Are You Sitting Silently Allowing The Enemy To Wreak Havoc In Your Life or Are You Using The Power That God Has Entrusted You With?

Are you trying to live like you don’t have an adversary?   The Bible says that the devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.   The word devour means to devastate, ruin, and to destroy completely.    What is it that is attacking your life and trying to take you out and destroy you?   What is coming up against you in life and causing you to be in worry and doubt?    Understand, you have the power within you to fight back.

Are you using your words to fight back?   Are you speaking life to your life?   Are you binding up the works of the enemy and releasing the power of God through your words?   It’s time to stop sitting silent!   Understand the power that is resident in your tongue.    In James 3:5, the Bible talks about the tongue being a small part of the body and yet it has within it the power of life and death.   So speak life to your life! 

In order to truly speak life to your life, you must know what God has said about your life.    You must understand the power that God has entrusted you with.   We know that God created the heavens and the earth with words and He has now given us the ability to use our words to create as well.   So don’t sit silently as the devil wreaks havoc in your life.   God’s Holy Spirit dwells on the inside of you and God has given you the ability to bind, rebuke, and to speak into existence those things that be not as though they were.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

James 3:5 

King James Version (KJV)

5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Are You Feeling Stuck In Life Because You Can’t See How God Is Going To Do What Needs To Be Done?

Who or what is limiting your view?   Have you gotten stuck behind an obstacle?   Has someone said something to you that has caused you to wonder whether or not God can or will move in your situation?    God is a good God and He is limitless.    

So often in life we get stuck not just physically but we also get stuck mentally.   We get stuck in a place where we just can’t seem to see our breakthrough.    We have to remember, faith is believing in what you cannot see.   So we have to stay in a place where we live by faith.   Even though we don’t see things happening in the natural, we have to trust and believe that God will make them happen.    

You have to understand, just because you can’t see something happening, that doesn’t mean its not taking place.   Think about a woman carrying a child.   You can’t see on the outside the details of the growth that is taking place on the inside.   You can see the outward growth of her stomach but you can’t see the inward growth that is taking place until the “set time” of the baby’s birth.    The flesh (her stomach) is limiting your view of the creative work that God is doing on the inside of her womb.   

So understand, just because you can’t see what God is doing, doesn’t mean He is not doing it.    Obstacles will come and it’s hard to see beyond our flesh but we have to keep a spiritual perspective.    In other words, we have to have a spiritual point of view that knows and sees beyond the natural.   A point of view that knows God can and will do whatever needs to be done in our lives. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Hebrews 11:1 

King James Version (KJV)

11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Are You Living Your Life In A Way That Brings Pleasure To God or To Man?

So often in life we give our all to people.   We love them beyond measure.   We sacrifice our time, our money, and our energy on them.   We go above and beyond to prove our love to them  and many times we continue to do those things even when they hurt us and misuse us.    We seek to please men and women on the earth in all that we do and yet we find it difficult to live our lives in a way where we are seeking to please God. 

We have to get it right.   We want to do what we can for others and treat them well but God should be our priority.   We should be seeking to please Him in all that we do.    If what we are doing for others is not pleasing to God, it has no Kingdom value.   We should be seeking to please God in all that we do and say.    That includes our relationships with other people.  

God is a good God and He is faithful to us.  He faithfully watches over us and faithfully keeps us in all that we do.   He changes not and if we honor Him with our lives, He will honor His Word in our lives.    We have to make sure that we keep God first.   We can’t seek to please man and displease God in the process.   

Take time today to evaluate your life and your lifestyle.   Make sure your actions are pleasing to the Father and not just to the people that are around you.   Make today about evaluating and eliminating.   Evaluate your actions and commit to change.   Change whatever you know is not pleasing to the Father.    Understand, to eliminate means to remove, get rid of, terminate, eradicate, and end something.   God is the giver of life but it is up to us to represent Him well with our lives.   It is up to us to make sure we are a living a lifestyle that is pleasing to Him and that is outlined in His Word.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Galatians 1:10

“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”

What Is It That You Are Looking Forward To In Life?

So what are you looking forward to?   Are you looking forward and keeping your eyes stayed on God?  When you look forward, you are not looking behind you.  You are looking into the future with hope and anticipation.   You will live your life in expectation for the things that you want God to do for you.    

God is a good God.   He is an awesome Heavenly Father.   He loves us and He wants us to live in expectancy for the things He has promised to do.    We have to stop living looking through the rear view mirror of our lives.   So many people stay focused on and want what they “had” instead of having hope and anticipation in what God can and will do now.    

In our past we have had good experiences and bad but our past doesn’t determine our future.   So make sure today, your hope is in God.   Make sure you are expecting Him to make a way for you.   Make sure your trust is in Him and His Word.   Don’t lose focus by looking behind you.  Keep your eyes stayed on Him.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalms 62:5

“My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.” 

Are You Trying To Live Life Your Way or Are You Trusting What God Has Said?

Things are changing and the question is, are you ready for the change that is taking place in the earth?    Where is your heart?   Do you have a heart for God?   Are you seeking to please Him in everything you do and say or is your desire to please the people around you?    

We have to get to the point where we are rooted and grounded in the things of God.   We have to take a stand and stick with it.   We have to know that we know that God is good and we have to keep our faith, hope, and trust in Him no matter what.   

Have you ever warned your children not to do something and told them what would happen if they did and yet they did it anyway.    That is how God is with us.   He tells us what to do and what not to do and yet many of us tend to try it our own way.   It’s not that we don’t know what He said for us to do, it’s just that we ignore what He said based on our desire to do things our way.   

As I said earlier, things are changing.   This world is changing.   God has already told us in His Word that this was going to happen.   Now we have to trust and obey His Word so that we can have eternal life with Him.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 Corinthians 15:58

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” 

Are You Allowing Your Emotions To Get The Best Of You or Are You Rooted and Grounded In Faith?

Are you building up your most holy faith?   Are you staying in the Word of God so that you can know the will of God.    So often in life, we move on how we feel instead of standing still on what we know.   Do you realize that we can let our emotions get the best of us?    Our emotions can be varied and they can be mixed.   The question is, what do we do with them?   We have to learn how to take control of them and bring them under the subjection of the Word of God and move forward in life based on what we know instead of how we feel. 

When we look at our feelings, we can be up one day and down another.   We can be afraid one day and fearless another.   We can be weary one day and strong another.   Our feelings and our emotions have so many directions they can go in at any given time but God’s Word is steadfast, immovable, and changes not.    

Our faith must be rooted and grounded in God’s Word.   We have to learn how to base our faith on what God has said and not what man is saying.   We have to know that God and His Word changes NOT.   What God has said, He will do.   We have to know that God loves us and He will take care of us.   After all, He allowed HIs Son to die on the cross for us.  Seeing that He did that, you can rest assured in the fact that He will cover you, keep you, and make a way for you.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Romans 12:2

King James Version

“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 Casting Your Care On God and Being Still While Knowing, Trusting, and Believing That He Is God and He Will Take Care Of You?

The question was asked, how do I get back to God?   How do I get back to where I am trusting Him, believing Him, and waiting on Him?   How to get back to God is usually not the problem.   Doing what you know to do is where the problem usually comes in.    

Life is filled with distractions.   Whether it be the busyness of the world or the stress of our situations, they both are designed to keep us from focusing on what matters most and that is God.   

God tells us in Psalm 46 to be still and know that He is God.   Being still is the hardest part for us because being still requires no movement or actions from us.    It’s hard to be still when you are being pushed and pressed against.   It’s hard to be still when your mind is consumed with worry and doubt.   It’s hard to be still when the only outcome you can imagine is a negative one. 

The first thing that we must do to get back to God is to make up in our mind that we are going to believe and trust Him.   We are going to believe and trust what He said when He said that He knows the things that we have need of and He is faithful and just to provide us with those things.   Understand, you have to believe God and you have to trust what He has said.   If you don’t believe Him and trust Him, you can’t have faith in Him.   

So today ... STEP ONE IN GETTING BACK TO GOD, cast down every thought and imagination that goes against the knowledge of who God is and what God will do and make up in your mind that you believe what He has said and be determined to trust Him.    Remember to read the Word so that you can remind yourself of who He is and what He has promised to do. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 46:10 

King James Version (KJV)

10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.