Our Mission To love all people at all times and lead them into a new life in Christ.
Our Vision To be a church that will be multicultural and generational, having a lasting impact on the people to whom we minister.
To see the gospel extend beyond the walls of our church through various outreaches.
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God’s Love Isn’t a Reward
“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Matthew 7:9-11
I don’t stop loving or providing for my children if they have been naughty, rebellious, or disobedient. My love and forgiveness for them are unconditional. If I refused to love, forgive, or provide for my children when they were disobedient or rebellious, I would be a negligent and abusive parent. As much as I love my children, it doesn’t even come close to how much God loves His children!
Being loved by God isn’t a reward for good behavior. Rather, it’s a revelation of His heart that reveals His character and nature toward you.
Our character is shaped, molded, and transformed when we experience God’s character toward us.
Ed Elliot
God’s Love Isn’t a Reward
“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Matthew 7:9-11
I don’t stop loving or providing for my children if they have been naughty, rebellious, or disobedient. My love and forgiveness for them are unconditional. If I refused to love, forgive, or provide for my children when they were disobedient or rebellious, I would be a negligent and abusive parent. As much as I love my children, it doesn’t even come close to how much God loves His children!
Being loved by God isn’t a reward for good behavior. Rather, it’s a revelation of His heart that reveals His character and nature toward you.
Our character is shaped, molded, and transformed when we experience God’s character toward us.
Ed Elliot
Be a Witness, Not a Judge
And when he comes, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.”
John 16:8
It is the ministry of the Holy Spirit to reprove sin, righteousness, and judgment. It is not our ministry. We are simply witnesses. A witness is not the judge or the jury. A witness simply relates what he has experienced, thereby providing evidence to the truth of something. We are to witness in word and deed, to the truth of Jesus being alive in us and let God be the one who convicts. We are simply to testify to what has happened to us.
Some people, in their zeal, have gone beyond the witness stage and have tried to bring people under conviction themselves. This is assuming the job that belongs to the Holy Spirit alone. This not only frustrates the witness but it drives many people away from God. We make a very poor Holy Spirit; therefore, we should stick to our job of being a witness and let the Holy Spirit do His job.
Jesus specified an orderly progression in the way we should witness. First we start in Jerusalem (i.e. where we are). Then we go to those nearby (Judaea).
Finally, we take the gospel to every religious and racial group (Samaria) throughout the whole world.
There are some very practical reasons for becoming witnesses in this way.
Jesus testified that a prophet is honored everywhere except in his home town among his family and friends. Typically, at home is the hardest place to witness. Starting with those who know us best will cause us to humble ourselves and give God all the glory. Also, if rejection comes, this tempers us and our witness, so that we will be more effective and more resilient when we go to the outermost parts of the earth.
Andrew Wommack
There is Only One Way To The Father
John 14:5 “Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?”
Thomas knew Jesus. He just didn’t realize Jesus was “the way.” Likewise, people today know portions of God’s Word but they don’t realize that God’s Word is their way to victory. Often, people cry out for God to speak to them while their Bible lays unopened on their nightstand. God has spoken to us through His Word. We just need to believe it and receive its truths as our way to victory.
Jesus didn’t say: “I am a way, a truth, and a life.” He claimed to be the only way, truth, and life. No man can come to the Father except through Jesus. This means that anyone who claims to honor Jesus while advocating other ways to get to God, truth, or life, besides Jesus, is deceived or a deceiver.
Jesus’ claims about Himself, of which there is only one, left no room for other means to salvation. He is either who He says He is, or He is the greatest deceiver of all time. His own statements about Himself leave no other alternatives. Therefore, other religions that recognize Jesus and His teachings as wonderful examples, but don’t believe He is the only way to achieve salvation, are false.
The word of God is a spiritual book written under the direction of the Holy Spirit. It was not written to our head but to the innermost part of our heart. This is why some people find the Bible so hard to understand. They are trying to comprehend it using only their mind. The Word of God has to inspire our heart before it can enlighten our mind.
Andrew Wommack
“For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” Matt. 26:28
The principle of the Old Covenant was “Do” and you shall live. The principle of the New Covenant is “it is done,” and includes redemption, reconciliation, righteousness, and sanctification. The work is finished! We are complete in Him!
If the Old Covenant had no defects, there would have been no attempt to institute another (Heb. 8:7). In the Old Covenant, men found themselves unable to abide in its agreement, for it was based upon a man’s performance.
The new agreement, however, is based totally upon God’s grace. Under the Old Covenant, men approached God through a priest, while under the New Covenant, we have direct access to the Father through Jesus Christ. Under the Old Covenant, a man’s sin led to his death while under the New Covenant, God is merciful to our unrighteousness. Under the Old Covenant, man could not be cleansed of a consciousness of sin while under the New Covenant, our sins and iniquities are remembered no more, and our guilty consciences are cleansed.
Prior to salvation we are incomplete and there is a constant striving in every person to satisfy their hunger. Through the new birth we are complete in Christ and our hunger now should only be for more revelation of what we already have in Christ.
In the same way that Jesus had the fullness of God in Him, we also have the fullness of God is us. That makes us complete or perfect in Him, that is speaking of our spiritual man. Our born-again spirit is identical in righteousness, authority, and power to Christ’s spirit, because our born-again spirit is the Spirit of Christ (Rom. 8:9). It has been sent into our hearts crying “Abba Father (Gal. 4:6).
Andrew Wommack
How To Esteem Others More Than Self
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Matthew 25:32-46
When a kind act was done to someone in need, Jesus said it was done unto Him. The Lord deeply feels our hurts. When someone is neglected, Jesus says He is also being neglected. We have a high priest who is touched by the feelings of our infirmities (Heb. 4:15). When we hurt, He hurts. When we are blessed, He is blessed. The God of the universe is intricately involved with every detail of our lives.
How can we esteem others better than ourselves when really we think we are better than others? Some people are better athletes than others. Some are better businessmen than others. Some are better speakers than others, and so forth.
First, we need to recognize that our accomplishments don’t make us better than others. There is a difference between what we do and who we are. Better performance does not make a better person. A person’s character can be severely wanting even though his performance is good.
Secondly, to esteem someone better than ourselves simply means to value them more than we value ourselves. To some that may seem impossible, but it isn’t.
That is exactly what Jesus did. If Jesus, who was God in the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16), could humble Himself and value our good above His own welfare, then we should certainly be able to do the same. It can happen when we die to self and live to God.
If we think only about ourselves, we will be selfish. If we get out of self and think more about the benefit of others than the benefit of self, then we will be selfless. It’s a matter of focus.
Andrew Wommack
PURSUE THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. Psalm 23:6
One day, when I was studying the Word, the Lord said to me, “ Notice how goodness and mercy follow you in Psalm 23:6.” Then, He brought me to John 10:4, where it describes how the good shepherd goes before the sheep and the sheep follow him.
In a flash, the Lord opened my eyes to see a divine sequence. When you follow or pursue Him, the good shepherd, His goodness and mercy and all the blessings you need in life will follow after you!
My friend, don’t pursue the blessings. Pursue Jesus, the blesser. As you pursue Him, you don’t have to be concerned about the blessings because they will follow after you!
In fact, the Hebrew translation of Psalm 23:6 is much stronger and more aggressive. It literally says, “surely goodness and mercy shall HUNT ME DOWN all the days of my life!’ Joseph Prince.
Use Your Setbacks for a Comeback!
We all face setbacks in our lives at times. When we are in a healthy relationship with God, it affords us the opportunity to recover from our failures. No one is perfect but God. Yet, He loves us with a perfect love that sustains and restores us when we need it. His faithfulness to us is the strength we need to lean on. We can turn our setbacks into glorious comebacks because His desires the best for His children.
Yet, in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us (so much that He died for us). For I am convinced (and continue to be convinced–beyond any doubt) that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present and threatening, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the (unlimited) love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:37-39 AMP). Ed and Laurie Elliott
The Power to Live a Holy Life
“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” John 12:31
The only reason Satan ever had any right to become a prince or rule over us was because we yielded ourselves to him through sin (Rom. 6:16). Since Jesus ‘bore our sins in His own body on the tree’ (1 Pet. 2:24), Satan no longer has power or authority over those who accept Jesus’ gift of salvation. Satan has been ‘cast out’–stripped of any power he had. Now he can only deceive, and if we fall for his lies, we stop God’s blessings from flowing in our lives.
The reason why a believer must live a holy life, is to avoid Satan’s bondage. When we obey sin, we yield ourselves to Satan, the author of that sin. Yielding to sin is yielding to a person, Satan. God doesn’t impute sin to us but the devil does. Our actions either release the power of Satan or the power of God in us.
Although God is not imputing our sins unto us, we cannot afford the luxury of sin because it allows Satan to have access to us. When a Christian does sin and gives the devil an opportunity to produce death in his life, the way to stop him is to confess the sin. God is faithful and just to take the forgiveness that is already present in our born-again spirit and release it in our flesh, thereby removing Satan and his strongholds.
A person who abandons himself to sin is actually becoming a slave to the devil while a person who obeys righteousness is yielding himself to the Lord. This is why a Christian should live a holy life.
Andrew Wommack
THE POWER OF REDEEMING THOUGHTS
What mental movies are you playing in your head today? Are they thoughts of defeat and despair or thoughts of victory and favor? Faith is simply saying what God says about you and seeing what God sees in you and your situation.
It takes a thought to heal a thought. Unlike the world, which teaches you to empty your mind to achieve peace, God’s way is to fill your mind with fresh, powerful, and redeeming thoughts.
The apostle Paul tells us, “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise” (Phil. 4:8 NLT). So it’s not just trying to blot out bad thoughts with your willpower. It takes a thought to replace a thought. It takes a right belief to replace a wrong belief. You need God’s truth to replace the enemy’s lies that have kept you in bondage.
My friend, if a wrong, bad, or negative thought is lodged in your mind today and you can’t seem to shake it, stop trying! Perhaps you’re lying in a hospital bed and can’t help but think of the worst-case scenario. You’re attempting to suppress it, but it’s not working. Well, stop! Stop trying to erase it from your mind. That just won’t work. What you need to do is replace that destructive thought with a thought from God. That’s the only way to deal with a wrong thought and begin the healing process.
Start to meditate on truths such as, “Surely Jesus has borne my sicknesses and carried my pains. The chastisement of my wholeness fell upon Him, and by His stripes I am healed. With long life He will satisfy me” (Isa. 53:4-5 and Ps. 91:16). Begin to play mental movies of yourself getting well, being discharged from the hospital, having fun with your kids, or going on a nice holiday! Joseph Prince
Today’s Message-Raise a Hallelujah Anyway!
“I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.” Psalm 34:1-3
PRAISE SONG BY ELVATION WORSHIP LYRICS Yeah Let everything That has breath Praise the Lord Praise the Lord Let everything that has breath praise the Lord I’ll praise in the valley Praise on the mountain I’ll praise when I’m sure Prasie when I’m I’ll praise when outnumbered Praise when surrounded Cause praise is the water My enemies drown in As long as I’m breathing I’ve got a reason to Praise the Lord Oh, my soul Praise the Lord Oh, my soul I’ll praise when I feel it And I’ll praise when I don’t I’ll praise ’cause I know You’re still in control Because my praise is a weapon It’s more than a sound Oh, my praise is the shout That brings Jericho down As long as I’m breathing I’ve got a reason to Praise the Lord Oh, my soul So I’m gonna praise the Lord Oh, my soul I won’t be quiet, my God is alive So how could I keep it inside Praise the Lord Oh, my soul Praise the Lord Come on, let me see that dance Put a dance on it tonight If you’re grateful Come on, aye, aye I’ll praise ’cause You’re sovereign Praise ’cause You reign Praise ’cause You rose and defeated the grave I’ll praise ’cause You’re faithful Praise cause You’re true Praise ’cause there’s nobody greater than You I’ll praise ’cause You’re sovereign Praise cause You reign praise Praise ’cause You rose and defeated the grave I’ll praise ’cause You’re faithful Praise ’cause You’re true Praise ’cause there’s nobody greater than You Praise the Lord Oh, my soul Oh, my soul I won’t be quiet, my God is alive How could I keep it inside Let everything That has breath Praise the Lord, come on praise the Lord!
Those Unforgettable Sins
The sin or sins you remember are the same sins God promises you He will never remember. So the feelings and negative emotions associated with those sins you can’t forget are not from God. Learn to forgive yourself as God has and experience His peace in your heart because He is at peace with you.
“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more” (Hebrews 8:12).
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation: 2 Cor. 5:19.
“He hath not dealt with us after our sins: not rewarded us according to our iniquities” (Psalm 103:1). Ed Elliot
Walk in Wisdom to Stay Safe
Get wisdom! Get understanding!… Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Proverbs 4:5,7
It gives me such assurance to know that the Lord can deliver us from trouble. But do you know what’s better than being delivered from trouble?
Not getting into trouble in the first place.
My friend, don’t just seek miracles and protection from God without seeking the wisdom from Him to stay protected and out of trouble. There are times when the challenges we face are beyond our control.
But I’ve found that often, we experience His protection when we follow the Holy Spirit and lean on His wisdom when making decisions. Every day, we need His wisdom, just as we need His protection. After all, Proverbs 4:7 tells that “wisdom is the principal thing.” and in all our getting, we need to get wisdom.
The Bible tells us that Christ has become for us wisdom from God (I Cor. 1:30). So what we really need is the Lord Jesus. We need to lean on Him and draw close to Him daily. He is our wisdom and only He can cause us to always be at the right place at the right time. I believe that many troubles and dangerous situations can be completely avoided when we don’t depend on our own wisdom and planning, but involve the Lord in all that we do (Pro. 3:6).
Oftentimes, wisdom and divine protection work hand in hand. Knowing that we can trust God for His protection certainly does not mean that we should willfully put ourselves in precarious situations.
We need to apply wisdom and heed the Lord’s leading through the wise counsel of the people around us, such as our leaders in the local church and our spouses. Proverbs 11:14 tells us, “Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” For instance, If your spouse has been telling you that you have a problem with speeding, please take heed.
While there can be divine protection, do not be foolish and think that you can do whatever you want and nothing untoward will ever happen to you. I pray that as you involve the Lord and learn to walk in wisdom, you’ll begin to walk in a greater measure of peace, protection, and good success.
Joseph Prince
Walk in Wisdom to Stay Safe
Get wisdom! Get understanding!… Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Proverbs 4:5,7
It gives me such assurance to know that the Lord can deliver us from trouble. But do you know what’s better than being delivered from trouble?
Not getting into trouble in the first place.
My friend, don’t just seek miracles and protection from God without seeking the wisdom from Him to stay protected and out of trouble. There are times when the challenges we face are beyond our control.
But I’ve found that often, we experience His protection when we follow the Holy Spirit and lean on His wisdom when making decisions. Every day, we need His wisdom, just as we need His protection. After all, Proverbs 4:7 tells that “wisdom is the principal thing.” and in all our getting, we need to get wisdom.
The Bible tells us that Christ has become for us wisdom from God (I Cor. 1:30). So what we really need is the Lord Jesus. We need to lean on Him and draw close to Him daily. He is our wisdom and only He can cause us to always be at the right place at the right time. I believe that many troubles and dangerous situations can be completely avoided when we don’t depend on our own wisdom and planning, but involve the Lord in all that we do (Pro. 3:6).
Oftentimes, wisdom and divine protection work hand in hand. Knowing that we can trust God for His protection certainly does not mean that we should willfully put ourselves in precarious situations.
We need to apply wisdom and heed the Lord’s leading through the wise counsel of the people around us, such as our leaders in the local church and our spouses. Proverbs 11:14 tells us, “Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” For instance, If your spouse has been telling you that you have a problem with speeding, please take heed.
While there can be divine protection, do not be foolish and think that you can do whatever you want and nothing untoward will ever happen to you. I pray that as you involve the Lord and learn to walk in wisdom, you’ll begin to walk in a greater measure of peace, protection, and good success.
Joseph Prince
A Very Present Help
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1
If God wants us to be healthy, and Jesus’ body was broken for us, why are there Christians who are sick? I personally know believers who are battling severe illnesses; and I am sure you do too. You or your loved one might even be facing a health challenge right now.
If you are fighting a medical condition, please know that it is okay for you to have doubts and questions. The Lord knows the confusion and pain you feel, and He wants you to know He is with you through it all.
I know it can be hard to keep trusting Him when you are going through a fiery trial. But Keep trusting Him, my friend. He is, right now, your very present help. Keep fixing your eyes on Him. He is faithful, and He will never leave you nor forsake you (Deut. 31:6). Joseph Prince.
THE COST OF LIVING FOR CHRIST
Luke 10:29 “But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?”
This question of who is my neighbor can be used by Satan to deceive us in more than one way. Not only can he deceive men into thinking they have fulfilled the command to love thy neighbor as thyself when they haven’t, but he will also try to apply this command in a way that condemns those who are seeking to fulfill it, by making them think they are not doing enough.
We cannot meet the needs of every single person in the world. Jesus wasn’t teaching that. This wounded man was directly in the path of these three men. The priest and the Levite had to walk around him. Jesus is simply teaching that we should take advantage of the opportunities we have. The fact that we can’t help everyone is no excuse not to help anyone.
Jesus, through this parable, defined a neighbor as any fellow human being who crosses our path and is in need of our assistance. The Samaritan went to the full extent of his ability and beyond to help the man. The priest and Levite did nothing.
There was a racial and religious hatred between Jews and Samaritans. Devout Jews would not associate with or even talk to a Samaritan. The priest and the Levite that passed by this wounded man were his fellow-countrymen, and yet they didn’t help him. This Samaritan, who was considered by religious Jews to be of another nationality, was the true neighbor. Jesus made it clear that you could not define ‘neighbor’ on the basis of geographic origin or your familiarity with someone. A neighbor is anyone that God puts in your path.
Andrew Wommack
LOVE COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins” (I Pete 2 4:8).
Come with me to a third-grade classroom… There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It’s never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they’ll never speak to him again as long as he lives.
The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays this prayer, ‘Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I’m dead meat.’ He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered. As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Suzie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Suzie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water on the boy’s lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, ‘Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!’
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else–Suzie.
She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. ‘You’ve done enough, you klutz!’ Finally at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Suzie and whispers, ‘You did that on purpose, didn’t you?’ Suzie whispers back, ‘I wet my pants once too.’
May God help us see the opportunities that are always around us to do good. Remember–Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car. Author unknown
Every day, we have tremendous opportunities to show people the same love and forgiveness we have experienced from Jesus. All of us identify with people who have sinned or failed in life. It isn’t pointing out their sins or failures that will help them; they already know what they have done wrong. They need to know the One who has already forgiven them and that He took their sins upon Himself and paid a price we couldn’t. It is this truth that restores people. Be the “Suzie” to those whom you meet daily who feel condemned because of their past. If Jesus didn’t come to condemn them, we shouldn’t either. We can help them escape their condemnation by unveiling God’s love and forgiveness to them.
Ed Elliot
MYSTERY OF THE TRINITY
‘ Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, ‘Ye neither know me, nor my Father; if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.’
John 8:19
The scriptures teach Jesus’ oneness with the Father. This oneness is more than singleness of purpose and actually denotes ‘a single one to the exclusion of others’ as in the statement, ‘There is one God’ ( 1 Tim. 2:5).
The truth is so well established in scripture that some people make no distinction between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit but believe they are simply one God expressing Himself in three different ways. However, Jesus makes a distinction between Himself and His Father here and uses Himself and His Father as two different witnesses to fulfill the requirement of Deuteronomy 17:6. Jesus would have been deceiving these Jews if there was no distinction between His Father and Himself; and yet, they are one (Jn. 10:30; 1 John 5:7). This is a great mystery and yet a very well established fact in scripture.
One of the great statements of the Old Testament from Deuteronomy 6:4 says, ‘The Lord our God is one Lord.’ We do not have three Gods, but one God, clearly identifiable as three persons. This is a great mystery, which has not been adequately explained. Scriptures reveal the truth of the Trinity, but makes no attempt to explain it. We simply accept this revelation as it is, until we know all things, even as we are known (I Cor. 13:12).
Jesus said the witness of His Father was the greatest testimony of who He was. Everyone can hear His testimony of Jesus through the scriptures.
Moses and all the Old Testament prophets spoke of the coming of Jesus, and Peter said the written word of God was a more sure word of prophecy than the audible voice of God. READ THE WORD TODAY.
Andrew Wommack
STAND STILL
“Listen, all you of Judah and you inhibitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehospaphat! Thus says the Lord to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s. . . .You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.” 2 Chronicles 20:15, 17
Faced with a troubling report of an impending war, King Jehoshaphat set himself to seek the Lord and pray with hope before all the assembly of Judah. It was then that the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel, who spoke the words of the Lord that we read in 2 Chronicles 20:15,17. On hearing these words of hope, all Judah humbled themselves before the Lord, bowing before Him and worshiping Him.
Today the Lord is saying the same words to you in your situation. Hope in Him for He loves you! You don’t have to live in fear and discouragement when you know that the battle is not yours, but the Lord’s.
Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. The battle is His, and you will not need to fight in it.
What do you do when you don’t know what to do? The best thing you can do is to stand still. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord in your situation.
But Pastor Prince, if I stand still, nothing will happen!
My friend, standing still is not inactivity or doing nothing. It’s a posture of hope, and it involves keeping your hope anchored on the person of Jesus and having a sure and confident expectation of good.
When the marauding armies of Pharaoh were charging toward the children of Israel, hell-bent on annihilating them, Moses simply declared to the terrified Israelites, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord” (Exodus 14:13). The Hebrew word for salvation is yeshua, which is actually the name of Jesus. So salvation is the person of Jesus, and He is with you.
When you are caught in a hopeless situation, learn to position yourself–stand still and see the saving power of Jesus work on your behalf. He will never leave you nor forsake you (Heb. 13:5).
As you center yourself, your thoughts, your beliefs, and your hopes on Him, He will lead you concerning what to do, just as He led Jehoshaphat to a triumphant victory over his enemies.
Joseph Prince
Position Yourself–Stand Still!
HIS WILL IS IN THE WORD
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” John 17:17
In this prayer, Jesus prayed twice that the Father would keep His disciples from evil. Then He reveals the way that God will accomplish this–through His Word. the holy scriptures. Anyone who desires to live for God, reject the devil, and reject the world’s system, must know God’s Word.
We must study the scriptures, for they reveal the will of God for our actions and attitudes. To be filled with the knowledge of God’s will, we must be filled with God’s Word. God’s Word is His will! Those who are ignorant of God’s Word will be ignorant of God’s will.
Knowledge of God’s will is foundational in developing Christian conduct and character. There is no way we can fulfill God’s will if we don’t know what it is. The starting point for any Christian is understanding God’s will for his life. How can a person obtain such knowledge? The first step is to desire it. Jeremiah 29:13 says, ‘And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.’ People ask the Lord for knowledge of His will but don’t receive it because they aren’t seeking with ALL THEIR HEART. No one who has ever sought the Lord with all his heart has ever been disappointed.
The Holy Spirit is the dispenser of God’s wisdom. It is through Him that we know the things God has revealed to us. One of the primary ministries of the Holy Spirit is to reveal God’s will to us.
There is no way we can walk worthy of the Lord and please Him if we don’t know His will. Furthermore, we can’t be fruitful without the knowledge of His will. God has provided all that we need to be successful and victorious in this life. Believe His Word. Andrew Wommack
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