DISCLAIMER: YOU MUST BE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST JESUS TO GRASP THESE TEACHING AND TO LIVE THIS KIND OF LIFE!

SERIES: WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME!

Recap: Set up to Win. I hope that you are beginning to position yourselves to begin to experience God in a life-changing way.

THIS WEEK’S EPISODE: Introduction: Success Comes With A Cost!

JOSHUA 1:7-8- 7 “Be strong and very courageous. {4 times] Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. 8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Joshua was one of only 2 of the spies that believed that they could possess the promised land, this is why God chose him and giving him a blessing of invincibility during his lifetime. He listened to God & Moses, he was willing to risk it all for God and he was never afraid to act on what God called him to do. You know you, somebody when God named one of the books of the Bible after you.

Some first ingredients of being a successful believer are found in part of vs 7 {strong, courageous, and obedience]

1.    It is when turning right or left, following our plans, our thoughts, our desires, things began to fall apart:

Moses- (Num 20:11-12). He allowed the stubbornness and hard hearts of Israelites to keep him from entering the promised land, God told Moses to speak to the rock, He struck it.  

Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-10)- Half Obedience is not even good enough, they wanted people to think they gave all the possessions to the poor, but the Holy Spirit revealed to Peter what they had done.

Israelites- worshipping other gods, marrying foreign women, not killing their enemies.

1.    Memorizing the Scriptures, going to church, listening to gospel music is not enough, it must be obeyed, it has to be trusted, and it has to be always on in your mind/heart. We cannot do with it like we are taking a test, keep the information in our head long enough to pass the test, or like going to an interview, researching a business to find out what it's all about to impress until you get the job. It connects you to the very heart of God. It is your protection [spiritual armor, it lets us know when we are getting off track, it is life]. If the Word used the Word to fight the schemes of the devil, so must we. 

Success Comes with a Cost:

1.    God is only going to give us success if we are willing to follow His master plan and not our desires. 

2. God does not give passes for disobedience

3. Purposely Pursue God, A Blessed Life Is Not Automatic!”

Experiencing God, Discerning the Voice of God, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things.

PROVERBS 16:3- Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and He will establish the plans.

Lessons To Reflect On From This Week’s Episode: 

Our success in this world is not determined by the world standards but it is based on the Word of God and you will never succeed until you trust Him!

Psalm 37:4 Delight thyself in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart. He gives us our desires because our desires line up with what He desires.

Letting go your will is not easy, it is familiar, traditional, all you have ever known but just like Jesus, we have to deny ourselves, pick up our crosses and follow Him and while we are going, saying in our heads and out loud “not my will but thy will be done. It cost Jesus His life, what will it cost you?

Next week we will continue to dive into what God has just for you. Check out Romans 12:1-2

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DISCLAIMER: YOU MUST BE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST JESUS TO GRASP THESE TEACHING AND TO LIVE THIS KIND OF LIFE!

SERIES: WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Well, I want to share for the next four weeks with you about benefits of trusting and obeying our Heavenly Father. I want you to be so overcome with His presence and power that you will no longer ask what is in it for you but what how can I give back to God from whom all our blessings flow! It will increase your faith, help you to walk in obedience, and let go of the weight and sins that has kept you entangled and away for the presence and blessings of God.
When I was meditating on this word, an old song came to me. “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now”, I know every one of you all have heard this song because we play at every family reunion. So many of us have allowed life curb balls to keep us from the promises of God, we have given up, and accepted what life has thrown at us. Today is a new day, get up, get on the move, and get back into the grove. God has given up on you, so do not give up on yourself!

THIS WEEK’S EPISODE: Introduction:  Set Up To Win! 

Isaiah 45:2- I will go before you and will level the mountains.  I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.

Lessons To Reflect On From This Week’s Episode: . 

Listen to me, I need you to take all God's word this is in your head and put in your heart. It is only then will you believe, trust, and put practice what you know about the God we serve. He is a GOOD, GOOD FATHER and He loves you more than you can ever grasp. YOU HAVE BEEN SET UP TO WIN!

We quick to say that Heaven is a place for “prepared people”, but so is earth, because knew that we would not be able to fight through the hell we go through on earth without preparing us.  God did not save us and tell us to go and figure out how to make it on this earth all alone. He has prepared the way for us, He has empowered us with His Holy Spirit, He has equipped us with gifts, knowledge, and wisdom, He has given us victory, and He has promised to never leave or forsake us. He has entrusted us to receive these blessings so we can share with others the gift of salvation.  I am saying it a second time, YOU HAVE BEEN SET UP TO WIN!

God did this to make sure that would be able to overcome anything that comes our way to try to kill, steal, or destroy us and keep us from doing the work we were created to do. I’m going to say it one more time, GOD HAS SET YOU UP TO WIN!

This may be hard to grasp or or understand if you have never been through anything in your life that has caused you to call out to the Lord for help, for strength, for peace, for His presence, or His protection but just keep on living, it will come a time your life when you go through something that only God can handle and only He can get you through.

You tried everyone and everything but tell me where has it gotten? I am begging, pleading with you to give God a chance, begin to trust Him, and trusting what His Word has declared about you, I can guarantee He will show you all of what is in it for you! 

Next week we will continue to dive into what God has just for you. Check out Joshua 1:7-8

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This podcast has been cultivated through many years of heartache after heartache that could only be overcome and conquered by being TOUCHED BY GOD’S MERCY & LIVING ON HIS GRACE. Throughout these podcasts, I will share the Word of God and some of my most heat drenching testimonies.

1 Chronicles 16:24-25 tells me to declare God’s glory among the nations and His wonders among all the people. For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised: He is feared above all gods.

DISCLAIMER: YOU MUST BE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST TO GRASP THIS AND TO LIVE THIS KIND OF LIFE!

Introduction:

PURPOSE OF THIS PODCAST:

·      Arouse you to accept and walk in the Gift of God’s Grace! Ephesians 2:8- “for by grace are you saved through faith; that not of yourselves: it is a Gift of God.” 

·      Remind you to remember and be Revived knowing God’s Mercy is New Every Morning! Lamentations 3:22-23 “it is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”

·      Support and Encourage you when the Hours are long, the Days hard, the Nights are lonely, the Months are unbearable and while the Years keep passing by. 2 Corinthians 1:3- Praise be the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion, & the God of ALL comfort, who comforts us in ALL our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort ourselves receive from God.”

·      Invite and Inspire you to get involved in the work that God is doing through you and around you. Philippians 1:6- “being confident of this, that He who begin a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

·      Experience God’s Grace as He Transforms your Life as you listen to these podcasts. Psalm 23: 6- Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."

THIS WEEK’S EPISODE:

My reflections:  

1.Baby newborn-laying on mother right after birth

2. The women with the issue of blood healed because of a touch (Matt 9:20-22)

3. Isaiah angel touched his tongue with hot coals willing to do the work of God (Isa 6:6-8)

4. Jacob hip socket touched when he wrestled with God, he was seeking a blessing (Gen 32:24-28)

5. Jeremiah said God touched his mouth (Jeremiah 1:19)

6. Paul blindness on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:3)

7. Elijah touched twice after running from Jezebel (1 Kings 19: 5, 7)

MY PRAYER FOR YOU: 

1 Chronicles 16:11- Look to the Lord and His strength, seek His face always

WE ALL NEED THE MERCY AND GRACE OF GOD EVERYDAY!   

We need God’s mercy because we need forgiveness and so we can forgive others. It is touches us in ways that is underserved, unexpected, but very much needed.

God gave us grace- its free, its unmerited favor of God that was demonstrated in the salvation of sinners and the hand over a lifetime of blessings. Everyday God extends His unconditional (agape) love to us it ways that should may us praise and honor him.

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Next week we will dive into Understanding what God is willing to do to get us to our destiny. Check out Isaiah 45, my focus will be on vs 2.

Thanks for joining this podcast. There will be a new episode uploaded every Thursday starting at 6am

REMEMBER MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS, IT TAKES GRACE TO MAKE IT!!!