Which Way?

Which way is God taking you? Have you ever wondered which direction God wants you to go? You know those times when it seems nothing you try to do is working out the way you planned it. No matter how hard you try. That's just it. If you look back at all these questions, the word that stands out most is "you". It really is not about us.

God told us in His Word that He knows the plans He has for us and they are to give us "hope" and an "expected end". The end is already established. Instead of trying to figure it all out, we need to begin to walk out God's plan. God's plan is totally centered around faith. A lot of times we believe God "can" do a thing but we don't "trust" Him to do it. The world has caused us to be calloused in some areas. One of those areas is our ability to trust. Another is our ability to "hope and believe".

God needs all of you. In order for Him to use you...He needs you to trust Him...He needs you to believe Him...He needs you to follow Him. You have to see Him for who He is. He is everything you need. Your source, your supply, your healing, a friend, a comforter...remember He said, I am "that"..."that" I am. All you need is in Him...all you seek is in Him.


The Word for today is trust. Let go and let God. Let Him lead, guide, and direct your life. Because He designed the path...you won't be prone to stumbling over the unknown.

If everyone you came in contact with today made a life decision based on what they heard you say or what they saw you do, what decision would they make? Would they decide to live holy? Would they decide that it's okay to live a life of compromise? Would they think it's okay to drink, cuss, and fuss? If your life was the instruction booklet on how to live day by day, what would the final destination be for someone else...if you were all they had to go by? The Bible says that we are to be living epistles....a living book to be read by all men.

Remember this life is not yours. For it is in God that you live, breathe, and have your being. Be conscious...someone is always watching you and your lifestyle. Someone is always listening to your words. Someone is always seeking direction. Where are you leading them?

What Are You Doing...God Is Right There!

Why is it so hard to trust God? To go with what He says. Why do we always try to figure it out our own way? All God desires is a relationship of trust. Not only you trusting Him but Him being able to trust you. Can He trust you with the power He has entrusted to you? With the voice He has given you? Can you be trusted to speak the right things and to go the right places? Can you be trusted to watch the right things on tv? Or do you just let anything through the gates of your eyes and ears? The gates are locked unless you open them up and what you let in is at you "soul" discretion.

Remember this....God said He will never leave you nor forsake you. He is always with you. Be careful what you invite Him to see you watch, hear, or participate in today.

Your Life Is A Metamorphosis....

Metamorphosis.   Metamorphosis is the Greek word for transformation.   Have you ever thought about how our spiritual life is a metamorphosis?   We are constantly changing into the image of what God want us to be.  

The caterpillar goes from being an egg, to a caterpillar, to a cocoon, to a full grown butterfly.   At the egg stage, it is laid on a plant which then becomes the food for the caterpillar.   The caterpillar eats constantly.   As it grows, it continuously splits and sheds its skin to allow for new growth.   As the caterpillar is eating, it is storing up food for later use.   After the caterpillar stage comes the stage where the caterpillar is hidden in a cocoon in order for transformation to take place.   The caterpillar is hidden in the cocoon, but also understand that the chrysalis is also hidden.   It may be suspended under a branch, in some leaves, or maybe even underground.   It is at this stage that complete transformation takes place.   After complete transformation has taken place, the ONLY job that the adult butterfly has is to lay more eggs in order for more butterflies to be reproduced.

We have been laid on the foundation of God's word.  It is our job to be like the caterpillar....to eat, eat, eat.   To feed on the word of God.   During that time of growth we will constantly get rid of the "old skin".  Old things are passed away and behold all things become new.  After this point we go into the stage of being covered by God's word.   The cocoon stage.   The stage where we are hidden and shielded from the elements of life.   The stage where we are being completely transformed.   Transformed to the point of becoming mature in the things of God.   Where we are no longer bound by the sin that so easily besets us.   It is at this point that our desires change.   Our desire for the world changes to a desire to serve God and God alone.  

Understand that once we have been transformed and have become mature in the things of God, our responsibility then changes.   It is at this point that we need to realize that our responsibility changes.   We are no longer just eating, we are at the point of using everything that we have stored up.   Our job while we are still here in this earth changes from eating to reproducing.   At this point, we are to help lay others on the foundation of God's word so that they can also go through a metamorphosis and in the end....help bring others into the kingdom of God.

"Changes"

Ministered By Pastor William Murphy III

Are You Watching The Premier?

Premier....to be first in status or importance, principal or chief.   The first to occur or exist....
Not only does God want to be the first in your life, He wants to be your everything.

So where are your eyes?   Are you watching the "premier".   The premier is designed to tell you the whole story.   Don't be distraced....keep your eyes on God.   For He desires to be your first, your last, your everything.

"You Are My Everything"

Ministered By Kevin Edwards

Why Do You Think God Chose You?

Of all the people that God could have chose....He chose you!  It wasn't because you were popular, it wasn't because you were beautiful, it wasn't because you could talk eloquently, it wasn't because you had it all going on.   It wasn't even because you were there.  To be honest there were times that He probably was calling your name and  you were refusing to answer.   But that didn't stop Him from choosing you.  

What an awesome thing to be hand picked by God.   Even though you weren't the one who looked the best or dressed the best....He chose you.   He looked beyond all the faults and fears and still chose YOU.  

Know today that you are chosen.   To be chosen means that you have been given preferential treatment.   To be chosen means you have been selected and not only selected.....you have been favored.  

Isn't it good to know that you are a chosen child of God.

Worship For Today

I'm Praying For You
(Lyrics Below Video Clip)

Ministered By The Katinas 

LYRICS

Seems like today is just like yesterday

You can't escape this pure insanity

Sweet memories, they fade away

The hurt inside just seems to multiply

Those tears you're crying won't last forever

Lean on my shoulder

Oh, it's not over

CHORUS:

Tonight I'm prayin' for you

Down on my knees for you

Heaven can hear your name

Tonight, I'm prayin'

I'll keep on prayin' for you

She was young and innocent, full of aspirations

Till a choice she made went wrong,

Seemed to devastate and steal her song

Life lost its meaning

Voices are screaming

Will the chaos ever end

Can her soul recover once again

GO TO CHORUS

I hope you find rest

Sleep till tomorrow

Lean on my shoulder

Oh, it's not over

GO TO CHORUS 2 X

Oh-Whoa, yea, yeah-ohh

Hold on

Be strong

Hold on

(I'll keep on prayin' for you)

Hold on

Hold on

Be strong

Hold on

TAG:

Heaven can hear your name

Tonight I'm prayin'

I'll keep on prayin' for you

Timeout....It's Time To Maximize The Opportunity!

Look at what God has done....
Look at what God is doing....
Now look into the future at what God WILL do.....

So many times we get stuck in our past that we can't even see what God is doing now.   How He is moving and manifesting on our behalf.   How He is paying the bills....How He is healing our bodies....How He is bringing about Jabez encounters.  We have to get to the point of understanding that our lives are filled with Jabez encounters.   Every day is a new day ....specifically designed by God.   Every encounter you have every day has been orchestrated by God.

The question is .... are you maximizing the opportunity?   Are you understanding the hurt that is all around you?   Are you taking the time to pour into those that God has allowed to come across your path today?  Nothing in your life is by chance.   How many times has God given you the opportunity to speak life into someone else and you were stifled by fear?   Fear of what they would think if you actually ministered to them.

TIMEOUT....
I am calling a "time out" because we must come together and determine our strategy from this point on.   We  know that we are called to win.   But sometimes we have to be inspired to get the determination to give it all that we have in order to win.   So this is our "time out".  

I encourage you today to be all that God created you to be.   To know that you are the head and not the tail.  Above only and not beneath.   To know that no weapon formed against you can prosper.   To know that God is for you and nothing the enemy tries to do in  your life can stand.   I encourage you to know who you are ..... and who God created you to be.   I encourage you to fight the fight of faith and to know that the battle is already won.   All that you are and all that God created you to be...will manifest.   Stand.   Look Up.   See God for who He is.   Alpha (the beginning), Omega (the end), Rophe (Your Healer), Tsidkenu (Your Righteousness), Jireh (Your Provider), Shalom (Your Peace)......He is El Shaddai (God Almighty).  YOU ARE DESTINED TO WIN.

Now that you know who you are and who God created you to be....the timeout is over....

You are destined to win.   But we can't win if all we do is sit on the bench.   We have to begin to open our mouths and "speak the final outcome".   When we speak the final outcome, we allow others to become overcomers and to share in our victory!

Worship For Today

"El Shaddai"

Cam

Lyrics.............El Shaddai, God You're Almighty, Father I Worship You