Do You Not Only Believe What God Has Said, Do You Trust What He Has Said To Be True?

Sometimes things don’t work out as planned.   Sometimes we may miss the mark.   The question is what do you do at those times?  Do you give up and quit or do you move forward in and with God?    

God knows what you need and He knows when you need it.   Not only does He know what you need when you need it, He knows how to get it to you.    God is a good and faithful God.   He love you and He has promised to take care of you.   All He wants is for you to trust Him and to rely on Him.   So often in life we try to rely on ourselves or other people that we can see with our natural eye.   We have to understand that God is our Provider.   Not only is He our Provider, He is our Healer and our Deliverer.   He is the one that can and will make a way when there appears to be no way.   It is in God that we have strength and He can do all things.   We just have to believe Him and trust Him. 

Ask yourself today do you believe what God has said.   If you believe what God has said to be true, you need to ask yourself do you trust Him.   Understand, there is a difference in believing and trusting.    You can look at a chair, believe that it is a chair, but do you trust that chair to hold you?   You can look at a friend, believe that they are your friend, but do you trust your friend to be there when you need them?   There is a difference in believing and trusting and God wants you to trust Him to do what He said.    

Understand, when things don’t work out the way you hoped or planned them to, you still have to trust God.   You have to trust what He said when He said that He will work everything together for your good and understand when He does, He is the One that gets the glory.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

 Romans 8:28 

King James Version (KJV)

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Not Everyone Is Going To Understand Why God Chooses To Bless You and Sometimes It’s Because They Are Holding Your Past Mistakes Against You. Have You Made Sure You Are Walking In Forgiveness Towards Others?

What is it about your life that makes people think you should not be blessed?  What mistakes are people holding against you? To be honest, everything in our life has not always been good. Every choice that we have made has not always been the best choice and honestly, some of those choices affected other people. The thing that other people don’t quite understand is the fact that you are forgiven. God knew the choices that each of us would make when faced with particular situations in our lives. We may have had the best intentions in mind but when it came to making the decisions, we allowed our flesh to overrule are common sense.

We have to get to the place where we understand that everybody it’s not going to agree with us.  Everybody is not going to understand why God blesses us. Everybody is not going to be in favor of what God does for us. Partly because of our past mistakes. Partly because they don’t have the insight into the love, grace, and forgiveness of God. We can ask people to forgive us but is their choice to do so. We can try to walk righteously from this point forward but not everyone is going to believe in our righteous walk.

Just as people hold things against us, we have to make sure that we are not holding things against others. We have to make sure that we are walking in God‘s love, grace, and forgiveness. It’s not always easy to forgive but it is always necessary. Let the love of God flow through you to the lives of others. Let his grace, power, anointing, and strength help you to heal from the hurt that has been caused by others. God loves you and he wants his love to flow through you.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Matthew 6:15

King James Version

“But if ye forgive not men their

Who Are You Saying Is Your Best Friend?

Who is your best friend?  Who is the one that you can go to and talk to at any time day or night.   We have friends in the world but sometimes they just are not available.   Sometimes they are at work and can’t talk or busy doing things with their families and can’t readily be there but understand, God is always available.   His ears are always open to our cry.   He has told us to come to Him.  He wants us to lean on Him and to trust Him.   There is no better friend in heaven or earth than the Father.   He is always available in our times of need and He has promised to never leave us nor forsake us. 

There are many people that say that they know, trust, and love God but they act like their best friend is the devil!   Knowing, trusting, and loving God should cause your actions to change.    When you know someone, you know what they like and dislike.   When you trust them, you talk to them and you spend time with them and when you love them, you make sacrifices for them.    

We have to understand that God is the best friend anyone can have.   Not only is He a good friend, He is a good good Father.   Whatever it is we need ... God is!   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Proverbs 18:24 

King James Version (KJV)

24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

What Are You Doing While You Are Waiting On God To Move On Your Behalf?

Are you trying to get God to move on your behalf while you do nothing for Him?  A lot of times we say that we are waiting patiently for God to move but the question is, what are you doing in the wait?   Are you walking in obedience to God’s Word, His will, and His way or are you doing the same old thing expecting God to overlook your acts of disobedience because you know that He is a loving, just, and forgiving God?   Do you realize that just as you can walk in willful obedience, there is also a thing call willful disobedience.

God loves us and He wants our lives to shine bright for Him.   He wants us to be His representatives here in the earth but we have to be determined to represent Him well.  People look at us and in some case it is how they see us that helps them to make choices in their lives.   What choices do you want your children to make based on what they see in you?  What choices do you want your neighbors and your co-workers to make?  Do you want them to see the God in you or are you busy entertaining them with your flesh?

Life is full of choices and we choose what we do, how we do it, and when.   We can choose God now.  We can choose to walk in obedience now.    We can choose to represent Him well now.   Or, we can choose to represent the world and all that is in it.    It’s a matter of life or death and we have to choose who and what we will serve.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Joshua 24:15 

King James Version (KJV)

15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Do You Believe What You See Is What You Get or Are You Staying In Faith For God To Change What You See To His Promises?

Are you living by the saying that says, “what you see is what you get” or are you walking in faith and trusting God to move in your situation and your life?  God wants you to speak life and He wants you to truly believe the words of faith that you are speaking.   

So often in life we get caught up on what we see.   We see the hardships in the world and we tend to adapt to them.   Instead of speaking forth change,  so that God can move on our words, we let what we see happening in the world change our words and we begin to speak words of doubt and unbelief.    It’s time out for that.    It’s time to stand and stay on God’s Word.   It’s time to call those things that be not as though they were.   It’s time to believe and trust God to move in and through our lives. 

How often do we fail to trust God?   How often do we let doubt and unbelief win?   How often do we try to work things out on our own?   Every time we do, we are failing to put our hope and trust totally in God.   We are leaning to our own understanding and we are not acknowledging God in all of our ways.   When we acknowledge Him, we have to be acknowledging not only who He is but what He is able to do.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Job 22:28

King James Version

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

Are You Surrendering God Your Life or Just Your Situation That You Are Going Through Right Now?

Are you surrendering your life to God or just your situation?   A lot of times we will come to God and we will ask God to just help us through what we are going through.  When we don’t know how to handle what is happening at a given moment we cry out to God.   When we don’t know how to pay a bill or when we need to be healed.   It’s at those times of pressure that we fall back on God.   

Understand, God wants us to continuously lean on Him.   He wants our lifestyle to be one where our trust and total dependence is on Him.   He wants us to get up in the morning thanking Him for this brand new day and He wants us to surrender our day to Him even before we begin to walk it out.   After we give Him praise and thanksgiving, we need to ask Him to lead us, to guide us, and to direct us.   We need to ask Him to help us because we can’t help ourselves.   Without God, we are nothing. 

So take time today to surrender your life and everything concerning your life to God.   Know that God is the author and finisher of your faith.   Know that what He has said, He will do.   Tell God, you surrender all.   Give Him your life and submit your lifestyle to His guidance.   You know what is of God and you know what isn’t.   Make the choice today and everything to let go of what isn’t.   Don’t be hellbound.   In other words, don’t be bound to those things that will eventually lead you down a road of destruction and into hell.    Don’t be captive or captivated by those things that you already know are not of God.   Don’t willingly walk in sin.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

John 8:34 

King James Version (KJV)

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Are Your Prayers and Your Heart In Line With God’s Word?

What is it that you want God to do for you?   Are you asking Him to heal you?   Are you asking Him to strengthen you?   Are you asking Him to deliver you?   Are you asking Him to meet a need?    What is it and my next question is, are you asking in faith?     

When we ask God in faith, we ask “trusting and believing” that He will do whatever it is we need to be done, as long as, it is in line with His Word and His will.    The Bible talks about asking God for things “amiss”.   When something is amiss, it’s not quite right.   It is wrong, out of order, and carries within it the wrong motive.   We need to ask ourselves when we pray and ask God for anything, what is our motive.   What is it that is motivating us to ask God what we are asking for.   We also need to make sure that our hearts intentions are right.    What is it that we intend on doing once God answers our prayers.     

God is a good God and His ears are open to our prayers.   We just need to make sure are prayers and our hearts are both inline with His Word.    We need to come boldly to His throne of grace, we need to ask and receive His forgiveness, and we need trust and believe that He will not only hear our cry but answer when we cry out to Him. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

James 4:3

King James Version 

“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”