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Be Faithful In The Little

10 One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. ~ Luke 16:10

So often, we want God to take us to the next level. We want to move on from the wilderness, but we just keep going around the mountain, so to speak. Why? A lot of times, it’s because God has given us a small test that we continue to fail. Whether it’s a gift that we have yet to used or a person we have yet witnessed to, God can’t take us to the next level until we’ve proven ourselves in the small things.

There’s no skipping levels or responsibilities with God. You have to first be faithful in the little in order to be faithful in much. You have to first drink milk in order to eat meat. You have to grow in the LORD in order to see signs and wonders. There’s much work for us to do here on this earth, don’t miss your current call because you’re too busy looking at where you aren’t. Start where you are and go from there.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be Faithful In The Little.

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Give Out of Your Little

11 And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” 12 And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.” 13 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’” 15 And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days. 16 The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah. ~ 1 Kings 17: 8–16

The majority of us don’t have millions of dollars to spare. In fact, the majority of us don’t have any to spare. The economy is declining, local stores and restaurants are closing all around us. The land and its people are struggling. And because of all of this causes people to feel hopeless. This is similar to the widow of Sidon. She was a widow with a son in the middle of a famine, and she had nothing. She was prepared to bake one last cake, eat with her son, and die.

Imagine that. This woman had given up all hope. She was preparing to die. Hope was completely gone, yet God in His great mercy didn’t leave this widow, who wasn’t even a Jew, hopeless. He sent Elijah to her so that she might have hope. So that she might live and not die. Her faith was like a little ember dying, but God gave her a chance to ignite the flame one more time.

This is where a lot of us are now. We’re without hope. We’re living in a world filled with sin and darkness. There’s a spiritual famine. There’s a huge economical inflation. There’s no hope, and we are preparing to die, yet God is knocking at the door. He’s asking us to give Him whatever it is that we’re holding on to so that He might multiply it. So that He might bless us with a blessing that is of good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Give Out of Your Little.

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Get To The Other Side

3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ~ Romans 5:3-5

Sometimes you have to go through the storm so that you can get to the other side. But once you get out of your storm, don’t take it with you. Don’t carry your storm with you to your place of freedom. To your place of rest. A lot of the time, we are stuck on the anger from our storm that we can’t see the solution that has been given to us. We can’t see the freedom. We can’t see the healing. We can’t see the blessing. We can’t see the change.

But if we let go of the past and we let go of the trials and tribulations, we can grow. We can find hope. Sometimes God allows us to go through difficult times that we might grow in faith and in hope. Because when we are weak, that’s when God is strong. He carries us when we can’t stand on our own two feet. He shows us His love and mercy, especially when everything else seems to be falling apart. So, don’t be discouraged in trials and tribulations; the LORD, your God, is with you. Encourage yourself in His Word, and He will give you strength that you may run the race set before you and not grow weary.

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Speak His Promises

6 And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. ~ 1 Samuel 30:6

Hopelessness and despair had taken over these warriors. Men hardened from the ware of battle broke down and cried because the Amalekites had burned their homes, kidnapped their families, and had stolen all of their wealth.

Each man was sorrowful and grieved in his heart. They saw no hope. They heard no hope. They had no hope. These war-hardened men were in a state of hopelessness, but David, the Bible tells us, encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

I’m here to tell you there is hope. I don’t know what you’re going through; maybe you are dealing with grief like these men were. Maybe you lost a loved one due to COVID19. Maybe the lockdowns and restrictions are getting to you, and you feel hopelessness creeping in.

I’m here to say there is hope. It’s not a cliché. It is the truth. Believe in God, also, believe in Jesus who died for you and who is coming back to get you. These things that we must endure now are only light afflictions when compared to eternity. Remind yourself, if I can only but touch the hem of His garment, that will be enough.

So, encourage yourself in the LORD. Think about these things. For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. If you think I’m healed. You will be healed, but if you think I’m sick and there is nothing that can be done for me, you’ve lost already.

Say:

    • I will live and not die
    • I have salvation in Jesus, because Jesus loves me and He died for me
    • Jesus is coming back for me
    • The God of all creation is interested and cares about little old me

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Speak His Promises.

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Preach Hope

36 When He (Jesus) saw the crowds, He had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. ~ Matthew 9:36

Jesus was preaching and teaching and healing the sick, but when he saw how many of them it was, His heart went out to them because of the harassing spirits and the helplessness of their situation. It is the same today. Not much has changed. People are still harassed. People are still sick. People are even more overwhelmed.

Jesus came to bring hope to the hopelessness, and that’s what we’ve gotta preach. The Hebrew writer said that they put up with all sorts of things because they had a better hope. What better hope than the hope that Jesus offers.

    • The hope of eternal life
    • The hope of no more suffering
    • The hope of no more persecution
    • The hope of no more hardships
    • The hope of reuniting with past loved ones

When Jesus comes, it’ll be a time of blissfulness with no more worries. No more hopelessness. A time of rejoicing and reunions with loved ones and friends that have gone on before. It will be a time of great celebration because God will put all things once and for all under the feet of Jesus.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Preach Hope.

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Hang On Just A Little Bit Longer

3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ~ 2 Timothy 3:1

Perilous times are prophesied for the end time dwellers, and therefore, perilous times are coming. Jesus said that a time of great tribulation such as never was, and never will be again, is coming upon the earth, and I believe it is here now. Or at the very least, it is has begun.

The elect, which is us Christians, will also experience dreadful and trying times; otherwise, God would not have to shorten those days for the elect’s sake. Believe me, when I say those days are upon us now. Look at the world, God is hated, and His people are despised. There are those who are trying to cause chaos in the Church. And those who say that they love Jesus but are secretly servants of Satan and are throwing Christians into confusion and dividing the body of Christ. You can read about it in the news; whole denominations are splitting over matters that were settled centuries, even millenniums ago.

But the good news is, He is watching, He is waiting, and when it becomes too much for His people, He will cut those days short, and He will come and get us and deliver us out of all terrible things. He hasn’t forgotten us. He is not going to leave us to the mercy of the world and the haters of God forever. He loves us.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Hang On Just A Little Bit Longer.

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Share The Love of God

16 But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His immense patience as an example for those who would believe in Him and receive eternal life. ~ 1 Timothy 1:16

Often times when we look at people, we measure their worth based on our flawed beliefs and feelings. We see certain sinners as undeserving of forgiveness because we don’t fully understand the love of God. God’s love shows no partiality. We’re all sinners. We’ve been shown grace that we might be able to lead others to that same grace.

There’s no such thing as too dirty or too much sin for God to redeem. For where sin is, there is even more grace that we might be saved. God’s love doesn’t work the same way ours does. His love is overwhelming, never-ending, and reckless. He doesn’t care whether He has to risk His own life to save us. His only goal is to save us. That’s why there is no sin too great for Him to forgive. He already gave Himself so that we could be saved, regardless of how far we’ve strayed or what we’ve done. His desire is that we might have eternal life.

So, no matter how lowly we think of someone, God sees worth beyond compare. He didn’t die for the righteous; He died for sinners. That includes all sinners, even those we don’t see as worth saving. They’re worth it to God. So, no matter the sin, always share the love of God wherever you go in the hope that all might come to the acceptance of Christ.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Share The Love of God.

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Lulled To Sleep

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. ~ James 1:22-24ESV

So many of us in the Church today were raised in church from childhood. We’ve heard the Bible our entire lives, and to many of us, it’s lulled us to sleep. We’ve forgotten that love we had at first. We’ve gotten so used to grace that we’ve forgotten the price that was paid. We’ve forgotten how much God has done for us and in us.

When we go to church, it’s no longer about growing in Spirit and Truth; it’s become about a religious ritual that we believe will get us into Heaven. The message begins to fall on deaf ears, and we stop growing, becoming complacent we forget who we once were. But it’s not too late to awaken your sleeping spirit. It’s not too late to melt your heart of stone. God has already paid your debt; all you have to do is repent.

Dear LORD God, please forgive me for taking Your Word for granted and for taking advantage of Your grace. Please replace my heart of stone with a heart of flesh and renew a right spirit within me. Awaken my sleeping spirit that I might know You and who You created me to be. In Jesus’ Name, I pray, amen.

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Change For The Better

5 If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, 6 if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, 7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. ~ Jeremiah 7:5-7

First things first. God wants us all to change. But to change for the better. He wants us to be just and fair. Not mean and stingy. Not just to our loved ones, but even to the stranger who isn’t like us. He wants us to show no partiality.

As Christians, we don’t focus on race, ethnicity, nationality, political views, religious views, or anything else that the world tries to divide us with. We love because He first loved us and taught us how to live and love. He told us, do not shed innocent blood (which includes sacrificing our own children), and do not follow other gods (knowingly or unknowingly).

What I mean is this: do not participate in things that are used in the worship of other gods, such as abortion (which is child sacrifice) and yoga (which is synonymous with Eastern religious worship), whether some people accept it or not.

God said, if you do these things (love all people) and keep away from the others (sin and temptation), you will live in His promise. So, I ask you, do you want to live in God’s promises? Of course you do. We all do.

If so, then, today, make a commitment to live in obedience and stay away from rebellion and blatant sin. Dear heavenly Father, I come in reverence seeking Your face and calling upon Your Name. Please forgive me and help me to live my life according to Your great expectations You have made. Thank You, LORD Jesus, for it is in Your name we pray, amen.

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Pure Thoughts

22 Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that He may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. ~ Acts 8:22NIV

Ever heard of the saying, it’s the thought that counts? Well, in this case, when the thinker doesn’t act upon his evil thought, and he doesn’t even allow it to escape his lips. The thought that he allows himself to ponder and build a fantasy from is a transgression against God.

Now, when a thought enters your mind in the form of a temptation, cast it down. Don’t let evil thoughts give birth in your mind. Don’t let temptation infiltrate your imagination. All of our actions stem from our thoughts, so we must control them. We must bring them into submission because our thoughts don’t control us; we control our thoughts.

The LORD, our God, won’t hold anyone guiltless that is consumed by their thoughts. Why? Because it’s a matter of the heart. God wants a pure heart and clean hands so that we might not be a slave to the world. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed, for where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is freedom.

Dear heavenly Father, forgive me from my ungodly thoughts and help me to have pure, holy thoughts. Thoughts of love and kindness. Thank You for cleansing me. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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