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Are you seeing God for who He is? Are you seeing Him as your Comforter, Keeper, Healer, and Redeemer? Or are you seeing yourself as lonely, alone, sick, and unwanted? What exactly are you looking at? Are you looking at God or are you looking at your situation? Where is your focus?
The word focus means concentrated effort on a particular thing. What are you concentrating on? Are you concentrating on who God is or what you are not? It's time to make sure we are fully focused. Directing our love and our attention to who the Father is to us and in us. Instead of looking at our inadequacies ... we need to be resting in the fact that He is an all sufficient God.
Are you allowing people, places, or things to intimidate you? The word intimidate means to make you do what one wants. Are you allowing people to say things or do things to you in order to influence you to do what they want? Are you getting caught up in going places that cause you to change what you would normally do in order to fit into the atmosphere of that place? Do you have in your possession things that are not conducive to your walk with God that eventually win in your life and cause you to give in to doing things that you really don't want to do?
It's time to let go. Let go of whomever or whatever is trying to intimidate you or change you. Let go of whomever or whatever is pulling you outside of the divine will of God for your life. Don't be intimidated or influenced into making the wrong choices. Let the God and His word be the foundation and the focus for every choice you make.
It's been hard. It's been rough. It hasn't all worked out the way you planned or the way you wanted. Yet you are still here. God is still God. You woke up today with brand new mercy. You are walking in God's amazing grace. But your mind wants to keep dwelling on what didn't happen ... instead of understanding what did. Instead of understanding that God has the ability and the power to change it all right here and right now. He is not limited to time or your perception. There are no limitations on God. We limit Him in our mind ... but that does not stop His ability to move and to manifest in our lives.
So today ... stop dwelling on the pain of what has happened or what is even happening. Step over into hope. Step over into expectation. Step over into trust, belief, and faith. Understand ... EVERYTHING in this natural world ... is subject to change. Trust God to turn your situation around right now.
Who told you no? Was it God or was it man? Understand ... man may tell you no but God has the power to override what man has said. We have to stop settling our situations based on what man says. We trust man and we believe man and we fail to have faith in God. Get to a place of understanding that God is "all powerful" and "all knowing". Stop stopping at the point of knowing God is full of power ... know that His power is available for your situation.
It's time out on settling situations based on what man says. Apply the blood. Use the name. Settle your situation based on what God has said. Know that it is within God to turn it all around for your good. Trust and believe that. No matter how it looks. Understand that God causes things that are considered dead to rise up again.
Sometimes we hesitate doing things for others (even though we know they need it) because we have been so conditioned to look for a ROI. A "Return On Our Investment". We have to change our mindset. The Bible tells us over and over and over again ... to give. The Bible showed us what sacrifice really means. The Bible revealed to us what it means to show love. We have to change the mindset of always wanting something in return or needing to see something. We have to truly believe that we have a heavenly reward.
Learn how to be led by God to give. Lean how to act on God instinct and not man's training. Instinct is defined as a way of behaving, thinking, or feeling that is not learned : a natural desire or tendency that makes you want to act in a particular way. The expectation of a return on your investment is a learned behavior. Whereas, acting and responding in love is a God instinct. There are things that God will tell us to do that may not make sense in the natural but that is how God operates. Did it make sense in the natural for a virgin to give birth? Did it make sense in the natural for the Red Sea to divide? Did it make sense for a man to walk on water? Understand ... God's direction goes beyond the natural senses. That is why you are required to walk by faith.
What do you do when it seems like it is taking too long? When you have asked God and it just don't seem like He is answering. When it's hard and it feels hopeless. What do you do? Do you trust God more or do you give up and quit and try to work it out or figure it out on your own?
When will we learn that we can't do it. We have to have God in it. We have to trust God to honor His word. His word works. He is God. He is the author and the finisher of all things. He is Jehovah Jireh ... our Provider. He is Jehovah Rapha ... our Healer. He is Jehovah Shalom ... our Peace. We have to rest in what and who He said He is and wait on Him to manifest Himself. Stop giving up. Stop losing hope. Trust. Trust God to do and be who and what He said.
Why is it so hard to surrender? To let go? To move forward? Why is it that we want to hold to people, places, and things that are no longer good for us? What is it in us that has to have that attachment? Why do we appear to be hoarding things that we know are no good for us.
We have to learn to let go. One definition of hoarder is a person who keeps things hidden or private. Are there things in your life that you know are not according to God's standard that you are trying to hide or keep to yourself? Are there things that you are refusing to let go of? Why?
It's time we take a serious look at our lives. The thing about hoarding things ... it become a danger zone and a trap. Think of the shows you have seen about hoarding. How the things begin to take over the home and the people's actions and reactions. That is what happens even when we hoard (refuse to let go of) relationships, addictions, lust, etc. Although they may be kept private and others don't know about them. Eventually they become out of control and take us over. Learn how to let it all go.
Are you still trying to maintain your identity? Understand that your identity is one of sin. It is only when we believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ that our lives change. When we confess Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are then identified "with" Christ.
We have to stop trying to hold on to who we are and we have to begin to hold on to who He is. Know your true identity is not based on your past. It is based on the blood. The blood that was shed on the cross for you has covered who you were and has caused your identity to change. The word identity is defined as the qualities, beliefs, etc., that make a particular person or group different from others. You have been made different by the blood and your belief in the finished work of Jesus.
Do you know the purpose of a pipeline? A pipeline is used to convey something. The word convey has multiple meanings. The first meaning is to transport or to carry something from one place to another. It means to transmit. It also means to communicate or make known. To impart.
Are you allowing a blockage to form in your pipeline? Whether you are the person transmitting God's word or receiving God's word ... are you making sure your pipes are clear. Understand the primary focus of the enemy is to block what God is trying to send out from you and to block what He is trying to get you to receive. Check your pipeline and make sure it is free from the debris that comes with life.
Life is not easy. The thing is ... God never said it would be. God's promise is that He would be with you through it all. Through the good times. Through the bad times. Through the ups and through the downs. He said He would be there. What happens is ... sometimes when it gets bad ... we can't see him through our hurt, pain, and tears. Does that mean He is not there ... NO. It just means we can't see Him because our vision is skewed. It is during these times that God will sometimes send others to plant seeds of His word into your situation. He uses them because it is easier for you to relate to someone in the physical than it is for you to trust in the unseen. Although faith is believing in what you cannot see. Understand ... Go will use people as a point of contact to push you back into a place of complete trust and faith in Him.
So although you life is not easy right now. Understand ... God is there. Understand that He has positioned people in your life after His heart to pray for you and to sow the seed of His word into you ... so that you can gain strength.
In the Bible God gave guidance through visions and dreams. He unveiled and He revealed what His people were going through and He sent messengers to go and to either deliver a word to His people or to meet the needs of His people. If God is unveiling things to you concerning the lives of His people through dreams and visions or even unctions in your Spirit ... make sure you are doing what He has told you to do.
Think about Joseph. He went through many trials and tribulations but it was all a set up for God's plan for the people. Everything that Joseph went through was to set him up to help bring His people through. God showed Him his destiny in a dream. He showed him what his people would be going through and he showed him that He would be in a position to help. It didn't matter that God had called his father first ... God still used Joseph as a source to help deliver his father and his people in a time of famine.
Make sure you are not rationalizing God's instructions to you based on what you think should be. Make sure you are obeying God's instructions based on what He has revealed to you. He never shows us a thing unless He expects us to act upon it.
Do you understand that it is your body but God's ability working in you? We live and talk like mere men when in essence we are the temple of God. Understand what Jesus said. He said that if we love Him and keep His commandments, "they" will come and make their abode in us. Who are they? The Father ... The Son ... and the Holy Spirit.
John 14:21-23
King James Version (KJV)
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
We have to begin to understand the power that is dwelling in us. The authority that we have been given. When Jesus walked the earth, He walked and utilized the power and authority of God. Now that same power is resident on the inside of us. God's ability resides inside our body. The question is ... are we using it. You cannot use what you don't understand. We are the dwelling place of God. We have power and authority resident (residing) on the inside of us. We have to begin to operate in the authority that we have been given. The funny thing is ... the enemy already knows the power we have been given. That is why he tries so hard to keep us distracted. So that we will never begin to operate in what we have been given. In Jesus name. Amen!!!!
What's your remedy? To remedy means to rectify, solve, resolve or repair. What is it that you are doing to remedy your situation? How you feel? What you are going through? What is blocking you? What are you doing to make your self feel better? To change everything around and to remove the hindrances that keep coming up?
Are you trying to remedy it on your own or are you going to God? Are you seeking His counsel? Or are you seeking the counsel of a friend, neighbor, or even a stranger? Your first course of action should always be that you go directly to God. Let God lead you. If He leads you to seek the counsel of the friend, neighbor or stranger ... at least you know it is His direction and not your own.
God is the answer. In Him is the knowledge, the understanding, and the direction you need for whatever is going on in your life.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Are you coming or are you going? Are you coming to God or are you going your own way and trying to figure it out on your own? God said for you to come to Him. Not only did He say come to Him. He said when you come to Him ... He will give you rest. One definition for rest is to "recover strength". We have to learn that in our pursuit of God is a recovery process. The process of recovering strength.
Understand when you are weary and burdened, you are in a place of no strength. God said the process for that is to take His yoke upon us and to learn of Him. A yoke is a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals. Take a moment to think about it. Jesus carried the cross. Think about how the cross had to be carried (over his shoulder ... right at his neck) ... Again a yoke is a wooden "cross"piece that is fastened to the neck of two ... Attach yourself to the cross. Take upon you the yoke of the cross. Learn of God and find rest for your mind, your will, and your emotions.
What do you do when its hard. When its hard to see. When its hard to do. When you can't seem to get it worked out no matter how hard you try? Do you give up? Do you quit? Do you give in? Accept defeat? Or do you STAND? Understand ... God wants you to stand. Just think about what He said ... He said to trust in Him. To lean NOT to our own understanding ...but in all our ways to acknowledge Him so that He can direct our paths. It's time to do that. To give it totally and completely over to God. It's time to stand up under His covenant. The blood covenant. Not only stand under it ... stand on it. We have to get to a place of total dependency on God and what He has promised. The place where we say to Him ... you said it Father now I am waiting on you to do it.
Proverbs 3:5-6 tells us to "lean not to our own understanding...in ALL our ways ACKNOWLEDGE HIM and HE shall direct your path". The key word here is ACKNOWLEDGE which means to accept or admit the existence or truth of; recognize the fact or importance of. Why is this word so relevant with our relationship with God? See, when we acknowledge God in all our ways - our day to day living; our daily decision making; our blessings and our opportunities to change and improve - then we are giving Him what that place, that authority, that love, trust, obedience and submission that He has requested and requires.
This level of acknowledgement does not dictate the magnitude of which God will love us back or bless us because He is an "inspite of" God not "because of" God. It does allow us to view life in a more optimistic view, we see more of the blessing of life than the false negativities that life can display. The more we acknowledge God, the more our expectations are in Him and less in man which frees us from man's opinion and frees God to work more on our behalf because His name is now out in front and He backs His name by His word.
Acknowledging God allows us to hear His direction more clearly and follow Him more easily. We acknowledge our spouses, our bosses, our children, our pastors, our friends and other loved ones....but they are merely vessels that God uses to get to us what we need. It's easy to acknowledge God. Simply talk to Him daily. The more you talk to Him, the more you will hear Him.
Acknowledging God in all your ways motivates God to prove His word and manifest His promise in our lives. It also us to see Him and all of His manifestations in our past situations, present state and future endeavors because the more we acknowledge a thing, the more we see it and reap from acknowledging that thing. Why acknowledge sickness...acknowledge healing, God's power to heal and His promise of health and long life. Why acknowledge lack when He promises houses we did not build and a prosperity and that He will bless us exceeding abundantly-that's beyond abundance. Imagine what abundance means to you and then imagine that being superseded. What we make big in our lives is what we see and receive. Choose to acknowledge God, His word and promises in EVERYTHING. Let God be magnified and your life and livelihood will be magnified right along side.
Father, I come to you in behalf of your people. I ask that as they begin to acknowledge you more in their daily lives, choices, accomplishments, decisions, ups and downs, that you will pour more of yourself into them. Lord, I pray that you unveil the portrait of the life you have carved out for them and that they submit whole heartedly to it. Direct their paths, their steps as only you can; and, do not let them be afraid to walk the path set before them. Continue to remind them that with you all things are possible if they only believe. As they acknowledge you with a pure and sincere heart, you will shower blessings and favor upon them. This I ask in Jesus name and I say thank you for it now! Amen!
We try so hard to lead people with our words when we need to be leading them with our lives. Understand your life is the light. Not your words. People will say anything and do anything and as we develop trust relationships ... we tend to watch and listen. We have to understand that that is a principle of God. He didn't just tell us what to do ... He sent His Son to show us what to do. Jesus spoke and He walked out what He spoke. So should we. We can't just tell people what they should do. People are looking for Godly examples. We have to get away from the "do as I say and not as I do" mentality and be the message.
Take time today to evaluate your life. Evaluate your walk. Evaluate your talk. Make the commitment to live it all out. To walk it all out. Not just talk it ... but walk it.
There are covenant promises that come when we set our heart and our love upon God. One of those promises is long life. Today "Pastor Billy Graham" celebrates his 95th birthday. He is an example of a life well lived. Even at 95 ...... he has a message to tell the world. In this message he is saying we must come the way of the cross. He said "the cross is offensive to the world because it directly confronts the evils that dominate this world". This is a very powerful message. Take time today to listen to it. Share it .... Another thing he said that I really liked was that "sin is a disease in the human heart that affects the mind, will, and emotions ... but salvation cures it". Amen.
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION Psalm 91:14-16 Amplified Bible (AMP) Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he knows and understands My name [has a personal knowledge of My mercy, love, and kindness—trusts and relies on Me, knowing I will never forsake him, no, never]. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him and show him My salvation.
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
So why is it that we live our lives as though they belong to us when the reason we were created was to be His temple? A temple is defined as a building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, to reverence God. The question is ... "are you a building devoted"? To be devoted means to be loyal, faithful, steadfast, constant, committed, dedicated, and devout. Are these your characteristics? Are you being loyal to God? Faithful to Him? How about steadfast and constant? Are you committed and dedicated to Him? How about devout?
Live like you care. It's not that people don't know that they are God's temple. In most cases ... they just don't care.
Are you stuck in a place of having a pity party? Pity is defined as the feeling of sorrow or compassion caused by suffering. Are you having a party for yourself by yourself based on what you are going through? Did God not say that "He" would turn your sorrow into joy? A party is normally a celebration. Stop celebrating what doesn't feel good. If you are going to celebrate ... celebrate because you know what God is about to do. Celebrate His goodness. Celebrate His grace. Celebrate His love. Celebrate His protection. Celebrate His favor. But it is time to stop celebrating your emotions when they are not in line with God's word.
Are you learning the lesson of obedience. The lesson that says that I must trust God and I must also obey God. Yes God is good and God is merciful. But God also wants us to obey. We can't keep living a lifestyle that prides itself on living in God's mercy and never feel responsible enough to at least "try to obey". We willingly sin. "Willful Sin" is disobedience. You know the times we think about it, contemplate it, and then decide to do it anyway while telling yourself that God will forgive me. That's willful sin. You contemplated the choices that were set before you. It's not like it just happened ... It was a conscientious choice.
Get to a play of "Willful Obedience". Where you willingly obey no matter what is going on in your life. There are always two choices. Let yours be obedience.
Are you allowing fear to tamper with your faith? The word tamper means to interfere with in order to lessen or weaken. Are you allowing fear to interfere with and lessen and weaken your belief? It is time we recognize the attacks of the enemy. Recognize and see what he is doing that is causing a "delay" in us receiving the promises of God.
We can't keep saying Lord we believe you and then when we see something in the natural that has not completely gotten in alignment, we give up ... quit ... and give in. We have to stop giving up during the alignment process. The alignment process is where God is bringing everything together for your good. Understand everything in your life may appear fuzzy until it is all aligned in a way that can be used for God's glory. At the end of the alignment process, you will always have a testimony. When the testimony comes forth, you know at the point, it has all come together for your good. But understand, if you give up at the point of fear, God's alignment can never take place.
