Standing Sure On Your Foundation Of Faith Despite The Challenges That Come With Life

What are you allowing to get to you in life?    Are you letting things get to you mentally, physically, and spiritually?    Are those things pushing you off track?   God wants to be your defense.   He wants to be the One you run to.   He wants to be the One in whom you put your trust.    He wants you to want His peace that surpasses all of your understanding.    

Understand, the Word is meant to be your defense in times of trouble.   It's meant to be your support.   It should be what you stand on and trust in when you are faced with difficult situations in your life.     When you have a word from God, it should be what you look to and it should be an avenue of hope for you.   The word of God should always prove to be your sure foundation. 

Make up your mind right now that your hope, trust, and belief will always remain in what God has said and not what you feel.     Make up your mind right now that God's Word will always override mans words.    Settle it mentally so that when situations occur that challenge your faith, your faith will not fluctuate.   You will be able to stand sure on the foundation of God's Word no matter what is trying to get to you in life.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

2 Timothy 2:19

19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Are You Obeying God Even When You Don't Understand The Fullness Of What He Is Telling You To Do?

Have you ever been at a place in your life where you knew that God wanted you to do a certain thing but didn't know the reason why He wanted you to do it?   It is at those points in life that you have to have faith.   You have to walk in willingness and obedience.   Sometimes God will lead you and guide you in ways you that you don't completely understand at the time but you have to trust Him to reveal to you the reasons later.   

Today is a new day and we don't know the answer to every question we have in life but God does.   Let's be committed today to put our faith, hope, and trust in God.   Let's commit to allowing Him to lead us in the way that we should go.   Let's keep the eyes of our hearts open so that we can see and understand all that He is trying to do for us and through us.    Let's keep our ears open so that we can hear the voice of His command and not follow the voice of someone who is stranger to God.   When someone is a stranger to God, they are unaccustomed and unacquainted with His ways.  

We have to know God and trust Him completely.    Although situations may appear to be hard for us,  we have to trust in the fact that God always has a plan.    Make today and every day about trusting in the Lord.   Make it about listening to Him and obeying the voice of His command.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Proverbs 3:5-6

King James Version

5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Do You Believe and Are You Expecting God To Show Forth Miracles, Signs, and Wonders In Your Life?

 Miracles ... Signs ... and Wonders.   What is a miracle to you?   Understand,  a miracle can't be explained by the acts of nature and it can only be claimed as an act of God.   So often in life we pray for miracles.   We pray that God divinely intervenes.   We pray for a divine outcome and we pray for supernatural breakthroughs.   

God wants us to experience the miraculous.   He wants us to recognize His signs and His wonders.   He wants us to know that there is nothing too hard for Him to do for us, in us, or through us but we have to have faith.   We have to believe that God can and will do the miraculous in our lives.   We have to move from a mindset of defeat and believe for the impossible.    

God is God all by Himself.  He sees us, He knows us, and He is well able to provide whatever we need.   God doesn't have to prove Himself but He does.   He opens up doors that have been closed.   He heal our sickness.   He provides when we don't know where the provision is coming from.  He gives us peace in the midst of the storms that come with life.    

If you need God to perform a miracle in your life, STAY IN FAITH.   Stay tuned in to His voice.   Listen to obey and expect Him to honor His Word in your life.   Follow the signs of God.  Signs are meant to give you direction.   Let the signs of God lead and guide your faith until you experience the miracles of God in operation.   

SCRIPTURE MEDATION

Hebrews 2:4

“God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will?” 

Are You Reminding Yourself About What God Has Done So That You Can Strengthen Your Faith For What You Need Him To Do?

Do you remember when God brought you out before?   When He healed you and delivered you?   Do you remember how you didn't know the way but He made the way?   If you remember that, then know this ... what God has done before He will do again, if necessary.   Remember that God changes not.   Remember that His plan is forever.   He didn't half-way make a plan for your life.    He doesn't half-way do anything.   You just can't see the fullness of what He has already prepared for your life.   You just have to trust Him. 

Sometimes life gets hard.   Sometimes we don't know the way we should go.   Sometimes it gets confusing when you know that God is in control but you still feel like your life is out of control.    It's at those times you have to learn how to stay in faith.   You have to learn how to trust God in spite of.   In spite of what you see and in spite of what you feel.   You have to learn how to rest in Him and you have to remind yourself that God is the fighting for you and the victory has already been won and you have already been declared the victor. 

God knows what you are going through and He knows how to get you to where He wants you to be in life.         Remember to remind yourself what God has done and what He has promised to do in and for you. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalms 34:17 

[The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Asking God To Help Us To Make The Right Choices In Life

What seems simple can sometimes prove to be very hard.   Life is not always easy.   It's not always easy to make the "right" choice because making the right choice will always cost you something.    Making the right choice will put a demand on your flesh.    It will remain that you lean not to your own understanding and it will require you to acknowledge God in all your ways so that He can lead your path.      Making the right choice is not easy. 

What do you do when you are faced with choices in life?   Do you make choices based on how easy it is?    Do you make choices based on what others want you to do or do you make choices based on what God said for you to do?    The outcome of everything that we have in life is based on a choice we make in life. 

Remember, God's Word tells us to choose who and what we will serve.   We have to remember that our heart deviseth a way but we have to allow God and His Word to lead us in the way that we should go.     We have to follow those things that are true, right, and honest and bind up and cast down our desire for the things that are not.   We have to also remember that God is with us and He will strengthen us and help us to make the right choices if we ask Him to.    God didn't leave us alone to choose.   He said that He is with us always.   He said that He will help us  in any way that we need Him to.   Understand, any way means He will help us to make the right decision in life too.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Philippians 4:8 

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.

When You Go To Work Each Day You Control Your Flesh and Tell It What It Will Do. Are You Doing The Same When It Comes To The Things Of God?

What is it that God has called you to do?   Are you doing it or are you avoiding it?   Are you telling others the Good News or are you allowing others to be infiltrated by the news that the world is telling?   Are you being a candle for the Lord or are you allowing your light to be blown out by the way you act in life?

We have to know who we are called to be and we have to be who and what God has called us to be.   We have to understand that our blessings are connected to our obedience.   God said if we are willing and obedient we shall eat the good of the land.   He said that we are to trust and to obey.    He wants us to keep His commandments and His statutes for this is one way that we show that we love Him. 

Trusting God is not easy but yet God said if we trust Him and obey Him, He will be our God.    If we as employees can be obedient to our employer by taking control of the flesh, by getting up out of bed, by getting to work on time, and fulfilling the tasks that they ask of us without murmuring and complaining, how much more should we be able to take control of our flesh, get up and give time to God, and do the things He asks of us.   After all, He is the giver of life and every good thing that comes with life (even our jobs).    

It's time to take God at His Word and walk in obedience to that Word.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Jeremiah 42:6

Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will listen to the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of the Lord our God.”

Are You Walking In Intermittent Faith or Do You Believe and Trust God No Matter What?

Do you feel as though you have been doing everything right?   Do you feel like you have prayed, you have tithed, you have served, and yet you are not experiencing the breakthrough you thought you would have by now?    You have to know that after you have done all of that, you still have to wait and maintain your faith in God.    You still have to trust Him to do what He said He would do.   No matter what is going on in your life, God wants you to believe Him and to trust Him to take care of you. 

You have to know that trust is continual or should I say continuous.   When something is continuous, there are no intermissions.   So often in our faith walk we walk in intermittent faith.   Where we start off believing and trusting God and then we stop believing and trusting God because it's not happening fast enough and then we go back to saying we believe and trust God.   WE HAVE TO HAVE CONTINUOUS FAITH AND TRUST IN GOD!  Our faith can not just be heard in our words, it has to be seen in our actions too. 

Do you trust God and His Word?   If your answer is yes, believe Him when He says He knows the things you have need of and He is faithful and just to provide you with those things.   Believe Him when He says that He is the Lord God that heals.   Believe that He will open up the window of heaven and to pour you out a blessing.   Believe that He will maintain everything that He has given you.   Believe Him and trust Him to do whatever needs to be done in your life.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Acts 14:22

Amplified Bible

22 strengthening and establishing the hearts of the disciples; encouraging them to remain firm in the faith, saying, “It is through many tribulations and hardships that we must enter the kingdom of God.”