The Bible Says The Devil Is Defeated But The Question Is, Are You Keeping Him In A Place Of Defeat or Are You Making Room For Him To Operate In Your Life?

You may be asking yourself how could you possibly be making room for the devil and the answer is, through disobedience.    We set the atmosphere of our lives.   We have been endowed with the power to set things in motion concerning our lives.    The question is, what are we setting in motion based on our actions and reactions?

 

The Bible talks about the outer court, the inner court, and the holy of holies.   We should be living our lives in a way where our ultimate goal is to dwell in the holy of holies with God.   Think about your life.   If you are looking at your life in three dimensions, as the outer court, the inner court, and holy of holies.   Who and what is occupying those places and spaces in your life?   Who and what are you surrounding yourself with?   Who and what are you allowing to enter in and feed your spirit?   What is taking up your time and occupying the throne of your heart?    If it is not God, it is something or someone.   

 

Make sure today that the devil is not seated on the throne of your heart.   Make sure you haven't given him access and room to rule, reign, or act out in your life.  Guard your heart and remember, out of your heart flows the issues of life.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

1 Peter 3:15

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

  

Are You Letting God Fight Your Battles or Do You Find Yourself Trying To Battle The Enemies Of Doubt, Fear, Worry, and Pain On Your Own?

How are you handling the battles that are coming up against you in life?   Are you letting God fight your battles or you constantly trying to go up against the enemies that are coming up against you in life?   Understand, with God you not only win, you have already won.    

 

What about the enemies of doubt, fear, worry, and pain?  You need God to help you overcome them all.   You need God's confidence and assurance to overcome doubt.   You need to have faith in God to overcome fear.   You need to be comforted by God so that you will not worry and you need God to heal you so that you won't walk around in constant pain.   

 

The only way to overcome any enemy that is coming against you in life is by totally surrendering to God and by letting Him have control.   Make sure you surrender your heart, mind, and life to Him.   Make sure you invite Him in and ask "Him" to fix it.   We must realize the only way to bring our situations under control is by letting God have control.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Deuteronomy 20:4

King James Version

For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, 

to save you.

 

Are You Doing What God Told You To Do, So That You Can Receive What He Said You Could Have?

People are quick to say that they want God to bless them.   They are quick to ask God to come right now.   They want Him to show up right now and do what they are asking "Him" to do.   The first question in all of our lives before we ask God for anything should be, are we doing what He has asked us to do?

 

We have to understand the importance of obedience.   We need to realize that obedience is a prerequisite to receiving God's continual blessings.    We are quick to get in prayer and take our requests to God and we need to be just as quick in obeying God.    We need to remember that our obedience unlocks the door to God's blessings. 

 

Don't just be the person who runs to God and asks of God, be the person who is quick to obey God.   Obey God even when it hurts.   Obey Him even when you don't understand all the reasons why you are going through what you are going through.   Obey God, no matter what situation you find yourself in, in life.   Obey God. 

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Deuteronomy 28:1

King James Version

 

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

Are You Feeling Stuck In Life? Are You Trusting God To Take You To Where You Need To Be In and With Him?

Have you ever felt like you are stuck right where you are?   Stuck in a place where you don't want to be?   Stuck in the sense that no matter what you do, you can't seem to move forward in life?   Stuck in a place in life where you don't want to be.   

 

Understand, God doesn't want you stagnant or stuck.   He wants you to move forward with Him.   He wants you to walk in faith and not fear and He wants you to grow in Him to accomplish all that He has called you to do.   

 

So today I want to say, don't give up.   Don't stop believing.   Don't quit because it seems hard or because it seems to be taking too long.   Keep pressing into the promises of God.   Know that God is with you and know that He will make a way where there appears to be no way.   Know that even though it may be hard, God is on your side and in your weakness, He will prove Himself to be strong in you and through you.    Know that God will move you forward in and with Him.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalm 32:8

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

What Are You Wrapped Up In In Life? Are You Nestled In God and His Word?

When we need comfort, there are many things that we can seek to try to gain comfort from the discomforts of life.   We can run to people, places, and things and get wrapped up in it all so that we dull the pain of whatever it is we are going through.   Understand, God wants us to be wrapped up in Him and His Word.    He wants us to know what He said and to trust Him to do it.   He wants us to find comfort in Him because He is our Comforter. 

 

It is time to stop seeking temporary relief from the things that cause us pain.   It's time to seek God and to cast our cares on Him.   It's time to let go of the hurt and the pains of our past and it’s time to let God bring healing to our lives.    

 

Not only that, it's time to nestle in God's Word.   When you are nestled, you are in a comfortable protected position.   So, understand, it's time to stop worrying.   It's time to find comfort in God's Word and it's time for you to wrap your heart, mind, and life in what God has said so that you live in the comfort and protection of what God has promised in His Word.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDIATION

Psalm 23:4

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Are You Listening For The Still Small Voice of God or Are You Being Distracted By The Loudness Of The World?

 Have you ever been in a place where everything is so loud that you can't hear yourself think?   A place where you are totally distracted by what people are saying and by whatever it is that is going on?   Sometimes that is how life can be.   It can be full of distractions.   Situations in your life can be speaking so loud to you in an effort to cause you to walk in fear that you just can't hear the still small voice of God.    

 

Do you realize that situations have a way of speaking to you.  When a situation speaks to you, they cause emotions to. arise in you.   They can bring about emotions of sadness, joy, faith, and/or fear.   How are the situations in your life causing you to feel?   Are they speaking so loud that you are finding it hard to hear, believe, and concentrate on what God has said and is saying to you?   If they are, remember, God has given you the power to bind up and to cast down.   So do just that.   Bind up the situation along with the thoughts that the situation is producing and cast it all on God.   For God knows how to fix it.   He knows what you have need of in your life and He is the only One that can take it all and work it all together for your good and His glory.    

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

1 Kings 19:11-13

11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

How Do You See Yourself? Do You See Yourself As God Sees You?

What is your view of yourself?   Do you see yourself as God sees you?   Do you see yourself as saved, forgiven, and a child of God or do you see yourself as less than?   Less than that God has called you to be.   Your view of yourself must be seen through the filter of the blood.   None of us are perfect but God does want to perfect His good work in us and through us.   None of us do everything right 100% of the time but that in itself should confirm the fact that we need God.    

 

God is a merciful God.   He is faithful, just, and kind.   His grace for our lives is sufficient and His love for us is unending.    Make sure that you are looking at your life through the mirror of God's love and the blood of Jesus.   See yourself as the child of THE KING.   See yourself as perfectly imperfect knowing that the Father is still at work in you and knowing that He wants to do a new thing in you, through you, and for you. 

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Jeremiah 1:5

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Have You Given God Thanks For His Son That Died So You Could Have Eternal Life or Are You Just Thanking God For The Stuff That Come With Life? We Should Be Thankful For The Stuff But We Need To Make Sure We Say Thank You For The Life Jesus Died For Us To Have!

 What is it that you are most thankful for today?   Is it the "stuff" you have accumulated in life or is it the "life" that God has given you through the death of His Son?   It is my prayer today that you are MOST thankful for the eternal life that you have been given.   The stuff is a byproduct of the blessings of God but it is the eternal life that you have been given that ensures your destiny.    

 

We have to understand that there is life beyond the here and the now.   Many people get caught up on what they have right now.   That's okay, as long as, what they are getting caught up on is the fact that they have a Savior who was born, beaten, bled, died, and rose again so that they could have eternal life.   We always have to remember, the "stuff" that comes with life, like the house, the car, the job, the clothes, etc. is just that "stuff".   It wears out and has to be replaced over time but the life that God gave us through the birth, death, and resurrection of His Son, Jesus, doesn't have to be replaced or done over again.   God did it, Jesus died, and it is done.   The promises of God to us are sealed through and by the blood of Jesus.   

 

So as you give thanks today and every day.  Thank God for His goodness, His grace, His love, and His mercy.   Thank Him not just for the stuff you have but thank Him for the life you have been given.  

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Ephesians 5:20 

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our 

Lord Jesus Christ;

Are You Binding Up The Words Of Others That Are Not In Alignment With God's Word and Are You Binding God's Word To The Doorpost Of Your Heart So That You Can Always Rightly Divide The Word Of Truth So That Negativity Cannot Be Planted In Your Heart?

Who and what are you allowing to move you in life?   Are you being moved by people and their opinions or are you being moved by God and His Word?    People will talk and what they say is directly connected to what is in their hearts.    The Bible says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.   So, what people say is based on what is rooted in their hearts.   

 

Not everyone has the Word rooted in their hearts.   Not everyone knows what God said in His Word. The question is, who's voice are you listening to?   Are you listening to and obeying what you know God said or are you listening to what people are saying and making movements in your life based on what they say that are in an opposite direction to the way that God told you to go?

 

Life gets hard and people have their opinion, but if their opinion is not in alignment with the Word of. God, you need to know how to bind up and cast down their words.  We must make sure we are binding up and casting down the negative words of others and we also need to make sure we are binding God's Word to the doorpost of our heart.   We have to understand the purpose behind binding God's Word to the doorpost of our heart.   When we do that, everything has to come through the security filter (or should I say security gate) of God's Word before entering into our heart.   The purpose of a security gate (or filter) is to keep out anything that will prove to be hazardous or dangerous to our lives.  

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Deuteronomy 11:18

Amplified Version

“Therefore, you shall impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul, and tie them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as [a]bands (frontals, frontlets) on your forehead

 

Are You Praying In Faith or Are You Just Saying Words Out Of Fear and Failing To Truly Believe That God Will Honor His Word In Your Life?

Is there faith in what you are saying and what you are praying?   Are you backing up the words you say in prayer with the Word of God?   Do you truly believe that God will honor His Word in your life or are you just saying words to say them?

 

Understand, God wants you to believe Him when you pray.   He wants you to have faith in His Word and He wants your words to be in alignment with His Word.   In order for you to access Kingdom blessings, you must first believe that God will bless you.   You have to believe that He will heal you.   You have to believe that He will make a way for you.   You have to believe that He will strengthen you and give you peace.    How can God honor your faith if you don't believe Him in faith? 

 

Make today about praying in faith.   Make it about trusting and believing that God will do what He said He would do.    Make today about not giving up and waiting on God to honor His Word in your life because that it what He said He would do. 

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Mark 11:24

King James Version 

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

What Happens When What Has Been Enough Is No Longer Enough? What Do You Do?

With life comes inflation?   Inflation is when the cost of things increase.   What happens if your pay doesn't increase with the rise in costs?   What are you doing?  Do you have a savings back-up plan?  

 

With that being said, what happens when your daily spiritual routine is no longer enough?   What happens when the attacks against your life begin to increase?  Do you have a spiritual back-up plan?   Have you studied the Word and do you have Word in reserve that will handle the pressure that the enemy is placing on your life that seems to be so much more intense than what you have been through before?   

 

Understand, the closer you get to God the more the enemy is going to increase and apply pressure to your life but when the pressure increases, you have to know how to relieve the pressure by applying the Word to every situation concerning your life.  The level of faith that you walk in in life will be based on the Word that you have in reserve in your knowledge bank.

 

With life comes increase but increase can come in various forms.   Whether it is increase in your cost of living or increased pressure in situations concerning your life, you can always increase your faith.   Learn how to trust God more and learn how to lean more on Him.   Remember, all you need is faith to release the increase of pressure that is coming against your life.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

I Timothy 6:19

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Are You Allowing The Enemy To Distort How You See Yourself So That He Can Destroy Your Life or Do You See Yourself From God's Viewpoint Which Is Reflected Through The Lens Of His Love Which Has Been Covered By The Blood?

As you look into the mirror of God's Word, how do you see yourself?   Do you see yourself as God's sees you?   Do you see change taking place in your life where you are being transformed into the image of who and what God has called you to be or do you see the old you that looks nothing like what God has said about you?

 

I pray today that you see yourself from the viewpoint of God.   I pray that you see yourself as healed, set free, and delivered.   I pray that you see yourself through the lens of the love of God, covered by the blood of Jesus.   I pray that when you see yourself that you see yourself strong in mighty and I pray that when you see yourself that you see the God in you and not you all by yourself.   

 

As you look at the reflection of yourself, don't forget that you were created in God's image and formed after His likeness.   Remember, God loves you with an everlasting love and also remember, you are forgiven.    Never forget that the enemy is trying to distort your image of yourself so that he can destroy your life.   You have to stay in a place where you always see yourself from God's viewpoint so that the image you see of yourself, will always reflect who and what God created you to be.    

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

James 1:23-25

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

What Outlook Do You Have Regarding Your Life? Are You Looking At Your Life As Being Broken or Do You See That God Is Rebuilding and Restoring You?

When you look at your life, what do you see?   Do you see yourself as being broken or do you see that God is restoring and rebuilding you.   When a house goes through a renovation, there are times when you have to take out the old floors and replace them.   There are times when you have to take down old walls and rebuild them.   There are times when you have to remove the old electrical wires that have become a hazard with new ones that will function properly so that everything in your house that has to be plugged into the power source can be plugged in and function the way it was created to function.   So it is with life.   Sometimes we are not being broken (even though it may feel that way), we are being rebuilt and restored. 

 

When God rebuilds us and restores us, He will restore the floors (or should I say the foundation) of our lives.   He will take down the walls that we have built up in our hearts and our minds and we shall see that we have open access to Him.   He will remove the blockages that have hindered us from trusting, believing, and walking in faith and set us in a place mentally, spiritually, and physically where we can stay plugged into Him as our source so that His power and provision will always flow freely in our lives in Jesus' name, amen. 

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

2 Corinthians 5:1

“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”

What Has Come To Hinder You In Life and How Are You Handling It? Take A Moment To Release All Of Your Cares To God!

How are you handling the trials and the tribulations?  How are you handling the lack, the sickness, the disease, the pain, and/or the people that are coming up against you in life?   Are you handling it by handing it back over to God?   Have you done what He told you to do when He told you to cast your cares on Him because He cares for you?  Understand, we get to choose how we handle the situations we encounter in life.

 

Casting our cares on God is not always an easy thing to do because we like to know that we have control.  Even when we don't know how to handle the situations that we are going through, we still like to maintain control but we have to learn how to let go and let God do what only He can do.   

 

Take a moment today and every day to release.   Call it your MOMENT OF RELEASE.  As you pray, talk to God and cast your cares on Him.   Ask Him to take whatever it is that is coming up against you that is causing you to be stressed in life.   Ask Him to take the sickness and to take the disease.   Ask Him to take the pain.   Whatever it is, give it to God and ask God to work it all together for your good and His glory.   It's time to let go and to ask God to handle it. 

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Philippians 4:6

Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

 

Are You Mature In Christ? Have You Learned How To Go Through The Trials and The Triumphs of Life With God?

One of the most noticeable differences between and adult and a child is the way a child acts in comparison to the actions of an adult.   Of course, age and stature are noticeable but when it comes to communication, actions are the biggest sign of maturity.  How are you acting when it comes to situations concerning your life? Are you showing that you are mature?  When you are mature, your attitudes and actions show that you have grown and developed during the process of time. 

 

God wants us to be mature in Him.   As we go through the trials and triumphs that come with life, we should be learning how to live life with God.   We should be moving towards a more mature state in Him.   A child thinks as a child and a child handles situations in childish ways but a mature adult has learned how to process situations differently.   They have learned how to respond and not just react to the trials and the triumphs that come with life.   They have learned how to filter life and the situations that come against them in life through the Word and the Wisdom of God.   They have grown into the place where they have the knowledge and understanding that they have to seek God and they also have the stamina to wait on Him to honor His Word as they walk in faith.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

John 16:33

King James Version

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

 

Are You Really Walking In Faith or Is Your Faith Undergirded By Fear? Your Faith Must Be Based On God and His Word!

You say you believe God.   You say you trust Him.   You say you are willing to wait on Him but are you really doing that?   Are you really waiting on God to do what He said He would do or are you constantly trying to find a way to work situations out on your own?   FAITH SAYS that you BELIEVE what God has said in His Word and that you are TRUSTING Him to do it.   Faith also shows that you are WAITING on God to do what He said He would do.   

 

Believing, trusting, and waiting on God are not easy things to do but they are requirements when it comes to walking in faith.    Remember, God responds to our faith.   Fear comes to get us into a place where God cannot respond.   He does not respond to fear because when we walk in fear, we are failing to trust and believe that God can and will do what He says.    So let the firm foundation of God's Word always undergird your faith.  Your faith in God should always be based on the Word of God for it is the true foundation on which you must stand as you wait on God to honor His Word in your life.  

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

I Corinthians 16:13

King James Version

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Trouble Will Come, The Question Is, "What Are You Doing When It Comes"?

 What are you doing when trouble comes your way?   The Bible says that the Lord is our hiding place and our shield.   Are you running to the Lord?  Are you covering yourself with His Word?   When the enemy is after you, you have to know that you have a safe place in and with God.   You have to go where the enemy can't find you and even if he knows where you are at, he can't get to you or harm you when you are in your secret place with God.   You have to know that You are shielded by God and His Word.   

 

The first thing you must do when the enemy comes against you is to get God's Word concerning your situation.   If the enemy is coming against your health.   You need to stand on and confess God's Word that says that He is the Lord God that heals you.   If he is coming against your finances, you need to stand on and confess God's Word that says He will supply all that you need.   If the enemy is coming against your home, you need to get God's Word and confess that says no weapon formed against you shall prosper.   You also need to get and stand on the Word where God said He shall stretch out His hand against the wrath of your enemies.   Your safety is all about getting God's Word and finding shelter in His Word.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalms 138:7

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

Are You Remembering That God Said In Your Weakness, He Is Strong? Are You Trying To Be Self-Dependent and Self-Reliant or God-Dependent and Relying Totally On God?

 Sometimes we try to live life in our own strength.   We try to do life our way and we forget that we are supposed to be living life God's way.   When we live life God's way, we live in the revelation of the fact that God said in our weakness, He is strong.   We live in the revelation that says we can do all things through Christ.   We live in the revelation that says that God knows the things we have need of and He shall supply all that we need. 

 

We can choose to live life our way, in our own strength, and in a way where we are self-dependent instead of God-Dependent.   We can choose to rely on what we can do in self or we can choose to rely totally on what God can and will do for us, in us, and through us.   Choose God today and know that even when you feel weak, GOD IS STRONG.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

2 Corinthians 12:9

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Are You Being Led By God or Are You Trying To Self Direct Yourself?

Are you allowing God to show you the way when there appears to be no way or are you trying to self-direct yourself?   God has a plan and He designed His plan on purpose with purpose for your life.   The main question is, do you trust God?   Do you trust that God has a plan and do you trust Him to implement His plan and to fulfill His promise in your life? 

 

We can go through life trying to find our way or we can choose to be led by God.   I pray today that you throw in the reigns and allow God to be your Guide.   I pray that you will follow the GPS of His Word.   I pray that you will choose to go the road less traveled by following the way of the Word and I pray that you remember to follow the footsteps of Jesus. 

 

It is not always easy to be led.  When you are led, you have to keep your eyes on the one that is leading you.  When you keep your eyes on the one leading you, you can avoid stepping into the potholes of life.   You can avoid the traps set in place by the enemy.  As long as you follow closely, you can discern the warning signals that tell you when to shift directions and when to turn to get to where you need to be  with God in life.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Romans 8:14

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

What Are You Allowing and Disallowing In Your Life? Do You Realize That God’s Power Backs Up Your Righteous Choice?

What’s keeping you from moving forward with God?   What is it that is hindering your faith?   Why is it that you are walking in fear?   What can you do to overcome the words and the works of the enemy in your life?   What is it that you are receiving as your reality?   Why are you not binding up and casting the negative down? 

How are you answering the questions that pertain to YOUR LIFE?   It is my prayer that as you look at the questions above that you choose to move forward with God.   I pray that you let nothing hinder your faith.   I am praying that fear no longer has a hold on you.   I am praying that you are casting down every word and every work that is rising up against you through the mouths and the actions of your enemies.   I am praying that the reality of your life is based on what God has said about you and not just what you see at this current moment and I am also praying that everything that is showing up in your life that is unlike God, that you are binding it up and casting it down in Jesus name. 

You have to know that you have the power and the ability to choose what you accept in your life and what you don’t accept.    Use the power that God has given you.   Use the power of choice and be selective about what you allow and disallow in your life and know that when you choose God, His power backs your choice up.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Joshua 24:15

King James Version 

15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

There Is Purpose Behind The Change You Are Experiencing In Life!

With challenges usually comes change. What are you doing when you are challenged to change? Are you changing willingly or are you struggling to make the necessary changes that God is bringing about in your life?

We have to remember that there are times and seasons for everything. Every season does not last forever. Although seasons come back around, seasons change. Don't be afraid to change with God depending on the season He has you in in life. Know that change can be good. Know that the purpose behind the change is so that you can fulfill God's plan in the earth. You may not always understand why things are changing but trust God and His plan and He will reveal to you what's next in your life.  Always remember that we have been placed here by God on purpose to fulfill His purpose!

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Ecclesiastes 3:1

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”

Will You Believe? Will You Put Your Total Trust In God?

Are you looking back on what was and trying to figure out what to do now? Understand, God is ready to do a new thing in you and for you and what He wants from you is for you to believe. He wants you to believe that He is working everything together for your good and His glory. He wants you to believe that He will make a way where their appears to be no way. He wants you to believe that He will heal you. He wants you to believe that all of your needs are met in Him, by Him, and through Him. Will you believe?

It's time to put your total trust in God. It's time to believe.  It's time to trust Him and to obey Him.  It's time to wait on Him.  Know that there are things that pertain to your life that God has already set in place. Trust Him to take you to those things and trust Him to fulfill His promises in your life.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

1 Corinthians 2:9

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him."

Are You Ready For God To Do A New Thing For You and Through You?

Are you ready for the change that God is about to bring about in your life? Are you willing to change or do you want to be stuck in your old way of doing things? Do you understand that God wants to do a new thing in you and for you? Will you let Him?

God is not stagnant. He is ever moving and He wants to move in your life but you have to be willing to move with Him. You have to be ready and you can't have your mind clogged up with the junk of the world. You have to trust God. You have to believe in and Trust His plan for your life. It's time to rise and to shine. It's time to get up from the old and move forward into the new things God has prepared for you. It's time to release the old so that He can bring His new to you. The time is now!

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Isaiah 43:18-19

18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?

Are You Trying To Make The Most Of Your Life? Do You Know What It Means To Have “Access Granted” By God?

What is it that you are trying to do with your life?   Are you trying to make the most of it?   What does your most entail?   Does it entail pleasing people or pleasing God?   Does your most in life mean you have to profit in the world or are you looking for whole life prosperity where you profit spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially.   Whole life prosperity is not just about money.   People have to understand that money can't buy salvation. When life on this earth is over, we will spend eternity either in heaven or in hell and money can't buy us access into heaven.   It is only our acceptance of Jesus that can grant us access into the Kingdom of Heaven.  It is by our acceptance of Jesus as our Lord and Savior that God has said "ACCESS GRANTED" to us.   Money can't buy healing.   It can pay a doctor and a doctor can do an exam and give you his report but only God can heal you.  We have to make sure that we don't put our faith in what money can do because it is only our faith in God that has the power to do whatever needs to be done in our lives. 

 

_{Understand, the path has been paved by the blood of Jesus and access has been granted by the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus and the only keys that are necessary to go through the door of life is the keys of acceptance of Christ and obedience to God.}

 

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_{John 14:6}

_{Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.}

 

Do You Feel Like You Are Living In The War Zone Of Life?

_{Sometimes it can feel like your life is nothing but battles.   It may feel like once you get out of one situation the battle begins all over again in another situation coming against you in life.   We have to remember that God says that the battle belongs to Him.   He is the One that fights our battles.   We have to stop trying to conquer what has already been conquered by God.   We have to learn how to truly cast our cares on God, knowing that He cares for us.   We have to give Him the weight of our worry and we have to stop trying to go into combat with the devil when he uses his adversaries to come against us with the words that come out of their mouths and we have to use our words to speak life to our lives and our situations through faith and prayer.}

_{Ask yourself today, are you speaking life to your life?   Are you praying in faith, believing that God will honor His Word and bring you out of whatever it is you are going through?   Are you casting your cares on God, knowing that He cares for you?   Or are you, trying to win your battles against the devil by stooping down and trying to do things the way the devil does them?} 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

I Samuel 17:47

And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the 

LORD'S, and He will give you into our hands. 

When You Are Feeling Discouraged, Are You Remembering That Your Hope Is In God? Don't Allow The Feeling Of Helplessness Turn Into Hopelessness!

Be encouraged today knowing that God is on your side.   

Be encouraged knowing that God said that He will never leave you nor forsake you. 

Be encouraged knowing that you are strong in the Lord and the power of His might. 

Be encouraged knowing that God is the One that is fighting your battle.  

So often in life we get discouraged.   We lose our courage but God wants us to be encouraged knowing that He placed you here in the earth and He will take care of you.   When you think about the word discouragement, you think about losing courage.   When you lose courage, you feel helpless and that helplessness eventually turns into hopelessness.  Remember, your hope in in God.   

When you are feeling discouraged, ask yourself the questions that are written in Psalm 42:11 and remember your hope is in God. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 42:11

Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

and why art thou disquieted within me?

hope thou in God:

for I shall yet praise Him,

who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Would The Story Of Your Life Write Out The "Riddles" Of Your Life and Show How God Took What Was Confusing and Made Senses Of It All?

What's your story?  How would your story read?   Would it be a book of testimony?   Would it testify about God's goodness, grace, love, and mercy or would it be a story that is full of complaints about what you don't have but think you need in your life?    Would there be chapters in the book of your life that testify about how your situation started out bad and changed because of God's divine intervention?  Would the story of your like talk about how you were consumed with pain but how God rescued you and brought joy back in your life?   If you were to write a book about your life, would it be a book that others can gain encouragement from or would it be a book that leaves others sad and feeling bad for you?   WHAT IS YOUR STORY? 

Understand, your life is a living epistle and others are reading the pages of your life all the time.   What they see is and what they hear is what they read.   What are they gaining from your life experiences?   Are they gaining strength?    Is their faith being built up by seeing how you walked in faith?   What is it that you are doing and saying that is helping those whom God has placed in your life with their journey called life?   

Take some time and think about your story.   Would your story write out the "riddles" of your life and show how God took what was confusing and helped you make sense of it all?   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

1 Corinthians 14:33for God is not a God of confusion but of peace,

It's Not Just About Taking Time To Worship, Understand There Are Times When You Have To "Make Time To Worship". Remember, God is the Giver of time.

 It's Not Just About Taking Time To Worship, Understand There Are Times When You Have To "Make Time To Worship". Remember, God is the Giver of time.

"Make" Time To Worship 

Are You Hindering God? Have You Placed Limits On God Because You Have Limited Faith?

Have you taken the time to ask yourself "do you believe"?    Do you believe that God will make a way?   Do you believe that God will honor His Word to you?   Do you believe that you are loved? Do you believe that God is working everything together for your good and His glory?   Do you believe that God chose you?   Do you believe that you will make it through whatever it is that you are going through? 

 

Understand, you have to believe.    When you believe something, you accept it as the truth.   Keep in mind, GOD IS NOT ONLY TRUE, HE IS THE TRUTH.   So in order for you to truly believe, you have to believe in God and believe that He will do what He said He would do.    

 

So, my next question for you is, DO YOU KNOW WHAT GOD SAID HE WOULD DO?   If you don't know, take some time and spend it with God in His Word.   Highlight His promises and meditate on them.   You can't believe in what you do not know.   Get to know God and rest in what He said because it is true.   He wrote His Word so that you would have what He said to back up what He wants you to believe. 

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

John 20:21

King James Version

But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that  believing ye might have life through His name.

How Are You Handling Life and All Of The Emotions It Is Bringing With It? Praying That You Stay Anchored By Faith In God's Word!

 

What Happens When You Don't Know What To Do Next? What Do You Do When Life Suddenly Changes?

What happens when the winds of life shift and causes unexpected change to take place in your life?   What happens when all of a sudden challenges come?   What happens when you lose someone you love?   What happens when no matter how hard you try, things don't work out the way you hoped or the way you planned?   What happens? 

 

Do you give up?   Do you quit?   Do you stop trusting?   Do you stop believing?   The only thing we can do "next" is to do what God has always wanted us to do.   He wants us to lean on Him and not our own understanding.   He wants us to trust Him, His purpose, and His plan.   He wants us to not be weary in well doing.   He wants us to cast the weight of our worry on Him.   

 

Life does happen and when it happens it is not always the way we want or expect it to but it is always the way that God knew it would happen.   Nothing is a surprise to God and that is why we must follow Him closely because He already knows the way we must go in order for us to make it to where He has designated for us to be.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

 

James 4:13-14

King James Version

Go to now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.