The love of God that passes all understanding. It brings peace, calm, and safety.

Proverbs 18:10 “The name of the Lord is a strong tower:

the righteous runneth into it, and is safe ”

Fall into God’s arms and call on his name. That is all you need.

Enough said!!

Have a blessed night.

Proverbs 27:17

“Iron sharpeneth iron;

so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. ”

A lot of the times our progress in life can be measured against the people we spend our time with.

It is more than being an unequally yoked relationship.

The saying “birds of a feather flock together” is true.

It’s self evaluation time:

Who are you hanging around?

What are their interests and goals?

Do they push to do greater?

Can you glean from them?

Do they love God like you do?

Are they walking by faith to please God? Or is that not a priority for them?

Look at the people you spend time with. Are they there to sharpen you? Or do they not add any value to your life?

Then finally ask yourself why? Why have you chosen to spend your precious time with them?

Sometimes the answer is as simple as being afraid of where God is trying to take you. This is also called self sabotage.

Get over it!

Repent. Then ask God to deliver you from that stagnant place. Ask God to give you the zeal and drive to do better. As God is pulling you along, ask him to place someone in your life that can mentor you or sharpen you. Someone who is already going the direction you want to. and encourages you to do better.

Then When you are strengthened, turn around and help someone else. We are our brother’s keeper. We need one another. Sharpen someone else.

Have a blessed day.

Ephesians 3:20

“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,”

We do not have to be careful about what we ask from God. He is a God of abundance. He is the God of the overflow. He will never run out of anything when it comes to his children. As creator, he can do what needs to be done.

Do not be afraid to think big.

Do not be afraid to ask God to enlarge your territory.

If his power is at work in you, the sky, moon, and stars are the limit. Go for it!!

Have a blessed Sunday.

Hebrew 11:11

“Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. ”

This is a familiar story. Sara wanted a child, but was not able to conceive because her womb was barren. Then God came along and told her she was going to bare a son.

I can only imagine that this news blew her mind. As much as she wanted this very thing, she had to acknowledge all the things stacked against her. She was old, she was barren, and she was afraid to hope because she could not bear to de disappointed again.

She was focused on the wrong things.

But God is faithful, that which he promised he is able also to perform (Romans 4:21). Once Sara shifted her focus off the impossibleness of her situation she was able to see God.

Distractions. That is what the enemy uses to keep our focus off of God. If he can keep us preoccupied with symptoms, we will never get to the root of the matter.

The root of the matter is this: our God IS created of the world. He is Lord over all, including your situation and issues. We have to stop looking at things, and see God. Once we do this, we can testify just like Sara – the God who made the promise is FAITHFUL!

He will do just as he said.

Those promises you have received of him, don’t give up on them. Dust them off and hold them up before God. Let him know that you remember. Not only that you remember, but that you believe that he will bring it to pass. Activate your faith and declare those promises every day, thanking God for them by faith.

No matter what, keep your focus on the God of the promise. The thing promised must come to pass, because God, who promised, is faithful.

Where is YOUR focus?

1 John 5:14-15

“14. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

15. And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”

Faith is an awesome thing.

It can move mountains, it makes what we first thought to be impossible, possible. It grows from level to level, it allows us to accomplish great things. We receive healing and deliverance through it. We draw closer to God, and understand more about God though it.

Confidence is defied as,

1. the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust.

2. the state of feeling certain about the truth of something.

3. a feeling of self-assurance arising from one’s appreciation of one’s own abilities or qualities.

Communion (intimate relationship) with God brings a confidence that is unshakable. When this God-given confidence is mixed with faith in Christ, we are unstoppable, spiritually speaking.

As his children, God wants us to talk him about everything. He wants us to ask him for the things we need, just any any good father does. But God takes it farther than our natural father. God encourages us to know him through his word (his will). Our prayers should be in line with his word (his will).

When we are in line, we can ask God for anything. We can ask in confidence knowing not only that he has heard our prayer, but that we also have the thing(s) we asked for.

Once I know that I have the thing(s) I petitioned God for, I walk in faith until the full manifestation is come (Hebrews 11:1). I walk as though I have it now. That “now” faith of Hebrews.

This is the my confidence.

The same confidence that strengthens our soul. The confidence that is shown in Hebrews 11, by Abel, Enoch, Noah, and Abraham.

Where is your confidence? Or more accurately, do you have this same confidence?

If your answer is not an immediate “yes” then I encourage you to make a change.

Get in a rush to know God through his word. For heaven and earth will pass away, but the word of God stands sure. It will never change.

Get your confidence that word through faith in God. He will not disappoint or let you down.

Be blessed by the word of God!

I am never alone…

God is ever with me providing strength and courage to go forth and accomplish the things he has given be to do.

I can do all things through Christ because he strengthens me.

Every passion I have that brings glory to God is from God. It was birthed in me – God trusted me with the vision – because he designed me to triumph victoriously.

What a great God we serve!!

Let’s fall in love with the Word of God.

Then act accordingly.

Have a blessed Saturday morning!!

Psalms 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. ”

Have you ever felt the need to just sit in God’s presence?

It’s not that you need anything in particular. Or even going through some great heavy storm. It’s just because he is my father, he loves me, and he knows me better than anybody. It is impossible to articulate what I need, but I do know that it is in his presence.

That’s how I feel tonight, right now.

It is wonderful to know that I don’t have to travel any great distance to find him. He is ever present with me. I can go to my “secret place” and just meditate on him. Worship for him fills my heart, my mind, and then spills out of my mouth.

Our God is a great God!

If you are up and reading this post, I encourage you to take some time to spend with God. Just you and him. Forget about everything, let it go for a few moments, and have a sweet communion with God. For in his presence is fullness of joy, and at his right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Afterward, I guarantee that even though your situation may not have changed, but your attitude toward it will have changed. The Bible “says as a man thinketh so is he.” So once you change your attitude toward what you are dealing with or going through, you will have also positioned yourself for the victory. Everything you need is in God’s presence.

Find your victory in God!

1 John 4:17-18

“17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”

It’s all about love.

Every thing we do or say should be motivated by, and come from a place of love. Even if the people we are dealing with are hard to love, the God we love is not.

Whatever steps we take or moves we make should all be done unto the Lord. With this attitude we can always operate in love to people who maybe mean, hurtful or even cruel.

This is how the love of God is perfected in us. Because as he is (God is love), in this world so are we.

We are the way people will see the love of God in action.

Go forth and show the world what we are made of!!

Be Encouraged!!

1 John 3:18

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth ”

If you talk the talk, it is now time to walk the walk!

My mother-in-law would always say “a pair of lips will say anything.” This is so true. We are quick to talk the religious cliche’ talk we have learned over the years. But there comes a time when we have to make a choice. Do we live the words of faith we speak? Or are we just a bunch of words with no power?

I know this sounds harsh, but hold on, it’s is not. It is totally appropriate to speak words of faith without having been tried by them. This is where every believer starts. During this stage of growth we are like new babes, learning the ways of faith, learning scripture, learning how to exercise our faith in small doses.

However, there comes a time when we must grow up and mature. We do this by being tried by the words we have been speaking.

God loves us so much that he allows us to be tried. He does this through tests of faith. Where we have to exercise our faith, testing those words that we have been talking. This is where rubber meets road.

These tests are not to destroy you, but to make you.

The love that we profess must not just be in word, but MUST be in action. If you say you trust God. There is a test coming where you will have the opportunity to show (through your faith action) that you do, or you don’t.

That time as babes was precious. The Bible tells us we must grow from faith to faith. At every level there is a test we need to pass before we can graduate to the next. Sort of like spiritual school.

At school, we are tested to make sure we have learned what was taught, and are able to properly apply this information to life. The same is true with God. He already knows where we are. The tests are for us. We need to know where we are, so we understand what our strengths and weaknesses are. So we can understand where we need to ask God for help.

It’s all about love. Put that Love of God in action. Don’t just speak it, live it.

Show your love for people through sharing, caring, and giving. Share your time, your faith, your gifts, and your finances. Not just inside the church, for you are most impactful outside of the four walls. Let God use you where he most needs you.

It’s time to ask God where he needs you to be. Then occupy that space til he comes.

Charity. Give the love of God to the people who need it the most. You may feel you don’t have much (time, resources, patience, desire to do, etc). But if you give the little you do have in faith, God will bless and increase it. Giving you more, so that you have more to give.

It’s all about love. Trust God, and go for it. Share it today.