When Jesus walked the face of the earth in human form, he showed us some of the similarities between God and man. Being made in the image and likeness of God, has given men certain benefits. We may not see it or attain to it but it is very much true men can have some of the same qualities and attributes of God, such as man can cause things to change in the earth, just as God can. Man can also agree with God as He as well agrees with his own word. God becoming man is a great assurance for us as humans. Because it allows us to see that though we are in the flesh, if in our human frailty can learn to agree to with the spirit that is within us, then there is nothing that will be impossible for us to accomplish. If thou canst only believe, All things are possible to him that believeth. There is a power of the spirit that has everything to do with our agreement with the Lord and less to do with the frailty of our flesh. Our resolve must be to learn to agree with the God that is in us and calling us forward to effect change in the earth and not lean to our understanding and human limitations. Peter walked on water and defied even the very laws of gravity. Your agreement with the Spirit will cause you to perform great exploits for the ways of heaven!
Simply Justified
The Bible says that the devil is the accuser of the brethern, and ceases not night and day making accusations of our unworthiness before the Father. What we have to do is learn to not allow the accusations of the enemy to be our word over our lives. Many times in my life, it was me who was my own worst critic. I refused to allow myself to be blessed, because I always thought I was unworthy. There was always something that I was doing that was stopping the Lord from just exploding in my life. First it was because I was smoking. Then it was because I didn’t pray enough. Then it was because I didn’t fast enough. Several times when I was fasting, I believed it was rejected before the Lord because I ate a Snicker Bar during the fast… a Snicker Bar! How religious is that? You get to the point where you are so self-condemning, you find yourself always trying to meet the standard, the standard that can never be met, trying to earn the justification that was freely given, and even if you had to earn the extravagance that the Lord wanted to pour upon you, you could never “work” enough to earn it. Not realizing that the more I tried, the more I stunk up the place because I tried to be God. I tried to make my own righteousness. When I did good, I decided my own reward. If I do this today, then I will get this result tomorrow. If I don’t say anything wrong today, then tomorrow something good will happen to me. I even decided my own punishment. I would say things to myself like, “Because I did this and that wrong, even if I repent and ask forgiveness, I can’t be excused from the repercussion, or the penalty of that sin, so this is the result I am going to get”. Everything I did, I was judge and jury. I really didn’t need God much, because I already decided what I would do and what I would get based on the actions I took. Fortunately for us, righteousness is not like that. God freely gave us a gift we could never earn and never repay. Our responsibility is to seek Him and go hard after His heart; the results are up to Him. Today I choose to just simply love Him.
Faith For His Image
The biggest issue with sin, is that the more you practice it, the further away it takes you from faith. Sin will make you rely on your own decisions, assist you in making your own outcomes, and removes you from a relationship with God. Before you know it, all your ideas, even pertaining to righteousness, come from what you do and who you are, and not from who Christ is, and what He has decided. You begin to walk with the Law, but under the law we are all guilty and doomed. Romans says that the Law is good in that it reveals sin, and how far away we are from the mark, but we are no longer under the Law but grace. Grace says I have given you something that you could never do. I have justified you and made you righteous before my eyes. Righteousness allows God to look at us through the eyes of Christ and find pleasure in the fact that we are His peculiar treasure on the earth. Justification allows you who were tried and found guilty of committing sin, already sentenced to death (because the end of sin is death, and the punishment for sin is death) to receive forgiveness and grace instead. Instead of death, grace and favor has brought you before an innumerable host of angels, to the place where we are made perfect, and you receive an inheritance in the Saints. You are now an heir and joint-heir with Christ. The Spirit of God now even bears witness that you are the sons and daughters who Christ has redeemed. Now the things you ask, you receive, not because of your works, but you receive them because of your faith. Your faith in your right standing before the Father. Now your works are based on and compelled by the positional authority you received by faith in the Almighty God, and not by the status you think you have earned by your works. Should you continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid.
God never said for you to put your trust in what you see. You are to put trust in His Word. The word of God’s intention has no choice but to come to pass. The scripture is clear, God says that He watches over His word to perform it. The word perform means to literally cause it to happen. God has caused us to walk in righteousness. We are clothed with His glory. We are being conformed into the image of His dear son.
Time for Change
Over the years there have been many books, seminars and different instructions on life change. Everywhere you turn on TV, there is another reality show or informercial on how to change your life. After you get done reading the book, or watching the show, the main question that looms in your mind is: How do I get started? What should I do to begin on the road to changing my life? The answer is simple. The first step is simply knowing. Knowing that where you are is not where you want to be. Knowing that the place you currently stand is not your final destination. Have you been poured out, or is there more left in you? If you know there is still more to give, more to do, more places to go, then this is a great place to start. Sometimes people think that you must have a clear goal in mind, but when the Lord spoke to Abram, He just told him to go. It says in Hebrews that he sojourned into a land that he had not known, and he was searching for a city whose builder and maker was God.
Just knowing and making up in your mind that you need to move away from where you are is a great place to begin on your journey to end up where you have been destined to arrive. Many people have lost out in life because they have waited for the “right time” or for the situation to be conducive for change. We have all at one point, even in our Christian walk, heard of people saying they are going wait until they stop this, or stop doing that, before they settle down and get their life right. When they finally do, they realize, there is still so much work to be done, that you are yet a work in progress, and the real change didn’t come from them, but it was a divine move of God. They made the decision to change and be lead by the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit guided them down the path to obedience and favor. So if you are reading this blog, let me help you. Today is a great day for you to walk in your new life! It doesn’t matter who you are. The moment you make a resolve in your mind, that you are going to get something different, and you refuse to settle for the status quo, that is the moment your entire life will change. Some change is immediate, some change will take time, but change will come!
Faith Focused
How do you know that it is your time for change? Only you can answer that. It is your life and you must determine in yourself what you believe and don’t believe. I can tell you one thing though, if you are waiting to get all of the answers first, you’ll waste your life away and turn around one day an old man or woman and realize you spent your life waiting and ended up with very little to show for your life. Time is too precious to spend in constant contemplation. The earth and time has known many people who are great intellectual thinkers. They have great revelation and understanding, but with little action to add to it, it leaves them of no great consequence in society and all they leave are their deep thoughts and empty pockets. If just a fraction of the zeal that was put into their thought had been added to their actions, they would have broke out so heavily upon society that entire generations would barely be able to contain the power of that change. We would not be searching so desperately for a move of God; it would be evident that our entire nation was a direct move from heaven.
Which brings me to my next point. When Peter walked on water, he had no regard for the failure but his eyes and attention where clear on the focus. As long as he was intent on the focus, he could not go under. Faith for your purpose will require you to burn some safety bridges behind you and make you keep your eyes on your intention. With your eyes on your intention, you will not fall. Don’t allow the fear of failure to keep you in the place of mediocrity. For Edison’s 1999 failures, it only took one success to make him one of the greatest inventors in the history of mankind.
Just Believe
You may have experienced disappointment. You may have tried and failed many times before. The last setback may have taken all the wind out of you and knocked you off your feet. Your life may be hindered by sickness or disease. Whatever the case or reason you may have that makes you read this blog and want to immediately stop reading it because you think, “been there, tried that, and it didn’t work for me”… for those very same reasons, I want you to read it. Apply the principles written within these pages and I guarantee your life will never be the same. In the mind of determined purpose, there is no lasting failure. I truly believe that this blog may be just the springboard that you have been waiting for. Just the push you need to get you to your promised land.
Seek for Success
Holiness, righteous living, long life, wealth, prosperity, great fortunes… All of this can be obtained in the life of the believer. None of these things are set apart for a few select people on the planet. It is available to anyone who can apply the simple principles to obtain them. Throughout this blog we will reiterate these principles and burn them into your subconscious. Although not mentioned by name directly, if you have the desire to seek and the mind to believe, then nothing will be able to stop you from receiving the principles and applying them for your success in life. It makes no difference what endeavor you are trying to achieve. Whether it is a raise on your job, or if you want to own a billion dollar organization. These principles are found in the lives of every true achiever. If you apply these two principles, there will be nothing that will be impossible to you. Once you grab hold of them, in everything you read you will see these principles. When you read the Bible, they will jump out on every page. Your relationships will never look the same again. You will find them everywhere you read in this book. They will be the catalyst for your next and all future levels in life. Jeremiah 29 puts it well when it says, “If you seek me, you will be found of me, when you search for me with all your heart.