Living the Abundant Life Christian Center Dr. Samuel Meredith

To trust in the Lord is to obey Him. Jesus said if we love Him we will keep His commandments. Sometimes our love, respect, and fear will keep us from obeying God. If we do not obey, we do not trust.

We will experience faith failures if Jesus did not author what we are trying to accomplish. Many times we are guilty of assuming God is going to bless our works. However,  if he did not author it; He is not obligated to back it. We must always ask ourselves this question, "Who authored this".

God wants us to live in the moment, "It is in Him that we live and move and have our being". He wants us to minister to people while we are on our assignment or on our way to our assignment. Jesus healed many individuals while traveling to a nearby town. He was always ready to do the will of the Father and so we must be ready to do the Father's will.

God will send us to a place where His light is dim however, before we can impact the culture we must first learn the culture. While we are learning the culture, it can seem as if we are going backwards. We may question if we heard from God correctly. But if we stay with the assignment, God will use us in an impactful way to help change the culture.

When we worship God corporately with a sincere heart and we seek to live a lifestyle of obedience, the songs that we sing will manifest in our lives. We must make sure that we sing songs of life because the scripture says "All things are upheld by the word of His power." Obey and allow the word of life to manifest in your life.

Looking unto Jesus who is the author and developer of our faith. If we have questions in our walk in life we can always look to Jesus for the answer. He will always show/teach us and then He will give us the opportunity to demonstrate what we have been taught.

When people are hurt, separation is sometimes necessary before healing can take place. Consequently, we don't like to separate because we feel that it is a sign of defeat. However, God can use this time of separation to help us heal properly and in doing so, we can complete the race that is set before us.

Sometimes God will prompt us to advise someone who is going down the wrong path and we may struggle within to obey. The word says to him who knows to do good and doesn't, it is sin. When we have that knowing from the Holy Spirit, we must advise in love to please the father.  In doing so we will become a preacher of righteousness.

When we fellowship with one another many times we become unified. The word says it is good for us to dwell together in unity. When we stay in fellowship or honor those who were/are in authority over us. we will receive the commanded blessing.

God will give us a gift or talent to help us to prosper. He will also place us in situations to turn our weaknessess into strength ( Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith). If we want our weaknesses to become strength, we must be willing to change.