Friday, September 07, 2012

Is God Really Real To You? It's Time To Maintain, Confirm, and Support Who He Is In The Earth . . .

God's word is real.    The word "real" means that it is true, genuine, and actually exists.    We have to understand and believe that there is nothing fake about who God is.    When something is fake that means it is not genuine or counterfeit.   When you talk about something being counterfeit ... that means it holds within it the "intention to deceive".    That's not God and it is not in Him to deceive.   

It is time to uphold who God is in our lives.    The word uphold means to maintain, confirm, and support.   That is what our lives were created to do.   We were created to live a lifestyle that maintains who God is.   The word maintain means to preserve.   Understand we are a part of God's preservation plan.    When you preserve something ... you maintain it at its original or existing state.   You don't change it up.   We are called to maintain God's name, His power, and His position in the earth as He created it to be.    We are also called to confirm and to support who He is.   

Understand what you were meant to do and live like it.    Show the world that God is "real".   Let Him be a reality in your life.    Amen....

Worship For Today ....
"Live Like That"
Ministered By Sidewalk Prophets

Thursday, September 06, 2012

What Do You Do When You Are Feeling Lost and Confused ... Are You Allowing God To Heal Your Open Wounds Of Pain, Hurt, and Discouragement?

Are you feeling lost and confused?   Are you at the point where you don't know what to do?  Where to go?   Who to talk to?   Stop ... and stand still.   Understand that God knows.   Understand that He is still working through your hurt and through your pain.   God is still at work to bring you the expected end that He has promised you.    The thing about being in pain is that it is hard to move around when you are in pain.   It's hard to take the next step or to get up when it hurts.    When you stop to think about a person who has just had surgery .... one of the hardest things to do is to move around.   Even when you are laying down in bed ... its still hard to move.   That's because you have been cut and the wounds are still fresh and open.    That's how life is.   When you have been hurt and the wounds are still fresh ... it's hard to shift positions.   But understand God is here to help.    He is trying to pull you up and out of the position you are in.   He is trying to help you to be healed, set free, and delivered from the hurts, pains, and discouragements that life brings.    

When you are feeling lost ... go to God.   Tell Him.   Ask Him to help your find your way.   When you are confused ... go to His word and allow Him to bring understanding to your situation.    When you need someone to talk to .... talk to Him.   He is listening and He is ready and willing to respond to the situations that are going on in your life.    Let go and let God.   Let Him be the firm foundation in your life.  The one that you run to when you don't know where to turn.   

Worship For Today ....
"Rescue"
Ministered By Desperation Band

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Understand The Enemy Uses Bait According To Your Desire ... Are You Being Drawn?

What are you being drawn by?   When a person is drawn, they are caused to move in a particular direction through a particular force.   What force is causing you to move that way?   What force is causing you to think that way?   What force is causing you to say what you are saying or to do what you are doing?   Isn't it interesting that two of the synonyms for the word force are compel and coerce.  What is compelling you?  What is coercing you?  

Think about when a man goes fishing.   Different fisherman use different types of bait.   That is because not all fish are attracted to the same type of bait.   Understand ... we are fishers of men and women and we use the bait of God's word to attract people into the Kingdom.   However there are others who are also fishing men and women and their bait is to keep men in the world.   To them them out of the will of God.   Are you being caught on the enemies hook?   What thoughts are you "hanging" on to?   What bait are you "test tasting"?    What is drawing you from God or keeping you in a place of complacency?   Are you trying to avoid a specific kind of bait and yet being caught by another?    In fishing there is a term that is used called "game fish" ... which means any fish that is regularly caught for sport.   The word sport is defined as a competition which is governed by a set of rules and is often engaged in competitively.    Understand the enemy looks at you as his game fish.   When he sees you ... he is actively participating in a "sport" or should I say "competition" for your life.   However, you have the choice as to whether or not you will be drawn by his bait.   


Worship For Today .....
"Where You Go I Go"
Ministered By Kim Walker / Jesus Culture

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

It's Time To Empty Ourselves Of Self and To Let Our Motivation, Consumption, Acclamation, and Representation Always Be About God

Are you willing to change?   Are you willing to change the way you think and the way you do things?   God's plan is different.   His thoughts are different.   When something is different it says that two things are unalike in nature, form, and quality.    Understand  ... God's thoughts are not our thoughts.   His ways are not our ways.   When God says a thing ... He honors His word.     Unlike man who is subject to disappoint at any give time.    God comes through all the time.   

It's time we change.   Change to where we think like Him.  Where we say what He says.   Where we do what He would do.    Where we live our lives to reflect who He is.   When people hear us ... they should hear words that exemplify and represent our Daddy.   When they see us ... they should see our Father, our Master, our King living through us.   

In order to be used totally and fully by God, we have to empty ourselves of self.   Self motivation.   Self consumption.   Self acclamation.    Self representation.   We have to understand that our focus should always be God.    We have to realize that our representation should always be God.   

Worship For Today ....
"Heart Of Worship"
Ministered By Matt Redman

Monday, September 03, 2012

Are You Allowing Yourself To Be Saturated By The Word Of God?

Are you allowing God's word to take rest in you?   To fill  you?   To refresh you?    So often we run on empty.   We run around seeking a word.   Seeking direction.   Seeking peace.   We read the Bible but we never let what we read settle within us.   We are quick to move on to the next thing.   The next scripture and the next word.    We have to learn how to allow the word to take rest in us.   In our hearts, in our minds, and in our situations.   

Understand that the word can never become completely real to you until you allow it to become a part of who you are.    There is a difference in reading and meditating.   So often we read ... yet we fail to meditate.    To meditate means to think deeply and carefully about something.    It means to contemplate, ponder, and reflect.    We have to get to a place where we begin to soak in God's word.   When you soak in something ... you become immersed in it and you get saturated with it.   

Make it a point to become saturated in and with the word of God.   Make it a point for the word to become a distinct part of who you are.    When we read without meditating on what we read  .... it is like applying the word to the surface of our lives.   Things on the surface can easily be washed away.   However, when we meditate ... the word becomes ingrained in our spirits.   When something is ingrained, it is deeply embedded and difficult to move.    That is how God's word should be in our lives.   

Worship For Today ....
"Your Presence Is Heaven To Me"
Ministered By Micah Massey

Sunday, September 02, 2012

Are You Using The Processes Of Prayer, Praise, and Obedience To Get To Where You Need To Be In God?

God's word is true.   The question is  .... Is it true to you?    Do you really believe the fullness of His word.   The word "true" means real, genuine, and faithful.    Have you settled it within your heart and your mind that no matter what it looks like .... whether it be sickness, lack, disappointment, death, or anything else .... have you settled it to the point that it does not change your mind about God's word being true.      How often do we question God?   Do we ask God why?   The word why means the reason or purpose behind a thing.   Sometimes we know the reason ... yet we still lack the understanding.   You see understanding goes beyond just the reason.   It deals with comprehending the reason.    When you comprehend something ... you take in the meaning, the nature, and the importance of it.    We have to move beyond just asking God why and begin to comprehend the things that are going on in our lives.  

Understand today that God has a plan and everything in your life comes together for that plan to be fulfilled.    Every success as well as every failure.    It all works together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His plan and His purpose.    So if you love God ... do not fear.   God is working it out.    The Bible says with all of our getting we are to get an understanding.    Begin to understand the processes of life.   A process is a series of steps and actions used to achieve a specified end.    Use the processes of prayer, praise, and obedience in order to achieve an expected end in God.  

Worship For Today ...
"Lord I Praise You"
Ministered By Clint Brown

Saturday, September 01, 2012

Do You Understand That There Is Something That God Wants To Say Through You .... But What You Do Has To Line Up With What You Say ...

What is it that God wants you to say?   What is the word that He is trying to flow through you?   You are His vessel.   You are His mouthpiece.   Man has a hard time listening or realizing that God speaks.   It is a part of mans nature to want to connect what he hears with what he sees and because man can't see God .... he has a hard time hearing God.    So God's uses His ambassadors.   You and me.   Because man can see us.   Now the problem with man receiving from you and me is that again ... they connect what they see with what they hear.   If our lives are not lining up with what we say, a man or woman's interpretation of the word that we give them is that its false based on our actions.

Understand today that your actions mean something.   There is a saying that people use all the time "actions speaks louder than words".    Words are seeds that are sown.  However, actions are used as a guide.  The word action is defined as the fact or process of doing something.   A fact is something that is indisputable.   It is the information that is used as evidence.  

If you want to be used by God ... make sure your words and your actions are aligned.  

Worship For Today ....
"I Want To Be Used By You"
Ministered By Deluge

 

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