Have You Taken The Time To Cleanse Your Mind?

What are you doing to cleanse your mind.   Nowadays, there are many people that do a cleanse every so often to detoxify their bodies.    They take vitamin supplements to help aid them in the process of cleansing and staying healthy.   They drink more water and they eat more fruit all in an effort to stay healthy but when it comes to having a healthy mind, they don’t take the same care.   They don’t cleanse their mind with the water of God’s Word.   They don’t take the time to put in what is healthy for them in order for them to root out what is not.   

We have to understand how important it is to watch what we are allowing to come into our eye gates and our ear gates.   We have to realize the seeds that are being planted by what we watch and what we hear.    We have to know to uproot everything that is planted in our hearts and minds that is not of God.   

Take time today to meditate on God’s Word.  Ask God to come in and to cleanse you today.   Ask Him to bring healing to any hurt or pain that you are still experiencing from your past.    Supplement your intake of God’s Word with praise and with worship.    To supplement means to complete or enhance something.  

Be healed today.   Be strengthen today.   Be encouraged today.    Let God not only cleanse you today, let Him fill you with his peace, power, and love.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Romans 12:2 

King James Version (KJV)

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Are You Trusting In The Reliability Of God’s Word or Are You Living A Life Of Compromise Based On What Your Flesh Feels Is Okay?

Are you living a life of compromise?   The immediate response to that question from most people would be no because in this world today, we tend to want to make up our own definition to what is right and what is wrong.   So the question we need to ask ourselves is whether or not the things we are doing in life are in line with what God said in His Word.    We have to ask ourselves whether or not we are making exceptions for things that bring our flesh pleasure?     

God’s Word is true and it has stood the test of time.    Take a moment to think about what is the test of time.   In order to understand what the “test of time” is, you must first understand what time is.    Time can be defined as a moment.   It can be defined as the combination of the past, present, and the future.   Time can be defined as a plan or a schedule.   It can be defined as an instance or point in which something should happen.   There are many definitions for time but we have to understand, no matter what definition you use, God’s Word has withstood the test of time.   Remember, a test is taken to check the performance, quality, and reliability of a thing.   So throughout every moment, whether it be the past or the present, God has continuously shown that His Word is true and He has proven that He is reliable. 

So as we look at the Word of God, we understand that He tells us to fear not.   He tells us in Romans 13 to make no provision for our flesh, He tells us in 2 Corinthians 6 to not be bound together with unbelievers, and He tells us in James 4 that making ourselves friends with the world makes us enemies with Him.    So understand, compromising with the world takes you further from God.  Make sure you are living your life in a way that is pleasing to the Father without compromise.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.

James 4:4

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

If No One Else Is Willing To Surrender, Will You Be The “One” That Does?

When is the right time?   Have you ever told someone that you will do something in a minute and yet that minute never comes.  Understand, procrastination is not of God.    Understand, the time is now because the next moment is not promised. 

You have to realize that now is the time to get up and give God praise.   Now is the time to worship Him for all that He has done.   Now is the time to honor Him with your life.   Now is the time to obey His Word.   Now is the set time.  When something is set, it is put in place.   God has designated and put in place this moment in time just for you.   

Will you surrender to God now?   Will you cast your care on Him now?   Will you open up your heart to Him now?   Will you reach out to others for Him now?   We always say “now what”?   The question is “now what will you do for God”?     

Now is the time to surrender and serve.   If no one else is willing to surrender and to serve, will you be the “one” who does?   Will you allow God to use your life for His glory?   He created you on purpose with a purpose in mind.   Will you use your life on purpose for the purpose that God created you for?   The choice is yours.   The Creator is waiting for His creation to choose Him.   Understand, He chose you first.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Proverbs 23:26

King James Version

“My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.” 

Are You Still Trusting God To Perfect His Plan When Things Don’t Go The Way You Planned?

What is it that you need God to do?   Do you need Him to heal you?   Do you need deliverance from something that has proven to be a stronghold in your life?   Do you need Him to help you on your job?   Do you need Him to give you peace?   Do you need Him to pay your bills?   What is it that you need for God to do? 

It’s so easy to get frustrated when things are not happening the way you think they should be happening.   It’s easy to say I quit.   It’s easy to walk away thinking that God doesn’t love you enough or care enough to move on your behalf.    It is easy to walk in fear instead of continuing to walk in faith but UNDERSTAND AND RECOGNIZE the lies and the deceits of the devil.   Understand, faith requires you to stand even when everything else around you appears to be falling.    Your stand has to be on the solid rock.   It has to be on the Word of God.    

When you stand on the Word of God, you know that His Word says that He will never leave you nor forsake you.   You know that He said that He will shield you and protect you.   You know He said that He opens doors that no man can close and He also closes doors that no man can open.   You know that God said that He is watching over His Word to perform it in your life.   You know He said that He has a plan for your life and that plan is to prosper you and to give you an expected end.   You know that if you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land.   You also know that God is able to work miracles for you, in you, and through you.   So, stand on what you know and know that God is with you and His power is at work for you.   Never give up!  As you surrender everything to God, know that He will take care of everything for you.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 Peter 5:6-10 

King James Version (KJV)

6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Are You Pushing Past The Words “I Forgive You” and Truly Forgiving Others In Your Heart?

At some time or some point in your life, somebody has hurt you.  They may have said something or did something to you that just was not right to do.   Understand, ,we are all human.   No, that doesn’t make what they did okay but know that you have a Heavenly Father that wants you to be whole and healed.    He wants you to not only know what it means to receive forgiveness, He also wants you to forgive those who have hurt you.   

Forgiveness doesn’t always happen overnight.   It doesn’t happen just because you say the words “I forgive you” out of your mouth but it can start with the words as God heals you,  you will truly be able to release those who have hurt you.   

Understand, the enemy will do whatever he can do to try to keep you from walking in forgiveness.   He will remind you of the hurt and the pain and he will intensify that hurt and that pain and make you feel as though you are going through the situation all over again and sometimes you do.    

Forgiveness is not easy but it is necessary to move you from a place of bitterness, anger, and strife to a place where you can love unconditionally just as God loves you.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Ephesians 4:32 

King James Version (KJV)

32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Are You Getting Restless While You Are Waiting On God To Move In Your Life? If So, Be Still and Know He Is God!

Are you walking in fear or are you standing in faith?   Understand, God wants you to walk in confidence.   He wants you to walk on the sure foundation of faith.     He wants you to trust Him and He wants you to believe Him.   He wants you to wait on Him.    

So often in life we get restless in the wait.   Instead of waiting on God, we feel we have to do something.   We don’t take God at His Word.   He said for us to BE STILL AND KNOW that He is God.   Instead of waiting and instead of being still, we often try to make our own way.   We have to remember, God said that our ways are not His way.  His way is sure and we have to learn how to trust Him enough to wait in confidence on Him. 

The biggest tool the enemy will use while you are waiting on God is fear.   God wants you to fear not.   He wants you to know that He is with you.  He wants you to realize that He is going to work everything in your life together for your good.   Understand, fear starts with a thought but if we don’t cast out the thought of fear, fear will consume us.   It will not only consume us, it will control us.   Don’t allow your life to be ruled and reigned by fear.    Cast down the thought and immediately meditate on what God has said concerning your situation.   

Remember, God said that He has a plan and that plan is designed to give you hope, a future, and an expected end.    He said He knows the things you have need of and He is faithful and just to provide you with those things.    We have to remember, WITH GOD all things are possible.   So no matter where you are today, it doesn’t determine the outcome of your tomorrow.   God can and will do the miraculous for those who believe, trust, and obey Him.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Matthew 19:26

King James Version

“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”   

Have You Ever Wished You Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time? We Have To Let Our Past Experience Teach Us How To Make Better Decisions In Life...

Have you ever gotten up and said that you wish you could turn back the hands of time so that you can do things differently?   I think we have all at some time or another wished we could go back and change the decision we made and our actions but we can’t go back.   We can’t change what has happened but we can learn from what has happened.  We can take our experiences and let them be lessons that teach us how to make better decisions in life. 

God is a good God.   He is a loving, just, and forgiving God.   He knows us.   He knows the decisions we will always make in life.   He knows our beginning to our end and He loves us.    The problem we have sometimes is, we don’t really know ourselves.   We push our flesh to the limit thinking we are wise enough and strong enough to manage and handle ourselves in any given situation but we are not.   We have to learn how to flee from the very appearance of sin.   We have to learn how NOT to test our flesh.    We have to remember, our flesh is weak.    We have to learn how to choose right when the situation is going in the wrong direction. 

Well, today is a new day.  God has filled this day with His love, grace, and mercy.   Not only has He filled this day with His love, grace, and mercy, He is with us.   He said that He will never leave nor forsake us.   He has said that His joy is our strength.   He has placed within us His Holy Spirit and we know GREATER is He that is in us than anything coming against us in this world. 

No, we can’t change our choices from yesterday but we can make today a better day by just following God.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Ecclesiasticus 21:2

King James Version

“Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest too near it, it will bite thee: the teeth thereof are as the teeth of a lion, slaying the souls of men.”