The Enemy Is After Your Faith.....

I was reading “The Necessity of Prayer” by E.M. Bounds this morning.

One of the things he was talking about in the beginning of the book was how Jesus prayed for Peter.   He told Peter that Satan desired to sift him as wheat but Jesus’ prayer was that Peter’s faith “fail not”.

We have to begin to understand that the enemy is after our faith.   He doesn’t want us to take a stand or to believe.   He wants us to experience “faith failure”.   

My prayer for you today is that your “faith fail not”.   That you stand knowing that God sees all and knows all.   Knowing that He will never leave you nor forsake you.   That in Him is a place called “rest”.    He desires that you dwell there.   He desires that you locate that place in Him where you know that everything is going to be alright.   The place of trust.   The place of knowledge.   The knowledge that says that the Creator of the world “has your back”.   He sees all….He knows all….and He has already said that He will never leave you nor forsake you.   

So again, my prayer for you is that you be strong in the knowledge of Him and that your faith does not fail.    That you stand and see the “Love of God” and experience the peace of God.   Knowing that "this too" will work out for your good.   You may not see the good in the situation.   But you must take every experience....every trial and use it to still the hand of the enemy in someone else's life.   THAT'S WHAT YOUR TESTIMONY IS FOR.   To help someone else.   Their trial may not be as intense as yours.   But their strength may not be as strong as yours.   It doesn't nullify that they need to hear from you.   How  you made it, how God brought you out, and how God has graced you and is continuing to grace you in situations in your life.

 

You have the ability and the strength within you to "turn the tables".   Did God not say that He would work EVERYTHING out for the good of them that love Him and are called according to His purpose?  You have been called and that means that God has already worked it out.

What Are You Hearing? Are You Hearing The Sound Of Victory?

So what are you hearing?   Are you hearing the sound of victory?   What does victory sound like to you?    Is it a resounding sound?  When a sound is resonant, it is clear, it is easily heard.    Rather than ask what are you hearing, a better question would be, what sound are you making?

One of the things that was shared in bible study last night was about the characteristics of a lion.   How a lion never roars when he is pursuing his prey.   He only roars after he has killed his prey.    It is not until he has experienced victory, after he has captured his prey, that he begins to roar.

We have to understand that we are already victorious.   We have something to rejoice about.    We are not in a battle trying to overcome the enemy.  The battle has already been won.   The enemy has already been defeated.  We have been given the privilege of walking in the victory that has already been won.    Yet we sit back in silence as though we are hiding from the enemy.   We are moving based on the sound we hear coming from the enemy rather than offering of the sound of praise to our Father for the victory that has already been won. 

The Bible says that the satan walks around "as" a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.   The key word is "as".    But my question is how do you walk "as"?   Do you walk as a person defeated?   Or do you walk "as" one who has been given authority?

Understand  today that you are a trumpet waiting to be heard.    There are people around you that need to hear that the battle is over and that the enemy has been defeated.   Your sound needs to outweigh the roars of the enemy so that the world will know that the battle is over and victory is won.

Worship Today....

"The Enemy Has Been Defeated"

Ministered By Hillsong & Michael W Smith

There Is Hope......

Everything that God is doing, He is doing in you.   Everything that God is saying, He is saying to you.   He wants you to know that He loves you.   He wants  you to know that He is watching over you.   He wants you to know that you are important to Him.   His desire is that you trust Him.  Trust Him to be everything that you need.   Trust Him to guide you through the difficult situations in life.   Trust Him to be there when nothing else seems to be going right.    God loves you.    He chose you.   He is watching over you and keeping you.   

Everything you are.....and everything that you ever will be.....is in God.   You were created by Him.....for Him... to tell someone about Him.    Let your light shine today.   Let your voice be heard today.   Tell someone about your Savior, your God, your King.   Tell someone about the best friend you have.   There is someone who has not experienced "love" the way you have.   God is love.   Let them know that there is hope available for them.....if they put their trust in God.  

Worship For Today...

"There Is A Hope"

Ministered By Stuart Townsend

We Are Still Writing God's Word Today!

All that you are and all that you were created to be is in Christ.    You were created to worship.   You were created to testify.   You were created to achieve God's plan on the earth.   

You have to know why you are here.   You have to know why you are chosen.   Why God chose you.   Why out of all the people He could have chose, He chose you.    You are a part of God's plan.    You have been selected like Mary, like David, like Moses, like Paul to be a part of God's plan in the earth.   

The Bible is a collection of  sacred writings that we read in order to help us to walk out this walk from day to day.    What you have to understand is that we are still writing the God's word today.   The sacred writings.   They are being written on the tablet of God's heart.    Everything that we do and everything that we say is being recorded.    If God was to call a scribe today to take down everything that we have done and to put it in a book as a guide for others to read.......what would it be like? 

Just as we look at the lives of the kings, priests, and apostles today and learn from their lives........would someone be able to learn to trust God from your life and your lifestyle?  

Please remember the book is still being written.   You are a living epistle to be read by all men.    What is it that your children, co-workers, friends, and family are learning from you?

Worship For Today....

"Lifesong"

Ministered By Casting Crowns

 

So What Is There To Be Angry About?

Have you ever just not understood?
Have you ever thought it is not meant for you to understand? 

The Bible says in Jeremiah 17 -
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

We try to understand people.  We try hard to figure out what makes a person do what they do or act the way they act.   All of our trying, sometimes leads us to frustration.  We have to understand that people are God's creation.   It is not for us to decipher, who what when or why....

We have to trust God in all things.   In all of our trials, as well as, our relationships.   We have to check our own hearts.   We have to make sure that the root of hurt, pain, deceit, and anger doesn't become embedded in us and cause us to act outside of God's will.    God's will is that we love everyone without restrictions and without "buts" (but he hurt me, but he doesn't love me, but he just doesn't do what God says).   He wants us to trust Him and love everyone.    There are no "buts" in God.

We have to be careful that we put not our trust in man.   It is only when we put to much trust in a man that they tend to let us down.   Because we "thought" they would act differently or do something differently.   We must give everything and everyone over to God and trust Him to do in them whatever needs to be done in order for His will and His plan (not our will or our plan) to be done in their lives.  

So don't be angry when people don't measure up to what you thought.   They are just not there yet.   Or maybe its just not where God wants them to be.  Just trust God to get them where they need to be and you just take a stand.   While you are standing.....be sure to trust God (not only for yourself but for those around you too).

Worship For Today

"Stand"

Ministered By John P Kee

Do You Choose To Worship?

I choose to worship.  
Worship is a choice.    You choose to honor God.   You choose to reverence God.   You choose to adore the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Worship is not something that you are made to do.   It has to come from within.   It is birthed out of your devotion and commitment.    It is based on a love relationship.  

Worship is not something that you are made to do.   God will not make you reverence Him.   He will not make you love Him.   It is His desire that you do.   But the choice is yours.  

Do you choose to worship today?   To honor, reverence, and love God with all that is within you.    The choice is yours.

Worship For Today

"I'll Worship You"

Ministered By Clint Brown

Is God Your Everything?

He is Creator and King.   Lord most high.   Ruler of the Universe.   That's who God is.   He is the almighty one.   The deliverer.    All powerful.....All knowing....King of Kings.

All that I am and all that I will ever be is in Him.  In who God is.   God is love.   So I am love.    The fruit that I produce should be fruits of love.    God is peace, therefore I rest. There are no distractions in God.....He just is. 

Who is God to you?   How far are you willing to go?   How much are you willing to surrender?   The worship for today talks about God being the song we sing and our everything......

Is He your everything today?  Or is something else occupying your time and your devotion?   Your devotion is what you love.....what you are loyal to.....what  you are enthusiastic about.    You devotion will determine your commitment.   Devotion and commitment work hand in hand.   What you are devoted to, you will become committed to.    Just as what you are committed to, you will become devoted to.   

So again the question is.............

Is God Your Everything?

Worship For Today

"That's Who You Are"

Ministered By Kenneth Reese