The Power of Gods Word

^{Hebrews 4:12-13}

¹² For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. ¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

The Word of God is the most powerful weapon in the world. It has not got a "sell by" date or a "use by" date. It does not go stale or lose its power. It stands forever and it cannot be equalled. God's Word never returns back to Him void, without accomplishing that which it has been sent. He sends His Word out and it produces fruit always.

God created the whole of the universe by speaking words. The bible tells us in Genesis 1:1-3, " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light", and there was light."

Out of this formless and emptiness, God called forth everything we know: life, light, matter, land, sea, the heavens, vegetation, man, woman, animals and everything else you can think of. He then made a final evaluation of His creative work and declared it to be very good. He put together form and order out of that which was formless and empty.

The Almighty put everything together so that humanity would see His glory. God and His Word are one. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning." John 1:1-2. His Word became flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ, and He made his dwelling among us.

Every Word of God is flawless and He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. His Word is like fire and like a hammer that shatters a rock into pieces. God's Word is the sword of the Spirit and it is sharper than any double-edged sword. It cuts swift and deep into our innermost thoughts and desires, with all their parts. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. It is alive, active, powerful, touches hearts and changes lives.

We must endeavour to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, because His Word is powerful and will never fail. Everything else in this world will fail; the grass withers and the flowers fall but the Word of God stands forever. Not one jot of God's Word will go unfulfilled. As you hold on to His Word, which is the Word of life, you will be in tune with the Almighty God Himself. And He will never disappoint you nor let you go to shame.

PRAYER OF SALVATION

If you have not already committed your life to Jesus and you would like to do so now, please pray this prayer:

"Lord Jesus, I am sorry for all the things I have done wrong. Thank you for dying for me on the cross, to set me free from my sins. I ask you to come into my life as my personal Lord and Saviour, and fill me with the Holy Spirit. Thank you Lord Jesus. Amen."

Congratulations, if you have prayed this prayer. Please look for a Bible-believing church, to fellowship with the brethren. Please do not hesitate to contact me, if I can be of any assistance to you. Remain blessed and enjoy the presence of the Lord.

Gods Plan or Our Plan

Matthew 6:31-34

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³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

   I need to apologize to God and the people who follow this site. I have been neglecting posting messages on here. The reason is because I have not put God first here lately. My girlfriend and I recently separated. I did not agree with the breakup and it has consumed me. God has shown me through this breakup that I put the relationship with my girlfriend before him. I believe God has allowed this to happen in order for this message to be written. 

   There are millions of men and women who have been through exactly what I have went through. This message is being written so we can all do an evaluation of our priorities. I want everyone to think about your relationship with your spouse or significant other. I know you love that person very dearly. Jesus tell us that if we are not willing to walk away from our brother, sister, father, mother, husband, wife, girlfriend, or boyfriend we cannot see the kingdom of heaven. Listen to the scripture. Matt 10-37-38 ³⁷ “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. ³⁸ Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

   If there is anything in your life that is hindering your walk with Christ you need to separate from it. Here is  test to see how serious you are about your love for God. Are you willing to ask God to destroy all the things in your life that he does not want there? Including relationships? My ex girlfriends faith and love for Jesus is that strong. She said God told her he did not want he in a relationship right now because it was hindering her walk with him. She loves me very much, but she loves God more. I admire her for obeying God. Through this breakup God has shown me my true values. I was focusing more on my relationship with her than my relationship with God. In order to wake me up to that fact he had to tear apart the relationship. He did not do it because he was angry. He did it because he loves me. 

   Our souls are more important  to God than our relationships with others. Jesus says we can't enter into heaven if we put anything on this earth above him. It may not be a relationship. It could be money. God may be laying it on your heart to tithe and you are rebelling against it. It could be a job that God does not want you in, but you are to afraid to walk away from it. Listen to me people! God will never demand anything from you unless he plans to give you something 100 times better in return! He told Abraham to get up and leave his whole family and go into another country. Listen to the scripture. Genesis 12:1-4. ¹ The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

 ² “I will make you into a great nation,
   and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
   and you will be a blessing.^[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
   and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
   will be blessed through you.”^[b]

 ⁴ So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.

We can learn so much from this scripture. Do you realize how hard it was for Abraham to leave his people? Apparently not very hard. verse 4 says, Abram went as the Lord told him. We know very well that God kept his promise and Blessed Abraham.

   This is the kind of faith God is looking for in us. If God blessed Abraham who did not have the promise, meaning Christ had not yet came. How much more will he Bless who have Christ as our advocate? More than we can imagine! 

   I will repeat myself one more time. God will never demand anything from you unless he plans to give you something 100 times better in return  If there is anything in this world that is keeping you from completely loving and following Jesus then give it up for Christ. I promise you his Word is true. He will Bless you just like he Blessed Abraham. God has an awesome plan for all of us. I will leave you with these 2 promises from God. 

Isaiah 55:8-9

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 ⁸ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
   neither are your ways my ways,”
            declares the LORD.
⁹ “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
   so are my ways higher than your ways 

   and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Jeremiah 29:11

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¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

God Bless all of you 

   

Scripture of the Day

Colossians 2:11-15

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¹¹ In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh^[a] was put off when you were circumcised by^[b] Christ, ¹²having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you^[c] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, ¹⁴ having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.^[d]

Gods Love is Eternal

Romans 8:38-39 “I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels can’t, and the demons can’t. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can’t keep God’s love away. Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord” 

What really is there that can separate me from God’s love? Is there anything? Theoretically, I’d automatically say no, but let’s make this more practical.

Can the repeated times I’ve repented only to fall back into the very same sin pattern the next day cause God to fall out of love with me?

Can my own deep insecurities and fears about me, others, and even God negate His love?

Can all the promises I’ve broken, even the broken promises to pray for others, or the general lack of discipline and passion drive God away?

Can anything in heaven or earth or in hell overcome the love of Christ?

The answer to all these is a resounding NO. There’s not even the possibility of a yes in any of these. Nothing else can even touch the power of God’s love or His ability to find and rescue you or the power of His love to hold on to you once you’re his. Nothing. His love overcame the cross, all our sin, the grave and death, and hell. Anything else is a piece of cake.

That's not to say that we can go and live our life anyway we want and expect to make it to heaven. God does love everyone. Sinner and saint. The question is do we love God? That is gonna be what God judges us on when we stand before him. His love will never fade away. It is always us who slips away from him. This "falling away" or repeated sinning hardens our hearts to God. But God never hardens his hearts to us. He will allow us to fall into our sins and lose things in our life. Understand, he is not doing this to destroy us, or because he doesn't love us. He is doing it to push us into righteousness. So, I do not care how bad your life may be right now. I do not care how much sin you have commited. God is still with you. he still loves you. Know that as long as you have a breath in you, you have a chance to repent and get into his will. 

If you are truly born of God then you will understand what it means to love God. You will also understand that God loves you beyond human imagination. The person who is born of God does not make a practice of sinning. Let the scriptures testify to this: 1 John 3: 7-9 "⁷ Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. ⁸ The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. ⁹ No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God."

So, we can see from this scripture that it is us who fall out of love with God through our sins. The great news is, Jesus came for the sinner. So repent and start practicing righteousness. Get it in your mind that God loves you regardless of what you have done.  

Rest in His love. Believe that His love can transform you. Let it enrapture and captivate your heart. And most of all, make yourself a vessel for His love to fill and flow through. Because those around you need His love, too.

Amen

Praise God In All Things

Philippians 2:14-15

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 ¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling or arguing, ¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”^[a] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.

   It's easy to Praise God when things are going great. However, God tells us we should praise him at all times. Always complaining about our problems will actually keep us stuck in them. If we want to rise above our problems in life we must give thanks in everything. Yes, that includes the problems we are going through today. See your problems as a way to build your faith and trust in God. Thank God for what you are going through and then trust him to deliver you.

   We should at all times offer up thanks to God for all the Blessings he has given us. Hebrews 13:15-16 says,  "¹⁵ Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. ¹⁶ And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased." If we would stop and make a list of all the good things God has given us we would surely have a lot to be thankful for. Thankfulness is one of the keys to getting set free from our problems. Telling others about the great things Jesus has done in your life is another way to increase your faith. It greatly pleases god to hear us give him the praise and recognition for what we have received. 

   God does not want to hear us complaining about the terrible situations we are in. Don't you know He already knows we are in them. In fact, He has orchestrated them to come upon us. He has not allowed these problems to come upon us to destroy us. That's not his plan. He has allowed us to go through our problems to push us into righteousness. He wants us to turn to him and give thanks for what we are going through and put our trust in him to get us out of them. You may ask, why should I thank God for this terrible mess I am in? The reason you should thank him is because not only has he allowed it to come on you, he also has the power to set you free from it! So thank God that he has sent his son Jesus to set us free from everything we are faced with today. 

   Listen to his word in Ephesians 5:19-20, "¹⁹ speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, ²⁰ always giving thanks to God the Father for EVERYTHING, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." While Paul was in prison he did not once complain about how terrible of a mess he was in. Instead, he sang psalms and hymns to God. As he was doing this all of a sudden the doors were opened and he was set free. that is exactly what will happen to us when we start thanking God in the midst of our struggles. So, today stop complaining about how bad your life is. complaining is never going to get you out of your circumstances. Instead, put Gods word to the test like he tells us to do in Ephesians 5:21. Start thanking God for everything and trust that in due time he will deliver you from all your problems. He knows and understands what you are going through. He is patiently waiting on you to call on him in praises and worship to set you free.

   I will end with a great scripture that defines his great power working within us. Ephesians 3:20-21, "²⁰ Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." 

God Bless You All.

Spiritual Warfare

2 Corinthians 10:4

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⁴ The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

God Tell us that we are not fighting against flesh and blood, meaning other people. We are fighting against demonic spirits that are causing people to talk and act the way they do. God says we should wage war against teh enemy... Satan. We wage war through prayer. Watch this excellent video and allow David Jeremiah to explain how to bring down these strongholds. Click on my ads while you are on my page. God Bless you.

David Jeremiah - Spiritual Warfare

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