Thought For The Day

WHEN GOD SEEMS TO BE SILENT, THAT IS WHEN HE IS WORKING ON OUR BEHALF BEHIND THE SCENES. HE IS PUTTING PEOPLE AND THINGS IN PLACE TO BLESS US IN SOMEWAY. IT IS IN THE SILENT TIMES THAT WE GROW IN OUR FAITH.  WE HAVE TO TRUST NO MATTER WHAT THINGS LOOK LIKE, OR SOUND LIKE. PSALM 27:13-14 I WOULD HAVE LOST HEART, UNLESS I HAD BELIEVED THAT I WOULD SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING. WAIT ON THE LORD; BE OF GOOD COURAGE,  AND HE SHALL STRENGTHEN YOUR HEART;  WAIT I SAY, ON THE LORD. ROMANS 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? AS IT IS WRITTEN:  FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL DAY LONG ;  WE ARE ACCOUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER." YET IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM WHO LOVED US. BELOVED, WE ARE BEING KILLED  ALL DAY LONG, THAT IS, OUR OLD SINFUL NATURE MUST DIE SO WE CAN LIVE...

TO BE CHILDISH, IS TO BE IMMATURE AND SELFISH. WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME.   ALWAYS THINKING OF SELF. AND IF THEY DON'T GET THEIR WAY, THEY WILL PITCH A FIT. TO BE CHILD-LIKE IS TO BE INNOCENT AND TRUSTING. MARK 10 :13-16 THEN THEY  BROUGHT LITTLE CHILDREN TO HIM, THAT HE MIGHT TOUCH THEM; BUT THE DISCIPLES REBUKED THOSE THAT BROUGHT THEM. BUT WHEN JESUS SAW IT, HE WAS GREATLY DISPLEASED AND SAID TO THEM, " LET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME TO ME, AND DO NOT FORBID THEM, FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD. "ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER DOES NOT RECEIVE THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS A LITTLE CHILD WILL BY NO MEANS ENTER IT" AND HE TOOK THEM UP IN HIS ARMS,  LAID HIS HANDS ON THEM, AND BLESSED THEM. THAT SAYS THAT WE MUST BE TRUSTING AND INNOCENT. FULL OF FAITH. JESUS WAS COMPARING HIS KINGDOM TO THAT OF A LITTLE CHILD.  THEY ARE TRUSTING. THE CHILDISH BELIEVERS ARE NOT TRUSTING, THEY HAVE LITTLE FAITH THAT GOD WILL COME THROUGH FOR THEM.  THEY ARE CHILDISH...

TO QUOTE THE BELONGING COMPANY MINISTRY. GODS CHILDREN IN THIS GENERATION NEED AND WANT. "THEY DESIRE ENCOUNTER OVER ENTERTAINMENT,   PRESENCE OVER PRESENTATION, INTIMACY OVER INDUSTRY, PEOPLE OVER POSITION, AND JESUS OVER EVERYTHING. " (FROM PASTOR ALEX SEELEY) WHEN I READ THIS, MY HEART BEGAN TO JUMP, YES, YES! THAT IS WHAT THE CHURCH NEEDS. BELOVED, WE THE CHURCH HAVE SETTLED IN THE PAST, FOR THE STATUS  QUO. MAN MADE RELIGION. JESUS WANTS US TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.  IT IS TIME TO LET GO OF SOME ACTIVITIES AND FALL INTO THE ARMS OF JESUS.  SPEND TIME WITH HIM. GOOD DEEDS ARE GOOD, BUT THEY WILL NEVER TAKE THE  PLACE OF THE WONDERFUL BLESSING OF SITTING AT THE FEET OF JESUS. PEOPLE THAT GET BURNED OUT IN MINISTRY ARE DOING TO MUCH IN THEIR FLESH TO PLEASE MAN.   THEY SHOULD BE JOYFUL AND CONTENT TO SIT AT JESUS FEET AND GET FROM HIM FIRST, BEFORE THEY GO MINISTER. MARY, MARTHA'S SISTER, LEARNED THIS LESSON. LUKE 10:39-...

IT IS THOSE BEHIND THE FLASHING LIGHTS, AND SMOKE AND MUSIC, WHO ARE DOING MORE FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. IF YOU FEEL INSIGNIFICANT, THAT IS A WONDERFUL PLACE TO BE IN.  GOD CAN WORK THROUGH YOU, MORE THAN THOSE WHO BELIEVE THEMSELVES TO BE SOMEBODY SPECIAL, AND THEY ARE TO GOD. HOWEVER WE'RE ALL SOMEBODY SPECIAL TO GOD. WE ARE HIS FAMILY. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:26-29 FOR YOU SEE YOUR CALLING BRETHREN, THAT NOT MANY WISE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, NOT MANY MIGHTY, NOT MANY NOBLE ARE CALLED. BUT GOD HAS CHOSEN THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD TO PUT TO SHAME THE WISE, AND GOD HAS CHOSEN THE WEAK THINGS OF THE WORLD TO PUT TO SHAME THOSE THINGS THAT ARE MIGHTY,  AND THE BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED GOD HAS CHOSEN, AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT, TO BRING TO NOTHING THE THINGS THAT ARE, THAT NO FLESH SHOULD GLORY IN HIS PRESENCE. I THINK OF A CARPET CLEANER WHO TOOK AN EVANGELIST ASIDE WHEN HE HEARD HIM PREACH.  THIS MAN HAD SEEN STRON...

I AM REMINDED TODAY THAT THE LORD IS PREPARING OUR WAY. GOD'S TIMING IS AMAZING.  THE WAY HE PUTS EVERYTHING IN PLACE FOR US. I PRAYED WHEN I GOT INTO MY CAR TO LEAVE.  "THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR MINISTERING ANGELS AND FOR PROTECTION , AND GUIDANCE FOR THIS DAY." TODAY AS I WAS DRIVING HOME, AN 18 WHEELER HIT THE CAR COMING ACROSS FROM ME.  I HAD TO YIELD TO THE GUY ACROSS FROM ME, THE LIGHT HAD CHANGED IN OUR FAVOR, THE 18 WHEELER RAN THE RED LIGHT AND HIT THE GUYS CAR. I HAD TO BACK UP AND GET OUT OF THE ROAD.  IF THAT OTHER CAR HAD NOT BEEN THERE, I WOULD HAVE BEEN HIT. THE GUY THAT WAS HIT SEEMED OK, I WENT TO HIS CAR AND HE WAS TALKING ON THE CELL PHONE. HE HAD SOME BLOOD ON HIS FACE. I WENT BACK TO MY CAR AND I FELT LIKE THE LORD SAID "GO TELL THE GUY IN THE 18 WHEELER THAT THE GUY WAS ALIVE." THAT GUY WAS SO  GRATEFUL THAT I LET HIM KNOW, AS HE WAS PRETTY SHOOK-UP. THEN THE LORD SPOKE TO MY HEART AND SAID THE GUY IN THE CAR TOOK YOUR PLACE, JUST AS I TOOK Y...

WE OFTEN SAY, THAT GOD'S VERY NATURE IS LOVE, AND THAT IS TRUE, BUT DON'T LEAVE OUT HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS. BE CAREFUL TO NOT INVENT A JESUS IN YOUR MIND THAT IS JUST LOVE.  1 PETER 1:14-16 AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN, NOT CONFORMING YOURSELVES TO THE FORMER LUSTS, AS IN YOUR IGNORANCE,  BUT AS HE WHO CALLED YOU IS HOLY, YOU ALSO BE HOLY IN ALL YOUR CONDUCT, BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, "BE HOLY FOR I AM HOLY" THERE IS LOVE, BUT THERE ALSO IS DISCIPLINE. ANY PARENT THAT LOVES THEIR CHILDREN WILL DISCIPLINE THEM AS IT SAYS IN PROVERBS. PROVERBS 13: 24 HE WHO SPARES HIS ROD HATES HIS SON,  BUT HE WHO LOVES HIM DISCIPLINES HIM PROMPTLY. WE MUST REMEMBER OUR GOD IS HOLY, AND RIGHTEOUS. YES, HE IS MERCIFUL AND LOVING ALSO, BUT HE IS ALSO JUST. HEBREWS 12:8-9 BUT IF YOU ARE WITHOUT CHASTENING, OF WHICH ALL HAVE BECOME PARTAKERS, THEN YOU ARE ILLEGITIMATE AND NOT SONS. FURTHERMORE WE HAVE HAD HUMAN FATHERS WHO CORRECTED US, AND WE PAID THEM RESPECT.  SHALL WE NOT MUCH MOR...

IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE AT THE END OF YOUR ROPE, THAT IS A WONDERFUL PLACE TO BE IN. NOW YOU HAVE TO GIVE GOD CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE.  SOME OF YOU HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO GIVE YOURSELF A LIFT OR HAND UP.   BUT GOD IS THE ONE WHO IS WAITING TO LIFT YOU UP, AS HE DID THE WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY. JOHN 8:10-12 WHEN JESUS HAD RAISED HIMSELF UP AND SAW NO ONE BUT THE WOMAN, HE SAID TO HER, "WOMAN WHERE ARE THOSE ACCUSERS OF YOURS?  HAS NO ONE CONDEMNED YOU?" SHE SAID NO ONE, LORD. " AND JESUS SAID TO HER, "NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU; GO AND SIN NO MORE." JESUS HAD LIFTED HER UP IN HER SPIRIT, SHE WAS SURE SHE WOULD BE STONED TO DEATH, BUT GOD! JESUS MADE IT CLEAR THAT ADULTERY WAS SIN. EVEN THOUGH HE FORGAVE HER. SHE WAS DIFFIDENTLY AT HER END OF HER ROPE. THERE ARE SO MANY EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN AT THE END OF THEIR ROPE,  THE END OF THEMSELVES TRYING TO FIX THINGS IN THEIR LIFE. PEOPLE, WE NEED THE LORD.  WE ARE A N...