When people ask me where my joy comes from I can't but take it as an opportunity to witness about the goodness of Jesus!!! Now I don't consider myself a bible thumper. I'm just so grateful to God for showing me a way out of the demonic prison I was in.
When you experience hell on earth and get out, you can't help but share that hope with someone else who may be looking for a way out of their own private hell. I was trapped in a situation with demons speaking to me all the time. I felt the only way out of my life of drinking and drugs was to die. I figured if I just killed myself that all the sadness and physical pain would end. I was wrong. Committing suicide is just the beginning of the pain I would experience in hell in forever separation from God! I was on my way to hell when Jesus reached down into my pit of despair and rescued me. And now I am living the life that God intended for me to leave. Oh yes I still have my challenges. Because Jeus said in the Word of God that "In this world you will have trouble". So we are going to be attacked by the devil. But as Christian believers, we can "take heart! Because Jesus has already overcome the world!"
So don't be afraid to talk about Jesus. And don't be afraid to tell your story. You never know who is waiting for someone to tell them. It is your story, your trials, your overcoming and deliverance that will lead others to Christ and a promise of live everlasting. It is the promise of an eternity in the presence of our heavenly Father who loves us more than anything!!
Praise God!!!!
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In Numbers 13, Moses sent out some men ahead of everyone to investigate the land that they were given by God. When the men got there they saw the land filled with milk and honey but they also saw the people there and they looked so large to them that they even said starting in verse 31, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are." 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."
Has God ever spoken a promise to you and you tended not to trust Him fully that it was going to be so? You see God's ways are not our ways, His thoughts not our thoughts. The thing that God has promised you is going to happen but you must have faith that it will happen. In other words, close your "worldly eyes" and open your "spiritual eyes" so you can see more clearly what God is trying to show you. Some of us miss out on the blessings of God because all we can see is the barrier that is in the way. But God wants us to see what He has for us down the road. Looking beyond your circumstance is the only way to see the promises of God. That's because God's promises are always on the other side of the "test" of our faith. This is so no man can brag that he accomplished any of God's promises for his life on his own.
The mission always looks impossible because we have to apply our faith in order to receive the things of God. We must believe it's already ours. The men that moses sent were so afraid of moving into their destiny that even when Caleb spoke up with confidence and said they would overtake the men in the Negev, they still didn't believe it. Because their enemy looked so big to them that they felt like grasshoppers to them. When we don't activate our faith then the promises of God will not manifest themselves in our lives.
We must remember to fight the good fight of faith always. And the mountains we face will be moved and cast into the sea! We already have the victory. We just need to claim it by faith. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
(c) 2010 Robert T. Sells - all rights reserved
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When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we become instant heirs of the promise of Abraham. What was this promise? God told Abram in Genesis 12:2-3, “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” God promised Abram that He would make his name great. He said He would pour out a blessing that there wouldn’t be enough room to receive. Now look at Genesis 13:1-2. Did God keep His promise? It says, “So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.”
Clearly God had a plan for Abraham to make him wealthy. God spoke over his life when he was 75 years old and told him He would make Abram a “father to many nations”. God kept this promise even though Abram tried to hurry the process along. Since his wife, Sarai, was barren and wanted to fulfill God’s promise she had him sleep with Hagar, his wife’s servant, to give birth to his heir. Out of this union came Ishmael, but he wasn’t the heir God promised. Sometime around Abraham’s 100th birthday God opened up Sarai’s womb (whom He now gave the name, Sarah) and she gave birth to a son and they named him Isaac. This was the child that was truly the heir through which God would fulfill His covenant to Abraham.
I believe what the Lord is saying here is that we have to cling tightly to the things that the Lord promised us during our times of prayer and communion with God. He is outside of time so when we ask according to His will we immediately receive that thing that we’ve asked for. So just like Abraham (who was named Abram before his established covenant with God) had to leave his people, his family and the things he knew in order to receive his blessing, sometimes God will require us to make a move to get to the place where the blessing is in order to receive it. That may mean leaving a church we’ve been with for years or leaving our parents’ home, even when it feels uncomfortable. God wants to get us to a point where 2 things are happening. First, we trust Him only, which increases our faith; and also because He wants to remove the distractions the devil is trying to put in front of us through our loving family members.
So trust God and believe He has already delivered the promises He spoke over your life. God answers prayers. And He wants you to operate in the purpose He has intended for your life. But in order to get the promises of God, we have to stretch ourselves by putting ourselves in a position where we have to depend on God and not man. It is then that we will meet the blessings of God in the place where He designed for us to have them.
Glory to God!
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In John 16:33, Jesus told the disciples, "I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world".
Jesus wanted us to know that when we do things for God and we start walking in His plan for our life, the devil now has a legal right to try and stop us. How do he do this? He sends storms our way. What do I mean by storms? Here are some examples: As soon as you get some extra money to buy more CD's or books so you can sell them, your water heater goes out. As soon as you sit down to write more of your story, you get a massive headache or a family member calls and says they are stranded and they need your help. The dog dies, you lose your pen, your laptop gets stolen, a loving relative passes away, your house floods or burns down to the ground, a tornado wipes away all of your belongings.
You see these things are all distractions from the devil (storms) that are meant to get your mind off of what God has in store for you. Stay on course. Don't let anything stop you. Because if you let the devil get to you, guess what? He will!
You are all in my prayers...
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Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations".
This was God talking to the prophet Jeremiah. He was confirming in His word that He has a plan for us. And that plan was set in motion before we were even born. I am telling you today that God has a plan for your life. Seek God often and ask Him. He will answer. And when you start walking in God's destiny for you, you will be renewed with an incredible vigor to do the will of God.
Be blessed...
Robert
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MY JOY COMES FROM...
When people ask me where my joy comes from I can't but take it as an opportunity to witness about the goodness of Jesus!!! Now I don't consider myself a bible thumper. I'm just so grateful to God for showing me a way out of the demonic prison I was in. When you experience hell on earth and get out, you can't help but share that hope with someone else who may be looking for a way out of their own private hell. I was trapped in a situation with demons speaking to me all the time. I felt the only way out of my life of drinking and drugs was to die. I figured if I just killed myself that all the sadness and physical pain would end. I was wrong. Committing suicide is just the beginning of the pain I would experience in hell in forever separation from God! I was on my way to hell when Jesus reached down into my pit of despair and rescued me. And now I am living the life that God intended for me to leave. Oh yes I still have my challenges. Because Jeus said in the Word of God that "In this world you will have trouble". So we are going to be attacked by the devil. But as Christian believers, we can "take heart! Because Jesus has already overcome the world!" So don't be afraid to talk about Jesus. And don't be afraid to tell your story. You never know who is waiting for someone to tell them. It is your story, your trials, your overcoming and deliverance that will lead others to Christ and a promise of live everlasting. It is the promise of an eternity in the presence of our heavenly Father who loves us more than anything!! Praise God!!!!
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What Eyes Are You Seeing With?
In Numbers 13, Moses sent out some men ahead of everyone to investigate the land that they were given by God. When the men got there they saw the land filled with milk and honey but they also saw the people there and they looked so large to them that they even said starting in verse 31, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are." 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them." Has God ever spoken a promise to you and you tended not to trust Him fully that it was going to be so? You see God's ways are not our ways, His thoughts not our thoughts. The thing that God has promised you is going to happen but you must have faith that it will happen. In other words, close your "worldly eyes" and open your "spiritual eyes" so you can see more clearly what God is trying to show you. Some of us miss out on the blessings of God because all we can see is the barrier that is in the way. But God wants us to see what He has for us down the road. Looking beyond your circumstance is the only way to see the promises of God. That's because God's promises are always on the other side of the "test" of our faith. This is so no man can brag that he accomplished any of God's promises for his life on his own. The mission always looks impossible because we have to apply our faith in order to receive the things of God. We must believe it's already ours. The men that moses sent were so afraid of moving into their destiny that even when Caleb spoke up with confidence and said they would overtake the men in the Negev, they still didn't believe it. Because their enemy looked so big to them that they felt like grasshoppers to them. When we don't activate our faith then the promises of God will not manifest themselves in our lives. We must remember to fight the good fight of faith always. And the mountains we face will be moved and cast into the sea! We already have the victory. We just need to claim it by faith. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6) (c) 2010 Robert T. Sells - all rights reserved
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God Spoke Over Your Life... Now What?
When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we become instant heirs of the promise of Abraham. What was this promise? God told Abram in Genesis 12:2-3, “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” God promised Abram that He would make his name great. He said He would pour out a blessing that there wouldn’t be enough room to receive. Now look at Genesis 13:1-2. Did God keep His promise? It says, “So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.” Clearly God had a plan for Abraham to make him wealthy. God spoke over his life when he was 75 years old and told him He would make Abram a “father to many nations”. God kept this promise even though Abram tried to hurry the process along. Since his wife, Sarai, was barren and wanted to fulfill God’s promise she had him sleep with Hagar, his wife’s servant, to give birth to his heir. Out of this union came Ishmael, but he wasn’t the heir God promised. Sometime around Abraham’s 100th birthday God opened up Sarai’s womb (whom He now gave the name, Sarah) and she gave birth to a son and they named him Isaac. This was the child that was truly the heir through which God would fulfill His covenant to Abraham. I believe what the Lord is saying here is that we have to cling tightly to the things that the Lord promised us during our times of prayer and communion with God. He is outside of time so when we ask according to His will we immediately receive that thing that we’ve asked for. So just like Abraham (who was named Abram before his established covenant with God) had to leave his people, his family and the things he knew in order to receive his blessing, sometimes God will require us to make a move to get to the place where the blessing is in order to receive it. That may mean leaving a church we’ve been with for years or leaving our parents’ home, even when it feels uncomfortable. God wants to get us to a point where 2 things are happening. First, we trust Him only, which increases our faith; and also because He wants to remove the distractions the devil is trying to put in front of us through our loving family members. So trust God and believe He has already delivered the promises He spoke over your life. God answers prayers. And He wants you to operate in the purpose He has intended for your life. But in order to get the promises of God, we have to stretch ourselves by putting ourselves in a position where we have to depend on God and not man. It is then that we will meet the blessings of God in the place where He designed for us to have them. Glory to God!
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The Storms Will Come
In John 16:33, Jesus told the disciples, "I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world". Jesus wanted us to know that when we do things for God and we start walking in His plan for our life, the devil now has a legal right to try and stop us. How do he do this? He sends storms our way. What do I mean by storms? Here are some examples: As soon as you get some extra money to buy more CD's or books so you can sell them, your water heater goes out. As soon as you sit down to write more of your story, you get a massive headache or a family member calls and says they are stranded and they need your help. The dog dies, you lose your pen, your laptop gets stolen, a loving relative passes away, your house floods or burns down to the ground, a tornado wipes away all of your belongings. You see these things are all distractions from the devil (storms) that are meant to get your mind off of what God has in store for you. Stay on course. Don't let anything stop you. Because if you let the devil get to you, guess what? He will! You are all in my prayers...
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Walking In Your Destiny
Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations". This was God talking to the prophet Jeremiah. He was confirming in His word that He has a plan for us. And that plan was set in motion before we were even born. I am telling you today that God has a plan for your life. Seek God often and ask Him. He will answer. And when you start walking in God's destiny for you, you will be renewed with an incredible vigor to do the will of God. Be blessed... Robert
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