Monday, November 27, 2017

BLOTTED OUT

"Remember not the sin of my youth and my rebellious ways according to your love remember me, for you are good O Lord."
Psalm 25:7

Poor memories are a part of human condition. And so when God tells us that He will remember our sins no more, I'm puzzled. How could God possibly forget?  That's our job!
   But He does. And His forgetting of my sin is a complete removal from His knowledge of every sin you and I have committed.
   Then why do we feel so bad about our past sin? Because we confuse sin with its impression. Got a notepad nearby? Let me show you how this can be so. Write the word "sin" on the page. Press hard. Now tear off that sheet if paper, crumple it up, and throw it across the room. That's how God forget your sin
   Now take your pencil and rub it on the new page at an angle, back and forth, over same location where you wrote. And guess what: The ghost of the word "sin appears.
   That's what our flawed memories do. We go back over the deep impression left by transgression in our life, and we feel just as guilty. It's as if the sin never left. But be encouraged, the impression of sin is not the same thing as sin. And with David you can cry out, "I can't forget my scar, it seems, Lord. But you have forgotten their cause. Look upon me with loving kind eyes.'

THE LAW OF THE LORD

The law of the Lord is perfect, it gives new strength, the  commands of the Lord are trustworthy, giving wisdom to those who lack it.
Psalm 90:7

God's Word is perfect spiritual Law. It is supernatural Medicine it work through the human spirit and is s spiritual cure, but like any other medicine, it must be applied on a regular basis. You Must SPEAk GOD'S Word to your individual circumstances or situation someone else can't do it for you. James 1:21 admonishes us to "receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls." Once the Lord of God is engrafted into your spirit, it produces results in the body as well.
    Jesus said, "if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (John15:7). When God's Word becomes engrafted or infused into your spirit, it becomes a part of you. It cannot be separated from you! It is not only your thought and affirmation, IT IS YOU! THE WORD MADE FLESH. Then your flesh will reflect the life if that Word. When God's  Word concerning healing takes roots in your flesh, it becomes greater than disease, and healing is the result.
    The image that the word creates in you is already a reality in the spirit realm. When you speak God's Word from your heart, then faith gives  substance to the promises of God. Your faith frames your world daily, Jesus made it very plain"s good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things. . ." (Matt12:35).
    In the first chapter of Genesis you will notice that every time God spoke, creation took place! Words are the CARRIERS OF FAITH! "The worlds were framed by the Word of God" (Heb. 11:3). Without words, there wouldn't have been any creation. Your words create images, and eventually you will live out the reality of that image.
    Every time you speak your faith, it creates a stronger image inside you. If it  is healing you desire, the healing is created by God's Word and your continual
affirmation and agreement with you will come to pass. Eventually that image will be perfected by the Word of God and you will begin to see yourself well. When the Word is engrafted into you, it infuses its life into you. Read (John 6:63, Rom. 8:11).

Sunday, November 26, 2017

HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

Thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ.
2 Corinthian 2:14

The Bible says that your Father always causes you to triumph in Christ. Either it is true that you always triumph, or it isn't. The Scripture isn't ambiguous on this subject. If you assume the identity of "failure" when you don't achieve the outcome you hope for, you are setting yourself up for a chronic deception and, consequently continuous defeat. Your success rests in the fact that Jesus Christ is the source of your life. You will never be a failures because Divine DNA flows from your spirit.
   Armed with knowledge that you can't  be failure, you are in the unique position of being able to attempt great things. If you truly believed you could never be a failure, what would you attempt? The apostle wrote, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." The same is true of you.
   Does that mean that things will always turn out exactly the way you want? No. What it does mean is that no matter what the result is, you can move forward knowing that no temporary failures defines who you are. In fact, it is often true that apparent failures are not actual failures. They may actually be tools in the hands God intended to teach us, strengthen us, and guide us into His perfect plan.
   Thank you for declaring your plan  for me, plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans to give me hope and future. I choose to renew my mind to your plans for a healthy lifestyle. You have  abounded toward me in all prudence and wisdom. Therefore I give thought to my steps. I choose  to take my everyday, ordinary life, my sleeping, eating, going to work and walking around life, and place it before you as an offering. Embracing what you do for me is the best u can do for you.

Friday, November 24, 2017

FIND YOURSELF IN ME

If your concern is to look after yourself, you'll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you'll find both yourself and me.
Matthew 10:39

My Kingdom is not always logical, but it is always true. It would seem logical that if you wanted to find yourself you'd go looking for all the thing that would make you happy, whether it hurt someone else or not. But My way is exactly opposite.
To find yourself, forget about yourself. Take your mind totally off of you and look to Me instead. Care for others more than yourself. Let Me lead you along all the surprising trails and across the uncharted oceans of My love, keep your heart tuned into My channel, and you'll be shocked one day to look up and realize that not only have you found Me, but you have found Me, but you have found youself the one you were created to be!

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Why Don't You Feel Him with You?


They asked each other, "were not our heart burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scripture to us?"
Luke 24:32

IMMEDIATELY BEFORE HE RETURNED to the Father's presence, Jesus made a promise to His followers: "And remember, I Am with you always, day by day, until the close of the Age" (Matthew 28:20 weyMouth). The book of Hebrews echoes those words, quoting. Jesus as saying, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you!"
    Why is it then that many say they do not feel the Lord is nearby? This promise was made to God's children which explain why it is hard for many non-believers to sense the warmth of His presence
    Others, though, are simply too busy to notice that He is there. They have no time to read the Bible, no time to hear His gentle voice, and no time to cultivate a relationship with Him. Then others never experience His presence or impact in their lives because their lifestyles are completely out of harmony with God's will. Do you want to cultivate an awareness of His presence? Here are some guideline.
1. Practice the presence of Jesus by serving others. Jesus was a servant, and you will never be closer to Him than when you serve as well.
2. Practice the presence of Jesus by developing an attitude of humility.
3. Practice the of Jesus through obedience. God has not given us the burden of understanding, but the simple mantle of obedience, leaving the reasons to His care.

Monday, November 20, 2017

Giants as your Bread

Oh, do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land. For they are but bread for us to eat! The Lord is with us and he has removed his protection from them! Don't be afraid of them!
Number 14:9 TLB

A Sunday School Teacher told the story of David  and Goliath. She down on how big Goliath was. Then turning to one of the boys, she asked. "How would you like to fight someone that big!" Squirming, the lad replied, "No way, but if you bring on someone about my size. I'll take him on any day
    The problem though is that the giants you have to face don't come by "special order." Some problems seem to be your size; some are not. Joshua made a fascinating statement about the land of Canaan and its giants.
    The giants, he said, are "bread" for us. The word he used referred to wheat or grain that had been ground and made into a loaf. The same word was used for the showbread in the tabernacle. What he is really saying is that these giants whom you fear will be ground like wheat, becoming bread for you. And, if I may extend the metaphor, like the nourishment you get from bread, they will feed your faith and make you strong. That's the way it is with the giants in  your life.
    Do what do you do when you see a giants looming in your path pathway? Smile and say, "Here comes my bread!, knowing that God put the giants in your path so that you might subdue it and thus grow from the experience make whole or deal less frightening.
    Joshua's advice is good for us today: Don't rebel against God and don't fear the giants: but like David, confront him in the named of the Lord, and your giants will be bread for your soul.
   

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Any thing else

For many as are led by the by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God.
Roman 8:4

We don't want to miss God's best for our lives. We want to be held on a steady course by His guiding presence. So, where do we find that guidance, that leading? Let's start by looking at some of the essential prerequisites that help us determine God's will. Thankfully, these are neither ambiguous nor mysterious
1. First and foremost, you must be a Christian. Read (Roman 8:4). When you accept Christ as the Savior and Lord of your life, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within you. Among other things. He is there to reveal the will of God to you. Only the believer has the Spirit's presence within, and we must have this inside help if we are going to follow the will of God.
2. Second you must be wise. "Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil" (Ephesians 5:15-16). Here a couple of examples of the foolishness that can occur when people attempt to decipher God's will in the wrong way. God tells us not to be foolish, but wise, making the most of our time, taking every opportunity that comes our way and using it wisely.
   Before his twentieth birthday, Jonathan Edwards, the brilliant and godly philosopher theologian who became God's instrument in the Great Awakening revival of the eighteenth century, resolved "Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can." That is exactly what he did, using well the intellectual gifts God had given him. He entered Yale at thirteen and at seventeen graduated at the head of his class. At twenty-six he was the minister of one of the largest congregation in Massachusetts.
    Scripture says that doing the will of the Lord requires wisdom, for, as Paul writes in the next verse, those who are wise, those who are not foolish, "understand what the will of the Lord is." Following the will of God requires wisdom, clear thinking, and, yes, even good old garden variety common sense. Such a mixture of help us understand the Father's will.
3.Third you must really want to do the will of God. "If any man is willing to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from my Myself" (John 7. 17). Your "want to" is a greenlight: You really will do what He wants you to do. You really want to do the will of God more than anything else. More than completing your education, more than getting married, more than getting your house paid for; more than getting anything else you want to do the will of God.
    Looking back on my own life, I know that there have been times when I said I wanted to do His will but I really didn't. That's a tough thing to confess, but looking back with 20/20 hindsight, I realize that at times I resisted His will. I've learned that serious consequences follow selfish resistance. The apostle Paul offers words of counsel to those who were enslaved. They have great meaning for in this context. "Slaves, be obedience to those who are your master according to the flesh, with fear and trembling in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ," wrote Paul, not by way of eye service, as men pleasers but as slave of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart (Ephesians 6:5-6, emphasis added).
    Doing the will of God from the heart that's as deep as it gets. More than pleasing people, more than staying comfortable and safe, you want to please God. You want to follow His will with all of your being.