We Get To Choose What We Believe and How We Respond. If You Remember What God Has Done, Let It Fuel Your Faith For What You Need Him To Do!

Are you willing to let God be God?   Are you willing to let Him take the leading role in your life?   Are you willing to surrender and to submit?   It all starts with willingness.   When you are willing to do something, you accept doing it by choice and you are not reluctant.   God wants us to be "willing and obedient" so that we can eat the good of the land.    

Life will always present to us choices.   We have to choose right from wrong.   We have the blessed ability to make choices in life about what we want to do with our lives.   Even when things don't go the way we plan or want them to go, we still have the ability to choose how we respond to those situations.    We can choose to continue to trust and believe that God will honor His Word in our lives despite what we see.   We get to choose to believe that He is working everything in our lives together for our good and His glory.    We choose what we believe and we choose how we respond. 

As you walk out each and every day in life, walk it out knowing that God is God all by Himself.   Walk it out knowing that He will never leave you and He will never forsake you.   Walk it out  remembering what God has done and let that remembrance fuel your faith for what you need Him to do.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Mark 11:22-26

King James Version

22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Are You Keeping Your Shield Of Faith Up So That You Can Quench The Fiery Darts Of The Wicked?

Are you wading in the water of what someone else has done to you?   Are you angry, mad, depressed, or overwhelmed with the emotions of what "they did"?    If so, it's time to rise up out of it.   People choose to do wrong and the wrong that people do sometimes is directed directly towards you.   But you have to choose to not let what people do to you control how you respond.   

If you serve God, there is a target on your life.   A target is a marked surface that is aimed or fired at.   As a servant of God, the enemy sees the mark that has been placed on your life and his sole ambition is to aim and fire at you so that he can hit you in areas that will hurt.   Areas that will hurt you emotionally.   Areas that will hurt you financially.   Areas that will hurt you physically.    The Bible tells us about the fiery darts of the wicked and we are to quench those fiery darts with our shield of faith.   Understand, that our faith has to remain in God despite the fiery darts that are aimed at our lives.  

So today, make it a point to let it go.   Let go of the anger and the disappointment you may have in people because of what they did to you or against you.   The devil will use any willing vessel but it is still his tactic.    Know that you are shielded by faith and protected by the Father.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Ephesians 6:16

King James Version

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

What We Do Next Is Up To Us But Remember, God Has Already Told Us How To Respond To Every Situation We Encounter In Life

What is your next?   What will you do next?   When situations occur that are not in line with the vision you see for your life or the vision God said for your life, what will you do in response?   Will you still trust and believe what God has said?   He said He would never leave you nor forsake you.   He said He would make a way out of no way.   He said He knows the things you have need of and He said that He is faithful and just to provide you with those things.   So what will you do in response to the trials and the temptations that present themselves to you on this journey called life?   

We have to know what to do next.   We have to know how to respond.   Our response needs to always be a response of faith.   Our response needs to always be in line with God's Word.   God has told us in His Word to be strong in Him and the power of His might.   He has told us to be still and to know that He is God.   He has said that no weapon formed against us shall prosper.   He said that greater is He that is in us than anything in this world.   If we remember what God has said, it should help us to respond to every situation coming against us in life.   

So trust God when He says that He will raise up a standard when the enemy comes against us like a flood. Trust Him when He says that He is watching over His Word to perform it in our lives.   Trust Him when He say that Jesus died so that we can have eternal life.   Trust God and trust His Word.   His Word still speaks and it is speaking to us every day.   Trust not that God is working everything out in our lives for our good and His glory. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Jeremiah 17:7-8

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Are You Living Your Life According To God's Plan and Adapting To His Vision?

What is it that God has called you to do?   Are you doing it?    Are you writing the book?   Are you feeding the hungry?   Are you ministering to the homeless?    Are you living your life in line with what God has asked you to do and not just what others are asking you to do?    

God has a plan and He has a vision for our lives but it is up to us to live our lives according to His plan and to adapt to His vision.    In Jeremiah God said in His Word that He knows the plans He has for us and those plans will give us hope and a future.    We have to understand that God's plans fail not.   He takes everything that is good in our lives and everything that we consider to be bad in our lives and He works it all together for our good.   He builds us up and He makes us stronger.   He undergirds us and He keeps us even at our weakest moments.    

God gives us His Word to live by.   We are strong in Him.   Everything we need is found in Him.    So we have to seek to know His will and once we know His will, He will then reveal His plan.   God has a plan and included in His Master plan is His will for your life.    As you seek Him, trust Him to reveal and to unveil all that He would have you to do for Him as you live out your life here on the earth.     

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

 Jeremiah 1:5 

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Are You Saying What You Believe and Believing What You Say? Are You Rooted and Grounded In Faith?

Where are you in your walk with God?   Are you at a place where you trust Him completely or are you still fluctuating in your faith?    God wants you to believe in Him and to trust Him completely.   He wants you to know that you know that He is God and He wants you to know that He is watching over His Word to perform it in your life.    He wants you to know how to stand still and know that He is God and He wants you to be rooted in Him and His Word so that when the winds of life blow your way, you won't be moved.  

Where are your roots and how deep do they go?   Do they go deep enough?   When I say deep enough, I am asking if they go so far down to the point  that no matter how much the enemy tries to dig into you or should I say press into you, you are still standing on faith.   You have to be rooted and grounded in faith.   You have to say what you believe and you have to believe what you say.    

Every day you should be growing with God.   Every day you should learn more of Him and trust Him more.    Yes, every day you may experience a different challenge but understand as God brings you through each day, you get to experience His love, His mercy, His grace, and His faithfulness.   So don't let the things in life that come to block your faith hinder you from trusting and believing that God is God all by Himself and He is well able to take care of You.    Be rooted and grounded in God's Word.   Know that He loves you and He is never going to leave nor forsake You.   Know that He is faithful and His promises are true.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Colossians 2:7

Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

Are You Going To God, Asking Of God, and Obeying God?

Are you going to God, asking of God, and obeying God?   A lot of times people go to God and they tell Him what they need but they don't choose to obey God.   We have to know that obedience is a key factor in receiving from God.    He wants us to honor Him by honoring His Word.    However, there are many that want God to overlook their disobedience and bless them in-spite of their sin.

One question we should ask ourselves is, should disobedience be rewarded?    If your child or children  deliberately disobeys the instructions you have given them, do you still reward them?    We should not be expecting God to reward our disobedience.    Keep in mind, there is a difference when you have knowledge and know what to do and yet choose not to do it.    

God is a good God.   He is merciful, loving, kind, and forgiving but that does not mean we should take advantage of His mercy, love, kindness, and forgiveness.   It doesn't mean we should sin just because we know we are forgiven.   If God wanted us to live freely in sin, He would not have told us to sin not.   He would not have told us to be holy as He is holy.   He would not have told us to repent.    

We have to learn how to live our lives according to God Word and know that His blessings are connected to our obedience.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Isaiah 1:19-20

King James Version

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Are You Leaning To Your Own Understanding or Allowing God To Direct Your Path?

Are you leaning to your own understanding or are you acknowledging God and allowing God to direct your path?   It's easy in life to go on what you know.   To flow in the ways that you have been and are comfortable with but UNDERSTAND, God wants us to walk by faith.   Faith is not based on what you know.   It is based on having your hope and trust in what God has said.   It's trusting in the promise of God's provision, healing, and grace. 

God wants you to look not at what you see in the natural.   Instead He wants you to keep the eyes of your understanding stayed on Him.   Your eyes are the organs through which you see.   When you eye someone, you watch them closely and with interest.   God wants us to watch Him closely.   He wants to be the One who we are interested in.    He doesn't want us to be distracted and He doesn't want our vision to be skewed.   When something is skewed, it is twisted, turned, or suddenly changed.   He wants us to remain focused on Him no matter what is going on around us. 

In the beginning of the year 2020, God said we have to have 20/20 vision in 20/20 and we can see why.   With the pandemic and so many other things going on in this world right now, we have to have faith.   We have to have our trust and our reliance in God.   The trials that we are going through in the world can easily distract us and cause us to walk in fear but God wants us to fear not.   He wants us to know that He is God and He is well able to deliver us.    

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Ephesians 1:18

King James Version

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,