Is Your Faith Rooted In Fear or Your Love and Trust in God? Has Fear Become Your Constant Companion?

Are you running? Are you hiding? Are you trying to handle things on your own? If you are doing all of these things, then your faith is not in God. Your faith is in what you think you can do or what you think you need to do.

Understand, you can have faith in fear. When you have faith in fear, fear becomes your friend. It becomes your constant companion. It's with you wherever you go. It's recognizable as relatable to you.

Just as God's Word prophesies to your life, so can fear. Fear will speak to you. It will tell you what you can and cannot have in life. It will give you negative words that predict failure, loneliness, and lack. Fear will bring with it the "what if" questions that come up in life. It will tell you stories about what you can't do and it will always give you worse case scenarios about what you are going through.

You will see throughout life people change companions constantly but make it a point not to become a companion of fear. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

2 Timothy 1:7

King James Version

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

What Are You Holding Onto and What Are You Letting Go Of? Are You Letting Go Of What You Should Be Holding Onto?

There are many things in life that we need to let go of but my question today is are you letting go of the right things or should I say the things that are wrong for your life? So often in life we try to hold onto the wrong things and we let go of the right things. We need to be holding on to God and His unchanging hand. We need to be holding onto our faith. We need to be holding on in prayer for our friends and our families. There are many things in life that we need to hold onto.

So often in life people let go. They let go of God. They let go of faith. They let go of friends and family and stop praying for them. They let go because of what they cannot see. You have to understand faith is believing for what you cannot see. So to let go when you can't see the results it's the opposite of walking in faith.

God has not only called us to walk in faith, He has told us to walk in faith. He said through faith and patience we shall receive the promise. He said to have faith in Him. Abraham is our example. God wanted us to see that walking in faith is possible. So understand today what feels like it is impossible, is possible with God. Stop letting the enemy win by letting go of the wrong things. The things you need to let go of all pertain to the enemy and His works. So filter your faith through the Word of God and you will always know what to hold onto and what to let go of. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

2 Corinthians 5:7

King James Version

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

Are You Fretting Because Of Evil Doers? What God Says We Should Be Doing.

Are you fretting because of the evil someone else is trying to do to you?  To fret means to lose your peace. It means to be angry, anxious, and agitated. Is there something going on in your life that people are trying to do to you that's causing you to fret? The Bible tells us not to fret because of evil doers!  It tells us that our fretting only leads us to do evil as well.

The Bible tells us that instead of fretting over the evil that someone else is doing to us, we ought to turn away and to do good. That can be a hard thing to do. But that's what God wants us to do.  He said we are to depart from evil and to do good.  We are to shift our focus on things that are true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, and admirable.   It doesn't matter what others are doing, we are in control of what we do and we need to know how to bind up and cast down at the initial thought anything that tries to rise up that pertains to evil in response to the evil that someone else is doing.

This is where resistance comes in. We are to resist the devil and he shall flee. So we must resist the temptation to pay back evil for evil. We are God's children and our actions and reactions need to line up with God and His Word. We have to respond the way God would respond and not react the way the devil wants us to act. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 Peter 3:11

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

We Have Discernment and God Provides Us With Divine Surveillance But What Is Crossing the Threshold of Your Heart?

The thing about a door is that anyone can come up to your door and knock on it. You get to choose whether you answer the door. The Bible says Jesus is knocking at the door of our hearts and we get to choose whether or not we will let Him in and allow Him to bring in His peace, His power, His strength, His knowledge, His understanding, and so much more. But understand, the devil is also knocking at the door of your heart. He wants to bring in evil, deceit, destruction, lies, confusion, and so much more. The question is, who and what are you letting in?

Nowadays most people have some kind of security camera up at their home. Think about a ring camera. Think about the purpose of the camera. The purpose of the camera is to act as surveillance over your home. It records everything going on even those things that people think are hidden or not seen. They can be seen on a ring camera. Now think about God. Think about the omnipresence of the Father. Think about how He knows and sees all things. His Word says that His eyes are everywhere and He sees the wicked and the good.

Understand, we have discernment and God provides us with divine surveillance. He is everywhere and He sees everything and He is shielding and protecting us at all times but we still get to choose who and what we allow to cross the threshold of our hearts. Are you letting God in or are you letting the devil in? You are the one who opens the door and allows whomever or whatever to enter in to your heart, mind, and life. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Revelation 3:20

King James Version

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.

Are You Letting What Someone Else Is Trying To Do Too Destroy Your Peace In God?

Are you letting what others do destroy God's peace in you? God is still God! Why are you fretting over what others are trying to do to you? What others try to do does not negate what God has already said and what God has already done. You have to remember, your faith is in God and not in the actions of others.

Understand, one of the greatest assets that the enemy has in the Earth is a person who's willing to compromise. A person who's willing to cross the boundary between the truth and a lie. A person who is willing to lower their standards to appease the desires of their flesh. Whether that means lowering their standard to act out and sin or lowering their standards to bring hurt and harm to someone else.  Just as God is looking for yielded vessels that will surrender their lives to Him, the devil is also looking for yielded vessels to surrender their lives to him.

You can't let what someone else is saying or doing affect your peace in God. When you have peace in God, that means you are situated in the Word and the will of God, you are shielded, guarded, and protected while you rest in God. Don't let anyone pull you out of that place of rest in God into a place of fear and unrest. People will be people and people will do what they want to do. However, you get to choose how you will respond to what's being done. Let your response always be based on what Jesus has already done. He has won the victory and you have toxkeep a victorious mindset. So stay in the victorious place of peace with God. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Philippians 4:6-7 

King James Version

6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds

Are You Checking Yourself Against Yourself and Not Others? How Are You Running Your Spiritual Race? Are You Winning Your Faith Fight?

Life is full of competitions but you need to understand, the only competition that truly matters in life is your faith fight. God told us to fight the good fight of faith. We have to stop trying to compete with man and understand that we are in a self-competition.  A competition where we get up each day and check ourselves and our faith walk against ourselves. Our faith walk is a one-on-one walk with God. We can't live out someone else's faith. We can learn what it means to walk in faith. We can look at the lives of others like Abraham and see how he lived in faith and trusted God but ultimately, we have to live our own lives of faith and how we live our lives of faith reflects how much we personally trust and believe God.

So today make it a point to grow in faith. Out perform your yesterday's walk of faith. Pray more. Trust more. Believe more. Wait on God more. Find an area that you didn't grow in faith yesterday (where fear and doubt entered in) and undergird yourself with God's Word to help you grow in that area today. Do what you can today to make sure your choices are in alignment with God's Word, so that God can honor His Word in your life. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 Timothy 6:12

Amplified Bible

Fight the good fight of the faith [in the conflict with evil]; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and [for which] you made the good confession [of faith] in the presence of many witnesses

God Did Not Put You Here To Just Exist. He Made You Different To Make A Difference!

You have to understand that God did not just put you here to exist. He put you here to make a difference and to be different. He didn't place you here to follow the crowd. He didn't place you here to just agree with what the enemy is saying and doing in the world. He put you here to be a prayer warrior. He put you here as His voice in the earth. He put you here so that His love could flow through you to others. God put you here on purpose and He placed within you His purpose.

So understand what that means. That means you are not here by accident. God does not do things by accident. He did not put you here just to survive. He wants you to thrive in Him.  God created you and He filled you with His Holy Spirit which means inside of you is all that God is. His peace is in you. His joy is in you. His strength is in you. Everything that God is, resides on the inside of you. You just have to access it. You have to access His peace, His joy, His love, His strength, and everything else that He is and as you access all of who and what God is by practicing his presence.

You practice His presence by including Him in every part of your life. If you washing dishes, you still need to be aware of God's presence. If you are at work, you need to be aware of God's presence. If you're hanging out with friends,  you still need to be aware of God's presence. You have to practice having faith over fear. You have to practice having peace even when there's chaos around you. When you learn how to practice God's presence, it will eventually become your norm and your norm will prove to be you walking in your purpose at all times. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 16:8 (KJV)

"I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved."