Blessings! I will be summarizing the Bible Study we had on 3-1-11 in this post.
We studied a couple of passages that reminded us of the blessing of living as a righteous person does, which is by faith! We started off by visiting a familiar passage for many...Jeremiah 29:11. When I preach, I don't like to preach too much about humans or humanity; I like to spend as much time as I can focusing on God and glorifying Him alone. This Bible Study the Word reminded us about how special we are to God. He has special plans for you and me if we only get on the same page with Him. Every single day that we live God has personally designed and prepared for us as Psalm 118:24 clearly says that TODAY is the day the Lord has made, we will REJOICE and be glad in it! Every day that we are living we have to be on guard in prayer and reading the Word and being in communion with Him all the day long. If you woke up today and have life, you can rest assured that God has a purpose and a plan for you to follow TODAY! I love the word TODAY...present tense. TODAY kind of forces us to take a decision every day that goes by. TODAY does not allow you to dwell on the past (be it good or be it bad), TODAY does not allow you to live in the tomorrow (the future) which is never promised or guaranteed. TODAY forces us to take a stance and define where we are and who we are! TODAY I have the choice to live by faith and BELIEVE God has a plan and purpose for me to be alive and LIVE like it....or I can choose to be passive, lazy, unbelieving and apathetic. What will you choose TODAY? When attempting to do things to edify your life that you've never done before...do not think about your past failure, do not think about how you will not be able to follow through tomorrow! Think about TODAY! TODAY if you hear His voice DO NOT harden your hearts! The Bible relates a story in 1 Samuel 17 about two nations that were going to battle....the beloved nation of Israel and the Philistines. The only peculiar detail about this battle was that it was not going to be fought the way wars are traditionally fought. The Philistines had a champion among them who was literally a HUGE GIANT! The Philistines said that each nation should choose a champion and that only the champions would fight and whoever won, won the entire battle. The Philistines no problem had their Giant champion picked out, but the Israelites weren't so lucky. For many days the giant would breathe out threats against Israel and threats against their God (Our God). For many days also, the Israelite army would get in battle array and decide to go attack the giant (Goliath), but when they would get close to him they would retreat. And they repeated this scenario over and over for a long time...in other words... they were in FEAR procrastinating. The people of Israel procrastinated many days for their lack of confidence and faith in God. They were not living in the TODAY faith that we as believers should be living in. Many Christians today are living like these Israelites...in fear and in doubt....with giants in their lives and they are procrastinating and avoiding the day that they have to confront them. These giants can be problems, tests, habitual sins, temptations, etc.....Now, let me briefly revisit the story, in this story a hero steps on the scene....a person who was living confidently and by faith...someone who was full of the Spirit of God...David! When David realizes what is going on, he immediately gets involved without hesitation, fear, doubt, or worry. He just literally says.....I'll take him out...the Lord will deliver him into my hands! He tells the giant, you come to me with spear and javelin, BUT i come to you in the name of the Lord! David goes against this giant in the midst of all the mocking and threats and takes him out with one little stone! When we give God the little that we have and live by faith, He takes that to the next level and uses it for something great! See, sometimes the problem is that we actually believe the lies of the devil when he tells us that whatever we have or could possibly give to God is too small and insignificant to make any real impact. That is the biggest lie. God always takes our little and small and when it is a righteous person...He backs it with His supernatural power and makes a big difference. We are looking for something huge to happen from God, but if we only knew that it is the little, small, everyday things that we can change and give TODAY, that could be the key to victory over giants in our lives!! It's time to stop procrastinating and avoiding the giants in our lives, in our families, in our cities!!! Let’s take them out without hesitation in the Name of the Lord!!! Without Fear!!!! When we give 100% of our everything to God and live our lives with fear of God....When we live with purpose by faith EVERYDAY...We are AUTOMATICALLY, BY DEFAULT BLESSED!!!
I think I've gotten a little carried away with this post, so I will stop here and leave you some homework! Read Psalm 112, which is a description of a person that is blessed! When you are blessed, you can live out for Christ with CONFIDENCE! Blessings!
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