Everyone has a choice.
When all is said and done, when the books are opened and we are judged by the things that we did and said in this life, one thing will be very clear: Everyone had a choice. We will, with our own lips, agree that we are worthy of whatever God decides and though some may end up paying a terrible price, no one will accuse God of not having given them every opportunity to choose differently.
We will see that nothing that our Father asked of us and called us to do, was impossible, for He always and in every way planned to do the heavy lifting. All we were required to do was to believe and take a step of faith, no matter how small, toward what He asked.
We are not victims, we are more than conquerors!
It will also be painfully clear that none of us were victims, but rather perpetrators and willing participants in yielding to spirits other than the Holy Spirit. None will be able to claim that they walked perfectly–or even remotely near perfectly–before our Father, and all will bend their knee before Christ, who did.
As much as we don’t want to believe it, the things God asks us to do are about His plan and not about our temporal comfort, wants, needs, or desires. The work that is being done through us, if we will yield, is of a magnitude greater and of far more importance than anything negative that we have going on in our lives. In fact, what God is doing is so important, if we refuse to allow Him to accomplish His will, not only will we suffer, but those around us suffer, and the greater plan for those we could have touched in Him is left undone.
Moreover, just for a moment, let us take our eyes off of our concerns and trust that God loves us and will take care of us. Believe that everything we could possibly want or desire is being given to us in due season. No one can ever out-give God. When we lose ourselves in Him, we find ourselves and live an abundant life, full of every good thing.
Lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh.
Straighten up and look toward what is important and beautiful. It is in the sky and not in the mud of this earthly existence! The devil wants us to think of ourselves as mere dirt and nothing more. However, God wants us to see, as Paul did, the third heaven: All that He has in store for us with Him in eternity.
Some pray that they will be delivered, but when they are, they find that they have carried everything they hated with them. They may have changed location, gotten a bigger house, better job, or more things, but they are still unhappy, because they never let go of that ugly place they left, but keep it in their heart, letting a root of bitterness take root and destroy all the good God has done.
Wake up, shake yourself as Samson did! Realize that even though things may not have gone as you planned, God is still with you and will give you the strength to overcome evil even in your hour of weakness.
Brethren! There is a cause in the Kingdom of God! We are warriors and not children afraid of their shadow. It is time that we take up this great work and do it together, turning our eyes from ourselves toward God so that we can defeat the enemy who mocks God and us!
Look, here is a truth,
We are living in an age of STRONG DELUSION.
It is all around us, blaring at us from our phones, our ear buds, through our computer screens, embedded in every form of media imaginable. It teaches people to not speak faith anymore, but to only focus on their problems, on other people’s problems, even on the whole world’s problems! Reject this distraction! Instead focus on what God wants and help Him accomplish His will so that He can solve everyone’s problems.
No one lives in a vacuum. If you are not listening to God, then you are listening to someone else. If you are not living by Strong Revelation then you are living in Strong Delusion, it is as simple as that. There is no more middle ground, my friends, you’re either standing on the rock of Christ or sinking in the shifting sands of confusion created by a flood of demonic lies.
We don’t get to pledge all to Jesus and then, down the line, just give up and decide to go back to our old ways. That is not how this whole Christianity thing works! When we give our lives to Jesus, we are not our own, but we are bought with the price of His shed blood on the cross. We are His servants, Christ’s love slaves, pledged until the end of our natural lives to serve and obey our heavenly Master. Come on, wake up, shake the sleep from your eyes and open them! It is not enough to begin the race, we must finish it also! I don’t care if you have to crawl over the finish line, it will be totally worth it when Jesus says, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord..”
Faith is INFECTIOUS!
Many are discouraged and say misery loves company. But…and this is a big but…faith is also infectious. If one person will dare to stand up and say “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it,” then others will follow that person’s example.
I am tired of feeling like I am losing to an enemy that my Father says is already defeated. I am through yielding to doubt about my ability to do the things of God, because I know that if I dare step my foot one inch in the direction of faith toward the things my Father promises, it shall be done! Don’t ever tell me it’s impossible! Of course it is within ourselves, else why would God have put His very Holy Spirit inside of us to do it!
I say “no” to the devil, I say “no” to those who say God’s will is impossible. “No, no no no!” God will have a perfected bride who loves Him with all her heart no matter what the world says or does. We will become perfected in Him and be like Him when we shall see Him face to face. I want to be the person who stands with Moses at the Red Sea and believes for deliverance even though I have no clue how He is going to do it.
Yes! Though death is before us and death is behind us, this day we will see the deliverance of our souls from destruction by a miracle of God.
And finally, here is a truth,
If God be for us, who can be against us?
I’ll catch ya later! I’m off to wage WAR!!!
Michael
