People are always subject to arguments. Even My beloved sometimes argue over the Scriptures. The truth is that arguments usually do not bear good fruit.. One party will have to give in to the other and neither parties are winners. Often wounding words are spoken in the heat of an argument.
Recognize that when you get into an argument with another person, you are usually trying to prove your point because you think you are right. There is only One Who is always right and that is Me.
When you try to prove your point in a matter, you are in pride.
What should you do then when a person disagrees with you? I faced many disagreements when I walked on Earth: disagreements with My disciples, lawyers, scribes, and Pharisees. I knew that what they argued was not based on truth. I never tried to prove My point. I only relayed the truth. I want you to speak the truth in love, and you can only do this when you are not trying to prove your own point.
EPHESIANS 4:11-15
Friday, September 15, 2017
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Still
The age that you now live does not lend itself to being still. Everyone is on the go, and most everyone is either listening or watching something. The eye and ear gates to the mind are flooded with information.
You have to be intentional in this age to still your soul. I exhort you to still your soul every morning by just being quiet and still in My presence. This is not a time to cast your burdens on Me or to even sing songs to Me. Simply acknowledge My presence with you by thanking Me for My love towards you.
Let Me speak to you while you are silent. I have much to share with you, but often I do not have that opportunity because even in your quiet times you are talking, not listening. Ask Me this morning to give you a Scripture to meditate on during the day. Then wait quietly to hear what I give you to read in My Word. In My presence is fullness of joy and pleasures for evermore.
PSALM 16:11, 40:10
You have to be intentional in this age to still your soul. I exhort you to still your soul every morning by just being quiet and still in My presence. This is not a time to cast your burdens on Me or to even sing songs to Me. Simply acknowledge My presence with you by thanking Me for My love towards you.
Let Me speak to you while you are silent. I have much to share with you, but often I do not have that opportunity because even in your quiet times you are talking, not listening. Ask Me this morning to give you a Scripture to meditate on during the day. Then wait quietly to hear what I give you to read in My Word. In My presence is fullness of joy and pleasures for evermore.
PSALM 16:11, 40:10
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
RESTITUTION
Whenever you have been wronged by someone, you usually seek restitution. You want a payback of those things that were lost.
My enemy seeks to harm you and to rob you of My joy. My friend, the psalmist David, felt that he had lost the joy of his salvation. He asked Me to restore the joy of his salvation. I was able to do this after David confessed his sins of adultery and murder.
When you seem to have lost the joy of your salvation, I want you to come to Me. I will restore the joy of your salvation and restore our fellowship together when you also repent of any sins that have caused you to feel distant from Me.
PSALM 51:8, 12
My enemy seeks to harm you and to rob you of My joy. My friend, the psalmist David, felt that he had lost the joy of his salvation. He asked Me to restore the joy of his salvation. I was able to do this after David confessed his sins of adultery and murder.
When you seem to have lost the joy of your salvation, I want you to come to Me. I will restore the joy of your salvation and restore our fellowship together when you also repent of any sins that have caused you to feel distant from Me.
PSALM 51:8, 12
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
DIFFICULT
Life is always difficult, and I did say that in the world you would have tribulation, but be of good cheer I have overcome the world. I overcame the world for your sake, so that I can infuse you with My strength to get through every trial you face in life.
I usually do not intervene to stop the trials you will experience in life. I did not stop the great trial that Peter was going to face. I knew that Satan was going to sift him as wheat and I told him this. That sifting would occur when Peter gave into the temptation to deny Me three times. I had the power to stop that from happening to Peter, but I did not. I simply told him that I would pray that his faith would not fail him.
Peter recognized for the first time his own weakness when I allowed him to go through that trial. He realized that without My strength he could not overcome temptation. Keep in mind that when you are going through trials that I am also praying that your faith in Me not fail.
JOHN 16:33; LUKE 22:31-32
I usually do not intervene to stop the trials you will experience in life. I did not stop the great trial that Peter was going to face. I knew that Satan was going to sift him as wheat and I told him this. That sifting would occur when Peter gave into the temptation to deny Me three times. I had the power to stop that from happening to Peter, but I did not. I simply told him that I would pray that his faith would not fail him.
Peter recognized for the first time his own weakness when I allowed him to go through that trial. He realized that without My strength he could not overcome temptation. Keep in mind that when you are going through trials that I am also praying that your faith in Me not fail.
JOHN 16:33; LUKE 22:31-32
Monday, September 11, 2017
PERSONALLY
I want you to never take what someone says to you personally. You must remember that you do not fight against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and wickedness in high places.
When someone comes against you or is rude to you, I want you to recognize that My enemy, Satan, is trying to cause you to retaliate in some way or to take what has been said as a personal attack on you.
My enemy always wants to hurt people. He wants them to feel rejected and wounded. Do not retaliate with unkind words against the person who has come against you. That person is not your enemy.. Hurt people hurt people. Instead pray for that person and daily put on your breast plate of righteousness by declaring out loud that your righteousness is of Me. When you do this no weapon formed against you will prosper.
EPHESIANS 6: 11-13; ISAIAH 54:17
When someone comes against you or is rude to you, I want you to recognize that My enemy, Satan, is trying to cause you to retaliate in some way or to take what has been said as a personal attack on you.
My enemy always wants to hurt people. He wants them to feel rejected and wounded. Do not retaliate with unkind words against the person who has come against you. That person is not your enemy.. Hurt people hurt people. Instead pray for that person and daily put on your breast plate of righteousness by declaring out loud that your righteousness is of Me. When you do this no weapon formed against you will prosper.
EPHESIANS 6: 11-13; ISAIAH 54:17
Sunday, September 10, 2017
RECOGNIZE
The first step to repentance is the recognition of sin. My servant John wrote if you say that you have no sin, you deceive yourself. All have sinned and fallen short of My glory.
My dear friend Peter finally recognized his sin when the cock crowed .. I warned him that he would deny Me three times before the cock crowed. He did not believe Me. He was confident in his own strength to overcome temptation.
Whenever you depend upon yourself more than you depend upon Me, you have given into the lust called "the pride of life" (trusting in yourself and your own strength more than Me). Whenever you think that you can handle a difficult situation or relationship without My help, you must recognize that things will not go well. Recognize your dependence upon Me this day, and call upon My help.
1 JOHN 1:8-10; ROMANS 3:23; MATTHEW 16:34-35
My dear friend Peter finally recognized his sin when the cock crowed .. I warned him that he would deny Me three times before the cock crowed. He did not believe Me. He was confident in his own strength to overcome temptation.
Whenever you depend upon yourself more than you depend upon Me, you have given into the lust called "the pride of life" (trusting in yourself and your own strength more than Me). Whenever you think that you can handle a difficult situation or relationship without My help, you must recognize that things will not go well. Recognize your dependence upon Me this day, and call upon My help.
1 JOHN 1:8-10; ROMANS 3:23; MATTHEW 16:34-35
Saturday, September 9, 2017
PERMANENT
There really is nothing permanent in life. Circumstances, marriages, children, jobs, are all subject to change. Parents pray that their children will not grow up so fast, but they do grow up and leave the nest.. People pray that they will be able to remain in the job they like until they retire, but they may be told that their career is over.
I am the only permanent thing in your life. I am the same today, yesterday, and forever. My love for you is permanent. It never changes even when you feel that your do not deserve such constant, unconditional love from Me.
Your place in heaven is permanent. These truths are why I want you to put all of your hopes in Me instead to hoping that things will not change. Hope is in the future, and I hold your future in My hands. You have a permanent place in My heart now and for all eternity.
HEBREWS 13:8
I am the only permanent thing in your life. I am the same today, yesterday, and forever. My love for you is permanent. It never changes even when you feel that your do not deserve such constant, unconditional love from Me.
Your place in heaven is permanent. These truths are why I want you to put all of your hopes in Me instead to hoping that things will not change. Hope is in the future, and I hold your future in My hands. You have a permanent place in My heart now and for all eternity.
HEBREWS 13:8
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