Divine Direction Mindset From Our God

You Got Power

They [believers] shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Mark 16:18b

You can lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. Even if you are the one who is sick, you can lay your hands on your body as a believer, and you shall recover!

I flew back to Texas recently, and when I got on the aircraft my body was in pain. The aircraft was extremely cold. It was so cold in that airplane that I wondered if they were storing meat in there! As you can imagine, the cold seemed to magnify the pain I was feeling in my body! I suffered for about an hour on that plane, and then suddenly the light bulb went off in my head! It dawned on me, "I've got the power." So I reached up, and I put my hand on my shoulder and I said, "In the name of Jesus." That pain got out of there. 

 

Believer, you've got the power. You don't need a super spiritual evangelist, bishop, apostle, or so-and-so that comes from out of town so that you can get healed. You've got the power. You don't have to wait on "super spirit" to minister to you. You are a super spirit. You have the dunamis, power of God Almighty, on the inside of you! Why don't you use it? Lay hands on your own head. Lay hands on your own back. Lay hands on your own knees and expect the power to do the job. Don't wait. Don't put up with the sickness, disease, or pain like I did for the first hour on that plane. Lay hands on yourself in the name of Jesus and command your body to be healed. You shall recover.

Prayer for Grace

O holy and majestic God, thank you for your grace that has saved me from sin and has redeemed me from the law of sin and death. Thank you for sending the gift of your Son and the gift of your Spirit so that I can live with you in a covenant of life, grace, and love. While I confess my weaknesses, I also promise you that I will live to honor your sacrifice, love and covenant, trusting that you will ultimately empower me to be what you are calling me to be. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Gods Covenant

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant - not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

 

Thoughts on today's verse

 

A new covenant -- God willingly entered into a new agreement with us, his creatures, sealed it with the blood of his Son Jesus, and sent the Spirit to give us the power to live the life of this new covenant. God has made a covenant of love and grace with us. The Almighty has then turned around and made us worthy and competent to share that covenant with others. Now wonder it is life-giving: it brings life to us and through us!

Know your Stock

 

 

 

Take inventory and see where your forward momentum has stalled.  When you  stop taking ground from the enemy your victory diminishes.  Make a  concerted effort to recover your desire to progress.  I will give you the  wisdom and the strength to do all that is required, says the Lord.  1  Timothy 4:15 Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your  progress may be evident to all.

 

 

Ye Are The Salt

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of
men.     " Matthew 5:13

 

Edmund Burke wrote, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph
is for good men to do nothing." When it comes to the political scene and government, there are some who have dropped out all together. They have the idea that if you get involved in government, somehow that is the "social gospel."  So they've just hunkered down, trying to "hold on till Jesus gets here." They see the political scene as being dirty and worldly. And some have been intimidated by the great debate between church and state.

We can't drop out.  It's impossible to think that God would have ordained government and told His people to stay out.  Who else does that leave to run things?

Others with misguided zeal have tried to bring in the kingdom of God by political machinations. That cannot be done either. So where do we
get the answers?  We're not going to get the answers today from
the politician who may have his personal ax to grind or from the
ungodly and the humanists who don't believe the Word of God, or
from finger-bumping philosophers who don't know the Word of God.
The only place we're going to get the answers, I believe, is
from the Word of God.

We are The salt

 

 

ACTION POINT:

We need to confess and turn from our wicked ways.  We need to speak up and stand up for what is right. Let your speech be seasoned with salt.But stand up, speak up and come out from under the rock. Stand on the rock and speak up for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Cleanse our Hearts

 

 

Righteous Father, please help me guard my heart and be wise enough not to place things into it that would rob it of its devotion to you. I want to be pure through and through. Please search me and help me remove everything that would steal my devotion from you and ruin my influence with others. Through Jesus I pray. Amen.

Cleanse Your Heart with Gods Word

Jeremiah 17:9-10

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? "I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."

 

Thoughts on today's verse

 

Jesus told us that what is in our heart ultimately works its way out into our activities. The great wise man told us to guard our heart because it is the spring well of our life. Jeremiah wants us to know that God knows our heart. We want to stress the importance of what goes into our hearts because it really makes a difference in what goes on inside our heart. Invite the Lord in to what you do, think, read, watch, and hear and ask him to remove those things that are not worthy of your time and interest.

It Starts with Family

 

 

Righteous Father, please help me guard my heart and be wise enough not to place things into it that would rob it of its devotion to you. I want to be pure through and through. Please search me and help me remove everything that would steal my devotion from you and ruin my influence with others. Through Jesus I pray. Amen.

What's the Point

 

 Proverbs 21
"The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poToday we ask ourselves: What is the point of diligence? Why keep persevering in a task? I'll tell you why. It is because it is in the arena of perseverance that true character is forged out, shaped, tempered and polished. It is in the daily grind that the character of Jesus is given the maximum opportunity to be reproduced in us, replacing what Charles Swindoll calls that "thin, fragile internal theology with a tough reliable set of convictions that enable us to handle life rather than escape from it."

Listen to how the apostle Paul puts it in Romans 5:3-4: "We also rejoice in our sufferings, [why?] because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope." Because life is a task, we need strength to face it, not speed to escape from it.

When the foundations shake beneath our feet, when Christian friends, even leaders, fall into immorality, when the anchor points of civilization disappear, when the bottom drops out and brutal blows push us up against the ropes and pound the very life out of us, we need what diligence and perseverance offer us - willingness to face whatever comes, determination to stand firm, knowing that Christ is not just with us but in us, insight to see the Lord's hand in everything and character enough to continue.

Without diligence, we will stumble and fall. With it, we will survive and conquer. The astute of this world are wise enough to recognize that no advances can be made in life without diligence. How much more ought we, who name the Name of Christ and have Him living within us, to recognize this also?verty." (v.5)