Do You Love God Enough?

God love you.   He love you with an unending love.   His love is not forgetful and it is not determined by how you treat Him.   He loves you beyond your faults and your fears.   The question is, do you love Him?  Are you willing to give Him first place in your life?    Are you willing to surrender the things that appeal to your flesh so that you can live a life that is pleasing unto God?   Do you love God enough?   Enough to surrender all to Him for Him.    

IT'S TIME TO DETOXIFY PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY - October 23, 2015

God was talking to me this morning about detoxifying.    Then when I opened up my Facebook, one of my friends who is a worshipper was talking about the same thing.    Detoxification means to remove toxic substances or qualities.    When your remove something, you take something away or off of the position that it has occupied.    We have to understand, there are times when we have to detoxify physically and spiritually.   Physically, there are things we have put in our bodies that we know are not healthy for us and spiritually there are thoughts and actions that we have been ruled and reigned by that we know are not right for us.   So we need to detoxify both physically and spiritually.  

Detoxification is a cleansing.   To cleanse means to wash something thoroughly and to disinfect.    One synonym for disinfect is the word purify.    We have to disinfect our lives.    When you break down the word disinfect, you see that “dis” means to take away or to negate.    Then you have the word infect.   When something is infected, it is contaminated and contamination spreads.  So the word disinfect means to take away the contamination.    

The thing we must understand is that infection comes from exposure to something.  What are you exposing your life to?   What are you consuming physically and spiritually?   In other words, what are you allowing to come through the gate of your mouth physically and what are you allowing to come through your eye and ear gates spiritually?   You have to make sure you are exposing your life to the right things.    Don’t allow your life to breakdown based on what you are eating physically or spiritually.    Make sure you are consuming what is healthy for you.  To consume means to eat, drink, or ingest.   Make sure you are eating, drinking, and ingesting the right foods physically and make sure you are drinking from the water of God’s Word spiritually.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"Renew Me"

Ministered By Martha Munizzi

 

REFERENCE/CITATION:  

Martha Munizzi - Renew Me - LIVE (@marthamunizzi). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB8xorl9rBU

Are You Still Trusting God For Peace In The Middle Of Your Hard Situation? (September 13, 2015)

What makes you think that you can do it alone?   Why are you not seeking God and waiting for His directions?   You have to learn how to have peace in the “midst” of the storm.  In other words, even when you are right in the middle of a hard situation, you have to learn how to still have peace.   We have to understand what Jesus said in John 14.   He said that He left us “His” peace and the peace of God goes beyond our understanding.  

When we are walking in faith, we cannot allow the emotions of fear to override our stand of faith.   Fear is defined as a basic natural instinct, whereas, faith is defined as having complete trust in someone  or something.   You have to allow your trust in God to override how you feel even when what you feel can be substantiated.   In other words, even though you have a reason to fear, you have to let your trust and belief in God and His Word override your emotions.    You have to allow God’s Word to give you peace within.   So even though there is turmoil going on all around your life, you can still have peace within knowing that God is the Creator and Keeper of all things … even your life.    

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"I'm At Peace"

Ministered By Vicki Yohe

Vicki Yohe - I'm at Peace. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgboHdURmIk

 

 

Are You Holding On To What You Can See or To What God Has Said? (September 10, 2015)

What are you holding on to?   Are you holding on to God’s promises or are you  holding on to what you can see in this natural world?   We have to understand that God’s promises are more valid than what we see in this natural realm.    When something is valid, it is viable, defensible, and justifiable.    We have to understand the viability of God’s Word.   Meaning His Word is always capable of living and producing success in our lives.   It is only through disobedience that we incapacitate the Word of God.     When something is incapacitated, it is deprived the its ability and strength to function the way it was created to function.    

My original questions was “what” are you holding on to? In other words, what is it or where is it that you have placed your faith and trust?  Is it in God and His Word or is it in what you can see, touch, feel, or do?    God’s Word is true.   It does NOT and can NOT change.   God’s Word is established.   When something is established, it is set and fixed.    Never let your hope and faith rest upon what you can see.   Always put your hope and faith in what God has said.    

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"I Stand On Your Word"

Ministered By Jonathan Butler

Jonathan Butler - I Stand On Your Word [Official Video]. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYB8CLcv7pU

 

How are You Handling Rejection? Are You Still Walking In The Word, Will, and Plan of God?

So often in life we say we won't get mad, we won't get upset, and it won't bother us and yet it does.   Deep inside the wheels are still turning.  We still feel the hurt, the pain, and the disappointment.   We still feel the rejection.   No matter how hard we try not to feel it, the feeling is still there and we have to learn how to deal with rejection from others.    None of us want to be rejected because we are God's vessels of love.  So often we do our best to allow God's love to flow through us to all people and yet there are times when others reject the love of God.  They feel as though they are rejecting us personally and in essence they are rejecting the love of God.  

It is at those times that we have to remember what Romans 8:28 says about knowing that all things work together for our good.  We have to "know" that even though we experience rejection while doing the word, will, and work of God, that rejection is working for our good in our lives.   To be rejected means to be refused, declined, or turned down.  It's hard to believe that people will refuse God's love, turn down God's love, and decline God's love but they do.  Jesus experienced rejection throughout His life here on earth and so shall we.   The thing is, Jesus knew how to respond when He was rejected.    The Bible says in John 1:11 that He came to His own, and yet they rejected Him.   So we shouldn't be surprised when we experience rejection.   The rejection Jesus experienced did not cause Him to stop walking in and fulfilling the will of God.  So just because you experience rejection, it is not an excuse for you to stop doing what God has told you to do.  

Worship For Today ... 

"I Will Run"

Ministered By Freddy Rodriguez

I Will Run - Freddy Rodriguez. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTNjM3UnX3I

   

It's Time To Be Weaned From The Ways of The World and To Walk In Spiritual Awareness (August 30, 2015)

There are times when you have to quiet your mind, your will, and your emotions.    We have to wean ourselves from the things we have been dependent upon in the world and we have to attach ourselves to the things of God.   To wean means to detach from a source of dependence.   What is it that you have been dependent upon?    What or who has been your source of support?   Has it been God or is your reliance in what you can see, feel, touch and taste.  Those things that are based on your physical senses rather thank your spiritual awareness of God's Word and will for your life.   

Just as a baby switches over from nursing or a bottle to actual food, it's time for us to make the switch.   It's time for us to let go of the things of the world and to lean and rely on God and His Word.   It's time to be weaned and its time to allow our lives to be quieted and comforted by water of God's Word.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
Psalm 131
King James Version (KJV)

131 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

3 Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for ever.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"Let Go Let God"

Ministered By Dwayne Woods

 

What Are You Contemplating, Planning, Aiming, and Purposing In Your Heart? (August 28, 2015)

What is your heart's intent?  What is it that you are intending to do in your heart?   To intend means to contemplate, plan, aim, and purpose.   What are you purposing in your heart?  What is it that you are contemplating?  The book of Jeremiah talks about the heart being deceitful.   When something is deceitful, it is misleading and being misled causes you to go astray.   To seek after and to sometimes lust after things that are not truly a part of God's plan for your life.    We have to be like David and ask God to cleanse our heart and to renew a right spirit within us.      We have to stay in God's Word and understand that it is quick, powerful, and sharper than a two-edged sword.    We have to let God's Word discern our thoughts and our intentions.   

Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Psalms 51:10 - Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Hebrews 4:12 - For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

So don't be led by what you think or what you feel.  Be led by God and His Word.   Have faith in God's Word and not your feelings.   Line your thoughts up with God's God's Word and not Your personal desires.

Worship For Today ...

"Create In Me A Clean Heart"

Ministered By Misty Edwards and Lauren Holmes

Misty Edwards & Lauren Holmes - Create In Me A Clean Heart. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6QyIEWpGA