Not Everyone's Intentions Are Good.....But Your Response Does Matter......

Everything that everyone does is not for your good.   We would like to think that the heart and the intentions of others are all good.   But that is just not true.    No matter what they are saying.....no matter what they are doing.....you have to still look at the heart response of the situation.   

How do you respond to someone else's negativity?   Their hurt?   Their pain?   Their past?    When what they say to you is based on all of these things.   What do you do?   Do you respond with the same hurt, pain, and past......or do you give a God response?   Do you say what Jesus would say.....or do what Jesus would do?   

Will you allow others....your family and your friends.....to dictate your emotions and your reactions.   When someone dictates....they impose on who you are and declare with authority what you should do.    What is it that leads you....that determines your direction and your reaction.  Is it what others think or what God has said?   

Never allow your life to be led by someone else's understanding of who you are.    It is not what others think that determines who you are .... it is what God has said.    When you allow your emotions to become entangled with peoples words.....you have lost direction.   Your perception becomes skewed.    It becomes twisted and distorted.   

There are two things that you must understand.   The first is that not everyone will understand you.   Who you are and what you stand for.   Not everyone will be able to walk where you walk and to talk like you talk.    But what they don't understand does not stop who you are and what you are called to do.     The second thing you must understand is that it is God who has called you and if you fail to do what He is telling you to do based on what others think and what others comprehend....you are then walking in disobedience to Him.   His word, His plan, and His will for your life.   

Love people for who they are but don't allow who they are to lead you into a place of disobedience to God.    Understand that initially not everyone will understand the dream and vision that God has placed on the inside of you.   But eventually, everyone will come to the place where the dream is manifested.    Joseph's brothers did not understand who he was when they placed him in the pit.   But eventually, they came to a place of famine and they entered into the manifestation of what began as a dream that they failed to embrace and understand.      

Don't be dismayed when people don't embrace God's plan for your life.   Just know that God is using you as His vessel.....to bring forth His light.....so that others can see who He is.     

Worship For Today....

"It Was You"

Ministered By Pastor Clint Brown