As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 Do you have absolute surrender to God? Do you know that God is interested in absolute surrender? There are many different kinds of adjustment that one may have to make when we surrender to God. It also make require more than one area of adjustments to be made. Here is a list of areas of adjustments that we may have to make in our lives: In our circumstances (job, home, finances, and others), in our relationships (family, friends, business associates, and others), in our thinking (prejudices,…
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When Adjustments Are Necessary
Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot by my disciple. Luke 14:33 Have you ever want to do what God asked you to do, but didn’t want to make any adjustments in your life? We want God to speak to us and ask us to do things for him. However, we don’t want to make any major adjustments in our lives though. When God spoke to the people in the Bible about what He wanted to do through them, they needed to make some adjustments in their lives. They had to adjust their lives to God. When those adjustments happened, God accomplished His purposes through…
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Reflection Day
In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees, and laws the Lord our God has commanded you?” tell him . . . ‘The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.” Deuteronomy 6:20-25 Good Morning, Friends! Today is Reflection Day! I really love reflection day. It’s a time for me to go back and…
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Digging Deeper
Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:6 Wow what a week about learning about faith. Today, let’s digger deeper into faith. Let’s look at these passages fo scripture and describe the crisis of belief. Read 1 Chronicles 14:8-16. What is the crisis of belief in this passage? Read Matthew 17:24-27. What is the crisis of belief here? What is faith? Read Hebrews 11:1. What is opposite of faith? Read 2 Corinthians 5:7. How important is it for your faith to be in God and what He…
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True Faith That Requires Action
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” James 2:26 When our action doesn’t show our faith, our faith is dead. Our true faith requires us to have action. By your actions, do you have true faith? Let’s read Hebrews 11. Abel offered God a better sacrifice . By faith he was approved as a righteous man. He speaks through his faith. By faith Enoch was taken away so he did not experience death. God took him away. Without faith it is impossible to please God. By faith Noah built an ark. He was warned what was yet not seen and motivated by godly…
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What One Does Tells What One Believes
“David spoke to the men who were standing with him: “What will be done for the man who kills that Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? ”” 1 Samuel 17:26 What you do reveals what you believe about God, regardless of what you say. When God reveals his purpose for you, you will face a crisis – a decision time. How we respond to God, will show the world what we really believe about God! Let’s take a look at King David as a young boy! Read 1 Samuel 16-17. God brought David…
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Encounters With God Are God Size
He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you (Israel) might always fear the Lord your God. Joshua 4:24 God is interest in the world coming to know Him. The only way we will know Him is by seeing him at work. We know Him by his nature, When we see His nature expressed in His activity. Are you a believer in that God will ask you to do something that you can’t do? I am not. If God only asked us to do what we can do or are comfortable with, where does…
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Encounters With God Requires Faith
I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, “Move from here to there” and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. Matthew 17:20-21 When God speaks to you, how do you respond? Do you respond with faith? When God speaks to us we must respond with faith. Faith is having confidence in Hod that he will do what he promised. Seeing what God will do is not faith. If you have to see clearly how something can be accomplished , this is more likely not to be faith. Faith is believing the God who has…
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A Turning Point
Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:6 The turning point in our following God’s will is God has a God-sized assignment for us. We will realize we can’t do it by ourselves. We have to realize the only way to not fail is we need God’s help. This is the point where we are in crisis!! Are we willing to do what God is asking of us or are we going to walk away? Crisis comes from a word that means decision. The same Greek word is…
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Reflection Day
Today is Reflection Day! I really love reflection day. It’s a time for me to go back and reflect on what God has spoken to me about. It gives me time to pray and seek God about what he wants to speak to change in my life. It gives me time to make a game plan of putting action to what God is telling me and asking of me. So!! Get your journals, pens, and bible and spend time with God. Listen to him and obey him. When you get uncomfortable with the quiet, just stay there and give God time to do what he wants. Take time today and…