Category: Devotions

I promise to tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth, so help me God

 

"Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place."  Psalm 51:6

 

Evening!  I don't know what's going on with me, but I can't go to sleep on time.  Especially tonight, because I had not taken the time to write my devotion.  I had an experience earlier with God.  As most of you know, I want to move.  I am actually at a crossroads because there is so much I want and feel I need to be doing, but I don't know where to start.  So its October 29, and mind you, my lease is up in the apartment I live in right now in December.  I am trying to find a more reasonable place so that I can save some money before I leave here in the summer.  So I had been looking online for apartments and places I would go look at.  I looked and remember I found a townhouse complex right off the marshes of the river down from where I live now.  The prices weren't too bad so I went to look.  For some reason, instead of making all the stops I had planned to make, I just listened to the voice in my head and went ahead.  Now confirmation is a crazy thing.  I fasted last week and came to my discovery this week.  I am going to go to school.  I looked up schools on Tuesday, recruited at a college for work yesterday–and one school I looked at was at the career fair and another that I had not looked up in Atlanta where I am looking to possibly go for school was there.  I usually have three signs before I accept something, so that was two.  The third came today.  So I arrived at the complex around 5:00; in our email conversation I had confused the days, but wasn't sure the leasing agent had gotten my reply.  So once I got there, something just lead me to talk with her.  She showed me the two floor plans I was looking at and then we went back to the office.  Everyone tells me I have the gift of gab (Smile!) and can talk to anyone.  So before I knew it, she sensed my burdens and prayed for me.  I could not fight the tears and just started crying.  It seemed like in the midst of her prayers, my every concern she addressed and it seemed as she was talking to me that God himself was speaking to me.  So my third sign of confirmation was that she teaches a women's bible study and is a Women's Counselor–addressing to an extent two of the things that I feel I am being called to do–teach and inspire God's people and help deliver their burdens to God–ministry and counseling.  I can honestly say right now that I feel everything I was concerned about and the source of my weariness were lifted.  And because I know the truth of God's word, I know that everything will be revealed to me in due time.  Now the issue of finding another apartment just in case…not quite settled. 😛

 

What is the truth?  The truth is, that God is real (Acts 17:28), that Jesus is His son (Matthew 3:17, Mark 1:11), that Jesus was sent to give all of us salvation and redemption (1 Peter 3:18), that we will be born again and live eternally with God and Jesus if we accept Him (John 3:14-15, John 3:36).  God wants to carry our burdens (Matthew 11:28) and help make this journey easy for us.  There are also other truths.  One truth that we all try to avoid is that if we sin God will automatically forgive us if we are saved.  We must repent.  Some like to believe that the devil is not real and that God does not exist.(Psalm 14:1)  He wants us to believe that God does not care about us.  The truth in this is that this is the devil's goal, to get us to discount God's power and elevate him so that he can ultimately destroy us through our fleshly desires.(John 8:44, 2 Timothy 2:25-26)  He wants to be like God and have God's power; what better way then through denying us or convincing us that God's law is not true?

 

Sometimes the biggest mistake you can make is ignoring the opportunity to witness to someone else the truth of God.  You may never get another chance to shine God's life into that person's life.  If you love your family, share the truth of God with them.(1 John 3:18)  Share with them what God has done in your life.  Enlighten them with the wisdom of your heart and truly love them the way God loves you.(1 Peter 1:22)  I do not say that it will be easy always.  But No weapon formed against us shall prosper and we can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens us!(Isaiah 54:17, Philippians 4:13)  God loved us enough to allow Christ to die for us to have the truth!(John 3:16)

 

I love you!

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.  Ephesians 6:14-15

Sowing Seeds of the Word

 

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.  And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.  Galatians 6:8,9

 

OMG!  People I am soo filled right now.  I stand (well write lol) before you right now and I will honestly work on my words.  I am going to paste this scripture on my desk, in my car, and in my house: "Let's not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest-if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9(ISV)  I ask you to do the same.  The bible study sermon has just renewed me!  I have no doubt in my mind that words are powerful, and because I speak them that have no choice but to bring forth a good harvest in me!

 

Everything we do or say has a consequence.  Webster's has four definitions, with the second defining consequence as: something produced by a cause or necessarily following from a set of conditions.  Basically they are just the results.  When we say "oh I don't feel good" or "I'm gonna be broke" we plant seeds that causes our minds to harvest that result.  Or from a bad context, if all your life, people have told you that you wouldn't be anything, you wouldn't amount to anything, or you are going to end up with nothing, you may eventually believe it.  I remember being told that I would be like some of my supposedly weaker family members when I was little and how it hurt me.  I always told myself afterwards that I'm not them and I will be who I want to be–better yet, who God wants me to be.  I heard this a while ago and have been working on it; in fact I've gotten pretty good–I have my scriptures at my desk and around my apartment to reaffirm positive thinking and alignment with the Word of God.  But sometimes we are so caught up in our circumstances–and yes I have been there, my own doubt and the devil dragged me there these last few months–that we ignore the truth.  Speak the truth!  You have to sow good seed in your own garden because sometimes even your own family will plant weeds there.  The enemy will use whomever he can to destroy you–just like weeds destroy gardens and grass.

 

When we are saved, we confess with our mouths that Jesus is our Lord and Savior.(Matthew 10:32, Romans 10:9)  And from then on, we are Believers.  So whats so different about confessing the word; we confessed our belief in Jesus Christ but do not confess our belief in His word?  What is so different about speaking life, health, and prosperity over ourselves?  As Christians, we are to believe the Word and message that God revealed through Christ and use it to reaffirm our faith.  "Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God." 1 Peter 1:21  And if we ask God for something in prayer, why do we not believe it?  Because it does not happen when we want?

 

We sow prosperity when we speak prosperity.  We sow life and health when we speak them.  The Bible is like a box of seeds.  If we plant the right ones, we can expect to harvest the right plants.  In Luke 11:28, Jesus says blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.  You hear the word when YOU SPEAK IT.  You plant it in your heart when you confess it.  Can you expect the good consequences of hearing the Word if you don't speak it?  I can help you look up scriptures or give you some of the ones I recite and listen to(I recorded them on my phone lol).  You can only expect a great a harvest as the one you sow.  Plants grow by giving them good, fertile soil (your heart), by being fed and watered(speaking, meditating, hearing, and confessing), and with love(loving God and trusting Him).

 

I just read something powerful.  1 Corinthians 15:36 says "You fool! The seed you plant doesn't come to life unless it dies first."  Its kinda like grass.  When you lay down new grass, in order to seed and take root, the grass dies first. But in the seed dying, in its ripping apart and destruction, out springs a root–a new body, a root to grow and become another plant that can bear a lot of fruit.(1 Corinthians15:37-38)  Likewise, if you plant the seed of the Word, it may seem like death to you in the amount of time it takes for a harvest to come forth.  But that seed has to die to be reborn in you–create a new you, with a different way of thinking and looking at things; die to yourself–to bring forth the type of thought life God needs to create your harvest.

 

Good night and be blessed!  Start speaking!  Sorry for the length just got caught up!!