God's Faithfulness Is Not Based On How We Feel People Act and React Based On How We Feel. GOD RESPONDS TO OUR FAITH.

In most cases when you talk to someone or come in contact with someone their first question is how are you? They want to know how you are today. They want to know what you are feeling. God does not operate on your feelings. He does not operate on your emotions. God does not operate on your mood. God moves based on His Word, His truth, and your faith.

The thing is, our feelings fluctuate. We can feel good one minute and the very next minute we can feel bad. God and His Word change not.  There is no fluctuation in God. What He says, He means and when He commits to doing something, He does it.

Don't get me wrong, God cares about how we feel. He placed within us the ability to feel. He gave us emotions. So understand, He cares but He just doesn't base His actions on our reactions to situations in our lives.  The Bible tells us that God is compassionate and He is near to the brokenhearted but again, what He does for us is because He loves us and it is because of our faith in Him. A lot of times our emotions generate feelings that push us into a place of fear and God doesn't move on fear. Actually fear cancels out faith and it hinders the movement of God.

Understand, we can't be guided by our feelings. Our feelings shift and they change all the time. That's why our faith in God is our anchor. God is unchanging.  He wants us to trust Him no matter how we feel. He wants us to obey Him no matter how we feel. He wants us to have faith in Him no matter how we feel. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Malachi 3:6

 

Amplified Bible

6 “For I am the Lord, I do not change [but remain faithful to My covenant with you]; that is why you, O sons of Jacob, have not come to an end.

Are You Letting What Happened Yesterday Affect Your Outlook and Attitude Today?

How are you seeing today? This is the day that the Lord has made and we should rejoice and be glad in it. So often, instead of rejoicing, we are walking around mad, angry, and upset. We walk around murmuring and complaining instead of being thankful and grateful.  We have to get to the point of understanding that today is a new day and what happened yesterday, happened yesterday, and we have to not let it affect our actions and attitudes today.

There will be times in our lives when things just don't go our way. There will be times when we may not see exactly what we were hoping or expecting in life. There will be days when we seem to call on God more than other days. The thing is, God is with us at all times. He's with us through what feels like great days and He is still with us even when we are experiencing rough days. He has promised to never leave us nor forsake us and God honors His Word.

Make up your mind today that you're not going to allow what happened yesterday affect your outlook of today. Make up your in your mind that you are going to walk in hope and expectation because what did or didn't happen yesterday has no bearing on what will happen today unless you let it. Make up your mind that you're going to rejoice in God during the good times, the bad times, and all the times in-between. Make up your mind that you going to trust God with it. Whatever it is that's weighing heavy on your heart and your mind, trust God with it! Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Philippians 4:4

 

New International Version

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

Are You Still On Fire For God or Do You Have A Small Flickering Flame of Faith That's Barely Being Seen for God?

Are there people, places, or things that have caused you to slow down your roll for God. Where you were once on fire for God and now all of a sudden, what was once an on fire walk with God is now a small flame that can barely be seen.

There are people, places, and things that can come up in our lives that can cause us to have watered down faith. Faith where we say we believe but we are finding it hard to believe. Faith that has been quenched because of the pressures, tests, and trials that we encounter in life. Faith where we feel overwhelmed and faith where we're questioning God more than we are believing God.

Understand, when we say we have faith but we are constantly walking in fear and doubt, that's not faith! Fear and doubt cancel out faith. Having to see it to believe it, is not faith. Faith means you believe it even if you can't see it. That's why our faith has to be rooted and grounded in God. Even though we can't see God, we have to believe that God can and will do whatever it is we need done. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Jeremiah 20:9 

King James Version (KJV) 

 "Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay."

Do You Understand What You Must Do To Quench The Fiery Darts of The Enemy?

What are you busy doing while the enemy is busy trying to plot and plan against your life? Are you busy praying? Are you busy fasting? Are you busy trying to build yourself up in your most holy faith? Are you busy putting on your armor? Or, are you just being idle and not preparing yourself to be able to stand when the enemy comes to try to knock you off your feet?

Understand, the devil wants you to be defeated. He's not just contemplating doing things to hurt you or to harm you, he is putting his plan in action so that he can shoot his fiery darts at you and you have to be able to quench every fiery dart of the enemy.  Do you know what you have to do to quench the fiery darts of the enemy? The fiery darts of the enemy are quenched by the shield of faith.

Do you know how to raise your shield of faith? Your shield of faith is only raised by trusting in who God is and believing that His promises are true.  You have to trust and believe in order for you to block the fiery darts of the enemy which bring with it fear, doubt, and deceit.  

In order for you to be strong enough to raise your shield of faith, you must read God's Word, speak God's Word, pray God's Word, and remember God's Word. By doing all of these things, you can quench fear and eliminate doubt. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Ephesians 6:16

KING JAMES VERSION 

Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Are You Letting God Take What The Enemy Meant For Evil and Work It Together For Your Good or Are You Nullifying God's Process By Succumbing To Temptation?

What are you learning in your process of pain? Have you found the lesson in what you are going through? Have you secured your testimony so that you can help others get through? Has your process of pain caused you to get stronger and to grow in faith? Are you letting the devil win by murmuring, complaining, giving up, giving in, and by surrendering to temptation?

God has already told us that He wants to take what the devil meant for evil and work it together for our good but if we succumb to the evil, how can God work it together for our good? When you succumb to something, you give in to it. Instead of fighting off temptation, you yield to it.  God does not want us to yield to the pressures of life because when we do, it causes us to die spiritually. God wants us to live. He wants to be us to be strong in Him and the power of His might. He wants us to fight the good fight of faith and not to yield to the fear that is being presented to us by the devil.

We get to choose. We get to choose whether or not we are going to allow what the enemy is doing to hinder us, hurt us, and keep us from walking in faith or we can choose  to cast the care of it all on God, knowing that God cares for us and knowing that He will take it and work it together for our good and His glory.  How we handle what the devil is doing is our choice. We need to choose to trust God to bring good out of everything that the devil is trying to do that is evil in our lives. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Genesis 50:20 (KJV)

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

When The Devil's Trying To Implement His Vision In Your Life, What Are You Doing?

You have to know that the devil's always going to try. He wants to see you where he is. He wants to see you living your life out with him. So how are you counteracting the devil when he's trying to implement his plan in your life? Are you calling those things that be not as though they were? Are you binding up the works of the enemy and speaking life to your life? Or are you accepting what the enemy is saying and what the enemy is doing and being silent?  Your silence to what the enemy is doing is in essence your submission to what the enemy is doing. Don't submit to the devil!

You have to know, understand, and use the power of your words based on God's Word. If you never use your words to counteract the enemy, then the enemies words will be what will bear fruit in your life.  The enemy's faith is always in himself. Whereas, your faith should always be in God. The enemy thinks he's going to win and you should know that you win with Christ. Don't sit by idly while the enemy promotes and implements his plan in your life. Let the enemy's plan provoke you to live your life according to God's plan so that you can assure that you have the eternal life that Jesus died for you to have.  Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Luke 10:19

King James 

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.

Sometimes You Just Have To Begin Again With God

There may be times in your life where you have to start over. Times where you have to begin again. Understand, it's okay to begin again as long as you are beginning again with God.

It's a hard thought to think about having to start all over but if you truly really think about it, God is in the beginning. He's in the beginning of everything. So knowing that you're going back to the beginning it's like knowing that you going back to God. Going back to Him so that He can show you His perfect plan for your life.

Know that if you are having to start all over again, you are not alone. God is with you in the beginning, He's with you throughout the journey, and He will be with you throughout eternity. He hasn't changed, nor has his plan changed for your life. Sometimes, we get off track. We try to self-direct our lives, instead of following his direction. It is at those times we have to stop, go back to God for the answer, wait on God for the answer, and walk fully in faith with Him to fulfill His promise and to show us the answer.  Amen

Revelation 2:4-5 (King James Version)

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.