Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Understanding That You Are A Piece In God's Puzzle and There Is Someone Else Connected To Your Life ....

There is a lot for you to do.   There is a lot that God wants you to do.    Then there is a lot that you want to do.    We have to learn how to prioritize.    Sometimes we look and we see all that needs to be done and we want to do it all.    We want to help everybody and we want to accomplish all things.   The first question must be is it what God is telling us to do?    Sometimes we do so much stuff that it takes us away from what God wants us to do in Him.   

God wants us blessed.   He wants us prosperous.   He wants us healthy.   He wants us strong.   More than that .... God wants to use us.    What we have to undertand is that there is a difference in being used by God and just being used.   

Begin to look at your life.   Begin to look at your lifestyle.   Are the things that you are doing reflecting back to who God is.    The places you are going.   The people you are hanging with.   Is there an edification process taking place?   Whether it be in you or in them  .... someone should leave built up, encouraged, or strengthened.   

Get to a place where you no longer waste time?   Where your life is centered around doing whatever it is that God needs and wants you to do.    Do things that edify and strengthen those around you.   Learn how to let go of what is not of God.    Understand today that your life is part of the puzzle of God's plan.    There are many pieces to a puzzle.   But each piece connects.    Understanding how each piece connects shows you that there is someone else connected to your life.   It is imperative that you get in place for them.     In other words .... someone elses destiny is connected to you being in place.  The position that God has called you to be in.    It's really not about you.   So that is why we can no longer waste time.   


Worship For Today .....
"Show Me Your Glory"
Ministered By Lakewood Live

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Will You Be Extreme For God Today?

What is the "extreme" thing that you are doing for God today?    Extreme means reaching a high or highest degree.   It means excessive.   When something is excessive, it is more than what is necessary.    What is it that you are doing for God today that goes beyond your norm?    To some people the norm is just saying thank you.   To some people the norm is saying the Father's Prayer.    No one knows your norm but you and God.     The things you normally do.    Are you willing to step out on faith and push beyond your norm today.    To go into the realm of the unknown.   To pray like you never have before.   To worship like you never have before.     Maybe you have never shared your faith.    Are you willing to do that today?    What is it that you can do today that you haven't done before.   

It's time to step into extreme faith.    There are people that need to see the God in you.    You are their designated light.   The problem is .... if you never turn on your light within ..... how can they see?   How can they know the things that are surrounding them.    If you stay with them in a dark room and have the ability to within you to shine forth light ......    What happens when they stumble and fall.   When they get hurt.    Have you ever considered the fact that you could have provided the light that was needed in order to reveal the obstacles that were in the way.   

No not everyone will want to see your light and there will be some that will try to cover it up because they just prefer to stay in dimness and darkness.   However, it is still up to us to shine forth light where it is needed and pray that those around us will recognize the obstructions in the way.  Understanding that an obstruction is anything that impedes or prevents passage or progress.     Amen...



Worship For Today .....
"Made Me Glad"
Ministered By Hillsong

Monday, February 27, 2012

What Is The Difference? Is There A Noticeable Difference In You and The World?

What differentiates you from the world?   What is the noticeable difference between you and the world?   How are your thoughts different from that of the word?   How are your actions different from that of the world?   Is the word of God really being effective in your life?   Do you take the word as final authority for what you do and what you say?    Or do you read it and pick out what sounds good and what feels good to your flesh to do?    What do you think you are accountable for?   Part of what God has said or all of what God has said?    

So often we use the scripture that says that it is the truth that you know that will set you free.    We fail to read the "and" that comes at the beginning of that verse (John 8:32).    The word and means "in addition to".   So we have understand that something else comes along with knowing the truth and being free.     In John 8:31, Jesus is talking to the Jews and He is talking about believing in Him and  abiding in His word.  You have to understand that if you want to truly be free..... you have to first abide in His word.   You cannot know the truth unless you living it.   

John 8:31-32
31So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples.  32And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.
It's time to get to the place of abiding .... so that you can truly be FREE.  


Worship For Today ....
"Holy Is The Name"
Ministered By Nicole C. Mullen

Sunday, February 26, 2012

What Would It Take For You To Give God Your All? We Have To Get To A Point Of Being Harnessed By The Word Of God ....

What would it take for you to give God your all?    You say you love Him.... yet you hold on to "you".    You say you trust Him .... yet you hold on to "you".    You say you believe Him....yet you hold on to "you".    What is that about?   The holding on to you?   Is it about control?    Do you really want to try to control your own life?   It is so much bigger than you?    There is so much you cannot see.   Yet God can see all things because all things exist in Him.    Why is it that you feel the need to control "you"?   What is it going to take for you to give it all to Him?    

The thing about control is .... when we try to control our lives .... it become unrestrained.   We have to understand today that it is God and His word that are our restraint.     A restraint is a measure or condition that keeps us within limits.    It is a harness.    What happens if you don't harness your emotions?   What happens if you don't harness your actions?   What happens if you don't harness your fears?    Uncontrolled emotions, uncontrolled actions, and uncontrolled fears lead to undesirable results.    We have to be harnessed by God's word in order to stay in the limits of God's will.   

You say you want God to use you today.    In order to be used by God ..... you have to be willing to be harnessed by God.     To be geared up in Him and His word.    Allow you life to be God's light.    The one requirement is letting go of what you have been holding on to .... and the thing that you have been holding on to is self.


Worship For Today .....
"Lord I Praise You"
Ministered By Clint Brown

Saturday, February 25, 2012

What Does It Mean To Be Holy, Pure, and Acceptable? Don't Allow The Things Of Your Past To Be A Stumbling Block For Your Future.....

What is it that you are thinking on?   What is it that you are doing?   The Bible is clear.   Have you taken the time to read what it says in Philipians 4?   What is it that you are rejoicing in.   To rejoice means to gladden or delight oneself in something.    Is the source of your delight Godly or is it even of God?    Are you allowing the peace of God to bring tranquility to your soul?    To your mind .... to your will ..... and to your emotions.     We have to be careful and make sure that the things that we are finding our delight in are of God.    Remember the devil knows the things that have proven to be a stumbling block in your past.   The seeds that were planted and that would try to spring forth in your now (which was then your future).    

Are you feeding your passions or are you causing the word of God  to arise in you?    The thing that you are doing .... is it of God?    Is He looking at you and saying .... "I am well pleased" or is He asking why are you allowing the seed of your past to dictate your future".  

Always weigh what you do by the word.   Let the word be the guide that you go by.   Let it have final authority in your life.   Don't allow "lust" to dictate your life and your lifestyle.    Lust is an overmastering desire or craving.    When something overmasters you .... it overtakes and overcomes you.     Is your life worth the outcome.     The ultimate result of living by your mind, your will, and your emotions.    
4Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him]; again I say, Rejoice!  5Let all men know and perceive and recognize your unselfishness (your considerateness, your forbearing spirit).  The Lord is near [He is [a]coming soon].  6Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition ([b]definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. 7And God's peace [shall be yours, that [c]tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall [d]garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
    8For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them].
9Practice what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and model your way of living on it, and the God of peace (of [e]untroubled, undisturbed well-being) will be with you.

Worship For Today .....
"Pure and Holy Passion"
Ministered By William Murphy

What Are You Allowing To Discredit God In Your Life?


If God called you and laid everything before you today and told you to choose. What would your choice be? Would your choice be based on your deisres or His word? Would they be based on things that are holy and pure or the desires of your flesh?

Know today ...... that this is exactly what God is doing. He is saying choose this day who you will serve. Choose this day what you will reflect. Choose this day what you will say. He is giving you a choice. He is not going to answer it for you. He is not going to make you do the right thing. You have to choose. You have to make the decision that you want to honor God in all that you do. Your words mean nothing if your actions don't follow what you say. Your lifestyle presents a picture. You are painting a portrait for all to remember. What do your wnat your kids to see? How do you want them to reflect?

Do you not understand that everything in life comes to a point of being uncovered. Will those around you still respect you when the uncovering takes place?  When the outward appearance is gone and the truth behind how you think, act, and feel is revealed? Will they see the same you? Will the voice behind your actions still be God's voice? Understand today that demons speak. The definition of a demon is a cruel, evil, destructive person or thing. Destructive means to negate or be unhelpful. It means to overthrow, disprove, or discredit. What in your life are you allowing to discredit who God is? How exactly did you get to that place?

Friday, February 24, 2012

What Are You Allowing To Dominate Your Life? Are There Any Jezebel Spirits In Your Life?

What we have to understand first and foremost is that Jezebel is not just a person in the Bible.   Jezebel is a spirit and this spirit is operative throughout the world today.    The Jezebel spirit is one of domination and control.   It seeks to manipulate situations and circumstances in order to achieve the ultimate goal of control.   This Jezebel spirit seeks to have and maintain control "by any means necessary".   This spirit is not always obvious.   It actually appears to be submissive in order to gain influence.    It is a spirit of deception and a spirit of manipulation.   

There are many factors that influence our lives today.   Some we have control over and some we do not.   But we have to become more aware.   Aware of the things that we allow to enter our lives.   Our thoughts.  The things that we allow to influence our action and contribute to our emotions.    It's time to look around and see and actually ask yourself ..... what is influencing your actions and reactions to and in life.    

Is it people?   Is it places?   Is it things?    What is dominating your thoughts and causing you to make the  decisions you are making?   Are you being intimidated by the world?   By the worlds way of doing things.   Intimidation means ..... to make timid or to fill with fear.   Is fear controlling your life?   If so.....what is the source of your fear?    You have to be aware of what is happening to you and around you.    You have to notice the spirits that are operative in your life and you have to know how to deal with them.    

It's time to purge.   When you purge ..... you rid yourself of things that are unwanted and unnecessary.    It means to cleanse and to purify.    But in order to truly cleanse and to truly purify .... you have to be at a place of letting go.    Of letting go of your past, of letting go of your hurt and your pain.   These are things that fall under the Jezebel spirit.   The things that try to control how you think and how you feel.    That dominate who you are.     Are you ready to let go today?

What's Causing You To Forget Who God Is and What He Will Do For You?

Have you forgotten who you are in Christ? Have you gotten to the point where you want to just give up and quit? Have you forgotten who God i...