It's Not So Much What you Think

The Bible is full of encouraging words. It is full of promise for those who believe. It is full of powerful statements for our lives. It is full of God’s plan for our lives.

What we have to do though is turn those statements…those thoughts into reality for ourselves. We must take what was written thousands of years ago and make it a reality for our world today. It is interesting to hear Christians in churches all over talk about God ordering our steps; God’s plan and God’s purpose for our lives, that it is his will for our lives that we are seeking.

Well, it is all laid out for us in a little book called the Bible. We are able to turn all of those promises, all of those powerful statements into reality when we begin to speak what was written for us thousands of years ago. Often we tend to get caught up with speaking what seems reasonable or socially acceptable rather than speaking what is actually the truth from God’s word. And while there are ways of speaking God’s word in a way that can fit the substandard living that many people choose to accept, the truth remains that it is God’s desire that we be blessed and that we live in a way that glorifies God to the world around us. The truth is that all of us who live in America are blessed. From the richest to the poorest…we truly are blessed. But I believe that many, many people settle for a level of blessing that is far less than what God has for them.

The cause can be that people just become complacent and don’t desire to push on any longer. It can be because they don’t want the ridicule that often comes along with trusting God for more…and especially when they are trusting for much more. (Sadly this often comes from other Christians.) Or they don’t want to risk losing what they already have, even though they believe that God has more for them.

The standard isn’t the house you live in or the car you drive…the standard, which we are to measure by, is how are we measuring up against what God has planned for our life. What desires has God placed within you? Take a survey of yourself today and begin to speak aloud the plans that God has for your life…and realize the difference between what is thought and what is spoken.

1 Peter 4:10-11 – “Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. 11If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.”

Have a blessed day,

RodZ

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