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Are you trying to do everything else instead of what God told you to do? Are you still trying to make the old things work? Instead of pursuing the new thing that He has given you the vision and the resources to accomplish? It's time to step forward with God. It's time to move into newness and to let go of the old. It's time to pursue Him like never before. It's time to trust Him without reservation. It's time. We have to begin to understand the purpose and meaning of timing. We try so hard to accomplish things ... but we never understand that it is a matter of timing with God. We have to understand that God has a "set time". From creation God "set" things in place. We are just walking out our lives to get to the time that He already "set" in place.
So start listening and doing what He is telling you to do. He knows the beginning to the end. He planned it. If He says do it now. Do it because "now" is the time when the vision will flourish.
What is your heart's desire today? Are you crying out to God? Are you desiring Him more than people, places, and things? Are you wanting Him more? Not just the stuff ... but Him. God. Your Father. Your King. Don't get confused. So often we want God to do something for us. It's not the same. You have to desire Him beyond the stuff. You have to be able to say within yourself ... "God if you don't do another thing for me ... I still love you". "God if I don't see the answer ... I won't leave you".
Can you say that? If it doesn't happen, will you still be steadfast and unmovable in the things of God? If you don't understand it ... will you still trust Him? Let your heart's desire be for more of God and allow Him to bless you with the stuff in His timing.
What happens when it doesn't turn out the way you expected? Do you give up? Do you quit? Or do you stand and know that He is God? God has called you to stand. He has called you to be strong. He has called you to do His will. How awesome it is to be called by God. To be hand picked and hand selected to fulfill His purpose. We have to get to the place where we know and understand if God selected us ... everything He said shall come to pass in our lives, as long as we don't give up or quit.
It's time to stand strong. It's time to recognize and realize you have a firm foundation in God. It's time to walk out His plan fully and completely. Not being intimidated by the trials of life. Not being moved by the things that don't turn out the way we expect them to. Not giving up and not quitting. Just being fixed in the will, purpose, and plan of God.
Have you ever been around people you just can't quite figure out? Those people whose attitude change with what they think is their altitude. The more they seem to get ... the more distant and obnoxious they become. The word obnoxious means extremely unpleasant. Unpleasant to be around because they think they are better or they feel that God has elevated them higher than where you are.
Make it a point to not be that way. As God increases you ... and He will ... be who God created you to be. Be the vessel and the friend. Walk in your gift and love those around you. Those that helped you and encouraged you along the way. Don't step into a place of "self". Where you think that you did it all by yourself and you feel that what God is doing is just for you. Every gift that God gives us is for someone else. To help someone else. To show someone else the way. Be the vessel that God created you to be and allow the love that He is to flow from your life at all times.
There are things that God has granted us. To grant means to bestow or confer. It means it has been given as a privilege or right. The opportunity to live our lives for God is a privilege that He has given us. The people, the places, the things we have are all a part of His plan and His gift to us. The question is ... are you taking the things He has given you "for granted". When you take something for granted, you assume that it will always be there. You use it or treat it carelessly. In essence you don't recognize the value of the thing you have.
We have to begin to realize that each day is an opportunity to live it totally and fully for God. To show God in our walk and in our talk. We have to stop taking our days for granted. Assuming that we can do it tomorrow. Or we can say it tomorrow. Understand tomorrow is not promised to any of us. So today is the prime opportunity for you to say whatever it is that God has laid upon your heart to say and do. Stop procrastinating. Be bold in your faith.
It's not about you keeping yourself. What you can do in self. What you can do by yourself. It's about surrendering. Giving up and giving into the will, plan, and purpose of God. Are you ready to let go? Can you let go? It all starts with a release in your mind. If you don't think you can let go ... you won't. If you don't think that God can handle it ... He won't be able to move in your situation. It's time to change how we think. We have to see, know, and think that God is enough. It's all about your perception of who God is. When you see Him as enough you will release Him through your faith to move in your life.
So today ... stop trying to keep yourself. Stop trying to do it all by yourself. Let go and let God move in your life. Amen.
What is it? What is it that you want to do for God? Have you started going in that direction? Are you focused? Are you ready? You have to understand that your movement for God can only be done through your movement in God. You have to be in God to be strong enough to accomplish whatever it is He is telling you to do. You have to be in God in order to be shielded from the attacks of the enemy. You have to be in God so that He can escalate the process on your behalf?
So again, are you ready? Are you ready to move forward. To step out and to do what God has told you to do. Remember ... In Him there is safety. In Him there is peace. In Him there is power. In Him you can do all things. It is only in Him that you can fulfill the call that He has placed on your life.
Time or timing? The thing is ... we are constantly looking at time? How long it is taking or when we think we need it and God is looking at timing. We have to understand ... although they are similar ... there is a difference between time and timing. We may think it is the right time. But God knows the perfect timing. When you look at the word timing, it is talking about a specific moment. God wants us to understand that He knows the specific moment in which things should occur in our lives. The moment where it will maximize and cause the greatest impact and results for our lives.
So stop looking at what time it is and start expecting God to move in His perfect timing. Because the timing of God has been prepared before the foundation of the earth.
You have been designated as the host today. You are hosting God. If you have invited Him into your life, you are now hosting Him. One definition of the word host is "one who furnishes the facilities". A facility is a place. Understand you are the facility ... the place where the Holy Spirit is residing ... so you are in essence His host.
Now the question is ... what kind of host are you. What kind of facility are you? Are the type of place where anything goes. Where there is constant chaos based on who or what you let in? Always remember ... everything you do in life, you are inviting God to do it with you. For He has said that He will never leave you nor forsake you. He is with you wherever you go. So think before you do and say things. Understand whatever you do ... you are exposing God to it as well.
What are you thinking? What is on "your" mind? Are you thinking thoughts that produce peace and strength? Or are you thinking thoughts that are full of worry and doubt? It's hard to get past the worry and the doubt sometimes. It's hard to just trust and just rest. The reason it is so hard is because of the pain of our past. The situations that we thought would work out that didn't. But understand today ... God is doing a new thing. He wants the new thing that He is doing to be effective in your life. But it requires you to trust Him. It requires you to believe Him. It requires you to follow Him and obey Him.
Understand the word "new" means it hasn't happened yet. It is being created or invented. There are things that God will create or invent just for you. Just so you can have the things that you need in your life. So go ahead and step into a place of obedience. A place of trust. A place where you believe God totally and fully so that He can do the new thing that He has ordained for your life.
What are you writing? We all are writing. What are you writing on the pages of your life? The Bible says that we are living epistles ... books to be read by all men. What is your story saying today? Is it telling the people around you to walk in love? Is it saying that God is peace that goes beyond understanding? Is the story of your life a book of encouragement and strength? Or is your story full of fear (fearful) and doubt?
Remember somebody is reading your book today. What story are you telling?
Are you basing it on His word? Your trust? Your belief? You walk? Your talk? Are you basing it on what God has said? His word tells us to trust in Him and to lean NOT to our own understanding. Are you trusting? You are looking for God to reward you ... but understand His word says that He that comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. So are you believing? How about your walk and your talk. Where are you going and what are you saying? Are your ways and your words in line with God's word. If you ever want to know how to line up your life ... there is an outline in His word.
It's time to start believing the word so that you can receive the rewards that are outlined in His word.
Can you see God? Beyond everything else ... can you see God? Can you see His love for you? The price He paid for you? The life He gave to you? Can you see God?
We get so focused on what is going on right here and right now ... we fail to see. Don't lose sight of the promise or the plan. The promise says that He will keep you in all your ways. The promise said that He will deliver you. The promise says that if you follow Him and obey His commands, He will take sickness and disease from your midst. Not to mention He said that He knows the "plans" He have for you. Plans to give you a HOPE ... a FUTURE ... and an EXPECTED END.
So refocus today. See God through it all. See His promise and understand He has a plan. You can and you will make it.
Are you maintaining your momentum in God?The word momentum means the speed or force
of your forward movement.Are you staying
consistent?Or are you allowing the
force of your trials to cause you to move backwards instead of forward “with”
God?Understand the word moments means
FORWARD MOVEMENT and the opposite of momentum is “brake”.A brake is something that slows or hinders a
process.When driving a car … if you
want to stop your forward movement you step on the brake.Are you doing that in life?Do you keep braking and wonder why you are
not moving forward?
It’s time to move forward with God.It’s time to stop looking through the rear
view mirror of life.It’s time to stop
braking based on distractions.It’s time
to walk it out and live it out in God.It’s time to accelerate and increase the momentum by which we move
forward in the things of God.
Are you wanting what God wants? Are you desiring what God desires? How often do we get tired and stressed based on our desire not coming to pass? We have to begin to look at our lives and make sure what we are desiring is what God desires for us. We have to make sure we our desire is word based and not flesh based. How will God be uplifted and edified by these things coming to pass in our lives. How will He be seen in it and will it be to His glory or is it something that is meant to satisfy your flesh.
We have to understand that the blessings of God are not meant to satisfy our flesh. Although in some situations they do. They are meant to glorify who God is in our life. They are symbols of His goodness, His grace, His love, and His mercy. They are meant to be there so people can look and see God ... not you. Not what you have or what you can do but what God has and what He will do. Make sure your desires are in line with His word. The end result of each and every blessing in your life should be to redirect the attention of others to who God is and not what you have.
How often do we give God the bad and try to hold on to the good? We tend to seek God's help when we are going through and think we can handle the rest. We have to understand what it means to give God our whole life. Entirely ... Completely ... giving ourselves over to God. Understand the word entire means with no part left out. Whole. The word complete means having all the necessary or appropriate parts. We have to stop just giving God the parts that are broken. We have to allow Him to bring our entire lives together to a point of completion in Him.
It's time to trust Him with your "whole" life. It's time to follow Him in "every" way. It's time to stop holding back on what we think is okay in our lives. If we give it all to Him now ... it will already be in His hands when the enemy tries to launch an attack. This life is about trusting God entirely and instead of going to Him occasionally ... when it hurts. It's about living your life consistently in recognition of His presence and yielding your life completely to His will, purpose, and plan. Knowing that He goes before you and that He is your rearguard and no matter what comes to your life or against your life ... your life belongs to Him and He will take care of you.
Understand today that you are the clay and God is the Potter. When we look at our lives and as we try to figure out what is happening in our lives, we have to begin to understand that we are in the process of change. We can't just take a piece of clay and use it as a vessel. The clay has to be shaped and formed into a vessel of use. That's how we are. We have to be shaped and formed by God into a vessel that He can use.
Think about the process of pottery. The clay is first "centered" on the potter's wheel. That's us. We have to first of all become centered on God and the things of God. Secondly the clay is pressed downward in order to form the base of the vessel. Do you feel as though you are being pressed down? That is because your foundation has be sure. It has to be level. If a vessel is made and the foundation is not level ... it is subject to fall over. The next step the potter does after the base has been established is he pulls the clay upward in order to form the walls of the vessel. Building it. That is what God does with us ... once our foundation is sure ... He begins the process of pulling us up. Understand the purpose of a "wall" is to separate and to provide a means of protection. So if you feel as though you are becoming separated as God builds you up ... understand at that point you can't do everything you used to and know that God is building you into a beautiful vessel. Then of course after the vessel has been molded ... there is the fire. The test and the trial by fire will always come in order to harden you and make you strong. Understand ... if you never go through the fire ... the walls that God has formed ... what He has shaped your life to be ... can never stand because it is the fire that causes you to be a vessel that is ready for the Master's use.
Are you trusting God through it all? Six years ago today I was sitting in a hospital room with my mom. It was the day the we unhooked her from life support. I remember the nurses telling me that I could stay in the room because they figured she wouldn't breathe long once they unhooked her from life support. But she did. I remember sitting the next day in the room with her and telling God, please Lord don't let her die today because it is my birthday and she breathed on. It was at that time that God ministered to me. He told me that no man can determine when she came in to the earth or when she would leave. This had to be the hardest point in my life. But God was there. He walked me through it and He talked me through it. He allowed me to see His power and His presence through it all.
There was one point while she was in the hospital where she coded and they couldn't bring her back. God allowed me to pray and immediately she came back. It wasn't until I prayed and I told God thank you for allowing my mother to enter into His rest that her spirit left her body. It was at the exact point of my "amen" to the prayer that her eyes opened and she was gone. So understand today .... God is with you through it all. No matter how hard the situation or how deep the loss ... God is there. Trust Him. Believe Him and hold on to your faith in Him to help you understand the process of life. This includes those things that hurt you or disappoint you. Those things that cause you to cry and to hurt. You have to still trust God's plan. Amen.
What is testing your faith today? What is causing you to question God? To question whether He is there or whether He cares? Are you allowing the trial to have the authoritative position in your life? Or are you bring the trial under subjection to the word in your life. Learn how to apply the word to the test and the trial.
We have to get to the place where we know the word works regardless. Regardless of how we feel or what we want to say or do. Understand the word is your authority. The word authority means the power or the right to give orders. The word is your power and your right to command things in your life to change. Use the word. Don't allow your faith to fail based on your failure to apply the word to your situation. How many battles are lost based on our failure to apply God's word to the situation. Utilize the authority that you have been given.
Who are you living it for? Are you living it for yourself? Are you living it for your friends and your family? Or are you living your life for Him? For God ... Your Savior ... Your Keeper ... Your Friend. Who exactly are you living it for?
It's time to stop and take a look at your responses to life? Are you basing your decision on what people think? Are your choices based on the opinions of man or the word of God? As you live it out, walk it out, talk it out ... do you alter your words based on who is listening? Understand ... it's time to live it out, walk it out, and talk it out for God and God alone. No one else can save you. No one else can keep you. No one else can do for you what God has done and will do for you. Make it a point to please God and not man. Make it a point to please God and not yourself. Make it a point to do it God's way and not mans. Let your total trust and confidence be in God and not man and definitely not in yourself.
Change is not always easy. Sometimes we get so stuck in the routine of our lives that it is hard to see ourselves doing things differently. But understand God wants you to change. Change your view. Where you have been seeing yourself in a low place ... see yourself elevated to where God wants you to be. Where you have been stuck in the same cycle ... see yourself doing something new that glorifies and exemplifies your God. Where you have been lost and confused ... see yourself free from worry and doubt. Understand it is a process of change.
The word change means to make or become different. God has made you different and the things that are happening in your life that you don't quite understand are happening because a "change" is taking place. You are moving from your past (those things that have had a stronghold on you) to your future (those things that God has prepared for you). Understand after your change has taken place ... you will be at a new level in God. A level where you can rejoice because of the freedom you will feel.
Are you deliberately trying to deceive? Trying to make people think you are something you are not. Trying to make them believe you did something you did not. Are you trying to make it appear like you are walking with God and you are not? Why are you deliberately trying to portray yourself to appear differently before certain people? Do you not understand that God sees it all? Do you not understand that it is God alone that you will have to answer to? Do you not understand that He created you different for a reason?
Stop living a life of deception. Live your life in the reality of who God is. Understanding who you are in Him and resting in the fact that you never have to portray deception because you are unique and divine creation of God.
What is it you want to hear? What is it that you need God to say to you? Is it that you are healed? If so ... know that you are. Is it that you are free? If so ... know that you are. Is it that you are delivered? If so ... know that you are. How about that your needs will be met? If so ... know that they will. Understand ... whatever it is you need to hear ... God has already said it. He declared and decreed that the blood covers it all. It covers every need of your life.
So hear God as you read His word. Hear the love that He has for you and understand the provision that He has already given you. Know that His word stands. It stood yesterday, it is standing today, and it will still be standing tomorrow. Rest in the revelation of God's word.
We have to get the revelation that "God Is". He is all that we need. He is the author and the finisher. He is the divine Creator. He is the great I am. He is our comforter, our healer, and our deliverer. He is our peace in the midst of the storm. He is our joy. He is our strength. Everything we need in life ... God is.
So why is it that we look everywhere else for strength, comfort, healing, and deliverance. Why is it that we try to figure our own way out of the storm. Why is it that we lose our way while trying to figure out the way. We have to realize and trust in who and what God is. He is everything we need in life. For He is the source of life.
What next? What now? You have tried it your way. You have walked it out your way. You have went in the direction that you wanted to go in. Now are you willing to give it "all" to God. Not just the problems ... but your life. We tend to want to pour out all the bad on God and hold on to what we see as good (even if it is not in line with God's word). Understand God is good. So everything that is truly "good" must be line up with His word. He wants your life to be good throughout.
Take time today and give it all over to the Father. Your good, your bad, and your indifferent. The word indifferent means unconcerned and nonchalant. The in-between stuff. Give it all to God. He wants total control. He wants your life to be led by His word. He wants His word to be resident in your life. So before you do anything else ... let the next thing you do be to totally commit to God and His word. To trust Him completely. To love Him completely. To live for Him completely.
Perfect Time ... What exactly is the perfect time? The word perfect is defined as "as good as it is possible to be". It means having all the desirable elements, qualities, and characteristics. But understand the word desirable. The question is ... whose desire is your perfect time based on. Is it based on God's desire or your desire. Understand when we say perfect time. Along with the word perfect comes the word time and God is the master of "time". The Bible says in Acts 1:7 that the Father hath put times and seasons in His own power. So understand we can't manipulate our time or our season based on our desire.
So the next time you think about what you feel you need and when you think you need it ... KNOW THAT God knows. For Matthew 6:8 says that our Father "knoweth" what things we have need of before we ask. Rest in God's word today and understand ... your perfect time is in His hands.
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
Acts 1:7And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power Matthew 6:8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye haveneedof, before ye ask him.
Go back to what you know. There are times in life when all you can do is go back to what you know. The things you have been taught along the way. The things you have experienced along the way. The things that have been established along the way. Understand that is the whole point of life lessons. So that you have something to refer to and to go back to.
What good is it to know the answer and to have the answer available to you ... yet never use it to solve the problem. There may be times in your life when there are situations that bring sickness or lack in your life. But you have to "remember when" God healed you and "remember when" God provided for you. You have to reflect on what He has done ... so that you can stand on what He will do. Don't let your life lessons be "null and void". When something is null and void ... it has no force, power, or validity. Let your life lessons be the testimonies that launch your faith and your knowledge of the fact that what God did before ... He can and will do again in your life.
Are you seeking Him? Are you crying out to Him? Who exactly are your going to in the midst of your pain? Are you looking for people to comfort you or are you looking to the God of comfort? It's time to seek God in the midst of your pain. It's time to know Him as your Comforter and Keeper. It's time to recognize that He is real. He is God. He is good. He is worthy. He is all that you need.
So stop getting disappointed when people don't line up. When they don't do what you expect them to do. When they fail to have compassion for what you are going through. God doesn't want your dependence to be on man. He wants you totally and completely dependent on Him and who He is. He wants you to turn to Him. To look to Him. To trust Him. He wants you to see Him as the one who rescues you. If someone continuously comes to your rescue ... your dependence would be on them and not God. So understand the process and know that all God wants is for you to look to Him ... totally and completely.
When you look at the temple structure ... there was the outer court, inner court, and holy of holies. Understand today ... there are things you could do in the outer court that wasn't allowed in the inner court. Now that God is getting ready to take you to your next level .... UNDERSTAND THERE ARE THINGS THAT GOD WILL NOT TOLERATE IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. As you move to your next level in Him ... make sure your life is right. Make sure you are living what you say. Cleanse yourself daily by washing your life with the water of His word. Understand known and permissable sin will not be tolerated in the Holy of Holies. The word permissable means ... permitted and allowed.
Think about it. When you give someone a permit. You are giving them an official document saying that they are authorized to do what they do. Stop giving satan a permit. Stop allowing him to have rule and reign in your life. It's time to move forward with the plans and purpose God has for you. That means leaving the sin in the outer court. Outside the camp of God and moving into a place where only His glory can be seen in your life. Check youself, check your life, and make a conscious effort to change those things that you know are twisted or out of line with God and His will. As you do so ... you won't mind as much being broken because all brokenness does is reveal what is inside. Live your life in a way where your brokenness will only reveal God's glory and not your mess.
