Get Rich Quick: Count Your Blessings

Lamentation 3:22-23
Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassion never fail. They are new every morning, great is your faithfulness.

A SIGN IN FRONT OF A CHURCH READS, Get rich quick: Count your blessing! " Interested in hitting the jackpot? Sit down and ponder the goodness of God and what He has already bestowed on you.
   In St. Petersburg, Russia a special needs orphanage. In this home were 90 children  cared for by compassionate, caring staff members. The goes like this; I heard the plea from the director who shared with me the challenges of feeding and clothing the youngster amidst a shrinking budget. It made me feel ashamed of what I take for granted and what I spend on things that don't really make difference.
   Take a few moments block out the heartaches and focus on family, friends and valued relationships.
   When you take inventory of what God has given to you, you will discover riches you had no idea are within your grasp. Most of us today fail to recognize the blessing that come from the hand of God. We are much like those of whom the psalmist wrote, "They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt" (Psalm 106:21).
  Our parents, or perhaps your grandparents, used to sing a Gospel song written by Johnson Oatman Jr. The chorus reads, "Count your blessing, name them one by one; Count your many blessing; see what God has done." Focusing on what God has done for you--rather than what you want from Him--is medicine for soul. It will do more to lift you from your doldrums than winning the lottery, because the blessings of the Almighty remain when everything else fades.

Inner man.

EPHESIANS 3:16
...that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man.

Real strength is found in what Paul called "the inner man." He understood that life is to be lived from within the inner man. To be strengthened through God's Spirit in the inner man is to experience the  ministry of the Spirit of Christ within us, living each moment in recognition that He alone is our source of life.
  It's from the inside that the indwelling Christ will transform you. It's so easy to get it backward. Legalistic religion seeks to reform us from the outside, stressing that if we will simply behave in certain ways we will be changed. The effect of legalism is always the same. Jesus said people might clean up well on the outside, but on the inside, still be full of filth.
  Refuse to fall into the self-help perversion of grace that would tell you that you need to improve what you do outwardly to facilitate inward change. The indwelling Christ is capable of  hanging you from the inside out. Protect and nature your inner life, and outward actions will fall into line

SHOUT YOUR VICTORY ALWAYS

2 Corinthians 2:14
Thank be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ.

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 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 failure because Divine DNA flows from your spirit.
  Armed with the knowledge that you can't be a failure, you are in the unique position of being able to attempt great things. If you truly believe you could never be a failure, what would you attempt? The apostle Paul 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 failure defines who you are. In fact, it is often true that apparent failure are not actual failures. They may actually be tools in the hands of God intended to teach us, strengthens us, and guide us into His perfect plan. So Shout your victory always.

The Deception of Pragmatism when

Psalm1:6
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

TODAY WE ARE IN THE MIDST of a culture war and the more than  softwares piracy or the bending of the truth when it suit us.
Many people say: "if it work, do it; if you can get away with why not?  This kind of reasoning has engulf our society, our generation like fog that gradually drift in obscuring our vision and blighting our lives. Pragmatism has blurred what is right and wrong, made gray what is black and white.
Our culture today is one based on pragmatism, a philosophy founded by psychologist William James who in the year 1907, posed this situation: "Granting an idea or belief to be true, what concrete difference will it's being true make in anyone actual life? What experiences will be be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiental terms?"' pragmatism means truth is not absolute but is subject to changing situations and circumstances. Somehow, it depends on how you feel about the
But you can be easily swept away by the tide.of pragmatism when anchor for your soul. You end up in bondage of the worst kind and you become engulf in a darkness that traps you.
You're got to decide whether you will allow yourself to be influenced by the moral relativism of pragmatism. You need to choose between that which feels good anything that you can get away with, or walking the narrow path God has paved, yet only few take. Choose carefully.

SET against SICKNESS

MARK 16:17,18
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues: They shall take up serpents: and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall re-cover.

Let's stop and analyze something here. Just which of the sick did Jesus say we were to lay hands on?
Jesus just said "the sick"-- period.
Then, if God were the author of sickness-- if God did put sickness and disease on people-- if it were the will of God for some to be sick this statement would be confusing. Because in it, Jesus authorized us to lay hands on All sick.
If God weren't in the healing business, Jesus would have had to say something like, "Lay your hands on those that it is the will of God to heal, and they shall re-cover. And those it isn't-- they won't re-cover."
But, no! God set the Church against sickness--- period!

To Usward

Psalm 40:5
Many, O Lord my God, are Thy wonderful works which thou hast done, Thy thoughts which are to us-ward. . . .

Did you notice this phrase in Ephesians 1:19,. . . the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe. . . ?
All the demonstration of the glory of God shown in the manifestation of His omnipotence pointed to man ---"you as ward. "
The Cross of Christ--- with what is revealed of obedience to God atonement for sin, and crushing defeat for the enemies of divine authority shows us a representative Man.
Christ was our Representative, our Substitute overcoming for mankind and preparing a throne and a heavenly ministry for those who should overcome through Him
The source of our authority is therefore found in the resurrection and seating of Christ by God. In the Book of Ephesians, we learn that God wants the Church to gain revelation knowledge of all that this means to us.

Lord. Teach us to pray

Luke 11:1
And it came to pass, that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of His disciple said unto Him, Lord, teach us to pray. . . .

Someone said, "It is more important that men learn to pray than they gain a college education." Notice he did not say that having an education is not important: he said,thay learning to pray is more important.
  I feel sorry for  people who don't know how to pray. When the crisis of life come, they know how to say words-- but just spouting off words into the atmosphere isn't praying! Simply talking into the air is not praying. Taking up twenty minutes on a the Lord celebration service. Morning devotion, corporate prayer men should prayed. Relationship work. Abide! Believers are in touch with the living God. I need more to prayed. Prayer is talking to God