Are You Allowing Your Remembrance Of What God Has Done To Undergird Your Faith For What You Need God To Do?

Sometimes we can forget.   Sometimes we can get so focused on what we need God to do that we tend to forget what He has already done.    We forget the times where we didn't know which way to go and He delivered us.   The times where we didn't have the resources to take care of things and how He made a way.    The time where we were overwhelmed by the tragedy's of life and He gave us the peace that far exceeds our understanding.     We have to always remember what God has done so that it can undergird our faith for what we need God to do.    

God has NOT changed.    What He has done in your life, He will do again if necessary.    What He has done in someone else's life, He will do for you.   He is not limited in power and He is ever-present.    You have to know that you know that God is with you even when the situation seems to be going against you.    

Take time and meditate on the goodness of the Lord.   Meditate on His promises in His Word.   Meditate on the times He has delivered you.   Mediate on His goodness and His grace.   Meditate and know that YOUR GOD changes not.   Know that He will honor His Word in your life.   Your job is to walk in obedience, have faith, and to trust Him.    Not once did He tell us in His word to work things out on our own.   So don't try to come up with your own plan, just walk in obedience, wait, and trust that His promises and His plan will be perfected in your life.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION  

Proverbs 3:5-6

King James Version (KJV)

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 Will Trust In You"

Ministered By Lauren Daigle

REFERENCE / CITATION:   Lauren Daigle - Trust In You. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_aVFVveJNs

Are You Able To See Past What You Are Going Through In Order To Help Someone Else Get Through?

There are some people that you know God placed into your life for such a time as this.   To help you and to encourage you.   To listen to you and to steer you.    To be there for you and to strengthen you.   That's not everybody.   Sometimes people are so overwhelmed with what they are going through that they can't see to help someone else get through.   It's not easy to see past your pain but it is good to be able to.   Seeing past "your" pain allows you to shift the focus.  It allows you to pray for someone else and to encourage someone else.  We have to learn how to shift the focus off of what we are going through in order to help someone else get through.

Every test and every trial in your life has meaning and purpose.    When you go through things in your life, it is those experiences that will help strengthen you and prepare you to encourage someone else.   When we get the revelation that God is not a respecter of persons, we then understand that what He has done for one person, He will also do for another.   If He has healed one, His healing is available for you.   If He has provided for one, His provision is made ready for you.   If He has strengthened one, His strength is available for you.  It's not a question of whether or not He can do a thing ... it is a question of whether or not we walk in faith and obedience and whether we can believe, trust, and wait on Him to do it.  

Be like that person that God has placed in your life for such a time as this.   Be the strengthener, encourager, and blessing to someone else.   Refocus your attention.   Instead of allowing your thoughts to be consumed by what you are going through, take what you have been through and help someone else get through.   Understanding and knowing that God is well able to do what He has done before whether it be in your life or in the life of someone else.   He is not limited in power or ability.   Trust Him with "you" and believe Him for "someone else".   Understand, you have enough faith for you and for others.   Just begin to exercise it.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Acts 10:34

King James Version (KJV)

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"Give Me Faith"

Ministered By Elevation Church

REFERENCE/CITATION:   "Give Me Faith" - ELEVATION WORSHIP. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Voi3JM8ZA

Are You Allowing Where You Have Been To Dictate Where You Are Going With God?

It's not about where you have been.   Are you allowing where you have been to dictate where you are going or are you being led by God and trusting Him to take you to places you have never been in Him?    Don't be "stuck" in your past.    Isn't it interesting that one definition of stuck is "infatuated with".   When you are infatuated with something, you have a foolish or unreasoning passion for it.  Are you passionate about the people, places, and things associated with your past or are you passionate about God?   Infatuation can cause you to make choices and decisions based on your flesh instead of God's Word.   When you are infatuated, you are captivated.   When something captivates you, it holds you captive.

Are there things in your life that are holding you captive?   That are keeping you from making righteous choices.   The choices that you know are right and are in line with God's Word and His will?    We have to be and remain "holy captivated".    Captivated by the things of God with a continuous desire to please God in all that we do and say.    No, we will never be perfect but we can seek to be pleasing in God's sight.  

Don't allow anything in this world to divert your faith and keep you from following God.    When something is a diversion, it's sole purpose is to turn you aside and to change your course.  We have to understand that God has already paved out the road for us.   Don't be the person who is walking on the road of destiny that God has paved and sees a dirt path on the side of the road and decides to get off the road of destiny thinking that the path is a short cut.    God's road and His way are both clear but because the path is not clear, there are many things that can hinder you and entangle you along the way.    Stay on course.   Stay on track.   Don't be infatuated by your past.   Instead, be holy captivated by your God.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 
Philippians 3:13-14
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.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"Holy Captivated"

Ministered By Nicole C. Mullen

REFERENCE/CITATION:   Nicole C. Mullen - Holy Captivated. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7jfC9RT4vg

  

Are You Still Trying To Work Things Out On Your Own or Have You Learned How To Stop, Drop, and Pray?

Prayer works.   Don't be so distracted that you cannot pray.  We have to understand, life happens.    The word happens means to take place; come to pass; or to occur.   It doesn't mean to have control and to know it all.  Sometimes when things happen in our lives, it is far beyond our control.    But what we have to understand is, God is all seeing, all knowing, and well able to take care of us when things are happening to us in life.  

We have to know the purpose behind prayer.   We have to understand that God has given us a door of access to Him.   He wants us to call on Him, to come to Him, and to rest in Him.   He wants us to recognize our need for Him.   He never told us to walk this walk alone.   As a matter of fact, He told us that He would never leave us nor forsake us.    We have to stop trying to figure things out and work them out on our own.   Our Father sees all, knows all, and is well able to take care of it all (EVERYTHING THAT CONCERNS OUR LIVES).  

The instructions we have when we are in the midst of a fire are to stop, drop, and roll.   We have to understand, when we are in the midst of the fires of life, we have to stop, drop, AND PRAY.    That means stop what you are doing when you are trying to work it out on your own.   It means to let go of it.  The Bible says to cast your cares on God because He cares for you.   It means to pray in faith believing God HAS ALREADY worked it out on your behalf.    Remember ... PRAYER WORKS only if you pray.   How can you expect a result if you are so distracted and never take time to pray?   Walk in obedience and work the principles in God's Word and watch God's Word work for you.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Matthew 11:28-2 (KJV)28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"I Surrender All"

Ministered By Mary Alessi

REFERENCE / CITATION - Mary Alessi - I Surrender All. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78fgvr5Ivac#t=78

  

Are You Allowing Life and The Things In Life To Cause You To Become Desensitized To Things Of God?

The Bible says if we are "willing and obedient" we shall eat the good of the land.   It says, blessed is the man who "trusteth" in the Lord and who "puts his hope" in Him.    It tells us to "commit" our way unto God so that He can establish our plans.    God is talking.   He is telling us what to do.   He is telling us to be willing.   He is telling us to be obedient.   He is telling us to trust in Him and to put our hope in Him.    He is telling us to commit to Him.   Are you listening?   Are you obeying?  Or are you worrying and doubting?   It's up to us.   It's a matter of our will.   We have to choose to obey, trust, have hope, and to commit to God.

God is always talking to us.   Whether it be through His Word, through people, or through our Spirit.  The question is, are we "really" listening?   The word really is defined as genuinely or truly.   So the question is, are we genuinely and truly listening to what God is telling us to do?   Not only that, do we truly believe His Word is true?   If we are listening to Him and if we truly believe in Him, we will do our best to try to obey Him.    

Think about when you go to train for a job.   Think about how you listen intently to what you are learning to do.    Think about how  you take notes and how you ask questions and how you sometimes get upset when you don't get it right.    Now ask yourself are you doing the same thing in life with God.    Are you listening to what He is telling you to do?    Are you learning more of Him and asking Him to give you a greater understanding concerning the things you are encountering in life?   Does it affect you when you mess up or have you become desensitized to sin?    When you are desensitized, you are less sensitive to the things of God.   You fail to recognize that you are God's temple and your life belongs to Him.   So you consistently allow your life to be used for a purpose other than God's plan.   Understand, God did not purpose us to sin.  We choose to sin.   

We have to learn how to be still and to discern the voice of God.   The greatest way to recognize His voice is to know His Word.   God will never tell us to do anything that is not in line with His Word.   His Word is His instruction book that He has given us.   It contains the guidelines and examples so that we can know who He is, how we are to live, what He will do for us, and what our final outcome will be if we follow Him and His Word.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

John 10:4
King James Version (KJV)
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice

WORSHIP FOR TODAY 

"I Will Follow"

Ministered By Chris Tomlin

REFERENCE/CITATION:   Chris Tomlin - I Will Follow. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ohvhmGSfxI

How Are You Handling The Unexpected In Life?

What is overtaking you?  To overtake means to come suddenly or unexpectedly.   What is coming into your life suddenly that is unexpected and taking you over and how are you handling it?   What are you being barraged by?   To be barraged means to be bombarded.  Are you being overtaken by the problems of this world or are you looking at those problems and knowing that God is with you and that He has already made a way of escape?   Your stance in life (what you are standing on in life) will be the determining factor on how you view what is going on in your life.   Your stance will determine whether you see through eyes of hope and expectation (even in the midst of pain and despair) or if you stand with your eyes closed in fear of failure.   

You have to keep your eyes open and stayed on God.   You have to trust and believe in what God said in Deuteronomy 28 when He said that if we are diligent and obedient, He will not only set us on high, He will also cause His blessings to overtake us.    We have to understand that we are not in darkness and we are not without hope.   For our hope and our expectation should always be in God.   

 

Don’t allow life and the problems that sometimes come with life allow you to lose hope.   Don’t be moved by the things that are coming at you.  Always remember, God is “with” you and nothing in life takes Him by surprise.   Know that God will keep you, shield you, protect you, and provide for you.   Keep your trust in Him at ALL times.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 
Psalm 56:3King James Version (KJV)What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"Whom Shall I Fear"

Ministered Chris Tomlin

REFERENCE / CITATION:  Chris Tomlin - Whom Shall I Fear [God of Angel Armies] [Lyrics]. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOkImV2cJDg

What Are You Deeming As Acceptable In Your Life? It's Time To Arise and To Shine For God ...

What you want is not always what God wants for you.  What you desire is not always based on Godly desires.   You have to understand that everything is not acceptable to God.   When something is acceptable, it is capable or worthy of being accepted.   One definition of acceptable says that it means to be pleasing to the receiver.    Make sure you are judging the things you want in your life based on God's standard of acceptance and not your own.   Make sure You are seeking those things that will not necessarily appeal to your flesh but that would be pleasing to God.  

It's easy to get caught up in what we want, when we want it, and how we want it.   Our flesh cries out daily for things but we have to constantly subdue our flesh and seek after those things that are right, just, and pleasing to the Father.   We can't just want someone else's husband or wife and think that it's okay.   We can't just want to live a sinful lifestyle (doing things that we know are not right and not pleasing to God) and think that it's okay.   IT'S NOT!  

We have to cultivate Godly desires.   Our GREATEST want should be to please God.  When that is our GREATEST desire, we will seek after those things that are right, just, and pleasing in His sight and when we seek after those things, God will bless us with those things.  

It's time to ARISE and SHINE.   It's time to live life FULLY for the Father.   After all, He is the giver of life.   It is in Him that we live, breathe, and have our being.    What does it look like when you take the life that He has given and use it for everything He is against?    That's not giving Him thanks.   That's like given your child money to go buy food and clothing and they use it to go buy drugs and to party.    Would you be pleased if they took what you sacrificed to give them and used it in a way that is totally unacceptable to you?

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Romans 12:1

King James Version (KJV)

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"To Be Pleasing You"

Ministered By Marantha Singers

REFERENCE / CITATION:   To Be Pleasing You - Maranatha Singers. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9O1GPUqn8M