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How much of yourself are you really giving over to God? You say you love Him. You say you want to live for Him? So why are you holding on to "you". To your hurt....to your disappointments....to your pain. Why are you holding on to all of the "stuff" that comes with you. God did not say that He only wanted the good. He said He wanted it all. It is everything that is going on in your life that makes up who you are. There are no fractions in God. He is 100% God and He wants 100% of you.
Everything in the world is so divided. Our hearts and our minds have come under the rule of division. Every time we inject a "but" in our conversation .... we are dividing something. It's as though we are saying we love you .... "but" there is an exception. God's not into exceptions. When He says He loves you ..... He loves you. There are no "buts" in God. When God says all .... He means all.
We have to stop dividing our life. We have to mean what we say .... when we say it. We have to love with our "whole" heart. We have to lay it "all" down. STOP LIVING A FRAGMENTED LIFE. When you are fragmented..... it means that you are broken and incomplete. Understand today that there is no brokenness in God. He is "all" God and He wants "all" of you.
God is looking for a response. A response to His love for you. What is your response today? Will you praise Him? Will you lift Him up so others will come to Him? Will you confess your love for Him and to Him? What will you do? Your response is your reply .... your answer to God.
How are your answering God's love for you today? Are you walking in His word? Are you reading His word? Are you trying to live holy? Are you telling somebody about His goodness and His grace to you? Whatever you are doing.....you are giving God a response for what He has done for you. You are telling Him whether you love Him in return. You are telling Him whether you appreciate His sacrifice.
How would you feel if you took everything you owned and sold it to help the person you love ..... and then they walked away? They left you. You would probably feel remorse or regret. Aren't you glad that God does not feel that way....He is not looking at you and the mistakes you made. When He sees you .... He sees the blood. The sacrifice that was already made for any and all things that you have done and will ever do. Now its up to you. Its up to you to reveal our love to and for Him. He has already revealed His love to and for you. What will your response be to God and His love for you be today?
What is your "Extreme Desire"?
Extreme means ..... very high degree or very intense....the thing that you want most. What is it that you want most today? Is it God? Is it to deepen your relationship with God and to please Him? Or is it to please someone else? God wants your desire to be to serve Him first. To praise Him first. To rejoice with Him first. So often we put everything else before God. Our homes, our mates, our children, our friends, our jobs and whatever else we can think of. We put all of these things before God. We have to begin to make God our priority. It is only when we make Him our priority that everything else comes together. Everything else begins to flow.
When we think of extreme .... we think of something going beyond the norm. Beyond what is normal in our lives. What we would normally say and what we would normally do. We have to begin to go beyond. We have to begin to do more for God, in God, and through God. God wants to use us. He wants to use us for His glory, for His purpose and for His plan. He wrote the plan for life with you in mind. He prepared a place for you. He designated your life. When you designate someone ... you appoint them to a specific position. There is a position that God has appointed you to. There are things that you are called to do. However, the desire has to come from you to fulfill the plan that He has put in place for your life.
It's time to accelerate. It's time to move from a place where you just want God to move in your life to a place of extreme desire. Where you not only want God to move for you .... but you are passionately pursuing Him and His plan and purpose for your life.
He SO loved! Have you ever SO loved! To SO love is to deeply, intimately love, till all I can do is tell it and show it in the most extreme way just how vast this love is. It cannot be contained or measured! Have you ever just had a moment when the love that you feel for God our Father just overwhelms you. You can feel it throughout your entire being. Your eyes well up with tears, your body feels electric, and you just want to open your mouth and, as loud as you can, you want to yell.....I LOVE YOU GOD; I LOVE YOU JESUS!
When is the last time that you could literally feel this. Not just saying it nonchalantly because it is what we are accustomed to. But really feeling it and meaning it from the depths of your soul! This is the love that draws God to us and us to God. A child knows that a parent loves them because every chance that parent gets, he/she finds a way to express it. How do you express your love to your child, to your spouse, to loved ones.... How much more explosive and overflowing should our love be for our Father.
Sometimes, words just can't do the job like we want them to. Stop. Take a moment to meditate on the word Love. Then, go further and focus in on the love that you have for God. See if it does not overwhelm you like a tidal wave. Can you say: I LOVE YOU LORD MORE THAN ANYTHING and mean it wholeheartedly?
Worship .....
More Than Anything
Ministered By Lamar Campbell & New Spirit of Praise
Are you even willing to let God be God? Or do you have to have control? How dangerous is it try to control your own life? How chaotic would it be if we had no traffic lights or stop signs? How many people would survive? It's the same with life. How could we survive if God did not give us wisdom and direction. If He didn't point out areas where we need to slow down and make a mid-course correction. How wreckless would our lives be?
In learning to drive, it is important that you read the manual in order to know the rules that may not be obvious on a day to day basis. Even though it is not obvious....you may encounter a time when it is needed. That's how life is. Some things in life are not experienced on a daily basis but there may be times when you experience sickness or you experience lack. It is important that you know what to do and what to say during those times.
It's time to gird yourself with the word. Gird means to fasten or secure with a belt or a band. It means to surround. God wants us to surround ourselves with His word. He wants us to fasten and secure ourselves with what He has done and what He has said He will do in our lives. "Gird Up" ..... surround, secure, and fasten yourself in Him and His word today.
Are you hoping that God is real today? Do you not know? Do you not realize who He is in your life? Maybe you realize and you are not standing strong in it. When you realize who God is and what God has done .... your view changes. You see things differently. You understand things better. You live life with a confidence. When you know that God can't lie. When you rest in His word. When you trust Him with not only your life ... but with everything that concerns your life. That means your bills, your children, your family, your friends, your job, and whatever else concerns you.
Until you let go of all those things .... you don't really know the reality of God. When you realize the reality of a thing ..... you are assured and confident in the ability that it will do what it says it will do. If you say you are still trying to hang on? That means "you" are walking by yourself. You are trying to do it in self. There is no hanging on in God. God says to rest in Him. To know that He is God. To trust Him and know that He will bring it to pass.
We have to step out of the place of limbo. The place of transition. Believing God ... "but". There are no "buts" in God. If God said it ..... He will do it. There are no options. When we say "but" we are saying that there is a possibility that God can't do what He said. Understand that God can do all that He has said.
So today.....make up in your mind to know that God is real. To know the truth of His word. To rid yourself of any doubt concerning the reality of who He is to you. You can't make others believe. Belief is a choice. When it comes to believing ..... we all have to do that for ourselves. The thing you have to be sure of is .....that you don't allow someone elses doubt to become your belief.
Imagine the letter "Y" is a road and you are sitting at the point where you have the option to go in two different directions. How do you choose which direction you want to go? Do you just haphazardly choose a road and start driving? When you do something haphazardly .... you do it casually and by chance. Is that how you are walking out your life with God? Are you entering into your destination by chance or are you following Him on purpose?
When you are on a highway .... there are signs to show you the direction you are going and what the destination will be when you get there. Understand today .... God has given us signs and He has paved our direction through prayer and His word. The question is ..... are we stopping long enough to find out where we are and to get the direction we need before we proceed further?
We have to stop venturing through life by chance. Making choices without considering the outcome. Thinking that there is no result to our actions. That's not what God said. He actually said to choose Him. To let your direction be Him. When you are lost and don't know what to do ..... choose Him. Call on Him when you are lonely. When you have a need ..... ask Him to bring forth the supply.
The "Y's" in our lives is our point of decision. They come continuously. Points and destinations where we have to decide. The place where we have to choose our direction. We all get there and we all have to make choices...... The question is .... will you seek His face before you choose?
Take A Moment To Pray With Us Today .... PRAYER FOR TODAY - January 26, 2012 (Thanking God For His Renewed Mercy That We Walk In Every Day ..... and Praising Him In Advance For Our Breakthrough Based On What He Has Done In The Past....) .... posted on www.DailyMomentsWithGodPrayer.blogspot.com
So what is it that you are relying on? Is your reliance in what you can do or in what God has done? Are you trusting and believing Him and His word? God's word says that He will never leave you nor forsake you......do you trust that to be true? Leave means to go away from and forsake means to abandon. God is saying that He will never go away from you and He will never abandon you. Yet we get down and think that we are all alone.
Understand today that there is no distance between you and God. The veil has been torn .... the partition has been removed. The only blockades between us and God are those we put up ourselves. Mainly our flesh and those things that generate from our flesh. The Bible says in Galatians that the works of the flesh are sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. These are the things that we allow to come between us and God.
What are you walking in today? Are you being hostile to your co-worker or family member? Are you jealous of what God is doing in someone else's life? How about angry because of what someone did or said to you? If so you are building a blockade. Understand today that "true love" conquers all. We need to take on an "I Will Love You Anyway" attitude. No matter what you say or what you do .... I will love you anyway. Understand today .... the devils avenue is through your flesh. If he can get you to react to your flesh or in your flesh.....he can get you out of the will of God. The question is ... are you willing to allow him to keep using you that way.
We live life saying we don't want to be used.....but are you allowing the devil to use you daily. There are two definitions you should look at for the word used..... One is to employ or put into service .... the other is to take unfair advantage of. The question is .... are you going to allow your life to be used for God or are you going to be used by the devil?
Take A Moment To Pray With Us Today .... PRAYER FOR TODAY - January 25, 2012 (Asking God For Change .... Change In Our Lives, Homes, Communities, Cities, States, and This World) .... posted on www.DailyMomentsWithGodPrayer.blogspot.com
Trusting God....Acknowledging God.....Knowing God. That's what He wants. He wants us to trust Him. He wants us to acknowledge His presence. He wants us to Know that He is God. How often do we walk around and say we trust God and we fail to acknowledge His presence? How often do we acknowledge His presence .... yet we fail to trust Him? It's all a part of knowing God. You can't say you know God if you don't trust Him. You can't say you know God if you fail to acknowledge His presence? You cannot do one without the other. It all works hand in hand.
Trust means to have confidence, faith, and reliance on someone or something. Acknowledge means to accept or admit the existence or truth of someone or something. Knowing is defined as showing or suggesting that one has knowledge or awareness that is secret or known to only a few people.
Understand today that God wants you to trust Him, to acknowledge Him, and to know that He is real. Remember in order to know that God is real.....you have to first have faith and confidence in Him. You must also admit that He exists and that He is truth. You can never know what you don't understand to be real and true.
Today is a new day. Do you understand what new means? It means it has never happened before. We have to stop living in yesterday. Yesterday's hurt....yesterday's pain. That is why it is a new day. It is new so you don't have to live in what happened yesterday. What we do is take yesterday with us. We carry with us the hurt, the pain, the heartache and any and everything else we can. We hold on to what we need to be letting go of.
How can you move forward if you are continuously being pulled back by things that are a part of your past? How can you reach your potential in God if you are living on your accomplishments and your disappointments of yesterday. The whole meaning of the word yesterday is "the day preceding". When something precedes or comes before. The blessing is that God has not left us in yesterday. He has given us a new day.....a new opportunity. A new chance to do it all over again. To live for Him. To love for Him. To trust Him .... and to believe Him.
Sometimes we look back at what happened in our past and in our yesterdays and all we see is disappointment. Imagine living your life today to the fullest potential. To the point that God was able to use you and do all that He needed to do through you. You can never fulfill what you need to do today if part of your focus and part of your attention is still on yesterday. Understand today that God needs all of you. He needs all of your attention. He wants you to see and recognize what is going on around you today. When you are distracted .... you miss things going on around you. You miss the opportunity to pray.....you miss the opportunity to praise. Don't miss God today ..... being stuck in what happened yesterday.
We have for so long heard and have been taught that HALLELUJAH is the highest praise. However, it is not that it is the highest praise; but UNRESTRAINED praise to GOD which may make it the highest form of praise. Unrestrained means not restrained or checked; free from constraint; SPONTANEOUS and NATURAL. SPONTANEOUS means happening or arising without external cause; self generated; arising from a natural inclination or impulse and not from external incitement or constraint; unconstrained and unstudied in manner or behavior; and, growing without cultivation or human labor. Spontaneous is synonymous with impulsive, instinctive, involuntary, and automatic!
It is simply to PRAISE THE LORD with no holds barred. It is not a praise that you have to work at because it is from within. It is already in us thereby it being considered natural and instinctive. You do not have to be coerced or guided with this type of praise. That urge or unction just comes upon you and you cannot hold it in. You do not want to hold it in. No one has to say let it out. It just springs forth! It may happen in your car, at work, in the grocery store, while watching tv...
We are created to worship and that is why we get these spontaneous moments when we just want to use our voice and our bodies simultaneously to express our love for our Father in Heaven. That is why we here people say "IT'S LIKE FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES!" No one tells us when to turn it on or when to turn it off; how high or how low the volume has to be on this praise.It is so overwhelming that if you don't get it out, you may explode. It just is and it comes out however it will!
We need to allow ourselves to experienced this UNRESTRAINED, NATURAL, INSTINCTIVE, EXPLOSIVE praise. Stop allowing the cares of the world or opinions of others or yourself to hinder this HALLELUJAH praise. In the words of someone very dear to me, "WHEN IT COMES TO PRAISING GOD, WHATEVER YOU SEE YOURSELF DOING, DO IT! Run, spin, shout, cry, jump, leap, dance, sing... But be sure to PRAISE THE LORD every chance you get.
Written By: Tara Moore
Do you remember the times of asking God where He is when you are going through? You may be asking Him that now. The times where it seems like no matter how hard you try .... nothing seems to be working out. Where it seems like everything is coming at you all at once. Like the world is closing in and there is nothing you can do about it. The times where you know the word and you are trying to hold on to the word .... but the word just doesn't seem to be working. Understand today that God is still there. He has not left you .... He has not forgotten you. We have to trust Him when He says that He will never leave us ... nor forsake us. We have to trust Him when He says that He is working out all things for our good. Yes its hard .... its hard to watch what we feel is our life coming apart. But we have to trust that the one who created us ... knows what is best for us. That He knows what needs to be on our foundation in order for us to stand strong. We have to trust that whatever we are going through will not only help us ... but our testimony will help others who are going through the same thing.
No it's not a good feeling to go through. But it is a good feeling to help someone else get through. To be able to give our testimony and tell someone else about the power of the blood and the goodness of God. To be able to see and reflect on how God brought you through and what He is doing now in your life .... so that others can see that they can can also make it. So that they can see that God has not forgotten them. That God loves them. That God "will" work everything together for their good. Some people can't make it without your testimony. So understand today that silence is not an option. The devil tries to make you feel ashamed of what you have been through so that you won't share it with anyone else. When you do that .... you take the part that God meant for "good" and you hide it so that the fruit is never received by the person for whom it was intended. Your testimony is the fruit of your trial. It's not meant for you. Don't allow your fruit to go bad based on your inability to share what you have through.
Are you radical? What are you radical for? To be radical means to be extreme. To gar far beyond what is reasonable, moderate, or normal. The question is who determines what is the norm? Honestly your actions do. What you do all the time determines what is normal for you. Do you pray all the time? If so, that is your norm. Do you fail to pray? Then that is your norm. So when God asks you to go to the extreme for Him. What is He really asking you to do? He is asking you to step outside of what you normally do and do more for Him.
I believe we all need to step out and be radical for God. We need to go beyond ourselves and be what God created us to be. In ourselves we can do nothing. We do what we feel is necessary for survival. But we have to allow God to be our survival point. The place where we put our trust and dependence.
It's time to step outside of self. To do more than what you are doing. If your norm is to read a chapter in the Bible a day .... then read a chapter and one extra verse. If your norm is to pray for 5 minutes .... pray for 7 instead. The point is .... don't allow your time with God to become a repetitive tradition. A tradition is nothing more than a customary pattern. With tradition .... your mind becomes wrapped around a certain expectation. Whereas, when you become radical for God .....you don't know what to expect. You know that He will move .... but you don't know how. When we become radical for God ... He becomes radical for us. He begins to move in unexpected ways. He begins to open up doors unexpectedly. He begins to bring increase unexpectedly. He begins to heal and manifest His presence ... in ways you never imagined.
Step out of the box into the boundaries of God's love. God's love goes beyond anything we could ever imagine.
When you understand something.....it means you grasp the meaning of it. It means that you are able to explain to yourself the meaning and the nature of a thing. When you realize the reality of a thing....then you apprehend it and it becomes real in your life.
You can never truly love God if you don't understand His love for you. You can never really serve God if you don't realize the sacrifice He made for you. Your life and the progression of your life is based on understanding who God is and realizing what He has done.
You have to step outside of yourself and begin to realize what God has already done for you. The price that was paid for you. The power that has been endowed to you. You have to begin to take it beyond you. Beyond your wants and your desires and see what God wants. What is His desire for your life? He paid for it. He sacrificed for it? We have to step out of the "it's all about me mindset" and step into the "what can I do for you God mindset".
Love is unexplainable. When you are in love .... you do things that go beyond human understanding and things that surpass the norm. Stop walking in the norm. Stop living your life based on what you would do and begin to live your life based on what God has done for you. Based on the love that He has displayed for you. Love Him back. He sacrificed life for us ... it's time we sacrifice "self" for Him.
It's time we truly realize what God has done and the price that was paid. It's time we yield and determine which way we are going on this road called life. It's time we stop backing up in the middle of the highway just because we get distracted..... when we are going full speed ahead with God. How dangerous it is to stop in the middle of the highway for an obstacle we see in the middle of the road. It's time we understand that doing that could eventually prove to be fatal. We need to learn how to go around the obstacle and move forward with God.
Take some time and truly begin to understand that sacrifice that was made for you. The love .... and the blood that was shed for you. Understand that God's love is real ..... now ask yourself .... do you really love God or should I say .... do you love God enough? Enough to stop what you are doing that is going against His will and to do what He has called you to do......
What is in your tomorrow that God hasn't already given you today? People are waiting. They are standing still because they think that tomorrow would be a better time to do what God has told them to do today. God never told us to be complacent. Complacency causes you to feel secure even though there is potential danger. It's not true security. True security can only be found in God. In doing what God has told you to do .... when He tells you to do it. It's all about being in God's will and doing what He has told you to do.
The problem about waiting until tomorrow .... is that tomorrow is not promised. There is no promise that we will have the opportunity to tell our neighbors about the love of Jesus. There is no promise that we will have the opportunity to pray for the co-worker, family member or friend again .... that God is telling us to pray for today. We have to learn to live in today. For the Bible says in Matthew 6:34 that tomorrow will take care of itself. Stop trying to live in your tomorrow when you haven't fulfilled what God has told you to do today.
Take a moment and commit to just trusting God. Not just trusting your thoughts and your opinions .... but trusting the word that God has already spoken. Do what you need to do today ..... say what you need to say today ..... pray for who you need to pray for today ..... because truly ..... tomorrow is not promised.
What is your love based on? Do you love based on what someone does for you or what you think someone can do for you? When times get hard do you step into love failure. A failure to care based on disappointment? What is love to you? Is it an emotion? An attitude? A word?
Do you understand that love is not just an emotion? An emotion is a feeling and it can also be classified as a reaction. Are you loving as a response to what someone says or does. Do you remember ... those relationships where someone said they love you and your immediate response was "I love you to"? Did you even know what you were saying or was it a reaction to what you were told?
Understand today that love is not just a response. God is love. Everything that God is and everything that God does is based on who He is. His nature is love. His attitude is love. His motivation is love. Love doesn't just exist when it's convenient. Love is. It is unmovable, unshakable. It stands up when things get hard. It sacrifices. Are you laying down your wants and your desires for those you say you love? How about for God? You say you love Him ......are you laying down your "self" for Him?
We say we want to reflect who God is. Today we understand that God is love. So when you talk to your husband or wife, your children, your neighbor, your co-workers, your friends, other family members, or even the stranger that you come across today ..... will they hear and see in you who God is? Will your reflection be one of love? When someone upsets you today on the job.....will your response be one of love?
Love is not easy. It's not easy to love someone who is consistently hurting you. Just ask God. We are His children and it hurts Him every time we disobey and disregard what He has told us to do. But He loves us anyway. Be like God and love people through the hurt, through the pain, through the disappointment, and through the shame.
Why are you living your life as though you are defeated? God wants you to reach your potential. Potential means your capacity to succeed. We all have potential in God .... the question is do we have the mindset to reach it. You can never reach your God given potential if you are steadily being pulled back by your past. By the mindset of your past or the actions of your past. Understand today that the opposite of potential is helpless, impossible, lacking or unpromising. You will either live in one or the other. You will either live with the knowledge of who God is and expect Him to fulfill His promises in your life or you will live defeated. It's time to let go of what was and know that God has a plan for you.
No....yesterday may not have turned out how you expected it to or how you even wanted it to. But today is a new day. You should have a new expectation. Your hope should be renewed. Don't live in disappointment when you know your Father knows what is best for you. He knows today and He knows tomorrow. He knows exactly what you need to see your through. He knows that what you are going through today is exactly what you will need to help someone else get through tomorrow. Your testimony is the tool that God will use to help strengthen others around you. There are people that God has assigned to your life specifically. That is why it is so important that you be and do what God has called you to be and do. When you truly understand that someone else's destiny is attached to yours.....you will begin to understand why it is so important for you to be in place.
Make it a point today to live up to your potential so that those whom God has assigned to your life will be able to step into their destiny.
So what is it that you want God to do? Give you more money....send you a mate....heal your body? What is it that you are asking God for? God already knows your wants and your desires but He still wants you to come to Him. He is the perfect parent. What you have to understand is that ..... God does not just give you something just because you ask for it. What are you doing that tells God that you are ready for Him to pour out blessings upon your life.
Are you living holy? Righteous? Telling the world about Him? Are you being obedient to what He is telling you to do? We don't just give our children things because they want them. We wait and we watch to see how they are going to act. What will their actions be? Will they listen? Or will they choose to continue to misbehave while they are expressing to us the things they want and desire in their lives.
Understand today that God is our Father. He is waiting on us to walk in obedience to His word. He is watching to see how we handle the gifts that He has already poured out upon our lives. He is watching to see if we are thankful and appreciative for what we do have. He wants to see if we will come to Him....our loving Father.....or go to someone else outside of Him to pursue and get the things we want. How often do children ask others (whether it be aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc) for things when you tell them no? That's how we do God. When He doesn't answer our prayers right away .... we seek alternatives. But what we have to understand is the word alternative means substitute. There is no substitute for God. God is.....and there is nothing or no one that can replace who He is.
Take a moment and step back. Learn how to wait on God. How to trust that your Father knows best. He knows how to take care of you. He knows what is needed for your life and exactly when its needed. Stop seeking alternatives to God. Understand that the root word for alternative is alternate. It means to fluctuate. To interchange patterns. It means to shift back and forth. STOP SHIFTING. Stay in place and learn how to wait on God.
What is it that you wanting to do today? What was on your mind when you first woke up? Did you have a heart and a desire to worship Him? To seek His face? To seek His heart and direction for your day? Or were you weighted? Weighted down with the other "stuff" that comes with life. The bills, the children, the situations and circumstances that surrounded your yesterday and that are trying to consume your today? We have to learn how to press into God today..... for our today..... How to lay down yesterday and get in His presence today. What we must understand that everything that we are going through is subject to change in God. When something is under subjection...that means there is a contingency.....it means the outcome is subject to change.
Know today that your situation is subject to change based on what you do. Based on what you say. Based on what you believe. Do you believe that God "will" change what you are going through. Not just that he can. We know that He can. Do you believe that He "will" bring about the change that you need in your life.
It's time we shift our way of thinking. We have stopped at believing that God can do what we need. We have to move into a position of knowing that God will. We have to adopt an undeniable faith when our lives and our desires line up with His word and His will. The faith that says that we can't be denied. That says that God is who He said He is and that says He will do what He said He would do. A faith that says that our trust and our belief are completely rooted in God and who He is.
What is it about to you? This walk....this talk....your life? Have you gotten to the place where you have decided that it's all about God? That it really has nothing to do with you. Your wants or your desires. Yes God will give you your wants and your desires .... but you have to understand that .... that is not what it is about. It's all about loving the one that loves you. It's about showing people who God is by sharing His love with them. When we think it's all about us.....we fail to show forth God's love. Because the love that we are supposed to be sharing with others becomes rooted and grounded in self. In selfish motives and selfish motivation.
Let your motivation today be to love someone who can't see it. Someone who is feeling lost. Someone who is feeling forsaken. Someone who is feeling alone. Show them love today. We have to push past peoples lifestyles and touch peoples hearts. We get so bogged down with what people do and never get to the place of what we can do for people. Have you ever thought about why God looks at the heart? You have to understand today that what is going on in a persons life....their actions and their reactions.....are an outward expression of what is in their heart. Stop looking at the outward expression and understand that there is a root cause for what a person thinks and how a person acts. Something has been planted in their heart that has taken root. Just as the word that was planted in your heart has taken root and is now bearing the fruit of God's love.
Trust God today. Believe God today. Know that God loves you today. Now take that same trust, belief, and love and pour it out on someone else today. Push pass the outward manifestation and touch someones heart for God today.
Sow a seed today. Sow the seed of God's word. Take what you have received and plant it into someone else today. The seed of God's word has the potential to grow and outweigh everything else in a persons life. Take whatever opportunity God places before you today and sow God's word into someones life today. Somebody you come in contact with today is looking for peace. Somebody is feeling alone and need to feel the love of God. Somebody is ready to give up and all they need is a word from the Lord. Understand today that you may be the one who is carrying the word they need to make it. To bring it all together. To help life make sense to them. Stop sitting on what you know. Open up and share what God has placed on the inside of you. Share your testimony. It may be the one thing that makes a difference in someone elses life. Remember what you go through is always so you can help someone else get through. Amen.
Let's take a moment to think on God's word.... The word says.....In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3)
When we understand this scripture we will begin to understand that the Word is all we need. We get so busy trying to do and accomplish things in ourselves that we fail to "seek" and "speak" God's word concerning our situations in life. The Bible says that in the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.
We have to understand that God and His word are one. They are NOT separate.
All things were made by Him (God....The Word) and without Him (God....The Word) was not anything made.
So why are we so busy trying to accomplish things and do things without God.....the Word? If everything was made by the "Word" and without the "Word" was nothing made....it easy to see that we can do nothing or accomplish nothing without the word.
So today it is time to seek out God's word concerning your situation and to begin speak that word over your life. If you are suffering like.....find the scripture that says that God knows the things that you have need of and that He is faithful and just to provide you with those things. If you are sick in your body.....find the scripture that says by His stripes you are healed and begin to speak it over your body. If you are lonely....find the scripture that says that God will never leave you nor forsake you ....and begin to speak it into your life so that you know that you are not alone.
You cannot trust what you do not know. If you don't know what God's word says....how can you trust the word of God. It's time we move into the process of seeking and speaking. Find the word concerning your situation and speak it (audibly) over your life. Say to yourself and confirm within yourself who God is, what He has done, and what He will do in your life.
Take A Moment To Pray With Us Today .... PRAYER FOR TODAY - January 12, 2011 (Prayer of Rest and Asking God To Lead Us To Someone We Can Tell About His Grace, Love, and Mercy.....) .... posted on www.DailyMomentsWithGodPrayer.blogspot.com
Will you trust Him? When everything around you seems to be in chaos.....will you trust Him? What causes you to run? To run in fear of things not happening? What causes you to turn away from trusting God and move into that place where you only trust yourself? What you can do and how you can make it happen? The place of self reliance.....
We have to understand what self means. It means "alone"....."individual". It means to be on your own. How sad it is to have a God who knows all and sees all and understands everything .... yet to feel alone. To feel that you are without hope. That's what we do. We move from a place of God reliance to a place of self reliance when we fail to trust God and His word. We move to a place of loneliness and self preservation when we feel that we can do it all. GOD DID NOT CREATE US THAT WAY. He did not create us to be independent from Him. Our dependence should always be in Him and on Him.
When a child is conceived....He stays in His mothers womb in order to be protected and nurtured. Even after the child is born .... the nurture and guidance of a parent should not stop. The support .... the encouragement .... and the protection continues. The womb and the love has now expanded from the inside out. What was on the inside of the mother is now on the outside and the love the mother has .... has now expanded from the inside out. Because what was on the inside of her .... has now manifested on the outside. A transformation has taken place. A new life has been birthed.
That is how God is......He births us. However, we have to learn how to stay in the womb of God. The womb is the place of origin and the place of security. What we do is self induce labor because we want to get out....we want to do it on our own. We want to be self reliant. What we must understand is whether inside or outside of the womb....we are still reliant on Him for protection and nurture. Our reliance on God ... never stops. It is the requirement of a life fulfilled. In order to be fulfilled in life....you must be totally reliant on Him....you must have your total trust in Him. How can you get to the place of total peace, provision, healing, and love without Him. That's who He is. He is our peace....He is our provision.....He is our healing......and He is love.
What is new to you? When something has not been used yet....it is new. What is the new thing that you desire? Is it new clothes, new shoes, a new car, or a new home? What we have to understand is that there is a newness that God gives us every day. His mercy. He said that His mercies are renewed every day. So every day of your life you walk in newness. The new .... never used before .... mercy of God. What more can we ask for than to walk in God's love and His compassion every day? Not just on occasion. But every day His mercy is brand new for us.
God's mercy is God's compassion. His kindness and His forgiveness. He doesn't want us stuck in yesterday. Stuck on what happened yesterday or what we may have done wrong yesterday. So He continuously forgives us. What we have to ask ourselves is are we abusing God's mercy and God's grace? Are we doing things just because we know God will forgive us? Are we walking around saying .... "God understands". Yes....God is merciful and God is gracious. But God is looking for repentitive hearts. When you repent .... you stop what you are doing and turn away from it. You don't continue in it.
It's time that we be repentitive in more than just words. Where we actually "try" to live our lives in a way that is pleasing to the Father. Where we mean what we say and do what God asks. Yes.....we are thankful for His mercy because we are not perfect nor are we able to walk perfectly. But we need to try to be "pleasing". Another word for pleasing is satisfying. We need to try to live a life that is satisfying to the Father rather than to ourselves.
Join Us As We Pray Today .... PRAYER FOR TODAY - January 10, 2012 (Asking Forgivenss For Where We Have Allowed Flesh To Override Wisdom and Praying For Jobs, Promotions, and Increase) posted on www.DailyMomentsWithGodPrayer.blogspot.com
Where is your trust? Are you trusting in what you can do in and for yourself? Or are you trusting what God and His word has said? If He said that He will never leave you nor forsake you......are you trusting that you are not alone? If He said that His peace He leaves with you and His peace He gives to you .... are you walking in a state of mind where God's peace prevails?
What is it that you want from God? Do you want more stuff or is your "hearts" desire to have a deeper relationship with Him? God wants you to get to know Him more. He wants you to deepen your relationship with Him. To go further than ankle deep. He wants you to step out into the water of His word and to submerge and become consumed with who He is. What or who is it that is holding you back? That is keeping you from going all the way with God? Is it simple fear? Fear simply says that you don't believe God? God says if you believe me then you will do as I say. There is no in between when it comes to fear and faith. Either you believe God or you don't. Either you trust God or you don't. Fear causes you to reside at the point of don't. Where you don't believe and you don't trust God to do what He said. Faith says God cannot fail......
Make it a point to cross the threshold today. The threshold of total trust. The place that says .... yet will I trust you Lord. The place where your total love, your total trust and your total commitment are solely on God and His word. The place that requires you to surrender all. To surrender your preconceived notions and preordained thoughts to God, His word, and His way of doing things.
Understand today that everything that we want may not necessarily be in-line with what God wants for our lives. Make up your mind today to surrender your wants and your desires for what He wants and desires for your life. Make up in your mind today that fear is no longer an option. That you are moving from the place that holds you captive to the place of knowing that God will do whatever needs to be done....the place of faith. The place of trust. The place that says that you know that God's love for you overrides everything else in your life. Trust Him today. Believe His word today. Know who you are in Him and your importance to Him today. Make today the day that you move from fear to total trust in God and His word for your life.
How do you face your fears? Do you face them alone? Or do you face them in light of God's word. "In Light Of" means that you have certain knowledge in hand. It means that something has been made visible to you. So many times we try to face trials and situations in our lives in ourselves. In our own strength and in our own ability. We try to defeat the enemy without first attaining knowledge. We have to understand what is meant by the statement that says "knowledge is power". When something has power it means it has a force behind it. Force is used when something resists. So understand today that when things come up against your life and the lives of those around you.....if you have "knowledge".....you have a force that is a power that will come against whatever is resisting the word in your life.
To be fearful means to be worried, frightened and timid. All of which are totally opposite of who God is and what God has said. He has already said in His word for you not to fear. We have to grab hold of the word that was spoken in Isaiah ....
Isaiah 41:10
Amplified Bible (AMP)
10Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice.
We have to know today that it is God's desire that we walk in faith. Faith and fear are opposites. You can not walk in faith if you are walking in fear. You can not be bold if you are being timid. You can not be strong if you are allowing the enemy to come in and cause you to be weak.
Choose today....will you be a victor or a victim. Faithful or fearful. Strong or weak. The choice is yours. Your backing is still there. It is a question of whether or not you choose to step into Him. To be covered by Him. To have knowledge of who He is and what He is doing in your life. You cannot walk out or walk in what you do not know. In order to operate in the power given to you .... you must first understand how the power operates and works.
Now what? What will you do with all the knowledge....with all the understanding....with all the peace and with all the power? Now that you know that God is real? Now that you have seen His grace and His power? Now that you have experienced His love? What will you do with it? Will you allow God to use your experience for His glory? Will you tell your testimony? Will you praise His name? What will you do?
Somebody needs to know. Somebody needs to hear that it's going to be okay. Somebody needs to understand that they are not alone. Are you the one that is called to that somebody? When will we get the understanding that what we go through is not for our own good. It is for the good of someone else whose trying to understand why life is hitting them so hard. It is for someone who is sick and in need of deliverance. It is for someone who is depressed or oppressed. It is for someone who is going through lack in their lives. We've been mistaken. We thought it was all about God wanting to prove us. But it goes further.....after God has proved us (made us sure).....He then wants to use us. Once you are sure and firm in what you believe.....you can be used. You can help someone else understand that they are not alone. You can help carry them through with your prayers and your testimonies. We need to learn how to carry people in the spirit until they are able to stand with God alone.
So....now what? What will you do with your faith, your belief, and your strength in God. Will you help strengthen those around you.
