News Flash God’s Will Is The Plan!
Ephesians 6:13 MSG
Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You’ll need them throughout your life. God’s Word is an indispensable weapon. In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.
This scripture is a reminder to us, of what we’re up against! So much so, God looked ahead and made the decision to properly equip His children and all who would ever become His children.
So they could not only withstand the attack, but they could fight back from Jesus Victory over death and realize Victory each and every day!
Ephesians 6:12 AMP
12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.
It doesn’t take long watching the news, to figure out on a daily basis, the fight for humanities soul is a big deal!
What we have been given access to is a big deal! What we have been given, should be the headline and major news story, that leads every news story at the top of every hour!
News Flash! “The shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the sword of the word, the breastplate of righteousness and the ability to access all those weapons through our prayers through the One True Living God, is a huge deal!”
Let us never take what we have been given for granted! Through our relationship with Jesus Christ, we have been given access to the one true living God!
*The same God who created the heavens and the earth!
*The same God who measured the galaxies in the universe with a span of his hand!
*The same God who spoke The world into existence and breathed life into man!
If that was the headline and the news cycle every fifteen minutes, we would be living in a different world!
What we’re talking about can be and should be a reality in all our lives, if we choose to make it one! If we choose to adhere to the warning of the Word and choose to daily make it our focus, sometimes even on a moment by moment basis if needed!
Wouldn’t it be nice if the weather man also gave the daily report for spiritual warfare! And don’t forget ladies and gentlemen, to take your umbrella of Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation with you today! Because the chance of condemnation precipitation is going to be 100% chance again throughout the day!
We’ve been taught to think because of our limited knowledge, that God is out there somewhere in the universe.
I heard Karen Wheaton say, “The universe doesn’t contain God! Everything that has been discovered, everything that is yet to be discovered in our galaxy, in our solar system, and what we know as to be the universe, is contained within God!!!”
Our world is part of God! God is not part of our world!
Have you ever googled earth? The location in which you live is a tiny area, viewed from outer space. You have to magnify your location hundreds of thousands of times times to see it. And you are even a smaller space within that space!
We are like a dot, on the dot, of the dot on the radar screen of life! And we, this tiny microscopic dot in the universe!
And yet, through your relationship with Jesus God‘s only son you have been granted unlimited access, to the one who is responsible for everything, including the very air you breathe! And how do we access and communicate with God?
Oh, the devil would like us to think and has worked very hard to make us think, it’s very complicated! Thousands of books have been written by men and women, telling of the multiple steps needed to communicate with God!
This is what the Word says is needed!
Matthew 18:2-4 AMP
2 He called a little child and set him before them, 3 and said, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless you repent [that is, change your inner self—your old way of thinking, live changed lives] and become like children [trusting, humble, and forgiving], you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever [a]humbles himself like this child is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
The Faith of a child is it takes to commune with the creator of it all!
Our direct line of access and communication is not complicated, it’s praise and prayer!
When you get anything new, what’s the first thing you learn how to do? The first thing you learn how to do is use it, because if you don’t it will never be any use to you!
Far too many people including Christians, are to unfamiliar with how to use what they have been given, to praise or thank the one who gave it to them, as well the ability to pray and talk about what’s going on with them and their needs in their daily walk and lives!
We shouldn’t praise and pray to God like a need to know basis, we should realize we have been given the ability and confidence to come to God anytime, anywhere and praise and pray like a need to flow basis!
A need to know basis, is a limited basis, a need to flow basis is unlimited direct access, which is what we have been given!
Far too many constantly say I just don’t know what God’s will is for my life!
Things are just so complicated, so many decisions to make, if I only knew what God’s will was it would make things so much easier!
Yes it would! Would it mean there wouldn’t be anymore problems or circumstances to face if we knew Gods will? No! But at least we would know Gods plan and will for our lives, right?
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 New King James Version (NKJV)
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Rejoice! Pray continuously! Give thanks for everything! That is the will of God in Christ Jesus for your life!
God’s will for us is to be used like an umbrella! God’s will allows us to put His provided umbrella against onslaught of never ending precipitation from the accuser and sing in the rain, no matter how bad things may seem to be or get!
Far too many Christians are too willing to offer their own opinion as to what God’s will is. Leaving Far too willing to readily accept, with God all things are possible except for their circumstance.
Like God’s will is less than what would be best for our well being or something!
James 1:17 New King James Version (NKJV)
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning
John 10:10-11 King James Version (KJV)
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
Now we can set the record straight once and for all as for God’s will and God’s plans are for His children’s lives! God’s will and plan for your life is for you to have life and for your life to be abundant life!
And God’s will and plan for your life is backed by the fact that He willingly gave Jesus His Sons life, so you could and are able to enjoy His will for your life and His plan for your life, anytime and all the time!
The accusers will and plan for you is and will always be death!
Realize Gods will and plans for your life! God’s will and plans changes hearts and circumstances! God’s will and plans created everything, God’s will and plans creates and produces miracles!
God’s will and plans liberated His people from slavery to freedom from Egypt!
God’s will and plans changed the heart of the prodigal son and returned him to his father!
God’s will and plans has been and continues to do the impossible in every heart and situation given the opportunity!
Isaiah 49:24-26 MSG
Can plunder be retrieved from a giant,
prisoners of war gotten back from a tyrant?
But God says, “Even if a giant grips the plunder
and a tyrant holds my people prisoner,
I’m the one who’s on your side,
defending your cause, rescuing your children.
And your enemies, crazed and desperate, will turn on themselves,
killing each other in a frenzy of self-destruction.
Then everyone will know that I, God,
have saved you—I, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
This Scripture tells us that everything and anything is possible with God, and God’s will and plans are to deliver us and cause our enemies to turn on themselves.
The Bible says, God’s Word does not return void! God’s Words He has spoken over His children have never one time stopped running to and fro trying relentlessly to accomplish the tasks they have been given!
We have been chosen and given the assignment to spread the good news of Jesus Christ and the Salvation message! Including all the benefits that go with what Jesus accomplished on the cross for those who are willing to believe!
And the words of God we speak, the words our mothers and fathers spoke and the words that their mothers and fathers before them from the beginning spoke, are still seeking to accomplish the tasks and the requests, they have been given until they accomplish those tasks!
Illus. by Jim Kane
EDISON: COMPLETE FORGIVENESS
When Thomas Edison and his staff were developing the incandescent light bulb, according to Ken Sande, it took hundreds of hours to manufacture a single bulb.
One day, after finishing a bulb, notes Sande, Edison handed it to a young errand boy and asked him to take it upstairs to the testing room. As the boy turned and started up the stairs, he stumbled and fell, and the bulb shattered on the steps.
Instead of rebuking the boy, Edison reassured him and then turned to his staff and told them to start working on another bulb.
When it was completed several days later, Edison demonstrated the reality of his forgiveness in the most powerful way possible. He walked over to the same boy, handed him the bulb, and said, "Please take this up to the testing room."
That’s kind of how it is with God. We’ve been taught, we’ve been told and we say and think we can do what’s needed in this thing called life!
And things go smoothly for a moment and we take our focus off of what we know and what we’re doing and we stumble and fall down.
But God in His infinite mercy, Grace and forgiveness helps us back up to our feet and willingly gives us another chance to try again!
Amen? Amen!
