Are You Speaking To The Situations In Your Life "On Purpose With Purpose"?

You have to learn how to speak peace to the storms in your life.    It's not about waiting until you can't handle it anymore and then calling on God.   It's about knowing the power and the authority that He has placed within you.   It's about knowing the indwelling of His Spirit that is inside of you.   It's time to start speaking.    To speak means talk to in order to reprove or advise.   What are you reproving in your life?   When you reprove something, you reprimand it and you rebuke it.   You speak with authority.    We have to understand the power of our words. 

So often in life we use words randomly and carelessly.   When you do something randomly, you don't have a specific aim, pattern, or purpose to what you are doing.   We have to stop being careless with our words.   When we are careless, we are doing things without giving heed or thought to what we are doing.    God wants us to speak "on purpose with purpose".   We need to know what we are saying and why we are saying it.   We need to know the power that is backing our words of faith.   When you begin to speak on purpose with purpose, you will begin to see things change.   Start speaking in faith, knowing that God's power is backing your words that are in line with His Word.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Job 22:28
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Worship For Today ...

"Words"

Ministered By Hawk Nelson

Hawk Nelson: Words (Official Lyric Video). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anVweXDcxhA

Learning How To Rest In God Even While Enduring Hardness ...

Sometimes its hard.   It's hard to stand still.   It's hard to believe when everything seems to be going in the opposite direction of what you have been praying for.   It's hard when you feel as though you are being hit on every side.   But we are to endure hardness.   To endure means to suffer patiently.  It means to persist and to survive.  The only way that we can go through suffering patiently is if we have hope.  Romans 5:5 tells us that hope does not make us ashamed.   So when you suffer patiently in hope for God to move in your life, God will not let you be put to shame.   

It's time to stand strong in God and His Word.   For He said in our weakness, He is strong.  God said in that He would increase our strength when we are  tired.    We can't keep letting go and giving up when we are weary.  We have to stay in position and learn how to "rest" in God.   When you think about an arm "rest", you understand it is an object that is used to support your arm.   We have to take "resting" to that level and understand that God and His Word are there to "support" us.   To support means to bear all or part of the weight of something and to hold it up.   Learn how to "rest" in and on God and His Word.   Let Him bear the weight of your burden and let Him hold you up.  

2 Timothy 2:3

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 40:29 

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Worship For Today ...

"You Are My Hiding Place"

Ministered By Marantha

 REFERENCE:   You Are My Hiding Place - Maranatha! (Cover) with Lyrics. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UlkrMh9RAc

Understanding That God Is Not Limited To What We Think ... Understanding That He Has Not Changed for What He Did For His People In The Bible, He Will Still Do For You ...

It's not about what you thought.   It's all about what God said.   So often in life we "think" we know what our outcome will be and then we get disappointed when we don't see what we thought.   We have to understand that God is not limited to doing things the way we think they should be done.   God is not limited to our timetable nor our way of doing things.   He is an all powerful, supernatural God.   He specializes in doing the unexpected in our lives.   He makes a point of going beyond our thoughts and our expectations.    So we have to stop limiting our limitless God.  

Take time to expand your perception of who God is.   Meditate on His Word.   Grab hold of the scriptures that reveal His supernatural ability.   Scriptures that show that He can do exceedingly and abundantly above all we can think or ask.   Understanding that our thoughts are limited.   We can only think on what we know.   Knowledge is developed through observation and information.  Take time to observe who God is.  Take time in His Word to learn more about what He has done so that you can have an understanding for what He can and will do.    Meditate on the scriptures where He healed, set free, delivered, and provided for His people.  Understand, God has NOT changed.    What He did for His people in the Bible, He will still do for you.   He is not a respecter of persons.  He loves us all and He specializes in deliverance.    Trust Him, Believe Him, and walk in obedience to His Word.    

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"How He Loves Us"

Ministered By Kim Walker-Smith Jesus Culture 

CITATION/REFERENCE:   

How He Loves Us - Jesus Culture & Kim Walker Smith w/ Lyrics. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=23&v=XjgSMNYy2RI

Understanding God's Timetable Is Not Based On Our Emotions ...

God's ways are not our ways and His timing is not our timing.   God's plan is perfect and we have to settle that in our minds, our will, and our emotions.  We get so caught up in what we think about things, what we want to do in certain situations, and how we feel that we fail to realize that God's plan is not based on any of those things.    God's plan was set in place before the foundation of the world.   We have to understand that a plan is a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something.    Isn't it awesome to know that God chose You to be a part of His plan for achieving His purpose here on earth.     He specifically wrote you into His plan and that should alleviate any questions you may have about why you are here.

Understand God's timetable.   His timing is based on His timetable and not our emotions or our distress.   The word distress is defined as extreme anxiety or pain.    Because God knows the beginning to the end, you can rest assured that He has set everything you will ever  need in life in place but it is according to His timetable and not when we think we need it.   He knows what is best for us and He has promised to work everything in our lives together for our good.  So learn how to wait, trust, and believe that God will come through for you and deliver you at His perfect time.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"I Know The Plans"

Ministered By Martha Munizzi

REFERENCE:  

I KNOW THE PLANS - Martha Munizzi / Powerful Worship Songs. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE8ZhgutlJo

 

  

Are You Trusting In The Fact That God Is Fully Committed To Helping You Through Every Phase Of Your Life?

Life does not always bring with it what you want or what you expect.    There are many twists and turns that come with life but you have to trust God.   You have to trust God to make a way where there appears to be no way.   You have to trust God to work it out.   You have to trust God to honor His Word in Your life.   

Commitment is a hard thing.   We make commitments to people.  We commit to go places.   We even commit to things.   However, commitment is not always easy.   To be committed means to be dedicated and devoted regardless of the restrictions it imposes.     It means to be loyal and to be faithful.    A lot of times in life, we start off fully committed and lose our sense of commitment as time goes by but not God.   God is fully committed to us and we need to be fully committed to Him and we need to be committed to the people, places, and things that "He" has placed in our lives.    

If you have messed up and failed to be totally and completely committed to God and the people, places, and things that He has placed in your life, ask for forgiveness.   Remember His mercy is renewed every day!    You can't change your past.   You can't change how you have handled the situations in your life.   But you can ask God to strengthen you and to help you to know what is right, to do what is right, and to commit to what is right from this day forward.   

Again, life is not always easy and it does not always bring what is expected but God is always faithful.   He knows all, sees all, and knows your response beforehand.    Yet He loves you, cares for you, and is ready and willing to help you because He is committed to helping you through every phase of your life.  

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"Forgive Me"

Ministered By Nicole C. Mullen

REFERENCE:  

Forgive Me - Nicole C Mullen (Lyrics). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=QjrNhi36vLU

Are You Pressing Beyond The Pressures and The Pleasures of Life In Order To Move Forward With God? (August 2, 2015)

There are so many things in life that will try to stop you.  Whether it be people, places, or things, you have to make up in your mind that you are going to press beyond the pressures and "pleasures" of life in order to move forward with God.   

Pressure can be defined as the use of persuasion, influence, or intimidation to make someone do something.  What's pressuring you?   What is persuading and influencing you to seek "alternatives" outside of God's Word and His will.    To be intimidated means to be filled with fear.   Who or what is causing you to walk in fear of not doing something instead of in faith and doing what God has said?

When we look at the word pleasure, we understand that pleasure is a happy feeling of satisfaction and enjoyment.   The Bible says that God has pleasure in the prosperity of His people.  We have to understand that prosperity goes far beyond money.   The Bible speaks of "whole life" prosperity.  Wellness in every area of our lives.  The word prosperous is defined as strong and healthy in growth.   We need to have a prosperous thought life, a prosperous body, and a prosperous spiritual life.   We need to be strong and healthy in every part of our lives.   So we have to stop seeking pleasure and peace by means of money, people, places, or things.   It does no good to have money and to be sick in your body.   It does no good to have money and not know who you are in God.   It does no good to have money and to be dead spiritually.    The same holds true with people, places, and things.   True and everlasting satisfaction and joy can only come from God.

So don't get stopped or stuck by the pressures or the pleasures of life.  MOVE FORWARD WITH GOD!   Amen 

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"You Are My Hiding Place"

Ministered By Selah

REFERENCE:  

You Are My Hiding Place - Selah ( With Lyrics). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dR0H0tAYT8

It's Time To Step Out Of Preconceptions and To Trust God Fully ... (August 1, 2015)

Stepping out is not always easy to do.   When you step out, it means you are going outside of your preconceived borders.   When something is preconceived, it is an opinion or idea that has been formed before having the evidence for its truth or usefulness.    It is based on assumption.   How often do we assume that we have safety in people, places, and things and eventually end up disappointed or confused when what we see as a safety net fails to be so?

It's time to step out of our preconceptions and to trust God completely and totally with our lives.   It's time to step out and walk in faith concerning every aspect of our lives.    It's time to move forward in life and to stop allowing our past outcomes to keep us restrained in our thinking, acting, and trusting.   Our thinking has to be based on God's Word for us to step out fully and confidently.  We have to know that He said for us to keep our minds stayed on Him and He will keep us in perfect peace.    We have to know that everything we do in word or deed, we are to do all of it in the name of Jesus.   We also have to know that we are to trust God completely and fully and we are not to lean to our own understanding.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Isaiah 26:3

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

Colossians 3:17 

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.  

Proverbs 3:5-6

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"I Believe"

Ministered By James Fortune & FIYA

REFERENCE:  

"I Believe" - James Fortune & FIYA featuring Zacardi Cortez & Shawn McLemore.flv. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwmnHNuwsjs