Are You Ready To Go All The Way In Faith?

What happens next is up to you.   Are you ready to go all the way with God?  Going all the way takes faith!   Are you ready to start out in faith and stay in faith until you see what God told you would be the end result?    Are you ready to push past the naysayers and to look past the hindrances so that you can keep your eyes on the promises of God?    Understand, you have to not only be ready, you have to be willing to endure until the end!   

To endure means to suffer something painful and difficult patiently.   That’s a hard thing to do.   Just the word suffer makes us want to turn away, run away, and say we don’t want to do that but sometimes we have to suffer for a season for a reason.    We have to learn how to endure suffering as a good soldier.   Jesus did it.   He suffered on the cross, SO THAT WE COULD LIVE.   

Our daily walk requires faith.   If we don’t have faith, we can never see what God has promised.  We won’t be able to look past our present situation and we will always dwell in the pain of our past.    We have to learn how to fuel our faith by reading and meditating on the Word of God.   

Then we have to take that Word and run with it.   We have to keep our eyes on it and we have to trust in our hearts that God will bring it to pass i in our lives. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Hebrews 12:2 

King James Version (KJV)

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

What Is It That Has You Bound? What Is Causing You To Act The Way You Do?

What are you allowing to bind you up?  When you are bound, you are restricted.   To be bound means to be tied up or in bonds.   What are you allowing to tie up your thoughts and your forward movement with God? 

Understand, we can be bound to circumstances and we can also be bound to lines of behavior.   What is causing you to act the way you do or to think the way you do?   Is your heart bound to God?   Is it bound to the point where it is tied to and securely connected with Him and His Word?   

We have to make sure we are bound to the right thing.   Another definition for bound is to be secured within a cover (like a book).   The pages of a book are protected because of the cover.   Know that God is your covering if you bind yourself to His Word, His will, and His way.   

So don’t be bound by the wrong things because again, it affects your behaviors.   What you do in most cases is dictated by who and what you have connected yourself to.   Make sure you stay connected to God.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Deuteronomy 11:18 

King James Version (KJV)

18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

Are You Living In God’s Abundance or Are You Allowing Life To Get You Off Track?

This is the day that the Lord has made, so let’s rejoice and be glad in it.   Let say to the Lord that He is our refuge and our strength and let’s put our total trust in God.    

God loves you and it is His desire that You live this life and that you live it more abundantly.  He wants you to have an abundance of peace.   He wants you to have an abundance of power.   He wants you to have everything that Jesus died on the cross for you to have but you have to want Him.   You have to want to live your life in a way that pleases Him.   God wants you to serve Him and not be servant to your flesh and you have to let your love for God override your love for any and everything else in this world.   

Understand, the devil’s #1 priority is to keep you from believing and trusting God.   He wants to get you off track and cause you to fail when it comes to walking in faith.   It is his desire for you to feed your flesh instead of feeding your spirit.   He wants you with him because He can never be with you if you stick and stay with God.

So how is the devil doing in getting you off track?   Has he presented you with the things that appeal to your flesh?   Did you follow or did you flee?    Remember, God always provides us with an avenue of escape.    We are not locked into the devils grip.  There is always a choice to be made and we just have choose to choose righteously.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Isaiah 26:3 

King James Version (KJV)

3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Is Your Mind Made Up and Are Your Actions Lining Up With What God Has Told You To Do?

What is Your mindset?   What is it that Your mind is set on doing?   Is it set on submitting to, honoring, and obeying God and His Word or is it set on sin?  When you sin, you are submitting to and you are obeying your flesh.   To honor means to hold something or someone in high regard and respect.    Are you holding your relationship with God in high regard?   Are you showing respect to the Father?    

Everything we do starts with a thought process.   What is it that is feeding your thought?   What are you watching and what is it that you are listening to?    Are you filtering your thoughts through God’s Word and are you casting down those thoughts that don’t line up with the Word?   We have to have a Godly filter so that we can have a Godly mindset.    

Set your mind on the things of God.   Set your mind to do what God has said for you to do.   Let your mind be made up and let your actions line up to fulfill the will, plan, and purpose that God has set for your life.     

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Philippians 4:9 

King James Version (KJV)

9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

What and Who Are You Choosing Today? Love Leads Us, What Is The Love In Your Heart Leading You To Do?

What are your choosing?   When it came to crucifying Jesus, the people had an option.  They could choose to release Jesus or they could choose to release Barabbus who was a robber.   They chose Barabbus.   They chose to release the one who committed sin instead of the one who knew no sin.   Who and what are you choosing in life? Are you choosing to release your sinful nature instead of your God filled nature?   

What are you choosing today?   Who are you choosing today?   Are you choosing God above all other people, places, and things in your life or are you choosing the other stuff.    Who and what you choose shows who and what you love more.    Love is a leading factor but understand, you should love nothing and no one in your life more than you love God.   Understand, everything that we do and say is a matter of choice and as we choose, we reveal the love and the intentions of our hearts.    

Remember, God has given us options.   He has empowered us with the ability to choose.   Just as you want to loved, God wants to be loved.    He wants you to understand His love for you and He wants your love for Him to lead you into choosing Him no matter what other options you have in life. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Ephesians 3:17-19 

King James Version (KJV)

17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

What Is The Motivation Behind What You Are Expecting?

What is your expected outcome?   What is it that you are expecting to happen in your situation?   Are you expecting God to move and to manifest on your behalf or are you expecting everything in your life to fail?   

God created you and when He created you, He created everything that you will ever need in life.   He set everything in motion to show up in your life at the exact point it is needed.    

God is not a man and He does not lie.    What God has said in His Word, He will do.    God wants you to have faith.  He wants you to trust and to believe.   He wants you to understand, He has made a way for you and He will do whatever He needs to do for you if you trust and believe Him.    

Again, what is your expectancy and what is the motivation behind what you are expecting?    If fear is your motivation, you will be expecting failure but if you are motivated by God and His Word, then you will be walking in faith and you will be expecting God to move on your behalf.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Proverbs 23:18 - For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Psalms 62:5 - My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from him