KNOWING GOD

Today we are going to confess Colossians 1:9-11 over ourselves.  Ponder and meditate it all day.  You may want to pray this word over others also.

I do not cease to pray and make special request for you, asking THAT:

(1)  You may be filled with the full, deep and clear knowledge of God’s will

in all spiritual wisdom, in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God

and in understanding and discernment of spiritual things—–

(2)  You may walk, live and conduct yourself in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please him in all things,

bearing fruit in every good work

and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God

with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, acquaintance and recognition,

(3)  You may be invigorated and strengthened with all power (That’s God’s mighty power.) according to the might of His glory.

Look at these three scripture verses.  This is God’s Word, which is true for anyone who will believe it.  Do you dare to believe that you are filled with the full, deep and clear knowledge of God’s will in your life!  How about His understanding of spiritual things!  Or how about being filled with His spiritual wisdom!  You must realize and know of a certainty that you are filled with these things if you are born again, if you are God’s child.

You are able to live your life pleasing to God.  You are increasing because of His knowledge.  You are growing because He dwells in you.  It is He Who gives you the ability to walk as you walk here on this earth.

Now, this last verse is a big one.  You are strengthened with God’s power, His might.  That stretches your mind, doesn’t it?  Read it.  You are strengthened with God’s mighty power.  That’s what you are to pray and request.  Is that beyond your capacity to believe?  Many times it is so for each one of us.  What is the solution to that small capacity?  Choose to believe what God’s Word says as being reality in your life, whether it looks like it or not or whether you feel like it or not.  It is true!  What you need to do is to believe it, in the face of every contradictory circumstance that stares you in the face and defies you to believe God’s Word is true for your life.

Today, I have a challenge for you:  DARE TO BELIEVE!

JOYFULNESS OF MIND AND HEART

What is the will of God?  That we rejoice and be glad in Him.  That we purpose to have joy in our minds and in our hearts.  That we stir up the joy of our salvation.  That we serve Him with joyfulness and gladness of mind and heart for all that He has given to us.

You might say:  Well, I don’t see anything good happening in my life.  There is where most of us make our mistake—-I DON”T SEE!  What do you see?  Do you see the trouble all around you or do you see God’s Word which says that He will deliver you out of all trouble?  We must learn to see what God’s plan is for us and not what it looks like in the natural world to our physical eyes.  Then we PERSIST in standing our ground for God’s plan, regardless of what is happening or how long it seems to take to accomplish His plan.

We are living in a time where it is vital (not an option) that we CHOOSE to see God and His Word being performed in our lives and for us.  Yes, our natural eyes and ears are seeing and hearing things we never thought we would see and hear.  BUT, we must choose to hear what God is saying in His Word and to see what God is seeing.  We must put on His eyes and His ears.  It is a daily, perhaps a minute-by-minute choice for us.

Joy keeps God’s power and presence active in our lives.  Grumbling, complaining, judging, analyzing, murmuring about what is going on, brings satan’s presence to us.  Yes, it is true.  We may not want to admit it but there are only two that are active in mankind’s life; it is either God Almighty or it is satan.  JOY—-GOD!    MURMURING—-SATAN!

Wow!  I don’t know about you, but I am getting in the space of joyfulness of mind and heart.

Deuteronomy 28:47  Let’s turn it around from the negative to the positive and see what we get.

I serve the Lord God with joyfulness of mind and heart in gratitude for the abundance of all with which He has blessed me.

Start today if you don’t already practice this act of joy.  Think about what God has sent your way as a blessing.  You can begin with being thankful that you are born again and on your way to heaven.  That is a reason for rejoicing!  You can continue with the fact that you are breathing and alive.  Pick up your Bible and start speaking the scriptures of blessing over yourself and your family UNTIL THEY BECOME REALITY in your life.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, as the old expression goes.  REJOICE!

THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, THE POWER OF PRAISE

Revelation 5:5,6,10

v.  5  And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not:  behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

v. 6  And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

v. 10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests:  and we shall reign on the earth.

Jesus, the Lamb Who was slain as the sacrifice on the cross of Calvary for you and me has become our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.  Now He is the Mighty One Who has come to dwell in us by the power of His Spirit.  He is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

Remember that the word Judah represents praise.  As you and I praise the Lord and exalt Him and honor Him, He stands in our midst as the Mighty Conquering One Who has won, overcome, conquered satan, who is portrayed as a roaring lion.  God’s power is released when I praise and worship Him.  He is the LION!  He is the MIGHTY ONE!  THE MIGHTY ONE, THE LION is in me and is there for me and is released when I praise.  My praise is like a roar to hell and satan and all his demons.  Therein lies the power of God!  When I praise God, I am saying that I have total confidence in Him, faith in Him.  Praise is the highest form of faith in God that there is!  Praise God!  Glory to God!  Hallelujah!

I have been told that an older lion roars the loudest because his teeth are not as good as they used to be.  Whether that is true or not, I do not know.  All I know is that Jesus has rendered satan powerless and given you and me the authority to tread on all of the demons of hell.  We are the ones with the power delegated to us now.  We are the ones who are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus Who loved us and gave Himself for us.  We are the ones who are called kings by The King.  We are the ones who are called lords by The Lord.  So, no matter how satan walks about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8), not only are his teeth not as good; they are removed.  Jesus came to this earth with the sole purpose of removing satan’s power and authority over all mankind.  Satan is defeated!  We are victorious!

Hallelujah!  Rejoice in Jesus and who you are in Him.