What Viewpoint Do You Have When It Comes To Life? Are You Looking Through Eyes Of Faith or Eyes of Fear?

What is your outlook on life?   In other words, what is your point of view or general attitude concerning your life?   Does your point of view point you to God or is it pointing you down to where you are depressed and discouraged because of what you have experienced or are experiencing in your life.   Are you walking in spiritual blindness? 

Your outlook is the place where you take a view.   It’s where you step back and look through eyes of fear or through eyes of faith.  It determines how you see yourself and how you see others.   It’s your way of thinking and your way understanding.   Are you taking what you are going through and allowing your situation to cause your mental outlook on life to be one that is blocked by the pain and the pressure that you are experiencing or are you allowing God’s Word and what You know about God to clear your vision so that you can see through eyes of faith and know that God can and will work everything in your life together for your good and His glory. 

So as you think about your outlook on life, I want you to look out with eyes of faith.   Look beyond your situation and know that God is at work on your behalf.   Just as God took Abraham outside and told him to look at the heavens and to count the stars and then told him so shall his offspring be when he was without a child, understand your outlook on life should not be based on what you see but what God has said.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Ephesians 1:18 

King James Version (KJV)

18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

What Is Your Mindset? Are You Living Your Life Based On Logic or Do You Believe In The Supernatural Divine Intervention Of God?

Do you really believe that God can and will divinely intervene in your situation?   A lot of times in life we believe God will move for others and although we believe that God can do a thing, we fail to believe that He will do it for us.    If that’s you, it’s time to step up your faith level.   God wants you to believe not only that He can do what’s needed to be done, He wants your faith to be solidified to the point that you believe that He will do it for you.    

The Bible says that faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.   So with faith comes substance and evidence but in order to have faith, you must first believe.    So another question for today is, what is hindering your belief?   Are you dwelling on past experience?   Are you hanging around people who don’t really believe?   Are you failing to see God as your source and resource in life?    What is it that is keeping you from believing that not only God can do a thing but that He will do it for you.  In most cases it is logical practical thinking. 

Living practically is fine but living practically hinders your ability to believe in the supernatural.  Faith requires us to have a supernatural mindset.   A mindset that believes with God all things are possible.     A mindset that thinks and believes outside of the box of logic.  When we think practically, our confidence is based on logic but when we live by faith and have a supernatural mindset, our confidence is in God and His ability to do all things.    Let your mindset be one of faith and let your confidence be in God alone.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

1 John 5:14-15 

King James Version (KJV)

14 And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us:

15 And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.

ARE YOU LIVING YOUR LIFE CONSTANTLY SAYING “WHAT IF” THINGS WERE DIFFERENT?

Are you dwelling on the “what ifs” of life?   Are you constantly allowing your mind to wander and say, what if you had done this differently or that differently?   What if other people in your life would have done things differently?   Don’t live your life on “what if”.   Live your life knowing that God is with you and He already knew where you would be right now in your life.  

Remember, God has a plan and His plan is to prosper you and to bless. You.   That doesn’t mean that His plan was going to be easy to accomplish.   It doesn’t mean that you would never encounter fiery trials in your life BUT it does mean that He is with you and He is working everything in your life together for your good.  

Things could be different.   Our choices could have been different but God knew the choice we would make before we made it.   He knows the choices we will make today and in the future.   We have to get to a point of trusting God completely.   We have to stop looking back wishing and wanting to do things over again to get a different result.    Even though God sometimes grants us that very opportunity to repeat a cycle in our life with hopes that we will make the right decision and not fall back into the trap of sin over and over again.    

Make today about trusting God’s plan for your life.   Make it about understanding where you are and moving forward with God.    It’s not about dwelling on “what if”.   It’s all about knowing who God is and “what God is” about to do in you, for you, and through you if you trust Him.   

Jeremiah 29:11-13 

King James Version (KJV)

11 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.

12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Don't Be The One Who Is Just Wanting God To Do For You ... Be Willing To Do What He Wants You To Do For Him ...

What is it that you want God to do for you?   What is it that you are willing to do for God?

So often in life we want God to move on our behalf.   The questions is, are we moving on His behalf?   Are we representing Him well?   Are we speaking words of faith and doing works that are in alignment with what He has asked us to do.    It's time to do a self check.   It's time to make sure we are making God our priority.    We want to be His priority but again, are we making Him our priority.

Make it a point today to spend time with the Father.   Sit with Him, commune with Him, worship Him, and wait on Him.   While you are waiting on Him, make sure you are obeying Him.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Isaiah 40:31 

King James Version (KJV)

31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Are You Being The Leader God Created You To Be or Are You Just Being Agreeable To Everything Everyone Says and Does?

EVERYTHING is not okay.   You have to distinguish right from wrong and good from bad.    There is a difference.   Being agreeable to everything everyone does is not right and it does not help the world we live in today.   Being agreeable gives no guidance and it gives no direction.   We have to become the leaders that God created us to be.   

There are many leaders in many capacities.   Parents are leaders, pastors are leaders, teachers are leaders, and we can be leaders within our peer groups.   The main job of a leader is to give direction.    When we look at the children today, there are noticeable differences in their levels of respect and what they view as right and wrong.    Many of them have not been raised with a distinguishable line that defines right and wrong for them.   Parents of old were very clear.   They were clear about what was right and what was wrong and if you chose what was wrong, they enforced the consequences that came along with making the bad choices.    We have to understand we live and we die by the choices we make and every choice that we make brings with it consequences.   

When a baby is born, you wouldn’t leave that baby to fend for itself.   To get up and get their bottle on their own.  You get up and you get what the baby needs.   You feed them, change them, talk to them, and encourage them as they grow to walk and to talk.   Our guidance impacts not only what our children do and how they do it but it also impacts the people and the community around us.   Be the leader God has called you to be and understand, being a leader for God causes you to stand out and to go against the norm.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Deuteronomy 11:19

“And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.” 

Are You Truly Walking In Love ... Understanding, God Is Love?

What are you holding on to?   Are you keeping records of every time someone has hurt you or did something you didn’t like?   Are you impatient, mean, and envious?   Are you seeking what will bring you pleasure and are you easily angered?   Are you delighting in what is sinful and evil or are you rejoicing in the truth?    What is your picture of love?  Remember, God is love and we need to look to Him to see what true love really is.  

How many times have we let our hurt cloud our vision of what love really is.   Unfortunately in this world, people will hurt you.   They will do things without considering what the affect of their actions will be on those around them.   They will act in their flesh not considering the reaction that will soon follow. Don’t be a person who only loves themself.   A person who seeks to please their own flesh and fails to understand what it means to truly love someone.    

When you love someone, you are patient with them.   You understand that they are not perfect and neither are you.   You walk in forgiveness and you give others an opportunity to get it right.  Sometimes people will and sometimes they won’t but love allows them the opportunity to do what is right.    Remember love is kind and it is not envious.   Understand, jealousy is not love.   You don’t have to boast and walk in pride when you are walking in love. Love is honorable and it is respectful.   It’s not self-seeking.  Instead, it seeks opportunity to do something for others.    We have to know what love is and we have to walk in it if we want to fulfill God’s plan and purpose in the earth.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 

New International Version (NIV)

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

What Do You Do When People Hurt You? Do You Run To God Or From Him?

People will hurt you.  They will say things that will cut you like a knife.   They will break your heart but the question is, what is your response to what people do to you?    Are you letting the hurt and pain that you feel inside cause you to turn your back on God?   Are you running from God because of what people do or are you running to Him.    

God is a good God and He has given each of us the power of choice.   What we do is up to us.   We can love people and help people or we can hurt them.   The things is, sometimes people don’t realize that they have hurt someone until the damage is already done.    

Even when you have been hurt in life, you have to know that you are not alone.   You have to know that God is the Healer.   You have to know that He is ready and willing to comfort you and to keep you.   You have to know how to run to God instead of running away from Him because of something that someone else did. 

Take time today to talk to God about the hurt and pain that you have been carrying around in side.   Let God comfort you, keep you, shield you, protect you, and heal you from the inside out.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 147:3 

King James Version (KJV)

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.