We are never to look back except to see how far God has brought us. Everything that happens to us is also happening for us. Sometimes the answer to your prayers are answered by eliminating trials or by giving you the strength to endure. Then at other times, the answer to your prayers is right in front of you but you don’t realize that blessing until God opens your spiritual eyes. God is always preparing you for your blessing. You are a work in progress that He must prepare before you can handle what He has in store for your life. Then there is that moment when you’re chasing after God’s will and He turns around catches you. Those are the moments when we know He has been there all along.  Catching every tear and hearing every prayer.

We don’t compete with one another, we compete with our flesh and love each other. For each battle we win over our flesh, we glorify the Lord. It is tempting to quickly react in a situation. Even the smallest decisions made in the flesh can turn out to be our largest mistakes. When we are “in tune” with the Holy Spirit, He will give us that nudge we need to consult Him. Two of the nine gifts of the Spirit are wisdom and knowledge. These two gifts help us in everyday living, not just on Sunday mornings. The Lord wants us to live in the miraculous everyday and not always waiting on the emergency miracles. When we win the competition against our flesh our reward is far greater.

After Jesus performed the miracle of bread and fish He rushed to the mountain to pray. He knew “men” would try to exalt Him. When we allow our fellow men and women to exalt us it takes all of the glory away from God. Pride over gifts the Lord gives you is not of God. However, recognizing your weakness and the Lord’s strength should make us more humble and dependent on Him. We can always discern between the works of the flesh and the works of the Holy Spirit by to whom they are giving the glory.   Works of the flesh will always glorify man but fruit of the Spirit will always glorify God.   The fruit of the Spirit is never to exalt the person who is bearing the fruit, nor do they obtain God’s favor for bearing His fruit.   However, He will allow them to retain that fruit as long as they are using it to glorify Him and not themselves. In every good thing, glorify God. In every bad thing glorify God for the good things. All the enemy wants is some attention. When we exalt ourselves and don’t glorify God for bearing HIS fruit, we are glorifying evil. Receive His fruit, glorify the Lord then rush to the mountain and praise Him!

Romans 8:35 “Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ?” The only thing that can separate us from the love of the Lord is us. Even then, He still loves us. We are protected from all the outside forces of evil but we are not protected from ourselves. We have a free will. Once we willingly accept Jesus and The Cross we are declared righteous by the Lord. We as sinners, still living in this world will still fall; we will never be perfect. Jesus was and will always be the only truth and light. However, God knows our hearts. He knows our struggles and has sent us His Holy Spirit to help teach and guide us back to the path of God’s righteousness when we do fall. God does not forsake us, He forgives us. For us to condemn the work of God in someone’s life is condemning God. We as Christians are not here to condemn, we are here to declare the Word of God and show the love of Jesus. Bless those who condemn you and pray for their understanding. God is the one who justifies, not us. The suffering of God’s righteous will always lead to His glory revealed when we bless those who the enemy is using.

It is such a blessing when we realize that Jesus chose us. (John 15:16) For every person He has a purpose. Even as sinners, He still chooses us and prays intercession for us to choose Him as well. Why? Just as we love our spouses, children and parents, He loves us more – unimaginable at times. He does not get “mad” at us when we backslide, He just wants us to come back to Him. We ARE that 1 in 99 sheep that He laid His life down for. When we continue thinking we are not worthy and God will never help us, we are letting the enemy control our thoughts. Fact is we are not worthy, none of us – but we are still God’s children and we are precisely the ones who He wants to bless. We just need to take that step of faith and choose Him.

None of us escape suffering but we will always have hope when we have the Word of God in our hearts. Just when we receive a blessing, the enemy will remind you of the tribulations that are yet to come. However, the devil will not remind us that “…greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4. Thankfully, because of Jesus and The Cross, we have the Holy Spirit dwelling within us that will remind us. The Holy Spirit will always remind us, guide us and teach us the Truth, the Word of God. Our strongest weapon against the enemy is the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. Close the mouth of the enemy by testifying the Grace of the Lord. Slam the door in his face by reminding Him he has already lost the battle for your soul because the Lord is greater! Don’t worry about the trials of tomorrow, praise God for His blessings today and know His mercy and grace will never leave you as long as we continue to seek His will.

Because of Jesus and The Cross we now live under His Grace instead of the Law of the Old Testament. The Law was powerless to the sin nature of the flesh due to our free will. God undertook our deliverance by sending His Son and enabling us to overcome the sin nature. Jesus condemned sin and made a way for us to fulfill the righteousness of the Law by sending us His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the source of a Christian’s strength to be led by God’s righteousness.   He is the one who quickens our flesh against the sin nature. The Holy Spirit is the one sent here to help us fight! God did not leave us here to fight our own battles against evil. A soldier does not go into battle unarmed and neither does a Christian. The Lord has provided us all of the tools necessary to overcome the battle against our flesh. All of the rest of the battles belong to Him.

The devil’s goal is to distract you from focusing on what is important – God.   We have to make a conscious decision to stay focused on Jesus and be led by the Holy Spirit. When we slow down and let the Lord order our footsteps we are guaranteed the devil will stay under our feet.

The devil’s goal is to distract you from focusing on what is important – God.   We have to make a conscious decision to stay focused on Jesus and be lead by the Holy Spirit. When we slow down and let the Lord order our footsteps we are guaranteed the devil will stay under our feet.

NEVER belittle God’s blessings and realize as Christians we are a mouthpiece for the Lord. Everytime we declare our Christianity, then turn around and start complaining about the hand we have been dealt; we are not representing the Lord instead we are testifying for the enemy. We must be CONSTANTLY aware of who we represent. When we live like we are a child of the most High King, then He will bless us as such. If we live like we are a struck down, child of the world, we are letting the enemy stand in the way of our blessings. I DON’T CARE what the world says we are; sick, broken or poor – the Bible says we are a child of the Most High God. Decide who you believe and live like it. Jesus died to defeat Satan and give US dominion over evil.   Spit in the eye of the devil by ALWAYS glorifying the Lord and ALL of His blessings instead of the enemy and all of his cursings. Be a part of Jesus’ joy today – He will bless you for it!