God’s Messages

Dear Lord,
Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week..

Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….

Well, one of the greatest assets you have in your life is your faith.
It affects everything you do. You’re planning to get up tomorrow morning, right?
You may have some plans about going to work. We live by our faith, we make plans.
Some people’s faith is strong. Some people’s faith, not so strong, but many people have faith in waivers.
They don’t have a settled, strong foundational faith.
But I want to talk about this whole issue of why we waver in our faith.
If you’ll recall where we’ve been in the past few months, we’ve been in the book of Exodus and we have watched God free the Israelites from Egyptian bondage and they left uh bondage and went to the Red Sea and got opened up the Red Sea for them.
They marched right through dry land, then they went right on up to the promised land, right to the edge of it.
And having watched God do all of these miraculous things, they come to the promised land where they’ve been dreaming of since they were in, each, been hearing about it for years and years and years and now there they were and so Moses uh just said, they’re gonna send 12 spies up into the promised land to Canon.
Been dreaming about it for years.
And let’s see what it’s like before we take it, we will take it because God’s given it to us.
So they send 12 spies up, they come back.
And so the 1st 10 years of that report and they said that’s right.
It’s a land flowing with milk and honey and um it’s just everything God promised, they go on and on talking about it and then they add this word nevertheless, watch that word.
Nevertheless, all this is true and all that God’s promises.
Nevertheless, the giants in the land and then they all the things that they saw that was building up, lack of faith and begin to cause them to doubt.
And so after they got through that long rig of doubt, then Joshua and Caleb said, we wanna speak now and they said we can take it, we can do it.
And you’ll remember that they cried all night and said, we can’t and take us back to Egypt.
Can you imagine that 400 years in Egyptian bondage?
God miraculously brought him out, gave them what the Egyptians owned, brought them through the desert, brought them down to the Red Sea, opened up, opened up the sea, the waters on both sides of them.
They walked through, not personally got a drop of water on them all the way through.
And then through the desert up to the very cross over the boundary in the promised land.
They said, mm, we better go back to Egypt. Can you imagine that?
Take us back to Egypt? Slavery, little disease.
All the things that they had to deal with, right on the right on the brink of the promised land that we can’t do it.
That’s our background. That’s what we’re gonna be talking about.
But I want you to turn to James chapter one and the sixth verse says, but we must ask in faith without any doubting for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
Watch this for that man or woman ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord.
You see, uh that, that’s a powerful statement.
Look at that for that man or woman ought not to expect that he shall receive anything from the Lord.
So what I wanna talk about in this message is wavering, faith, wavering faith is like this back and forth, back and forth.
All of us have experienced wavering faith in some fashion or the other.
And so it’s devastating to real accomplishment and achievement in life. God wants us to have strong faith.
Now watch this faith that is built on a relationship, a personal relationship with almighty God, not faith built on feelings, not faith built on opinion, not faith built on somebody else, what somebody else thinks you ought to do.
But faith built on Almighty God, God is willing to do so much more than we expect or anticipate.
But we have wavering faith and what happens to us. We do the same thing those Israelites did.
God opened miraculous ways for them to get out of Egyptian bondage all the way through the sea up to the very brink, right on the boundary line of the promised land that they’ve been dreaming of for years and they said, no, send us back to Egypt.
Now. That sounds rather ridiculous to us. But that’s the same thing happens to people today.
Your faith is one of the most awesome gifts you have.
Now, whether you live by it, whether you exercise it or whether you cultivate it and whether you enjoy it or whether you fret over it.
Where is faith? Where is your faith in Almighty God in your life?
What God’s gonna do in your life relates to your faith, not spending our time thinking about what I can’t do what I can’t have, but spending our time thinking about what God has provided for us, what he’s promised and what he will allow to happen.
So let’s think about some of the causes of wavering faith when trusting God is in conflict with human reason.
What happens if we go by human reason, instead of trusting God, we won’t get much out of life when you trusted Christ as your savior.
Here’s what you did. You said I’m gonna believe that now, having trusted Jesus as my savior that when I die, I’m going to heaven and nothing can keep me out because he promised absent from the body present with the Lord.
So you’ve trusted him as your savior. Now, living it out is what faith is all about.
And so your human reason and your faith are gonna be in conflict lots of times, especially if you listen to other people because most of the people have an opinion about you.
If you just ask them and they think you ought to do this, you ought to have that you ought to live beyond.
You ought to drive this. You ought to work here. You ought to make this much money.
You ought to have these kind of friends. Everybody’s got opinions.
But the issue is what’s the will of God for you? What’s his plan for you?
That no two people are like Him when we think about all the billions of people in the world and no two of us alike, why should we listen to people?
Tell us what to do, how we ought to live our life instead of God who created you as a very unique individual.
So, one of the reasons we waver in our faith is human reason.
When we allow our feelings to overcome our faith, this is where most people live.
Well, I just don’t feel like it.
Well, I have thought I have prayed about it but then I, I, I just don’t feel like that’s what God wants for me.
And we let our feelings which like the waves of the sea forward and backwards and people live that way, that’s no way to live.
God didn’t save you to live by your feelings.
He saves you to live by a personal intimate relationship with him, believing what he promised you from the word of God.
Well, listen, here’s our anchor. We don’t have to live by our feelings, but by the teachings of the word of God, when you trust the Christ that you save you, remember this, the holy Spirit of God ended you your life and your spirit sealed you forever as a child of God, you can’t ever be lost.
She says our sin, that’s what grace is about sealed you as a child of God.
And is there to enable you to live and trust Him through every circumstance of life.
And so you can’t live by your feelings. Feelings are always changing nowhere in the Bible.
Is it ever even implied that we live by feelings? We’re gonna have feelings?
But the issue is this, do we live by ever changing feelings that are affected by everything or you’re gonna live by a faith in the word of God, which does not change everything else changes.
The word of God doesn’t change. And so when He says, I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Do you believe that? Well, a few of you do.
Not many, I will never leave you nor forsake you if we believe that and we have some circumstance in life and we begin to ask God to show us about it.
Well, then what happens? We drift from faith to feelings because we’ve listened to others say, here’s what happened to me and I think you ought to think about this.
God doesn’t work in two people’s lives the same way.
You can’t go by your feelings, you either go by your feelings or your faith.
Now, one word in the scripture about you about our feelings being right.
We go by trusting God to be to us who we promise to be.
Then of course, when we fail to see God at work in our circumstances, and I think this is what happens to many people, things happen that they don’t expect or they don’t plan and uh they don’t see God in them.
You said, what do you mean seeing God in them? Most of us watch this carefully.
See God in our circumstances when they’re good.
When I’m getting what I want going where I wanna go, having what I have job this, where that live there.
That’s when we see God, I suppose the bottom drops out and you don’t have all those things.
Where is God that has he disappeared? Has he changed this God who said, I will never leave you?
Nor forsake you. Has he changed? No, he has not. I may have changed.
I may have disobeyed him, but he hasn’t changed.
And so when I think about it, what affects people, they don’t see God in the most difficult times, I look back in my life and think about some trying times I’ve had and as I look back and I’ve thought about a lot about it, all the things that look like really bad circumstances.
I can look back and see how God used every single one of those things for some reason in my life, watch this.
You are looking at things through God’s viewpoint.
This you look looking through the eyes of a God who loves you enough to have sent his own begotten Son Jesus to the cross to die for your sins and your wickedness and your ways and all of our sins and all of our weakness.
He died for us anyway, this is, this is who you’re talking about.
So do we trust him or do we not, do you live by your circumstances or do you live by faith?
When God has told you to do something, it may be very difficult.
It may appear to be just absolutely beyond you. It can’t be it.
But when God tells you to do something, remember that all the power of omnipotent God becomes involved in helping you do what he’s called you to do.
And so we should be trusting, believing, not always understanding, there’s nothing in the Bible says, I’m to always understand what God does and you can look through the scripture and find that many cases of that.
So we fail to see Him at work and what happens. We don’t receive what he wants to give us.
We miss out on blessing after blessing, after blessing. Now watch this chain reaction. You listen and say, amen.
Sometimes God says, here’s what I want to do in your life.
And so he starts way back here to do what to get you ready for, way back, way over here.
And so because over here you may stumble or something happened and things don’t go as fast as you think that.
Well, it looks like it’s absolutely impossible. What happens?
You lose your vision for what God promised you because things aren’t working out right now just the way you think they ought to and you think they have to.
Is there anything God can’t do? No.
And so we trust him in times, we don’t always understand what he’s up to, but he’s always working in our circumstances to accomplish his will and for our good, he always works in our behalf in our favor.
Always. Now that may take me on a level path one day and down in the valley the next.
But he knows that what his will is his purpose.
His plan in listen includes a level walk and a walk in the valley.
A stormy walk and a calm walk.
God is a God of awesome love who intends to lead us every single day, not make everything just easy for us, but whatever he’s doing, whatever he’s doing in your life, he has an ultimate purpose.
You think God is always working on your behalf? Yes, he is.
It may not look like it. We may not, it may not feel like it.
We can’t see any evidence of it.
He’s always working on their behalf because to get you over here, he knows that what he knows to bless you over here.
He can’t take a straight line because it’ll ruin you back here. So what does he do?
He takes us through enough pain, enough.
If he go to enough hardship by the time we get there, we are so grateful to God.
We just love, obeying him, love, obeying him.
Then of course we listen to negative counsel.
You have to watch who you listen to.
Somebody says, well, I’ve been talking to my friends about what I’ve been praying to God about and none of them think I should do it.
You listen, you don’t listen to your friends.
You say, well, you’re telling me not to ever listen to my friends.
No, but I’m saying this when it comes to decisions that you have to make about your life, your decisions are not your friends decisions, your decisions are between you and God.
It doesn’t mean that you can’t ask folks to help him. But here’s what I’ve discovered in all these years.
Usually, when you ask for direction about faith and what God’s trying to say in your life, they will interpret what God’s answer is on the basis of what they feel in their heart they would do.
And that may be absolutely opposite from what God wants you to do.
Be careful when you’re asking other people what you should do about anything.
It isn’t that we should seek Godly counsel, but Godly counsel, all the listen should match up to God’s word and God’s spirit and God’s direction for your life.
So we’re talking about the things that cause us to waver in our faith.
Another one is this when we focus on our circumstances rather than on God, and there’s always a catch for us.
Well, here’s, here are my circumstances, not, not here, here are my circumstances in the light of this awesome sovereign God that I serve who loves me unconditionally.
These are not my circumstances alone. These are circumstances in which God is very, very aware of.
He knows exactly where I am, where I am. He knows exactly what I should be doing.
He knows what doesn’t make any sense at all but happens to be the will of God.
These are the things that trip us up.
These are the things that we begin to pray and ask God what to do and then watch this carefully.
So many times when we do that and we are talking to our friends and looking at the circumstances and we conclude by our circumstances and what we hear and what we normally feel.
Well, that couldn’t be the will of God when that may be exactly what God wants you to do.
Watch this. Because how do we grow in our faith?
Being challenged by things that are not normal, challenged by things that don’t seem to be reasonable things that seem to be difficult.
Why would God ask me to do this and sometimes what he’s doing?
He’s pushing us along to grow up our faith. You say, what would God ever disappoint me?
He sure would. You mean to tell me? You gotta disappoint me? Yep.
Watch this when you’re asking for something that is not of God.
When you choose to walk in a way that’s not his way and his will and purpose and plan for your life.
Yeah, you’re gonna get disappointed, but it is the disappointment of genuine love.
Remember that all disappointment is not bad.
Disappointment of genuine love is a disappointment of protection and watch care and love and goodness to us.
And so he’s a guy who’s always looking out in our behalf when we focus on our circumstances, rather than on God, something begins to happen in our life.
And so when we are ignorant of God’s ways, another one ignorant of God’s ways, if I’m ignorant of how God works, then I’m gonna be disappointed.
So somebody says, well, how do we learn how God works from the word of God?
And I think about how many people grew up in their life and they own a Bible, but they never read it.
Or if they do, they read their favorite passages most of the time.
But God wants us to be growing. And what, how do we grow?
We grow through our faith, trusting Him, believing Him that even in the most difficult trying weeping times, we must believe that God’s doing something good.
Watch this because he is a good God who loves us.
Even in the difficult times when he has to chastise us. He’s still loving us.
He knows what we need. Now, we think we know what we need.
We need to live in a big house, drive a big car or expensive clothes, have all kind of jewelry.
We name all that kind of stuff and you know what, God doesn’t promise that He promises something much better, a personal intimate relationship with Him.
That is the most wonderful gift God could give. And that’s what he gives.
Then I think about people who are ignorant of God’s ways.
And then I think about feelings of guilt over past sins, haunt people.
And there are a lot of people who have been saved know that they’re saved and yet they never grow.
And here’s the reason they don’t grow.
They believe God saved them, but they can’t quite believe that God has forgiven them of things in their past that maybe they’re ashamed of, or maybe things that, uh, they certainly regret that ever happened to them.
And somehow they can’t quite believe that God has really and truly forgiven them and I’ve met lots of people that like that in life.
Well, I know I’m saved. I know I can trust that Jesus Christ is my saved.
But then here’s what happened in my life and I don’t think God could possibly forgive me of that.
What is it? He can’t forgive you of, that’s who He is a forgiving. God.
Listen and he doesn’t. One thing he does not do is come back and say no.
When He forgives in his divine mind, he forgets he does not. He does not hold against you.
What he has forgiven. You are now the very circumstance that caused you to sin has fruit and those circumstances sometimes are very difficult.
And so we reap what we sow more than we sow later than we sow.
It doesn’t mean that God’s against us.
But the very nature of some things we, we, we reap what we sow more than we sow later than we sow.
And it doesn’t say but God doesn’t forgive us. No. Watch this.
Even when we’ve made mistakes, even when we’ve sinned against God, he has forgiven us. Now watch this.
Even when you are suffering the fruits of big mistakes.
Holy God is with you to help you, to enable you and to remind you that the fruits and the consequences of what you’ve done are still there and you’re feeling it, but he’s forgiven you.
He’s forgiven you no matter what.
And this is where many Christians they, they come to a certain point in their commitment to the Lord and then they’ll say, but yeah, but backyard in my life, here’s what happened.
And I don’t know how God could forgive you.
I can tell you, I can tell you how He can forgive you of anything.
I didn’t say there’d be no consequences, but I can’t tell you, I’ll forgive you anything.
Look at the cross when he sent Jesus to the cross and shed his blood, that was for your sin and my sin.
How will he forgive us? Asking Him to forgive us?
Not on the basis that we’re gonna be perfect, but on the basis that Jesus died for us.
And when we surrender our life to him, confess our faith in Him. He forgives us of our sin.
And I think of how many people miss out on the best things in life because they can’t believe that God could somehow forgive them of this.
That and the other, well, guilt over past sins.
And then of course, listening to the lies of the devil, Satan is still talking and I’ve met some wonderful people who will never be happy in their life because they can’t, they can’t close their ears off to the devil’s accusations.
Watch this. You cannot name a single solitary sin in your life today that God won’t forgive you of now, if you have the idea that I’m gonna sin and I have just enjoy myself because the Bible says, if I confess it, he’ll forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness.
You set yourself a trap, you’re, you’re testing God, but God will forgive you for whatever the past is because He’s a God of love and goodness and mercy.
And he’s paid the price for you since He wants you to trust Him.
He wants us to trust Him.
And if we trust Him, we will grow in our Christian life and if we don’t, we won’t grow.
So think about all of those listening to the lives of Satan telling you that you’re not forgiven.
You are forgiven. Now, how do we correct wavering faith?
And we, we’ve all been that some time or the other. How do we correct that in our life?
Ask yourself this question. Where are these doubts coming from? They’re coming from the devil.
Satan wants you to doubt that you’re saved.
He wants you to doubt that you’re forgiven and he on and on.
He goes, he is the source of our doubts. God is an awesome God who loves us.
And when we come to doubting him, the best place to go is strictly to the word of God to say, Lord, what do you say about this?
So ask yourself the question, where are these doubts coming from? And then ask yourself this question?
Did God not promise to meet all of our needs? Yes, he has.
He has promised to meet every single need we have. What have you ask Him for that?
He has not done that fits his will and purpose and plan for your life.
It never fails us. So let’s think about this.
Did he not give us the Holy Spirit to enable us to do whatever He requires in life?
Yes, he did. And so whatever he requires of us, when you trust the Christ as you save you, you and dwelt by the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is there to enable you to accomplish anything and everything God is required of you.
So he is not saying this is what I want you to do and you do it.
He’s always there. He’s our partner in life.
He’s our God to help us to do and to achieve everything he’s required of us.
He’s never gonna misguide you, mislead you in any way under any condition.
He always has your best interest at heart.
The question is, are you willing to listen with an open heart?
Are you willing to let listen?
Are you willing to listen in the light of what you know the word of God says?
And the Bible names a whole lot of sins and the Bible forbids us to partake of many things in life.
Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not bear false witness on and on.
We go and people know it. They include it, but here’s how they think I’m an exception.
I’m an exception. I’m pretty good. Uh, I’m not, I’m not a mean person.
I’ve never killed anybody. I’ve heard everything imaginable of why a person can sin against God and it’ll be ok.
It’s not ok. Watch this no matter who we are what we are, how long we’ve known the Lord, you cannot change, you cannot change a principle of the word of God.
One of which is be sure your sin will find you out.
Secondly, we reap what we sow what’s the next one more than we sow later than we sow.
You can’t change that. And so what I simply want you to do is to think about this, to live a life of faith.
You’ve got to know what the word of God says.
God wants the best for us and the best for us requires something of us.
And I think about it. Did he not promise to be with me at all times? Yes.
Anything too hard for God. No.
And when you come to a decision in life, big decisions and watch this, you can’t ask somebody else in life if you’re a decision making process.
If it’s a big decision. Some people think big things in God’s house are little things to us and some things that we think are so big.
God, they’re not what God wants is listening hearts and obedient spirits and you get the best that Almighty God has to offer.
Does that mean no pain? No? Does it mean you’ll never been in? No.
God knows what it takes to make us, to create us, for us to become the persons He’s made us.
He, he’ll take you. In other words, if you’ve lived half your life and say, well, I’m just blond.
It start now, God will take you right where you are forgive you of your sin in spite of the past, He’ll enable you to overcome it.
But most people are not listening to God, they’re just doing whatever they wanna do.
Is this one of those folks in the road in which my unbelief could cause me a lifetime of regret.
That is a major question. You confront me with some question, ask yourself.
The question is just one of the fork in the road in which my unbelief could cost me a lifetime of regret.
I think of some people I know are living in a lifetime of regret because of decisions they’ve made and decisions they can’t change.
God wants us to follow his will because that’s the best way.
He’s willing to answer our prayers. He’s willing to give us direction. He’s willing to forgive us. Of our sin.
He’s willing to help us in every way if we’re willing to listen to him.
But ask yourself the question on a daily basis, on a daily basis.
It said you’re a habit. And could you be described by the people who know you as a person who seeks to obey God in their life live?
The Christian life knows Jesus Christ is their savior. Is that the kind of person they are.
Do they know you as that kind of person?
It’s a relationship to him, listening to him and obeying him?
So when I think about that, think about probably one of the simplest things I could say to you.
And yet it’s one of the most important. So I put it this way.
I’ve lived long enough to learn this.
The most important thing in a believer’s life is the time they spend meditating upon the word of God and talking to him.
There, there is no exception.
That’s the most important time we spend in our life reading the word you said, I don’t understand at all.
Well, there are things in the Bible.
I don’t fully understand the most important thing in your life.
The most assured sense of guidance in your life.
If you will read the word and listen to God, he will direct you right every time.
And I would simply say this. I’ve got some favorite passages.
In fact, I want you to listen to this and I’ll tell you why I got it when I’m trying to make a decision or I’m facing some situational circumstance.
Here’s where I turn. You are my servant. I have chosen you and not rejected.
You do not fear for. I am with you.
Do not anxiously look about you for I am your God. I will strengthen you.
Surely, I will help you. Surely I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Behold all those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored.
Those who contend with you will be as nothing and will perish.
You will seek those who quarrel with you, but you’ll not find them.
Those who war with you will be as nothing and not existent for I am the Lord, your God who upholds your right hand, who says to you do not fear, I will help you.
I was there 41 starts with verse nine.
You’ll write that down Isaiah, all the things he covers in this passage.
There have been times when I faced the most difficult times in my life, things.
He would normally destroy a person.
That’s where I lived right there and I was there for day one got other passages.
It’s the word of God. It’s the word of God that keeps us on track when everything else may be wrong, going on in your life.
But there it is, I will help you. I will strengthen you.
I will uphold you God’s promise to us.
So as you think about your faith, remember this, it’s linked to the word of God.
Your faith will increase in strength and power when you spend time in the word of God, and you may be here today and not knowing Jesus as your savior or what’s the next step?
The first step is to ask the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins.
Not because you’re gonna be better, not because you deserve it.
But because he said, if we confess our sins, he’s faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
That is when Jesus went to the cross, he died and paid sins debt for you and me.
And when we ask him to forgive us, he will and then he will begin to guide you, lead you and help you to understand the word of God, change your whole life.
I trust that you’ll do that. Whoever you are wherever you are. God is willing to change your life.
If you let him amen, father, we thank you for your wonderful word.
We pray the Holy Spirit will fasten these truths in the heart of every person and grant us all the courage.
We need Lord to be obedient to you when things don’t look very clear.
But when you say, go give us wisdom and the courage to go to do whatever you would have us to do in life.
We love you. And we praise you and we bless you for every blessing that comes our way.
But the one above all else, your presence and your power with dwelling within us. In Jesus name.
Amen.