E-Mail (E-ternal mail)

E-mail (E-ternal Mail)

Eternal defined:

• lasting for all time without beginning or end

You have mail! Eternal -mail.

There are messages from God to you that you need to open. God has direction, correction, instruction, strategies, ideas, comfort, encouragement and the list goes on and on.

Revelations 2:29

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

What God has to say to you is not your average small talk conversation. He has eternal things to say. He has life changing things to say. His words are spirit and life. It is vital that you open your e-mail daily. Don’t just let His message to you sit in your inbox for weeks on end. Wake up every morning with great enthusiasm and delight as you log in, through worship and praise. You must beware of the pop-ups that seek to distract your attention. Stay online until you receive your e-mail from the Father. Be mindful of things He has to say as you continue throughout your day and remember eternal things never go away.

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BE IT UNTO ME

Luke 1:37-38

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

“Be it unto me according to thy word,” are not the words that come from a luke warm heart. The heart that utters with all sincerity and fervor, God I want what you want, no matter what you say that’s what I want Lord, this is a surrendered heart. In this heart flows genuine love and adoration. This is not a selfish heart. A selfish heart prevents divine purpose. A selfish hearts says what’s in it for me. A selfish heart hesitates and procrastinates, the call to true purpose.

A heart that trusts God is prompt to yield to His Word no matter how inconvenient it may appear yo be. A heart that trusts God is sensitive to the desires and ways of God, always seeking out ways to please Him. A heart that seeks to please God is neither a crowd pleaser nor a flesher teaser.

Be it unto me according to your word,” are not words of the weary and faint of heart but words of covenant keepers, promise finders and destiny seekers. They are words of faith!

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WATCH YOUR STEP

Psalms 17:5

Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

It is so important to watch your steps when taking a walk. There are many things on various paths that are undesirable for one’s feet to land on. Have you ever been walking in grass and was not particularly paying attention to where your foot was landing and all of a sudden, oops, you are conscious of something mushy, with a foul odor peeping from underneath your shoes, manure, yuck. Now you have this awful smell on you all the way home. Perhaps you have experienced the dramatic occurence of walking on a freshly mopped floor and suddenly without notice … BAM; you’re on your back staring at the ceiling from the floor. Ouch!

It is very apparent from just these two scenarios that one must be very alert when walking. If walking in the natural can expose a person to dangerous, unsuspecting terrains, how much more spiritually.

It is very obvious though, how these unfortunate mishaps could have been avoided.

We must keep ourselves spiritually alert as well as physically alert to avoid traps and snares of the flesh, world and the devil. God did not intend for Christians to walk around haphazardly not watching where they are stepping or going. God has equipped us with divine insight and discernment so that are steps are accurate and sure. However, we must remain alert and sensitive to His voice and follow closely to His instructions. God gave us the Holy Spirit to guide us in all truth; He will never lead us into a mess or distress. Does that mean that ever path God leads us down will be loaded with roses and fun things? No, however, you can always rest assured that wherever God leads you, He has already gone before you to prepare the way so that nothing shall by any means harm you.

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NO MORE SMOKE SCREENS OR FOG MACHINES

Ephesians 5:15-17

 Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people),

Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil.

Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is.

 How can we as Christian live accurately? The word accurate implies being precise, exact, true, perfect and correct. To some these words may seem overwhelming. Thoughts may arise in their minds, “But I’m not perfect, nobody is. How can God expect this of me?”

Rest assured, God will never ask you to do something that He has not already equipped you to do. God is a just God. God is never unfair. He will never burden His children with impossible task or unattainable life goals and unreachable destinies. Everything God requires of you is fully attainable because of who and what He has placed in you. God has given us His Word (the Bible) and His Spirit (the Holy Ghost) so that we can live purposefully, accurately and worthily. The Holy Spirit lives on the inside of every believer to guide and lead us through the course in this life that God has individually chosen for us. He will never leave or forsake us.

John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

That word Comforter means helper. The Holy Spirit is with you to help you live accurately. If you will cooperate with Him, He will always lead you into the perfect will of God and help you fulfill exactly what the Father’s will is for your life.

The above scripture warns us not to live vague. That word vague speaks of being hazy, unclear and blurred. Have you ever tried walking around town with blurred or impaired vision? It’s very easy to stumble and fall when you can’t see properly. The scriptures declare that your future is bright not hazy. God has given us spiritual insight and revelation so that we can see beyond the flesh, the world and the devils smoke screens and fog machines.

Through the prophet Habakkuk God reveals to us how we can know the will of God. Listen.

Chapter2:1-3

[OH, I know, I have been rash to talk out plainly this way to God!] I will [in my thinking] stand upon my post of observation and station myself on the tower or fortress, and will watch to see what He will say within me and what answer I will make [as His mouthpiece] to the perplexities of my complaint against Him. And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision and engrave it so plainly upon tablets that everyone who passes may [be able to] read [it easily and quickly] as he hastens by. For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end [fulfillment]; it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait [earnestly] for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day.

Habakkuk had purposed to position himself to hear what God had to say to him. God did not disappoint or become angry with Habakkuk because he wanted answers concerning his future. God wants to show every believer great and mighty things (Jeremiah 33:1-3) but we must be still and position ourselves to hear. Once we have gotten instruction from God we can then go forward to live a life accurately, worthily and purposefully before Him. Don’t wander through life with unanswered questions concerning your destiny take the time to get the right answers from the one who knows, God!

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DRAW NEAR TO HIM

Matthew 11:28-30 (AMP)

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]

Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.

For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good–not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.

The Lord wants daily fellowship and communion with us. However, God will not intrude or crash down the door of our hearts to make us fellowship with Him. He will not compete with the clamor of this world for your attention. God is with us and dwells in every believer in Christ. We must draw near to Him and seek Him. We must desire communion with Him.

The world is speaking and calling for our attention every day. It seeks to distract and allure you away from your God given purpose. The flesh, the world and the devil screams for your attention 24/7. There are things designed to capture you attention and your interest, in an attempt to pull your heart and devotion toward it and away from God. Don’t surrender to its sway.

God has a purpose for your life but it will only be fulfilled as we closely follow Him. God does not seek to draw your attention through the lust of the eye. He will quietly appeal to your spirit. The scripture reveals to us that the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. God will lead and guide us through our born-again spirits. But this happens only as we yield to Him, He will not force us to come to Him.

Purpose in your heart to diligently seek the Lord every day. Turn your attention several times throughout the day to Him and cultivate your devotion and fellowship with Him.

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SOMEONE IS WATCHING YOU

1 Timothy 4:12 (AMP)

Let no one despise or think less of you because of your youth, but be an example (pattern) for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.

Example defined:

• A person, action, or thing taken as a model to be copied or avoided by others.

• Something that is representative by virtue of having typical features of the thing it represents.

Christians are to be representatives of heaven. We are Ambassadors for the Kingdom of God. Our life should be patterned according to the standards revealed to us in God’s Word. We should seek to live a life that someone else would want to emulate.

Paul instructed Timothy in the scripture above to be an example in five areas;

• Speech

• Conduct

• Love

• Faith

• Purity

All of these things can be visibly seen or heard by other believers and unbelievers. People are watching the way you live and they should. We are the Light of the World. Jesus invested too much for our light to be hid under a bushel.

The example you live before others can affect people’s lives for generations. Let us briefly examine our lives in the five areas mentioned above.

Speech – What am I saying from my mouth in front of others that I would want them to repeat?

Conduct– What behaviors, attitudes or habits do I consistently display before others and am I willing to mentor others in these same behaviors, attitudes and habits?

Love– Is my life an example of the love of God for others to see and hear?

Faith– The scripture mentions on a number of occasions that Jesus saw people’s faith. Can your faith be seen and followed by others as an example of true faith in God.

Purity– Is your life an example of Godly purity?

Someone is watching you. What do they see? Whose mirror will you be? Endeavor to live a life that you would want to see imitated in the people most precious to you.

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WHERE ARE MY KEYS?

Matthew 16:19

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Where are my keys? Have you ever ask that question to someone or even to yourself?

Keys are a very important part of most peoples everyday life. Keys are something that we use on a daily basis.

Keys defined:

  • a way or means of achieving something
  • a device that operates a door or lock

Keys help us access vital ingredients for life long success. There are doors in many peoples lives that await opening. Doors that lead to Divine destinies.

A door is locked to either keep someone or something out or to keep them in. However, when you are the one who possesses the key to the door, the door is not seen as an obstacle. The one who possesses the key has authority. Doors are only obstacles to people who don’t possess the key.

Frustration comes when we misplace our keys. We know we had them but let them slip out of our sight. We search and search for them because we realize we can not go anywhere without them. Many times when people loses their keys they appear frantic and anxious. They hurry around back tracking everywhere they may have been and disrupting everything else from it’s place in an attempt to find them. They quickly recruit other people to stop what they are doing an insist that they help them find the lost keys.

Keys are very significant depending on what they lock or unlock. We must value the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven enough to make sure we know where they are at all times and that we use them to help us have total life success.

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POWERLESS GHOST

Isaiah 26:13-14

 O Lord, our God, other masters besides You have ruled over us, but we will acknowledge and mention Your name only.

They [the former tyrant masters] are dead, they shall not live and reappear; they are powerless ghosts, they shall not rise and come back. Therefore You have visited and made an end of them and caused every memory of them [every trace of their supremacy] to perish.

 The things of your past are powerless against your future unless you choose to give life to them in your today.

Ghost can be defined as an entity that seems to exist but does not. It can be something that has died but only lives in memory. Whatever ruled over you yesterday has no power over you today. Christ has set you free! Receive that freedom by confessing your trust in His unfailing love for you and in you. The images of your past are no match against the power of God’s Word that is at work in you today. Going backward is not an option for you anymore, so take the sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God and let it begin demolition on every thought and imagination that does not agree with God’s plan for your life.

So go ahead live life to its fullest, enjoy the blessing of freedom and celebrate Gods victory in you today!

 

2 Corinthians 10:4-6

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds 😉 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

 

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GOD DESERVES 100%

Colossians 3:1 (AMP)

 And whatever you do [no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in [dependence upon] His Person, giving praise to God the Father through Him.

 God deserves 100% of our loyalty. He is worthy of our best service and worship.

Sometimes when you sweep a floor there is a small amount of dust or dirt that sometimes refuses to sweep into the dust pan. Have you ever swept that small amount of dirt under a rug because it was so small you thought, “Oh nobody will see it anyway.” What you felt to be insignificant was an indication of your work ethic and integrity.

Sometimes people tend to not do their best work when they think no one is looking.

 Pretense defined:

• something done or a way of behaving that is not genuine, but is intended to deceive somebody

 Words that are similar to pretense: charade, sham, façade, make-believe, deceit, deception and simulation.

Whatever we do in word or in deed even when we think they are trivial we are to do them in the name of the Lord and for Him. We should always live everyday with the understanding, God is with me. Wherever I go and whatever I do, He is present. We should seek the honor that comes from God and not the honor of man.

Refuse to do anything in pretense. God loves you no matter what others think about you. Live to please Him.

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PACE YOURSELF

1Corinthian 9:24-25

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

In the Olympics, there are various types of races. They range from short sprints to marathon style long distances. In every race the runner must determine the pace that will help him/her win that race. Many factors may influence the pace of any particular race. For instance, the speed of the other runners you are running with can greatly influence your pace, that’s if you want to win.

The environmental temperatures and wind direction can also influence your pace. But whatever conditions you find yourself running your race in, be determined to win. Many people settle to just finish, they have given up on mastering their course. They resolve to just make it across the finish line. Everyone who crosses the finish line in an Olympic race does not receive a prize.

God desires for us to master our course in life and not to allow our course to master us. We should not expect to cross our heavenly finish line all beat up, barely making it, just making it in by a thread. We should see ourselves running full force until the end, strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. We must see ourselves crossing that finish line full of joy and victory.

There maybe times that you have to pace yourself for a sprint and at other times a marathon but whatever the pace be determined to win your race!

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