What Is The Leading Force In Your Life? Is It God or Is It Your Emotions? Have Faith In God ...

What's leading you in life?   Are you being led by God's Word or are you allowing your emotions to lead you in life?    The thing about God's Word is that it is steadfast, unmovable, and unchanging.   Whereas, our emotions can fluctuate dependent on our situation.    We have to know how to "be still and know" that God is God.  

When you know that God is God, you know that He is all powerful.   You know that He is all knowing.   You know that He is well able.   In other words, you know that you know.    You know that you know that no matter what situation you are in at any given moment, God can deliver you.  

When you are led by something, you follow it.   You are allowing something or someone to be your guide.    You are under its influence and you are trusting it to bring you to a certain place.    Where is it that you are trying to get to in life?   What are you trusting, following, and allowing in your life as you walk out the journey that has been set before you?    Are you truly being led by God or are you making steps based on how you feel instead of what God has said?  

It's time to move forward with God.   It's time to trust Him totally with your life.   It's time to take steps of faith no matter how you feel.   It's time to hold on to God and to let Him and His Word be the leading force in your life.    Understand a force carries within it the power to influence, affect, and control your life.   Let God ALWAYS be the force that influences you, affects you, and that controls your thoughts and actions in life.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION Deuteronomy 13:4King James Version (KJV)
Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and ye shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him.

Do You Realize That Worry, Doubt, and Fear Are Enemies To Your Faith? When Things Are Happening In Life, You Have To Choose To Still Walk In Faith ...

Are you stopping?   Are you waiting?   Are you trusting?   Are you believing?   Do you have faith?   Or are you worrying, running, doubting, and walking in fear?    There are many things that we can do but there are only some things that we need to CHOOSE to do.    

We need to choose to be still and to wait on God.   That means we have to stop doing things in our own strength and our own ability.   We have to believe that He is well able to do what He has already promised He will do.    We have to choose to wait on God.   That can be the hardest thing to do because we live in a "microwave" society.   A society that says we want it now and we want the process be done quick.    We also have to choose to trust and to believe God even when its hard or when it hurts.   You can't walk in faith if you don't truly trust and believe what God has said.   His Word is true and you have to stand on His Word no matter what situation is coming up against you in life.  

Worry, doubt and fear are always going to be enemies to your faith.   An enemy is your adversary and your opponent.   It is anything that fosters antagonistic activities against you.   When something antagonizes you, it provokes you to react.   The question is, how are you allowing the antagonizing situations in your your life to cause you to react?  Are your reacting in faith or are you reacting in fear?    Life happens!  To happen means to "take place".   So again, life happens and so we know things are taking place in our lives.   It may be that not everything in our lives is as we desire but if we know, trust, and believe in the Giver of Life, we know that everything in our lives is subject to change and we can choose to stop, wait, trust, believe, and have faith in God for that change to take place.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

2 Corinthians 5:7

King James Version (KJV)

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"I Have Decided"

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"I Have Decided" - ELEVATION WORSHIP. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRb769P50IQ

What Is It In Your Life That You Are Truly Committed To? Are You Committed To God, People, Places, or Things?

God's love is indescribable.   It doesn't stop and it can't be altered or changed.  When something is indescribable, it is to extraordinary for description.   It can't even be described.    Just think about it, it can't be modified in any way.   So when God says He loves you, you have to know that there is nothing (no thing) that can change His mind and His heart concerning you.    He loves you through your mistakes and even through those times where you laid down His Word and His will to follow the appetites of your flesh.   That's love.   Love sees beyond and goes beyond the norm.   Love is true commitment.   

What is it in your life that you are committed to?    What Is It In Your Life That You Are Truly Committed To?   Are you committed to God?   Are you committed to your spouse?   Are you committed to your children, your family, your church, or your job?   What is it that you are truly totally committed to?   Whatever it is, that is the thing that you love.    Understand, when you commit to someone or something, you make a pledge, obligate yourself, and set yourself apart for it.  

We need to make sure we are committed to God first.   Beyond everything and everyone else, He needs to be the first point and level of commitment in each of our lives.   We have to understand that He loves us and He was so committed to us that He sacrificed His Son for us.   He is still committed to us.   Because of His love for us, He renews His mercy for us every day.    When you are committed to God, you weigh and balance everything else in your life based on who He is and what He has said for you to do.    The Bible says, GOD IS LOVE and we are to display who He is in the earth.   We should be vessels of love and commitment.  

Take time to check your love walk and your level of commitment.   Make sure you are being the vessel that God placed you in the earth to be.   Remember, you are on display for God.   Be sure to reflect who He is in the earth.   He is love.   So when others see you, let them see Him.   Let them see His love and His commitment coming through your life.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
John 15:9-11
King James Version (KJV)
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

Life Will Bring Many Different Plans For Us To Follow, The Question Is ... Are You Following God's Plan For Your Life?

Are you following God?   Are you following His plan for your life?    A plan is a method of acting, doing, proceeding, and making things happen.    It is a specific project and definite purpose.    What we have to understand is that there are different plans, derived by different people, for different purposes.   We have plans that we have made up ourselves, the enemy has a plan for us, people make plans for us, and God has a plan for us.   God's plan is the ultimate plan.   In other words, His plan triumphs every other plan that has been derived concerning our lives.    What we have to do is learn how to follow His plan, so that we can be quick to walk in our purpose.

God said in His Word that He knows the plans that He has for us.   We just have to learn how to put our faith, hope, and trust in "God's plan".   When you have total trust in someone or something, you don't worry about how things are "looking", you have faith in knowing that everything is subject to change based on the plan that has put in place.    Think about baking a cake.   As you add the individual ingredients, the eggs, the milk, and the flour.   While you are going through the process of mixing the cake, it doesn't look like something that is light, fluffy, and good to eat but in the end, it is.    We have to stop looking at the process of life that we are going through and we have to keep our mind's eye on the end result God has promised.

In order to follow God, we must do our best to walk in obedience to His Word.   Although we are not perfect, we can strive for perfection.    Instead of walking in what we know to be wrong, we have to begin to follow what we know to be right.   It's time to lay down the plans that we have derived for our lives and follow the plan that God has set in place for our lives.   Let God be your guide and know that He is also your rearguard.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
Proverbs 16:9 

King James Version 

A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

How Are You Responding To The Situations That Are Happening In Your Life?

What you do next is up to you.   How are you responding?   How are you responding to the good in your life and how are you responding to the bad?    To respond means to say or do something as a reaction to something that has been said or done. There are many ways we can respond.  The question is, are you responding in anger, in doubt, in fear, or in faith?   Are  you allowing your hurt to initiate your response or are you allowing your trust in God to lead your response?   What are you doing?   How are you handling the hurt, the pain, and the disappointment and how are you handling the victories?  

We have to learn how to let God lead our responses in life.   Even when we don't agree or understand the rationale behind what is going on.   Rationale is defined as the underlying reason for something.   We won't always know all the reasons why things are happening in our lives or in our families but God knows.   What we have to remember is there are some things that are beyond our control but not beyond God's control.    God is all knowing and He is all powerful and we have to trust that He will do what He said He would do.   He said that He would work everything together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.  

We have to remember that even though we don't have control, we have a Father who is in control.   We have to allow our knowledge of who He is and what He has promised to do be the basis for how we respond to the situations in our lives.   We have to remember what He has said.   He said that He would never leave us nor forsake us.   He said that He knows the things we have need of and that He is faithful and just to provide us with those things.   He said that He is the Lord God that heals and He said that we are to trust Him, believe Him, and to wait on Him.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

I Peter 4:19

King James Version

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator

Understanding God Wants Us To Have Success In Life But He Also Wants To Get The Glory For All That He Allows Us To Achieve ...

What are you doing with this life God has given you?  Are you wasting it away or are you using it for His glory.   One definition for waste is to destroy or to consume away gradually.    It also means to fail or to neglect to use for its intended purpose.    Are you allowing your life to be used for the purpose God intended?   Are you being a vessel of love?   Are you encouraging others and leading them by example?   What are "you" doing with the life God has given you.  

It's easy to make excuses about where we are and what we are doing.   It's easy to look at others and pick out what they are or are not doing.  But we have to start looking internally.   We have to analyze our own actions and ambitions.   An ambition is an earnest desire to achieve something and it is the willingness to strive in order to obtain it.    What is your ambition directed towards?   Are you striving to achieve so that you can receive the accolades of man or so that you can receive the rewards of God?    Make sure you are not losing focus.   Understand, God will allow us to have success in life but we have to always make sure He is getting the glory for all that He has allowed us to do and to achieve.  

Take a moment to step back and to reflect on your life.   Make sure it is in alignment with God's Word, His will, and His way.     Make sure you are not wasting what He has given you.   The enemy is always out to desensitize you in a way where He drives you away from God and the things of God gradually.   Don't get caught in the enemy's net where you live a life of compromise.    Make sure your life is always being use for God's intended purpose.  Be His vessel and do what He has called you to do.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 1 Peter 4:11
King James Version (KJV)
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Are You Understanding That A Hindrance Can't Stop You From Reaching Your Destination? Make Sure You Are Not Giving Up Along The Way ...

It's all about where you are going.   Have you ever been on a road trip and been delayed because you were stuck in traffic?   Yes, you were hindered.   Yes, you were delayed and in some case cases you may have been late according to "man's" clock but you got there.   You arrived.   You made it to your destination.  

That's life.   Sometimes on the road of life, we feel as though we are not getting to where we want to be but we have to trust and believe that God knows where we "need" to be at the exact time in life we need to be there.    He knows not only every situation we will ever encounter in life, He also knows every person we will ever encounter in life and there are many times along life's journey that we will either need someone else's encouragement or someone else will need ours.  

We have to get to the place of understanding that our lives are God's instruments.    The word instrument is defined as a tool or device used for a particular purpose; especially : a tool or device designed to do careful and exact work.  We have to know that God set us in place on purpose to fulfill His purpose.    We were created in His image and in His likeness so that others can see, feel, and receive His love here in the earth.   Our purpose is to display who He is in the earth.    If we never share God's love, the world will never feel it.  

Understand, even the hindrances in your life have a purpose.   It's hard to believe that there is a purpose for our pain but when you encounter someone who is going through and you are able to share your testimony on how God brought you through, you begin to understand the purpose behind your pain.    You have to always remember that your life is not about you.  So even when you encounter life's delays, be encouraged knowing that God is working everything in your life together for your good and for the good of others.   There may be someone you encounter in life during your time of delay that just needs a word of encouragement so that they can move forward as well.

When you are traveling on a bus to get from one place to another, there are times when the driver will stop along the way to pick up others so that they also can get to the final destination.   Use the times in your life where you feel like you are at a pit stop to make any necessary adjustments.  Get refreshed, get refueled, and encourage others along the way.    A hindrance can't stop you from reaching your destination so don't give up along the way.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
I Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.