You Have To Know That What You See Is Not Necessarily What You Get ...

What is it that you believe?  To believe means to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something.   Do you believe that God is real?   Do you have confidence in the fact that His Word is true?   Are you totally relying on God and His Word or are you still trying to figure it all out on your own?  

What is it that you are saying?   If you believe that God is real and that His Word is true, then you will begin to understand the power of your words.   God spoke the world into existence.   You have to understand that the same power that created the world, resides on the inside of you.   So your words carry within them the power to create.   Are you speaking forth faith filled words that are creating atmosphere that is conducive to the victory God has already promised you or are you speaking words that are filled with fear and doubt that are conducive to what the enemy is wanting you to believe.  

You have to know that everything in this life is not as it "appears" to be.   What you see is not necessarily what you will get.   Understand the power of your words.   Understand the power of prayer and the importance of reiterating God's Word when we pray.     Things change.   Just think about it, as we grow older, our appearance changes.   You have to stop having a "this is it" mentality.   Where you think that where you are in life "is it".    Go with God and grow with God and watch what appeared to be change into what God said it would be.   You have to know that God is faithful.

Believe His Word ... Speak His Word ... and Watch His Word Change Your Life!

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Job 6:24-25a

King James Version (KJV)

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

 How forcible are right words! 

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"Words"

Ministered By Hawk Nelson

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

What Kind Of Thoughts Are You Breeding and Are You Casting Down Thoughts Of Negativity At Their Inception?

We can so easily become bound up in our thoughts. Thoughts can overwhelm us. Always remember, the battle starts in your mind. Learn how to cast down those things that come up in your mind that are not in line with God's Word, His will, or His way at the point of inception. The word inception means the beginning or starting point of a thing. Don't allow negative thoughts to breed.  When something breeds, it produces offspring.   In other words, it produces a result or similar affect.    If you continuously breed negative thoughts, at some point or another, you will become overtaken and overwhelmed by negativity.   

God said in His Word that He knows the thoughts that He has for us.   His thoughts are thoughts of hope, thoughts of peace, and thoughts of us having an expected end that denotes victory.    We have to see ourselves the way God sees us and we need to meditate on His thoughts towards us, so that they can eventually become our thoughts as well.    

When breeding we have to understand that there is a distinguishable difference between a mixed breed and a thoroughbred.    A thoroughbred is pure, unmixed, and is noted as such and set apart.    Whereas, a mixed breed is impure.    We have to understand this analogy in relation to our thoughts.   We can breed thoughts that are pure, unmixed, and set apart (or should we say holy) or we can have thoughts that are mixed with doubt and with fear.     Again, we have to learn how to cast down the mixed thoughts at the point of inception.     

Don't be bound by the way you think.   Instead, meditate on God's Word and allow it to infiltrate your thoughts so that you can change the way you think.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Philippians 4:8

King James Version

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Are You Willing To Go All The Way With God? You Have To Trust Him Beyond What You Can See In The Natural Realm ...

How far are you willing to go for and with God?   Are you willing to go all the way or are you going to stop mid-way?   What are your going to allow to distract you or to cause you to stumble?    Will you be distracted by the ways of the world or how about the things that are coming up against you in this world?   The political views?   The bills?  Sickness or disease?  Is there anything in this life that you are allowing to pull you away from the plan and the purpose of God for your life?  

God wants you to go all the way with Him.   He wants you to trust Him, to believe Him, and to wait on Him.    The children of Israel believed God to a point.  Their point of belief was "to the point which they could see".   They didn't trust and believe God beyond what they could see in the natural.   It didn't matter how many miracles he had performed "for them" when He took them out of the land of Egypt.  They did not fully trust the Father.   They didn't trust in His promise of deliverance and in turn they continuously murmured and complained to Him and about Him.    They constantly walked in "faith failure".   The failure to trust, believe, and to have faith in God.  

Are you trusting God or are you murmuring and complaining about what you are going through?    God has promised to deliver you.   He has already said that He has a plan in place and His plan is to give you hope, a future, and an expected end.   Do you trust Him?   Do you trust that He will provide for every area of lack in your life.   God parted the Red Sea, rained down food from heaven, and brought water out of a rock for the children of Israel and yet they still failed to trust Him.   Will you be like the children of Israel or will you choose to have faith in God?     You remember what God has done so that You can have faith in what God said He would do.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
Jeremiah 17:7-8

King James Version 

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord,
and whose hope the Lord is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters,
and that spreadeth out her roots by the river,
and shall not see when heat cometh,
but her leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought,
neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"I Will Trust In You"

Ministered By Lauren Daigle

REFERENCE/CITATION:   I will trust in you by Lauren Daigle w/lyrics. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXMPNXXnCls

Are You Allowing Life To Knock You Down or Are You Still Standing Knowing That God Goes Before You and He Is Your Rearguard?

Are you still standing?   Are you still standing or are you being knocked down by the situations in your life?   The Bible tells us to "be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might".   Understand, YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH and GOD IS GOD ENOUGH to keep you from falling.  

It's time out for trying to figure things out and work things out in our own power and strength.   God never told us to do that.   He never said for us to walk this walk alone by ignoring His presence.   He never said for us to figure it out on our own but He did say that He is with us no matter where we go.   He said that He would never leave us nor forsake us.   He said that we are to be strong in Him.   He said that He would make a way of escape for us.

We have to trust what God said.   When we trust Him, we understand that He has our back.    In life we tend to look for people "to have our back".   But understand, when no one else is there, if you are following God, He is not only going before you, He is also your rearguard.    Know that if you put your trust in Him, He is well able to keep you from falling.  

Know that, OUR GOD IS FAITHFUL AND UNFAILING!   He is our He is our Healer, Deliverer, Peace, Source, and Supply.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalm 116:8

King James Version (KJV)

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Are You Stuck In What "Could Have Been" or What You Think "Should Have Been" or Are You Moving Forward With God?

It's time to stop living in what "could have been" and what you think "should have been".    You have to understand that God knows all things.   He knows your beginning to your end and He has promised to work it ALL together for your good.    

So often we get stuck on what went wrong and even sometimes on what went right in our past that we can't see what God is doing in our present.    God knew everything that you would go through and He knows everything you will ever go through in life and He said that He has a plan for you.   You have to trust His plan.   You have to believe that God knows what He's doing.   You have to trust that His love, grace, and His mercy covers you.    

Some things that happen in our lives are by choice and some things are beyond our control.   You have to learn how to take control of those things that are a matter of choice and you have to know how to respond to those things that are beyond your control.   Don't be caught up in your mistakes.    Know what it means to repent.   True repentance means to ask God for forgiveness and to do an about-face.  Meaning after you have asked God to forgive you, you should be moving in the opposite direction and not dwelling in your sin.    When it comes to those things that are beyond your control, you have to know that God is with you, that He will never leave you nor forsake you, and that He will work it all together for your good.   

No matter what it is that is going on in your life, trust the One who gave you life.  Know that God said that His plan is for you to have hope, a future, and an expected end.   It's time to let go of the past and to move forward with God, expecting His plan to be perfected in your life.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 
Jeremiah 29:11
King James Version
 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” 

Are You Seeing Yourself The Way God Sees You? Know That You Have Been Forgiven and The Ultimate Sacrifice Was Made For You ...

Are you seeing your situation from God's view?   When God looks at you, He sees an overcomer.   He sees you as well able.   He sees the ultimate sacrifice that was made for you.   How do you see yourself?   Do you see yourself as an overcomer?   Do you see yourself as able to do and accomplish all that you put your hands to that is in line with God's Word and His will?   Do you see the sacrifice that God made on your behalf?   

Understand, it is not just about how God sees you.   It's also about how you see yourself.   Faith sees from God's point of view.   Fear does not.  

One of the greatest challenges in life is seeing ourselves the way God sees us.   We have to see ourselves as forgiven.   We have to see ourselves as healed.   We have to see ourselves as delivered.   Until we can see ourselves the way God sees us, we can never truly walk in the fullness of His love and the gift of life that He has given us.    God does not want us to walk in condemnation.   He walks us to walk in His grace and His forgiveness. 

KNOW THAT YOU ARE FORGIVEN TODAY!   Know that Jesus died so that you could live.   Know that God loves you beyond your mess.   Receive His love fully and completely.   Walk in the fullness of the life you have been given.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
2 Corinthians 5:17“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come.” 

   

Are You Really Ready To Go All The Way With God?

Are you really ready?   Are you ready to go "all" the way with God?    Are you will to let go and to let God have total control of your life?    God is ready to use your life for His glory.  The question is are you ready to let Him be glorified in and through you?    

Are you ready to lay it all down?  Are you ready to release those things that you know are not in line with His Word and His will?   Are you ready to walk the walk and not just talk the talk?   Are you ready?  

The time now.   The set time is now.   In other words, the time that God has set in your life for His life, His love, and His blessings to flow freely through your life.   The question is, are you ready to move out the way so that God can have his way in and through your life so that His Word and His will can be done and seen in and through you?  

Don't be cause of your blessings not being seen because of disobedience and a lack of faith.   Have faith in God and walk in the Word that you know.   Be a reflection of the Father so that His love can reflect through you to the lives of others.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATIONPsalm 17:15King James Version (KJV)15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.