April 26, 2020

I Need A Break!

I Need A Break!

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Psalm 34:1-8 NKJV

I have realized as I have grown older that self evaluation is critical to my stability. We all have a breaking point, naturally speaking, and I have to be mature enough to be able to honestly evaluate where I am at. Over the course of this week I realized…I NEED A BREAK!

I need a break from talk of pandemic, curves, and death rates!

I need a break from conspiracy theories, rights, and government overreach.

I need a break from obesely wealthy celebrities telling me “We are all in this together” and elected officials telling me I do not have mental capacity to look at a situation objectively and make decisions for myself!

I need a break from the unending back and forth on social media between brothers and sisters in the body of Christ criticizing one another, thereby revealing their lack of maturity!

Not just a break, but WE need a BREAKTHROUGH!

We need a breakthrough from discouragement, depression, and disillusion!

We need a breakthrough from the responsibility of “figuring it all out”!

We need a breakthrough from fear and panic and anxiety and worry!

When I need a breakthrough from external pressures, I need an internal reset. What do I do when we need an internal reset?

RELEASE MY PRAISE!

1 I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

My starting place is always praise.

Praise is the seat/throne of God. Complaint is the seat/throne of the enemy.

The praisers were always sent out to battle first. Praise is how the battle is fought.

Most of the time the battle is not with the demonic, its with the mind.

When I praise, I praise in the Spirit first!

1 Corinthians 14:15-18 TPT 15 So here’s what I’ve concluded. I will pray in the Spirit, but I will also pray with my mind engaged. I will sing rapturous praises in the Spirit, but I will also sing with my mind engaged. 16 Otherwise, if you are praising God in your spirit, how could someone without the gift participate by adding his “amen” to your giving of thanks, since he doesn’t have a clue of what you’re saying? 17 Your praise to God is admirable, but it does nothing to strengthen and build up others. 18 I give thanks to God that I speak in tongues more than all of you…

My experience with discouragement while riding the other day. Song, His eye is on the sparrow.

SHIFT MY PERSPECTIVE! 2 My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; The humble shall hear of it and be glad. 3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.

Perspective determines your thoughts. Your thoughts will determine your words. Your determine your atmosphere.

Soul: mind, will and emotions.

Magnify; to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does. to make greater in actual size; enlarge: to cause to seem greater or more important; attribute too much importance to; exaggerate.

The problem with that is that you can not make God seem grater than He is! You can not make God bigger than He actually is! You can not attribute too much importance to God! You can not exaggerate how AWESOME, HOW MIGHTY, HOW MAJESTIC, HOW WONDERFUL, OR HOW GOOD HE IS!!!

HE IS THE GOD WHO SPOKE THE WORLDS INTO EXISTENCE! HE IS THE WHO REACHED DOWN FORM THE THRONE ROOM OF HEAVEN AND FROMED MAN OUT OF THE DUST OF THE EARTH! HE IS THE GOD WHO BREATHED THE BREATH OF LIFE INTO MAN AND CAUSED HIM TO BE A LIVING BEING MADE I HIS VERY IMAGE!

HE ALONE IS GOD AND I WILL MAKE MY BOAST IN HIM! (Every good and perfect thing come from The Lord!… Governor Cuomo, you didn’t flatten anything but the economy! If the curve has been flattened God did it! If lives have been saved, God did it!)

He’s talking about perspective. Your perspective!

Let’s Magnify Him for a moment.

God said, “Light Be!” And immediately light was shot across the sky traveling at 186,000 miles per second, 671,000,000 miles per hour!

➡(The Bible says, Thy word is a lamb unto my feet and a light unto my path! Speak the word!)

The closest star is 4.3 light years away. At 671,000,000 miles per hour it would take me 4.3 years to get to the closet star.

The sun is 93 million miles from the earth. If I got in a jet traveling 600 miles per hours today I would be 64 years old by the time I reached the sun.

When my perspective about Him shifts, my perspective about me will shift! I start to rise up in my position.

I stop allowing my situation to define me and start using my position to define my situation!

Stop allowing things or people who didn’t create you to define you! The one that design a thing gets to define a thing!

When my perspective shifts about me, my perspective shifts about my enemy!

Ponder my testimony! 4 I sought the Lord, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears. 5 They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces were not ashamed. 6 This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, And delivers them.

I remember all the times the enemy tried to take me out when I was a kid but The hand of The Lord protected me!

I remember when I didn't have a job, but never missed a meal or a bill!

I remind myself that I could be a drunk, a drug addict, or a convict!

I remember the times I was so depressed I thought I was going to loose my mind, have a nervous breakdown but THE LORD BROUGHT ME THROUGH!

I remember when fear gripped my mind to the point my body felt like it was going to shut down when the enemy tried to take my wife and son out during birth!

My discernment clears. 8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

To taste here means to discern, perceive; to evaluate. Ta‘am as a noun came to refer to “discernment,” that is, the capacity to choose and delight in good things.

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