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Are you woke yet? To be sleep means to be in a state or condition in which your body and mind are inactive to be dormant. How long will you remain dormant in God? In a state of inactivity. The plan of God is in you. The purposes of God are in you. Yet....you choose to live as though He doesn't exist. As though He is not there. You are failing to trust His word. You are failing to walk in His word. You are failing to allow the word to be operative in your life because of the way you are choosing to live and walk.
It's time to wake and walk in the Word. There is no longer time to be dormant. When you are sleep .... your central nervous system is inactive. The core of your walk, your talk, and your being is not operative. Are you acting that way in God? Have you made Him inoperative because you refuse to activate His word by the choices you make? Have you chose to live in state of dormancy.....failing to speak His word over your life and over your situations.
Wake up to His word today. Wake up to His will. Know and recognize His power and allow it to be operative in your situations. God loves you and He wants to reveal Himself to you. He wants to be the source of your life. He wants to be your choice. Are you willing to wake up to His purpose and plan for your life? Are you willing to walk in it? Are you willing to be the open book for someone else to read? To tell the story of His goodness, His grace, and His mercy? To not only wake yourself up....but to wake up the world around you. Shake someone today by telling them what God has done for you.
What does it mean to know God? To know means that you have knowledge and information concerning something. It means that you perceive something as fact or truth. Do you really know God? Is He the main truth in your life. The one thing that is undeniable, unshakable, and unmovable. Is He really God to you? The one who creates in your life......the one who rules in your life......the source of your moral authority.
Do you understand what morality is? It is the distinction between what is right and what is wrong. Who or what is the measuring stick you use in your life to determine what is right or what is wrong? Are you waiting on your friends or your family to tell you or are you gaining knowledge of God's word and His way and allowing it to measure your life. To measure your thoughts. To measure your sacrifice.
God wants to use you....but are you willing to be used? Are you willing to lay down your self (sacrifice) in order to be used by God? Are you willing to learn about who He is in order to help someone else realize the reality of who He is?
It's time to prioritize. It's time to sacrifice. It's time to make God a part of your "moment". Every hour and every minute can be broken down to moments. Moments are "exact points in time". A moment can be pinpointed. If I were to ask you what were you doing at 7:05 last night.....can you say that you were doing what God would have you to do, that you were saying what God would have you to say, that you were watching what God would have you to watch, or that you were thinking what God would have you to think. We have to understand that there are no points in which God leaves us. He is with us every moment. We tend to think that we have intermissions in God where we can do what we want or say what we want to say. But we need to understand that God is still with us....seeing and hearing who and what we are representing in our walk and in our talk.
Get intimate with God today. When you get intimate with someone....you know and understand their likes and their dislikes. You begin to live your life in an effort to please them. Make your effort about God today. Seek to please Him and Him alone. Allow your knowledge of who He is to lead you. Guard your heart. Manage the gates of your soul. Your soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions. Manage the gates of your eyes and your ears. What you see and what you hear will affect how you think and how you feel.
Allow God to be God today. Make Him God of your "moment'.....not just God of your day.
What happens when you just don't know what to do? What do you do then? How do you trust when you hurt? When you need help? When you just don't understand? How do you feel love through pain? You have to understand that sometimes things happen in life that we don't understand. That we can't change. That hurt. But we have to know that even though these things happen....it doesn't change the fact that God loves us and has not left us. Even though we feel empty inside.....God is still there. He is holding us through our pain. When you are being held. You feel it on the outside. When arms are wrapped around you. You don't necessarily feel the love on the inside....but you feel the comfort on the outside.
God wants us to know that whatever we are going through .... He is there. In the times where we are overtaken by emotion, hurt, and pain. He is still there. In the times that we just don't understand.....He is there. In every time and in every season of our lives, God has promised that He will not leave us nor forsake us. He said that He is an ever present help in times of trouble. He said that He loves us with an unending love. We have to understand that there is no end to God's love. There is no end to God's mercy. For He said His mercy fails not.
So in our times of brokenness.....God will put us back together. He is the master potter. We are His clay. He will seal the cracks in our lives. The places and the things that break our hearts, that break our will, that break our emotions. God will mend those places in our lives. He covers us and upholds us on His potters wheel. He is constantly shaping us and remolding us into the image of who He is. Every crack and every crevice....He is smoothing out. He is recreating us into a vessel fit for His use. Where the issues of life will no longer cause us to break or to leak. When we leak, we allow what God has placed on the inside of us to seep out and be lost.....so when its time to draw from the well within .... we are empty. God doesn't want us empty. He wants us to be full of who He is ..... so that we are able to draw from who He is in our times of trouble. In our times of need. In our times of hurt and times of pain. We have to be sealed in Him and by Him so that we are full of Him in our times of desperation.
So know today.....that God has you in His hands. He is taking every rough spot and smoothing it out so that you can not only be a vessel of beauty....but a vessel that is fit for His use. So that you won't lose everything that He is putting inside of you. You will be able to not only obtain His power, His anointing, and His grace....but you will be able to retain it. When you retain something......you keep it, you hold it, you preserve it, and you maintain it.
Trust God today with your hurt. Trust God today with your pain. Trust God today with the things that you just don't understand. Allow Him in to fix the broken areas of your life. To fix the cracks that have come into your life over time. Allow Him to seal you with His love and to fill you with His word.
Accustomed.........it means the usual.....that which is habitual or customary. What are you accustomed to? What is the thing that you usually do? What is the habit that you have formed? What is the custom that you follow?
A lot of times we just do what we are accustomed to doing. What the norm is. The question is.....is the norm what is best for "you"? Or should I say....what does the "norm" in your life represent? We have to understand that not all habits in our lives are good for us. Sometimes we choose to eat sweets over fruits and veggies because that is what we are accustomed to.....but is it better for us?
It's the same thing with our thoughts and actions. We choose to think a certain way or do things a certain way because that was the way we were raised and that is what we are accustomed to........but does that way strengthen you, encourage you, edify you, and build you up. Habits are formed and they can be broken. The don't just exist. They come from doing something habitually. We have to learn how to make an exchange. To change the things that are not good for us for the things that are.
It's a transitional process. Transitional means to move from one stage or place to another. It's time to move from the place of pain to the place of joy. It's time to move from the place of prayerlessness to the place of prayer. It's time to move from the place of sickness to a place of healing. Some transitions you can do on your own. Some you need God to do for you. But your position.....where you are in Him....will determine His ability to move on your behalf. When I say your position....I mean your trust, your belief, your walk, your talk.......how are they lining up with who He is. Are you standing on who He is or are you living on the outskirts of His will, purpose, and plan. What is your position?
Get to a place today of standing on God and His word. Begin to break the habits that are not enriching to your life. When something enriches you.....it increases the value and quality of who you are. Sometimes we feel as though the things we do are ineffective. Understand today that everything has an effect on your life .... whether it be good or bad.....there is an effect.
Have you decided? Have you decided whether or not you are going to trust God with your life? Whether or not you are going to trust Him with your words? Whether or not your are going to trust Him with your finances? Have you decided whether or not you are going to trade your life for His?
So what is it that you are holding on to? What are you surrendering all for? What is it exactly that your mind, will, and emotions are wrapped around?
You have a decision to make. A decision is the conclusion or resolution that you come to after consideration. Have you considered God? His will? His way? What is your resolution? The thing that you have resolved to do in your heart. Are you willing to die for the one who died for you? Or is it still all centered around you?
What do you do with what God tells you to do? Do you live it out or let it go?
Life is your opportunity to live for God, in God, and through God. It is your chance to reflect the characteristics and love of God. But how you live it and who you live it for is based on your decision.
Your life....your decision.....but always remember.....your life is designed to be an encounter. An encounter means to meet or come across someone or something. Understand that the impact of your encounters in life is solely based on your decisions in life because an encounter is designed to impact and influence.
So again I ask the question....have you decided? Are you ready to give yourself away in order to be used by and for God?
Have you ever been at a place of wondering if God loves you? Wondering if He cares what you are going through? Well He does. You have to always remember that He has already said that He will never leave you nor forsake you. You have to rest in the fact that whatever God has said in His word is true. What ever He has done in His word,, He will do for you. God is not a respecter of persons. What He does for one, He will do for you.....
Resting can sometimes be hard because there are always distractions. A distraction is anything that causes you to lose focus. It can be a person, a place, or a thing. Even Jesus had to separate Himself to go pray....so know that there will times in your life when you have to separate yourself. It is in those times of separation that God will speak to you and give you direction. It removes you from the chaos. When you are in chaos, it is hard to hear....it is hard to see. But when you are in a place that is free of all the other stuff, you will be able to see and hear clearly.
Take time today to separate yourself. Take time to let go. To let go of everything that is holding on so tightly to you. Every fear, every hurt, every doubt, and every pain. Take time to remember. To remember who God is to you. To remember that you have a heavenly Father that loves you so much that He sent His son to die for you. To remember His words to you.
Take time to trust. To trust the God in you. The words inside of you that tell you constantly that you are loved. That you are healed. That God will never leave you or forsake you. Trust the fact of who God is and that He is all that to you. Get to know Him on an intimate level. Intimacy is a place of knowing. Where everything is poured out and nothing is hidden. Be intimate with God.....tell Him your hurts, your wants, and your desires. Let Him in so that He can bring healing to whatever is causing you unrest and pain. Trust Him today. Trust Him with you. When you learn to trust Him with you.....you can then truly trust Him with everyone and everything else because at that point you have solidified the knowing. Knowing that He is who He said and that He will do what He said He would do. When you "know".....you pray with undeniable faith. You believe no matter what it looks like. You rest and you trust.
It's not your job to understand why others do what they do. It's not your job to figure it out. It's not your job to judge. It's just your job to love. The Bible says to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Sometimes its hard to pour out love when all others are pouring out is hurt. It's hard to do for others when others are never willing to do for you. It's hard to extend your hand when others are only slapping the hand you put out to help. Nevertheless, God said to love. Nevertheless, it doesn't stop or cancel out what God has told you to do.
God never said what He was calling you to do would be easy. He never said that you would be able to do it without being hurt or talked about. He just said to do it. Love is a sacrifice. You have to sacrifice what you feel and what you want to do ..... in order to pour out on others. In order to help others. In order to do what God has told you to do. You have to go beyond yourself.
Isn't it funny how self will talk to you. It will tell you to just let it go. To forget about the other person because they don't care about you. You need to know how to distinguish the voice of God from the voice of self. God's voice always speaks love. His voice always says to help. His voice says don't worry about what someone else is saying or doing.....be who He created you to be.
Self says....just let it go or let them go. Self says .... "oh well". Self says if you don't love me....I won't love you. You have to understand that true love is not based on how someone else feels about you. Or what someone else can do for you. True love just "is". It is who God is. It exists because God exists. There is nothing that can cause God to die. Therefore love does not die based on what someone else does. Love lives because God lives. That is who He is. God is Love.
Try living your life today selfless. Less of self. Try pouring out the God in you.....which is the love in you on someone who in your natural eye doesn't deserve it. Try being the creation that God created you to be. A vessel of love. A vessel of kindness. A vessel that gives instead of always looking to receive. Try being God's gift to a dying and hurting world. Try being a vessel of prayer and praise.
We tend to try to hold what God has given us in reserve. When the actual fact is....that the love that God has given us....He has given in abundance. The reason that He pours out His love so generously to us is so that we can pour it out on someone else.
We have to adopt a "no matter what" attitude. We have to say "no matter what"......"I will love you". No matter how you hurt me. No matter what you do to me. I will love you. You have to begin to think with your heart and not with your soul. Your soul is comprised of your mind, your will, and your emotions. They are all rooted in self. Whereas your heart is the place where God dwells based on your faith.
Please understand that free will leaves you with many choices. Love is a choice. Whether or not God is seated on the throne of your heart is a choice. When given a choice.....you must choose. There is no neutral point in the choices you make for God. Either you choose to be on His side and do it His way or you choose not to. Either you are or your aren't. Either you do it His way or your own. Remember, God is not rooted in self. We need to be rooted in God.
Worship For Today.....
"Send Your Rain"
Ministered By Pastor Clint Brown & Bishop Marvin Winans
