Sunday, July 31, 2011

What Is Your Truth Today.....

What is your confession today?   What are  you speaking over your life, in your life, and into the lives of those around you?   What is it that you see to be true?  Your reality?

Are you basing your truth on your ability or the ability of God?

In your ability.....what you can do?    You have to know that in the ability of God.....you can do all things.......

What is your truth today?   Are the bills your truth.....or is Jehovah Jireh the one who provides your truth today?   Is sickness and disease your reality.....or is Jehovah Ropha the one who heals the truth of your reality?

What exchange are you making today?   Are you trading your sorrow for the joy of the Lord?  

Will your day be based on giving or taking?   Will you take all you can get......or will you pour out the love of God on someone else today?

Will you make this day about you today?   Or will you make it about the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus?   Will you let someone know that He lives today?   Will you show someone through your words and your actions that He lives in you today?

Your representation......your reality.....what will it be today?   What you represent ...... and what is real to you..... always reflects.   It is noticeable and it can be seen.    The reflection of who you are is always exposed.    When something is exposed.....it is made visible when it is uncovered and unprotected.    That is why when you put God first....you remain covered and the only thing that people can see is the God in you.

What will it be about for you today?   What will the reflection of your reality be?

Worship For Today....
"Ignite My Fire"
Ministered By Pastor William Murphy

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Do You Know What You Are Doing? Are You Making Excuses?

It's time to stop making excuses.   An excuse is an attempt to lessen the blame for something.....or when you seek to defend or justify something.    God wants us to stop making excuses......   Excuses for our actions, excuses for our words, excuses for our lives.    We need to begin to understand the things we do and the things we say have an impact.

Understand that because of God's grace and God's mercy.....we are forgiven.   But it is still impacting our lives.   The quality of  our lives.   The position we take in life.    An excuse......   We have to begin to live out our lives without excuses.   Without trying to defend or explain away the things that we do.  

There are times when we don't understand what we are doing and when you don't have knowledge and understanding you tend to do things by mistake.   But....there are other times when we know exactly what we are doing and we do it and try to explain it away.   It is at that point that it becomes willful sin.   Where we sin willingly and knowingly.   Where we go in with the precept that God understands.   He will forgive me.   I'm just not strong enough.

 Question.....if your strength is in Him.....why are you not strong enough?    It is only when you are trying to operate in yourself that your strength fails.   That you walk in frailty.  

God is looking for you to make a choice.   To choose Him over everything and everyone else.   To choose to walk with Him .... to talk to Him..... to love Him.   We are quick to say that we are alone....and lonely.   But where was God in your time of loneliness.  Why didn't you spend time with Him....commune with Him.   He was right there....waiting on you.....but your focus was to find someone or something else.  

The thing is .... when the someone or something else lets you down.....you then tend to run back to God for the comfort you need.    Isn't it funny how we seek companionship from someone and then run to God for comfort.   Why don't you let your comforter be your companion.    Stop dividing your relationship with Him.    Allow Him to be the core of every relationship you have.   Remember that in the core there are seeds for other relationships....but those relationships are birthed out of your relationship with Him.   The relationships that come from the core of your relationship with God will bear fruit.   The fruit of God.   They will produce love...joy....peace....and comfort.

Worship For Today....
"I Can Only Imagine"
Ministered By Mercy Me

Friday, July 29, 2011

Father Can You Hear Me.....

Father can you hear me?   Have you ever found yourself asking those words?   Words of hope....words of desperation.....   When you don't know which way to go and where to turn and you wonder if God can hear you or if He is listening your YOUR prayer and YOUR cry for help.

You have to know that God hears you.   That He hears every word that proceedeth out of your mouth....whether they be good or bad.   There are times that we think that the only thing that God hears is when we call Him by name.   We have to understand that God hears all and knows all.   Whether your cry is to Him or to someone else.....He's listening.   

He hears the words of love we speak, as well as, the words of destruction.   Hate and dishonor to ourselves, to Him, and to others.    We tend to think that we can say anything and it doesn't matter.   We have to begin to understand the power of our words.   Words "carry".   They are containers for any and all things that we need in our lives.   They carry within them the power for us to prosper as well as the power to fail.   It is a  matter of how we use them.     We can use them to edify or we can use them to tear down.   We can use them to encourage others or we can use them to discourage others.    We can use them to speak life or we can use them to enforce death.    How are you using your words today?

Are they words of encouragement or discouragement?   Are you using them to pray for yourself and those around you?   Are you using them to speak life or death?   Your words can change your destiny.  

Your words enforce God's promise.   They carry within them the power to cause things to change...to line up....to come to pass.   

Understand today....you possess within you a key.   The key to speak.   This key is what God wants you to use to open up the door to heavens blessings.    However, with this same key you can access hell's gate.   It's all up to you how you use it.    Which door you gain entrance to and go through is up to you.       

Remember.....your life is supposed to be hidden "in" God.......you can never hide "from" God.   So everything that you do.....everything that you say.....everything that you think.....God knows.   Make it your goal not to "quench" the Spirit of the Lord within you.   Allow God's fire to burn continuously within you so that no matter what comes or when it comes......the light of God (His power, His wisdom, His word) is always available to you......to speak life to your situation and to those around you.  

Worship For Today....
"These Are The Words I Would Say"
Ministered By The Sidewalk Prophets

Thursday, July 28, 2011

What Will It Take?

What will it take to let go?   To give your all?   To trust?   What will it take for you to believe?   To know God's word is true?   To show yourself faithful?  

What is the basis of your belief?   Your strength?   Your supply?  

What will it take for you to know that God is real?   That He lives?   That He is living on the inside of you?

What will it take for you to do His will?   To follow His plan?   To pursue your purpose in Him?

Will it take tragedy, insufficiency, destruction?   Or will you just do it?  

Will you just believe Him because of who He is?   Will you just trust Him because of who He is?    Will you just be faithful because of who He is?

The Bible says choose this day who you will serve.......the choice is yours......

Make your decision based on who He is and not what's going on in your life.    If you only make choices based on circumstances....you really don't have a basis for your belief.  

 Let the basis of your belief be who God is......not what He has to do in your life to rescue you.

Worship For Today....
"Be Encouraged"
Ministered By William Becton

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Ever Told God You Will Give It Your All?

So what is your all?   Is your all only part?   A portion?   All means the "whole" amount.   It means "entire".   It means "as much as possible".  

So many times we tell God that we are going to give Him our all.   Everything.   But we still hold so much in reserve.    We hold back our trust.   We hold back our praise.   We hold back our worship.   When are we going to really give Him our all.  

We say we trust the Lord to supply all of our needs.   Yet we worry....we stress....we try to figure out what to do next.   So what is trust?   Remember when you say you trust God you say you have a firm belief in the truth, ability, strength and power of God.   When something is firm....it is solid and unyielding.

When we praise God....we praise Him as though we have a gag on.   A gag is meant to keep you from speaking or crying out.   We have to learn how to praise with all that is within us.   No restraints.    We have to learn what it really means to worship God in Spirit and in Truth.  

All means all.....

We have to get it.....we have to believe it.....we have to be free enough to reveal our beliefs to others.

It is only when there is doubt that we hold things in reserve.   When we think we need another recourse.   When there is a "maybe" or an "if" in our thinking.   When something is on reserve....it is set aside for later use.  

Let your "reserves" only be in God.   When you need to rely on something or someone else....rely on Him.   When you are in need.....depend on Him.   When you need peace.....rest in Him.   God IS a never ending supply.   No other resource is necessary when you have Him.

God gave His all.....the question is.....are you ready to truly give Him your all?

Worship For Today....
"I Give You My Heart"
Ministered By Hillsong

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Components Of Life .... Is God Your Who, What, When, Why, and Where?

The components of life.   Have you ever thought about it?   What your life is comprised of?   Who is taking first place in your life?   What are you giving heed to? Who and What determines When you step out on faith?   Why you do the things you do?  ........and Where you will go When it's all said and done?

Your who....what....when....why....and where.   Your life.    What determines the course your life will take is the answer to these questions.    It is God's desire that He is the answer to these questions.   He wants to be the "who" that is taking first priority and position in your life.  He wants to be the "what" your life is comprised of.....the love, the joy, the peace.    He wants to be the one who shows you and reveals to you "when" you are to move and step out on faith.    He wants to be the "why".....the reason you do what you do.  He wants to be your "where"......He wants your final destination to be in Him.

It's time to answer these questions.   What is and what has been the determining factors in your life?   What has caused you to be at this place?   Whether it be a place of peace or a place of unrest.   What has brought you to where you are now?  So that you can clearly see where you are going.  

Understand that there are five questions (who, what, when, where, and why)......but the answer to all five questions is ONE God.   If God is your answer to all things in life.....it makes your life much easier.   It takes away the division of having to determine.   Understand it has already been determined that God is the answer.  

Whether the need is for healing.....God is Jehovah Rophe....the one WHO heals.   If the need is financial.......God is Jehovah Jireh.....the one WHO provides.   If you are feeling stressed.....God is Jehovah Shalom.....WHAT you need.....peace.  

Remember it's all about making it about Him.   About His will, His purpose, His plan.   When it's about Him....He is always the answer to every component of your life.

Worship For Today....
"Bow Down & Worship Him"
Ministered By Bishop Paul Morton & Bishop Marvin Winans    

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Monday, July 25, 2011

So What's Different?

So what's different in what you are saying today?   What is different in what  you are doing today?   Are you making a difference?   Different means that something is unlike in nature, form or quality.    So what is different in you.....about you?     So what is different about your nature?   You nature is your inherent character or disposition.   When others encounter you today......could they see a difference?   Will they see a difference?    Or do you just conform?   Conform to the people, the places, the things around you.  

What's different about your God?   The God that you serve.   What is His nature?   Remember.....nature is an inherent characteristic.   Your nature should be that of your God.   So what qualities will others see in your that reflect who your God is?  

We have been brought up in a world that leads you to believe that there is something wrong with being different. But in God's eyes different is good.....when your difference reflects who He is.  

God never called you to conform to the people, places, or things around you.   He did tell us however, to be as He is.   To walk as He walks.   To talk as He talks.   He has told us to speak His Word and to reflect His image.    Any image outside of the image of who God is ..... is deformed.     When something is deformed.....it means that you have taken away the natural characteristics of it.    Those things which cause it to remain beautiful.    

So again....the question to you today is "What Is Different"?   What is different about you?   What is different about your God?   What is different about your walk?   What is different about how you talk?   What is different about your passion?   What is different about your pursuit?  

When things are beautiful they stand out for others to see.   Will you allow the "Beauty of God" to cause you to stand out for others to see the "Reflection of the Father"?   Will you allow your difference to be transformed into a tool for God's grace?    A tool that will help lead others to a place of repentance.   A place of knowing that God is with them, in them, and ready to work through them.   A place of knowing that it is okay to be different.......

Worship For Today....
"Yes"
Ministered By Shekinah Glory

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Understanding Your Ministry of "One'.......

God has given you the "Ministry Of One".   Your "one" life can change another life.   Your "one" life can change a generation.   Your "one" life can change the world.   We sit back and we ask what we are supposed to do.   We try to figure it out.   We try to see the big picture.   God is saying to operate in the ministry of "one".   Using your "one" life to make a difference.   Using your "one" life to show the world that He is real.   

What you have to remember is that LOVE spreads.   It is contagious.    JOY spreads.   PEACE spreads.   POWER spreads.   The WORD spreads.    It is not confined to just you.   Unless you confine it.   If you never share love, joy, peace, power or the Word.....how can people know? 

Your ministry is to operate as "One".   One who loves God.   One who is experiencing the joy of the Lord.   One who is walking in the peace of God.   One who is operating under and in His power.   One who is sharing the Word that is within.

When I say a ministry of one....I am talking of a personal relationship.   Jesus was a ministry of one.....but He had others with Him.   A ministry of one does not mean that you are disconnected from others around you.  It just means you have a personal relationship with God.   That you believe Him for yourself.    When we believe God for ourselves and come together as a body.....the body will be more effective.   There will be strength in every part of the body.       A strong arm .... but a weak hand..... cannot carry the weight effectively.   

Perfect your relationship with God.....

Loving Him with all your heart only comes when you trust Him with all your soul.   Because your soul is comprised of your mind, will, and emotions......trusting Him only comes when you have knowledge of who He is.....what He has done.....and what He desires to do in your life.  

Keep in mind....."to minister" means to serve.   Your FIRST ministry will always be to God.   To serve God with your life.   He is the first "One" in your ministry of "one".    Your life was created by Him to be used for Him.  

ALWAYS let God be the "One" in your ministry.   Let it always be about Him, for Him, in Him, and through Him that you minister.   

Worship For Today.....
"All I Need Is You"
Ministered By Hillsong

Saturday, July 23, 2011

What Happened To Your Love....What Happened To Your Passion?

What happened?   What happened to your love....to your passion....to your compassion?   When did you stop running with zeal?   When did you stop seeking with all your heart?   What are you following now?   What did you happen to put before your love for God?  

Remember when.....

When you prayed with zeal.....when your worshipped nonstop......when you read your Bible without ceasing?   Do you remember when you sought God in everything that you did?   The love....the compassion....the peace.....the power.   What happened?  

Passion is defined as a strong desire.....a longing.   What are your passionately pursuing?   What are your desires leaning towards?   What has caused your pursuit to change?   Your prayer life to change?   Your study habits to change?   What has gained more importance than God?

Have you ever wondered why we have challenges in life?   Do you think that God wants us to remember that we are nothing and can do nothing without Him?   It's usually when we are facing challenges that we tend to seek God's face.   What do you do when all is good?   Do you still seek Him?   Do you desire sweet communion with Him?   Do you remember that He is the one that brought you to the place of deliverance and peace?  

It's time to remember your first love.   Who He is and what He has done for you.   It's time to put Him first in everything.   When you get up in the morning....put Him first.   When you go to work....put Him first.    When you encounter others....put Him first.   Be a stream that flows....full of love and compassion for others.   When you see someone that is sick...PRAY.    When you see someone with a need....INTERCEDE.  

We have to begin to see that our deliverance is not for ourselves.   Our passionate pursuit is not for our own glory or satisfaction.  We tend to stop pursuing once OUR needs are met.   What about those around you?   Your deliverance is to help you believe so that you can have enough faith to help bring someone else to their point of belief.

So remember....your PURSUIT.....your PASSION......your DELIVERANCE.....doesn't stop with you.   It's to glorify God and to help someone else.   Stop taking intermissions in your walk with God.   God doesn't take intermissions .... He never sleeps nor slumbers.   Check your love walk.....pray without ceasing....pursue God with a passionate pursuit...be a RIVER.....

What happens when a river stops flowing?   It becomes stagnant.....   It becomes filled with dead things.....
God's desire is that you live....that you flow....and that you be full of Him.

Worship For Today...
"Flow To You"
Ministered By William Murphy

Friday, July 22, 2011

What Is It About What God Is Doing That You Don't Understand?

What are you looking at?   Are you looking at the situation or the circumstance?   Or are you looking at God?   God wants your focus to remain on Him.   He wants you to understand that He knows all and He sees all.   As a matter of fact.....He wants you to understand that He is all.  

We get busy and we lose focus.   The definition of focus is...."to adapt to the prevailing level of light and become able to see clearly".   To adapt....to prevail.....and to be able.    What we tend to do is to adapt to the situation or the circumstance.   We allow it to be what prevails and our ability to see never goes beyond our circumstance.  

When something prevails in your life......it means that it proves to be more powerful than the opposing forces.   What is coming up against it.  

You have to begin to understand the "dunamis power" of God.   The inherent power.   The power that operates no matter what.   The power that doesn't rely on your understanding it......it just is.  

There will be things that come against your life that you are able to change.....no matter how hard you try.   the question is what will you adapt to......the situation or the God who already knows about it and who has already said that He would work out all things for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.  

So when you don't understand.....know that God knows what He is doing.   He is good like that.......

When you can't figure it out......God already has the plan.   For didn't He say that He knows the plans that He has for us.  

What we do is try to figure it out and try to do it.    All God wants is for you to give it to Him.   Allow your focus (your ability to see) to be adapted (become adjusted) to the one who ALWAYS prevails.   Keep your eyes on God.   For light illuminates.....it shines....it uncovers.......and allows you to see beyond.   That's what God wants.....He wants you to see beyond what you are going through and know that He has already worked it out.

Worship For Today.....
"He Wants It All"
Ministered By Forever Jones

Thursday, July 21, 2011

It's Just Him.....Now That You Know That You Are A Living Epistle....Tell Your Story!

When you feel someone carrying you....It's Just Him.   When you get peace in the situation....It's Just Him.   When you can find joy in the midst of the storm....It's Just Him.    That's who God is.

He is your Comforter....Your Peace.....Your Joy.   He is your Hope.  

When everything seems as though it is closing in on you.   That's when you have to move closer to Him.   The press....the pressure....makes things compact.   Therefore bringing you closer to God.   He is wherever you are. You have to trust in the word that says He will NEVER leave you nor forsake you.   You have to trust in the word that says that He is EVER PRESENT in your time of need.

You have to understand that God lives in you.   The funny thing is that we just don't recognize Him until we are under pressure.   We don't see His attributes until we are faced with the challenges of life.   What do we need to do to maintain that closeness?   Even when we are not going through....someone else is.   Someone else needs your prayers.   When your challenge is over.....are you able to minister a word from God to someone else?   To help them see that God is there.   That He hasn't left them or forsaken them.

Our walk.....our talk.....all reflects.  It shines a light upon the goodness of God.   It reveals His attributes.....His character.    Our lifestyle.....our trust.....are testimonies of His goodness and His grace.   For when others see you....and see your faithfulness.....they see the goodness of God.   They see the HOPE that is in God.   They see the grace of God.  

So get closer today....even if your trial is over....stay close.    So that when the light shines on you....the reflection of God can shine from you.    The reflection of peace....of joy.....of love.....   The reflection that shows those around you that everything is going to be alright if they just trust and obey.     The reflection that shows a loving Father with arms open wide.....a comforter.....who never leaves nor forsakes His children.

Show the realness of God.   Share your testimony.....so someone else can know that God is real.   So they can see His grace and His mercy.   Let someone read your story.....we have the Bible to lead us and to guide us......but until some people get to the Bible.......all they have is your life to read.   Be a living epistle.....an open book....to be read by all those around you.

A book of faith....a book of trust....a book of peace.....a book of joy.....a book of hope.   Confirm God's words through your actions.   Know that the Bible.....the Word of God.....is still being written though you today.   You are the book that God is writing and that people are reading.

Worship For Today....
"The Deep Of Your Grace"
Ministered By Hillsong

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

What Does It Mean To Revere God?

What does it mean to revere God?   To reverence Him.   You have to understand what reverence means.   How can you do what you do not know?   When you revere something.....you love it beyond doubt.   Unquestioningly and uncritically.   You have a deep honor and respect for it.   This is where we should be with God.    There should be no questions about whether you honor or love God.   There are no "buts" in love.   Where we say I love you .... "but" I wish you would do this.   I love you ..... "but" I don't understand.    Unquestionable love does not have room for alternative answers.    It just is......

We should honor God.   We should have high respect and esteem for who He is.   What He has done.   As well as, what He is doing in our lives.    We should respect God.   When you respect someone......you have regard for their feelings, wishes, and rights.    Have we really been respecting God?   Do we care about how it makes Him feel when our lives are not in line with His word.   Obedience is part of respect.   By obeying God's word we are saying that we care about how our lives.....our lifestyle.....makes Him feel.

We have to move into a place of reverence.   Of deep respect.   Your Father is the Creator of the universe.  He is the Great I Am.   He is the one that was ....is....and is to come.   We take that so lightly and we fail to understand the significance of who He is.  

Get an understanding today.   An understanding of who God is .... not only to you but to those around you.   He is our Healer.   Our Deliverer.   Our Strong Tower.   He is our Safety.   Our Provider.   Our Peace.   He is Lord of Lords.   King of Kings.   He is God.   He is Love.  

Until you truly understand who He is.....you can't walk in true reverence.   Your understanding of a thing determines how you interpret or view it.   Complete understanding of His significance will allow you to reverence God in spirit and in truth.  

Worship For Today....
"Because Of Who You Are"
Ministered By Vicki Yohe

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Hostility.....Hate....Let It Not Be Named Among You.....

Do you think that it's by chance that the first miracle that Jesus performed was at a wedding.....and He said that in the end.....He is coming back for His bride?    Does that not tell you how important marriage and unity is to God.   How important love is to God.   For He said it of Himself......He is love.   Yet we take it lightly.   Instead of walking in love (who He is) .... we walk in hostility and hatred.   

Hostility is an attitude.   An attitude of unfriendliness.   It is based on opposition or resistance.   Hatred is based on your emotions and dislike.    What will it take for us to be as God in our love walk?   What will it take for us to truly lay down ourselves.   Our attitudes and our emotions and truly walk in the love of God.   

We first have to understand that none of us are the same.   God made us all unique and we have to learn to respect the differences in people.   We have to understand that when two things are different that they will act and react in different ways.    It is only when we walk in Christ that we should be walking and talking the same.   But not everyone is there yet.   In Christ....your walk should be one of love, peace, and harmony.   Because that is who He is.   He is the unified body.   

So as you go about your day today.....Go In Love.....

In other words.....Go In God.    

Don't allow opposition or differences cause  you to reflect something that you are not.   Don't allow your representation to dishonor who God is.    What we tend to do is judge people instead of looking past what needs to be changed and praying that they get to the place of change.   Sometimes the place of change isn't easy.....   It may take more for someone else to get there.   But we have to realize that we are intercessors.   Those set in place to go before God on the behalf of others.   Those who are commissioned to lay hands on the sick..... Those set in place to minister life. 

Understand today that hostility and hatred is not a part of ministering life.    It only causes things (and people) to die.   To die to the things of God.   

Understand your place today.   Understand why you were sent.   Do what God has called you to do.   For today is the day of salvation.   Salvation is who God is.    Minister who God is to someone else today.   Minister life.    Minister love.   

Worship For Today....
"I Give Myself Away"
Ministered By William McDowell

Monday, July 18, 2011

Just You.....

God wants just you.   He wants you in every aspect.   Your heart, your mind, your will, and your emotions.   He wants you to be totally committed to who He is and His will for your life.  

So many times we try to bring everything and everyone with us.   But we can't.   Because we can only control ourselves.   We can only control our will.   Not your brothers, your sisters, your neighbors, or your friends.   You can't control how others serve.....or how others worship.   It goes back to working out your own soul salvation.   For making right choices.   Choices that will lead you closer to God.   Choices that will open up revelation to you on who He is and His characteristics.  

So what God wants is surrender.    Surrender means to "cease to resist".   To stop resisting.    When we resist God....we are striving against Him.....we are opposing Him.   Why would we ever want to be on the side that is against who God is?   Wouldn't you rather be on the winning side?   The thing is.....on the winning side....the victory is already won.   There is nothing to do .... but rest.   Rest in your victory.   Rest in who God is.  

So why not surrender and move into who God is?   Why not let go?   Why not let God?   All He wants is you....the question is .... do you REALLY want Him?  

Worship For Today.....
"Bow Down & Worship Him"
Bishop Paul Morton & Bishop Marvin Winans

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Are Your Decisions Based On What Others Have To Say.....Or The Word Of God?

2nd Post For Today.....

What is impacting your decision for God today?    Are your choices based solely on what you believe or what someone else has said?   Are you making a decision today based on what you have been told or what you know to be true?

So many times we make decisions based on others peoples hurts and other peoples frustrations.   We have to know that God is judging us based on what He has told us.    The impact that life has had on someone else or the trial that someone else has had to go through is not the basis of your trial and should not be the cause of your decision.

The Bible says to work out your own soul salvation.   What you have to understand is that we each have a soul.   The soul is comprised of our mind, our will, and our emotions and we have to understand that situations affect our souls differently.    What I go through in life can have a totally different affect on your mind, your will, and your emotions because my sensitivity in one area......may be your strength in that area.

Make sure your choices are your own today.   That your decisions are based on what God has said to you and not someone else.   Learn the art of "shutting down".   Refuse to allow "stuff" to make a playground of your soul.   Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it flows the issues of life.   The questions is ....should someone else's issue become yours?   Should your decision be based on the ability of someone else to handle a situation?  

The choice is yours.....and remember that God holds us all accountable for what we know.  

We should never self condemn or condemn others.   But many times we move into a place based on the emotional backing or love we have for others that we should not be.  Even though things don't directly affect us.....we judge situations based on the affect it had on someone else.    The thing about the mind, the will, and the emotions.....it is individualized.    It is unique.   I don't have your mind and you don't have mines.   So why should my decisions be based on how you feel?

Final decisions on how we act and how we react.....have to be based on the Word.    They have to be based on what God has said.   It can't be based on how it has affected my friends, my family, or my loved ones.    Because there are many things that form roots in us dependent on what we have let in our eye gates and our ear gates.

We have to remember that our accountability is always to God.    For some reason we act as though it is to what others have to say about it.    Trust the Word that God has revealed to YOU and make every decision based on the Word and not your emotions or compassion for what others have to say.

What Is God's Reaction To Our Sin?

So what do you think God's reaction is to our sin?   How would you react if the people you loved the most continuously turned their backs on you?   If they continued to go against everything that you ask of them?   If they continually refuse to take your advice for things you know the answer to?   What would you do?   What would your reaction be?

Aren't you glad that you are not God?   Aren't you glad that the God you serve is full of grace and mercy.   That His love is unending and never changing.   That He forgives and doesn't remind you constantly of the areas you fail in.   Aren't you glad that He doesn't condemn you for your mistakes.   He continuously opens up His arms and receives you for who you are.   Aren't you glad that His love for you is unwavering and unshakable.....even if you don't deserve it.

God hates sin.   But aren't you glad that God loves you.   He loves you enough to give you another chance.   Another chance to make the right choice.   To make the right decisions.   To believe and trust His word.   The question is .... do you love Him enough to stop sinning?  

He has already laid down His life.....the question is do you love Him enough to lay down yours?   He has already made the ultimate sacrifice ....the question is what are you willing to sacrifice for Him?   God's love is limitless .... the question is are you putting a limit on how much you love God?  

At what point do you give God all of you?   Your mind, your will, your emotions......your life.     At what point do you say let the same mind be in me that was in Christ Jesus?   At what point do you say not my will but thy will be done?   At what point do you stop making decisions based on how you feel and make them based on God's word?  

When will God truly become Alpha and Omega in your life.   The beginning and the end of every decision  you make.    The one who unctions you to do a thing and the one who gives the final word on the things you do.  

As you go about your day....just remember.....God hates sin.   But God loves you.    Now you must decide how much do you love God.   Do you love Him enough not to bring "willful" sin into His presence?   In other words.....do you love Him enough not to continue to bring sin that you willingly commit into His Holy presence?

Worship For Today.....
"Renew Me"
Ministered By Avalon
(let the words minister to you)

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Everything Changes......

It changes.   What changes?   The situations......the circumstances.   The life.   It all changes.   When you speak the Word.....it changes.  

God has called us to speak His word and His word only.....and things will change.    When you have fear....speak God's word.....it will change.   When you are sick.....speak God's word.....it will change.    Everything changes when we speak God's word.    We have to understand the power of spoken word.   

Many times we think what we should be saying.   We think ..... God will heal us.   We think.....God will make a way.   We have to understand that God said the confession of our faith.    We have to begin to confess who we are....who's we are....and what He has said He will do for us.   We have to openly proclaim the Word of God.  We have been given the authority......it is our right.    

Change happens when you speak the Word of God.    Speaking reiterates what you believe.   When you can say a thing openly......you are no longer in bondage.   You are no longer constrained.    When you are in constraints.....you are limited.    So stepping outside of the restraints and speaking God's word....makes you limitless.   

You serve a limitless God.   So don't limit Him through fear and failure to confess His word.   Speak truth.   His Word is truth.   Speak it......  Take the limits off.   Show God that you believe by confessing what He has said concerning your life and the lives of those around you.   You have the power of influence.   The power that will influence others to change.   In other words....you have the power to persuade.   Begin to persuade others through your testimony and your confession.    

Worship For Today....
"Still In Love"
Ministered By The Katinas





Friday, July 15, 2011

If You Were The Taste Test.....Would People Want More Of God?

The Bible says to taste and see that the Lord is good and His mercy endures forever.   What if you are the only taste that people get of the Lord.   What would that taste be?   Would it be palatable?   Would it be sweet or bitter?

After encountering you.....when people got to see, hear, and taste a little bit of God.....would they come back for more?  

There are four basic taste sensations.   Sweet, Sour, Salty, or Bitter.....which are you?   If you are like salt....you  season and preserve.  When you preserve something, you have the ability to come back later because it has been kept.....preserved.    So prayerfully your words are like salt.   A preservative that allows you to come back at another time and minister life.    When something or someone is sweet....it is highly satisfying and gratifying.....and people almost always want more.   However, if something is sour or bitter.   That is not usually a taste that people want more of.   That usually means it is sharp and unpleasant.

So what taste are your producing?   Are you even palatable?   Meaning are people even able to be around you?  Do you leave a taste where people want to come back for more?   To hear more about your Lord and your Savior.   Or are you sharp and unpleasant to be around?  

If you were the only taste that people got of God.....what would they get?   How would they feel after they left your presence?   Would they be hungry for more?

Worship For Today....
"Taste 'N See"
Ministered By Israel & New Breed

Thursday, July 14, 2011

So....What's Your Claim? What Fortress & Strongholds Are You Building?

What's your claim?  What are you laying claim to?   A claim is the assertion of the truth of something.   Typically something that has been disputed or is in doubt.   It also means to demand, ask for, or take as one's own.   So what is your claim?   What are you asserting as truth in your life?   Are  you taking God......His plan.....His will.....His life as your own today?

So many times we lay claim to the wrong things.   We take hold of things in our lives that do not edify...that do not build up....that do not bring us closer to God.    We count these things as dear when actually they separate us from God.    They cause distance and pile up as a fortress between us and God.  

A fortress can be defined as a stronghold.    Instead of entering into the fortress of God....the place of protection that is only found in Him.....we build our own fortress.   We create strongholds both physically and mentally.   A mental stronghold is a mindset.   We tend to create mindsets where we won't allow God's word to come in and to penetrate.   We take on the attitude of saying "it is what it is".   When God says that everything is subject to the voice of His command.  

Make sure that the only fortress you build today is in God.   Let  your stronghold (mindset) be one in which you give God total control.   Let your opinions be "based" on the Word of God.    Trust only in the peace and protection that God provides.   Know that His protection is unchanging and His love never ends.

Make your day about Him.   Make your life about Him.   Let the river that resides on the inside of you flow through you today.   Remove all "rocks" in your river.....anything that is blocking the flow from you to those around you.    Lay claim to God today.   Assert Him as your truth today.   Assert means to state confidently and forcefully to those around you what and in whom you believe.    

Remember.....it's all about God....it's never about us.....  

Worship For Today....
"Renew Me"
Ministered By Martha Munizzi

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Wait.....Listen.....Obey

Let God speak to you.    So many times we are so busy talking that we don't stop to listen.   We don't wait to hear.   Stopping to listen and waiting to hear.   Those are two techniques we need to master.    It's not always about what we have to say....it's about listening and obeying not only what God has already said but what He is saying.     

What we have to understand in prayer is that it is a two-way conversation.   It's not about dropping a load on God.   We sometimes treat God like a laundry service.   We drop off all of our dirty laundry....everything that is bad....everything that we don't want to handle to Him.    God did say to bring all our cares to Him.....but are we waiting long enough in His presence to see what He has to say about it or to see what direction He wants us to take.   

Waiting is an important part of prayer and being in God's presence.    Strength comes in waiting.   The Bible says that they that "wait" on the Lord shall renew their strength.   Waiting is a part of trusting.   When  you have to trust.....it means that sometimes the answer may not be immediate.   But you have a belief in the reliability, truth and ability of God.  

We have to learn how to "patiently wait".   To trust God enough to be still and allow Him to speak.   We have to remember that "everytime" that God speaks.....something is created.   Something is made manifest.    That there is so much power in God's words that change "always" occurs when He speaks.   

So if you need a change in your life......let God speak.   Let God speak the direction that you need to go.   Let God take pre-eminence to everything else in your life.   Learn how to stop and be still in His presence.   Learn how to listen and condition yourself to obey.    Make up in your mind that obedience is not an option.   Obedience is a part of your will and is subject to your actions.   

Let your direction be from this point on to ......wait.....listen....and obey.   Let your choices be that you will wait.....listen.....and obey.    Let your attitude be one of waiting, listening, and obeying.   Your attitude is your settled way of thinking which is reflected in your behavior.  

Let your lifestyle be that you trust God enough to wait to hear God speak.....to listen to what God is saying....and to obey what He tells you to do.

Worship For Today.....
"In The Waiting"
(please pray for this family as you watch  this video)
Ministered By Vicki Yohe     

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Understand Who God Is......

2nd Post Today.....

Understanding who God is.   Understanding His goodness.   His grace.   His mercy.  

We experience all of these things......but do we truly understand what God has done and is doing for us?    Understand means to comprehend.   When you comprehend a thing.......you take in the meaning, the nature, and you grasp the importance of it.  

Do you really know what it means to love sacrificially?   To give up your best to someone who does not possess the qualities of deserving even the things that mean least to you.   To take who you are and become a representation of the thing that you hate the most (sin).  

We have to begin to understand the love and nature of God.   To truly comprehend who He is and what He has done.   Not just casually saying that you know Him.   But really getting to know Him.   Knowing is knowledge and the only way to obtain the knowledge of who God is ...... is to begin to read His word......meditate on His word....pray His word.  

God's word reveals Him.   It unveils His love.   It unveils His nature.   It unveils His power, His goodness and His grace.  

God is His word.   They are not separate.    We try to separate ourselves from what we say because what we say with our mouths may not line up with what we want others to see or believe.   But God "is" His word.   They are one.   What He says.....He is.   What He says....He will do.   What He says.....reflects Him.

Get to know God today.   Understand and comprehend Him in His fullness.    For in His fullness is faith.   And when you become full of His faith......you then will become "faithful".  

Cleaning House.....

It's time to clean house.   However, this house is you.....

A house is a dwelling place.   Your house is the dwelling place of God.    For we are the temple of the Most High God.   So the question today is what is furnishing your temple?   What is taking up space?  

Is your temple full of God's word?   Or is there junk in your temple?   Things you don't need.   What is stored in the garage of your mind?    Are there weeds surrounding the entrance to your heart?  Making it difficult for God's word to enter in.

It's time to pull up the weeds and to clean out the storage.    God desires to dwell not only with you but in you.   The questions is....  are you willing to open up the doors of your heart and let Him in?   To allow Him to stay indefinitely.   

We tend to invite God in ..... yet we are quick to try to put Him out.   We have to understand that as long as God is present in us.....we will have light.   One of the most important things in a house is "light".   With light comes the ability to see.   

Understand the furnishings that God brings with Him.   He brings joy, peace, love, revelation, illumination, and insight.    When "we" furnish our house....we furnish it with broken pieces.    There are no broken pieces in God.   Everything is made new in Him.   

So take time today to clean out the storage of your heart.   To throw out your way of thinking and your way of doing things.    Let go of the old things that you have stored up and prepare for the new things that God has specially designed for you.  

Clean your house today.....for God wants to dwell with you permanently.    He wants you to get rid of the old....so that He can give you the new.......

Are you ready?  One thing to remember.....there are no maids in the kingdom......no one can clean "your" house for you.

Worship For Today.....
"Because Of Who You Are"
The Kenoly Brothers

Monday, July 11, 2011

If You Need To Boast....Boast In This.....

2nd Post Today.....


It's not about you.   What you like about you.   How well you do the things you do.   It's never about you.    It's all about God.   About exemplifying and glorifying who He is and what He has done.

We get confused.   We get caught up on promotion.   On elevation.   On how well we can do certain things and we tend to brag on those things.   One question.....how is God being glorified in our bragging?  Where is He getting the glory?

We tend to brag on everything but Him.   We brag on the house....we brag on the car....we brag on the children....the grandchildren.   But when do we brag on God?

Bragging means to be boastful.  Full of pride.   The problem is our boastfulness always seems to be self directed instead of God directed.   Our self confidence needs to be God confidence.   We have to understand that we would have no achievements without God's blessings.    Our homes......if God had not chosen us .... we could be homeless.   Cars and material possessions are just that.

We have to begin to understand that the only thing we have to boast about is our relationship with God.   We can be confident in that "one thing".    Everything else carries within it the ability to pass away.   It is only God that remains no matter what.

So if you have a need to be boastful today.....to brag......

Then tell somebody about the one thing in your life that is unending and unchanging.   Tell someone about the God who keeps you and delivers you.   Tell someone about Jehovah.   El Shaddai.   Elohim.  The God who is all powerful and all mighty.....who moves and manifests in your circumstances to work everything out for your good.    

The one thing that you have a right to boast about......is God......

Changing.....

What's changing?   What's becoming different?   Are things in your life taking a new course or is everything seemingly the same?  

We all are constantly changing.   The only thing in this world that is not changing is God.   For He said in His word....that He changes not.    He is the same....yesterday....today.....and forever.   He is the one thing in this life that is truly stationary.....not moving....not shifting.   That is reliable and dependable at all times.

When we change, we undergo a metamorphosis.   A transformation.   Whether it be in our attitudes or our actions.   We change.   Our prayer and our desire should be that we be changed into the image of who God is.   The one who is the same at all times.   That we be not shaky or constantly shifting.   Not knowing which direction to take or what to do.   That we be as God.....reliable and dependable at all times.

God is our example.   He has made us in His image and after His likeness.   Our actions and our attitudes just have to line up with who He is.   The best way to come in line with who He is ..... is to be rooted in Him.   Rooted in His word and His way.   When we are rooted....we are planted.   When we are planted.....we then have the ability to grow.   And the more we grow.....the harder it becomes for us to be moved.  

There is a process of change that we all must go through.....

Prayerfully the direction that we take when we change is the direction that leads us closer to God.   The direction that causes us to be rooted and grounded in His word, His will, and His way.   So that when the winds of life come against us.....we won't be moved.    We will be stationary in the one who never moves.   The unchanging God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Words For Today....Rooted, Grounded, Unmovable, and Unchanging.....That's who God is and that is who He created you to be "in Him"........

Worship For Today....
"All Of Me"
Ministered By Helen Baylor

Sunday, July 10, 2011

After You Have Done All You Can Do.....Stand Still!

After you have done all that you know how to do....."TRUST GOD".

We try so hard to figure it out.   To do the right things.   To get things to work in our favor.   But that's not what God has told us to do.   He has told us to trust Him.   To wait on Him.   To believe Him.

So what do you do while you are waiting?  What do you do while you are trusting?   What do you do while you are believing?

It's hard to sit still.   To wait patiently.   Patiently means with calmness.   The only way you can endure with calmness is by giving everything over to God.   By letting Him have control.   By filling your thoughts with His thoughts.   It is only when we try to figure it out that we become entangled in our emotions.   Understanding this.....we have to understand that God did not call us to live our lives based on our emotions.   We are to live it based on His words.   

So today....instead of trying to figure it out.   Give it over to God.   Meditate on what He has said.   He has already told us to "trust in Him with all our hearts....to lean not to our own understanding.....in all our ways to acknowledge Him.....and He will direct our paths".  

Emotions are not the key to your life....how you get things to work.   Faith and trust are the only keys you need to access God's kingdom here on earth.   His kingdom of peace, joy, love, and understanding.   Understanding that He is in total control.....there is nothing that you can do to change who He is and what He has said concerning your life.     There is no emotion that can expedite your destiny.   Stillness in God.   When you are still.....God can move and manifest without any hindrances from you.  

Make up in your mind that you will not hinder the plan, purpose, and vision that God has for your life.    Rest in Him today....knowing that He is God all by Himself and has "already" created everything needed for your life.   For God is not locked into time.   He just wants to escort you into what He  has already created for your life.

Will you....."STAND STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD"?  

Worship For Today....
"STAND"
Ministered By Marvin Winans and Donnie McClurkin

Saturday, July 09, 2011

What's The Purpose Of Serving God If You Are Not Going To Obey Him?

There is more to this walk of salvation than just serving God.   So many times we get caught up in our works.   What we did and when we did it.   Our remember when moments.    We have to understand that along with serving God....we must obey Him.

If He tells us something to do....even though it doesn't line up with our flesh....what we want to do ..... when we want to do it.....we must still obey.

Obedience is the key to walking in God's fullness.   Obedience says that you really do trust God.   You trust Him .... no matter what.   

When you couple your trust with your obedience,  you will then begin to walk in God's blessings.

Worship For Today....
"The Potters Hand"
Ministered By Hillsong

Friday, July 08, 2011

God Wants More Than Just Mental Assent.....

Are you living in "mental assent'?   Where mentally you accept God's word as true .... but failing to walk in the reality of His word.   God wants us to do more than just mentally accept His word.   He wants us to walk in it.   To live it out.   To trust Him totally with the truth that He has given us.   

What is blocking the Word that you have heard from getting from the mental state into this physical realm?   What is blocking your healing?   What is blocking the manifestation of your provision?   You believe God's word is true....but what is blocking the manifestation of the Word you believe?

How do you get from "mind" faith to walking out your "faith"?   Not just saying it....but the place where your actions correspond with what you say you believe.    That's the place where God wants you to be.  

You have to understand the "power" behind your corresponding words.   Your confession.   You have to bring your thoughts into reality through the confession of your words.   Words are life.   Thoughts are not.   Bring life to your belief through your confession.   God spoke.....and it was so.....

God wants you to speak.   Speak what you believe.   Confess what you believe.   The Bible says that the people overcame by the "word of their testimony".   Testify of who God is.   His goodness, His grace, His mercy.    Don't just agree mentally.   Speak into the atmosphere.   Things change when you speak.   People change.   You change.   You become stronger.   You become bolder.   You become wiser.   Just by speaking who God is and what He has said.  

Your faith walk is not just "mental assent".   It is trusting, believing, and speaking the truth of God's word.   It is knowing and walking in what God said is true.    Go beyond just agreeing in your mind.   Speak to the atmosphere.....everything around you....and testify of who God is.    Breathe life through your words today.    Decide....Declare....Decree....God's goodness, God's grace, God's favor, and God's mercy in your life.  

Know that there is a place that God wants you to be.....a place of His manifested grace and provision.   A place of power.   A place of peace.   That place covers all.   Both mentally and physically.   That  place is a place of transformation.   Transforming faith.   The place where your faith transforms you and everything around you.  

Worship For Today....
"I See The Lord"

Thursday, July 07, 2011

In Your Seeking....Are You Seeking To Replace God?

"This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him."  (John 2:11)

There are things that God will do ..... just so YOU will believe.   How many things has God done for us .... yet we still have problems believing and trusting Him?   We have a problem knowing that He is in total control and is working out everything for the good of those who love Him and that are called according to His purpose.

We see Him move.   We see Him heal.   We see Him set free and deliver.   Yet we still doubt and walk in disbelief.   God is saying know Him.   Trust Him.   Believe Him.   Rely on Him. 

It's time to let go of doubt and insecurity.   It's time to know the safety and shelter of the Lord.   It's time to move into the shelter of the Most High.   In moving into His shelter......you move into His protection from all harm and danger.   So when the storms come....you have no need to fear.   God is bigger and greater than any storm.   When you seek shelter....you seek a  place of protection.   You seek a place that can stand against the fierceness of everything that is going on around you.  So in Him .... nothing can touch your life.  

So take a "repose" today.   Repose means freedom from worry....rest....tranquility.....calmness....peace of mind.    Know that the Creator of the Universe.....The Great "I Am" is your shelter.   Know that He honors His word and He has said that He will never leave you nor forsake you.  

Know that His voice is heard throughout all creation and that everything thing in the universe is subject to the voice of His command.    Know that He loves  YOU and what He has promised......He will do.   Allow Him to be your "all" today.   Your shield, your buckler, your protection. your provision.   Let Him be your healer, your guide, and  your friend.   

Stop looking around for people to take the place of God.   We tend to seek people to comfort us, to provide for us, to protect us.   Who can give you the best protection?   God or man?   Be sure that the things you seek.....the protection you seek.....the love you seek.......is not a replacement for the God you "have".

Worship For Today....
"Holy Spirit I Thirst For You"
Ministered By Oslo Gospel Choir

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

What's Wrong With Wrong?

Wrong is defined as an unsuitable and undesirable manner or direction.   It means to deviate from the truth or fact.   So the question is what is wrong with being or doing wrong?   Every time we do wrong.....we deviate from God.   God is truth.   Every time we do wrong we are acting in an unsuitable and undesirable way.    We are going in a way that goes against who God is and what He stands for.

It's not easy to always walk in truth.    There is always something or someone that will come up against what you stand for and what you believe.    There is always going to be "faith pressure".   Those things that press against you....to try to move you....to try to cause you fall or eventually move you to a place of "faith failure".

You have to take a stance.   A stance is not only a "stand".   It is the position in which you stand.   It is your standpoint.....

God is desiring to use you during this time in the earth.   But are you prepared to be used?   In order to be used by God....you have to be a reflection of who God is.    You have to magnify Him.   Not only magnify Him....you have to amplify Him.  

Similitude.....meaning one who closely resembles another.....counterpart.   

You cannot resemble God if you are consistently doing wrong.   You cannot take a stance for God if you go against who He is.   Your testimony is backed up by your actions.   

If you say that you "love" God ..... yet your lifestyle is one in which you go against everything that God stands for.   Then where is the truth in your testimony?   When you love someone....you do what you can to please them.   Love consists of honor and respect.   Love says I don't ever want to hurt you .... because I cherish you.   Cherish means to protect and care for.   Those things in your life that you protect and care for.....are the things that you love.  

If you love God....then your will do everything you can to protect and care for Him.   To live your life in a way that is pleasing and consistent to His love for you.  

Wrong is a choice.   It's not always easy to choose right.   But it is the choice that God requires.   He has already told us what to choose...... 

Now....it's up to us .... to line up our lives to be consistent with what we say we believe .... to who we say we love.    Is the love you say you have for God real?   Or is it just idle words?   Your actions will always tell the true story of what you say you believe.  

Worship For Today.....
"Everything"
Ministered By Kevin Edwards

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

If A Man Sees God....What Is He Seeing?

If a man sees God....what is he seeing?   Is He seeing His light?   His revelation?   His works?   His power?   What do you see when you see God?   No....you can't see God in the physical realm....as you see those around you.   But you should be seeing God in His glory.   In His works.   in His people.    You should be experiencing God's love.....God's revelation.....and God's power.

When you are sick....you should be experiencing His healing.   When you are lonely....you should be experiencing His comfort.   When  you lack....you should be experiencing His provision.  

We are a part of a society that is quick to say "if I don't see .... I don't believe it".   But God's way is to believe .... even when you can't see it.   To trust that if He said it.....there is no other option than for it to be done.  

Our life is designed to be lived out by faith and trust.    To accept God as omnipotent (all powerful) and omniscient (the one who has total knowledge and understanding of everything).   Once we understand this....that God has total knowledge and understanding of everything and that He is all powerful.......we will then understand that the One who created us....knows all about us.....and has the power to take care of us.

Faith is not based on "if" you see God.....it is based on "how" you see God.   Your faith is based on your trust in the all living, all knowing...all powerful God.    Trust Him in your knowing.......knowing that He is who He said He is and He will do whatever you need Him to do.

It's not whether or not you see God.   It is ..... whether or not you trust and believe God to be "that".   "That" thing that you need.    "That" comfort that you desire.   "That" healing.   "That" peace that goes beyond your understanding.  

God told Moses to tell the people..... I am "that" I am.   So let those words permeate your spirit today and know that God is "that".   "That" thing that you need in your life today......God is.

Worship For Today....
"Mercy Seat"
Ministered By Vicki Yohe
  

Monday, July 04, 2011

God Is Your Lifeguard.....Get Into The Water Of His Word.....

What's changing?  Do you feel like things around you are changing?   Just when you think you got it or you know it.....a change occurs..   The situation changes or something new comes up.   That's because God wants you to see another part of who He is.   Another dimension.   God doesn't change.   But there is so much depth and many dimensions to who God is.   Do you have a surface view of God or are you looking into the depths and dimensions of who God is?

Depth can be defined as a deep place in a body of water.   It is also defined as a profound or intense state.   The  Bible talks about being washed by the water of the Word.   Are you just washing up in the Word?   Or are you diving in and going into the depths of God's word?  

God has not called us to live on the surface.   He desires that we live and breathe in the Water of His Word......

Jump in today.   Even if you can't swim.   God is your lifeguard.   He will teach you everything you need to know while you are in the "Water Of His Word".  

One key to learning how to swim is to relax.   So get into a place of relaxation in Him.  A place of peace.   Learn what it means to be taught of God.   Trust Him today.   Trust His love and His word.   For it is His Word that teaches you of His love.  Once you know and believe that He loves you without compromise....you will understand His plan, His purpose, and His protection for your life.  

Worship For Today....
"I Will Rise"
Ministered By Chris Tomlin

Sunday, July 03, 2011

There Is A Grace......

There is a grace that God gives that goes beyond anything that we can ever imagine.    Grace is God's "undeserved" favor.   Something that you didn't earn.   Something that you can never earn.   God's grace.   God's love and God's kindness to us who believe.  

We love God....We trust God....We believe God.....In return....God favors us.    Favor can be defined as God's approval and support.    So God bestows (presents as a gift or honor) His favor on us based on His love towards us.

Understand today that there is nothing you can ever do to deserve what God has already done and given  you.   There is no act or deed that can ever pay back God for the sacrifice of His Son.   God's only motive for what He has done and is doing in our lives is "love".   That is who He is.  God is love.

Be a God example today.    Be an expression of who God is.  Be a reflection of God's love.    Show grace and mercy to those around you today.   Don't hold grudges.   Don't argue.   Don't permit the enemy to use you for his glory.   Make up in your mind to be a vessel of love.   Pour out God today.    Allow God to touch someone through you.   Your acts of kindness.   Your acts of love.

There is a grace that has been given to you.   There is a love that is to be shown through you.    Be a vessel....ready to be used by the Master.   A vessel of God's grace.....not just a recipient of grace.....but extend God's reach and show someone favor through your kind acts today.  

Worship For Today.....
"You Can Have Me"
Ministered By The Sidewalk Prophets


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