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Have Faith In The Wilderness

2 And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that He might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ~ Deuteronomy 8:2ESV

The Israelites struggled with their faith from the moment they left Egypt. We often judge this, but when we look at it for what it is, we can see that it’s no different with us today. When we are in our slavery to sin, we cry out to God, but as soon as He saves us, we grumble, complain, and doubt that He can keep us from temptation and sin. This is how the Israelites were as well. They saw miracle after miracle from God Almighty, yet fear and doubt still took root in their hearts and caused them to have to wander the wilderness for forty years.

But their story didn’t end there. God didn’t give up on them. He still led them and was with them wherever they went. He never left them. And along the way, He continued testing them, I believe, getting them prepared for their restoration. Their failure and lack of faith didn’t stop His plans for them. Those who weren’t willing to be molded missed the promised land, but the next generation that was willing to listen to God didn’t. The plan of God wasn’t tarnished, nor did it fail. It was brought to fruition because His Word never fails.

Today God still calls mankind and has plans for us all, but it’s up to us to trust Him and have faith that He is able to fulfill that which He has spoken to us. He will be with us despite the wilderness, the obstacles, the mountains, and during this, He will be testing us and humbling us on the way, preparing us for the fulfillment and restoration. He’s preparing us for our promised land. So, hang on to His Word. Hold tightly to His promises. Don’t allow fear to hold you back because the LORD is with you wherever you go. You don’t have to be perfect; you just have to have faith in Him.

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The World’s Hatred

12 He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. 13 Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’ 14 But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ ~ Luke 19:12-14

Jesus has physically left the earth, and the whole world is shouting, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’ They even murder and persecute His followers because they want nothing of Jesus in their world. This hatred for Christ is becoming more and more prevalent to the point that the hatred of Christ is making its way into the Church itself. How is this possible? Because the Church has tried so hard to be accepted by the world that we’ve turned our back on our own God.

The lies of the enemy have lulled us into such a deep sleep that we don’t even realize that it’s us that is attacking and hurting Christ. It’s us, His own citizens, that is whipping Him and nailing Him to the cross. We’re now the ones shouting, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us,’ and we don’t even realize it. We have become spiritually dead, unable to discern right from wrong or the voice of Shepherd from the voice of the Evil One. The enemy has tickled our ears with teachings that suit our desires, and we’ve declared Jesus to be a hater, liar, and unworthy of our praise. We’re so asleep we don’t even realize that we’ve turned our back on the Savior of the whole World.

So, wake up, for Jesus is coming back soon. And when He returns to get His children, there will be punishment on all who shouted, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us’ regardless of the supposed good they’ve done in the world. Nothing we do is good, especially if we can’t even discern who the Good Shepherd is. There is only one who is good, and that is our God, who is above and who lives in those who love and follow Him. So, seek the Good Shepherd while He can still be found. Seek Him that He might awaken you from sleepwalking through your life.

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Touch The Fringe

56 And wherever He came, in villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored Him that they might touch even the fringe of His garment. And as many as touched it were made well. ~ Mark 6:56ESV

Jesus went into places and could only very few people and perform very few miracles, yet in other places, all they needed was the fringe of His garment. Why? In one word, faith. They were confident in who Jesus was, while the others wavered. They didn’t have to beg or pray over and over again to be healed. They didn’t even need to speak to Jesus directly. They had the faith to accept their healing because, by His stripes, they are healed. They claimed that promise for themselves in faith.

Today we have a similar promise; by His stripes, we have been healed. We’ve already been healed. The price has already been paid. All we have to do is accept it. All we have to do is step out in faith. We don’t have to have the most eloquent tongue or the most righteous of walks. All we have to do is have faith it is possible.

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Where’s Your Trust?

5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6 But when you ask Him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. 7 Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do. ~ James 1:5-8NLT

Wavering in our faith in God, according to James, makes us as unstable as the waves being thrown by the wind. Why? Because when we don’t trust in God, we’re trusting in something else. It may not seem like it, but we have to have faith or trust in something. Either God or the world. Either life or death. Fear or love. How we live our lives will determine in whom we trust.

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Follow The Untamed Lion

1 Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night. 2 Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained. 3 “Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4 Then they plotted among themselves, “Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!” ~ Numbers 14:1-4NLT

In one of the last scenes of the movie Narnia defines Jesus as good but not a tame lion. Our God isn’t tame. He’s the roaring Lion of the Tribe of Judah. He’s the God who got off of His Throne and died for His children. His plan for His own life wasn’t tame, so why would His plans for ours be any different?

This is where we get confused. We believe because God is good, only good things will happen when we follow Him; we forget that the ruler of this world is wicked and there is no good in him. Therefore the plans God has for us are good, but they aren’t tame. They’re filled with battles and wars that we have to fight for our souls and the souls of our loved ones.

This is where fear kicks in. Fear is the opposite of faith and love. And without faith and love, we can’t be with God. So, fear will show you the battle before us and the battle behind us so that we don’t see the lion that is with us. It’s easy for us to feel alone and scared when we have an army standing against us as a giant yells at us, but if we stop and remember the lion standing right next to us, fear wouldn’t have any hold on us. This is what the Israelites forgot. They just left Egypt and saw the mighty hand of God, yet they only saw the Nephilim in the Promised Land. Fear gripped them, and they forgot the God whom they served. They forgot their promise.

We each have a promise from God. This promise doesn’t mean we don’t have to fight the enemy. It doesn’t mean it’ll just happen overnight. Having a promise is our insurance from God that if we step forward to fight, He will do all the heavy lifting. He will clear the way for us because He goes before us. We need only have faith in Him and fight. When we stand, fear will laugh at us and mock us. Fear will tell us lies and try to deceive us, but it will go quiet when the lion roars. So stand strong and have faith. It’s not too late to go to war.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Follow The Untamed Lion.

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Watch How You Live

8 The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but He delights in the prayers of the upright. ~ Proverbs 15:8NLT

In our world today, we love to say that God loves everybody or that Jesus loves everybody as an excuse for us to live in sin, but look at what Scripture says. The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked. Who are the wicked? Any who don’t dwell in His love. So, that means any who dwells in sin over dwelling in righteousness. Look at how Paul puts it:

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:19-23

We can’t live however we want and expect to be okay with God because He loves us. Sure He loves everyone, but we have to dwell in His love. We have to draw a line in the sand and set our minds on the things of God. I’m not saying we fall down or give in to temptation. I’m saying we can’t just give up the good fight. We have to seek God daily through prayer, reading and meditating on His Word, and worship. We have to strengthen our spirits by fasting and denying our flesh, that we might one day hear, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant, enter in.’

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Watch How You Live.

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Hope In The Light

23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep His promise. ~ Hebrews 10:23NLT

The world is only getting more and more evil. There’s war and murder everywhere you look. There seems to be no hope around us as the darkness tries to squash out the light, so what do we do? We hope in the light that can never be overcome.

The light that raises the dead and makes the blind see. The light that came into the world and overcame the world. That is what we hope in, Jesus. We hope in the rock that cannot be shaken nor moved. The rock that holds the world in His hands. We hope in the name of Jesus because it is at His name that all knees will bow and every tongue will confess that He is LORD.

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Stop Eating Poison

26 Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. ~ Hebrews 10:26NLT

So many believe that because Jesus loves them, they can live however they want, but look at what the author of the book of Hebrews writes. If we have received the knowledge of the Truth, or in other words, accepted Jesus’ free gift of salvation and become saved but continue sinning, Jesus’ sacrifice no longer covers any of those sins.

When we accept the Truth, we have to turn from our ways. We can’t remain asleep and dead in our sins. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is Eternal Life. Don’t allow the things of this world to lull you to sleep with a lullaby of lies. Don’t fall into the same trap as Eve found herself in when she fell prey to the Serpent’s false truths. We may not die immediately when we sin after salvation, but the more we do sin, the more we fall into a deeper and deeper spiritual sleep that only leads to death. Wake up, for the fruit of this world is poisoned, and the fruit of God is life.

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Hope in the Cross

18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ~ 1 Corinthians 1:18

Many people mock Christians for our love of the cross. They say Jesus wouldn’t want us to wear or remember His murder weapon, but that wasn’t Jesus’ murder weapon. No one took Jesus’ life from Him; He gave it up freely. The cross isn’t a symbol of tragedy but of victory. If there was no cross, there would be no death, and without Jesus’ death, there could be no resurrection. We would have no hope if it wasn’t for the cross. So, the cross isn’t a horrible, murderous symbol. The cross is the symbol of hope, for it was on the cross that Jesus paid our debt and overcame the world.

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O Death

22 The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. ~ Luke 9:22

For three days and three nights, all hope had seemed to vanish. The Son of God had been crucified and lay dead in a tomb; the world itself darkened without its light. But the story didn’t end there. On that third day, when everything seemed hopeless and bleak, the Son of God rose from the dead, conquering not only sin but death itself.

O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?

We rejoice this Resurrection Sunday (Easter Sunday) because our hope, the Light of the World, is no longer dead. Our God is alive and well. He is seated on His throne in glory and honor. He prepared the way for us. He overcame the entire world, even death, for us. And because He rose from the dead, so shall we. Because death had no power over Him, it shall have no power over us. Because He overcame sin, so shall we overcome sin through Him. All things are now possible for those who believe in the power of the LORD Jesus Christ, for He Was, He Is, and He Is To Come.

He is coming back, but this time it won’t be to die. It’ll be to resurrect us from our dying bodies and then to bring the righteous wrath of God upon those who refused to accept His loving sacrifice.

Oh LORD God, thank You for Your loving sacrifice. Thank You for each stripe on Your back that brought us healing, every piercing and every bruise that brought us forgiveness for our transgressions and iniquities, every chastisement that brought us peace, and especially every drop of blood spilled for it is by Your blood we have been washed clean. Thank You for Your sacrifice. In Jesus’ name, I pray, amen.

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