Since you are the captain you control who and what comes inside your boat. We have all heard the saying, “dont let everything around you inside your boat”. With this saying you are the boat. Do not allow everything that happens get inside of you. Ships dont sink because of the water around them they sink because of the water getting inside of them. This is metaphorical of your situation. Dont allow your situation to climb inside of you (the boat). You are the captain and you control everything that is allowed in you and around you, for that matter. You are the boss. You are the high ranking official on this boat. Are you understanding this? Are you catching that you control what can be around you. You control what you put up with and what you dont put up. The power is on the inside of you. The power needed to back away from anything or anyone is on the inside of you.
Let me put this another way. We will use a car and a driver as an example. You are the driver, the crazy driver, but what that car does is dependent on the steering working. You are the one that is steering that car. Is it going where you are telling it? It should be because it is your hands on the wheel. If it doesn’t go the direction you want it to you need to check how you are controlling it. Are you turning in the direction that maps out your destination? If not turn the wheel! You have the power to turn around. You have the power to make that car (your life) do what you tell it.
If I am not talking to someone this lets me know that we are all about to hit a situation that will try and climb inside of us. God is good at warning us of things to come. Whatever situation comes up keep your composure. Keep your positive posture and stand flat footed in your faith. Do NOT go back !! That warning has been put out. You keep on keeping on with Jesus as your guide. Move at the speed of the Holy Spirit and stay on course! Do not get distracted by things of this world. Do not allow your flesh to rule you. I am prolly talking to myself with that one. I have been fighting my flesh on this smoking thing. I hate cigarettes. I hate how the smell. I hate how they taste. I hate how expensive they are. I hate the guilt I have after smoking one bc I feel like I am damaging the temple of God. I know I was bought with a price. I am using my brain to quit. I got all of this hate in me for cigarettes and I hate sin. I hate it! I am on 36 hours without one and it hasn’t been hard, considering I have smoked over half my life. When I tell you there is power in the brain trust me. We can do anything we set our minds to. We can have anything we ask for if we only believe. I am also fasting for someone else’s healing and not smoking so this is like a double whammy but if I can deal and change my direction so can you. We can do anything! Our brains are literally an untapped weapon. We have authority over our flesh just like we control the steering wheel on our cars or the prop on a boat. Change your course and move with God. He is the only cure to everything. I had to figure out why I smoked. I got it, too. I was smoking my fear. Fear of being overweight. How crazy is that?! I know, right?! When I learned to control my emotions I learned how to control my flesh. When I learned the root I learned I could break it. When I learned I had the power I began to use it. This might be why God changed an hour of my prayer time to exercise, lol. God is a trip and He will teach you what you need, what your body needs, and what His desires are for your life. He will tell you and then He will tell you to do things you do not understand but He will explain these things to you. I need to like exercise again. I used to but after breaking my body exercise kinda made my body hurt so in turn I decided I did not like it. Now that I am healed it is time for exercise again. When I wrecked I was in the best shape of my life, I mean, I had a 6 pack. Do you know how hard it is for a female to get 6 pack abs? It was incredibly hard and I would work out in the morning and at night. I also watched what I ate. See, God knew that wreck was coming. I did this to get in shape but my body being in shape helped it to heal. It helped it to not be as damaged as it could have been. There are photos of my car up here. Scroll back and look at them. I have been out of this habit for 8 years.. He is telling me to get back in there and take it back! I will, but it is going to take me a bit to build back up to all that cardio. I just let out a huge sigh … this is gonna be some work getting my old body back. There is a reason for everything and we may not know why He told us to do something for .. say 8 years or so. 😉 just stay with Him and move with Him. He will sustain you, and this I can promise.
Be Still & Shut up 