" It Is No Secret What God Can Do" by Stuart Hamblen

God awoke me this morning and this song was on my mind... Thank you Jesus!

It is no secret what God can do.
What He’s done for others, He’ll do for you.
With arms wide open, He’ll pardon you.
It is no secret what God can do.
The chimes of time ring out the news,
Another day is through.
Someone slipped and fell
Was that someone you?
You may have longed for added strength,
Your courage to renew.
Do not be disheartened,
For I have news for you.
It is no secret what God can do.
What He’s done for others, He’ll do for you.
With arms wide open, He’ll pardon you.
It is no secret what God can do.
There is no night for in His light
You never walk alone.
Always feel at home,
Wherever you may go.
There is no power can conquer you
While God is on your side.
Take Him at His promise,
Don’t run away and hide.
It is no secret what God can do.
What He’s done for others, He’ll do for you.
With arms wide open, He’ll pardon you.
It is no secret what God can do.

God Will Provide Your Financial Blessing!

We don't know where it's coming from, but we do know that God will provide for our needs.  If we stay prayed up; if we stay faithful to His Word, God will provide for all our needs.  God is true to His Word and cannot lie.  He loves His children and has proven this time and time again.  His track record is perfect! 

We, the children of the King, would never experience financial struggles if we listen to our heavenly Father.  We must learn to listen to God when He tells us when to go, where to go, and what to do when we get there.  We must realize when God is speaking to us Himself or through other people via television, radio, computer, telephone, in the church and those we live with no matter the age, gender, creed or color.  We must identify when God is giving a revelation for an invention.  When God says now is the time, we must step out on faith (Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen).  How do we think what God has promised us is going to come to pass if we don't do our part!  God is true to His Word, but like a good parent He won't do for us what we can do for ourselves.  Why would God make us financially stable if we are spending what monies we have the wrong way and/or on the wrong things?  We have to be good stewards over what we already have in order for God to bless us with more.  We have to give God His, take care of others, and manage our homes correctly.  This is good stewardship.

God has a plan and a purpose for us all.  When we learn to be obedient to the Lord and His Word the plan and purpose for our lives will begin to fall into place. We will not only be financially prosperous, but we will be prosperous in every area of our lives.  God wants the best for us, so we have to want the best for ourselves, and start doing what is best for others and ourselves. 

 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.  You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.  2 Corinthians 9:10-11 (NIV)

Letting Lack Linger in Our Lives

Lack lingers in our lives because of so many reasons (hesitation, procrastination, fear, doubt, etc.) but the one common thread is that we are the major cause of lack lingering in our lives.  We make bad choices, plans, and decisions because we don't consult God.  We delay progress because we don't want to do it just now.  We keep thinking we can put things off until tomorrow, but sometimes tomorrow never comes.  Sometimes tomorrow never comes because we keep making excuses not to deal with what we know is right to do.  Sometimes tomorrow never comes because we died before it came.  It is bad, and, yes, sad when anyone chooses to let lack linger in their life, but it is extra bad and sad when Christians allow lack to linger in their lives when we know that God does not want us lacking anything.  We need to use the gifts we have.  We need to exercise the power we've been given.  We need to rebuke the bad habit of letting lack linger in our lives, and we need to replace it with a good habit (i.e. prioritize and organize).  We must do what we can do right away, and make a list of future projects to be finished in a timely fashion.  We let people, unimportant issues, and useless habits stop our forward progress.  Lack is not an external issue, it is internal.  We can beat this lackadaisical, lackluster mind set if we would just do what God tells us!  Is this easier said than done, sure it is, but anything worth having is worth working for.  Besides, we know that any assignment that God gives us we can trust Him to see us through to the end.  Heck, we can trust and have faith in God to see us through to the very end!  Come on Saints, let's get lack off our backs and out of our lives.  Let's move to a higher level in life, in God.  Selah (pause, and calmly think of that).  Amen (so be it).

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience, but let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.  James 1:1-4 (KJV)

God's Love!

In the seventies Dionne Warwick sang: "What the World Needs Now, is Love, Sweet Love," music by Burt Bacharach.  Dionne thought it should be our national anthem.  We all need love, but we sometimes look for it in the wrong places.  We end up feeling more lonely than before the relationship began.  Maybe it is because we thought we were in love when we were actually in lust.  Maybe it is because we had no commitment.  I have been there.

I know that what the world needs now is God's love.  Since the first time I experienced God's incredible presence for myself, I never wanted to be without it.  I feel God's love when I read the Bible and spend time in prayer because God is love.  God's love is unconditional and forever (agape`).  It gives me security and purpose.  I have hope for the future and peace in this uncertain world. My hope is built on the promise Jesus made when He rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven.  He said He would come again in the same way He left, so all could see.  He said He was going to prepare a place for us and if He went to prepare a place for us, He will certainly come back to take us to be home with Him (John 14:1-4).  Don't think because it has been two thousand years since He said this that it won't happen.  God is taking His time because He desires for everyone to be saved.  The people during Noah's time never thought water would cover the earth, but it did.  In those days it had never rained before the flood.  Water only came up through the ground.  Rain was one of the results of man sinning.  Everybody lives in a time period when something doesn't exist, at first, and then it does (phones [land-lines, cell], microwaves, computers, etc.).  Once we experience God's love, it is actually too much for us to hold on to selfishly.  We have to find ways to share it.  That is what Jesus did.  God wants us to love Him and love each other, and, yes, that even includes our enemies.  In fact, in His Word (the Bible) God commands us to love.  That is what the world needs now. We need to experience God's love every day.  It's the only way out of hopelessness, despair and depression.

If you are reading this truth for the first time, I am praying for you.  You can experience God's love by surrendering your heart to Him.  I waited way too many years before I prayed a simple prayer to invite Jesus into my heart, to live with me and help me live for Him.  But when I did, I felt loved like never before.  I want you to experience that love too.  If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9)  Just pray the following:  "Dear Jesus, I invite to come into my life and be my Lord and Savior.  I believe that You died and rose again so that I would be saved from sin.  Thank you for my salvation in Jesus' name, amen."  If you prayed this prayer for the first time, would you let me know by commenting on this blog.  If you do not have a Bible I want to make sure you get one.   God be with you.

God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16 NIV)

Prayer: Heavenly Father, open the eyes and hearts of people today so they can find truth and meaning to life in Your love in Jesus' name.  Amen.

I'm Not God, Nor Am I A Punching Bag

I am a spiritual being, housed in a body with a soul.  I am a Christian.  Therefore, I strive to be a Christian by practicing Christianity each and every day, second after second; minute after minute; hour after hour; week after week; month after month; year after year; 365 days, 24/7.  And yet, I'm still not perfect, because (guess what) I'm not God.  Somewhere, in the recessess of this fleshy body lurks the old man of yesterday, and if you keep stepping to me in a negative way he just might show himself, unfortunately.  I hate when this happens, because as a representative of Jesus Christ I am to represent Him in a positive light.  I can't let your action predict my reaction, but sometimes I do because I've taken one hundred hits, and when number 101 came I decided to hit back.  Hopefully, I hit you with the truth in love.  Even a punching bag over the years of usage starts to show its wear and tear.  Yes, I'm a Christian, but if you cut me do I not bleed?  Words cut deeper and cause greater damage than any knife on Earth.  When a knife cuts you you can see the cut and doctors can repair the damaged area, but when words cut you they destroy what you can't see,and the process of healing is necessary and long in order to restore a real and healthy relationship with each other.

Do you not see my struggle, do you not feel my pain?!  You're not in front of a mirror so stop looking at self.  Why are you looking at me like I'm crazy for being angry?  God never said we couldn't get angry.  He said, and I paraphrase, do not anger to sin.

Stop expecting me to do the impossible and be nice all the time. Stop thinking you can do anything to me and I'm going to keep turning the other cheek!  I can be nice 9 times out of 10, but not ten times out of ten because I'm not God.  Okay, its been a hard day, your frustrated, and you need to vent and I just happen to be available.  I can relate to that, but, just maybe I had a hard day too.  I'm a Christian not a punching bag.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

"Let us not love in word and talk, but in truth and deed."

God's Got Your Back!

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

Trust and Thank God, Knowing It's Already Done!

Sometimes we like to complain to God about how we don’t see anything manifesting, but many times we’re the hindrance to our own deliverance and blessings.  Our doubt and unbelief can cause God’s promises for us to be hindered and/or delayed.  Why?  Because there is unbelief.  God doesn’t operate with a person’s unbelief, but rather their belief in His ability to do specifically what He said He would do.

I want to let you know that just because you can’t see physically what’s happening in the spiritual realm doesn’t mean nothing is happening.  This is where our continuous faith in the Lord takes place and is tested.  Faith is the substance of things hope for and the evidence of things NOT SEEN.  This scripture tells us that faith requires us to believe in what we do not see.  This scripture also, in my opinion, lets us know that we can’t make a judgement call based upon what our eyes do or do not see;  though we may not see what’s happening physically right away, spiritually (by faith) it’s already done and it’s just awaiting for its appointed time by the Lord to happen physically.  However, you become a hindrance to yourself when you start to doubt and second guess what God has told you.

In many of the scriptures given in the Bible, when a person confronted Jesus with his or her problem or need, notice that Jesus says, “thy faith has made thee whole”, “according to thy faith you are healed”.  On the other side of this, we also see that Jesus won’t move or perform miracles when doubt and unbelief are dwelling within a person.  Furthermore, when God tells you, “your healed” “your delivered” “your saved”; you must believe and receive that at that very moment it is done.  You may say, “it doesn’t feel like it was done”, but know that our feelings are deceiving.  If it was okay to go based upon how we felt, the Bible wouldn’t urge us to crucify our flesh daily.  There are times when I don’t feel saved, but I know it’s the devil at work.  There are times when I don’t feel like reading the Bible, but I read it because that’s the only way to know the Word of God which is to know God.  Don’t go based on how you feel, go based upon who made the promise.  We all fall short of the glory of God.   Friends and family may not always fulfill their promises, but the Word of the Lord never comes back to Him void and unaccomplished.

So today I encourage you, as I encourage myself also, to be obedient to God.  Whatever God said to you, praise God for it already being done because it is indeed done (praise Him in advance).  Know that the enemy will play with what you can’t see being manifested; this is why you must read the Word of God.  For you must “replenish” and increase your faith, and this only comes by reading and hearing the Word of God.  When the enemy comes and feeds you doubt, rebuke that spirit and rebuke him in Jesus name, and praise God all the more for the blessing He’s bringing your way.  Continue to bless the Lord, even when you think nothing is happening –when it really is.  Stand on the spoken Word of God and on His promises and rest in Him knowing that unlike us, when God makes a promise, you can rest assure knowing it’s already done.

The Word keeps our spirit fed so we will have the strength we need to fight a good fight, keep the faith, and finish the race.  The Word helps us to understand better, and more and more as the days go by, Who God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are and what relationship we should have with them.

When we sit down in a chair we trust it to hold us up.  Why can't we trust God, the Creator, Who created the being that made that chair!
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Heb 11:1 (NIV)