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EP280 TIME TO CLEAN THE JUNK OUT

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The title of today’s episode: TIME TO CLEAN THE JUNK OUT

I’ve been doing some decluttering and early spring cleaning. When I came to my junk drawer. Before you sit in judgment of me, almost everyone has a catch-all drawer or closet. Unfortunately, I have both.

As I went through the junk drawer, I came across a box and immediately knew what was in it. Every time I clean out that drawer, I have kept it until this time. It was a bunch of keys left by the previous owners of the house. As soon as we moved in, we changed the locks on the doors, not knowing who else had a key. But there were a lot of keys that we didn’t know what they were for, so just in case, I kept them for thirteen years. Crazy hun?

Our heart is a filter for everything we experience. Every emotion gets turned into memories in our brains, but still, when we are reminded of things, we feel the emotion. If we have been hurt by people, often we bury that hurt deep in our hearts. We try to push aside the memories.

Sooner or late,r they all accumulate like the stuff in our junk drawer. For all the things we don’t know how to deal with or think we may need later, we hold on to them. Offense is one of the biggest tools in satan’s arsenal against the body of Christ.

Then satan will constantly remind us of the offense. Like he was sitting beside us, poking us with his finger. If he can get us to feel offense, we will avoid others. This isolation can lead us to not be able to be a light to others. It is easier to hide in our offense. Which could make room for him to use fear, anxiety, and depression against us.

Unity and real reform in the body of Christ cannot happen until we can learn to let go of offense. Jesus is there waiting for us to give it to him. He will take care of it.

Prov 18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

Holding on to offense makes us unapproachable. The more pain, envy, anger, bitterness and offense we hold onto the less room in our lives for the good things that God wants to give to us. Just as that junk drawer has only so much space, so does our heart.

It is not easy to let go of painful things. Just like those keys, we often hold on to it way too long when we could have used that space for something productive.

If we ask God, he will help us to be able to let go of the pain of what others have done to us. This is why it is a good idea to ask God to search our hearts and see if we are carrying hurt and offense. Ask for his help to forgive and he will help us to let it go.

Col 3:12-14 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

If we put of charity, which means love it is the bond of perfectness. Walking in love is how we share Jesus with the world.

Walking in love means asking for forgiveness if we have hurt someone. We have be mature enough to admit when we are wrong. It is the only way God can use us, if we cleanse our hands of causing others pain.

Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

There is no room for peace and painful offense to dwell together in our hearts. One will be dominant, and one will be shoved back in the corner. We want peace to prevail. Because God gives peace that goes beyond our ability to comprehend. Ask Jesus to search your heart and see if there is something in a forgotten corner that you can let go of, to make room for more of God’s love.

It is time, as the body of Christ, that we clean out our pulpits. They have accumulated all sorts of junk. It is time we get rid of the immoral actors who are pretending to be ministers of the gospel. Get rid of the light shows that lull us into a false sense of peace. If Christians would take a stand and find a church with a real minister of the gospel and leave these fake social clubs, then the body would be effective in the world. We will see the miracles, signs and wonders of the early church. We will see people whole, delivered, and set free from satan’s grasp. Once again, I say it is time we got rid of the junk from the church.

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EPISODE 278 IN HIS PRESENCE

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The title of today’s episode: IN HIS PRESENCE

The enemy will do anything he can to keep us from being present in God’s presence. God is always there, he is always present. But often we do not acknowledge that presence. If satan can keep us distracted with the things of this life he will accomplish keeping us out of God’s presence in the spiritual sense of the word.

Psalm 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

In God’s presence is fullness of Joy. The word says that the joy of the Lord is our strength. So to be in his presence we will find strength to face even what seems impossible.

If we walk in the path of life we will be in God’s presence. How do we know we are walking in the path of life? We are given a choice to choose life, which means to live our lives in Christ as his children. To be in His presence for eternity is life. To be in his presence is joy forevermore.

If we do not choose life, we will be on a path to spiritual death and an eternity in hell.

Deut 30: 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

The choices that we make not only affect our own lives but future generations. I know I am blessed to have been raised in a Christian home. Because I didn’t have to deal with a lot of things that my friends did growing up. If God’s presence was not in their homes, they were more likely to end up choosing a life of sin and death.

Do not be discouraged if you were not raised in a Christian home, you can still choose life for yourself and show future generations what it means to be in God’s presence.

Prov 3: 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Jesus is the path to eternal life. If we acknowledge him or make others aware of God’s presence we can be a light to help them find the peace of his presence. Acknowledging God in all things will help us to keep our perspective.

For example, when everything is going wrong, we sometimes feel like God is not there. We feel he is far from us. But it could be that he has allowed the things you are walking through to draw you closer to him. Maybe there is a lesson someone close to you needs to see in you. God could be teaching you to trust in him more. He knows the path your life will take and what skills you need to get you to the finish line. That is why he allows things in our lives; these fiery trials only make us stronger.

We could also take things in a different direction. Say everything you touch goes the way you want. You are prospering, and everything is picture-perfect. He may withdraw them from us if we do not acknowledge God’s presence in our blessings. If everything is perfect, we could allow pride to enter our hearts. We never want to be prideful and feel like we are better than anyone else. By acknowledging God we can keep our perspective correct. When we know he is responsible for our success, then we have a heart of gratitude toward God.

Which will bring us full circle to needing to acknowledge his presence in our lives. We do this with prayer. Talking to God and sharing our hearts, hopes and dreams, as well as our problems. Then we need to sit and listen for that still small voice that brings his guidance, peace and joy.

We acknowledge his presence by telling others and studying his word. It is his love letter to the world. Think about how much God loved us and wanted to fellowship with us. He wanted us to be forever in his presence, so much so that Jesus came and died so that we could choose the path to his presence.

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EPISODE 277 IT’S JUST A FEELING

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The title of today’s episode: IT’S JUST A FEELING

I want to talk to you today about feelings. Every Christian, experiences times of isolation. God will separate you to hear from him. He will separate you to protect you from something that someone would have done. We all have experienced times that we may not be isolated from people but feel isolated from God.

Satan thrives on the times when we don’t wake up with a shout of praise on our lips. He loves the stresses of life. Because the more distracted he can get us the less we have time to pray and draw close to God. But God is always there even when we don’t feel him.

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

There are times that we have done something that causes us to not be as close to God. If we have sin in our lives, our faith walk will not be as close, just as Peter followed Christ from a far off before his crucifixion. We sometimes allow fear of man to get in our way. Or like Adam and Eve after they ate the fruit, they knew they had done wrong and hid. When we don’t feel close to God we need to ask ourselves if we have done something we need to repent. If we can’t think of anything then we need to ask God.

When we don’t feel close to God at all. Does that mean he is not there? God is always there waiting to talk with us. Our faith walk is not all about feeling. Granted it is amazing to feel the presence of God. But in spite of how we feel, we have to do the right thing. We have to be obedient.

Do you think Abraham felt like taking Issac up to the mountain top to sacrifice? We would have been shrieking in horror. We would be telling ourselves that can’t be God. Instead of getting into his emotions, he remembered God’s promise.

God promised him he would be the father of many nations. He knew no matter the outcome, God would keep his promises. So, he told his servant that he was taking Issac to the top of the mountain, and they would return. He had faith and spoke his faith out loud. He believed God would allow Issac to return with him.

Do you think Hannah felt like giving her precious Samuel away after praying for a baby for so long? She didn’t go by feeling, she acted with obedience. When he was old enough, she took him and left him at the temple to be raised by a man that had accused her of being a drunk.

The choices these people had to make sometimes are overwhelming to think about, but they didn’t go by feeling, they were obedient.

Satan will come along and tell us all lies to get us down, most Christians have thought the following things: I don’t feel like a Christian, I must not be saved. I don’t feel God so he must be disappointed in me, maybe he has given up on me.

This is why I lean so heavily on 2 Cor 5:7…we walk by faith and not by sight. I could also say, we walk by faith and not by how we feel. There is not one single emotion worth getting off track over, we have to walk by faith in obedience.

God will tell us something to do, and we will question if it was really God. He will tell us to go somewhere, and we will not feel like going. We have to push through and go anyway. Someone’s life or soul could depend on us listening to God.

Our emotions will lie to us when our back is against the wall. This is where it is crucial to be tempered the correct way. Steel is placed in a fire to make it bendable. If you leave it too long or too short, it will not make a good blade. It has to have just the right amount of even heat. Just as we develop temperance or self-control by being thrown into a few fiery trials.

There is a difference between self-control and not showing emotions. We are not meant to be robots. If we have self-control, we will feel the emotions, but we will act according to God’s word.

For example, many would look at Jesus running the money changers from the temple as not being very self-controlled. But he was righting an injustice. The money changers were thieves ripping off the people by not converting their money correctly or making them buy a sacrifice from them. Then using the people’s sacrifice to sell someone else.

As we mature as Christians we will grow fruit. We learn how to walk by faith and not by our feelings and how things look. Remember it’s not in a feeling. It is in that still small voice that is in us to be our guide.

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EP276 NOTHING WRONG WITH THE SWORD

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The title of today’s episode: NOTHING WRONG WITH THE SWORD

Yesterday, I spoke to you about honing and sharpening our swords. As Christian warriors, we all have swords. Most of us have several. But even the finest blade will not protect a soldier in the battle if he doesn’t know how to use it.

In the days of warriors using swords and shields, it was essential to train and know how to use your sword. Although popular television and movies would like you to believe these swords were extremely heavy, they were around five pounds or less. It wasn’t the weight of the sword that made it a weapon, it was its cutting power.

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The sword was quick, that to me means that it was light and sharp. The word of God is not a heavy burden. I understand when we get into Leviticus that it is hard to follow, but every word in the book is there for a reason. It is to help us cut through the attacks of our enemy.

The cutting away of our flesh is painful sometimes, just as it would be to get cut on the battlefield for real. But the sword of the word also contains the oil and the wine, the balm for our wounds. It is full of God’s love, compassion forgiveness and a divine source of encouragement. But it is our weapon against the enemy, satan.

I Tim 1: 18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

Paul is telling Timothy that it is his duty as a soldier in God’s army that he fights a good warfare. He is being called a soldier to fight a spiritual war. It is the job of a warrior to combat the enemy. God has provided the weapons for us to use, we just have to train daily and get to know our sword.

A good soldier always has his sword with him. I am not saying that we have to carry the literal book of the bible with us everywhere we go, but we need to have it down in our hearts.

Many armies won, not because they had the best or most equipment, but because they were well trained in using what weapons they did have. No weapon can make up for determination and heart.

We have to have a made-up mind that we will prevail over our enemy. Nothing he does will cause us to give up or retreat. No retreat, no surrender. It doesn’t mean we will not stumble from time to time, we are human. But the more we know how to use the word the stronger we are as soldiers.

Psalm 119: 11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

The more of the word we have within us the less likely we are to fall.

Psalm 119:12-18 Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes. 13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. 17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. 18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

This passage shows David’s heart. He desired for a closer walk with God. Asking him to teach him his statutes. He proclaims that he will meditate in the precepts of the Lord. He asks for his eyes to be open to God’s ways.

We should always approach our study time as not something we have to do, but something we want to do. We need to develop a hunger to know more about God. Like David, we too can ask for understanding and the ability to apply what we learn to our lives.

Remember, if you are losing a battle, there is nothing wrong with the sword. God’s word is perfect. The problem is in the way we use our sword. We need to be bold soldiers in this day and stand to proclaim what the word says. One thing it says is satan’s kingdom is coming down. We will win, as long as we faint not, the sword says so.

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EP 274 FINE TUNING OUR SPIRITUAL EARS

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The title of today’s episode: FINE TUNE (OUR SPIRITUAL EARS)

For those of you who are old enough to remember radio without digital tuning, it was a process to get your radio station clear. It all came down to a very minute turn of the radio dial. Too far, one way or the other, you either got static, another station cutting in and out or you lost the signal altogether.

As Christians we are in the time where there is a lot of static in the air. The enemy constantly puts out lies and deception to see who will fall for them. For example: I saw a clip warning against a religious song that is becoming popular. But upon a fine tuning of attention the song is sung to allah a false god. This is why knowing the source and listening to the lyrics is important. The artist is very open about her beliefs, but Christian’s are not paying attention. If it sounds pretty, they go with it.

I am in no way slamming contemporary Christian music; however, we need to be vigilant about what we are allowing to be put into our hearts. Music is a powerful thing. It has the ability to sway emotions and cause people to do crazy things if the music suggests it. Country music carries the spirit of depression, heartbreak and drinking too much. Other types of music seem to be about one thing, but end up being about another. We need to guard our lives, allow in our homes.

Prov 4:20-22 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

We need to keep the word of God on our minds and hearts. It is life to us who pay attention to the sayings found in the Bible.

Prov 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

We keep our heart by being diligent or vigilant. When we pay attention and fine tune what we are allowing to influence us. We protect our future and our souls.

Prov 4:24-27 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

As we fine turn our receiver to only hear God we can be sure it will keep us on the right path. This says to ponder the path of our feet. We need to think about what we are doing. We need to question if we are doing the right things. It says to let our ways be established, which means something that has been taught a long time or entrenched. Entrenched means unlikely to change.

God’s ways need to be so deeply entrenched in us that we will be unwilling to change or allow satan to tell us lies.

Not everyone who says god means the one Christian’s assume they mean. To Christians there is no other God but our Lord Jesus Christ. But when some speak of god, they mean the god of money that they worship. They could mean any of the idols of the bible that are being worshipped today.

The name of my channel is God focus. I often say this, but it needs to be repeated. When I say God, I mean the only God our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only one who died to save me and you. But by being a little generic in my title, I have had people of other faiths check out what I was saying.

Satan will fill our minds with static if he can, he will try to bring up things of the past that we thought were buried forever. But somehow, he can find them and try to resurrect them. But he doesn’t have resurrecting power unless we allow him to use the past pain to distract us today.

We need to be so finely tuned into the voice of the Holy Ghost, that when he leads, we don’t question what he says, we just follow. But most are where I am and find themselves questioning, was that really God. Did he say go over and tell that person that he loves them? Did he really want me to stop my car and pray for the lady at the roadside stand?

When we can finally get out of our own way and let God have his way fully, we will see the revival we have been desiring. Many souls are depending on us getting it right. So work on the fine tuning of our spiritual ears to hear what God is saying to his people today. If we follow his leading, we will see billions of souls saved before it is too late.

Jesus said,

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Above all the noise of the world, if we are his sheep, we will hear and follow Him.

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EPISODE 273 DON’T FORCE IT

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The title of today’s episode: Don’t Force It

How many times have you wanted something to work out so badly that you did everything within your power to make it happen. I can remember once I wanted something so badly that I was making myself crazy trying to force it. A friend of mine gave me words of reason that I have carried for over thirty years. You cannot force things in life to go a certain way, they have to happen naturally when it is the right time. That is what I want to share with you today.

God has his timing, but we want to take shortcuts. We want to force things to happen. Maybe it’s a job promotion, the purchase of a house, or maybe it is a relationship, or some type of breakthrough. Everything happens in the right season. We cannot make them any different.

God sets before us an open door. We have two choices: right or wrong. If we allow everything to come down to these choices and choose right, choose what God would have us choose, then everything will work out for our good. We have to be vigilant and always choose the door that leads to God’s will and plan.

Satan will come at us forcefully sometimes to try to knock us off guard. When he realizes that his tactics will not work. He will slither in with subtilty and try to cozy up to us and have a conversation.

We are wise to his deceptions; we cannot give in, even a moment to entertain an idea of how we can shortcut to our goal. If we do we may find ourselves trapped in quicksand.

Learning to recognize the times and seasons of our life is important. This is why I remind you to listen for that still small voice. He is our guide.

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

We can have hope through Christ. He will give us strength to be patient in our trials and when things do go like we want. This tells us to continue in prayer and be instant in prayer. Prayer should be our go to, the first reaction to our situations as they arise, not our last resort after we have made a bigger mess of things.

Jer. 32:17 Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.

Nothing is too hard for our God. He will keep us safe from the enemy as long as we resist the devil. That is the key, we have to resist and put him behind us. God will do the rest. On Jesus we can always depend.

As we are getting ready for the new season, we are getting ready to step into, remember that everything is in God’s timing. We want to skip the shaking and go straight to the revival. But first we have to go through the storm to see the dark clouds of evil roll away.

For now I will remind you to stay strong, keep fighting the good fight of faith with patience. Resist the enemy and be ready to receive what God has for you.

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EP272 THE RIGHT RECIPE

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The title of today’s episode: The Right Recipe

I watch a lot of shows about cooking. I love the ones with all the built in game play that they have to incorporate an ingredient that may not seem to go with the rest. Many things go into a good recipe, ingredients, preparation, presentation. Although I watch these shows, I rarely apply any of the information to my own life.

As a content creator I can sympathize with the people trying to do presentations for their audience. They sometimes struggle with all the right components. I try to bring to you, different elements to make up a spiritual meal. I always want to tie into the word of God. It is our foundation. There needs to be a combination of something educational, encouraging, strengthening and to help you with your identity in Christ. There are times I feel like I create the same thing over and over like our go to few quick meals that we prepare when its almost dinner time. But the topics I keep pushing I feel are important to the body of Christ.

The ten minutes I prepare for you each day should be something to make you want to search out the recipe for your own life. Daily devotionals are meant to be appetizers, not the main course of our day. God wants to give us individual meals one on one.

The body of Christ, far too long, has been living on a few minutes of devotion to check off a box. God is calling for us to step out into the deeper things of our spiritual walk. These are things we have to search for with prayer and study.

I Cor 3:1-5 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

The meat of the word is what it is going to take for growth. He doesn’t want his people to be divided by things that are unimportant. We are to love God with all our heart and love our neighbor as ourselves. We are to walk in God’s love toward all.

Think about the story of Jesus feeding the 5000. He took two fish and five loaves of bread. It is going to take two testaments: the Old and the New Testaments. The bread of the word to feed the multitude. It is going to take the fivefold ministry to share that meat and bread of the word. Jesus is that bread.

We all have a part to do. Knowing what is in the book is the beginning of our wisdom. Learning how to walk it out and apply it to our lives is the icing on the cake.

It may be the year of the snake in China as they celebrate their new year. But I am telling you it is the year for God’s people to arise and put the snake the devil under out feet. But we will not be able to accomplish that without the word. Satan is not afraid of us, but he is afraid of that word. Every time he came at Jesus with an temptation, Jesus did say, that is against my religion, or I can’t do that it goes against the church bylaws, He said it is written…and would quote scripture to the enemy. We will never defeat him with our religion, it takes the anointing of the Holy Ghost that comes from the word.

We need to speak the word, sing the word, write encouraging verses and stick them on the bathroom mirror, the refrigerator door and everywhere. Too long the church has suffered from malnutrition. Its time we start feeding the hungry before they try to take a journey and faint on the way.

The harvest is ready, Jesus is coming soon. We need to be ready. I pray you find the right recipe for your life.

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EP271 WAITING

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The title of today’s episode: WAITING

If God shuts you in it is for your protection or preparation. If he shoves you out of a room and shuts the door it is for your protection or preparation. You don’t belong there anymore. Life is a series of rooms. We spend a designated amount of time in each one. God often has others in these places. They are there to help us or for us to learn how to help others.

How many times has God shut a door, leaving you in a hallway with no other doors in sight. When this happens, we feel like we have misunderstood God when he closed that door. But we all have seasons of just trusting him in the hallway. Then one day a door will open, and we can’t believe we didn’t see the hidden door sooner.

It is all in God’s perfect time. Just as Jesus went apart from the crowds to rest and pray. We too need times to refresh our soul. We need renewal and fresh infilling of his power. Think about a pitcher of water. You take that around and pour a little out into everyone’s cup you meet. Soon you will run out of water. You have to go back to the water source to fill it up again.

God’s mercies are renewed each and every day. Our strength is renewed if we look to him. He will also refresh our thirsty souls.

It is easy to tell someone that is in a place of isolation or standing in their hallway that God will open a door. But when you are the one waiting on the door to open the time can seem to drag on forever.

God values patience and will give us peace to wait out the transitions that happen in our lives. He will make a way when we don’t see how he will. We don’t doubt his ability, but we get battle weary sometimes and wonder when he will move. The answer is when it is time for us to walk through the next door.

Take the time to just sit in his presence and spend time with him renewing your strength. Allow him to fill you up to overflowing so you will be ready to pour out what God has given you to share.

We cannot allow our human nature or the enemy to cause us to act on our own. Taking our own path or opening our own door will lead to a place we don’t need to go. Even if it seems harmless. Things only work out right when we allow God to lead us.

Waiting is another way God develops our fruit of patience.

James 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

This helps us to become complete and will help us be a capable light to those around us.

Do not fall into the trap of the enemy. He will try to create opportunities that look to be just what you were waiting for, but a little voice says, wait do not enter that door. If we don’t listen to that still small voice of God’s Spirit, we will end up walking into a room where we do not belong. Once in the trap, it is hard to get out of and we have to pray for God to save us. This only delays the blessings and opportunities he has for us to be all that he has created us to be.

God will show us the way if we wait on him. When we are waiting, we can spend quiet time meditating on the word of the Lord. Great things are coming to the body of Christ. We need to spend our time preparing now for the revival that is about to sweep our land.

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EP270 GOD’S GARMENTS

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The title of today’s episode: God’s Garments

In the Luke chapter fifteen, we find a parable of the prodigal son. The man had two sons. One asked for his inheritance and went off to live his own way. This is the beginning of trouble. When we start to think we can live however we choose and that there are no consequences. The enemy will do all he can to get us to use our talents and resources for things other than the work of God.

The word prodigal, means extravagant, spending resources recklessly. He had gone off and lived like the world in sin. Until he found himself in a place where he didn’t have any friends. Most would leave after the money was gone. There arose a famine and he didn’t have any resources left. He ended up working for a man feeding his pigs.

Often, we have to hit our rock bottom before we realize that there is a better way. He was so hungry he thought about eating the slop of the pigs. Then he remembered that his father’s servants had plenty to eat. He swallowed his pride and returned home. It is sad that human nature will lead us to the place of the pig pen every time. We have to fight against nature and take care of the resources that we have been given by our heavenly father. Our father in heaven expects us to use whatever we have wisely. Whatever the resource, our money or our talents and creativity.

Like the father in this story our God is waiting and watching for us to come to our senses and run to him. This applies to anytime we are in trouble, not just when we have been living a life of sin.

Luke 15:20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Think about it, he had been working with pigs. You know he didn’t smell like roses. But the father didn’t care how he smelled and how dirty he was. He had been watching for him to come home. His father saw him a far off and ran and embraced him. He was excited that his son had returned.

Luke 15:21-22 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

Jesus puts on us the robe of righteousness. He removes the filthy robe of our righteousness, what we have done and can do with our ability.

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

There is not anything that we can do to earn our salvation. Our best behavior is as filthy rags. Because we must come through the blood of Christ.

The father put shoes on his feet so that he could walk like a son. The ring is the seal of the promise of God. Which we are given when we are born of the Spirit.

Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

He clothes us with garments of salvation, a robe of righteousness. He gives us the garments of praise.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

We can walk through difficult times that we find ourselves sad and down. It seems that nothing is going right. This is when we have to hold on to the promises of God. We take hold of our garment of praise and wrap it a little tighter around ourselves and begin to praise the Lord. Not because we feel like it, but because he is worthy. He will lift the spirit of heaviness that has tried to take over our souls.

When we focus on God, it doesn’t matter what is going on in our lives. Grief, sadness, depression, disappointment all can be powerful things. But we have to allow God to carry them for us and help us get through the hard things in life.

Just like the father in this story, Jesus is always watching for us to come to him with our problems. He will see us through it all.

1Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

An entire book could be written about humility and pride. God’s Spirit within us will make us humble. He gives grace and strength to the humble. He can use the humble because they are willing to give God the glory for the outcome.

We are warned not to be prideful because pride goes before a fall. If we come to God and are willing to allow him to dress us, we will always have on just the right garment.

Don’t forget the whole armor of God, which equips us to be warriors in his army. His armor protects us from the attacks of the enemy.

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EP269 – WAITING FOR GOD’S TIMING

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The title of today’s episode: Waiting For God’s Timing

Imagine what a long night of waiting it was for the children of Israel when the death angel was passing over the land. It must have seemed like a week. The anticipation of being set free from bondage must have been hard to wait out. They had waited a long time for their freedom. They were obedient and waited. What if they had gotten impatient and left the safety of their homes? The alternative would have been devastating.

What if Noah got anxious to get out of the boat before it was time? The story would have been a lot different.

We can’t give up now. God is doing some amazing things in the earth. America is in the middle of major changes. It is easy to let our human reasoning get in our way. We cannot allow fear to overtake our faith. God is in control.

Where would the three Hebrew men have been if they had looked at the flames? Where would Rahab been if she was afraid and started to run out of the city. Instead of staying under her roof where to men of God told them to stay. But they all had enough courage to be patient and wait to see what God was going to do. We are standing in such a moment. We have to remember that no matter what the news says, we have to wait upon the Lord. We are his people and he will take care of us.

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

This is everyone’s go to verse when we think about waiting on the Lord. We need to be encouraged that he will renew our strength. The hard part for us is to not fall into fear.

We have to walk through a fiery trial to make sure we are ready for the promotion God has for us. Soon there will be a large number of people coming into the church. They are going to need us to be their examples of Christ.

As difficult as the truth can be to face sometimes, we must find the strength to listen. God himself will give us discernment if we ask him for truth. Because God is truth, He cannot lie. He wants us to know the truth.

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Jesus is our truth. He will show us the way to go. His Spirit within us will lead and guide us. We just have to be sure to listen to the still small voice.

We love to quote what Mordecai said to Esther as an encouragement to approach the King… who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Esther 4:11-14 All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or women, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days. 12 And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words. 13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews. 14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

I would say the same to you. God could have created you and me at any point in history. He put us on this earth at this time in history. We are the generation to see the coming of the Lord. I am sure many would argue that people have been saying that for years. But look how much closer we are to the end.

God is our deliverer; he is getting ready to come and get his bride. But she is not quite ready, there are too many divisions in the bride. She has wrinkles and spots; because of what we have allowed to enter the church. It is time we took a stand against the enemy and took back the pulpits. It is time for us to be bold and speak the word of God in love.

Prov 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Speak the truth in love and pray for the lost. Stand strong, ask for discernment in this time in which we are living. God will not fail us. He will lift us up. Together we can win the lost to Christ before it’s too late.

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