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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP543–TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN LIES

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN LIES

The truth is always stronger than a lie. In the face of truth, a lie will always fail and fall short. But still our enemy tries to create doubt and make us want to turn to a lie.

Prov 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.

The word specifically says that lying lips are an abomination. What does that mean exactly? Abomination means disgrace, something that causes disgust or hatred. God hates lies.

Prov 12:17-18 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Because our heavenly father is the God of Truth. When we speak truth, it honors our God. Lies can be harmful like being pierced with a sword. The words of the righteous are health and life.

As his children, everything we say needs to bring honor to God. We must walk with integrity and in the power of his love and truth. Our words have power. Many times, I have told you that our words are life.

Exposure of lies and half-truths always happens when the truth comes to light. God’s truth will always set us free from any bondage created by a lie.

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

Lies tie people up, haven’t you ever heard of a web of lies. Some people get so wrapped up in lies they can not remember them all. Deception has its own stress. But when you speak truth, you don’t have to keep up with the lies. Remember truth is stronger than lies.

Psalm 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

This is what we must do as children of God. Not only are we to not speak lies but it also says not to speak guile, which means to be sly or cunning. Speak in order to manipulate someone.

The enemy is the master of manipulation. He can take the truth and twist it just enough that it sounds like the truth. This is why we have to ask God for his discernment. His spirit will lead us the way we must go. As long as we follow his lead we will know the truth and it will shatter all of satan’s lies.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING –EP452 COMPLETE IN CHRIST

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: COMPLETE IN CHRIST

Everything we will ever need is in Christ Jesus. He has saved us in every way from sickness, sin and death.

2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

When we give our lives to Christ for the first time we become a new creature. Our old life and way of doing things have passed away, and who we are becomes new. We have a new path laid out before us. One of truth and honor. But the enemy will try to get us to fall into a place that we lack integrity. He will do everything he can to draw us back into the sinful life we had before Christ.

Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

The enemy will try to get us to doubt ourselves, doubt our salvation, doubt every choice we make in life. But the answers we need are all in him. Complete means entire and full. The fullness of the godhead is in him. The fullness of everything we need is in him.

Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

The life we live now is by our faith in Christ because he gave his life for us. The work of the cross completed the plan for everything we would ever need. We have no reason to allow fear to overtake us. Fear comes from our enemy. If we are complete in Christ there is no room for fear or anxiety. Every time the enemy comes with his fear, send him away with a reminder that you have no reason to fear, because you are complete in Christ.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP451 GUARDING THE GATE

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: GUARD THE GATE

Why do we want what we know we can’t have? This is the age-old question. For example, when you decide you’re going to try to cut back to lose weight, suddenly you want to eat everything in sight. It’s like you are afraid you are going to starve to death.

Some of the motivation is fear, some of it is not wanting to be without what we need. But when the temptation is to sin, it is an attack of the enemy. He paints a pretty picture of how things would be better if you do what you know you shouldn’t.

Look how he approached Eve with questions that made her wonder if God really said they couldn’t eat of the tree. He made her question God’s motivation. Until she got it in her heart that they should have the knowledge of good and evil. He painted a picture for her that God was trying to hold her back and keep her from knowing the truth.

God always makes a way for us to escape the temptations of the enemy. They are lies, Satan tries to manipulate, he is a master at making us think we can’t live without that cake, that drink or whatever he is tempting us with. We have to be stronger than the lies.

Changing our focus from where we are to where we want to be remembering that truth is stronger than lies. The light of truth shines on the lies of the enemy and evil is exposed. Often it is said that the mind is where the battle is fought. What gets past the mind enters our hearts. The mind is the gateway to control over our entire being. Think about it this way, whoever controls the gate to a city, controls the city.

As children of God, we must make sure that the holy ghost is the one guarding the gate to our minds. If we keep our god focus and allow the holy ghost to lead, we will not be destroyed by the enemy, because he will not get past the gate.

Spiritual fortification comes through our faith. We put on our armor according to Ephesians chapter six and resist the enemy. As long as God is our focus, we will be strong. Using the word as our weapon.

Prov 25:28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Think about a city without walls, it can be easily over ran by the enemy. This is why it is necessary to fortify our walls against the attacks of the enemy. Stand strong in defense of the gate of your being. We will prevail over all the lies of the enemy, as long as we put our trust in God.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP450 VESSELS OF USE

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: VESSEL OF USE

God chooses the ordinary with something special inside. He looks for those who will be vessels that he can use. Think about Jesus’ disciples, he chose fishermen, a tax collector, a physician, and one that was a scam artist. Each one had a job to do. Each one was different in their upbringing and abilities.

Over time he molded and shaped their lives. He took them from ordinary vessels to extraordinary vessels. All that growth happened during the firing process. They learned to have faith while Jesus walked with them, but that faith was tested in the furnace of life after Jesus ascended.

We often talk about the three Hebrew men that were thrown into the fiery furnace. It had been turned up seven times hotter than normal. We walked into the middle of their story. We didn’t see all that happened in their lives to give them the strength to say, we are vessels of use to Jehovah. We will not bow to an idol; we don’t care if it is the law of the land. We don’t care that it can mean death. We only worship Jehovah.

How many trials had they walked through previously that gave them that boldness. They were individuals that had consecrated their lives to live for Jehovah. They would not betray him just because the politician in charge, the king said so.

How do we get to be vessels God uses? We prove that we are worthy to be used by getting to know the God of the universe. He created each of us for a purpose. Many never fulfill that purpose because they choose to not follow God or his path for them. But we have chosen to follow him. He will not allow us to sit on the shelf too long.

Is 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

He has promised to be with us and to not allow us to be overtaken. We can be sure he will go with us and not allow the enemy to prevail. All he asks of us is to be willing vessels of honor and integrity. Ones that will follow him and not bow to the world.

2 Tim 2:20-22 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. 22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

It doesn’t matter what the vessel looks like what matters is the heart. Is the heart pure and willing to be obedient? Because God cannot use a vessel that wants to do their own thing. Imagine a pitcher telling the potter, you cannot use me right now to serve iced tea, I plan on holding water and some flowers. There is nothing wrong with either thing. But by wanting to hold water and flowers, the pitcher is not doing what the designer chooses (it is being disobedient).

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP449 DON’T BELIEVE

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: DON’T BELIEVE

I am always encouraging you to believe God. I have given you scriptures several times about how we need to draw closer to God and believe His word. Today I want to encourage you to not believe. Don’t believe the bad reports, don’t believe the lies of the enemy. Don’t believe every person that comes into your life. The enemy sends people to bring us down, just the same as God sends people to lift us up.

If the children of Israel had not believed the lies of the ten spies, they would have crossed to the promised land. If Adam and Eve had not believed satan in the garden, they would not have lost paradise and their fellowship with God.

David didn’t believe the lies that said the giant was bigger than his God. Everyone knew how big Goliath was, they were hiding in fear of his size. But David didn’t allow the narrative to draw him from his faith. He didn’t believe the lies that Goliath would surely win, because David said, He is big to us, but he is small to our God.

Today I want to encourage you to listen to the voices around you. Think about what they are saying and then Don’t believe the lies of the enemy. He is out to destroy us all.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP448 JOY

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

Joy is a state of being happy and fulfilled. Not because of who we are, but because we are in God’s presence. Joy is where our strength comes from in the Lord. Fullness refers to a state of being filled to capacity.

Even when our lives are busy and seem to be filled to capacity with things that we would rather not walk through, God is there. We need to seek him in all situations. He is always with us, but there are times we do not feel his presence. But when the enemy comes along with his lies we can seek awareness of God’s presence and instead of dealing with the enemy we can find joy and peace in knowing God is with us and will never leave us to fight our battles.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP447 ENCOURAGING WORDS

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: ENCOURAGING WORDS

We often look to others when we are discouraged for them to say just the right thing to encourage us. It is good to be surrounded by encouraging people. I am blessed to have people in my circle to care and encourage me. God however is our reason to be encouraged.

At times God is quiet and we get discouraged. He wants us to be like David and encourage ourselves. There are times when we have to dig down deep and find encouragement within. Job had to find his strength to keep going on because the enemy had been allowed to remove anyone who would be encouraging. Job believed God and determined within himself to keep going.

1 Sam 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

David was another one that was deeply discouraged. His army wanted to destroy him after their families had been taken at ziglag. But David prayed and God told him to pursue his enemies. He overtook them and recovered what the enemy had stolen.

We cannot allow the enemy to steal our peace. He cannot have our strength. We cannot allow him to discourage us. It is going to take us digging deep to find that encouragement. Remembering what God has already done for us will go a long way in us finding what we need to keep going.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP446 HONORING GOD

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: HONORING GOD

Christians often say, “The word works.” By this we mean that we can rely on the word of God. He has spoken over us and breathed into us life. He formed us in our mother’s womb and created us for a purpose. The word says we walk in victory.

There used to be a commercial that encouraged kid’s to read. It said, knowledge is power. The more we dig into God word the more we understand his power and anointing. We must learn to honor God and his word. Knowing the word will give us power to overcome whatever the enemy throws at us.

As God’s children it is time to be fully committed to following Jesus. The days of going through the motions is gone. We are at a moment of no return. People must decide if they are all in or if they are out. Now is not the time to be indecisive. Now is the time to honor our God with every thing we say or do.

Col 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Men will not understand who we are and what we do. The closer to God we get the less people are going to understand it. Whatsoever you do, we have to do it for the Lord and not worry about what people think. We must honor God and his will for our lives.

I Thes. 4:7-8 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

God has called us to live holy and honor the Holy Ghost which is within us. He desires for us to draw closer to him. The more we honor him the more we will walk in the presence and power of his anointing. It means yielding your will fully to God.

Psalm 71:8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

We honor God by loving him with all of our heart. We worship him in spirit and truth. We pray and stay connected to him. We honor him by serving God with our gifts and talents that he has given us. We are showing him respect for what he has given us, by using what he has given us to honor him. We honor God by treating others with respect and by trying to help them in any way we are capable of helping.

We honor him with all the resources we have at our disposal including our time. I want to encourage you to honor God with all you have within you. We honor him by acknowledging that we are not anything without him.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP445 GOODBYE COMFORT ZONE

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: GOODBYE COMFORT ZONE

All too often God speaks to us, and we do not want to do what he tells us to do. Our flesh is uncomfortable doing certain things. We need to push ourselves to be obedient. If we can just push ourselves to step outside the norm, God is waiting to give us new experiences. Each new experience in Christ will prepare us to take the next step.

There were twelve disciples in a boat. The ship was comfortable, with little chance of drowning. They were content going on their way. Then they saw Jesus, walking on the water. When he bid Peter to step out and walk on the water, he did it. Most people give him a hard time today. They say, “Peter sank, when he took his eyes off of Jesus.” This is true, but Jesus proved to him, that he would take care of him if he would just be obedient.

This was a serious lesson for Peter and the rest of them. If Peter had stayed in the boat, he would have never experienced walking on water. He would not have developed the deep faith that he would need to see him through his life.

These twelve men were going to carry the greatest news ever known to man. They would be feared, ridiculed, imprisoned, beaten, mocked for preaching Jesus. They needed a deep-rooted faith. After all they were carrying a brand-new doctrine, the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

Many self-righteous religious filled people would not like the doctrine of being filled with God’s spirit. They were too full of self to realize that God could come and live within them and be their guide. They didn’t want to give up their control and people’s admiration of them in their positions of fake leadership.

We never understand why God tells us to step out of the boat. We can be sure he has a very good reason. It is to teach us a lesson or help someone else grow. We need to be more like Peter, willing to leave our comfort zone. There are deeper levels to our walk with God than we could ever imagine.

But if we are like the other eleven, we will never experience all that God wants to teach us, because we allow fear to override our obedience. We do not push out of our comfort zone enough to follow God’s will for our lives.

Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

God goes with us wherever we go, so we do not need to be afraid. We can be strong and courageous, because He lives within us. We can face any giant as long as we are like David and go to battle in the name of the Lord.

Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

We often want to run into battle when it is not time or we do not want to go at all even when God says go. We must wait on the Lord’s timing. But when he says go, we have to be willing to move our feet. His word tells us he will give us the strength, he will go before us and fight for us. We just have to show up. Why do we hesitate? Why do we hold back from God? Why can’t we step out of the boat? Do we lack courage?

Deep within every believer there is the heart of a warrior. A heart that has surrendered a few times to the will of God. Learning to find that moment of courage within us will help us to become the bold children of God we are called to be; those who have courage.

I want to encourage you to keep praying for the courage to step out of your comfort zone. It’s past time for the body of Christ to arise and do God’s will by saying goodbye to the comfort zone.

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GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING EP444 FINDING VICTORY

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THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE: FINDING VICTORY

You can be an overcomer. You can walk in victory. Yesterday I talked to you about finding surrender. It is going to take us surrendering to God to be able to walk in victory. I want to share with you some verses that will encourage you.

Everyday we are in a spiritual battle. Somedays we have to fight and fight hard. Other times the enemy backs off to lick his wounds and try to find a different approach to tear us down. But make no mistake, God will not let us be overtaken by the enemy. When the battles seem to be the hardest, we can rest in the fact that we will overcome by the blood of the Lamb.

I John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

We cannot overcome the world unless we are born of God. This is why it is so hard for people sometimes to make the first step toward yielding to Christ. Because they do not have enough overcoming power yet. It truly takes a large step of faith. But we gain victory in our initial surrender.

Rom 8:35-37 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

In tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril or threat of the sword we are greater than a conqueror, more than a conqueror through Jesus that loved us. If the power of God lives within us, we can overcome whatever we face. God will not allow us to face anything we are not ready to handle.

I Cor. 15:57-58 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Victory is a gift from God through Jesus and the power we have been give from him. It is not our efforts or strength; victory comes from our obedience and surrender.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

We too can overcome the world because Jesus gives us victory. He is our peace and strength. Finding victory means that our faith aligns to what God says and not what our circumstances says. The report of the enemy will fail in the light of God’s power. We have to believe God’s report. His word, his report says that we have victory over our enemy. We must come into alignment with his word, which says we have the victory.

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