“Stay the course. What does this mean – stay the course?

“What is My course? My course is My events, My path for your life, for your nation. My course takes all your obedience. My course is paved with your Praise of Me, the Lord your God. My course is your greatest safety. I do not promise you a smooth course with no brambles. I promise you a course of My Safety. Many paths can present themselves to you as smooth and easy, as ‘blessed.’ My greatest blessings do not always come on the wind of ease. My greatest blessings come when you are exactly on the course I have planned for you – in the moment of time I have planned such for you. My course for you is great learning, and wisdom, and discernment. My course for you brings a strength you will never find on your own. My course glows with Joy and Peace in spite of current circumstances. My course is tread only through Faith.

“A sudden gust of wind may come from the left, the right, to send you off course. In these times you fight with My Strength to stay My course exactly in the middle. Straying neither to the right nor to the left. Staying My course requires constant diligence. Remain in vigilance with Me. Then in a sudden wind, you will not be shaken.

“What are you to do when you cannot see the next step of My course before you? You take the step anyway – strong in your Faith, that I AM there beside you. You do not need to know all the details of your course. You do not need to know even the next step. I provide such knowledge as you need and as I choose. I always work within you to build Faith. The greater your Faith, the easier your steps become as you stay My course.

“Are you weary along the way? There are benches I provide. Sit and rest. Rest always with Me. I will refresh and re-energize. I AM always with you – in times of rest and in times of moving forward.

“Do not forget that I am a boundless God. What you feel that you lack – I carry within Myself in great measure. Therefore, as you stay the course of My choosing, right by My side, you will never lack. Examine yourself. Ask – where are the places within myself that I believe I lack? Then come to Me for My answers. I can reveal things within you that you do not know are there. I can heal all that you are willing to give Me. The more you give to Me, the more of my Strength you have to stay the course – rather than fighting to stay in your own strength.

“I love you. I have laid the best course for you. Do you truly believe this? If you do – you will find no need, no temptation, worthy to pull you from staying My course. The answer, as always, lies with Me and Me alone, the Lord your God.“
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Notes:

Psalm 16:11: You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 16:9: In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.

Psalm 18:36: You enlarge my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.

James 1:2-4: Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

II Corinthians 5:7: For we live by faith, not by sight.

Isaiah 40:29: He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

II Corinthians 9:8: And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed.

Ephesians 3:20: Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…

Jeremiah 32:17: Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.

Psalm 147:5: Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.