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What is it that you are holding on to? What they said or what they did? Or are you still trying to figure out why they did what they did? Let it go. Thoughts can be hindrances. They can hinder you from moving on to your next level. Your progression. When you progress, it means that you move towards a more advanced state. God wants us to progress in Him. He wants us to understand who He is and what He has called us to do. He wants us to come closer to Him. To come up higher with Him. To abide in Him. But we can't do that if we are still holding on to our past hurts and disappointments. If we are not willing to let go .... we can never move forward. Understand today that it is not that those things are holding us .... we are the ones holding those things. We are the ones who have to let go. So that means we are the ones holding on.
Change your position today and make today a day of release. Releasing all those things that tend to consume your heart and your mind. Those things that you continue to carry with you no matter where you go in God. Let them go today. Understand that God is trying to bring you up higher in Him. Higher in your walk and higher in your talk. He wants your knowledge in Him and your thoughts to switch positions. We have allowed our thoughts to rule over us .... whereas He wants us to take authority over our thoughts. It's time for a shift to take place. Use the knowledge and authority you have been given and begin to cast down the thoughts that exalt themselves against the knowledge of who He is.
Don't spend time worrying about what others are doing to you. Don't spend time worrying about what they say against you. Talk to God about it. In Psalms 35 David talked to God. He asked God to fight for him.
Psalm 35:1-4 (Amplified) CONTEND, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! 2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help! 3Draw out also the spear and javelin and close up the way of those who pursue and persecute me. Say to me, I am your deliverance! 4Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek and require my life; let them be turned back and confounded who plan my hurt!
How often do we try to fight for ourselves and defend ourselves? That is not what God wants us to do. He wants us to trust Him. To come to Him. To invite Him in and to step back and allow Him to move in our situations. So stop trying to do it on your own. Stop trying to figure it out on your own. Stop trying to live this life on your own. You are God's child. You are covered by Him and He is your shield and buckler. Learn how to come into His presence and rest. While you are resting .... He will fight your battle. Amen.....
It is easy to accept the promise that God has set before us when we are sure in who He is. The hard part is maintaining your hunger and continuing to seek God even when your promise cannot be seen yet. In the 37th Chapter of Psalms, we are encouraged to keep hold of the promise until we receive. We are warned to turn and stay away from all of our evil ways. In verse 23 it reads, "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and He delighteth in his way." It is true that it can become hard to wait for the promise on your own but with the help of the Father and Him guiding your way, it will become easy!
God is not a man that He should lie. He is giving and forgiving and all He wants from us is to be obedient and wait. This is an easy requirement for such a big reward. Think about it the Creator of the universe promises something to you. It is a privilege and an honor to worship such a wonderful God, who after giving his Son would still keep giving. In Psalms 37 verse 25 says "I have been young, and now am old; yet have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread". Hold to your promise today, and believe that you shall receive. Amen
Are you trying to stay ankle deep and knee deep? Or are you willing to submerge yourself in the word of God? God wants all of you. He is not looking to just tickle you with His word. He is looking to submerge you in His blessings.
In order for God to submerge you .... you have to go deeper. You have to find out more about who He is and what He desires to do in your life. Step out of your box. Break out of the shell. Get past your 2 or 3 memory scriptures and begin to seek His face and His direction through His word. There are many facets to your Father and He wants to manifest for you in all those ways. Will you allow Him to break forth in your life? Will you give Him more of you?
Understand today .... when God gets in .... everything else has to go. When He is able to move freely through your heart and your mind without being hindered by your opinion ..... He can manifest Himself more in your situations. It's time to let go and let God. It's time to get off the side of the pool and dive into His word. There is a freedom in the word of God that you can only have if you are willing to get all the way in and to go all the way.
Do you realize that you are called to lead? You are called to follow God and to lead others. A good scripture to meditate on today is Proverbs 10:17 .....He who heeds instruction and correction is [not only himself] in the way of life [but also] is a way of life for others. And he who neglects or refuses reproof [not only himself] goes astray [but also] causes to err and is a path toward ruin for others.
This scripture tells us that we are always leading. Whether we are leading people in instruction or destruction .... we are preparing a path. What path are you preparing for those around you. Your children, your family, your friends, your co-workers, or the strangers that you encounter on the street. Are you leading them to life or ruin? Are you showing them it can be done or it's okay to compromise. We have to make up our minds. Who and what we will serve. We have to decide on what value we put on God. If he is the most valuable thing in our lives we will put Him first in all that we do. Check your life today ..... what is your goal for today ..... is it to please your Father or to accomplish a task. If you live to please your Father ... .He will help you accomplish the task.
What are you prepared to do today? Are you prepared to worship? Are you prepared to give Him praise? Is the worship and the praise already in your mouth? When you know that you are going to win something there is an attitude of confidence. A confidence in knowing that you are the winner. That you will receive the reward. You need to not only know today that you win .... you need to act like a winner. You need to have a winner's attitude because because the battle is already won. The victory has already been achieved. Stop holding your head down. Stop thinking defeat. Stop looking at the circumstance and remember that in this battle of life, the victory was obtained first. The outcome was already determined before you got here.
We have to remember God's process for our lives. Have you ever wanted a job or a promotion but you realized that someone else had already been preselected for it and you said to yourself that there is no use in applying. That is the attitude the devil needs to take. We've already been selected as those chosen by God. The enemies attacks are futile. They carry no weight because we already have won.
What is the point? At what point do you stop doing what you do and begin to trust God? Where exactly is the pivotal place in your life. Pivotal means the point of crucial importance that is relative to your success. It is the place where everything else rests and turns. Have you gotten to that place yet? The place where you cease from all that you want to do and allow all your cares to rest on Him and your life pivots. It changes. It goes in a different direction.
God is the pivotal point on which everything in your life should rest. He is the place where you lay it all down. Once you get to that place .... life changes. The load because easy because you are no longer the one carrying it. The power within you begins to flow because you are no longer blocking it by the weight of your worries.
It's time to pivot. It's time to change directions. It's time to do it differently. If what you have done in the past has not worked .... give it to God. Lay it all down. Trust Him for your outcome and know that His plan goes far beyond what you can see or think. It may not be what we expected or what we wanted .... but in the end you will be better. That is His promise to you.
What is it that is clogging your breakthrough? Have you taken time to purge all the stuff? To purge means to rid yourself of an unwanted feeling, memory or condition. What is it that you are still holding on to? That you can't seem to let go of? Was it something that someone did or something that someone said. It can be something that occurred long ago in your past that is still controlling your future breakthrough. It's time to let it go. To let God have control of it. To truly give it over.
We can't continue to live our lives based on our past outcome. Your past outcome should have no control over your future breakthrough. God wants to bless you. He wants to take you to another level in Him but He needs for you to let go of the weight. Those weighty things that continue to hinder your thoughts and your actions. That cause you to doubt or not trust what He is telling you to do. There are different types of experiences in life. There are good experiences and there are bad. We need to learn how to separate the wheat from the tares. When you harvest wheat or harvest fruit .... you pick that which is good. You don't load yourself down with the good and the bad. There is no use for the bad. It can't be used or eaten .... so why carry it. Understand how life is. There are good moments and bad. We don't need to harvest and carry around the bad outcomes. We need to take that which is good and fruitful for our lives and surrender the rest to God. Stop carrying around the unnecessary weight so that it is easy for God to elevate you.
Understand that there are promises in your life that God has given you. So often we come against challenges that we forget about the promises. We are trying to so hard to figure out the challenge. We have a who what when where and why me attitude with God? It seems as though our questions to God are who did this Lord? What is going on Lord? When is this going to change Lord? Where do I go from here Lord? And finally, why me Lord? Not understanding that God wants us to pursue the promise instead of trying to figure out the challenge.
A scripture for us to meditate on today is I Samuel 30:8. David had been given a promise by God and part of that promise was his family. While David was away, the enemy had come into his camp and spoiled the camp and taken all the women and all who were there captive. Understand that David's family and the other people were all a part of the promise that God had given David. We have to stop looking at our promise in partiality. At the point of understanding what the enemy had done .... David immediately asked God for direction. He asked Him should He pursue. There is a key point here. David asked God should he pursue. There were things he wanted .... his family had been taken captive. But he did not step out in pursuit without first inquiring of God what He should do. How often do we pursue things based on our want and not God's word? God told David to pursue and He also told Him the result of His pursuit .... which was that he would recover all.
We have to stop trying to do things without God's direction. When we step out without being sure of the direction God wants us to go in .... we stand the risk of being disappointed. There are times where we have to be still and let God be God. He has given us wisdom in the natural and power in the spiritual. We have to learn how to use both. How to do what we can do and then step into faith and allow God to do the rest. We have to learn how to only pursue the things that God is telling us to pursue and to allow Him to bring recovery into our lives.
What is God saying when He says that He will keep you in perfect peace? Perfect Peace...... When something is perfect, it is defined as having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be. What does that tell you? It is telling you that the peace that you are looking for can only be found in God because He alone is perfect. In order to have perfect peace .... you must have God. There is a peace that comes when you know Him. There is a peace that comes when you trust Him. Peace is available but it is only available in Him.
Take time to get to know God. To get into His word so that you can learn of the things that He desires to do in and for you. Take the time to talk to Him and to acknowledge His presence in your life. God is always there ... He is just waiting for your acknowledgement.
Today is about trusting God. Today is about acknowledging His presence. Today is about believing and knowing. Today is about walking in His perfect peace.
Where is it that God is taking you? Or should I say where is it that you are trying to take God? Are you following God's plan or are you trying to get God to be a part of your plan?
We have to get to a place where we stop trying to lead God. Stop trying to tell Him what we want to do and start doing what He is asking us to do. We need to truly take the attitude of where you lead .... I will follow Lord. What you say ..... I will do Lord. Not my will buy thy will be done.
We tend to live life with our own rules. Our rules tend to be based on our own comfort zone. What we are comfortable and willing to do. That is not the life that God intended for us to live. God wants us to live lives of faith. Lives that trust Him. Lives that are obedient to His word and reflect His will, purpose, and plan in the earth.
The question is ..... are you ready and willing to sacrifice? Are you ready and willing to do it His way and not your own? Are you ready to give it all up? Your way of thinking and your way of doing things so that God's will can be done through you in the earth.
What is it that you do when you are going through? Do you quit? Do you give up or give in? Or do you call upon the maker of heaven and earth? Do you run to the world or run into His presence? So often we run to what we know because we are afraid of what we don't know. Understand today that your faith is based on trusting God with what you don't know. It means understanding that He has it "all" in control.
We have to stop taking things out of the hands of God. We say we trust Him .... but when we are going through we take it back out of His hands. Things that we have committed to Him through our words .... our actions reverse our commitment. How is that? We have to begin to do what we say. We have to begin to allow our lives to be fully directed toward God's plan and God's purpose. That includes trusting Him into the realm of the unseen. Our future has not been revealed to us .... yet God knows exactly what it is. We have to totally trust the one who knows. We cannot walk this walk in partiality. It's all or nothing. The Bible says hot or cold. It does no good to trust God partially. That only means that there is still a need for you to die to "self". Understand the part of you called self is consistently trying to be revived and trying to take over your thoughts and your actions. However you have to be at a place where you are totally yielded to God and self must die.
Make it about Him. Let your reason be Him. Let your defined purpose be Him and let your plan be solely based on Him and what He wants to do in your life.
Don't be deceived. Don't believe what it looks like. Understand that God already has a plan. He already knows how He will deliver you from the hands of the enemy. He already has it worked out. He already knows the answer. He just wants you to trust Him. He just wants you to believe that He will. Do you trust Him? Do you believe that He is God? Or do you believe the lie of the enemy? The appearance of what seems to be?
God has given you a promise. His promise is that He would never leave you nor forsake you. He said in the word that He knows the things that you have need of and that He is faithful and just to bring those things to pass. He said that you are chosen and that you belong to Him. He will do it. He will honor His word.
In the meantime, take the testimony regarding your path of deliverance and help someone else. Let them know through your testimony that God is real. Be real with them. Let them know that you had to trust....you had to believe....and how sometimes it didn't work out according to your thoughts or your plans ..... it was all according to what God wanted to do. People need to understand the reality of God's word and the fact that He will work "all" things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.... Help somebody hear the call of God by opening them up to His word through your testimony. Amen.
What is it that you are asking God for? What is it that you need Him to do? Have you even asked Him? If you asked Him ..... did you ask Him amiss? James 4:3 talks about us asking and receiving not because we ask amiss. To ask amiss means to ask inappropriately or at the wrong time. How often do we ask God for things inappropriately and at the wrong time? How often do we miss God and His timing because we fail to ask?
Understand today that God wants you to ask Him to come into your situation. The thing is we need to make sure our motives and our intent are right. We need to make sure that what we are asking for is in line with His will and His word. Take time today to know what your Father wants and expects of you. Take time today to listen and to do His word. When you do those things .... the things that you ask God for will line up. They will be in His timing and will be according to His word and His will.
God wants to bless you. He wants to answer your prayers. He just wants your prayers to be based on His word. Amen.
What is your expected outcome? What are you expecting God to do for you? What is it you want Him to do? So often we want God to do something but our expectation is totally different. The way that we know our expectation is different is because we ask God to do it and yet we make alternate plans or alternatives. The word alternate means to choose between to different choices. A substitute. Another possibility. The thing is ..... if you are asking God to do something ..... either you believe that He can "and" will or you don't. There is no in-between. There is no realm of possibility with or in God. He just is. Faith does not say that I have another choice in the matter. Faith says I believe you and I trust that you will do it for me. Anything below that is faith failure. Where your faith is failing to totally trust and believe God and His word.
Understand there is wisdom that comes along with standing in faith. You can't go out and just do what you want to do and then ask God to come to your rescue. He will ..... but at that point you are walking in the mercy and grace of God. God wants you to first of all use wisdom and after you have used wisdom in your choices to then trust Him to do the rest.
Trust Him to be your provider. Trust Him to be your healer. Trust Him to give you peace and understanding. Trust Him for your deliverance. Let your plan be to make God decisions and to walk in faith. Let your faith being without alternatives. Tell God that you trust Him and you believe Him. Let Him know that He is your only alternative and without Him it can't be done. Ask Him for help and believe Him for deliverance.
Are you still trying to figure it out? Trying to understand who you are and what you are created to do? You were created to worship. To live for Him and in Him. To magnify and to praise Him. To give your Father, your Creator, your King glory. That is what you were created to do.
You were divinely and uniquely created. You were shaped by His hands and formed after His likeness. You are beautiful. The beauty of the Lord shines through you. You are a vessel of His goodness and His glory. Again I say you are beautiful in Him.
All the trials and all the struggles ... they too are to give Him glory. As you go through .... yes I said go through .... you come out purified and cleansed. You come out stronger and more determined. You come out showing forth the glory and the praise of your Father, Your Creator, and your King. When you are in the midst of your problem or your struggle .... you can't see the glory. You can't see the outcome. But when it is all said and done .... you win. You are victorious. You benefit from the benefits of the Father.
Understand today .... not only were you created by Him .... out of all of His creations .... He chose you. You are created and then chosen by your Father to receive His best. For He saw something special in you. He saw something different in you. So what you don't see ... God sees. What you don't know ... God knows. What you can't do ... God does. You are well taken care of by the one who created and chose you.
Realize today that you are alive in Christ. 1 Corinthians 15, talks about Christ being risen from the dead. You are no longer who you were ... you have been made alive in Christ. The person you used to look like before you were saved, should not be the person you look like now. It is time to come alive, and rise up out of our worldly customs and traditions and be made new. The hard part here is that the habits that we have taken on have become like that of a custom. We are so used to doing something one way that we cannot see ourselves doing it another. Not only this, but we fail to see the wrong in what we do. However, today God wants us to look deeper and rise out of all those things that are holding and tugging at us. He wants to be our Lord. He wants our time and devotion. Do not allow the enemy to keep you down in things of him, because then you will not be able to see the things of God. I encourage you to grab on to the promise of God, and speak it over your life. Romans 8:37 reads, "Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." To Conquer means to overcome, subdue or master an enemy. Today, overcome, subdue and master the enemy. Show him that he has no control over you and be alive in Christ.
God wants you to know that He loves you today. He wants you to know that you are safe in Him today. When you think about God and what He has done .... you know how good He is. You know that He will provide for you. God wants you to know today that not only will He provide for you, He loves you and you are safe in His arms. The Bible says in Psalm 91 that He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. There is safety in God. There is a secret place in Him where you can abide and you are covered by His shadow. A place where you can't be seen by the enemy ..... The only thing that enemy will be able to see is God's shadow.
The Bible also tells us that God is love. Not only is He love .... but He loves us. How awesome is that. To know that love itself loves you. Love is sacrificial. You can understand the capacity of someone's love by what they are willing to sacrifice for it. If you ever question whether or not God loves you .... look at the sacrifice that He made for you.
What is your example? When you are an example, you are one that represents a group. If God said today that He was using you "just as you are" as an example of the group you represent ... what group would that be? Would it be a group that is holy and striving for the things of God or would it be a group that talks of Him but does things opposite His will in private? Understand today that you are a representation. The question is what are you representing.
God has called us to be examples. When you are an example for God .... it doesn't mean that you are perfect. There is no one on this earth that is perfect. Only Jesus was perfect. But in order to be an example, you should be striving to do what is right. Striving to live right. Striving to speak right. Striving to show forth God's goodness and His glory.
Let God use you today. Let God shine through you today. Be a representation of who He is. Be a light and an example for someone today. Let your light shine forth His word and let your example reflect back on who He is.
What is your lifestyle? Life is defined as living things and their activity. Style is defined as the manner in which you do something. So when I ask what is your life style ...... I am asking in what manner are you being active in life? What is it that others see when they see you? What is your style? Is it one that reflects your Father or is it a reflection of just you? A self reflection.
Understand that style encompasses all things. It is all of who you are. We hear all the time about different types of makeovers. Hair makeovers, fashion makeovers, style makeovers, home makeovers. It's time that we do a God makeover. Where we say God .... here I am .... make me over in you. Where we say change me Lord. Change my appearance. Where people see me .... let them see you. Change my talk .... where people hear me .... let them him you. Change my motives .... where I have been self motivated .... let my motivation be for you and you alone Daddy. We have to get to the place where we allow God to make us over. Where our "lifestyle" is a reflection of His "life" and His "style".
What are you depending on to take you up in life? Are you depending on people, places, or things? Are you depending on your job, your family, or your friends? Understand today that the only one that has the power to elevate you is God. The Bible says that promotion comes from the Lord. God will promote you in various levels of your life. He will promote you financially, as well as, spiritually. He will promote you in the area of relationships and economically. Promotion means to go from one level to another. It means to increase. It is God's desire to increase you. To move you forward. To launch you. The question is are you pulling back when He is trying to pull you forward. Understand that as long as self is prevalent .... He can't take you where He wants to or do what He desires to do for you. When you get to your next level, it means you are more noticeable. God wants to make you more noticeable so that the people in your circle of influence will be able to see Him more clearly. The closer you are to a person or a thing ... the more clearly you can see it.
It's time for God to elevate you. Do what you need to do in order to dump all the unnecessary weight. Don't be too weighty. Don't try to take all the baggage with you. Everything and everyone can't go with you to your next destination. Did you hear me...... everything and everyone can't go. They were meant for this time and this season and God is ready to take you to a new time and a new season. In saying that ..... I need you to also understand that people in your circle may not understand your purpose ... the thing that God has called YOU to do. When you don't understand the purpose of a thing you don't know how to handle it. It can even make you feel intimidated when you try to use it. Understand that if people around you don't understand what God is calling you to do, they may feel somewhat intimidated or confused and in turn they may try to intimidate you. Break the bondage of intimidation and move forward in doing what God has called you to do. Amen.
Do you realize that you have been getting upset over the wrong thing. All the people that hurt you and those who didn't live up to "your" standards. They just didn't know. They didn't know that you were chosen. They didn't know that you were called. They didn't know the power and the presence of God that is within you. That didn't know the gift that God had given them by allowing you to be a part of their lives. If they knew .... they chose not to believe. But it's okay .... they can't stop the plan that God has for your life. Only you can hinder it by not forgiving them .....
It's time to let it go and understand that they "just didn't know". Trust and believe God when He says that He "knows" the plans that He has for you. Plans to give you a hope and a future and an expected end. God never designed you to react to a man's actions. He designed you to react to His word. When you dwell on what someone else did to you ..... you are reacting to another man's actions. When you react to your hurt and your pain .... in many cases you are allowing someone else's actions to become the determining factor for how you feel and what you do. Let it all go. Stop allowing someone else's perception to become your reality. Live "in" the life of God. The one that He has designated and designed for you. Step into His will and listen to His word concerning your life. Release those who have hurt you and move forward in the plan God has for you.
Did you lay it all down? All your hurts, all your worries, all your pain.... Did you lay it all down? All your fears, all your desires, all your ambitions..... Did you lay it all down? All of you ..... To pick up His plan, His purpose, and His desire for your life. Be crucified today .... so that you can live in Him. So that you can be covered from the inside out. Understand today that He that lives in you (covering you from the inside) is also He that wants you to live in Him (covering you on the outside). Be covered today .... from the inside out.
It's all about laying it all down for Him. About living your life for Him. About walking it out in Him. It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with Him and what He has done for you. Amen.....
Today is a day to meditate. Meditate on who He is. Meditate on what He has done. Meditate on His love, His grace, and His mercy for you. Let your light be seen. Let your life be an open book. Let someone else know that the power that works in you is real. Let someone else see His glory upon your life. Magnify Him in all that you "say" and "do". Don't just say you are His child and live any way you want to. When you say you are His child .... let your words and your actions be a reflection of what you are saying. When you open your mouth .... let your words be words of edification and illumination. Let them be words of encouragement and not discouragement. So often our words not only discourage others .... but we tend to discourage ourselves. The Bible says to encourage yourself. When we say things that are against who we are .... we are tearing down God's kingdom that is within us. Let your life and your light all line up. Let it magnify and let it glorify your God, your Savior, and your King.
Take time today to read His word.....to confess His word......and to believe His word. If you don't believe it for yourself, how can you expect those around you to believe?
Have you come to the place where the love and life of Christ is clear to you? Where you are no longer confused about who you are and what you are called to do? We have to get to a place of clarity. A place where we completely understand who we are and whose we are. A place where our foundation and our security are solely based on who He is and the knowledge of knowing that we belong to Him.
Understand today that when you are clear about who you are and what you believe, you become transparent. All the hidden stuff is gone. You then become the living epistle that God wants you to be. The open book to be read by all men.
We have to understand that a book is designed to be read. It is written to either tell a story or in the case of textbooks to teach and help provide understanding. You are God's book. You are the tool that He is using to help tell His story and to help others to understand. You are what God is using to help unfold His plan and His purpose in the earth. However, in order for you to tell the story .... you first have to understand and be confident in what you believe. You have to be clear. When something is clear, it is free from darkness, obscurity, and cloudiness.
Be the epistle you are called to be and let someone know who God is through the story of your life. Step out of the darkness and walk in the light of His word. Amen....
Savior, Creator, and King. That who He is. He died for us, rose for us and was crowned for us. Crowned to show forth the power of God. The power that never changes. The power that heals the sick and opens blind eyes. The power that defeats demons. Understand that all of who He is resides on the inside of you. The question is .... will you walk in the power that has been provided. There is a power that has been provided just for you. For you to be able to live holy and to be free. A power that moves and manifests not only in your but for you. Let God be God. Let the power of who He is prevail in your life. Let His anointing rain down on you. Let His goodness and grace rest on you. Let His power flow freely from you. All that He is .... He is in you. But it is up to you to allow Him to flow in and from your life. Are you limiting the movement of God?
We have to begin to understand what God will do in the middle of a situation and a circumstance. In the middle of a battle. In the middle of a storm. Understand that God is not outside of your situation today. God is at the very core of your being. Understand that you are stemmed from who He is. Think about the parts of a plant ..... the stem, the core, and the seed.
The stem is the main stalk or body of a plant which is used to connect a plant to the vine, an apple to a tree, etc. The core is the central, innermost, or most essential part of anything. The seed is the part that contains within it the ability to reproduce.
Understand that you are the planting of the Lord. You are His plant in the earth. The stem is what connects you to Him. His dwelling place is in the core of your being. You carry within you the seed of His word which has the ability to reproduce.
The thing about a plant is that if you detach the stem from the vine ..... the plant is vulnerable to death. The word vulnerable means to be exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed. When you detach from God .... you open yourself up to exposure. You are at that point subject to attack and to harm. God loves you and it is His desire that you stay connected to Him. In Him is everything you need to survive. When you become detached you no longer have roots. Therefore your source of strength is then based on what you can do in yourself. There is no longer a root system by which you can be fed.
Stay connected to the vine and allow God to strengthen you and use you for His glory. Amen.
When will you get tired? When will you get tired of playing the game that the devil wants you to play? When will you put your foot down and say "no more"? You put your foot down in prayer. The Bible says the devil is under your feet. Why is it that we live our lives as though he is on our level. He's not. He is lower than you because you have been elevated by and with God. The Bible says that you are seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So why are you trying to run back to the old? Why do you think the old is your home? You have a new home in Jesus. You need to begin to dwell there. You dwell there by keeping your mind on Him. By inviting Him in. Into your situations. Into your circumstances. Into your life.
Understand that you are a child of God. You are strengthened by Him for Him. In other words the strength that He gives you is to be used to glorify Him in the earth. You are wasting your time and your strength on an enemy who is already defeated. Why is that? Why exert unnecessary energy? Why waste unnecessary time.
It's time to make a move. It's time to move out of the old and move into a new residence in God. A place where you never have to move again. With this move .... you can leave everything else behind. All the luggage....are the furnishings (those things that take up residence in your heart and in your mind that are not of God) ..... leave it all. There is a place already prepared for you in Christ. A place of rest and a place of provision. Step into the promise and stop going backwards into the problem.
God loves you and He has prepared His best for you. Amen.
What is it that you want that He has not already done? How is it that we want so much .... yet we are willing to give so little? What is this take and not give mentality that we are living in? The mentality where we want to take so much and give so little.
God has given us His all .... yet we struggle to give Him so little. We struggle to pray. We struggle to praise. We struggle to say thank you. How is it that we don't struggle to ask for more? How is it so easy to tell Him our needs .... yet we fail to thank Him for His blessings. How is it that we quickly ask Him for more .... yet we struggle to obey the things He tells us to do.
We live in a world where we want to get as much as we can for as little as we can. Unfortunately we are taking that same mentality to God. We are consistently asking Him for more .... Yet we are consistently giving Him less. Less of our time ..... Less of our talents ..... Less of our life. That should not be.
Take this time and take this season to really look at what was done for you. What sacrifice was made for your life. Evaluate what you are doing for Him. Evaluate what you are saying about Him. Evaluate what you are asking of Him in regards to what you are really willing to give Him. Understand the price that was paid for YOU. Don't look at what was done for everybody else. Look at what He did for YOU.
This life is real and it's time to walk in the reality of it.
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"Trust God in all that you do today. Know that He is in control and that He has your back. Not only does He have your back ..... but He also goes before you ..... therefore you are covered on every side. Amen."
"What they did"...... Are you still thinking about what someone did to you? Are you still angry, hurt, and disappointed about what someone said to you? Understand today that what goes in a person is the only thing that can come out. If they are not receiving the word that you are receiving ..... why would you expect them to do as you do? Recognize the spirit of flesh. Recognize the unseen. If the enemy can cause you to be controlled by your emotions based on what someone else did .... he still has control over you. He is still able to cause you to react based on your pain. Let it go. It doesn't matter what they did. All that matters is who you are in God and you are called to be a vessel of love. You have to love people into a place of change. Getting angry with them and not speaking to them will never cause them to change. It only causes them and those around you to question your identity in God because at the point of your anger and not wanting to deal with people ..... the characteristic of God's forgiveness is no longer showing through you. Don't ever live your life out based on what other's did to you. You should live your life out based on what Jesus did for you. Amen.
