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Are you willing to let God lead? To let Him take the leading role in your life. So often we try to figure it out on our own. We try to direct our own paths. We try to move faster and faster and faster. We want to "get there". But we have to learn how to wait on God. We have to realize and understand that God's timing is perfect timing. He has a plan and God is not going to deviate from His plan to appease our flesh. To appease means to relieve or to satisfy. We have to understand that it is not about relieving and satisfying the flesh. It is about growing spiritually and in order to grow spiritually, we must at the same time die to the desires of our flesh.
So today ... make it a point to let God lead. Let the Spirit of God lead you into all truth. By doing so, your spirit man is growing and your fleshly tendencies are dying. Be led by love. For God is love. Amen....
What are you making it? Are you making it about you? Do you realize what has been done for you. I know it hurts. The things you are going through. The pain you are feeling. The sickness in your body. I know it all hurts. But what we are going through doesn't change who God is. He is still God. His plan is still in place. We have to begin to understand that He set His plan in place from the foundation of the world. It's not just coming into place. It was in place before we came on the scene. It's not the plan that has to get in place ... it's us. We now have to get in line with the plan.
Take time. Search within yourself and make sure you are doing all that you need to do in order to line your life up with God's plan. It's time to lay down our own agendas and to pick up His perfect plan.
Who told you that you wouldn't make it? Did you believe them? Are you allowing the words of others to outweigh the word of God? We have to stop believing the lie. We have to get to the place where God and His word have final authority in what we say, do, and believe. The place where our confession is ... God is truth and anything that goes against God and His word is a lie. We have to believe that and stand on that.
So if someone told you that you couldn't or wouldn't make it. Dismiss that. Know what God said. Believe what God said. Rest in what God said.
Worship For Today ...
"He Said"
Ministered By Group One Crew (featuring Chris August)
What are you doing to help advance the Kingdom? Who are you supporting? How are you supporting them? Are you going beyond your needs and praying for others? Are you encouraging others through your words? Are you giving your time and your talent to help others in need? Are you supporting Kingdom vision and Kingdom businesses? Or are you just seeking to be fed and never being the one who feeds others?
We have to get past the point of just seeking and get to the place of giving. Each of us have different gifts to give. It's time we use them for God and for the advancement of His Kingdom. We have to understand the principle of sowing and reaping. God wants us to give ... just as much as He wants us to receive. Know the heart of God.
Are you still trying to work it out on your own? To figure it out on your own? To understand on your own? Understand ... God does not want you thinking you are alone. It's not that you are alone ... it's that you think you are alone. God wants you to know, see, and understand that He is with you. He is watching over you. He is shielding you. He is protecting you. God has a plan and His plan includes working things out for you.
It's time to really let go. We have to understand that letting go is more than physical. We have to learn to let go in our minds. So often we let go of things in the natural ... but we still hold on to them in our hearts and minds. It's time to let. It's time to move forward and the only way to move forward is to let God take us forward in Him.
What is it that God wants you to do? What is your call? So often we get stuck right there. Not knowing what God wants us to do. Not knowing which way to turn or how to accomplish the tasks that are set before us. Then comes the problem that we all tend to have. None of us want to be still. So instead of being still, we move. Not understanding that by moving, we are changing positions. We are shifting. We are getting out of place.
Today ... make it your purpose to be still. To stand still and see the salvation of God. To stand still and know that He is God. To stand still and wait on God.
Are you asking God for a breakthrough? There are many meanings to the word break. It means to shatter in pieces. To divide. To create an opening by breaking. It also means to tame. Think about a horse. When you break a horse, you tame it so that it will follow your commands and your cues. Understand the process that we are going through in order to get to our breakthrough. There are habits in our lives that have to be broken before we can go to our next level. God is taming us to be submissive to His will so that He can bring us through.
We also have to realize when you go through something, you go in one way and come out another. So understand, you may go into it broken and come out whole. There are many aspects to God's love. However, all of them lead to wholeness in Him.
Change your outlook. The word outlook means point of view. It means expectation for the future. It means attitude. What exactly is your outlook? Have you examined yourself lately. What is your expectation? Is it in line with God's word? What is your attitude? Is it conducive to receiving God's blessings? What is your point of view? THE POINT IN WHICH YOU STAND. Are you standing on God and His word? Are you keeping God in your "view"? Is He the point on which you are focused?
Take time to analyze your life. Take an inward view to see what your outlook really is.
Are you walking in the realm of faith? The realm where you know, trust, and believe that God "will" do it. The realm where you stand on God's promises. The realm where you believe nothing is impossible to and with God. The real where all things are possible. The realm of faith.
There are two realms. The faith realm and the realm of fear. Fear doubts. Fear focuses on impossibility instead of possibility. Fear denies God's ability. Fear is operative in weakness. Fears ultimate goal is failure.
So step out today. Cross the threshold that takes you from fear to faith. Trust God and His word. Do what His word says and expect God to honor your faith.
Do you realize how much you are loved? We get so caught up on what people do and what people say that sometimes we fail to recognize the love of the Father. He loves you. His love never ends. It goes beyond what we can see, hear, or even think. His love is unending. It does not compromise. It is everlasting and what we have to understand is that He wants us to pour out that same love to the people around us. He wants us to love people beyond their fault. Beyond their inadequacies. Beyond their words and their actions. Don't be confused ... He is not saying to agree with what they do. Because everything everyone does is not okay. If it was, there would be no need for salvation. But He does want us to share His love with the people around us and pray that they change.
So the next time you are feeling lonely. Realize just how much God loves YOU.
One thing have I desired oftheLord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house oftheLord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty oftheLord, and to inquire in his temple.
What is your desire today? David said ... "One Thing Do I Desire". So often we have so many desires. But what if we could have "one desire" fulfilled in our life. Would your desire be to seek after God? To dwell in His house? Or would you be seeking an earthly house? Would you be seeking an earthly relationship? We have to learn how to live for life eternal and not just the here and now. We have to stop living our lives where we are just seeking His gifts and not fully and completely desiring a true relationship with Him.
Our minds are so conditioned to desire immediate satisfaction that we find it hard to wait for the fulfillment of God's plan. It's time to seek after God. Not just momentarily in our times of need. But at all times.
Do you want more of God? Are you seeking Him? When you find Him ... are you following Him? So often we get to a place where we can see God .. yet we fail to follow God. We have to get to a place of finding and following. What good does it do to see Him and to see what He is asking you to do and then fail to follow Him. His will comes to pass when you follow Him and His plan. It's time to stop stalling. When a car stalls, it is because of some type of mechanical failure. Don't let your faith fail. Don't be in a position where you are stalled. Where you are failing to follow and move forward with and in God.
Make up your mind today that you are letting go and letting God. Letting God be the guiding force in your life. Letting God be the focal point in your life. Letting God orchestrate and direct your life.
Are you looking for a change? Are you wanting God to make a change in your life? Are you needing a change? If you want a change ... you have to stop being afraid of the process of change. When God changes us ...our lives ... it's according to His plan ... not ours. The thing is, we want it our way. We want to change on our terms and conditions. But what we have to understand is the primary condition for change is to trust God. That means trusting His plan for our lives.
So if you are looking for and wanting change to occur in your life ... start trusting God. Start surrendering your life in its entirety to God. Let Him come in and perfect His plan for you. Don't walk in fear of change ... Instead walk in fellowship with God so that the process of your change taking place will be smooth because you will be at a place of understanding that God is just working it all together for your good.
To deny means to declare that something is not true. Undeniable means that something is incapable of being denied or disputed. We need to know how to deny the attacks of the enemy while at the same time we need to have undeniable faith. So often we do it opposite. We fail to dispute what the enemy is bringing into our lives and then we fail to press into the promises of God with our faith. It's time for a change.
It's time to uproot the seeds of doubt and to plant seeds of faith. It's time to trust God's word totally and completely. It's time to live what we say we believe and that can only be done if we walk by faith. Trust God with your life. Trust Him completely. Stop receiving the enemy's attacks as permanent results in your life. Start speaking and living by faith and know that when you walk by faith ... you are doing what God has told you to do.
Every day we are faced with choices. We can choose to believe God or doubt God. We can choose to trust God or trust our own ability. We can choose to walk in faith or walk in fear. Every day we are faced with choices. We can choose to help people or hurt people. We can choose to be a witness or let our testimony be unspoken. What are you choosing today?
Are you choosing to be the "one" who stands out for God. The "one" who testifies of His goodness, His grace, and His mercy. The "one" who believe Him ... no matter how bad the situation appears to be. The "one". The "one" whom God chose to be His representative. Are you choosing to be that "one"?
Why do you keep changing? There are many things in life we must change ... but there are some things in life that should change not. We change our clothes. We change lanes in traffic. We change jobs. But there are a few things that we need to stand steadfast on and allow God to change. We need to stand on God's word without changing so that He can come in and change our situation. We have to understand that it is only when we step out of the way that God can truly have his way.
Make a point to stay in place. To move not. To not quit. Make it point to be steadfast. Make it a point to confess over your life that you will not change. As you make it a point to do those things ... understand God will take care of everything else.
Who came and pulled on you and tugged on you and caused you to get off track? What pushed you to the left when you should have been going right? Be aware of people, places, and things that are influencing your direction and your decisions. Be conscious of what has pushed you out of God's will in the past. Don't yield to the leading of lust. Understand today ... lust is trying to lead you. The word lust means an overwhelming desire or craving. We desire many things. The question is ... are you allowing your desire for people, places, and things to lead you out of God's word and His will.
It's time to be focused. It's time to stand fast. It's time to no longer be led by our mind, will, and emotions ... but to stand strong in God's word. Stay on the track where God has placed you. Don't be led by lust. For on the track that God has placed you is journey that leads to eternal life.
Why do you think God did it? Why do you think He saved you and set you free? It wasn't anything you did or deserved ... yet He chose you. Even if you are not totally surrendered "yet". Understand today that this word is for you. God chose you. He chose you to represent Him in the earth. What an assignment. To be chosen by God to live for God. Are you ready?
Are you ready to fulfill the call that God has given you? Are you ready to work it all out and to walk it all out? Are you ready to represent? If you are ready ... then it's time to release. Release the hurt, the pain, and the anger. Release everything that is not like God so that He can fill you with more of Himself. He is love. So in order to be filled with love ... you have release hurt, bitterness, and strife. Understand God refills us with who He is and He is love. He wants us to be so full of His love that it overflows into the lives of the people around us.
Are you standing strong in the midst of? In the midst of your pain? In the midst of what appears to be lack? In the midst of the sickness that is trying to attack your body? Are you still standing strong? Or are you giving up and giving in to the attacks of the enemy?
We have to start recognizing when things are an attack. You know those things that just come out of nowhere and don't really make sense... Understand ... those things are attacks. Attacks against your stand. Attacks that are trying to keep you operating in the way things have been and not how God wants them to be. Attacks that are just testing if you really believe what you say you believe. Recognize the attack. Once you recognize it ... STAND YOUR GROUND. Know what God has promised you and see it through to the end. Don't give up. Don't quit and don't let go.
What will it take for you to surrender? For you to let go? For you to trust God? What will it take for you to believe what He said is true? To release it all and to pick up His plan and His purpose for your life? What are you waiting for?
We spend most of our time contemplating whether to give it all over to God. We have to get to a point of immediate release. Where we immediately release what we are going through to God so that God can immediately release what He has for us to us. We have to stop wasting time. There are people, places, and things that God has ordained for our lives. We have to get to a place of realization. Where we realize the importance of being in our proper position. Where we realize that our lives are not just about us. There are assignment connected to our lives. People that God has ordained for us to be in contact with. For in us He has placed His word and the words that He has placed in us will help unlock the doors of revelation to the people He has placed around us. So stop wasting time. Let the voice of God's word flow from your lips and help unlock the doors of revelation for those around you.
Are you operating in "Pure Faith". When something is pure, it is not tainted. It is free from impurities. That is how God wants our faith to be. Free from the impurities of questioning and doubt. He wants us to trust Him completely and to believe Him wholly. Not just believing Him sometimes ... but believing He is who He said He is and that He will do what He said He would do at all times.
So often we get caught in the trap of doubt which leads us to questioning God. We start off full speed ahead and we end up stalling. When a car is stalled, it stop running as a result of mechanical failure. When we fail to operate in pure faith, we end up stalling as a result of spiritual failure. It is time to trust God totally and completely. It's time to clean the engine of our lives (our hearts and our minds) so that we can be free from the impurities of questioning and doubt. It time to move forward with and in the things of God without stopping or stalling.
Challenge and Change. The question is ... are you letting your challenge take you to a place of change? Sometimes we need to change our attitude. Our heart condition. Our motives. Our direction. We are quick to notice the challenge ... but are we noticing the areas where we need to make a change.
A challenge is a call to confrontation.. A place where we have to come face to face with things in our lives. So often we look at the surface. What we are going through. It's time to look beyond the surface and begin to ask the questions why are we going through and is there something in me that needs to change. Start looking beyond that challenges of life and start seeing if there are some things that you need to change in your life.
God has called you to be like an eagle. Are you soaring? Or are you letting your situation bring you down? Understand an eagle does not spend a lot of time on the ground. Neither should you. You have to learn how to soar above your situation. You have to learn how to a rise to a place where the enemy can not touch you. You have to learn how to hang with other eagles.
So often in life we allow our situations to bring us down. Down to a point that we get stuck and don't know how to get back up. That's not God. God has called you to be on top. To rise and to shine. To soar on the wings of eagles. Understand who you are called to be and understand the things that the enemy will try to use to bring you down. Get a place of refusal. Refusing to lower your standards and refusing to be brought down.
It's a new day are you ready? Are you ready to do something new or are you still stuck in your yesterday? What happened that caused you to be stuck? What did they do to cause you to hurt? Whatever it is ... let it go. Let God move in your situation and in your life. Let Him be your strength. Let Him be your joy. Let Him be the truth that you hold on to. God wants to change your situation ... but in order for Him to change your situation ... you have to first change your mind. Reset your mind.
When something is set ... it is put in a specified position. It is stationary. God wants to move your mindset from what you have been dwelling on to what He has promised you. He has promised you peace. He has promised you love. He has promised you joy. He has promised you strength. So stop thinking you are weak and unloved. Stop living in the turmoil of your past. Start trusting and believing what God has said to you and about you.
Expectation. What are you expecting God to do for you today? Are you expecting Him to move? Are you expecting Him to manifest? Are you expecting Him to change your situation? Are you expecting Him to heal your body? What if God was ready to bless your expectation today ... would He be able to bless your life.
It's time to start expecting God. It's time to move past just knowing He can to expecting Him to do it. With faith comes expectation. If you are not expecting Him to do what He said ... are your really walking in faith? Expectation ... raise your level of expectancy.
When will we step outside of the box? Outside of the box that just sees what we need and what we desire? God wants us to see beyond ourselves. He wants us to reach beyond our households and to pray for others in need. It's real easy to get consumed in what we are going through. But we have to get to an understanding that everything that we go through is just so that we can help others get through. Our lives are testimonies. Testimonies of God's goodness, His grace, His love, and His compassion. Our lives are meant to tell His story and our voices are meant to speak forth His word and to glorify Him. But our lives can't do that until we push past our needs and reach out to others in need through prayer, love, and compassion.
Get to a place today where you trust God with what you are going through and begin to pray for God to help others get through. Get to a place where it is not solely focused on your situation. Where you are truly trying to reach a world in need of God's love and where you walk in the understanding and knowledge that God will provide for your life and others if you just bring it all to Him in prayer. Not just for you ... but for others too.
Are you making a determination based on what you can see or what they have said? Understand not everyone tells you their whole story. You don't know what they have been through or what they are even going through unless they tell you. Are you looking from the outside and rationalizing what you think based on what you can see. Think about it ... when you stand on the outside of a house and you look in ... even if the door is open ... you can't tell everything that is going on. People only open the door of their lives to the point that they want you to be able to see in.
Learn how to pray without making a determination. Learn how to love beyond what you can see. Learn how not to judge and how to allow God to unveil the truth of every situation to you.
What are you doing in the dark? Are you trusting God in the dark places of your life? Those times when you don't know what to do or how to get it done. Are you believing God in the dark? Or are you leaning to your own understanding?
Many times in our lives we don't know what to do or how to get it done ... but God knows. He knows the need even before we encounter it. Not only does He know the need ... He knows how He will fulfill it. We have to get past just trusting God when others can see. We have to trust Him no matter what. We have to believe Him no matter what. We have to still follow Him ... NO MATTER WHAT.
Are you willing to worship God? Are you willing to bow down to God? When you bow down to God ... you are causing your flesh to get into a position of worship. Sometimes it is hard to bow in the natural ... It hurts when you make your flesh do things that it is not used to doing. But its time to bow. To get into a position where we recognize and acknowledge the presence of God in and upon our lives. A position where we yield and allow God to have His way. It's time to stop trying to figure it all out and work it all out on our own.
Make it your determined purpose to worship God. To bow down in His presence and to worship Him. To release your agenda to pick up His plan.
