Are You Stepping Into 2014 Without Excuses?

Selfishness or Selflessness.   What will it be in 2014?   Will it be a year of selfishness or a year of selflessness?  A year where you are focused on what you want, what you need, and how you are going to get where you want to be.   Or a year where you are focused on what others need and making sure they are getting to where God wants them to be.   Knowing that God is going to take care of you.  

Selfishness or Selflessness.   To be selfless ... you have to stop making excuses for why you are not doing what needs to be done.   Why you are not helping or not giving.   To be selfless you have to walk in true love.    The whole connotation behind selfishness is that it is all about what "I" need done.   It is focused inwardly instead of outwardly.    It is based on love of self and not the love of others.   

As you step into 2014 ... step in without excuses.   Excuses to why you don't help and support others.   Excuses to why you don't give when God has positioned you to.   Excuses to why you do what you do.    Leave the excuses behind and be the vessel that God can truly work through.  Move from the place of selfishness to a place of selflessness.   If God has told you to do something ... do it.  

Worship For Today ...

"I Give Myself Away"

Ministered By William McDowell

Jesus Tore The Veil ... Now We Must Remove The Partition Of Doubt That We Have Built ...

God is not limited to how or when we want Him to work.   He doesn't need us to dictate to Him what we want and how we want it done.   We are His people.  It's His earth.   It's His power and His plan.   We have to know and understand that limitations come from man ... God has no boundaries.  There are no boundaries to His ability or His power.    We have to stop setting up spiritual roadblocks based on what we tend to perceive.   

God is ready to work miracles in the earth.   All He needs is willing vessels.  Those that will believe Him and those that will trust Him.   Jesus tore the veil to give us access to the Father.   Yet we put up a partition that separates us from Him.  A partition of doubt and unbelief that hinders our faith.   We  have to understand that God says that He does not change.  Therefore the same power that was available to the men and women in the Bible is available to us.    We just have to stop doubting so that we can walk in the fullness of it.   

Worship For Today ... 

"What Faith Can Do"

Ministered By Kutless

Are You Living Like You Know That God Is Your Hope and The Answer To Your Situation?

Are you just waiting or are you waiting in expectation?   Understand, God wants you to wait in expectation for His promises.   He wants you to know that He is God.   He is faithful.   He is true.   He wants you to know that He honors His promises.   He wants you to live like you know that He is real and like you know that He will move on your behalf.   

So often we walk around in a daze.  Confused and doubting.   Doubting God's promises and doubting God's plan.   Opening up our mouths with negativity instead of words of faith.   It's time out for that.   It's time to live and believe what God has said.   It's time to trust His perfect plan despite the appearance of our current situation.    It's time to know, see, and believe that He is God.   He is our hope and He is the answer to our situation.   

Worship For Today ...

"I Believe"

Ministered By James Fortune & FIYA

As You Recognize God's Presence and Acknowledge God's Presence ... Begin To Worship In God's Presence ...

The presence of God.   Presence is defined as being the immediate vicinity of something or someone.   It means to be in attendance or to detect someone or something in a place at a particular time.    The presence of God.   

In all that you do ... recognize the presence of God.   So often we say we desire God's presence but what we have to understand is God is always present.    He said that He will never leave us nor forsake us.   He said He is always with us.   So it is not about desiring His presence ... it is about recognizing and acknowledging His presence.   

The whole point behind recognizing and acknowledging things is so that you can follow it up with an action.    It does no good to know a thing and not do what you "know" you are to do.  That being said .... When we know that God is always present .... let's do what we know we need to do to acknowledge His presence.   Let's worship Him.  

 

Worship For Today ...

"As We Worship You"

Ministered By Don Moen

Are You Hungry and Thirsty For Righteousness? For You Have Been Given The Bread Of Life ...

Bethlehem in the Hebrew means "House Of Bread".    In John 6:35 Jesus said He is the Bread of Life.   So in the House of Bread ... the Bread of Life was brought forth.    As we look at John 1:1, it declares that Jesus is the living word.   So we must understand that if we eat the "living word" which is the "bread of life", we shall never go hungry or thirst.   The question is, what are you  hungry for and what are you trying to use to quench your thirst.   Are you hungry and thirsty for righteousness.   Or are you desiring and seeking things that are unrighteous.    For according to Matthew 5:6 ... Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.



PROPHECY ...
Micah 5:2
King James Version (KJV)
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY
Matthew 2:1

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem

Worship For Today... 

"Born In Bethlehem"

Ministered By Third Day

Are You Allowing Your Closeness To People, Places, and Things To Cause You To Walk In A Place Of Questions, Doubt, and Disobedience?

Are you stepping into the trap?   The trap of deception.  The trap of deceit.    Are you believing the negative?   Are you you allowing the questions of doubt to overtake your knowledge of God?    Or are you holding on to what God said is true?    What is it in your life that you are yielding to? 

Don't allow your closeness to people, places, or things to cause you to walk in a place of questions, doubt, and disobedience.   Learn how to judge the spirit by the Spirit.  Don't do as Adam and Eve did.    They had a proven track record with God.   He had given them everything that they had needed.   He had placed them, positioned them, and given them authority.   Notice ... God had given them authority over every living creature upon the face of the earth.   Yet they yielded to the influence and voice of a serpent.   Something God had already given them authority over.    That is what we tend to do.   We yield to the things that God has already said that He has given us authority over.    It's time to stop yielding.

Understand today.   You have the greater one working in you.   You have been given authority.   You can overcome.    You just have to make the right choice.   You have to choose to listen to the voice of God and not the voice of the people, places, and things that are trying to overtake your life.  

Worship For Today ... 

"I Will Follow"

Ministered By Chris Tomlin 

What Is Keeping You Here When God Has Called You To A Place Called There In Him?

What are you harboring in your soul that is keeping you from walking in the Spirit?   Your soul is comprised of your mind, your will, and your emotions.   What is it that you are thinking about that is keeping you from trusting God?   What is it that you want to do that is causing you to fail to do what God is telling you to do?   What is that you are so passionate it about that is keeping you from making Jesus your passion?    We need to deal with the roadblocks.    The hindrances.   The things that are keeping us in a place called here ... when we need to be getting over there where God has called us to be.   The place called there that is in Him.    

It's time to detoxify..   To detoxify mean to remove harmful substances from your body.    We have to understand that not only do we need to detoxify in the natural ... we need to detoxify spiritually.  We need to remove those things from our mind, will, and emotions that are harmful to our walk of salvation.   Those things that cause us to doubt.  Those things things that lead us into fulfilling the lust of the flesh.   Those things that we allow to override the word in our lives.    It's time to detoxify spiritually.   

Worship For Today ...

"Create In Me A Clean Heart"

Ministered By Keith Greene 

Are You Slowing Down Your Progress In God Because You Keep Looking Back?

You don't have time to keep turning back.   Turning back slows down your progress.   Turning back keeps you in a backwards position.  Turning back causes you to stumble because you can't see what is in front of you.   It's time to stop turning back.   

Take time to commit today.  Commit to moving forward with God. You have to understand your moving forward with God ... is actually you moving forward "in" God.    It is you stepping into Him ... His word, His will, and His way and allowing Him to be your guide.    Not only your guide  ... but letting Him carry you into the next level He has planned for you.    It is time to leave the past behind and to step into the new thing that God is trying to do in your life.    You step into His new thing by stepping into a place of peace in God.   A place of power in God.  A place of protection in God.   Allow the Father to cover you and to keep you like only He can.  

Worship For Today ....

"I Won't Go Back"

Ministered By William McDowell 

Celebrate The Birth and Not The Date ...

Instead of debating about what day Jesus was actually born ... we need to be celebrating the fact that He was born. Be aware of what tactic the enemy will use to bring confusion within the body. It's the same subtle attack that he used in the Garden of Eden. A question of confusion. We have to stop debating ... we don't know the exact date. The fact is ... HE WAS BORN. Yes the date that we celebrate Christmas was originally a celebration of things that was not of God. But historically speaking ... that is how history happens. Things happened on today in the past that was not of God. Divorces happened ...but that does not stop new marriages from taking place on this date. That's called history. Even though December 25th is not the actual date that Jesus was born ... It is the date that the world has chosen to celebrate the birth. Honestly speaking the celebration should be a lifestyle. We should celebrate every day. But if this day is the day where everyone is more sensitive to receive and accept the miraculous birth of Christ. Use this day to minister life and to bring others into an understanding of the gift of Christ instead of a time of debate between fellow believers on whether He was actually born on this day. There is enough confusion with bringing "Santa Claus" into the picture and redirecting children's attention to santa. It's not by chance that the letters in santa when switched around spell satan. The enemy's whole tactic is to bring confusion and to redirect the attention that is supposed to be on God and Jesus ... to something else. Take this time to celebrate the birth of Christ and not debate. Amen.

Exercise Is Meant To Strengthen You ... Are You Exercising The Faith Of God In Your Life?

If you are jut starting and exercise routine and your body is not used to it.   Your body may ache ... it may hurt ... it may want to give up and quit.   But that is not what is best for your body ... it is just what your mind, will, and emotions want you to do.   So it is when it comes to the things of God. 

We have to understand... that our mind, will, and emotions make up our "soul".    You have been called to be Spirit led.  God is a Spirit and those that worship Him,  must worship Him  in Spirit and in truth.   So don't give up and quit when it comes to your walk with God.   Don't allow your soul to rule and to reign.

Understand, you have to exercise your faith.   Exercise is meant to strengthen you.  So strengthen your faith.   The Bible says faith comes by hearing the word of God.   So strengthen your faith by hearing God's word.   Strengthen your walk by hearing God's word, reading God's word, praying God's word and praising God's name. Let these becomes automatic responses when you are going through.    God wants your response to the situations that come in your life to be automatic.  Automatically giving it to Him and automatically moving into a place of prayer, praise, and worship concerning whatever you are going through.

"Worship For Today"

"Lead Me"

Ministered By Sanctus Real  

Are You Being Moved By Words That Are Indirect and Clever?

Be wise people of God.   Know, see, and understand.   Your adversary is real.   Don't be blind to his devices or his subtle words.   Words that sound right but are actually clever and indirect.  Don't be deceived.   The word deceived means to be led or caused to believe something that is not true.    God has told you  how to stand ... you must stand on it.  

The only way to know if you are going in the right direction is by following God and His word.    If you are doing what He said for you to do ... you can rest in the fact that you are going in the right direction (regardless of how things appear to be).    So if God says for you to stand still ... STAND STILL.   If he says to worship ... WORSHIP.   If He says for you to pray ... PRAY.   Whatever He tells you to do ... Do it.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"Staying In Your Will"

Ministered By Men Of Standard

    

Spiritual Warfare, Part 1

Spiritual Warfare.     When we look at the word warfare, it means the waging of war against an enemy; armed conflict.   Take a minute to think about it.   A war has been “waged”.   The war is against “an enemy” and it is an “armed conflict”.  

The word war is defined as a state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on.   You are not out seeking war, however, the enemy is drawing you into it.    A war is based on an attack.   When you are under attack you set upon in a forceful violent hostile or aggressive way with or without a weapon to begin fighting with.  

Don’t be deceived.   In order to be in a war, there has to be an enemy that you are in war against.   The enemy is not always seen externally.   Sometimes the enemy is internal.    One definition of enemy is “a hostile power or force”.    When something is hostile, it is unfavorable to your health or well-being.    So understand, anything that is coming against your health or your well being, is an enemy.   That means if you have unhealthy thoughts, relationships, etc., they are all enemies to you and at war against who God has called you to be.   

The next thing we have to realize is that we are in an “armed conflict”.    To be armed means that there is a “weapon” involved.   The enemy always has a weapon, whether you have one you are “utilizing” or not.   Weapons are not necessarily guns.   They are instruments that are used for an attack.    Attacks are meant to harm you and they come through violent force and hostility.    Keep in mind that God has already told us that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. So we have to stop trying to fight the enemy in a worldly way.  

The word carnal means not spiritual, temporal, or wordly.   So the weapons we have are spiritual weapons, they are not temporary weapons, therefore they are not here today and gone tomorrow.   We have constant access to these weapons and they are not of this world.   So you can’t just go out and purchase the weapons that God has given you to combat the enemy.    

 

2 Corinthians 10:4-6

King James Version (KJV)

⁴ (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

⁵ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

⁶ And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

 

We have to understand that the Bible tells us in Matthew 11:12 that the Kingdom of God is under attack.   It tells us that it suffers violence.   However it also tells us that the “violent” take it by force.      

Matthew 11:12

King James Version (KJV)

¹² And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

 

Matthew 11:12

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹² And from the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault, and violent men seize it by force [as a precious prize—a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion].

 

This is where I will stop for now.   I don’t want to overload you and I want you to have time to take all that God is saying in.    I believe that God will continue to give us fresh manna from His word.   This is what He has told me to tell you today.   As you know I don’t pre-write anything … I just write as He gives it to me.   So right now let’s pray.   

Father thank you for your word.   Thank you for opening up your word to us and giving us a greater understanding.   Father we love you.  We ask that the seeds of your word be planted in our hearts.   Let it bring forth much fruit.   Let the knowledge of your word bring to us a greater understanding of how we are to fight in your Kingdom.   Help us Lord.   Help us to be Kingdom warriors.   In Jesus name.  Amen.   

~ R. Lynn Moore, Daily Moments With God

   (www.DailyMomentsWithGod.com)

    15 December 2013

 

 

 

   

Are You Still Reflecting God's Love and Forgiveness Even When People Let You Down?

What happens when people let you down?   When they don't follow though?   When they don't do what they said that they would do?    You know those times when you went out of your way to help them ... yet they failed to follow through with what they promised they would do?   What happens?   Do you retaliate or do you continue doing what you would do?   

Don't let the actions of others cause you to be "less" than the person that God called you to be.   He called you to be humble.   He called you to be help.   He called you to be faithful.   He called you to be trustworthy.    He called you to reflect His love.    He called you to be strong.   Don't allow what others do to you to cause you to react rather than to respond.   Despite what they do ... let your response to their actions still be reflective of God's love and His forgiveness.    Understand ... I am not saying it will be easy.   I'm just saying that is what God would want you to do.   

Worship For Today ...

"He Said"

Ministered By Group One Crew

What Are You "Butting" God About Today?

What are you "butting" God about today.   In what areas are you placing a "but" behind what you say.   I love you God "but" ...  I believe you God "but" ...  I trust you God "but" ...   I will wait on you God "but" ...   I hear you God "but" ...   I understand God "but" ....

UNDERSTAND ... There are no "buts" in God.    Either you love Him ... you believe Him ... You trust Him ... You wait on Him ... You Hear Him ... You understand Him .... OR YOU DON'T.   When you add "but" to the end of what you are saying ... you just injected doubt into it and it cancels out everything you said.   So stop  "butting" God.   Say what you mean and mean what you say.   Faith does not carry within it doubt.   Doubt cancels out faith.   Take the word "but" out of your vocabulary when it comes to the things of God.  

Worship For Today ... 

"Trust In You"

Ministered By Hillsong

 

Don't Allow Your Trial To Cause You To Lose Your Faith, Hope, and Trust

Sometimes when we are going through we feel as though we are the only ones going through.  We feel all alone.   We feel lost, left out, and sometimes rejected.  When in fact it is just the opposite.   For God has said over and over in His word that He is with us in times of trouble.   Yet it is so hard to see, hear, and perceive Him during these times.    This is where our trust must kick in.   We have to trust that He is who He said He is .   We have to trust that He will do what He said He would do.  We have to trust and believe that He will never leave us nor forsake us.   We have to trust Him even when it doesn't look like it's going to work out for our good.  The "yet will I trust you" factor.    Let that be what you do ... even when you can't see the way.  

Open up your mouth and say ... "Yet will I trust you Lord".    No matter what is going on or how it looks.   Trust God through it all.   

Worship For Today ...

"Trust You"

Ministered By Brandon Heath

 

 

Do You Have Selective Hearing When It Comes To What God Is Saying?

Do you have an ear to hear?   Or do you have selective listening?   God wants us to hear what He is saying.    God is sending forth his word.  The question is are we listening to what He is saying or are we just waiting for something we want to hear?  Something that is more in line and conducive to our flesh.   

We have to learn how to receive and accept the fullness of God's word.   Remembering that God said His word is good for reproof and for edification.   The word reproof means correction and rebuke.   Correction will not always feel good ... but how it feels does not determine whether or not it is what we need.   When we correct our children, we do it in an effort to teach them for future reference.   So it is with God.   He is teaching us so that we will know how to handle our situations in the future.   It is not to hurt us or to hinder us.  It is to teach us His ways.    God's correction is always in alignment with His word.    For He and His word are one.     

Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

Jeremiah 25:4
And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
  
2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Worship For Today ...

"I Will Obey"

Ministered By Shekinah Glory

Are You Operating In "God Confidence" or "Self Confidence"?

Have "God Confidence"   ... Confidence in knowing that you are who God says you are and you can do what God said you can do.    It has been drilled in our heads to have self confidence.    To be confident in what we can do.   But the truth is ... we can do nothing without God.   Let your confidence be in knowing that you are not alone.   Knowing that the Holy Spirit lives within you.   Knowing that God has promised to never leave you nor forsake you.   Let your confidence be in knowing that the Almighty God created you and put everything in you that you will ever need.  

Let all of what God has said about you be your confidence builder.   Let His word establish you into knowing that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.     When you have God confidence, you know when things don't go your way that it is not according to your plan anyway ... It's according to what God has said about your situation.   

Worship For Today ...

"He Said"

Ministered By Group One Crew

Understand The Purpose of The Implant That God Has Given You ... He Has Implanted His Holy Spirit Within Us ...

Take time to confess God's word over your life.   Know that God created you to be above only and not beneath.   Know that He created you to overcome and not be overtaken.   Know that He created you to walk in divine health and not sickness and disease.   Know that He empowered you and implanted His Spirit within you.  

The word implant means to plant something within something else.   Understand ... God has planted His Holy Spirit within us.    When something is planted, it takes root.   When something is planted on good ground, it grows.    It becomes stronger.   It flourishes.   It brings forth seed.    The Holy Spirit has been planted and when the revelation of who the Holy Spirit is takes root in our lives, we will become stronger.    We will begin to flourish.  We will bear the seed of God's word.   

Understand the implant that has been placed within you.   It has a purpose.   It is there to help establish you and provide you with security concerning the promises of God.  

Worship For Today ...

"Holy Spirit"

Ministered By Kim Walker-Smith and Jesus Culture

Are You Really Willing To Display God's Love In The Way That He Sees Fit?

If God is looking for one who is willing, is that one you?   Are you willing to obey?   Are you willing to walk out God's word?  Are you willing to love those who tend to act unlovable?   Are you really willing?    Are you willing to give?   Are you willing to stand still?   Are you willing to trust?   Are you willing to reach out?   Are you willing to talk?   

We are so quick to say God use me ... yet the question we need to ask ourselves are we really willing to be used by God?    It's time we gain the understanding that the things that God is telling us to do, more than likely won't appeal to our flesh.    God is not into keeping us in our comfort zone.    Understand ... if you really want to be used by God ... you have to be willing to go beyond the norm and to trust what He is telling you to do.   The only reason God uses us ... is so that we can reflect who He is in the earth.    Think about who and what God is and then ask yourself again ... are you ready to be used by God.  To display His love in whatever way He sees fit ... to whomever He tells you to display it to.    That means if He lays something on your heart to do ... do it based on obedience and not comfort.   More than likely it won't be what you would normally do ... but God does not work according to the norm.

 

Worship For Today ...

"Yes"

Ministered By Shekinah Glory

What Are You Saying? Do You Understand The Power Of Life and Death Has Been Placed In Your Mouth ... It Is Operational Everytime You Speak ...

Are you watching what you are saying ... or are you just saying the first thing that pops in your head?   We have to get past reacting.    God says that His people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.   We have to begin to make sure we have full knowledge of our situation, of our surroundings, of our circumstances before we begin to react.   When we walk in knowledge, we are able to respond to our situation, surroundings and circumstances better.   We then know what to pray about.  What to talk about and what to believe God for.   

Too often we say things that we should not say.   Online communications can be the worst because when we write things ... it is then left up to the reader to interpret.    We have to begin to be sure of our words.   Understanding that words carry within them power.   Words can build people up or words can tear people down.   Words can encourage and words can discourage.   Words can be full of faith and words can be full of doubt and fear.    We have to begin to understand that it does matter what we say and how we say it.   It matters what we write and how we write it.   God created the world with words and the Bible says that the power of life and death is now in  your mouth.   What exactly are you saying?  

Worship For Today ...

"Words"

Ministered By Hawk Nelson