A Word Spoken In Due Season

As a Christian God has given us a word to speak into the life of those that are weary, those that seem to be cast down, even those in this dog-eat-dog world that seem to be frustrated with the way their life is going. He has given us the tongue of the learned, an obedient heart, and an ear that is sensitive to the Holy Spirit. I want to encourage the believer today, that if you are operating in obedience to God there is a word in you that will be spoken into someone’s life in due season. And the truth is that you don’t have to be a pastor, bishop, prophet or an evangelist, you just have to be a Christian, because the minister is already in you; that minister is the Holy Spirit. Isaiah proves this to us when he says “The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: He wakened morning by morning, He wakened mine ear to hear as the learned. The Lord has opened my ear and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back”. (Isa 50:4-5 KJV) Therefore, my brother’s and sister’s in Christ, go ahead and obey God, study His word, and listen to the Holy Spirit and there is going to come a time when you too will have a word for someone that’s going to change their lives.

                                    God Bless You!

The Furnace of Affliction

If it had not been for trouble in our lives many of us would have never turned to God. If it had not been for some serious adversity, many of us would not have even looked Gods way. However, trouble in your life will cause you to take a look at where you’re going-what you’re doing and where you have been. Trouble will make you examine everything about yourself, and because God knew that you would never look His way as long as everything was going great in your life, He allowed the enemy to lead you into a furnace of affliction so you would have to call on Him to bring you out. In fact, (Isa. 48:10) says “Behold, I have refined thee but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Thus, it is in that furnace of affliction that we start looking for God, when it seems all hell is breaking loose in our lives, where the fires of trouble are turned up hotter than we would have ever imagined; where we look to our right and there’s no help, we look to the left and there’s no help, we look behind us and there’s no help, until finally we begin to look to the hill from whence cometh our help, because all our help comes from the Lord which made heaven and earth. (Psalm 121: 1-2) God allows our enemy to put us in a place where we have run out of answers and our only solution is God. It is in the furnace of affliction where He chooses us; because finally God has gotten our undivided attention that we now might make the choice to choose Him. Trouble can make you or break you, please allow it to make you into what God would have you to be.

 God Bless You!

Glorify God in Your Body and Spirit

(1 Cor. 6:20) says “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods”.

As a Christian we know that Jesus Christ paid the price on the cross for us to be saved. In fact, God brought it, Jesus bought it, and the Holy Spirit taught it. Therefore, because the Lord paid the price for our sins, the thing we are expected to do as Christians is to glorify God in our body and in our spirit. Thus, as a Christian I must glorify Him with every member of my body. I should glorify Him in my eyes in what I see, a Christian has no business watching X Rated, and even some R-Rated movies should be questionable; I should glorify Him with my ears in what I hear, a Christian has no business listening to idle gossip, dirty jokes, or co-workers on the job who sit around and talk nasty about their supervisor; I should glorify Him with my mouth in how I speak, a Christian certainly shouldn’t be telling dirty Jokes, lies, or doing a whole lot of complaining or speaking things that don’t edify; I should glorify Him with my feet in where I go, a Christian has no business in the night club, strip club or the liquor house unless God has specifically told you to go there to minister a word to someone; I should glorify God with my hands in what I touch, to my brother’s out there, if it isn’t your wife keep your hands to yourself, conversely, sister’s if it isn’t your husband you do the same. Leave those ink pins and trinkets at work unless your supervisor has approved of you taking them home. To glorify God with your body is an outward manifestation of an inward spiritual change. Because (Rom 6:11-12) says “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey it in the lust thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members (body parts) as instruments of righteousness unto God. Additionally, by doing the things mentioned above you actually begin to glorify God in your spirit as well because you can’t make a real change outwardly until you have made a change in your spirit, through the word of God and prayer.

                        God Bless You!

Peace of God

Col. 3:15 “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you are also called in one body; and be ye thankful.”   As Christians we need to learn how to thank God for what he is doing in our lives because thanksgiving is a by product of peace. When you can thank God in every situation it moves you to a place of peace and it also builds you relationship and fellowship with Him. My definition of peace is the abundance of God. The more God I have the more peace I will have. By the same token the less God I have the less peace I will have in my life. Thanksgiving brings about that peace, that is why The Apostle Paul was able to say in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.