Are You Being Complacent or Are You Living Your Life With A Determination To Fulfill God's Purpose In The Earth?

What is on your mind today?   Did you wake up thinking about how good God is?  How he brought you through yesterday into this new day and blessed you with brand new mercy for today.    God is a good God and we have to make sure we are not taking his mercy and grace for granted.   

Sometimes in life we can become comfortable and complacent.    To be complacent means to be satisfied in your own self-achievements.   It is as though we are saying to God we've done enough.   We're okay.   We have accomplished all that we need to accomplish and we are satisfied.    

Aren't you glad Jesus was not a complacent person?   Aren't you glad that He didn't stop at the point where he turned the water into wine?    Aren't you glad that He said not my will but thy will be done?   Aren't you glad that He was not satisfied with self-achievement but He wanted to achieve God's plan and purpose in the earth and He did that all the way to dying on the cross for us.

That is how we need to think.   We need to think how God thinks.   He thinks with a mindset of love and compassion.   He thinks about what we need and He sacrificed His Son to give us what we need.   Live your life sacrificially and have a your mind set on God and be determined to fulfill His purpose.   Don't be complacent in your own self achievements.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

I Chronicles 16:11

Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

Are You Allowing The Struggles That You Are Encountering In Life To Trick You Into Believing You Can't Make It?

Saying and doing are two different things.   It is easy to say a thing but backing up what you say is a little more difficult.   God wants us to be doers and not just those who hear His Word.   He wants us to live the Word we read about, hear about, and speak about.   None of us are perfect but we all can strive to do what is right.    

When you think about the word strive, it means to make great effort to achieve or to obtain something.   It involves struggling and fighting vigorously.   A lot of times in life we get lost in the struggle.   We give up or we quit because we "feel" as though we can't make it.   We have to get to the place where we refuse to quit and we refuse to give up and we have to understand that we are not fighting alone.   God is our strength.    We have already been declared victorious in all the challenges we will ever face because the battle has already been won.    Even when it looks like we have lost a challenge we have to remember THE BATTLE HAS BEEN WON.    

Today I want to say don't give up.   Don't quit and don't give in.   Know that God is with You.   Know that He is watching over His Word to perform it in your life.   Stay in faith.   Don't allow the struggle to trick you into believing you can't make it.   Not only can you make it, you will make it because God is on your side.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 118:6-9

King James Version

6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.

8 It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

9 It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.

What Are You Going To Do In and With This Fresh Start God Has Given You Today?

New beginnings.   Are you ready for a new beginning?   Are you ready to begin again right here right now?   Do you understand that God has been merciful to you?  Do you understand that what you went through didn't have the power to take you out?   Your trial is now your testimony.   It is now a reference point in your life.   A point where you can go back and tell others what God did for you and it will encourage others and help others understand what He can and will do for them too if they are willing and obedient.    

So today is a new day.   It's a fresh start for you.   It's a good time to go to God and ask God for forgiveness for any sins known and unknown.   It's a good time to invite Him in and to ask Him to lead, guide, and direct your footsteps.   It's a good time to commit or recommit to Him.    It's a good time to say thank You to Him.   Thank Him for what He has brought you through and thank Him for the place He has brought you to in life.    

This very moment that you are living in is new to you.   It is a moment that you have never lived before.   Make the best of it.   Be determined in it to move forward with God.   Understand, God makes all things new.    No moment in our lives is a moment that we have ever lived before.   Walk in the newness of God today.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Revelation 21:5

King James Version (KJV)

“And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.”

How Are You Responding To The People and. The Situations You Encounter In Life?

Are you doing what God has told you to do despite what others are doing?  Sometimes life gets hard and sometimes people around you don't respond the way you thought they would or should but you can't allow another persons response to control your actions.    If God tells you to pray for someone, you need to pray.   If He tells you to give to someone, you need to give.   What you do should not be based on what another person does.   It is hard sometimes to move past what someone has done to you.   How they treat you and how they respond to you can be hard to overcome but remember everything you are doing should be looked at as your response to God and His love for you and not your response to people and what they have done to you. 

How you respond to God's love is up to you.   You have to remember what you do for others, you are doing for God.   You are God's vessel in the earth.   He created you on purpose with purpose and that purpose includes you being His representative in a lost and dying world.    That purpose calls you to be a light in the midst of darkness and a voice of hope in a world that is filled with fear.

How do your respond to hate?    How do you respond to negativity?   How do you respond to love?    Make sure you are responding to hate with love.   Make sure you are responding to negativity with love.   Make sure you are responding to love with love.   We have to understand that God is love and our response to every situation we encounter in life should include who and what He is.   Let your response always be a love response. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 John 4:7-10

King James Version

7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Do You Realize You Are Past The Point Of Your Past and God Is Ready To Do A New Thing In You, For You, and Through You?

 How often do you look back and wonder what if?   What if you had done things differently?   What if you would have gotten the promotion?   What if?   Understand, God does not wanting you living your life looking back and wondering what if.   He wants you to look ahead with hope and expectation.   He wants you to know that He knows all things.  He knew the choice you would make and he knows the outcome of every situation in our lives before it even happens.   

So, what if?   When we think about what if, let's think about it in a future context.  Let's meditate on the what ifs that come along with us being obedient to God.   What if we choose to walk in God's will, Word, and way?   What if we choose to pray?   What if we love those who choose to hate us?   What if?    We have to know if we choose to obey God, God will always take care of us even when we encounter challenges in our lives. 

Questions will always arise in our hearts and minds but we have to refuse to live in the past.    When the enemy brings up what you could have done, you need to begin to confess what you can do now.   You are past the point of your past and God said He would do a new thing in you.   So live in the expectancy of what God desires to do for you, in you, and through you from this point forward. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Isaiah 43:19

King James Version

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Are You Loving Others As God Loves You? Pressing Beyond Mere Words and Fleshly Actions

What is love to you?   What does it really mean to you to love someone unconditionally or have you got to that point yet?   To the point of unconditional love where you love others beyond their faults and you show them mercy.   That's not easy to do.   It's not easy to move mentally and physically beyond what someone else has done to you.   We live in a world where people predicate love based on what a person does for them and if the person does something to them, the love we have for them goes away and that is not of God. 

God's love is unending.   His love never fails.   His love sees beyond our faults and it is a sacrificial love.    God's love is full of mercy and doesn't take record of the wrongs that others do to us.   We have to understand that God is love and in order for us to love like Him, we have to have Him and His Word at work in and through our lives. 

My prayer for you today is that you love others like God loves you.   I pray that you take no record of the wrongs done to you but instead pray for those who have wronged you.   I am praying that you press beyond just loving someone with words and fleshly actions.   I pray that you dig deeper and learn to love unconditionally.    I pray that you walk in agape love just as you are loved by God. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

John 15:12

King James Version 

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Are You Learning How To Let Go Of Some Things In Order To Gain Those Things God Has Prepared For Your Life?

 How do you let go when all you want to do is hold on?   How do you release the things that are holding so tightly on to you?   These are big questions when it comes to life.   In life, there will be people, places, and things we will have to release because they keep us in bondage and captivity.   Letting go is not always easy but sometimes letting go is necessary.   

The big questions you have to answer are what is it that you are supposed to be letting go of and what it is that you are supposed to be holding on to?  You have to begin answering these questions by first answering another question and that is, what does the Word of God say?   The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians to prove all things and to hold on to that which is good.   It also says in Philippians to forget what is behind you and to press forward with God.   We have to know how to hold on to God and how not to let go of His unchanging hand.

Letting go is not easy and neither is putting your trust in the unknown but that is what faith is.   Trusting without seeing and it is believing without knowing.   You have to trust that God has a plan and you have to believe that He is at work in your life.     

The main reason we hold on to people, places, and things is because we have allowed ourselves to become familiar with them.    In other words, it's known to you because it has been a part of what you do for so long but just because we are familiar with something doesn't mean it is good for our lives and we have to know how to release some things in our lives in order to gain what God has prepared for our lives.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Philippians 3:13-14 

King James Version 

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.

How Are You Handling What God Has Given You? Life Is Full Of Choices.

How are you handling what God has given you?   He has given us His Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us in all truth.  Are you following the truth that He is revealing to you.    He has given us children for us to lead and guide in all truth.   Are you leading and guiding them in all truth?   Are you living your life in a way that leads your children and your grandchildren in truth?   He has honored His Word and has given us great and precious promises by meeting our needs, healing our bodies, and by opening up new doors.   How are you giving Him thanks for all that He has done and is doing in and through your life?   Are you using your life to glorify Him in all that you say and all that you do?   

So often in life it is easy to mess up.   It is easy to be redirected according to the flesh but we have to learn how to die to the flesh.   We have to learn how to live our lives according to the Spirit and we need to know that if we do that we live in a way that glorifies God. 

Remember life is full of choices and that includes God making choices.   He chose to send His Son to die on the cross so that we could live.   He chose each of us to be His vessels in the earth.   He is God.   He chose you and now the question is will He be your first choice?   How will you handle the life and the promises that He has given you? 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Deuteronomy 30:19

King James Version 

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”

Are You Creating An Atmosphere Of Life, Healing, Peace, and Deliverance By The Words That Come Forth Out Of Your Mouth?

Are you thinking your words are idle?   The word idle means pointless and of no affect?   UNDERSTAND, every word that you speak out of your mouth has within it power.   Remember, God spoke and creation came.  He created an atmosphere filled with life and hope.   What are you creating with the words that are coming out of your mouth?   Are you creating an atmosphere of life, healing, peace, and deliverance or are you speaking negative words and creating an atmosphere that is conducive to fear and death.   Words are powerful and the Bible says in Proverbs that life and death are in the power of the tongue. 

We have to be the ones in the earth that speak life.    We have to speak life just as God spoke life by speaking His Word.   When we see sickness and disease in the earth, we need to be speaking the Word that says God is our Healer.   When we see lack, we need to be speaking that God knows what we have need of and He is faithful and just to supply.    When we see hatred, we need to be pleading the blood of Jesus over the land and speaking forth the fact that God is love and who and what He is will prevail.   

The Bible talks about us giving an account for the words we speak.  We have to understand, every word we speak in private, God still hears.   He is omnipresent and there is nothing hidden from him.   We can't allow our words to be ruled by bitterness, hatred, or strife.   We can't allow our words to be ruled by what someone else said or what someone else did.   We need to always let our words that come forth out of our mouths to be motivated by the peace, power, and love of God. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Matthew 12:37

King James Version

37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

How Are You Handling The Confrontations and Disagreements That Come With Life?

 Not everyone is going to agree.   How do you handle their disagreement?    What do you do when people go against what God has told you to do?   Do you continue to line up with God or do you change your order of operation in order to accommodate how someone else feels?   Your order of operation encompasses the rules you go by in life and the way you prioritize what you do.  

When you think about a math equation and how you solve it, you can see that if you don't follow the established order of operation, you will get a different result.    God wants us to understand that if we follow Him and put Him first in everything that we do, we will always get His result.    We can't put people, places, and things in the place where only God should go.   He has to be first in all that we do and that includes our thought process before we even begin to act on what we think. 

People thrive on acknowledgement and praise and we want to recognize people for the things they do but you shouldn't live your life trying to please and acknowledge people and never acknowledge who God is, what God has done, and what God will do.   God has to remain first in your thoughts and in your actions and when it comes to disagreements with people, always take God's side.   Understand, God's side may not be the popular side but it is the right side.    It may not be the side where you get the praise and accolades of people but it is the side where you walk in the blessings of God.    Confrontations and disagreements with come with man but nothing that man does should override your stand for God and how you live your life for Him.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Matthew 6:33 

King James Version 

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Are You Letting God and His Word Be The Major Influencers In Your Life?

 What is it that you want or need God to do for you?   Are you trying to dictate the way you want it done?   We have to remember, God has a plan.   His thoughts are not always our thoughts and His ways are not always our ways.    We have to learn how to not only accept what God wants us to do, we have to learn how to do it the way He wants.  

We will encounter many twists and turns on this road called life.  Sometimes things work out the way we thought they would or should and then there are times when nothing seems to go the way we thought they would or should have gone but it's okay when your faith, hope, and trust are all in God's plan.    We learn daily through our lives with God the fact that we don't have to be in control, we just need to learn how to surrender control to Him. 

When you think about control, you understand it is the power to influence or to direct behavior.   We need to see and understand that behavior has an influencer.  Something or someone that inspires it or guides it.   What is inspiring your actions today?   What is leading you and guiding you to do what you do?   In other words, what is controlling your thoughts and ultimately influencing your actions?  Make sure that the primary influencers in your life is God and His Word.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 1:1-2

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.”

Are You At The Place Where Your Trust In God Is Overriding Your Fear?

 What is it that God is telling you to do?   Are you doing it?   Are you stepping out on faith and leaving behind all the fear?    Are you trusting God to help you through the process so that you can live in His promise?   

God is faithful.   He is not a man and He does not lie.   What He has promised, He will do.   What He has done, He will do again if necessary.     Make no mistake.  Again, He is not a man and He does not lie.    We have to get to the point where we let our obedience override our desires.  A place where we let our trust override our fears.    We have to put God in first place and leave Him there and truly believe that He has the final say.    

Life can be challenging but understand, it's overcoming life's challenges that make you victorious.    God has called you to be victorious in Him.   One of attributes that you see in champions is they have an overcomer's mindset.   They believe that they can and will win and that is what you have to have also.   You have to settle it in your mind that you believe that you can and will win through Christ.   

You have to believe and understand that when you are weak, you are still strong in God.   You have to believe and understand that the roadblocks that you cannot see ahead of you, God sees.   You have to trust and believe that God not only can do what you need, you have to believe that He will do it.   You have to trust in His faithfulness.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Philippians 4:19

King James Version 

“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

When Questions Arise In Life We Have To Remember That God Is The Answer and His Answer Is Found In His Word

Have you ever felt lost and all alone?   Have you ever felt as though no one cares about you or what you are going through?   Have you ever felt like what's the point of going on?  Have you ever felt confused about your life?   If so, I want you to know that you are not alone.   Questions arise in our lives but you have to know the answer to any confusion that you are feeling is God.   You have to make up in your mind that you are going to seek God and His righteousness so that you can know the right answers to the questions that come with life. 

Understand, feeling alone doesn't mean you are alone.   God is always with you.   He has promised to never leave nor forsake you.   When you feel as though no one cares, you have to remember what the Bible says in 1 Peter 5:7, where God tells you to cast your care on Him because He cares for you.    When you don't feel like going on, remember Phillipians 3:13 where it says to reach forward to the things in front of you.   When confusion comes, settle all the confusion in your life and know that God's Word is final.   God is not the author of confusion and you can rest in knowing where confusion abounds, God is not in it.    

God's Word is true and He sent His Word to us for us.   We can rest in the truth of His Word. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Hebrews 4:9-11

King James Version 

9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his.

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Are You Moving On or Are You Being Held Captive Mentally and Physically In Life? God Wants You To Move Forward With Him.

Are you moving on?   To move on means to go from where you are to a different place.   It means to leave somewhere especially because someone or something is causing obstruction.   Again, are you moving on?    We can choose whether we move on or whether we stay in a place where we are hurt, angry, stressed, and depressed.  Moving on doesn't mean that. you care less, it just means that you are refusing to let people, places, and thingS bind you up and hold you in captivity.  

What does it mean to be captive?  It means to be imprisoned and to be confined.  When you are confined,  you are restricted and you are limited and you are unable to move forward in and with life.   Are you letting people, places, or things hold you captive mentally and/or physically in life? Don't let old habits, old friends, or  even family keep you from moving forward with God.   Know that you have been set free.   Jesus died so that you could live and you need to live the life that He died for you to have.   

It's tome to move forward.   It's time to cast down any thoughts that have been hindering your belief system.   It's time to let go of any sin that has kept you from walking fully with God.   It's time to move away from the people, places, and things that keep you bound in your heart and your mind.   It's time to walk the path of love that has been paved by the blood of Jesus.   The time is now for you to move on.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Philippians 3:13-14

King James Version

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

How Are You Handling The Pressures That Come With Life? Do You Understand The Enemy Is Not Going To Give Up Trying To Get You To Give Up?

 How are you handling the pressures that come with life?   What are you doing when sickness comes your way?   What happens when you encounter lack?   What are you doing when you are faced with adversity?   How we handle the pressure is relative to where we are in and with God.    We have to be in a place where our trust is totally based upon God's ability to do what He said He would do.  

As long as we are living in the earth, understand, pressures will come.   The enemy will not give up trying to get you to give up.   It is his desire to have you to make your residence with him and not with God.     You have to understand that life, as long as we live it here on earth, will always require us to make choices.    

We can choose to trust God or we can choose to live in fear.   We can choose to tell the truth or we can choose to lie.   Understand, God is truth and the devil is the father of lies.    God has given us the ability to choose.   We get to choose what we believe and how we live.   We get to choose whether we believe God or not.   

So as you think about the things that you are going through in life, choose to handle the pressures by casting the care of those things over on God.   By doing that you are no longer carrying the load and you are released from the pressure.    When sickness comes your way, speak healing to yourself.   Speak the Word that God has given you and remember God said that He is the One who forgives our iniquities and heals our diseases.   When you encounter lack, remember, the Father knows everything you have need of and He is faithful and just to supply your every need and when adversity comes, take a stand on God's Word and know that you are an overcomer.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

2 Corinthians 1:20  

King James Version 

For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

Are You Holding On By Faith In God's Word When Everything In Life Seems To Be Going Contrary To What He Has Said? Is Your Faith Overriding Your Fear?

 What are you holding on to when it seems as though everything is lost?   Are you holding on to God and His unchanging Word?   Are you holding on to at least "one" Word that He has spoken to you about your life?   The promise that God has given you that says He can and will do whatever it is you need.   There are times in our lives when we have to have a firm grip on what God has said and we must be determined to not quit, give up, or give in.   We have to make sure our faith is overriding our fear. 

God is God all by Himself and His Word is true.    Out of God's mouth flows power and what He has said, He will do.   We just have to have faith in what He said to be true.   Our faith says we believe God.   We believe that He can and He will do what He said He would do. 

What do you believe today?   Do you believe that God is a Waymaker?   Do you believe that He can and will make a way?   Do you believe that God is our Healer?  Do you believe that His Word of Healing and the blood of Jesus is more powerful than any disease that is coming against your body or this world?   Do you believe that He is Jehovah Jireh, our Provider?   The One who not only knows our needs but the One who can and will meet our needs. 

What you believe matters.   You can't hold on to what you don't truly believe.   So settle it today.   Settle it within your heart and mind that you are going to trust God through it all.   Strengthen yourself today.   Build yourself up on your most holy faith, study God's Word, and be determined to not lose grip on what God has already said to be true in you and for your life.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Hebrews 10:23

King James Version

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised;)

Are You Allowing Your Mistakes To Lead You Into Thinking You Are Less Than When God Has Made You More Than A Conqueror?

It would be nice to be right all the time.   It would be nice to know that you never miss the mark but that is not how life goes.    We miss it sometimes.    We are not always right and we have to admit the fact that we are human and sometimes fail.  What do you do when you miss the mark? 

Do you live the lie as though you are perfect or do you admit when you are wrong and do what you can to get things right the next time?   We all make mistakes.  No one is perfect 100% of the time but you can't let your imperfections cause you to believe you are a failure.    God does not fail and neither does God make mistakes.  We have to accept our limitations and mistakes but we have to remember we are still in the race with God and we can still win as long as we are in it with Him.  Remember, we are more than conquerors through Christ.   God  knows what He is doing and  He knows what He needs to do in you, with you, and for you.  People may call you a failure but it's not what people think that matters, it is what God thinks and says about you.    

Don't be misled into thinking that you are nothing and will never be nothing.   Also, don't be overconfident to the point that you become arrogant.   Know that God gave us a Comforter to lead us, to guide us, and to direct us in all truth.   His Word is truth and His Word has the final say.     So we must always seek God's truth in order to know what is right, pure, and true in our lives.    We must also always be humble.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

John 17:17 

King James Version 

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

How Are You Responding To Hate, Hurt, Pain, and Negativity? Is Your Response A Response Of Love?

 How do you respond to hate?   How do you respond to hurt and to pain?   How do you respond to negativity?   How do YOU respond?   Sometimes it is easy to see the response of others but we need to be able to see our own response.    

Do you respond to hate with love?   Do you respond to hurt and pain with love?   Do you respond to negativity with love?   Understand, no matter what situation we find ourselves in, our response should always be a love response.   We must always remember that God is love and He should be seen at the forefront of all we do and all we say. 

This is where we have to make sure we are responding instead of reacting.    When someone or something hurts you, it's easy to react based on your own emotions but we have to get to a place where we respond based on God's Word.    Don't allow hatred, hurt, pain, or negativity to cause you to forget that You have been called by God to represent Him in the earth.   People look at you and they also look to you.    Your response carries an affect.   It helps other see through the lens of your life what it means to live for God despite the afflictions you encounter in the world because God sees and knows all the afflictions you go through and He hears your cry.  

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

 Psalms 106:44

Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

Are You Staying In Faith and Is Your Faith Staying In God?

Where is your faith?   Is it in God?   Is it in people?   Is it in yourself?    Are you standing and staying in faith no matter what life brings your way?   The thing about life is we never know the road it is going to take us and we have to be people of faith that believe that no matter which way life takes us, God is with us and He is working everything out together for our good and His glory. 

We must be the ones whose faith remains secure in God.   When your faith is in what other people can do for you, you will be disappointed in people when they don't do what you want them to do.   When your faith is in what you can do for yourself, you will become disappointed in yourself when you are unable to complete the tasks that come with life alone.   We have to remember, God is all seeing, all knowing, and He can do whatever needs to be done in our lives. 

Make sure you stay in faith and make sure your faith stays in God.   He will never leave you.   He will not forsake you.   He will watch over you, shield you, protect you, heal you, and provide for you.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Romans 1:17 

King James Version 

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Are You Going To God First So That He Can Not Only Help You Navigate Your Day, He Can Help You Navigate Your Life?

What is your objective today?   What is it that you are waking up saying that you want to do today?   Is your first objective to get before God?   To talk to Him and to let Him speak to you or is your mind cluttered with all the other stuff you feel you need to accomplish today?   

Understand, God is essential.   He is our Leader and our Guide.   It is Him that will help us to accomplish everything else throughout the day.   So He needs to be first.   He needs to be the One that you go to for guidance, you ask for instructions, and you follow what He has told you to do.   However, if you never get before Him, it's like navigating the road of life alone.   

Isn't it better to go on a journey with someone who knows the road and the path you are about to travel.   Someone who is strong enough to carry the baggage that is built up from your past and has become such a heavy load.   Someone who knows how to navigate you past the hindrances that come against your faith.   Someone who is a Doctor and the Healing that you need.   Someone who knows what you need and is the Resource you need.

The thing is, when you walk the journey called life with God.   Everything you need for the journey is with you because God is One thing we need in life.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Matthew 28:20

King James Version

“Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.

Are You Choosing To Forgive Just As You Have Been Forgiven?

 Are you allowing unforgiveness to dwell in you heart and to hinder your faith?   Unforgiveness is the act of not forgiving.   It's holding on to what was instead of allowing the love of God to help heal your heart.    

No, it's not easy to forgive.   When someone has wronged you, hurt you, and continue to hurt you, it's hard to let it all go but God is our example.   Just as He forgives us for how we have wronged Him and misused the things that He has given us, including our mouths and our bodies, WE MUST FORGIVE OTHERS.    We have not always shown God respect and we have not always said and made the right choices concerning this life that He has so freely given us and yet He is merciful and He forgives us.   

If God was not a forgiving God, there would be no mercy for us.   There would be no grace and there would be the absence of His unfailing love.    Everything that God is and everything that He does is based on His love and His forgiveness and He wants us to exhibit His characteristics in the earth.   

We must understand that unforgiveness hinders our prayers.    Unforgiveness is based on a choice we make.   We choose to stay bitter and we choose to not forgive.   In some instances, unforgiveness is another form of hatred and it is the failure to have mercy on others just as God has been merciful to us.   

TODAY we must choose to forgive! 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Matthew 18:23-35

King James Version

23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.

24 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.

25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.

28 But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.

29 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

31 So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.

32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:

33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?

34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.

35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.