We are the keeper of God’s property. We must not let the enemy lay claim to what belongs to the Lord. When we as Christians see hell coming down on sinners or saints and they don’t know how to pray their way through, it is our responsibility to call Heaven down and claim their soul in Jesus name. God has given us the power to stand in and pray intercessory for the weak and lost. That is what Jesus is doing for us right now and what we must do for others. When someone hurts you, crosses you or blesses you – you call Heaven down and bless them anyway. We ALL belong to God! Let God use you today by claiming what belongs to His Kingdom.

To magnify God’s promises is easy. However, we can’t ignore the terms of His promises. Christianity involves walking in God’s will not our own. Often we don’t understand God’s will in our lives and the task may seem downright impossible. Prov. 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” Don’t worry about understanding, just learn how to trust in the Lord – He’s much better at this than we ever dreamed of!

Faith – as Christians we talk a lot about faith. It is easy to have faith in things when we can “see” how God could make it happen. However, we must also have just as much faith in the things we cannot understand for ourselves. II Cor. 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” We must be careful not to limit God by limiting our faith. If we don’t believe God can make a way, He can’t simply because WE are limiting Him. God is no respecter of persons, He will respond to ANYONE who has faith in His Word. Declare the Word of God for yourself and step out on faith for the unimaginable as well!

We have all heard “forgive but never forget”. God’s forgiveness is given for the asking with no rememberance of our transgressions. God’s heart is full of compassion, mercy and grace not hatred toward the fallen. He is heartsick and must turn His face away from sin. Not because He is turning His back on you but because He cannot bare to see the consequences of the sin on His children. God is not punishing us because we have sinned, He just cannot bless us with His mercy and grace. All God wants to do is bless His children. Thank you God for forgiving and forgetting all of my transgressions!

Psalms 37:23 “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.” Sometimes we have to check ourselves and make sure who placed that order. When we make even the smallest misstep, if we don’t have a PERSONAL relationship with the Lord, we can go down a path of destruction. However, even if we do have a personal relationship with God, we still will make mistakes. The only difference is we have the Lord with us who will draw us back to the narrow path. Always remember the enemy’s favorite tool is deceit but as long as we have God the enemy cannot cross the blood line.

We live in a broken, sick and fallen world. As a result we are surrounded by and often become one of the broken, sick or fallen. Someone who is broken and does not have a relationship with God often seeks someone who God is with instead. It is our job as Christians to lead that person to the Lord and NOT try to BE the Lord in their lives. Leviticus 19:14 “Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind”. The minute we become a religious rule keeper to the blind, we have just become their stumbling block as well.

Church is not where you go after you’ve cleaned up your act. It’s where you go to HELP clean up your act. Church is where you go to receive the Grace you can’t find anywhere else in this crazy world.

GRACE: Grace is when you finally realize you do not have to have a “Plan B”. If something you have been praying for does not come to pass fast enough so you make a Plan B we are then giving God an ultimatum – either He does it our way or “we” will have to do it ourselves. Grace comes when you get out of the way of God doing God’s work and understand His plan for our lives is far greater than ours.

We become what the most important person in our life thinks we are. Let God become that person. Then you will understand we have a God who loves us so much he just can’t give us up. Once you realize _________(your name here) is the one God loves, you will never recover from the overflow of God’s grace…..Praise the Lord!

GRACE isn’t just about all of the acts of kindness – those are the side effects of God’s Grace. When we truly understand Grace, we understand it came at a very high price…..WE just didn’t pay for it. Jesus and only Jesus paid that price – not Allah, not Buddha, nor anyone else. Hallelujah, thank you Jesus!