If you want your deeds to be blessed, if you want to see supernatural results in your life, you'll have to do more than simply read the Word of God. You'll have to put it into action.
Keep on reading and studying the Bible. Listen to teaching tapes. Go to church and hear the Word preached. But don't stop there. Go one crucial step further by taking the Word you've heard and put it into ACTION!
READ: Matthew 7:17-27
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
"But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and hadcompassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." Luke 15:20
How much love do you have for sinners? That may sound like a trange question, but it's one I want you to think about today. All too often, once we get saved and get our lives cleaned up a little bit, we lose our compassion for those who are still lost. We look at the drunk stumbling down the street or the guy at the office who lies to the boss and tells dirty jokes and turn up our spiritual noses.
There's a whole world full of weary people out there who haven't yet found that embrace. They're more than just "sinners," they're our potential brothers...lost ones in desperate need of a loving heavenly Father. God forbid we should ever turn up our noses at them. May He help us instead to start bringing them home.
READ: John 8:1-11
There's a whole world full of weary people out there who haven't yet found that embrace. They're more than just "sinners," they're our potential brothers...lost ones in desperate need of a loving heavenly Father. God forbid we should ever turn up our noses at them. May He help us instead to start bringing them home.
READ: John 8:1-11
Thursday, May 26, 2011
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed." 2 Timothy 2:15
A lot of people have been playing games when it comes to the Word. They claim to be faith people in public. But, in private, they never open the Bible at all. Then, when a time of trouble comes and they try to stand on the Word, they fall flat on their spiritual faces.
If you want the kind of faith that will keep you on your feet when others are falling around you, you need to take some action where the Word is concerned.
Get serious about the Word of God. Study it. Go hear it preached. Confess it. Become such a diligent workman that the devil himself will look at you with fear and say, "There's one believer who's not playing games anymore."
READ: 2 Peter 1:3-10
If you want the kind of faith that will keep you on your feet when others are falling around you, you need to take some action where the Word is concerned.
Get serious about the Word of God. Study it. Go hear it preached. Confess it. Become such a diligent workman that the devil himself will look at you with fear and say, "There's one believer who's not playing games anymore."
READ: 2 Peter 1:3-10
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
John 16:33
"I have told you these things so that in Me you may have perfect peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer...I have overcome the world."
Jesus said as long as you live in the world, you're going to have trouble. But you're not just in the world. You're in JESUS in the world, and that makes all the difference. You're in Him and He's overcome every kind of trouble there is.
When you made Jesus the Lord of your life, you were born into victory... because the Victor came to live in you. Think about it. Cheer up, my friend. Have "perfect peace and confidence."
That's Jesus who lives in you!
READ: John 16:15-33
Jesus said as long as you live in the world, you're going to have trouble. But you're not just in the world. You're in JESUS in the world, and that makes all the difference. You're in Him and He's overcome every kind of trouble there is.
When you made Jesus the Lord of your life, you were born into victory... because the Victor came to live in you. Think about it. Cheer up, my friend. Have "perfect peace and confidence."
That's Jesus who lives in you!
READ: John 16:15-33
Monday, May 23, 2011
John 4:14
"Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
Have you ever noticed that you can't put any trash in the mouth of a flowing fountain? When it's shooting that water up, the force of its own outflow protects it and keeps it clear of any impurities from the outside. Well, the spiritual fountain within you works the same way.
When you're allowing the forces of love and joy and peace and gentleness and all the others to flow out, the devil can't get any of his junk in. How do you keep the Spirit flowing? You pump your heart so full of the Word of God that the forces of eternal life start bubbling out. Just a little at first...and then stronger and higher.
READ: Jeremiah 17:7-13
Have you ever noticed that you can't put any trash in the mouth of a flowing fountain? When it's shooting that water up, the force of its own outflow protects it and keeps it clear of any impurities from the outside. Well, the spiritual fountain within you works the same way.
When you're allowing the forces of love and joy and peace and gentleness and all the others to flow out, the devil can't get any of his junk in. How do you keep the Spirit flowing? You pump your heart so full of the Word of God that the forces of eternal life start bubbling out. Just a little at first...and then stronger and higher.
READ: Jeremiah 17:7-13
Friday, May 20, 2011
"The steps of a [good] man are directed and established of the Lord,when He delights in his way [and He busies Himself with hisevery step]." Psalm 37
God's will is to lead you on a day-by-day basis. He's given His Spirit to guide you every day. Most believers don't know that. They expect God to reveal His complete will for their lives in one big revelation. Don't make that mistake. Don't just sit around waiting for God to show you whether or not He wants you to go to America or UK for the rest of your life.
Let Him begin to lead you in little things first, to tell you what you need to do about this situation or that one. He'll show you what you need to change. And, as He does, you'll change one thing at a time.
READ: Genesis 12:1-8
Let Him begin to lead you in little things first, to tell you what you need to do about this situation or that one. He'll show you what you need to change. And, as He does, you'll change one thing at a time.
READ: Genesis 12:1-8
Sunday, May 15, 2011
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."Galatians 5:16
Walking in the Spirit. That's the key to overcoming the flesh. If you follow the promptings of the Spirit of God within you, you won't be dominated by the pressure your flesh tries to put on you.
READ: 1 Corinthians 10:1-14
READ: 1 Corinthians 10:1-14
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
2 Chronicles 20:21
"When he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers to sing to the Lord and praise Him in their holy [priestly] garments as they went out before the army, saying, Give thanks to the Lord, for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!"
Praise precedes victory!
You can see a graphic example of that in 2 Chronicles 20. There, the Bible tells us that a multitude of forces were marching against Israel. The army of Israel was so outnumbered, they literally didn't know what to do. So they fasted and prayed until they received a word from God.
"Be not afraid or dismayed at this great multitude; for the battle is not yours but God's."
READ: 2 Chronicles 20:1-22
Praise precedes victory!
You can see a graphic example of that in 2 Chronicles 20. There, the Bible tells us that a multitude of forces were marching against Israel. The army of Israel was so outnumbered, they literally didn't know what to do. So they fasted and prayed until they received a word from God.
"Be not afraid or dismayed at this great multitude; for the battle is not yours but God's."
READ: 2 Chronicles 20:1-22
Monday, May 9, 2011
"Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?" 1 Samuel 17:26
You may be facing a giant today. He may be a giant of sickness or failure, of financial shortage or another kind of trouble. But don't let him scare you. You have a secret weapon. A weapon that once turned a shepherd boy into a bear-busting, lion-killing, giant-slaying champion. That weapon was a blood covenant with Almighty God.
READ: Galatians 3:13-29
READ: Galatians 3:13-29
Hebrews 4:12
"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing as under of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
The living Word of Almighty God is the only power strong enough to discipline your flesh. It's the only power that can cause you to think, look, talk and act like a born-again man.
Get caught up in the living Word today and discover the power that can set you forever free.
READ: Psalm 119:1-9
The living Word of Almighty God is the only power strong enough to discipline your flesh. It's the only power that can cause you to think, look, talk and act like a born-again man.
Get caught up in the living Word today and discover the power that can set you forever free.
READ: Psalm 119:1-9
John 14:21
"Whoever accept my commandments, and obeys them, is the the one who loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
There's a dimension of living you can only experience when you make a decision to please the Father in every activity of your life.In that dimension, Jesus becomes real to you and manifests Himself to you.
Love God with all your heart by keeping His commandments.
He'll show His love to you by manifesting Himself to you in powerful new ways.
READ: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8
There's a dimension of living you can only experience when you make a decision to please the Father in every activity of your life.In that dimension, Jesus becomes real to you and manifests Himself to you.
Love God with all your heart by keeping His commandments.
He'll show His love to you by manifesting Himself to you in powerful new ways.
READ: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8
Thursday, May 5, 2011
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever."Hebrews 13:8
Years ago, God spoke a phrase to ME on my heart that I've never forgotten. I'd been asking Him to teach me to walk in the Spirit, to operate more fully in the supernatural power of God."In consistency lies the power," He said.
That revelation was tough for me. In the natural I'm anything but consistent. My human nature tends to be up one day and down the next. But, praise God, I don't have to depend on my human nature to get me by. I have Jesus Christ living within me and He's the same yesterday, today and forever!
Jesus isn't fickle. He doesn't change His mind from one day to another. He's constant, and if you'll press into Him, He can cause you to be that way too.
READ: Colossians 1:14-23
That revelation was tough for me. In the natural I'm anything but consistent. My human nature tends to be up one day and down the next. But, praise God, I don't have to depend on my human nature to get me by. I have Jesus Christ living within me and He's the same yesterday, today and forever!
Jesus isn't fickle. He doesn't change His mind from one day to another. He's constant, and if you'll press into Him, He can cause you to be that way too.
READ: Colossians 1:14-23
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