God has a plan and a purpose to our lives, but just being saved doesn't give us access to that plan. No, we have to change our attitude. We need to be in agreement with God's plan instead of murmuring and complaining about it. His is the right one, not ours.
It's the mission of God to release miracles. You don't have to beg Him. He wants to heal you and make you whole. Just reach for Him.
By design, some things that are meant to break us, will make us if we let God work. He doesn't measure our lives by our failures or successes, but by how we recover from them. Don't ever give up, get up! You are not who people say you are, you are who God says you are.
Everyone comes to a point where their faith is shaken. It can come from anywhere, poking holes in our faith container, and letting it all drain out of us. The key to keeping it is not finding greater and greater sources of faith, but repairing your personal faith reservoir. That way, your tank wont just be full, it'll be overflowing.
You are the only one that determines what your past becomes. Does it stay the past, or does it become your future? Forgiveness is the key to healing. Let go of the past and start rebuilding what you've lost.
One of the most difficult questions in life to answer is...what do you do if you fall? Now, you can also ask yourself, "Who tripped me?" or "Did I trip myself?"But the big question is, do you stay down and wallow in misery, or do you get back up and make your comeback?
When you go to your fathers house, you speak to him in his language, be it Spanish, English, or Chinese. So in church what do you do? You speak the Father's language. Healing, miracles, tongues...it's a cultural thing. Speak His language, become part of His culture, and receive your miracle.
Sin is what happens when people do what they want to do instead of what God commands. When you go your own way long enough, it leaves brokenness, and that brokenness becomes part of your identity. Will you be ready to give up that identity when God is standing ready to heal you?
More often than you think, you hear the voice of God. But more often than you think, you ignore the voice of God. Listen! Don't ignore it! There is no way it's the devil telling you to minister to someone.
This message is not for a certain group, nationality, or demographic. This message is intended solely for your ears.
How does a church "go viral?" The Bible says that the apostles "turned their world upside down." There are millions of us, yet we barely extend past our four walls. What was it that the apostles had, what was it that they knew, that we do not?
Some of us are running on empty. Our spiritual gas tank is kept just full enough to keep us going, mostly because it's easy. Sometimes you have to push in prayer past those outward prayers. Let the Spirit flow through you, let it fill you all the way to the top, and then watch how God can use you.
So many Christians live below their potential, walking on eggshells through the world around them. We are children of God, with access to the same supernatural power that Jesus did while walking on the earth. We should expect God's favor on us, not because of who we are, but because of whose we are.
Happiness is a choice. It's not something that we become automatically overcome with on a daily basis. True happiness, joy, is something we decide to carry with us wherever we go, and when we leave it behind, we leave our strength with it.
Regardless of social status, pedigree, "blue blood", every single person on this planet came from dirt. Now, this is the same God who made heaven from pearls, crystal, and gold. Why would he make his most prized possession out of dirt?
How do you know you're in love, truly in love, with Jesus? After you first fall in love, and the relationship wanes, how do you get back in love? How do you stay in love? Jesus wants to be first in our lives, our first love, but, the only way He can stay first is when we seek after Him with everything we are.
Just like in the natural realm, the spiritual realm goes through seasons. Those seasons are a necessity. They are a fulfillment of purpose, and without purpose, there is no living. The thing is, with this type of living, you have to die first.
The only way Satan can control you is through his deceptions. He presents tampered evidence and let's you draw your own conclusion from it, hoping you lead yourself into his trap. But they are only deceptions. They have no power over you unless you believe in them.
The enemy likes to pull skeletons out of your closet, and make you think on past sins, faults, and regretful actions. That way he has you trapped, thinking on everything, and everywhere but on God. But that is all over. Remember your reassurance in the blood of Jesus. You are clean because it is finished.
You can only talk about standing for righteousness for so long. Eventually you will have to step into battle, and that battle will be in a valley, but realize this: there will be no solitude to dark for God to not be there with you.
The devil will try his best to keep you bound to his present day version of Egypt. Even after you give your life to God, he will never stop striving to get you back. Put Egypt fully behind you and sever all connections. Give the devil no handhold to drag you back to him.
We are all of us given a choice: either we love God or we hate Him. We follow His ways out of our love for Him and receive the blessings his Word promises to us, or we ignore His will and try to forge our own blessings from costly moments of worldly happiness. These choices pave our walk through life, and through time, reveal our final destination.
A father's love is unconditional, all encompassing, and never ending. It never judges, and is always there when you reach for it. Our Heavenly Father is the same, seeking to love us and make us whole again. The key is, we have to want Him to.
We lie to ourselves saying alcohol, drugs, anger, and resentment are things we need to survive. In reality we are bound by our own addictions, in need of deliverance found only in the name of Jesus.
The greatest danger of forgotten deliverance is the potential of future bondage. It leads to a change in attitude, a lack of respect, and a feeling of entitlement. All of these things push for the church to link up arms with the world in order to create a watered down (and powerless) form of religion.
Jesus is not looking for "fans" of his teachings, those who like being around him, but don't want him to change them. He's looking for "followers;" for those who radically seek to become the definition of "Christ-like," loving Him to the point where everything else pales in comparison.
What does it mean to "bless" those that curse us? Does it mean we should shower them with gifts and promises? No, instead it means to let go of our instant reaction of anger or hatred by asking God to bless them and touch their lives. By doing that, you have laid down a poison that would harm only you, and picked up the love of Jesus for them.
God is a prayer answering God. Don't let anything you have in your past tell you what your future is going to be. Tell it to leave, dismiss it; the devil has no power in a spirit filled house for when God steps in, sin has to step out.
The Bible is full of stories of victims becoming victors in their situations. Through Christ, who was the ultimate victor, we have the same power over our situation. Disease, addiction, whatever we are facing, they all have to bow down to the name of Jesus.
How long you let your situation control you depends on your attitude. Do you hold onto it with your promise from God, or do you let it overwhelm you with the half truth the devil has contrived to go with it? Your worst day in church will always be greater than your best day in the world. Look toward what will be instead of staying in what is.
