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.

Stop Fighting People - Our Retaliation Doesn't Compare To God's Retribution

There may have been times in your life when someone continuously did evil towards you. You may even be going through a time like that now. You have to remember what God has already said. God said that vengeance is His. Understand, God does not take it lightly when someone does wrong to one of His children.

What is really scary is when a person knows that you serve God and they still choose to do evil against you. I know it's hard to look past the wrongs of others. It's very easy to move into a place of retaliation instead of realizing God has retribution. You don't have to pay back evil for evil. Actually God has said to pray for those people that do evil against you. You have to have faith and trust in God's Divine Justice.

Understand when people commit evil against you. God sees it all. God saw what Pharaoh did, God saw what was done to Jesus, and God sees what's going on in your life where people are coming against you. God is not blind to the evil of man. Even though you don't see Him rebuke people right away, know that we all have to go before God's throne and we all have to give an answer for the deeds we have done. So whether God rewards evil now or whether He saves it until we have to go before the throne of grace, understand, God has already said that He will handle it.

God gives each of us time to get it right. He gives each of us time to make amends. He gives each of us time to forgive and to ask for forgiveness. Repentance is real and we need to know the importance of repentance.

Don't allow your enemies to take up space in your heart or your mind. Don't be consumed by what they are doing, instead, trust what God has said He will do. Your anger towards a person does not compare to God's wrath if that person doesn't repent. Let God handle it. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Romans 2:5 

"Because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed."

Are You Letting What Others Are Saying Override What God Has Already Said?

What is it that you are allowing to pull you away from your purpose? What are you allowing to distract you? What are you allowing to cause you to be anxious?  What are you allowing to cause you to walk in fear?

Whatever it is that answers all of these questions, understand it is not of God. God does not want you doing anything other than what He has purposed for you to do. He doesn't want you distracted by life. He doesn't want you anxious about anything. He doesn't want fear to overtake your faith.

Today make up your mind that you going to live this life on purpose in order to fulfill your purpose. Make up your mind that you will keep your eyes stayed on God. Make up your mind that you will have His peace that surpasses all of your understanding. Make up your mind that you will walk by faith and not fear.

It's not always easy to do all of these things but you have to remember that God is with you. He said He would never leave you nor forsake you. He said that He is watching over His Word to perform it in your life. Never let what the world and the people of this world say override what God has already said. Amen

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Isaiah 55:11 l

Amplified Bible (AMP)

So will My word be which goes out of My mouth; It will not return to Me void (useless, without result), Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.