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Here is today's communion meditation.
This month our theme is Anointed. God has already anointed us and this anointing sets us apart as holy, empowers us by His Spirit, sets us apart for a specific role, and also makes us healthy.
In 1 Samuel 10 Samuel anoints Saul as the king of Israel. After he is anointed Samuel tells him he will be changed into a different person and to do whatever his hand found to do because God was with him. What are the things you know to do today? If you will make it a practice of keeping things simple and doing what you know to do each day trusting that God is with you it can transform your life. We often get weighed down by all of the uncertainties of life but if you will keep it simple and do what you know to do with a good attitude there is grace and anointing today to help.
God's anointing in us and on us has the power to change us into a new person. After Saul was anointed the Spirit rushed upon him and he was changed into a new ...
Here is our message for June.
Every month is like a fresh start and if I had to start fresh training somebody through everything we do in the Abundant Life Blueprint the first thing I would want to get established in their life would be the 30 Day Prayer Challenge process of praying the daily prayer, creating a plan with God for the day of what they know for sure needs to be done, and executing those things with peace and joy as they trust that God is helping them. Combining this with staying tuned in throughout the day so that if God redirects their path they are ready to make adjustments is very powerful.
If you will keep doing what you know to do each day and doing it with a good attitude you'll be amazed at where it leads you. The other big thing I would want to establish is taking communion daily. Recently God has been nudging me to record daily communion videos. This combination of the prayer challenge and daily communion is very powerful and if you did n...
We have been talking about getting God's word and love established in our hearts. To be established means to be fixed and permanently set in place, and meditating on God's word can help it become established in our hearts. Last night I read Psalm 39 where David says that as he meditated, the fire burned; then he spoke with his tongue. As God's word gets established in our hearts it becomes like a fire within us and eventually we will speak it. This also reminded me of Luke 24 where Jesus walks with the disciples on the road to Emmaus. As he opened the scriptures to them their hearts burned within them.
God's word is like fire and as it gets established in our hearts it creates a fire within us that helps us do the right things.
Here is todays communion meditation.
Faith decides. To be in faith is to be single minded and make firm unwavering decisions based on God's promises. Yesterday, we looked at Job chapter 22:28 which says that if you decree a thing it will be established for you. In Hebrew the phrase decree a thing can be translated as "cut or divide a word or promise."
Often in life we are faced with decisions or forks in the road and we will be tested to see which way we will go. It is at these key moments that we must firm up our decisions to stand on God's word. As long as we are wavering nothing will happen, but when we get to the place of a firm decision things start happening really quickly.
In life circumstances will often come up that make it look like God's word isn't true and this is where we must cut or divide with his word, because His word is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword. Dividing and making decisions based on his word will help his promises ...
Recently we have been talking about getting our hearts established in God's love and the righteousness of Jesus. To be established is to be firm, fixed, steadfast, and immovable.
In Job 22 AMP it says that if we will establish God's word in our hearts then we can decide and decree a thing and it will be established, and the light of God's favor will shine upon your ways.
Nothing happens in faith as long as we are wavering. Faith starts with a firm decision. Getting God's word and love established in our hearts should lead to making some different decisions. To decide is to kill off some options. Once we have come to a firm decision in our hearts then we can make some decrees and they will be established.
When I think of the word decree I think of a governmental decree, which is a written statement. Several times in my walk with God my faith has been tested and I had to come to the place of making a firm decision to do things his way. Almost every time the ne...
In Hebrews chapter 2 the subtitle of the chapter is "Warning to Pay Attention," and it says to pay attention to what you hear so that you don't drift away. Yesterday we talked about establishing the entrance and the exits by paying attention to what we are seeing and hearing along with our words and actions. What we hear is important because faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the word of God. What we hear can either build faith or cause us to drift away, so pay attention to what you are hearing consistently.
Later in Hebrews chapter 2 it tells us that Jesus is a faithful high priest who was tempted in every way and he can guide us through every temptation.
We recently crossed the midpoint of the year on God's calendar. Sometimes the middle of things can get a little messy but if you establish the beginning and the end of anything the middle will usually take care of itself. The Bible follows this pattern. It starts and ends well but it gets pretty messy in the middle.
The other day I was reading in Ezekiel 44 and verse 5 says...Give attention to the entrance to the temple and all the exits of the sanctuary. When I looked this verse up in Hebrew it reads something like the following...
Establish in your heart the entrance and the exits.
I used to have a baseball coach in college who constantly preached that if the beginning and the end of the baseball swing were in the correct place then everything in the middle would usually work out. I didn't realize it at the time but this is a Biblical principle because Jesus is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega.
In Ezekiel, God is referring to the entrance a...
In May we been talking about strengthening or establishing the things that remain. To be established means to be fixed, immovable, steadfast, and permanently set in place.
We can be establishing God's steadfast love, the righteousness of Jesus, God's faithfulness, and the Sabbath rest found in Christ in our hearts. The more we establish these in our hearts the more steadfast and immovable we become in our own lives.
Hebrews chapter 1 says Jesus is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of God. God is the source of beauty and Jesus is radiating God's glory. Later in the chapter it says his throne remains forever and he remains the same forever.
Another thing we can establish in our hearts is our positioning of being one with him. We are seated in heaven and we are on earth at the same time. This can be confusing but science is showing that it is possible to be in both places at the same time. The key is that you will get more of whichever yo...
We have been talking lately about becoming established in our hearts, which means to be steadfast, fixed, immovable, and set in place. There is a theme in the New Testament that God will establish us, and one of the things to be established in is God's faithfulness.
Our monthly message for the month of May was Wake Up! Strengthen the Things that Remain coming from Revelation chapter 3. Last night I was doing some research on the times the word established is used in the New Testament and it turns out the the word strengthen from Revelation 3 can also be translated as establish, to establish the things that remain.
There are several things that remain. For example, faith, hope, and love all remain and the greatest of these is love. We can get God's love, the righteousness of Jesus, and God's faithfulness established in our hearts. These are all things that remain forever.
An indicator that we are established in the faith is overflowing thanksgiving. Gratitude ...
The last few weeks I have been recording daily communion messages and as I have recorded more frequently God has shown up more. God has an unlimited inexhaustible supply of everything we need and the more we put it to work the more it flows.
Last week we talked about the idea of being established in love. In Ephesians 3 Paul prayed for the people to be rooted and established in love. To be established is to be firm, fixed, strong, steadfast, etc. A tree that is established is not impacted by a little drought, wind, or heat. It stands firm.
In Deuteronomy 7 God told the people he gave them a covenant of love. God has established his covenant with us. He has made the covenant commitment to steadfast unfailing love for us. But, we have a part to play in getting his covenant of love established in our hearts, which leads to us becoming more steadfast and immovable. In Psalm 112 it says when our hearts are established in God's love that we have no fear. Perfect love...
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