Wisdom to Change
Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Isaiah 55:6
Have you ever had an appointment that was so important, you made sure everything was in order? You set the alarm clock to be sure to get up an hour and a half early so you’ll have enough time to eat, watch a few shows, get dressed and leave early before your scheduled time? The alarm goes off and instead of hitting the snooze button you get right up and prepare for your appointment. Off you go to your very important appointment.
I see you prepared the night before, set the alarm and the next day for the appointment, you get right up. No hesitation. Have you set an appointment with God? Have you set your alarm to get up and spend time with Him? When He comes with His gentle touch, do you pull the covers over your head and tell the Loving God, give me ten minutes? Or how about those who have their alarm clock or cell phones set to spend time with God? Do you keep hitting the snooze button and realize another day without spending time with Him? Isn’t this appointment with God important to you? Haven’t you been asking God to reveal things to you? Well, you can’t keep hitting the snooze button. Get Up! This appointment is very important. No, this appointment is vitally important. He has a lot to share with you and getting an extra ten minutes is not going to cut it. You have an appointment with God. Isn’t He worth preparing the night before and going to bed a little earlier? Isn’t He worth getting up bright eye and bushy tail? Well, isn’t He? Can you see it, God sitting there waiting for you to arrive and you don’t show up? The next day the same thing, next week, next month and the cycle repeats itself. Snooze, ok God maybe tomorrow.
Let me give you a key to keeping your appointment with God. Before you go to bed, tell yourself my appointment with God is very important. I can’t afford to miss out on what He’s going to show and tell me. And I’m going to have an experience with Him that will change my life forever. Don’t hit the snooze button remember He’s waiting to spend time with you.
Have a Beautiful Day
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Jesus is praying for US!
Wisdom tro Change
I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for them which you have given me; for they are mine John 17:9
The Father and Jesus were having a conversation. The Holy Spirit allowed me to hear what Jesus requested of the Father concerning us. It went something like this…
Father, the people are wandering what’s going on. Why must they go through test and trials? Father, I don’t want the people to get weary in doing well because in due season they shall reap. Well, Jesus what is your petition for the people.
Father give them a fresh anointing for today. Fill them with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. Help them stand perfect and complete in the will of you Father. May they increase more and more and abound in love towards one another. Give them a desire to please and reverence You in every area of their lives. May they bear fruit in every good work and increasingly grow in the knowledge of You. Strengthen them according to Your glorious power and may their lives express a joyful thanks to You. Manifest Your love that they may realize You love them with an everlasting love. Manifest Your peace in the mist of what they are going through. Manifest your power in a great way so there’s no doubt, it was the Lord.
Father I pray as they keep their minds stayed on Me, you will keep them in perfect peace. Anoint their eyes that they may see great things in Your law. Whatever they put their hands to, may they do it with Your might and strength. For in you Father they can do all things. May they set their face to seek You daily while You may be found. May they walk worthy of the calling in which You called them. Father, help them to know through Me they can do all things and nothing shall be impossible to them because they are Mine. May they realize the testing of their faith leads to perseverance which works to make them perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
Quicken them to know they are not without help for we have given them the Holy Spirit of promise. May they rejoice knowing they have a Helper to see them through this day and for them to realize today is a present from Us. Father I love them so much, help the to stand strong and remember I have chosen you and you are Mine.
PS. Go forth in this day knowing I am with you always.
Have a Beautiful Day
I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for them which you have given me; for they are mine John 17:9
The Father and Jesus were having a conversation. The Holy Spirit allowed me to hear what Jesus requested of the Father concerning us. It went something like this…
Father, the people are wandering what’s going on. Why must they go through test and trials? Father, I don’t want the people to get weary in doing well because in due season they shall reap. Well, Jesus what is your petition for the people.
Father give them a fresh anointing for today. Fill them with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. Help them stand perfect and complete in the will of you Father. May they increase more and more and abound in love towards one another. Give them a desire to please and reverence You in every area of their lives. May they bear fruit in every good work and increasingly grow in the knowledge of You. Strengthen them according to Your glorious power and may their lives express a joyful thanks to You. Manifest Your love that they may realize You love them with an everlasting love. Manifest Your peace in the mist of what they are going through. Manifest your power in a great way so there’s no doubt, it was the Lord.
Father I pray as they keep their minds stayed on Me, you will keep them in perfect peace. Anoint their eyes that they may see great things in Your law. Whatever they put their hands to, may they do it with Your might and strength. For in you Father they can do all things. May they set their face to seek You daily while You may be found. May they walk worthy of the calling in which You called them. Father, help them to know through Me they can do all things and nothing shall be impossible to them because they are Mine. May they realize the testing of their faith leads to perseverance which works to make them perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
Quicken them to know they are not without help for we have given them the Holy Spirit of promise. May they rejoice knowing they have a Helper to see them through this day and for them to realize today is a present from Us. Father I love them so much, help the to stand strong and remember I have chosen you and you are Mine.
PS. Go forth in this day knowing I am with you always.
Have a Beautiful Day
Face Your Future with Confidence
Wisdom to Change
For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength Isaiah 30:15
Many people today don’t know what there future holds. Some feel they don’t have a future, so they abandon their responsibilities. They can’t seem to go on for losing their homes, their jobs, cut back in hours causing decrease in pay, and some even losing their minds. Many people are fearful in facing their futures, fearful of the next day, fearful they won’t be able to provide for their families, just fearful. Why? They are looking with their natural eyes instead of looking at things with the eyes of faith. Where is your faith? Where is your confidence? Where is your trust in God? Don’t you know God is a good God and He’s willing to take care of your every need?
People this is not the time to be fearful. This is not the time to panic. Maybe you’re in a situation and you feel like running away from it all, but where will it get you? Nowhere! Remember the children of Israel? They wanted to return to Egypt. The Egyptians gave them food and shelter along with torment, hard labor and pain. The Israelites forgot how they cried out to the Lord for deliverance. And why would they want to go back to a lifestyle of hard labor, torment, heartache and pain? Why? I guess they realized they had to believe God for their every single need. We must realize the Lord is with us in the good, the bad, the ugly, the ups, the downs, situation, circumstances, test and trials. The time is now to face our future with the Lord in confidence. We need to remember how God delivered us out of every situation in our life.
As we take our position of confidence to fight the good fight of faith, no matter what we face today, no matter how hard it may seem, no matter how uncomfortable it gets, we can face anything with the Lord. Let’s face our future with the Word and with confidence in the Lord.
Wow, our future looks bright in Christ!
Have a Beautiful Day
For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength Isaiah 30:15
Many people today don’t know what there future holds. Some feel they don’t have a future, so they abandon their responsibilities. They can’t seem to go on for losing their homes, their jobs, cut back in hours causing decrease in pay, and some even losing their minds. Many people are fearful in facing their futures, fearful of the next day, fearful they won’t be able to provide for their families, just fearful. Why? They are looking with their natural eyes instead of looking at things with the eyes of faith. Where is your faith? Where is your confidence? Where is your trust in God? Don’t you know God is a good God and He’s willing to take care of your every need?
People this is not the time to be fearful. This is not the time to panic. Maybe you’re in a situation and you feel like running away from it all, but where will it get you? Nowhere! Remember the children of Israel? They wanted to return to Egypt. The Egyptians gave them food and shelter along with torment, hard labor and pain. The Israelites forgot how they cried out to the Lord for deliverance. And why would they want to go back to a lifestyle of hard labor, torment, heartache and pain? Why? I guess they realized they had to believe God for their every single need. We must realize the Lord is with us in the good, the bad, the ugly, the ups, the downs, situation, circumstances, test and trials. The time is now to face our future with the Lord in confidence. We need to remember how God delivered us out of every situation in our life.
As we take our position of confidence to fight the good fight of faith, no matter what we face today, no matter how hard it may seem, no matter how uncomfortable it gets, we can face anything with the Lord. Let’s face our future with the Word and with confidence in the Lord.
Wow, our future looks bright in Christ!
Have a Beautiful Day
To Hear or Not to Hear that is the Question
Wisdom to Change
You who fear God, listen Acts 13:16b
Diligently hear, give your ear to hear, open your ear, lend your ear, he that has ears to hear let him hear, blessed are your ears for they hear, hear, hear and hear. The Father is saying over and over to hear, but are we really listening to what He is saying. When we read His Word it’s listening to Him talk to us.
There’s a passage in the bible were there was a rich man and a poor man. The rich man died and went to a place of torment. The rich man asked the Father could he send someone to his brothers so they won’t come to this place of torment. I found it amazing what the Father said to him. He said if they will not hear Moses and the prophets, they won’t be persuaded by one from the dead. While the rich man was alive he heard the laws, commandments and the prophets. The rich man thought he had time to get it right but eventually time ran out on him.
Hearing has rewards or consequences. Throughout the Word, if we hear and obey God said he will command the blessings on us. Here are a few of the blessings. He’ll command the blessings to set us on high for the blessing will come on us and overtake us; we’ll have complete victory over our enemies; we’ll lend and not borrow; we’ll be blessed in all the works of our hands; prosper in every area of life and to be blessed in ALL we undertake just to name a few. Now if we don’t want to hear and obey which is strictly our choice, here are the following consequences: serve our enemies, hunger, thirst, nakedness, want of all things, borrow and can’t pay it back, bondage, robbery of possessions, famine, great distress, no peace, no rest, complete poverty just to name a few. Conditions must be met if blessings are to be received and if conditions are not met, well you read for yourself.
God made it plain for us to hear and obey, but the decision will always be left up to us. Today, we should want to hear what God is doing in the earth. We should want to hear that God is well pleased with us. We should want to hear His wisdom to accomplish every task at hand. We should want to hear if we’re missing it in any area of our lives. Lord, we want to hear from you! Let your confession be I hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying and I’m not confused in what I hear from Him.
Have a Beautiful Day
You who fear God, listen Acts 13:16b
Diligently hear, give your ear to hear, open your ear, lend your ear, he that has ears to hear let him hear, blessed are your ears for they hear, hear, hear and hear. The Father is saying over and over to hear, but are we really listening to what He is saying. When we read His Word it’s listening to Him talk to us.
There’s a passage in the bible were there was a rich man and a poor man. The rich man died and went to a place of torment. The rich man asked the Father could he send someone to his brothers so they won’t come to this place of torment. I found it amazing what the Father said to him. He said if they will not hear Moses and the prophets, they won’t be persuaded by one from the dead. While the rich man was alive he heard the laws, commandments and the prophets. The rich man thought he had time to get it right but eventually time ran out on him.
Hearing has rewards or consequences. Throughout the Word, if we hear and obey God said he will command the blessings on us. Here are a few of the blessings. He’ll command the blessings to set us on high for the blessing will come on us and overtake us; we’ll have complete victory over our enemies; we’ll lend and not borrow; we’ll be blessed in all the works of our hands; prosper in every area of life and to be blessed in ALL we undertake just to name a few. Now if we don’t want to hear and obey which is strictly our choice, here are the following consequences: serve our enemies, hunger, thirst, nakedness, want of all things, borrow and can’t pay it back, bondage, robbery of possessions, famine, great distress, no peace, no rest, complete poverty just to name a few. Conditions must be met if blessings are to be received and if conditions are not met, well you read for yourself.
God made it plain for us to hear and obey, but the decision will always be left up to us. Today, we should want to hear what God is doing in the earth. We should want to hear that God is well pleased with us. We should want to hear His wisdom to accomplish every task at hand. We should want to hear if we’re missing it in any area of our lives. Lord, we want to hear from you! Let your confession be I hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying and I’m not confused in what I hear from Him.
Have a Beautiful Day
Struggles versus Choices
Wisdom to Change
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Proverbs 14:12
We all struggle with something. Struggle to exercise. Struggle to lose weight. Struggle to make the right decision. Struggle to tell the truth. Struggle to live right. Struggle to stick to your budget. Struggle to get up in the morning. Struggle to pray. Struggle to read the Word. Why do we struggle? We don’t have to, but it’s a choice.
After you read what struggle means, I hope you make the quality decision not to from this day forward. When we struggle, we exert energy against a material force or mass. We are strenuously engaged with a problem or task or undertaking. We make a strenuous effort, to contend, or progress with difficulty. Almost like in a combat. Now what about choice? A choice is the act of choosing, a selection. The choice to choose gives us the power, right or liberty, or an option. Another definition for choice is careful in choosing, superior quality, excellent and appropriate decision. Wait a minute, whoever wrote the definition for choice, must have known to write about making the right decision.
I don’t like the definition of struggle and you shouldn’t either. To be frank I don’t like to struggle. But I realize something, it’s a choice I make whether I want to struggle or make a choice to succeed in the decisions I make. The choice will always be left up to us. Here’s a choice in the Word of God, He said I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses, therefore CHOOSE life. How hard can this be? Life or death, blessings or curses, wow, it’s hard to choose. Which one will you choose? I’m not trying to be funny, but people don’t realize they do this everyday. Here’s an example of this. Say my husband and I have a verbal disagreement and everything inside of me wants to say something back. Now, I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, “Don’t say a word”. But I choose to say something because I feel I must. Right there I chose death over life, curses over blessings. Like I said we do it everyday.
Again I say the choice will always be left up to us to do what’s right. We can choose to surrender all to Him or not but if we do, God is responsible for us. We are free to choose what we surrender to, but we are not free from the consequences of that choice. When we choose a life of integrity this moves us into an abundant life He has prepared for us. But also remember when we make a decision and believe me each of us know to choose good over evil, which ever one it is we will reap from our choices. Don’t let life be a boxing match, struggles versus choices. Be a master of your choices not a slave to struggles.
Have a Beautiful Day
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Proverbs 14:12
We all struggle with something. Struggle to exercise. Struggle to lose weight. Struggle to make the right decision. Struggle to tell the truth. Struggle to live right. Struggle to stick to your budget. Struggle to get up in the morning. Struggle to pray. Struggle to read the Word. Why do we struggle? We don’t have to, but it’s a choice.
After you read what struggle means, I hope you make the quality decision not to from this day forward. When we struggle, we exert energy against a material force or mass. We are strenuously engaged with a problem or task or undertaking. We make a strenuous effort, to contend, or progress with difficulty. Almost like in a combat. Now what about choice? A choice is the act of choosing, a selection. The choice to choose gives us the power, right or liberty, or an option. Another definition for choice is careful in choosing, superior quality, excellent and appropriate decision. Wait a minute, whoever wrote the definition for choice, must have known to write about making the right decision.
I don’t like the definition of struggle and you shouldn’t either. To be frank I don’t like to struggle. But I realize something, it’s a choice I make whether I want to struggle or make a choice to succeed in the decisions I make. The choice will always be left up to us. Here’s a choice in the Word of God, He said I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses, therefore CHOOSE life. How hard can this be? Life or death, blessings or curses, wow, it’s hard to choose. Which one will you choose? I’m not trying to be funny, but people don’t realize they do this everyday. Here’s an example of this. Say my husband and I have a verbal disagreement and everything inside of me wants to say something back. Now, I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, “Don’t say a word”. But I choose to say something because I feel I must. Right there I chose death over life, curses over blessings. Like I said we do it everyday.
Again I say the choice will always be left up to us to do what’s right. We can choose to surrender all to Him or not but if we do, God is responsible for us. We are free to choose what we surrender to, but we are not free from the consequences of that choice. When we choose a life of integrity this moves us into an abundant life He has prepared for us. But also remember when we make a decision and believe me each of us know to choose good over evil, which ever one it is we will reap from our choices. Don’t let life be a boxing match, struggles versus choices. Be a master of your choices not a slave to struggles.
Have a Beautiful Day
Life is good!
Wisdom to Change
Oh, taste and SEE that the Lord is good Psalm 34:8
How can you say life is good, with so many things going on in the world today? Well, I can say this with confidence because I keep my eyes on the Lord and no matter what I may face or what trial I may be going through, I know that the end is good. If I look at what I’m going through, I know I will get discouraged. But if I go to the Word and find out what it has to say about my situation, my focus will be different. Things look brighter in the Word.
An example of this is the prophet Elisha. He was surrounded by a great army and his servant came out to him fearful, afraid and worried because of what he saw. Elisha immediately told the servant, do not fear. Then Elisha prayed Lord I pray open his eyes that he may see. Well, the Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. It’s was easy for the servant to panic because of what he saw, but because Elisha saw differently because he knew who to look to in order for the army to be defeated.
The servant and Elisha saw the same army surrounding them. How did Elisha see differently from the servant? Elisha had a trust beyond seeing. He kept his eyes on the Lord, instead of running and hiding. He was able to recall what the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did for the children of Israel.
Are there things in your life you can recall which caused you to look at it differently? Can you recall an impossible situation which God turnaround because you changed your focus? Was there ever a time you were going through, then you picked up His Word and read a verse that spoke to you? If you said YES to all these questions, you can say life is good because you look at things through the eyes of Christ. As you continue in prayer and continue in His Word, you will see things changing for the better, but most of all you will see the goodness of God.
Have a Beautiful Day
Oh, taste and SEE that the Lord is good Psalm 34:8
How can you say life is good, with so many things going on in the world today? Well, I can say this with confidence because I keep my eyes on the Lord and no matter what I may face or what trial I may be going through, I know that the end is good. If I look at what I’m going through, I know I will get discouraged. But if I go to the Word and find out what it has to say about my situation, my focus will be different. Things look brighter in the Word.
An example of this is the prophet Elisha. He was surrounded by a great army and his servant came out to him fearful, afraid and worried because of what he saw. Elisha immediately told the servant, do not fear. Then Elisha prayed Lord I pray open his eyes that he may see. Well, the Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. It’s was easy for the servant to panic because of what he saw, but because Elisha saw differently because he knew who to look to in order for the army to be defeated.
The servant and Elisha saw the same army surrounding them. How did Elisha see differently from the servant? Elisha had a trust beyond seeing. He kept his eyes on the Lord, instead of running and hiding. He was able to recall what the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did for the children of Israel.
Are there things in your life you can recall which caused you to look at it differently? Can you recall an impossible situation which God turnaround because you changed your focus? Was there ever a time you were going through, then you picked up His Word and read a verse that spoke to you? If you said YES to all these questions, you can say life is good because you look at things through the eyes of Christ. As you continue in prayer and continue in His Word, you will see things changing for the better, but most of all you will see the goodness of God.
Have a Beautiful Day
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