Are You Pressing Beyond The Pressures and The Pleasures of Life In Order To Move Forward With God? (August 2, 2015)

There are so many things in life that will try to stop you.  Whether it be people, places, or things, you have to make up in your mind that you are going to press beyond the pressures and "pleasures" of life in order to move forward with God.   

Pressure can be defined as the use of persuasion, influence, or intimidation to make someone do something.  What's pressuring you?   What is persuading and influencing you to seek "alternatives" outside of God's Word and His will.    To be intimidated means to be filled with fear.   Who or what is causing you to walk in fear of not doing something instead of in faith and doing what God has said?

When we look at the word pleasure, we understand that pleasure is a happy feeling of satisfaction and enjoyment.   The Bible says that God has pleasure in the prosperity of His people.  We have to understand that prosperity goes far beyond money.   The Bible speaks of "whole life" prosperity.  Wellness in every area of our lives.  The word prosperous is defined as strong and healthy in growth.   We need to have a prosperous thought life, a prosperous body, and a prosperous spiritual life.   We need to be strong and healthy in every part of our lives.   So we have to stop seeking pleasure and peace by means of money, people, places, or things.   It does no good to have money and to be sick in your body.   It does no good to have money and not know who you are in God.   It does no good to have money and to be dead spiritually.    The same holds true with people, places, and things.   True and everlasting satisfaction and joy can only come from God.

So don't get stopped or stuck by the pressures or the pleasures of life.  MOVE FORWARD WITH GOD!   Amen 

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"You Are My Hiding Place"

Ministered By Selah

REFERENCE:  

You Are My Hiding Place - Selah ( With Lyrics). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dR0H0tAYT8