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Obedience

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may live -Deuteronomy 30:19.

God created us with a free will.  This means that we have the choice to choose whether or not we will submit ourselves to God and His Word or choose to live life the way we desire.  God has the heart of a father and He yearns for His children to be blessed this is why He has given us instructions through His written Word.

In order to know God you must have a relationship with Him. This comes through reading, studying and submitting to His written instructions for professing Christians. Talk with Him daily through prayer and just talking to Him as your Father and friend. Tell Him about your day, tell Him what bothers you, this is building a relationship.

Your obedience to God’s Word will not only be a blessing to you, but also for your children as well as you household. God is faithful and can’t lie, what He promise that will He do. Cover your children and spouse with prayer, instruct them in the Word of God, don’t quote Scripture and then don’t live by them.

Read and study the Bible, adhere to its instructions and see and receive God’s blessings for you and your family. Disobedience will take the hedge of protection God gives to those who submit to His instructions. God’s blessings comes with enjoyment, Satan blessings will come with torement after you receive them for a length of time.  Your obedience is your insurance policy to be with the Lord when death comes to your door,there is life after death, and you don’t want to wakeup in the burning section!

Confronting Anxieties

Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. (Philippians  4:6)

Webster Dictionary defines anxiety as worry or uneasiness about what may happen.  An eager but uneasy desire, concern or fear.  Sometimes life can bring so many challenges and issues at once it will bring about anxiety and especially if you don’t have a relationship with the Father and Son, and even then somtimes rather than living by faith, we live by our emotions. Christianity doesn’t exempt life challenges issues, but it does exempt the Christian from failure and defeat.

Your situation maybe so over-powering it may appear you will not come out of it alive, and in some cases sickness prevailed over healing, but the individual wasn’t defeated if he or she was a true Christian. They will be with the Lord (We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord – 2nd Corinthians 5:8). The Lord rejoices over the death of the saints (Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints – Psalm 116:15). So whether we live or die as a true Christians, death nor Satan has the victory.

Satan bombards our thoughts that does not line up with the Word of God. Fear, unbelief, anxieties does not come from God. Satan oppresses the believer bringing about depression. As long as there is life in your body, God has a way and set time to bring you out of your dilemma. As Christians we must guard our eyes and ears of what we see and hear. If you’re only placing all the things that’s hapening in the News Media, you will open a door for Satan to oppress and depress. Just as the body needs vitamins and nutritions to stay healthy, the heart and spirit needs spiritual food to stay spiritual healthy.  Feed your heart and spirit with the Word of God, read books by authors you’re familiar with that will not dilute the Word of God.

Satan attacks Christians in their minds to try to hinder and block them from completing their assignments. Don’t wait for the attack; keep you heart and mind filled with the Word of God so when the attack occur you will have ammunition to fight. Stop allowing Satan to defeat you in your mind, you are the victor not the victim (Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us – Romans 8:37).

God’s Promises

2nd Corinthians 1:20 – For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of  God by us.

Promise – An agreement to do or not do something.

Throughout the Bible, God has given promises to the believer as well as the unbeliever. The believers are those that have been born of God’s Spirit.  I say born-again, because in today’s society, the majority of the people you ask are they a believer or saved,  the answer would be yes. The problem with this is that their, life-style and character is not reflecting the Bible. Whether we’re a believer or an unbeliever, God has given promises for both.

As  Christians, we have to study the Word of God to understand what the promises are, and then stand on the promise no matter what it looks like. Just as God has made promises, you can count on Satan to hinder, block or keep you from receiving your promise. Read More