Don’t stop trying, because your trying will be transfigured, into accomplishment. Don’t stop believing God, because your believing will develop into fulfillment. And whatever you do, don’t stop worshiping God, because your worship, (like King David), will transform your life, city, and nation.
The enemy wants you to stop. However, God wants you to know that he sees the end, the final results, and the outcome of your situation, AND IT IS GOOD AND VERY GOOD, just don’t stop.
God created us in his image. He spoke the world into existence. With our tongue we speak life or death and create our world . God brought Ezekiel to a valley filled with dry bones. God told him to prophesy to the bones and they would come to life. Ezekiel spoke as the Lord told him to and the bones became a great army. In the same way, we can speak to the parts of us that are dead and dry and they will come to life once again. Speak life to the dead promises in your life and see them come to life. Jesus came to give us abundant life. Agree and speak abundant overflowing life to those dead places and watch them come to vibrant life!
So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27 NLT)
Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, ‘Dry bones, listen to the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again! I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’” (Ezekiel 37:4-6 NLT)
Even when your heart is hurting, God is still healing you. Even when you’re still struggling, God is still delivering you. Even when you’re needing funds, God is still financially increasing you. Even when you’re lacking character, God is still maturing you. After and before anything and everyone, GOD is STILL GOD…
The grace of God causes us to trust in Jesus, for our salvation (welfare, prosperity, deliverance, preservation, safety; saved or rescued and delivered from destruction by God). Salvation is a gift from God and we cannot perform or be good enough to earn it. God gives it to us, freely! We have a new identity through Jesus the Christ-the Anointed One living inside of us.
For it was only through this wonderful grace that we believed in him. Nothing we did could ever earn this salvation, for it was the gracious gift from God that brought us to Christ! So no one will ever be able to boast, for salvation is never a reward for good works or human striving. (Ephesians 2:8-9 TPT)
You’ve learned how to ABASE, now it’s time to ABOUND!
Abase-to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade. Archaic, to lower; put or bring down: He abased his head.
Abound-to occur or exist in great quantities or numbers: to be rich or well supplied; to be filled; teem.
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. (Philippians 4:11-13 KJV)
Worried and concerned about how you look to others and if they approve of you?
It is easy to get caught, trying to please people. However, the approval that is important comes from Yahweh God, our Father in Heaven. Pleasing people exhausts one, due to its demands for performance, compromise and control. It snares you into a spider web of deceit, with defeat and insecurity. God pleasing however, gives you your true identity, as you put your focus, actions, confidence and trust in him. You safely rest in the Lord, at peace because he is trustworthy and does not change. When we please God, the rewards are great.
The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever leans on, trusts in, and puts his confidence in the Lord is safe and set on high. Many crave and seek the ruler’s favor, but the wise man [waits] for justice from the Lord. (Proverbs 29:25-26 AMPC)
We can’t afford to stay in the same old wineskin–mindskin of yesterday, it will not hold or advance the new wine of the Holy Spirit, the present truth of God. My heart bleeds this morning; I can’t live in yesterday.
No one after drinking the old wine wants the new, for he says, ‘”the old is better.” The old is rooted in the old systems of man, comfortability and familiarity. The new is rooted in the Kingdom of God, it’s uncomfortable and unfamiliar.
They pour new wine into new wineskins, so that both are preserved. How can we maintain the same comfortable routine, sing the same familiar songs and minister from the same old systems and keep the new? We find more important our song selections, our pre-selected sermons, and what impresses us, versus the fresh wineskin presence of the Lord and what impresses God. Pursue the presence of God and refuse to live in yesterday.
What we think and rehearse in our minds, manifests in our actions. When we meditate and think on the wonderful love of God, his mercy, grace, faithfulness and forgiveness for us, we give more love, mercy, grace and forgiveness to others. However, if we allow pride, offense and trauma, to take hold in our thoughts, we become proud and self-centered, self-righteous, argumentative, bitter and unforgiving. We judge others and act superior.
We need God’s weapons to pull down strongholds of the enemy, residing in our mind, will and emotions (heart). No longer letting past traumas define our present. With our full surrender and reliance on God’s supernatural help and weapons, we destroy these thoughts through Jesus. Thankful for God’s faithfulness and help, we either live bitter or better.
The weapons of the war we’re fighting are not of this world but are powered by God and effective at tearing down the strongholds erected against His truth. We are demolishing arguments and ideas, every high-and-mighty philosophy that pits itself against the knowledge of the one true God. We are taking prisoners of every thought, every emotion, and subduing them into obedience to the Anointed One (Jesus). (2 Corinthians 10:4-5 VOICE)
Real relationship requires real communication. Be honest with yourself, God, and others. Don’t mask how you really feel. Deal with it and allow God to deal with your heart.
Pure Glory 