From the Inside out..... Hillsong

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John 10: 10 …….. Galatians 5: 16-26…..

Don’t just look at these verses, meditate on them. Talk with God. If you are tired of always trying to be free from things that you know are wrong, but you just can’t seem to break free. You need a Supernatural healing that only comes from walking in the Spirit.  You can have the Spirit of the living God in you. You could have accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior. But you can’t have the abundant life Jesus talks about unless you walk in it. You can enter the kingdom of God when you die, because you put your faith and trust in Jesus. But that doesn’t mean you will inherit the kingdom of God here on earth, the abundant joy, unless you walk this life by the Spirit.  It takes responding to God’s view point on ALL issues of life. Whether you understand them or not, doesn’t make a difference. As long as we are on this side of heaven, we will always have room for change. I highly doubt any of us are perfect, and if you think you are, that’s the first sinful thought you need to ask God to change.

Galatians 5: 16-18, We can’t change from our flesh ways from the outside in.  The cry of our heart and soul should be for God consume us. Give Him all control to change us “From the inside out.” That is how we bring Him praise and glory.

Flesh, struggles and repeats. The Spirit, walks life with ease. It’s like walking up the stairs in your own strength, or taking the escalator. The power moves you a lot easier without even losing any breath. If you think you can fix a problem within yourself, how do you know it was God who fixed it? It won’t repeat itself. Walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. It doesn’t say you won’t have the desire, (temptation). The Spirit delivers us from  problems that the flesh can’t. Galatians 5: 19-21, Look at these verses of the flesh. I know I struggle with a few of them, so I might as well struggle with them all according to the word of God. Sin is sin! There is no way I could be free of any of these in my own strength. I need to not just have the Spirit, but walk in it. I don’t want any part of my flesh to rule me!!

So how do you know you are walking in the Spirit? Look at Galatians 5: 22-25. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the fleshwith its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”

I always have room for change to look more like this fruit. Only God in me, will enable me with the power to change, what the strength of the flesh can’t change.

If anyone out there reading this doubts your salvation because you may struggle with any of these temptations in the above verses (19-21), don’t doubt, PRAY! You have the Spirit if you feel convicted. You are just struggling walking in it… Pray..

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Here's my heart Lord.... Lauren Daigle

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Sadness can overwhelm me at times. I entertain thoughts that flood my head over things that I have no control over, and never did. The only control I ever have is my prayer life. Once you realize that nothing changes the foreseen plans of God, your able to experience the peace of Jesus. You learn to live again.

Well, when I heard these words, it helped to take all the lies away that the enemy wants to continue to torment me with.

“Here’s my heart Lord. Speak what is true.  I am found, I am Your’ s. I am loved, I’m made pure. I have life, I can breathe. I AM HEALED, I AM FREE!” This is what God wants me to hear my husband saying, because it is the truth. He is free from the temptations of this world that the enemy used, to try and keep him from a personal relationship with Jesus. Satan would also have loved for me to have backed out of my marriage over these things. But praise God, “Who is greater in us than he who is in the world”, we OVERCAME!! All glory to God! Heaven won! Yes I miss him horribly, but he is free!! I know the purpose for the good times, and the bad times. 32 years, and I wouldn’t trade a thing, knowing what I know now.

I have got to say, that a lot of my days have been filled with depressing thoughts that try to have their way with me. “You should have done this, or you should have done that… or… He should have done this, or stopped doing that, and he would still be here… LIES!!  We have no control over, or nothing could change God’s plan. He already knows all the choices we are going to make in life here. It doesn’t change our appointed time.

Job 14: 5, Psalm 39: 4, Every one of us, have a number of days that the Lord has given us this side of eternity. The only control we have is our own common sense choices, or better said, Spirit lead choices.  Also our eternal choice. Whether or not we choose to have a personal relationship with Jesus. If you don’t believe, than you already made your choice.

Some people smoke, drink, give into all kinds of temptations, and live a long life. Some people don’t do any of these things,  serve God with all their heart, and die young. Some babies are born to die. There is no way to make sense of any of this, and even if you try, you will come up empty and more confused. That is right where the enemy loves to have you, because you lose all peace. We are not the ones in control, God is. This doesn’t mean that we should live reckless lives at all. You never know when your last day will be. When you have a relationship with Jesus, your thought life changes, which changes your actions. The things that you once thought were O.K., aren’t so O.k. anymore. You may have thought you weren’t hurting yourself or others, but God reveals the truth to your Spirit, 2 Corinthians 3: 18. This is the point of where you must choose how you will continue in this gift of life. Whatever the amount of days, months, or years God has for you, you don’t know. So pray for wisdom, and live wisely.

I know every day I need to say to God.. “Here’s my heart Lord” speak to me today what is true. Then I have a choice to let God control my thoughts, which control my mood and every move.

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Trust in You..... Lauren Daigle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_aVFVveJNs

Truth is, we could shake our fist at God, kick ,cry, and scream at the things we are in wonder about. He still loves us. I have never known such a love as His. I have been blessed with the most wonderful parents, but still, His love is the most comforting. Even though I can’t see Him, I can feel Him.  If we just trust Him, He will bring rest to our mind and soul like no one else can.

I often wonder why God took my husband home not long after he surrendered his life to Jesus. He came to realize what it meant to have a relationship with Him, and he wanted it. Just because you become a child of God through this relationship, doesn’t mean you still won’t struggle with weaknesses that are being broken from the old nature. We are not perfect, but we are being made perfect. God knows how much we are going to allow Him to change us from our old selves to the new. Our lives are a testimony to all He is doing in, and through us. He gives us time and many chances. I, and my husband, if he was still here to tell you, would tell you that God is a very patient God. I asked my husband many times if he blamed God, or was mad at God for having cancer again, and he said no with all sincerity!

I had so many dreams of serving the Lord together with my husband, but God saw something in my future that I don’t see. I know one day He will show me.  Isaiah 55: 8-9, Whatever it is, I will trust in His word. His ways are higher, and His plans are always good. Even if I don’t see it clearly yet, or understand it.  I have to  let go of my dreams, and lay each one of them at His feet. I don’t have any guilt talking openly to God about how I don’t like it. I can tell you, that by doing this, it has brought me to a better understanding, love, and trust in Him, that is hard to explain unless you have experienced great pain and grief.

What God sees in our future, never changes. He knows what tomorrow will bring, because there’s not a day ahead that He has not seen, or stood Himself. From the day we are born, until the day we die, He knows every mountain we will face, and He is always by our side. So when God doesn’t move the mountains, or part the waters , or give us an answer as we cry out to Him, there is really no other choice than to trust in His plan. Romans 8: 28, I believe with all my heart that He works all things out for the good for those who trust Him.

He has a purpose that we may not see while we are in our wondering. But if you constantly seek Him, talk to Him, cry out to Him… you will see that He is your strength, your comfort, the steady hand and firm foundation, the rock on which you will stand.

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Let There be Peace on Earth....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQi1qB_9tkQ

 

With all the mass murders, I am sick of hearing people BLAMING GOD! Either bring Him back to His rightful place in our lives, schools, businesses, and get on our knees and pray unashamed, or worried about who you may offend,  or get use to all the destruction, 2 Chronicles 7:14. It’s here too. Not just in a far off country. What will you do when terror is knocking at your door? Will you call on God then? Will you get on your Knees then? Get your head out of the sand, pick up the BOOK, and study with all your heart, soul, and mind NOW. Listen to the God of the universe, PRAY! Follow the example of His Son Jesus Christ! What great love was lavished on us that none of us even deserve, but there is life in His name, John 20: 31.

 

2 Corinthians 4: 4,  “ Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.”

 

No God, NO Peace… Know God, Know peace! Some people don’t have the same father as my Father. I can only pray they wake up.

 

“Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be. With God as our Father, brothers all are we. Let me walk with my brother, in perfect harmony.”

Well that was God’s plan, but people make their own choices. It’s called free will. Or just plain old COMMON SENCE!

 

 

Can you, if you are a parent, stop your children from doing what may harm them…. NO!.... I can tell you that because I didn’t listen to everything my mother and father told me. I had to learn the hard way. Thank God I never hurt anyone but myself. My Kid’s, the same thing. I can tell them, preach to them, they still are going to make their own choices. But there will be a time when they are old enough to understand, that if they don’t live by the way I am telling them in my home, they will have to make a choice and live somewhere else. It’s the hardest thing a parent will ever have to do, but that is love,.. tough love. I thank God my mom and dad cared more about serving the Lord than being my friend. They made me leave the comfort of home, because of my own choices to live the way I wanted to for a time. If I was going to hurt myself with my choices, they weren’t going to let me live under their roof and do it.

 

We are given  time here, and we are either going to pass or fail. I look at this world as God’s school ground, not our permanent home. Satan, the god of this world, has his way of teaching and influencing. No book, just your mind, your thoughts, your choices. Proverbs 14: 12, “There is the way that seems right to man, but in the end is the way of death.”… and that sure looks like that is the way this world is going.

 

There are many bibles of different religions. The Koran, Buddhist Canon of Sacred Scripture…. They all begin with some flashes of true light, but end in darkness. Most casual observers discover that the Bible is radically different. It is the only book that offers us a way out of our sin, out of the loneliness and darkness of this world, and into the marvelous “light.”

God gave us this book to guide us through life, giving us clear wisdom. Some of us pick it up only when we have a question. Some pick it up only on Sunday. Some pick it up when the going gets tough. Some of us burry our heads in it, desperate for God daily. Who do you think would pass the final exam? Who do you think God the Father won’t let live under His roof?.

 

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Come Alive (Dry Bones).... Lauren Daigle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XAeyFagceQ

 

Let’s step into the valley unafraid. Let’s be the army for God that comes alive. Breath Your breath oh God!!!.... “Come Alive” church of God.

 

When we put God FIRST, we see through His eyes, which there are NO GRAY AREAS!! Have  you noticed the more secular this world comes, and the more we live in those gray areas , this world is going to hell quickly. Wake up dry bones.

 

Seek what is right by God’s standards. Don’t feel you’re doing something wrong when you stand for God’s standard in love, not judgment. It’s not your opinion, it’s the truth of His word, and the truth can set them free by the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

To love God first, is to live a life that pleases Him. He cares very much about where we place Him in life. He request, and requires FIRST! Seeking first the Kingdom, means God’s rule over the life He has given to us.

 

When I was a kid, I remember pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, every day. That was so we remembered those committed, and dying for what it stood for. God ask us to pledge allegiance TO HIM! To what Jesus died for, and to STAND FIRM on that belief. Everybody’s answers to the questions life can bring,  is wrong, if they don’t agree with God.

 

God says to “Seek the Kingdom.”   Some people say, “I don’t understand the bible”… SEEK…. “I don’t know the answer”….. SEEK…. “But why”….. SEEK…. We can google everything today. Google your questions according to God’s word and it will come up. Then go into the bible for yourself.

 

If you are a believer, you are part of a Kingdom, and King Jesus rules. Question is, are you just a believer, or are you an action follower? God won’t hide anything from you when you seek His answers. You may want to hide from Him, but don’t. There is NOTHING He can’t clean up.

 

We will never experience God, and live by His standards, if we don’t seek Him. We will continue to live in our comfortable gray areas, and watch this world continue to go to hell.

The world is lowering God’s standards…… Who are we listening to?

 

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