It is so vitally important that once you become a new creature in Christ that you leave the past exactly where it belongs.. in the past. The worst thing that you can do is to continue to live in the past and relive what was, could have or should have been. Isaiah 43:18, "Allow God to do a new thing, it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it." How can you expect God to do a new thing if you keep are constantly stuck in the past?
Romans 8:1-2," There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death." Once you come to Jesus, the devil will continually use his lies and deceit to make you think that you were better off in the world. The devil is a lie. Do not allow yourself to be beguiled, spoiled and judged. Hebrews 12:2, "Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith."
Learn from your mistakes and why you stayed in transgressions and iniquities. As soon as Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden, sin was put in all of us. Therefore, God already knows that we are going to sin in some way, shape or form. What matters is that we allow the Holy Spirit to come into our lives and teach us whatever is necessary so that we don't consistently repeat the same mistake over and over.
Remember learning has not taken place until there has been a modification in behavoir. If you continue to do the same thing, you will get the same result. Therefore, when you gave your salvation you were basically saying that you tried it your way and it failed. Now that you are doing it the way of Jesus, you must do differently in order to get a different result.
Only the Holy Spirit knows our tomorrow, so we must live each and every day to the absolute fullest as we prepare for tomorrow. Learn from your past, but don't stay in the past and your today and your future will be that much brighter.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Conduct, Character, and Commitment
Can I just say how critical your conduct, character, and commitment are in your daily life. Psalms 51:1-10 talks about guarding your mind, because what is in your mind will come out in your conduct. Your conduct is your character on display and your commitment is what will determine what you put in your mind.
It is a full circle. That is why we are taught in several scriptures throughout the Bible that we are to be transfored from the world. We are in the world, we are not of the world. Once you acknowledge your sins, then you can ask God to forgive you for your sins. Then allow the word of God to cleanse your of your sins.
God is omnipresent and omnipetent. That means that He knows all and sees all. There is absolutely nothing that you can keep from God. You may be able to confuse, lie, hide, and get away with certain things to people, but not from God. God knew your thoughts and what you were going to do before you did.
That is why it is to crucial to conduct yourself only as Jesus did. Therefore, as God told David in Psalms110:1, "The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, Till I make your enemies your footstool." Always allow God to fight your battles for you. Absolutely everything that you do within your conduct, character, and commitment should be that of God. Anything that is contrary will damage your relationship with the trinity. Once it is damaged you will have to show God that He can trust you again. Be a credible witness to others. They should be able to tell that you are diffent from the world.
It is a full circle. That is why we are taught in several scriptures throughout the Bible that we are to be transfored from the world. We are in the world, we are not of the world. Once you acknowledge your sins, then you can ask God to forgive you for your sins. Then allow the word of God to cleanse your of your sins.
God is omnipresent and omnipetent. That means that He knows all and sees all. There is absolutely nothing that you can keep from God. You may be able to confuse, lie, hide, and get away with certain things to people, but not from God. God knew your thoughts and what you were going to do before you did.
That is why it is to crucial to conduct yourself only as Jesus did. Therefore, as God told David in Psalms110:1, "The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, Till I make your enemies your footstool." Always allow God to fight your battles for you. Absolutely everything that you do within your conduct, character, and commitment should be that of God. Anything that is contrary will damage your relationship with the trinity. Once it is damaged you will have to show God that He can trust you again. Be a credible witness to others. They should be able to tell that you are diffent from the world.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Obedience is Better than Sacrafice
Before we can begin to talk about what it means to be disciplined according to the word of God, we must first understand what it means to be disobedient. When you are disobedient 1.) refusing to heard the word of God, 2.) hearing the word of God incorrectly, and 3.) rejecting the will of God. When we are disobedient it is because we are not putting our flesh under subjection. When we do this, then we are meant to suffer and we will have some type of loss in our lives.
If you have a improper attitude you will always cause harm to your relationship with the trinity of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. In James 2:17-22, " Thus also faith by itself is dead, if it does not have works, is dead." The works simply means your obedience to God. Therefore, if you do not have obedience then you can you can not have any faith.
In 1Samuel15:22-23, "Behold to obey is better than sacrafice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of withchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king." When we sacrafice to the devil it will bring death and when we sacrafice to the Lord it will bring abundant life. We must remain obedient even when we are faced with temptation by the world.Delight yourself unto the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. God knows what you need, but he can only give them to you if you always put him first and continue to give him the honor and the glory.
When we are obedient unto God, blessings and favor will be ours for the taking. God wants the absolute best for us and did not create us to fail. The answer to all of our problems, circumstances, situations, tribulations, trials, or any other question rests in the word of God. Matthew 6:24, No one can serve two masters:for either he will hate one and love the other or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You can not serve God and mammon.Therefore, I say to you do not worry about what you will eat or what you will drink.
Just always seek God first in all that you do, say, or think. Remain obedient to God at all times even when you don't understand and you will continue to be blessed and receive favor.
If you have a improper attitude you will always cause harm to your relationship with the trinity of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. In James 2:17-22, " Thus also faith by itself is dead, if it does not have works, is dead." The works simply means your obedience to God. Therefore, if you do not have obedience then you can you can not have any faith.
In 1Samuel15:22-23, "Behold to obey is better than sacrafice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of withchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king." When we sacrafice to the devil it will bring death and when we sacrafice to the Lord it will bring abundant life. We must remain obedient even when we are faced with temptation by the world.Delight yourself unto the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. God knows what you need, but he can only give them to you if you always put him first and continue to give him the honor and the glory.
When we are obedient unto God, blessings and favor will be ours for the taking. God wants the absolute best for us and did not create us to fail. The answer to all of our problems, circumstances, situations, tribulations, trials, or any other question rests in the word of God. Matthew 6:24, No one can serve two masters:for either he will hate one and love the other or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You can not serve God and mammon.Therefore, I say to you do not worry about what you will eat or what you will drink.
Just always seek God first in all that you do, say, or think. Remain obedient to God at all times even when you don't understand and you will continue to be blessed and receive favor.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Be a Credible Witness
I can not begin to tell you how vital it is that you are a credible witness for Jesus Christ. The world has made a complete mockery of what it means to be a Christian. It is up to saints to re-define what it means to be a Christian according to the gospel of God. When you profess that you are a Christian, the world puts a microscope on your life to see what you do, how you act, and what you say.
When they see something that it contrary to what they believe a Christian is supposed be, it has detrimental affects. It then adds to the mockery and Christianity becomes a joke in their eyes. That is why your conduct, character, and commitment must be at the highest level at all times. When things in your life are wonderful, it is easy to be a Christian. The real question comes when times are difficult. For example, the gospel says that we are to be transformed from the world. That is easy when it is something you don't love or care about, but can you do it when it involves something that you cherish or love.
Whenever you feel yourself backsliding go to the hospital of Jesus, better known as 1John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us for our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." When Jesus died on the cross he forgave us for all of our sins whether they are transgressions or iniquities. God loves us with agape love and will never leave or forsake us, Hebrews 13:5.
When you are not a credible witness you disrupt 1.)plan of God, you force God to go to plan B. It shows God that you are not ready for the next progression and He can not bless you with the same favor. Stay on course so that you may receive plan A, which is God's best that He has for you. 2.) Yourself, you pick away at the relationship that you have with God. God is a jealous God and wants you to put him first at all times. 3. Others. They are looking to you to see Jesus. Since they may or may not know Jesus for themselves they are looking to you to see who He is. When they see falsehoods in you, they see falsehoods in Jesus.
Be a credible witness every day and seek the righteousness of the trinity in all that you say and do in your life.
When they see something that it contrary to what they believe a Christian is supposed be, it has detrimental affects. It then adds to the mockery and Christianity becomes a joke in their eyes. That is why your conduct, character, and commitment must be at the highest level at all times. When things in your life are wonderful, it is easy to be a Christian. The real question comes when times are difficult. For example, the gospel says that we are to be transformed from the world. That is easy when it is something you don't love or care about, but can you do it when it involves something that you cherish or love.
Whenever you feel yourself backsliding go to the hospital of Jesus, better known as 1John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us for our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." When Jesus died on the cross he forgave us for all of our sins whether they are transgressions or iniquities. God loves us with agape love and will never leave or forsake us, Hebrews 13:5.
When you are not a credible witness you disrupt 1.)plan of God, you force God to go to plan B. It shows God that you are not ready for the next progression and He can not bless you with the same favor. Stay on course so that you may receive plan A, which is God's best that He has for you. 2.) Yourself, you pick away at the relationship that you have with God. God is a jealous God and wants you to put him first at all times. 3. Others. They are looking to you to see Jesus. Since they may or may not know Jesus for themselves they are looking to you to see who He is. When they see falsehoods in you, they see falsehoods in Jesus.
Be a credible witness every day and seek the righteousness of the trinity in all that you say and do in your life.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Only God Can Judge
It is so critically important that we do not judge others. We have absolutely no idea of every experience or thought of anybody. Only God is all knowing. In Matthew 7:1-2, the Bible says,"Judge not, that you be not judged. For the judgement that you pronounce will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you."
Each individual person must develop their own personal relationship with the trinity of God. When you judge others, then you are judged by the same measure if not more so than if you did not judge in the first place. In John 14:16, Jesus says," I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." That simply means that Jesus is the only way to follow.
Jesus sits on the right hand of God and if God says that we are not to judge then we are not to judge. John 13:34-35 says, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." God is commanding that you love others the way that he loved you. Going further in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 we are given the definition of what it means to love according to God."Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things."
There is absolutely no room for judgement when you obey God's commandment to love one another if you are really a born again, tongue speaking Christian then you can not judge others. In Romans 13:1, " Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. for there is no authority except from God, and those that have been instituted by God. Therefore who ever resists the authorities will incur judgement."
In conclusion, you have no right to judge others regardless of the circumstance or situation. Only God can judge. If you do so then others will judge you.
Each individual person must develop their own personal relationship with the trinity of God. When you judge others, then you are judged by the same measure if not more so than if you did not judge in the first place. In John 14:16, Jesus says," I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." That simply means that Jesus is the only way to follow.
Jesus sits on the right hand of God and if God says that we are not to judge then we are not to judge. John 13:34-35 says, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." God is commanding that you love others the way that he loved you. Going further in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 we are given the definition of what it means to love according to God."Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things."
There is absolutely no room for judgement when you obey God's commandment to love one another if you are really a born again, tongue speaking Christian then you can not judge others. In Romans 13:1, " Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. for there is no authority except from God, and those that have been instituted by God. Therefore who ever resists the authorities will incur judgement."
In conclusion, you have no right to judge others regardless of the circumstance or situation. Only God can judge. If you do so then others will judge you.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Have God Sized Dreams
We do not serve a small time God so why do we put limitations on our hopes and dreams for the future? God doesn't put limits on us. In the Bible we are taught in Philipians 4:13 that we can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthns me. So how dare we put limits on the power of God.
We need to stop asking for him to fulful our dreams and then put limits on it. We need to stop thinking that we are not good enough or smart enough to live whatever it is that we hope and desire to live. In Isaiah 55:11, the word of God says that His word does not come back void. When God created us in Genesis, he created us last because he was saving his best for last.
When we put limitations on ourselves we are giving the devil place in our lives. The devil wants us to believe that we are inferior and we can not live our best life. Stop giving the devil power. Matthew 6:24,You can only serve one master. In Matthew 6:8, "Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." God knows you better than you know yourself so trust him at all times.
Trust God and delight yourself in God at all times and he will fulful the desires of your heart. Dream big, make big plans, there is nothing that is impossible for God. When you tell yourself that you can not do something, you are tellling God that he is not worthy. Quiting or failing is a permitted response. So do not quit. Give God the plan and let Him work his plan through His Holy Spirit.
When you short change yourself, you short change the power of God.
We need to stop asking for him to fulful our dreams and then put limits on it. We need to stop thinking that we are not good enough or smart enough to live whatever it is that we hope and desire to live. In Isaiah 55:11, the word of God says that His word does not come back void. When God created us in Genesis, he created us last because he was saving his best for last.
When we put limitations on ourselves we are giving the devil place in our lives. The devil wants us to believe that we are inferior and we can not live our best life. Stop giving the devil power. Matthew 6:24,You can only serve one master. In Matthew 6:8, "Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." God knows you better than you know yourself so trust him at all times.
Trust God and delight yourself in God at all times and he will fulful the desires of your heart. Dream big, make big plans, there is nothing that is impossible for God. When you tell yourself that you can not do something, you are tellling God that he is not worthy. Quiting or failing is a permitted response. So do not quit. Give God the plan and let Him work his plan through His Holy Spirit.
When you short change yourself, you short change the power of God.
Friday, January 23, 2009
God Is Love
Love is something that the world has taken and twisted into something that is complete opposite of what God created love to mean. The world has turned love into something that is material and conditional. The world basically says that love is based on how someone else makes you feel or what they can do for you. They have placed a value on people that they claim to love. They have turned love into lust, attraction, and materialism, etc.
Love is something that is supposed to be unconditional and has nothing to do with lust and attraction. The principle of unconditional love is the most precious of all of the 7 spiritual principles taught in the Bible. Without unconditional love, none of the other 6 will prosper in your life, because it takes love to live by the other principles. In the Bible, love is Agape love. This is the love that God has for us. We are to love each other based on how much God loved us. In John 3:16 it teaches that God loved us so much that he gave us His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ and that we are to love others the way that He loved the church.
God knows how much we love Him by how much we love others. The question that you have to ask yourself is how can you love God who you can't see and not love your brothers and sisters that you see every day. This does not mean that you have to go to the ends of the earth for everyone that you come into contact with. It does mean that you should always want the best for others and respect them. This does not mean that you have to be a fool and be taken advantage of by people. However, it does mean that you don't wish evil on others. The Bible teaches that we are to pray for those that despitefully use us. Put it in God's hands.
When you have agape love in your life, your life will become full of love. You have to learn how to give love, before you can get love. If you love others then others will love you. Grow in love and as you grow in love you will grow in your relationship with God. Once this happens you will develop more and more in becoming one with Jesus Christ. As you do this you will begin to gain favor with God and open the door for Him to shower you with blessing after blessing. At times, you will be uncomfortable. God is not concerned with our uncomfortability. He has no respect to person. We must put our flesh under subjection and be obedient to Him at all times. Obedience is not a option. Jesus is the Truth, the Way, and the Light. God knows that your uncomfortability is only temporary and when it is time the Holy Spirit will move inside of you to direct and guide your path. Once you are steadfast, unshakeable, and unmoveable in your obedience to God, then he can fulfil the desires of your heart.
If you have been burned by love then that does not mean that you are not to love others. Love is not based on situations. It comes from spirit within you. If you have been hurt, then rest in knowing that the Holy Spirit will rest inside of you. The Holy Spirit will reveal, remove and then restore you. This means that as the Holy Spirit is revealing your hurt you will go through a period of pain, suffering, and confusion. As he removes, you will no longer have that pain, suffering, and confusion. Then He will restore and you will have peace, joy, happiness and know that only God can do it.
So in conclusion, put your trust in God and know that Jesus loved you so much that he died for your sins and that you have been forgiven.
God is love and love is God.
Love is something that is supposed to be unconditional and has nothing to do with lust and attraction. The principle of unconditional love is the most precious of all of the 7 spiritual principles taught in the Bible. Without unconditional love, none of the other 6 will prosper in your life, because it takes love to live by the other principles. In the Bible, love is Agape love. This is the love that God has for us. We are to love each other based on how much God loved us. In John 3:16 it teaches that God loved us so much that he gave us His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ and that we are to love others the way that He loved the church.
God knows how much we love Him by how much we love others. The question that you have to ask yourself is how can you love God who you can't see and not love your brothers and sisters that you see every day. This does not mean that you have to go to the ends of the earth for everyone that you come into contact with. It does mean that you should always want the best for others and respect them. This does not mean that you have to be a fool and be taken advantage of by people. However, it does mean that you don't wish evil on others. The Bible teaches that we are to pray for those that despitefully use us. Put it in God's hands.
When you have agape love in your life, your life will become full of love. You have to learn how to give love, before you can get love. If you love others then others will love you. Grow in love and as you grow in love you will grow in your relationship with God. Once this happens you will develop more and more in becoming one with Jesus Christ. As you do this you will begin to gain favor with God and open the door for Him to shower you with blessing after blessing. At times, you will be uncomfortable. God is not concerned with our uncomfortability. He has no respect to person. We must put our flesh under subjection and be obedient to Him at all times. Obedience is not a option. Jesus is the Truth, the Way, and the Light. God knows that your uncomfortability is only temporary and when it is time the Holy Spirit will move inside of you to direct and guide your path. Once you are steadfast, unshakeable, and unmoveable in your obedience to God, then he can fulfil the desires of your heart.
If you have been burned by love then that does not mean that you are not to love others. Love is not based on situations. It comes from spirit within you. If you have been hurt, then rest in knowing that the Holy Spirit will rest inside of you. The Holy Spirit will reveal, remove and then restore you. This means that as the Holy Spirit is revealing your hurt you will go through a period of pain, suffering, and confusion. As he removes, you will no longer have that pain, suffering, and confusion. Then He will restore and you will have peace, joy, happiness and know that only God can do it.
So in conclusion, put your trust in God and know that Jesus loved you so much that he died for your sins and that you have been forgiven.
God is love and love is God.
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