They say there are two great events in a man’s life, being born and knowing why. I dare say most folks live and die and they never knew why they were here. Every person beginning with Adam was put here for a purpose and that purpose was never supposed to be a secret. Some folks seek diligently for the meaning of life but they never consult with the one who gave them their life. Religion has discouraged men from seeking God because they themselves don’t know how.
Luke 6:46 Why do you call Me Lord, Lord but do not the things which I say? Anyone who is serious about finding their place in this life must be willing to make Jesus the Lord of his life. The Lord knows what your place in life is and He knows how to lead you there, but you must be willing to obey Him. Some folks don’t want to know where they belong because it might be something they don’t like. No matter what the Lord has in mind for you, you will never be content until you find it. Like a lot of other men I thought I was better qualified to run my own life better than God. How could He possibly know what I wanted and was capable of doing? John 10:10 The devil came to steal, kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of. No matter how much you dream of a better life, God can give you a better life than that. All of us were born for a specific purpose and place and when you allow your Lord and Savior to lead you there, you will know for sure and certain you are home. Before I became a believer I dreamed of motorcycles, hunting, shooting and fishing. I never dreamed about being a minister of the Gospel. God has given me a life better than I ever dreamed and it‘s far greater than I could have ever imagined. I had no idea anyone could get this close to God, where you can hear His thoughts. I nearly faint with contentment when God asks me to do something for Him! God has never told me to do something without anointing me to accomplish it. Romans 8:29 For whom God did foreknow, He also did predestine to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. God knew you before you were even conceived and He planned for you to be conformed to the likeness of His first born Son, Jesus. Every person born of a woman is predestined to be born-again and be like Jesus. Most people never find their destiny mostly because they are not interested in the place of God for their lives. They enjoy the life they made for themselves and they don’t believe God could improve on it. Religion has presented a god that very few desire to know, they cannot relate to this god. One god will only allow a very few people in Heaven, another god will send you to hell for eating meat on Friday and yet another god blesses same-sex marriage. I have asked the Lord on several occasions, how does a sinner find the truth among such a barrage of so much heresies. His reply to me was this, you found me because you sought for the truth. So if a man is serious about finding his destiny God will lead him to his place in this life. The truth is an absolute must for finding one’s destiny and the devil knows it. The devil is a liar and the father of lies, if he can sell you a lie he can keep you from finding your God or ordained place in this life. Happy is the man who knew why he is here.
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I believe this fast paced world has conditioned us to expect for everything we want to come quickly. People get aggravated when they go to the drive through at McDonalds and are asked to pull forward for a minute or two until their order is completed. Christians have taken this “gotta have it now” attitude into their faith. They begin to waiver if God doesn’t answer their prayer in a timely season, like the same day. If God responded to our prayers as we snap our fingers, we would never develop the God kind of faith. I believe God was anxious to send His Son Jesus, but He had to wait for the “fullness of time”. Certain things had to be put in place before Jesus could effectively accomplish His ministry as the Messiah. The Word and will of God had to be imparted to the earth through the prophets.
Galatians 6:9 So let‘s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessings if we don‘t give up. It‘s spring time in Montana and some folks will be planting seed and expecting to harvest good things to eat. Radishes and green onions will come up in about three weeks, corn and potatoes will be ready in about four months. Certain crops require more patience than others, perhaps some of God‘s promises require more patience than others. God is not a dispensary for spoiled children, He is a provider for those who call Him Lord. Our Lord is not our servant, we didn‘t die for Him, He died for us. God is committed to bless us but we must hold fast to our profession, then God will know we have faith. Without faith it is impossible to please Him and our due season will come if we maintain our faith. Every successful believer has accepted the fact that God makes the rules. Hebrews 10:36 You have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise. When a man receives Jesus as his Savior he is entered into a race, but not against other folks. We race with time. Can we hold fast our declaration of faith to the end or will we allow the devil to impede our progress? Every man has his own race, we race to win an incorruptible crown that our Lord gives to those who love Him to the end. Faith cannot be measured by time, God is in charge of rewarding faith, not time or circumstance. Paul wrote to the Hebrews and he told them that faith is now, it testifies of the past, reaches for the future but is active now. Through trials and experience some have come to believe God despite having to wait for manifestations. Due season becomes more important than the time spent waiting. Hebrews 11:6 ...for he that comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Who told you that you could only believe for one thing at a time? We put limits on ourselves, not God. Every believer should have a laundry list of things he is believing for. Then you will have many due seasons, not just one. God loves those who believe He will do what He said He would do. Due season is the day of promise and you can have as many as you can believe for. You may have put your petitions in order but that does not mean God will answer them in the same order. Put all your petitions before God and every day will be due season. When Jesus returned to the Father who art in Heaven, He sent to whosoever another Comforter. The Holy Spirit was sent to take Jesus’ place. He is here to guide us into all truth and keep us in the Father’s will.
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God. If we seek to be led by the Holy Spirit, God will treat us as His sons, His own children. We must be willing to hear and follow what the Holy Ghost tells us. In order to hear and follow Him we must develop a sensitivity to the Spirit. It’s like a man and his wife who have been married for a long time, they usually know what the other is thinking. We must do two things, spend time with the Holy Spirit and be willing to do what ever He says even before He says it. This is called the fellowship of the Spirit, He wants to partner with us. He never leaves us and He never forsakes us. No matter how unfair life is, it can be our best friend if the Holy Spirit is with us. The presence of the Spirit is never determined by “feelings”, it is confirmed by the Word of God. 1 Corinthians 2:10 It is to us that God reveals His mysteries. For His Spirit searches out every thing and shows us God‘s deep secrets. Who is God revealing His secret to? To any one of His children who want to know more about their Heavenly Father. People who have no desire for God‘s wisdom won‘t be bothered with it, but they tend to disagree with those who are led of the Spirit. We can become so convinced of the Holy Spirit‘s voice that we stake our lives on what we hear Him reveal to us. The more time you spend with Him, the more confidence you will have in Him. Religion has taught people to seek out God only in dire emergencies and not bother Him with petty things. Religion is for people who don‘t know very much about God so they write their own bible. They cannot hear God‘s voice because they don‘t know Him. The devil speaks to them by way of temptation and they are led to believe it‘s God, an angel or someone who died long ago called an ascended master. 1 Corinthians 2:14 The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. Most church people are natural folks and consequently the things of God are foolishness. The Bible opposes their doctrine so they must “interpret“ it to accommodate their doctrine. Firstly, Jesus is our Savior and then we make Him Lord and then He becomes our best friend through the works of the Spirit. God initiated His relationship with us, so He determines the rules not us. He offered us His Son to die in our place. What can we give Him? What do we have that He might possibly want? He wants our love and there is only one way to prove to God that we love Him, we must choose to obey Him. John 15:14 You are My friends, if you do whatsoever I command you. God’s commandments are not grievous, they are not difficult to keep if you are committed to Him. Any endeavor you choose to undergo can be hard if you half heartedly attempt it. When you rely on the assistance of your best friend to do something you have never done, it’s like being on cruise control. You must always remember, God is on your side, He wants you to succeed. God empowers us to prosper but His power doesn’t manifest until we step out and begin the program. God’s friendship is another dimension of His love. So when you win, be sure to thank Him and give Him the glory due Him. When a man invites Jesus into his life, Jesus comes and expects to remain in that life forever. Some Christians treat God like an experiment, they will “try” Him for a season and then move on! It’s like inviting your best friend into your home and then you don’t talk to him. God thinks in terms of eternity, man thinks from morning until night time. God is always trying to get us to plan for eternity, He is the only one who can convince us. The devil doesn’t talk about eternity because his place in eternity is nothing but torment. Some fool has come up with a demonic phrase: I would rather reign in hell than serve in Heaven. God gives every man the choice, we can have all of God we want for as long as we want. We are eternal beings, so consequently our life in the flesh is by far the shortest time of our life.
Mark 4:16-17 The sower sows the Word. Some seed falls on rocky soil, they hear the good news and receive it with joy. But they don‘t have deep roots, so they don‘t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing the Word. Jesus came to deliver us from the devil but the devil never gives up on a soul, he is committed to separate us from God. The devil‘s number one target is our flesh, he is constantly drawing our attention to our physical needs. We are always worrying about what we will eat, what we should wear, what people think of us and what our status in life is. The devil will do whatever he can to get our minds off of our Lord and Savior. If the devil succeeds we all make ourselves more important than God. Mark 13:13 Stay with it, that‘s what is required. Stay with it until the end. You won‘t be sorry; you‘ll be saved. All my life I have had a conviction, I purpose to always finish what I start. Just like everyone else, I have faced opposition but I have learned to always focus on the finish line and not the route. If I can do it, anybody can do it. All you need is faith in God‘s promise to help you. I am determined to finish with my Lord, by His grace I will finish my course. I am not seeking the accolades of man, I am just grateful to Jesus for dying for my sins and saving me from what I deserved. The greatest motive anyone can have is a grateful heart, they ask for little and rejoice over everything. Luke 9:62 Why do you keep looking back to your past and have second thoughts about following Me? If you turn back you are not fit for God‘s Kingdom. Why is God so matter of fact about our relationship with Him? He loves us with an everlasting love and is very jealous for our attention, nothing, not anyone could have done what He did for us. If God never does even one more thing for us, it won’t matter because He has demonstrated His love to us once and for all. God’s greatest gift to man was His Son, what more out of this world could we possibly want. Hebrews 9:28 Unto them that look (expect, want) for Him shall He appear the second time. Are you looking for Jesus or have the things of this present evil world garnered your affection? If you live to be a hundred, what is that compared to eternity? Now here is the most amazing part, if you commit to staying connected to the Lord, He will help you with your dedication. When a person does something repeatedly over a period of time it is called a habit. Some habits are bad, some are good and some only make sense to the one doing them. What are some bad habits? Chewing your fingernails, smoking tobacco or perhaps gossiping about people. What are some habits that only make sense to the one doing them? Putting ketchup on a steak, kissing your pet dogs on the mouth or perhaps putting ten teaspoons of sugar in your coffee. There are a lot of good habits but I want to key in on just one and that is walking with your Lord every day. Keeping in touch with your Savior is always the best habit of all. Every Christian makes a big mistake when they start taking God for granted, they know where He is if they should ever need Him.
Luke 4:16 Then came Jesus to Nazareth, and as was His habit, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. Jesus spent a lot of time in churches, He called them His Father‘s houses. All Christians begin their spiritual life in church but very few remain in the house of God. If they miss a few Sundays it doesn‘t take much to get out of the habit. In the book of revelations, Jesus calls these folks lukewarm. These are people who got all they needed from God at the time and now they are back to fending for themselves. They are still saved and in reality, that‘s all they ever wanted. They didn‘t want to give all their life to Jesus. Before God‘s grace saves us, our life has no value. We would live, die and spend eternity with our father the devil. Our name would be blotted out from creation and never remembered by anyone, no one would hear our pain. Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: because I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. God loves us but He cannot demonstrate His love if we don‘t acknowledge Him. Telling God you love Him means nothing, the only way to convince God you love Him is to obey Him. The only thing God has ever done for those who don‘t love Him is to send His Son to die in their place! They may never know how much God loves them because they are in the habit of appeasing their flesh. Habits can be so strong that it takes the power of God to break them, but we must first invite Him to help. What is our motive? What compulsively causes us to change our life style? When we were yet sinners and had no use for God He sent Jesus to bear all our sins and give us a hope no one else was capable of. I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever because He died for me and had made a place for me in Heaven, this is all the motivation I need. Ephesians 4:24 Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. The new man is your reborn spirit, it was the child of wrath but now it is a child of God. This new man has the power and grace to establish new habits for the old man. His greatest obstacle is the habits of the old man, the old man likes what he was. There is a war on the inside of this new man, which ever one gets fed the most will have the advantage. The new man can rely on God for help, the old man tries to cling to old habits. If we hold fast to the ways of our Lord, our flesh, the old man will like the new ways of living without guilt. |
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