In a world that everything has become acceptable and blindly tolerable, you must decide and take a stand for what is permissible for you. Be true to yourself by choosing the only standard that will bring a favorable eternal outcome. Being true to yourself means being honest in your own heart. If you are not up to par in your walk with God then just admit it then make the adjustments and grow up and move forward. We all know it is miserable to be out of the will of God. Many times you can see the distress and void on people’s faces. They pretend to be having a good time (spiritually and naturally). They smile yet all the while they are kicking against the pricks of their God given destiny. They try to engage in vain amusements and mind cluttering activities so they won’t have to think about the sorrow and emptiness that press daily on their hearts.

Being true to one self means to stop the facade and get off the roller coaster of worldliness. It means getting down to business with you. It means pointing your own finger in your own face and saying stop, no more pretenses, it’s all or nothing, I chose to go forward.

Being true to yourself means staying with your decision to obey God no matter what anybody else chooses to do.

Being true to yourself means stepping back and letting God take the lead in your life. We can do nothing without God yet we can do all things through Him.

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Purpose defined:

• The reason for which something exists or for which it has been done or made.

• The desire or the resolve necessary to accomplish a goal.

Why are you here? Who told you to come? What are you doing now that you are here? How will this life end for you in victory, surrender or defeat? Will you finish you course in obedience to God or selfish retreat? Do you know the purpose for which you were born? What are you doing today to help fulfill God’s purpose for your life?

Ecclesiastes 3:2

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 

Prevailing Purpose will make you get up out of bed, slam the door to mediocrity and uncover every scorpion and serpent and begin to tread.

Purpose will help you look defeat in the face and declare I’m not going backward but full force ahead! Go Head, Go Head, Go Head!

Purpose will punch out pride and only let humility ride.

Purpose will embrace grace and excuse self-will from its high and lofty place.

Prevailing purpose will cause a man/woman who is tempted with an adulterous affair to laugh right in the devils face, step on his head without losing step or pace in his race.

Purpose pursues with passion, fervor and determination to always win. Purpose is never slothful or lazy but working while it is yet day with a confident joyful grin.

Purpose is peaceful, practical and power packed. Purpose stays plugged in through intercession and various kinds of prayer, picking up the slack, staying on track, never looking back.

Purpose travels with only the necessary equipment to get the job done, no heavy baggage, no weights, free-loader or bums.

Purpose will ignore the need to compete; it pulls down thoughts of jealousy, envy and strife. Purpose pursues only the good life.

Purpose shuns the pull from darkness to worry, fret or dread. Purpose is strengthened by Love that is alive, not dead.

In Prevailing Purpose there is no fear, only mercy as we draw near and yield our ear to the voice of the Good Shepherd.

Romans 8:27 (AMP)

We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.

God’s Divine Prevailing Purposes for your life awaiting your , “Yes Lord, I’ll obey, amen!”

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Sometimes we can get hungry at the strangest times, like in the middle of the night or close to bedtime. There you sit minding your own business getting ready to retire for the night and Bam, your stomach begins to growl. You think to yourself, surely I couldn’t be hungry I just ate 4 hours ago. However your body is now crying out and demanding to be fed. What do you do, feed it or deny it?

This can also apply to our spirit man. Our spirit has the same or many times a greater demand for nourishment then our physical bodies. When our bodies are active, many times they require and demand more calories, kind of like supply and demand. When you expend spiritual energy so to speak you require more spiritual food to maintain soundness and effectiveness. When you are spiritually active it is not unusual for your spirit to wake your mind and body in the middle of the night for a late night Hallelujah snack. What do you do, feed it or deny it?

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Psalms 31:20

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Today let us dive into the revealed word the Holy Spirit has for us concerning the protection God gives us from the strife of tongues.

We know and are confident that God is our strength, a very present help in times of trouble. God is our protector no matter what the attack but we must endeavor to remain in our place of safety.

Protector defined:

• Somebody who protects or defends somebody or something.

God is not just another form of protection for the Christian who; trusts, relies on and depends on Him. He is our only source of protection. Many times people like to have a little something on the side just in case God doesn’t follow through on His promise to protect them. Well, that’s unbelief. God will always come through for us, He is not a man that He should lie.

The word of God speaks loudly to us from Psalms 31:20 that God will keep us or protect us from the strife of tongues. Now, that doesn’t mean you will never hear anyone talk bad about you or lie on you or gossip about you or think and speak evil of you. Yes, these forms of persecution will come, but God is saying, “I won’t let those words harm you.” Words are carriers; they can contain life or death, blessing or cursing. The scriptures tell us that the power of life and death are in the tongue. God speaks words of life, Jesus said his words are spirit and they are life. The devil on the other hand speaks words of death and destruction.

Strife defined:

• Bitter and sometimes violent conflict, struggle, or rivalry.

The devil lives to release words of strife. Strife robs and steals the joys of each new day.

Hebrews 12:15 declares, “Exercise foresight and be on the watch to look [after one another], to see that no one falls back from and fails to secure God’s grace (His unmerited favor and spiritual blessing), in order that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred) shoots forth and causes trouble and bitter torment, and the many become contaminated and defiled by it–.”

The enemy sends words of strife or bitterness to defile you. He wants to corrupt your pure minds. Seeds of bitterness that are planted in the soil of a person’s heart will wage war on their soul. These words will seek to shut down the progress of the word of God in their lives. Words of bitterness will cause conflict in your mind, will and emotions, seeking to abort the process of transformation. It will soon permeate through you to others causing arguments, discord and all kinds of trouble. It will seek to thwart every relationship in your life; your marriage, children, employer, neighbors, extended family.

But God has promised to hide us from the effects and poison of the strife of tongues. The devil will release this weapon against you but it won’t prosper. The words will fall to the ground ineffective and powerless against you. These words of strife can never penetrate God’s shield of protection. You will be inaccessible to their bite. However, in order to benefit from God’s protection we must do our part and stay in the secret of His presence. We cannot try to venture out on our own and seek to correct the situation. We must stay hidden in Christ. It doesn’t matter what people are saying about you, don’t let it get to you. Just stay in your protection. The enemy will try to lure you out through your five physical senses or your untrained emotions. You may say, “But they hurt my feelings,” that’s because you was peeking out and you let that evil dart scratch your skin and some poison slipped in. You need to get back into the secret place of God’s presences, letting Him heal and conceal you. Don’t yield to the temptation to be nosey, “Wonder what they are saying about me.” This will only draw you out of your secret place of protection.

Just sit down in God’s presence and rest. He will protect and shelter you through the test.

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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 tread. 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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Genesis 1:11

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so

God created fruit trees to yield fruit after its kind. The fruit trees seed is within itself. A seed is a very significant part of a plant. Seeds have everything they will ever become within its self. Roots are produced and come forth out of the seed and anchor the entire plant or tree.

Root defined:

• The part of a plant that has no leaves or buds and usually spreads underground, anchoring the plant and absorbing water and nutrients from the soil.

Jesus said, “For there is no good (healthy) tree that bears decayed (worthless, stale) fruit, nor on the other hand does a decayed (worthless, sickly) tree bear good fruit. For each tree is known and identified by its own fruit; for figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor is a cluster of grapes picked from a bramblebush. The upright (honorable, intrinsically good) man out of the good treasure [stored] in his heart produces what is upright (honorable and intrinsically good), and the evil man out of the evil storehouse brings forth that which is depraved (wicked and intrinsically evil); for out of the abundance (overflow) of the heart his mouth speaks. (Luke 6:43-45 AMP).

Words are seeds and are impregnated with life or death. Once spoken they quickly look for soil to begin germination and root permeation. The seed must be watered and nurtured in order for the shell of the seed to be broken to let the inner life of the seed come out. The seed will only produce what is in it, no surprises, oops or mistakes, it is what it is. If we have undesirable fruit in our lives it is because somewhere along the way a seed was sown that contained the results you now see. The roots of the seed is what sustains the whole plant, if the roots are destroyed the plant will die. God told Jeremiah that He put His words in his mouth to root out, pull down, destroy and throw down, but also to build and plant. God’s word is the only thing qualified to uproot seeds of death and destruction, yet at the same time build and plant the good will of God.

So begin to be selective about the words or seeds you allow to be planted in your heart and mind because they will produce a harvest; good or bad.

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Mark 5:19

Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. 

There was a saying years ago that said, “Home is where the heart is.” Home is a place of comfort and security for many people. Home is a place of tradition and familiarity. Home is a place that is embedded with natural feelings and human attachment and acceptance. Home reminds us of our natural lineage and place of firsts and beginnings. Home should represent a place of trust and safety. Home is a place where people feel like they belong.

In the bible account above Jesus told a man who was previously possessed with many devils and ostracized from his home, family and friends, to go home. Obviously this man had friends and family before he became tormented by this multitude of devils that inhabited him. Jesus said go home to thy friends and tell them the great things the Lord has done for you (paraphrasing mine). Home should be a place that we share the love of God. Home should be a place where we exalt and esteem the Lord, telling friends and family the great things He has done for us. If anybody should be able to recognize the transformation in your life it should be close friends and family who knew you then (before Christ) and see you now (after salvation). Be bold to tell those at home the great things the Lord has done for you and how He has had compassion on you.

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Mark 5:19

Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. 

There was a saying years ago that said, “Home is where the heart is.” Home is a place of comfort and security for many people. Home is a place of tradition and familiarity. Home is a place that is embedded with natural feelings and human attachment and acceptance. Home reminds us of our natural lineage and place of firsts and beginnings. Home should represent a place of trust and safety. Home is a place where people feel like they belong.

In the bible account above Jesus told a man who was previously possessed with many devils and ostracized from his home, family and friends, to go home. Obviously this man had friends and family before he became tormented by this multitude of devils that inhabited him. Jesus said go home to thy friends and tell them the great things the Lord has done for you (paraphrasing mine). Home should be a place that we share the love of God. Home should be a place where we exalt and esteem the Lord, telling friends and family the great things He has done for us. If anybody should be able to recognize the transformation in your life it should be close friends and family who knew you then (before Christ) and see you now (after salvation). Be bold to tell those at home the great things the Lord has done for you and how He has had compassion on you.

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