Dwell in the Secret Place

Do you know how to meditate? Many are surprised to hear that everyone is born knowing how to meditate effectively.

We all know how to worry. Well, basically worry is just meditating on fear, doubt, and unbelief. Early in life we become expert at this.

It is not so much that you need to learn how to meditate, you just need to change what you meditate on.

Get Stirred Up

The devil wants us to be complacent. It supports his plan for us to be depressed, sick, and/or impoverished. As long as we live in a defeated state, we are a poor witness of the love, power, and grace of God.

The best witnesses for satan are defeated christians.

We have doctors, counselors, chat show hosts, tv shows, and magazines all advising us that we should just “accept” our situation and let it run its course. If we don’t do this, they look down their nose at us and say we are “just in denial”. The world says to just give in when all natural remedies fail.

The thing is, we do not have to accept defeat.

God on the other hand provides a way, even when in the natural there does not seem to be any way. All we need to do is just receive what He has already done for us.

Instead of just “learning to accept” how we percieve our condition to be, we need to get stirred up about what God has to say about our condition. Get indignant about it. How dare sickness attack your body when Jesus already bore the sickness for you. How dare the devourer rob you of the riches God has for you, when Jesus was made poor so that you could be made rich.

The best witnesses for God are victorious christians.

Where the Heart Lies

One thing that never fails to rub me the wrong way is to listen to people whine and go on about “Why doesn’t God bless me?”, or “Why does ‘so-and-so’ get blessed and not me?”.

These are the same people that spend between one hour a day or one hour a week going to church or reading the bible, if that…

They then turn around and spend 4 to 12 hours a day filling themselves with doubt and unbelief by watching whatever garbage happens to be on the TV, radio, in some magazine, the latest gossip, or the like.

Then they have the audacity to wonder why their faith is not working?

You see, God has already done everything He’s going to do about solving your problem. He knew about your need long before you ever knew you had a need. Like any loving parent, He is more interested in seeing you prosper than you are.

God has provided a solution to your problem by His Grace.

All that is left to do is receive His Grace.

To receive what God has already given you, you must do so in faith.

First you need to know that God has already provided for you, and there is nothing you can do to earn it. This is how you get faith, it comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

Once you have the faith, the last thing that stands between you and the answer is doubt and unbelief.

The key is in overcoming doubt and unbelief. The best (and to my knowledge, only) way to do this is to:

1) Starve it out. Starve it out doubt by not feeding it. Eliminate avenues of doubt and unbelief into your life.

2) Drown it out. Keep God’s Word continually before your eyes, in your ears, and coming out of your mouth. Replace the unbelief with the surety that God is faithful to perform His word.

Reflecting on Relationships

What will you be thinking of on your death bed?

Think about it…

Will you be thinking “I sure wish I would have watched more television”?

Will you be thinking “I should have bought another house”, “worn more designer clothes”, “I should have worked more overtime”, or “gone shopping just one more time”?

Or will you be thinking about the relationships in your life?

Will you regret the hours you were too busy to spend with your children? Your wife? Loved ones, friends?

Now, ask the question: “What is most important in my life?”

Watch and Be Calm

Remember without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

You are all the sons of light and the sons of the day.

We are not of the night, or of darkness.

Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm.

For those sleeping sleep in the night, and those being drunken are drunken in the night.

But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for a helmet.

For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we watch or sleep we should live together with Him.

1Th 1:3-4, 5:5-10

Ministry of the Comforter

Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you.

Eph 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

Eph 1:18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

Eph 1:19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, the ones believing according to the working of His mighty strength

Eph 1:20 which He worked in Christ in raising Him from the dead, and He seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,

Eph 1:21 far above all principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name being named, not only in this world, but also in the coming age.

Eph 1:22 And He has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church,

Eph 1:23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Jam 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.