Are You So Focused On What The Enemy Is Doing That You Can't See What God Has Done?

What are you doing to counteract the lies of the enemy? Are you praying? Are you confessing God's Word out loud? Are you standing on what you say you believe? Are you walking in faith and not walking in fear?

The enemy is always going to try to stop you. The enemy is always going to try to hinder you and to hurt you. The enemy is always going to try to get you to live in fear instead of walking in faith but you have to counteract everything that the enemy is trying to do. You have to speak truth over the enemy's lies. You have to be strong in those areas where the enemy is trying to make you weak. You have to trust what God has said over what the enemy is saying.

God said He will restore everything that the enemy has stolen. Do you believe that? Do you believe that God can restore what's been lost or are you so focused on what you lost that you can't see what God is doing?

The enemy is always going to try but you have to stay steadfast and know that the victory has already been won. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Luke 10:19 

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Are You Trusting God To Intervene When The Enemy Is Coming In Like A Flood?

Have you ever been at that place in life where you feel like any minute everything is just going to fall apart? Understand, God will keep you. He will cover you. He will watch over you, shield you, and protect you. It is only God who has the power and the ability to sustain you. When the enemy feels like he's coming in like a flood, God will step in. He will rise up. He will make everything okay.

We have to keep our trust in God. We have to lean on God and not our own understanding. We have to cast our cares on God. We have to surrender it all, not just some of it, but it all to God. We have to let go and let God handle it. We have to understand that we are not in control but God is. It's hard to let go but it is required. If you don't let go, you will be in constant worry and doubt about you tomorrow. God does not want us living in fear and anxiety. He wants us to have faith. Make sure your faith is in God.

Understand, even if things don't work out the way you expect them to, they will work out the way God knew they would and He has already said in the book of Jeremiah that He knows the plans He has for us and He is faithful and just to bring them to pass.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Jeremiah 29:11

Amplified Bible

For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

It's Time To Stop Fluctuating and To Stand Strong In Faith

You have to stop changing sides. You have to stop being up one minute and down the next. You have to stop playing pity-pat with the devil. You have to stop fluctuating between faith and fear.

God is God all the time and He wants you to trust Him, believe Him, have hope in Him, honor Him, obey Him, be strong in Him, and everything else all the time. He doesn't want your faith fluctuating. He wants you to stay in a place where you say you believe Him and you trust Him until he brings it to pass.

God's promises are true and that settles it. When you say it is settled, you come into agreement and the matter is resolved. Come into agreement with God. Let the matters of your life be settled when it comes to God. Know that God's Word is true. Trust God's Word. Have faith in His Word. Don't retreat when the enemy comes at you. Stand sure and be strong when it comes to your firm foundation of faith.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 Corinthians 16:13

King James Version 

"Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong."

Are You Binding Up and Casting Down and Out The Negative Words That Others Are Speaking Over Your Life?

Are you letting yesterday's pain dictate whether or not you will receive tomorrow's promise? Understand, how you handle the pain of your yesterday will determine whether or not you will receive God's blessings today and tomorrow. Don't let your pain dictate whether or not you will receive your promises from God.

In life we will experience the good, the bad, and the ugly. We will go through some things that we feel we never should have had to go through. People will do and say things that will hurt us whether they mean to hurt us or not. With life comes all of these challenges but it's how we handle the challenges that matter.

Don't allow the words of the enemy to penetrate your heart. Don't allow the actions of people to cause you to react. Don't allow the process of life to bring you death. You are in control of what you receive in life. You can receive the words, whether good or bad, that come from other people or you can choose not to receive them. 

In order for someone or something to have authority over your life, you have to Grant it or them consent. You don't have to consent to the evil that comes out of someone's mouth over your life. You don't have to accept it and you don't have to receive it. You need to know how to bind up and cast down and out what's being spoken that you don't want to receive.

People will try to curse you with their words and it's important that you know how to reject and dismiss what they are saying that is not an alignment with God's Word for your life. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Isaiah 54:17 

King James Version 

"No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me,” says the Lord."

Don't Get Caught In The Trap of Lying and Having To Tell More Lies

Are you changing the truth to benefit yourself? Any change to the truth makes it a lie. God is truth and you can't change God.  Take a moment and think about what truth is. Truth is stable. Truth does not fluctuate. Truth changes not. Truth is not based on human emotions. Again, God is truth. 

God is stable. God does not fluctuate. God changes not. God's truth is based on His Word and His Word does not change based on how we feel.

When we change the truth, it becomes a lie.  The thing about telling a lie is that a snowballs and in order to keep it up, you have to continue to lie. You have to continue to lie so that the lies of your past don't unravel. So in essence, your stories become bigger stories and that takes up a lot of mental space because you have to remember the lies of your past so that you can fabricate the lies in your future.

The best way to live life is in truth. We need to always reflect the characteristics of God and God is truth. Don't allow the twisted tales of life to cause you to live a life full of detours that take you further and further away from the truth of God. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 7:14 

"Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies." 

Are You Asking and Allowing God To Show That He Is Fighting For You?

What do you do when you don't know what to do? Are you giving up? Are you quitting? Are you letting go? Are you surrendering? If you are surrendering, who and what are you surrendering to? Are you surrendering to God or you surrendering to the devil and going into a place of being defeated?

God wants us to surrender but He wants us to surrender to Him! We have to make sure we're surrendering to the right one. We are not to surrender to defeat. We are to surrender to God so that our enemies can be defeated. 

We have to understand that God is fighting for us. We have to allow Him to fight for us. If we're constantly trying to rule and to reign over our own situations instead of letting God rule and reign in and through our situations, we are trying to do things and accomplish things in ourselves. God wants us the cast our cares on Him because He cares for us. 

He wants us to acknowledge that we trust Him by letting go and asking Him to handle it. We have to believe that God knows all and that He can do all things. The only way to acknowledge that you believe is by letting go and letting God do what only He can do. Today let's ask God to intervine and to show that He is on our side. Let's ask Him to do what only He can do. Let's let Him show our enemies that He is fighting for us. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Isaiah 64:1 (KJV)

"Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,"

Don't Serve God Half-Heartedly! Be All In!

Are you walking in mediocrity? Are you lukewarm when it comes to walking in faith?  Are you tolerating your own unfaithfulness? Are you telling yourself that it's okay to do what you do even if you know it's not okay with God?  Understand, God wants you to be all in! He wants you to seek Him and to serve Him.

Are you all in with God? Are you willing to give God your all and not just expect Him to do all that you need Him to do? Understand God wants us to be faithful and He will honor His Word of faith. It works both ways.

When a cake is half done it falls. When a chair is put together halfway, it falls. When we do things half-heartedly, we take the risk of falling. If we're going to walk this walk for God and talk this talk for God, we need to live this life for God fully. We need to do it all the way. We need to be all in. We need to not serve God halfway.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Matthew 6:24

 

King James Version 

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.