this week. This is just for you, but I'm hoping it will help you be more mindful of how God is working in your daily life. Let's put Christ in the driver's seat - a Christ-directed Life.

Have a great week!