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.

God Wants Us To Grow To The Point Where Our Lives Are Transformed and The Fruit of Our Lives Is Seen

Are you stunting your own growth by putting your total dependence on what you can do in yourself, by yourself, and for yourself?  Being dependent only on yourself sets boundaries around your life and around your growth. It's set limits on how you see yourself and what you can see yourself doing. It causes you to have an inward look and a mindset of self-sufficiency  instead of an outward look of faith ans seeing God as all-sufficient. 

Have you ever been physically exhausted to the point that you just can't do one more thing? When you are self-sufficient and not dependent on God, you will become spiritually exhausted and you won't be able to move in motion with God. You will be spiritually overwhelmed, spiritually tired and spiritually disconnected.

God wants us living in His peace. He wants us living in His power. He wants us to be filled with faith and to not have futile faith.  We have to go beyond just saying that we believe to the point of trusting and believing until we experience the transformation and the fruit that comes with that transformation in our lives.  We have to stop stunting our growth and begin to grow into the fullness of all God has created us to be in and with Him. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

John 15:5 

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in him, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."

Are You Excited About Being In The Presence Of The Right People In Life?

Would you count it a privilege to be invited into the presence of someone who is of great importance? A king or someone very famous. Would you call that a privilege to be one of the few who was actually invited into that person's presence? Understand the privilege that we have to go before God every day. To be invited into His presence every day. For the veil to be torn and for us to actually be able to enter into His presence.

We as people sometimes take for granted the fact that we have an open invitation to God. He's the most important person in this world and of this world. People get excited to go before people who have status in society and yet they fail to acknowledge and know the importance and have the same or even more excitement when they go before the omnipotent, omniscient, all powerful, all knowing, Creator of everything that is.

People get excited about going before an earthly king who has earthly authority and yet they fail to get excited about going before our holy God and King who has Heavenly Authority. People get excited about being in the presence of performers and not excited about being in the presence of God.

Performers are looking for human validation whereas God is looking for relationship, truth, and trust. We have to know the importance of being in God's presence and we have to be overjoyed for just having the opportunity go to Him, to ask of Him, and to rest in Him. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 95:1-2

King James Version 

"Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song."

Don't Forget God's Benefit Package

God told us to forget not all of His benefits. What does that mean to you? What benefits has God given you that He is urging you not to forget?

He told us not to forget that He forgives and pardons our iniquities. He told us not to forget that He heals us from sickness and disease.  He told us not to forget that He is our redeemer. We have to remember His redemption. He told us not to forget that He crowns us with love and mercy. God told us not to forget that He satisfies us with good things.

The thing about a benefit is that it is over and above what you normally get. So we have to understand our benefits as God's children.  We have to remember that our benefits are not like earning a wage or God paying a debt. These benefits are strictly based on the love, goodness, grace, and mercy of God.

So don't forget your benefits. Know that you are automatically enrolled when you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Know that there is no waiting period with God's benefit package. You have immediate access to the Father and all that salvation has to offer. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 68:19 (KJV)

Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.