Trust Him!

Reach forward and take a step of faith into the known plan of God on your life. Trust Him. Walk in peace as you become more like Him.

Blessings,
Todd

Are you Addicted to Reasoning?

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. - Proverbs 3:5-6


Are you addicted to the reasoning of your own mind and flesh?

The Bible clearly explains to us that we need to trust in the LORD with all our heart. What does it mean for you to trust something with all your heart? We can not afford to spend one more minute leaning on our own understanding. Remember, you are a new Creature in Christ and our minds must be renewed by the washing of the Word.

The time has come that we daily must acknowledge Him in all our ways, and then He said, "will make your paths straight". We can not expect God to bless us and grant us favor, when we won't get into God's mindset about the who, what, when, and where of our lives.

Make a choice today to stop your human reasoning. God has a plan and purpose everyday of your life. Don't let SELF get in the way of being blessed beyond that which you could ever ask, hope, or imagine. The WORD clearly states that God is in you and you are in Him. Allow the Holy Spirit into those areas of your life, that you are afraid to yield to HIM.

Questions for Reflection:

How much do I lean on my own understanding?
Am I willing to be out of control and the HOLY SPIRIT in control?
Am I afraid of what others will think if my conversations use GOD more than I?

Blessings,
Todd

The Power Of HIS Presence

The power of HIS presence can bring healing and deliverance. Do you believe in the power of His presence?

Blessings,
Todd

Sermon or Truth?

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. - 1 Corinthians 2:10b-16



The best example of spiritual formation takes us back 2,000 years ago to Jesus. He was and is our example. His leadership modeled how to develop into the created image of the Trinity. Confessing and believing in the Son of God that has come in the flesh, must translate to a daily walk that seeks and desires Him in Spirit and in Truth. At the ascension into Heaven Jesus Christ ushered in the Holy Spirit to live and manifest the presence of GOD in us. Now the WORD has the power to take residence in and through us as we daily yield.

Currently, what we need is not another sermon, but life application of the WORD that has been given to us. For many, the sermon has become rhetoric, but not implemented into the daily life of the individual. The sermon has become just one more source of information in a person's life and not THEE source for Life and life more abundant.

Questions for Reflection:

Do you seek the Spirit of Truth from the Lord or another sermon?
Are we modeling what Christ modeled?
Has the WORD become life for you?
IS the WORD IN YOU?
Are we being taught by Human Wisdom or the Spirit of God?

Blessings,
Todd

The Day of Trouble!!!!

MAY THE Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high [and defend you]; Send you help from the sanctuary and support, refresh, and strengthen you from Zion; Remember all your offerings and accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah [pause, and think of that]!

May He grant you according to your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans. We will [shout in] triumph at your salvation and victory, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. May the Lord fulfill all your petitions. Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand.

Some trust in and boast of chariots and some of horses, but we will trust in and boast of the name of the Lord our God. They are bowed down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright. O Lord, give victory; let the King answer us when we call. - Psalm 20

This Friday August 14th, 2009 take time to reflect upon all that the Great I AM is in your life. Take inventory of your relationship with HIM. Determine to ask Him what He has need of you to do for HIS purposes and plans.

Questions for Reflection:

In whose and what name do we set up our banners?

Who do we trust and boast in?

Who do we call upon in our hour of Trouble?

Is the God you call upon the God of Jacob?

When was the last time you petitioned God?

Blessings,

Todd

Not by Might nor by power....!

So he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty. - Zechariah 4:6

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. I Corinthians 6:19-20

Imagine how it would be if God removed the Holy Spirit from the Earth today? If you BELIEVE in HIM, tap into streams where the Spirit leads. God is serious throughout the Word in reference to the role and function of the Holy Spirit in our lives and the earth today.

Questions for Reflection:

Do you believe the Holy Spirit is in YOU?
Are you willing to submit to HIS direction?
Are you aware of His gentle nudgings throughout your busy day?
Do the distractions of our lives keep us from being used for Him?

Remember, you were bought with a PRICE. Salvation was free, but it requires your whole life daily devoted to HIM. Don't offend the gentle comforter, which is placed there by our Heavenly Father to lead, guide, and protect you in paths of Righteousness for His namesake.

Blessings,
Todd

Time to Grow Up!!!!

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. - Romans 12:2


Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. - 1 Peter 2:2-3

There are so many hearts crying out for the truth that will set them free. You are important to God and He wants to manifest His Presence through you, to those around you. Don't hesitate. Start small. Remember, God will test you in the little daily things before giving you larger tasks. It is time to move from the Milk of the WORD and towards becoming Spiritually Mature.

In our spiritual life, we are hesitant to get off the milk that tastes so good, and move to the meat of the Word. In many other areas of our life we are passionate, this could be our craft, trade, cars, boats, houses, etc. We need to conform our lives to the Living Word, so we can fulfill our greater purpose on Earth as it is in Heaven, which may include these items.

We need a desire for Passionate Spiritual Formation that draws us into deeper wells of living water. Help someone drink from the life giving water, that they will never thirst again. You, have been chosen by God to be a ladle for individuals to drink from wells of living water.

Questions for Reflection:

How healthy is my Spiritual Formation in Him?
Am I moving from the Milk to the Meat?
Am I Passionate for HIM?
Who am I conforming to?
How renewed is my MIND?
Am I a LADLE people want to drink from?
What kind of water do I offer?

Blessings,
Todd

I have NEED to go through Samaria!

When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples, He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat. Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. - John 4:1-26

I love the account of Christ and the Samaritan woman. Such intimacy in conversation. It was One on One, just her and the LIVING GOD. Jesus begins this account by being about HIS Fathers business. Jesus tells us that He had a need to go through Samaria.

In this account we find we have officially entered a sovereign point of time in God's Kingdom, we are directed by the Messiah himself, to Worship HIM in Spirit and Truth. Jesus says, "God is a Spirit." Jesus makes it paramount that we MUST worship him in Spirit and in Truth.

Questions for personal reflection:

What is your Samaria that HE (the Father) has NEED of you to go through?

What is His definition of Worship?

Are you Willing and Obedient to WORSHIP Him in SPIRIT and Truth?

Are you drinking from the Living Water, where you will thirst no more or something that mimicks it very close, but has a bitter taste?

This passage of Scripture shares several direct orders by God himself. To seriously follow the Father, requires us to make sincere efforts in keeping the commands of the Lord. I would challenge each of us, myself included, to place the Body and Blood of Christ symbolically in front of us often and ask ourselves, "Am I really willing to transgress the Body and Blood of my LORD and Savior or do it HIS WAY? "...Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be done... On Earth as it is in Heaven.

As the Samaritan woman received her Lord and Savior are we willing to be about our Father's business in 2009, whatever HE asks of you today. We can only do this by Worshiping him in Spirit and Truth, through a willing and obedient heart.

Blessings,

Todd