Is your Relationship in a Funk?
Deut 2:2-3 KJ
2. And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
3. Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Spiritually speaking there are too many Christians this morning across this great world God created, who are in a funk. Most wouldn’t admit this to be true, but they’ve been in a funk for quite some time.
The level of their relationship and walk with God is very familiar and comfortable, because it’s at the same place they’ve been at for years, for some their whole life.
God spoke and said listen up people, you’ve been in this place long enough. Gods words were timeless then and they are still relevant for today!
Opportunity is knocking on the door again, can you hear it? Whatever your age is it’s just a number, because unlike the world who associates numbers with our lives, you are so much more than the number to God and your age is irrelevant!
It’s time to answer the door, today is somebodies, someday!
No matter what story the accuser has told you, your ship has not sailed out of the harbor, there is still time to board the boat that will lead you to your destiny!
If the Holy Spirit is speaking to you, I want you to know No one ever reads or hears a word from God by accident!
Does anybody need a victory Today? This is not a moment God is talking to everyone else in the room but you, This is for everyone including you! Don’t be the one to say, “God if this is really you do such and such!”
While God is able to deliver any request, this is not one of those moments. God has requested you be the one to move this time, you are to be the one to quit circling the mountain and move on to the victory awaiting you!
Jesus is ready to deliver not just a Victory in your life, but complete Victory in every circumstance and situation of your life!! The accuser will always tell you otherwise and he’s very convincing with the lies he tells. Because he’s told them so many times, he’s started to believe the lies himself!
There is nothing, I repeat nothing that can stand up to what Jesus has done to qualify everyone who is willing to believe and receive the word He died on the cross to give you!
Jesus wants you to know you are worthy to have complete victory in your life, because He has made you worthy to have complete uninterrupted victory!
I want you to say “I’m worthy” Felt good didn't it? Say it again, I’m worthy and you are worthy! You have the blood bought right and no one can take the right away from you, It's your God given right!
Jeremiah 29:11-13 HCSB.
11. For I know the plans I have for you "[this is] the LORD’s declaration" plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
12. You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
13. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
You see the accuser will tell you repeatedly, your not worthy of God’s Plans of Goodness and blessings. The devil lives to try to deny you any possibility of your entitlement from the promises of the cross Jesus has promised to you!
The devil has brainwashed generations of people. Doing and saying anything with but one purpose in mind, your demise! Every angle of attack, every tactic imaginable, so many plans to sabotage and defeat you!
Why? Because you are Verry Valuable and you have Great Value to God! You are created in the image of the “One True Living God” and the accusers goal is to ruin anything of value to God!
Has anyone ever thought about making their own plans to build a house? Seriously, if you have then you realize how difficult it is. It’s hard enough to find a plan someone has already drawn and had approved to building code specifications, but coming up with your own is another story completely!
Can you imagine being the architect and how much more thought, goes into making a plan that gives continuous Hope? A plan which ensures you're welfare and your future! Not just you, but for whosoever will believe, not only for today, but for eternity!! I would say that would be more than just a plan, I would say that would be a masterpiece of a plan!
It is true, God has thought long and hard about multiple ways, using all the resources He has at His disposal, including multiple streams of blessings, to provide you with a continual hope and a future!!!
I would go as far to even say, God has unlimited plans? After all, we are talking about the creator of the universe, the maker of all things, the beginning and the end! The plans and ideas for your future and success are unlimited, because God is in charge of them.
Have you ever tried to help God in a situation In your life? I know I have and I know and realize, after self reflection when my need was met. If I would have stepped aside instead of getting in God’s way. My eagerly awaited Victories would have happened much sooner!
Have you ever been there? How much easier do you suppose working the plan was for Him, once you finally got out of the way and let God be God?? Are you getting where this is going?
No matter where you’re at in life, No matter what you may be facing! God has a plan for you, to bring you back and to bring about good things in your life! Even if you think that you are at the end of your rope, God says it’s ok, I’ve still got plenty of more rope and plans for you!
If your not living the abundant life God promises, Don’t blame God! He doesn’t want you looking through the rear view window of the life that he has planned for you, God wants you to experience first hand, the best of the best He has to offer!
It’s time to step aside and delete your preconceived version of what you think your life should be, get out of the way and let God start giving you, all that He has for you!! Remember earlier what God said; “You’ve been at this place long enough!”
This is not a time to kick the can down the road again, the time has come to start marching down the road to a new place of new level of relationship!
2 Corinthians 9:8 MSG
God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you’re ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. As one psalmist puts it, He throws caution to the winds, giving to the needy in reckless abandon. His right-living, right-giving ways never run out, never wear out. This most generous God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God, wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God
It’s time to forget everything about what you think you know, what you been taught to think and to quit listening to those who think they have all the answers, to your questions!
Seek the truth and the truth will set you free to have and enjoy all God has had planned for you since the beginning!
Psalm 139:15
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth
I would encourage you by what someone else realized was possible for someone who is willing to embrace God’s plans in their life! His name was the Apostle Paul, he wrote these encouraging words!
TBS. in Phil. 4:13 NKJ
13. I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
(I'm sorry, but how many things? That's right you heard it to, it said All things! Not some,
1,2,3,4,56789 limited number of things, “BUT ALL THINGS PRAISE GOD!!”)
MSG: Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.
This is a life changing declaration given to Paul for everyone who bears the name of Christian! It is truly a "to him who has ears let him hear moment"
Do you consider yourself to be a Christian? Well then....this is for you!
We CAN do all things through CHRIST, that means everything we do with Jesus
involved in the details, We can accomplish, because the word of God says we can!!
Well, I could maybe believe a few things, But everything? Come on now! To question, what the Word promises opens the door of opportunity for the accuser to wiggle his condemning lies between you and what you know the Bible Promises and is the truth about God’s Will For You!
TBS. Everything that Joseph set his hand to prospered! Everything? Yes "Everything!!”
Do you believe that God is a respecter of persons? Almost all Christians will say no when asked this question, but far too many Christians are spiritually acting like God is a respecter of persons!
God is not a respecter of persons, God is a respecter of faith!
God is not a respecter of persons, God is a respecter of faith!
What does the Bible say Gods does with faith?
He rewards it, He moves mountains, He splits seas, He heals, He gives the ability to achieve wealth! God is only limited by the faith we give Him to work with! God help us all to have and use more of the measure of faith God has given to Us!
Do you believe that you have what Joseph had, Well?? You should! That's right You Should! Because if you can grab ahold of a small portion of the measure of faith God has given without reservation to everyone, you can and should believe God Loves you enough to at least do the same He did for Joseph!
Funny thing is we would like to achieve Josephs level of blessing and don’t get me wrong that would be amazing! But God loves you so much more than that! God loves you enough to put you on the same level of blessing as his own son Jesus! It’s true, it’s true, I’m telling you it’s true!
The accuser won’t tell you the truth,
Your boss won’t tell you, Your friends won’t tell you,
But God would have me tell you, "He Loves you just that much!”
He Loves you the same way He Loves Jesus, because of your
relationship you have with Jesus!
After hearing a word like this, who wouldn’t want to go to the next level of relationship and blessing God has already prepared especially for them!
God is saying the same thing to all of us, everyone has been stationary and where their comfortable at for long enough, it’s time to move into the new of what He wants to do!
Remember God gives the ability to believe to everyone. Do you fit under the category of everyone? Then you should also believe everything
is possible to him who believes, Because the word says it is!
God is looking for someone willing to step out of the box of normalcy, someone ready for Him to reveal the plans He has for them, someone ready to receive the plans He has for them!
Don’t let the accuser con you into thinking your situation will keep you from where God wants to take you! God can take care of your situation and turn it around and into a blessing if you ask Him to, nothing is to hard for Him. There is no situation and will never be a situation God cannot turn around.
Scripture tells us God is always doing something fresh and new, the question is WHAT DO YOU WANT GOD TO DO IN YOUR LIFE??? Take sometime now, think bigger than what your effort can deliver!
Ok are you ready? The only one who can keep you from achieving your blessings is you. God stands ready to bless you, He wants to bless you!! God sent Jesus with the promise of Grace all the way to the cross, so He could Bless you!
We could never in our lifetimes do enough to ever earn, participate or realize the extravagant Plans God has for each and everyone of us, the good news is, we don't have to! All we have to do is ask and believe that God can and will do what His word says!
Illus. By Christian Cheong
A famous British writer George Bernard Shaw once visited a sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein at his studio. The visitor noticed a huge block of stone standing in one corner and asked what it was for. "I don’t know yet. I’m still making plans."
Unlike the sculptor, God has known the plans for you and what awe inspiring plans they are!
Today is the first day, not only of the rest of your life, but for the rest of eternity.
What does God have planned for you today, I could offer a guess but truthfully My best guess wouldn’t be enough, all I know is if you ask God to reveal His plans for you He will and they will be something so amazing, beyond what you could’ve ever imagined!
He who started a good work in you will be faithful until the day He completes it!
Let’s pray!
