Saturday, August 14, 2010

DAILY PORTION--TRUTH BE TOLD


 There are times when we attempt to do the right things, but in the end we realize we have done the wrong things. Sometimes people are so blinded by their own ways guided by some evil that makes them seek the approval of others over God's approval that they end up standing with the wrong side.
Sometimes as time passes we discover and realize that what we believed was right, Truth Be Told was wrong.  Was it immaturity, pride, ego, fear, pressure to be accepted and approved by others, and/or the want of what we should not have, that kept us from seeing and thinking clearly?
Many are vain and arrogant to believe that their will is equal to God's and rush forward to do what they think is right, but they are so greatly wrong.

Have you gotten to a place of realizing that your wrong thinking, speaking and acting has not only hurt others you hurled it at, but also hurt your life?
Did you see His Truth when His Truth shinned on you?  How many years/days/ weeks of soul searching have you done to get to a point of clarity where you now know that something you did or said years ago, or days ago was so hateful, so selfish and so plainly wrong?  Have you begun this journey into the truths that you need to face and accept and allow to Change you yet?

Many have not.  Oh some have gotten to the point of clarity in which they now know that what they did or said was wrong, but they have not accepted responsibility for that person they once were, and therefore have rejected the need, the opportunity to change and mature.  Which means they Still Are that same person.

At some point we all have been very wrong in our words, thoughts, and actions to others and ourselves.  Though at that moment we thought we were without doubt right on all points, we were convinced that there was no other way to think, speak, or act.  We would risk everything we held dear to hold on to what we believed was so right. 
But as time passes, some people come to realize that they were terribly and sometimes tragically not as right as they thought they were.  Because of God's Truth shinning on us, we are clearly able to see just how wrong we were.  His truth about our wrongs will come in many ways, the voice of a victim speaking her/his story, the words and questions of a child, the friend who retells of a wrong done to them that sounds so familiar to us because we are able to see ourselves as the one who inflicted pain and hurt on another thinking we were doing the right thing with good intentions, but truly we wrong. Through a friend sharing how their wrong thinking, words and actions choices hurt their lives, we are also able to See ourselves very clearly for doing the same wrong things to ourselves.

Have the many received His truth and accepted responsibility for the wrong they lived as right?  How many are still holding on to what is wrong because of fear, pride, ego, the fleshy need to be accepted by others they perceive to be right?

 
Has God provided the Truth that you need to See clearly that the old person you were, you are no longer able to live with? That you have changed your mind and do not believe what you used too?
Does His truth reveal to us, all we missed out on because of the length of time we held on tightly to what we thought was right?
 Is there now enough love in our heart to see how we hurt others because of our thinking that we were so right, but were deeply and clearly wrong? 
Do those same demons that swayed us to think, say and do what we thought was so right still control us? 

There are many places where we can look and see people who Think they are doing what is Right but are So greatly wrong. The parents that reject their children because they are lgbt or q, the parents the reject and punish their daughters for getting pregnant in their teenage years, their sons for dating one not of their same skin color or culture. The vile and evil things done to women and children in the name of Love. Those that equate hate with holiness, and faithfully murder in the name of God, righteousness, and cultural traditions.
  

When ever I cross paths with people spewing hatred in the name of Jesus or God, trying to condemn our differences and make laws that define what marriage is and isn't, or who should have children or shouldn't, or what children should be accepted and those that should not, when I think about those that are upset to the point of anger because they Can Not make every one in the world conform to their ways of thinking, living and hating...I hold close and dear to my heart and soul these words that Jesus said; "They will put you out of the synagogues; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God" (John 16:2)

See, it is not always enemies but those that should be on our side, our friends, our family members, followers- Believers of our Lord Jesus, those that profess so loudly to loving God so much.  These are the ones that will slam the church doors in our faces, shut us out of their synagogues and temples, they will excommunicate you from their worship, completely block your entrance into the Very places that God wants you to be...And they believe they are right, All in the Name of God.

Don't get it twisted, it's not God, Jesus  or His Holy Spirit treating people this way, it is those humans that Think they are doing Right, but are So very Wrong that are treating people like trash.  Thinking they are doing the Will of God and they actually have no kind of Relationship with God at all to have any idea what His Will is.  They are just standing on the side of those perceived to be Right...but simply are dead wrong!

Today is an opportunity to accept His Truth shinning on you where you are wrong in your thinking and be changed. 
Our 'today's' are numbered, so to delay in grabbing the Opportunities provided to us  which are only here for today-for this moment is Important!

It is possible to be changed? Yes there is Hope, there is Hope, Faith and Love and Forgiveness in abundance to do so!
You can change your thinking, change your mind, change your wrongs into what Is right!
The opportunity God provides makes it all possible.
Truly the ways that we have thought we were right when others have been hurt have also saddened God.
Are the things you once believed to be true still holding you and guiding you today, Even after you have realized just how wrong you were? Why are you still holding on to them?
 Is there a way to change after what has been done and said for what you thought were the right reasons, now made extremely clear are so wrong? 
What is keeping so many hostage from admitting to themselves that they were wrong and that there is a great need to be changed?
I believe Change is always possible if the person deeply and honestly wants to be changed by God's love and truth.
I believe whole heartedly that we are able to make right the wrongs we committed in our past Through forgiveness from God In the name of Jesus.

To ask forgiveness and to find forgiveness from the One Who Never turns away any soul that is truly, and earnestly sorry and repentant. He knows all of our hearts, so He know who is truthfully seeking to be changed and be forgiven by Him, who is seeking that He change their hearts from one full of revenge, pain, hurt, wrongness, pride, selfishness and hate, into one full of His forgiveness, acceptance and love, surrendered to His Will. He Will Not turn these away!

Are we able to seek forgiveness from those we have inflicted hate upon, spoke with cutting, demeaning angry words, those we actively sought to hurt and victimize, those that we have wrongly rejected?  Maybe that is possible and maybe not. Though there is always the opportunity to offer change to others who remind us of who we used to be because of how we thought that we were right, but found that were we oh so wrong. 
Living with changed thinking, speaking and actions is a way of making amends.   
Once you take hold of the responsibility that you were wrong, and receive the changes that Only God can do, You will see your old self in others as you continue to live each day being changed that we are blessed to live within. Show them your new heart and allow God to have full Glory through your life.


Jephthah thought he was right - Judges 11
Abraham thought he was right - Gen 12:11-20
                                                Gen 20:12



 On feet of Faith & Peace 
Joshua 1:9/ Isaiah 52 
Resting In His Faithfulness, 
One Day At A Time By Faith. 
©2010 WisdomTeachesme

Friday, August 13, 2010

DAILY PORTION--THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS


"Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take... the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you." John 16:15

"Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts." Zechariah 4:6"

Oh Yes my Lord Thank YOU!
I Look back at where He led me from! 

How I obediently followed Him.
 
I say to myself-Self, Is Not my Lord As Strong today as He was in All the days that lie behind me? 

 
YES He IS!

 
Did He not Save me Every Time when human aid refused to or/was powerless to do so?

 
Yes He did!

 
Did He Keep His Promises to protect & care for me? 

To Supply my Every need?
 
Yes He Did!

 
Is there Any Way I could doubt His Power Now-Knowing & Remembering All that He has Already done?

 
NO, No way possible for me to doubt one bit!  

 
If you know this is True for you--Say it out loud in agreement!

 
In the Name of Jesus, The Lord Has rewarded my obedient Faith and Trust in HIM! The Lord has Lead me down the paths of Righteousness.


When I Seek His Direction Does He not supply it every time?
Yes He does!
And I obey whether I understand it completely or not, I Trust His Way for me!

The Lord has Supplied my Every Spiritual and natural Need on Time Every Time!
 
I Have Gained in Confidence and Trust! 

 My Faithful obedience has been Strengthened!


His Spiritual Power Is Able to Operate more Freely and Fully on my behalf!

 I am growing and maturing-realizing All His Wonder and Greatness!
 
I Shall continue to See Every result of being Blessed unfold more and more As I continue to Faithfully OBEY His Leading of my life!

 
I Shall continue to Bring to Him All I do, Bring to Him every plan and action BEFORE I act, To Make Sure It Is His Will, His Plan, His Purpose for me to do!




  REMEMBER that No prayer goes Unanswered!
Remember that at the very moment a thing seems wrong to you, or a person's actions are not what you know they should be,  At that Very moment begins our obligation And Responsibility to Pray in the Name of Jesus for these wrongs to be Righted and for that person to be corrected and different!

 
This is Also TRUE for us concerning ourselves, our thoughts, our heart, our actions and reactions to any thing and person.

The Word of God in the name of Jesus spoken with complete Faith and Power into Every situation, circumstance, issue, problem and hindrance Shall make it change!
We Are provided with Everything that we Will need for Every day in the Daily Portion our Lord give to us!  Live in it and Through it Faithfully!

I Encourage you to Face your responsibilities Truthfully in Complete Faith!
Whatever is wrong in your Spiritual or natural life, your trust, your self-control, your family, your co-workers, your children, your health, your finances, your neighbors, your teachers, your students, clients, your thinking, your country, the leaders of your country, the laws and people of your country--think on it all quietly in the presence of our Lord And make these matters part of your Prayer to Him! Give to Him in the name of Jesus, what is wrong and allow Him to handle Every matter and turn everything around to be aligned with His Will, Plans and Purposes!


Seek the Word that He has supplied to us and speak it out in complete faith and watch Him bring it all into complete alignment as it should be!
Not the Way YOU think it should be, but the Way that He has ordained it to be!
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.
 
Then Praise our Lord for handling what Only He is Able to Handle in the Name of Jesus!


You Will see, if you speak with faithful expectation of His Power, that in all these matters Lives touched, laws made, Justice applied, and evils banished!
He may Move you out of the situations, or He may use you to alter the situations--Either Way, Whatever His Will and Plans and Purposes Are that He reveals to you, Obey them completely!

Live in a Large sense, Pray Large, Expect Him in Large unimaginable human ways to take care of Every thing that you take to Him in faithful expecting prayer!

You may never see the results of your faithfully prayers for others, but rest assured that He does see it all!  And so does evil see the mighty Work of Service to others for Him and His namesake!

Oh What a Glorious Life is that of the mighty servant unto our Lord, who seeks to serve and Save all the lost that He directs us to save! 


Not by our eye do we follow, But by His EYE does He lead us and we ARE to obediently Follow! 
The roads/paths that He leads us on are Righteous!
 
We are chosen and called to Work With our Lord, to cooperate with His Holy Spirit in faithful obedience to effectively and efficiently complete His Will for each And every day!

We are to be sharers of His life in Love with Him!

"I thank You and praise You, O God of my fathers, Who has given me wisdom and might and has made known to me now what we desired of You, for You have made known to us the solution to the king's problem." Dan 2:23 (amp)

“For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”  Eph 2:10 (amp)




On feet of Faith & Peace
Joshua 1:9/ Isaiah 52 
Resting In His Faithfulness, 
One Day At A Time By Faith. 
©2010 WisdomTeachesme

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

DAILY PORTION-FAITHFUL OBEDIENCE



"For it is Not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's Sight, but It Is Those who OBEY the law who Will Be Declared Righteous." -Romans 2:13 
 
"He who is faithful in a very little [thing] is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust in a very little [thing] is dishonest and unjust also in much."  Luke 16:10

 With Grace, Mercy and in His Complete Love, I Pray that the Words on this page will Bless you in all the ways that you are in need of them to do, In the name of Jesus, Amen!

I encourage you to Never settle for less than His Best for you and yours! The Only Way to Know and Grasp His Best is to be obediently faithful to His Will, His guiding, His direction and His correction! 

Faithful Obedience to God's Voice, is such that - in Knowing the Lord's Will, the person will go and do it; if God's Will is not known, the person stands and waits.

"Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness." - 2 Corinthians 9:10 - NIV

 
 “But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7


 Obedience is Better than sacrifice.  Too many times people try to give God what They want to give (sacrifice), Not what He Directed them to give, and therefore their sacrifice is rejected and the sin of disobedience is done.  These same kinds of people also try to make happen in their time what God has promised He would do, in His Timing.
 
People pray All the time, 'In the name of Jesus, God, Your Will be done, Not mine'...and that is what we should say and live by.
God hears and provides His Way and Will to follow, and when God reveals His Will, Plans, and Purposes too many get upset and complain and fuss, because What He is giving is Not what they had in mind. They are going by their own eye, thinking, desires and plans, and they reject His Best for them.  Then when everything they have planned falls apart (and it will), then they cry,  are sad, confused, asking everyone 'to pray for me',  find themselves caught up in financial, physical, emotional and Spiritual traps and webs, calling on Jesus to come and save them. 
And most times, this is Not the first time this has happened to them...but because they keep following where their eye leads them, they keep settling for less than God's Best for them! Disobedience will tear apart everything that you have Spiritually and in the natural.

This is what happens when they completely ignore what God has directed them to do because they know best for themselves.  That is what they are saying to God when they go their own way.  The way that pleases the flesh, and gives them some short term good feeling that is more comfortable and convenient to them.  They do not want to allow His Spirit to cleanse them, to reveal the areas of their heart and mind that need to be corrected.  But yet, they are double-minded because they keep saying they belong to God in the name of Jesus, and that they Love Jesus, but they do Not obey Him.  If you belong to Him and Love him, then you will obey Him! 
  What they offer will be rejected, it is full of the wrong motive and not what He said to do.  And many if they grudgingly (not joyful) go to do what He said, they miss His Timing to Do the thing...and the window of Opportunity that He put into place is gone.  Dragging yourself to fulfill God's Will is not going to Provide any honor or Glory to Him through your doing His Will.

If God's Will has no purpose for us to go somewhere to do or say something, then, we do not need to make up a purpose as an excuse. That is leading yourself by your eye, not Waiting faithfully on God to lead you with His eye.


 
Too often, people Waste valuable Time by asking, "why do You want me to do this God?  Why do I  have to help that person, I would rather help this one over here!, Why do I have to give this away, or I made plans to go and do this, but You want me to go and do what?"

There should be no questioning in the form of doubt or unbelief, or rebellion, just a, 'Yes Lord.'  Without hesitation because of our faith and trust in God, all He wants to see and hear from us is a 'Yes God'.  Staying focused on the Work that He has put into our hands will reveal to us why we had to do what He directed.  Though, in the beginning,we  may or may not be told. Most times, Faithfully obeying our Lord's Voice means that we Believe in Advance what will make sense at the completion.  The End is always better, His Best.

There are testing times where God will tell a person to give something away, an object, time, $, prayer, forgiveness, etc...and if it is Not what the person wants to do, they do not obey...that is a sin.  He provides to us our Daily Portion Every Day, to be used to do His Will, to help us live through One day, and to be a Help to others that He directs us to.  Many people that claim Him as their Lord, never use their daily portion for His purposes, if at all.
 It's Not the thing that He asked the person to give away that is really important to the whole picture, it's the condition of the heart that he is testing, to see if obedience is by Faith or controlled by fleshy earthly reasons and motives.

He is guiding us, teaching us, instructing us what to do, what to learn, what to say, etc...we don't know where He is leading us to, nor what we will have to do.  We don't know How God Is Going to Help us, or how He is Going to Use us to be Help to another person.  But Truly He Knows the details and He will reveal them to us as we need to know them. We Will miss out on what He has planned for us-His Best, because of disobedience.
So therefore, We Have to obey, or instead of doing what He told us to do, we will end up doing the wrong works talking about, 'this is in Jesus' name', and Jesus didn't bit mo' tell us to do that and we know it, at our end, He will say," I know you not!"

God tells us to Wait on His timing, His Will, plans and purposes to be revealed to us.  Many get impatient, they begin to fuss, and complain and then frustration and irritation are awakened and given power, then the person begins to follow their emotions and not what God told them to do.  Then you have those that are told to get up and do now, and they do not. They have decided to do what God told them when they want to. More than likely, if they deliver what God tells them it"s late, and then also not completely.  


 Then they pray again, 'not my Will Lord, but Yours......You are a Faithful God'....But Are you a faithfully obedient Believer/Child to God?
 
 The Wise and Faithfully obedient believer builds their house on the Will, the Truth, the Word and the Love of God in the name of Jesus. Disobedience will do nothing but tear down what you have, and keep you from His best for you.



James 2:24-26
Gen. 4:3-10
Heb 11:3-7
Matthew 7:24
Proverbs 14:1



On feet of Faith & Peace 
Joshua 1:9/ Isaiah 52 
Resting In His Faithfulness, 
One Day At A Time By Faith. 
©2010 WisdomTeachesme