Life Can Be More

  I knew God had given me revelation about the trajectory of my spiritual life in a recent dream I had. With prayer, wisdom, discernment, and obedience, I am allowing myself to be trimmed and uprooted by my Heavenly Father. When God decides to uproot you, it means He’s about to plant you in new soil! It’s not easy being uprooted but it’s for our benefit. The season of pruning is where God wants to trim off any excess or trim off dead things. Pruning is not fun in my opinion, but it is very beneficial. Just think about how a tree, plant, or shrubbery looks like after they’ve been pruned…they look a little bare! When we lived in my grandma’s house, there was a crape myrtle tree I liked very much. Every now and then, my Dad would say, “we gotta prune it soon”. I would ask him why and he would respond, “so it could continue to bloom, it’s a little overgrown”. I used to think that doesn’t make sense because it’s already blooming in all its glory. If it gets trimmed, it will look unatt...

  It’s time to start declaring the blessings of God in your life! Listen friends, it’s time we start using our words the way God created us to use them. It’s time we recognize that “life and death” are truly “in the power of the tongue” (Proverbs 18:21). What have you been speaking over your life this year? What have you been speaking over your life when faced with circumstances, trials, hardships, etc? You get where I’m going with this? Do you realize that as a Child of God (John 1: 12-13), you are seated with Christ in the heavenly places? (Ephesians 2: 6, Colossians 3:1) So, if you are seated with Christ in the heavenly places, then your “fighting stance” should be from the heavenlies and not from an “earthly” perspective. The Bible says that God has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings in the heavenly places because we belong to Christ! (Ephesians 1: 3). The Bible also says that we are “heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ” (Romans 8: 16-17). Friends, ponder on thi...

  https://twitter.com/cmalliance/status/1176853202538569729 When we generally hear “lack of” something, our minds mostly go to the negative side of things. Right? Most of us tend to think that a lack of something means we are missing something that we want, need, or should have. But what if lack of could also be a positive thing? I know, go ahead, and scratch your head but here is a scripture reference: Psalm 23:1 “The Lord is my Shepherd, I lack nothing.” (NIV) In Adam & Eve’s lack, they had everything! Yes, Adam & Eve had a lack but they didn’t even notice it. Carline, have you read the story of creation lately? There was no lack! Actually, there was, but it was not evident because they were being sustained, provided, and protected by God. They were fully dependent and trusting in God. When He saw that Adam lacked something, He said “I will make a helper who is just right for him.” Adam didn’t even notice that he lacked a soulmate, God did! I’m not even talking about ...

  The Lord was with Joshua and He made him a great leader and had spread his fame throughout his lifetime. But Joshua kept in covenant and obedience to God. I would recommend you read Joshua and be amazed at all that happened such as the sun and moon standing still! Joshua 24:15… “but as for me and my house, we will serve the  LORD .” (NKJV) This is what Joshua told the people of Israel after recounting to them all what God did for them. His speech starts in Joshua 23 and in it, he told them what God has done, instructs them to love & obey God, and to not be enticed by and worship foreign gods. He told him what God has done because of their worship, faith, and obedience in God. On the other hand, he told what will happen when they abandon God and deviate from His instructions. Despite what God has done for the people of Israel, Joshua still gave them a choice of who they wanted to reverence and serve. Let’s reference the first part of that scripture above starting wit...

  Joshua had been Moses’ right-hand man before his death. Upon Moses’ death, God told Joshua: “Moses my servant is dead” and Joshua was to take the people of Israel across the Jordan River. Often, we focus on Joshua fighting the battle of Jericho, but we overlook an important detail. Don’t get me wrong, the way the people fought over the seven days was powerful and faith filled. I believe we should learn to fight our battles just like that. Often, we pray about something but then we try to accomplish it on our own strength instead of waiting for God to fight our battles for us. This could be part of the reason why we are not seeing any breakthroughs in our lives. In Joshua 3:5 he said, “ Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you”. I think this is a verse that is often missed among believers today. We want God to perform miracles, but we don’t want to prepare the soil of our hearts for God to move on our behalf. We are not willing to let go of ...

                                                                                Copied from salienthealthcare.com If anybody knows mental anguish, it’s Jesus.... The Bible says that while Jesus was praying for his disciples, before His arrest, he was suffering from anguish. He knew what was ahead of Him (the cross) but being in human form, He still experienced all the human emotions. Luke 22:44 “And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.” I would encourage you to also read Hebrews 5:7-10. Angels had to come and strengthen Him! So, if Jesus needed strength to endure, we need strength to endure what we go through! Newsflash, read all about it! Jesus endured, overcame hell, hold the keys to death & Hades, and is no...

  Before we dive into this question, who do you consider to be THE CHURCH? When you think of the church, do you think of a celebrity church, the building, the pastor of the church, or the people within the church? What do most people you know consider to be the church? What makes a building a church, in other words, what makes a church a church? Do you realize that the church is YOU? The building you enter for worship is just a building. It becomes a church when you gather with other believers to praise and worship God. So, if the church is you, then going to a building to worship in whatever given day should be an EXTENSION of what YOUR WORSHIP is in your private time with God. Some people might think that worship & reading of the Word only happens while you’re in “church” but it’s much more than that. Your worship to God comes from your personal time with Him. Remember, you sing praises to God for what He’s done and you worship Him for who He is. But how can you worship som...