Do You Need A Miracle? It’s In Your Mouth

So many people are in need of a miracle these days. So any people are experiencing lack, illness and despair. So many of these people are believer’s that are bewildered as to why they are experiencing hardship. A true believers life is not an easy one, but it is of victory here on earth just like it is in heaven.

We must have a clear understanding of what Jesus taught on how to be an overcomer. In Ephesians 1:19-29 Paul wrote that the same power that the Father used to raise Jesus from the dead is at work in us. Keeping in mind that Paul, even though chained in a Roman prison, penned this strong message should make it even more powerful to us now as we face these tumultuous days. Even though Paul was pressed on all sides, he remained steadfast and his ministry became one that has blessed us through the ages. Just as God did for Paul. God will fulfill all His promises to us, for the same power is doing the same today. Many need to grasp this more fully.

Are you currently facing hardship physically, mentally or spiritually?You can access your miracle by speaking life into every situation. Do not confess any negative thoughts that enter your mind (Proverbs 30:32). There is a “miracle in your mouth.” Speak what you want. Declare you are healed. Declare you are free from anxiety. Declare you are out of debt. Speak more than enough and never lack. Speak over your family, speak anything that concerns you morning, noon and night.

Jesus explained that we should “speak to our mountains“ or any obstacles in our path and our situation will change according to our words. When the words we speak line up with God’s Word. His power is released.

“Life and death are in the power of the tongue” -Proverbs 18:21.

Your miracle is in your mouth. Your words have life! Choose life. Either you can speak good things over your life or you can speak bad things over your life. “Start by calling those things that be not as though they are” (Romans 4:17).Speak life continually and watch how God works it all out for good. God spoke the world into existence.

Slaying Giants In Your Life

We all remember the story of David and Goliath. When I first was told this story I was fascinated about how someone as small as David could kill a faint. Here we have David, whose main responsibility was to take care of the sheep. I imagine a small scrawny boy, I little boy with big ideas and even bigger dreams. David was the last one born of 7 brothers. David’s father decided to sent him on a errand. He was supposed to take his brothers a snack and return home with the news of their well-being.

How many times have you left home to do something and it turned into something huge? How many simple decisions have you made that blew up in your face and caused a disaster. David that morning left him sheep with another shepherd and takes off for a journey that would change him entire life.

We all have giants in our lives. It not be a man like Goliath maybe not even 9 feet tall with a bronze armor that weighed 125 lbs. That giant in your life might be abandonment, abuse, depression or unemployment. And your giant my not stand in front of you yelling, “Today, I stand in front of you yelling, “Today, I stand and dare the army of Israel! Send one of your men to fight me” (1 Samuel 17:10). Goliath paraded up and down the hills in the valley of Elah yelling and threatening the Israelites. Your giants prances through your office, your classroom, your church, unfortunately, maybe your home. He brings bills you can’t pay, grace you can’t make, people you can’t please and people who claim that they love you.

Today’s Goliath provided you with whiskey you can’t resist, drugs to can’t say no to, pornography you can’t refuse, a job you can’t escape, a past you can’t shake, and a future you can’t face. How long has this Goliath stalked you? How many generations for your family were destroyed by the same Goliath. How long have you allowed this Goliath control you? The story of David and Goliath reminds us of the Giants in our own homes. We are constantly fighting giants.

We battle the Giants names adultery, bitterness, un-forgiveness, debt, lust, loneliness, tempers, self-image, verbal, physical, sexual abuse… We have strongholds . Satan loves to dump buckets of strongholds in our lives. He loves to whisper in our ear.

My question is for you is what is your war plan for destroying your Goliath? Are you going to hide in the corner or are you going to pick up your spiritual weapons and fight? I hid in the corner 37 years before I showed up for the fight discussing God. God has delivered my from the lion’s mouth. We often forget the number of fights God has fought for us. But, with loyalty to God it is evident God declares that the battle is the Lord’s and God does not need swords or spears. The Lord who is all-powerful will not hand us over to our giants.

When David killed Goliath with one sling, one shot. No one else was discussing God, but, David had discussed no one else but God. This fight we are fighting is beyond human perception.

David’s vs Goliath was really God-focus vs Giant-focus. Where we major in fear, David majored in God. Stop seeing your giants, just see God more.

You Got This!

Digging Wells In The Valley

Are you going to through a valley, a difficult time, a troubling situation, or adverse consequences? Jesus promised that we would all have to face unsettling times. Psalm 84 speaks on one of those valleys called the “Valley of Baca.”

The valley of a Baka means the valley of weeping or the value of tears. It’s a place of sorrow and difficulty. The reason it was called “the valley of tears” is that the people of God would journey to Jerusalem in order to worship. The journey was perilous, difficult, fearful, and sometimes sorrowful. The terrain, The desert and the presence of thieves made it a dangerous journey as well. In Psalm 84:6, gods people were told to “Make it a well.” The idea is to discover God blessings In the midst of the worst of conditions. So how did they make it a well, a place of blessing out of place of sorrow? They turned to God. They trusted God. They allowed God to turn their troubles into blessings, as only He can do.

That problem you are facing, that sorrow you are feeling may become a source of God’s blessings the key is to walk in obedience to God’s will and surrender your valleys to Him. These whatever’s on their way to Jerusalem obeying God and now the Psalmist is telling them to look for water, look for the springs, look for God’s blessings and provision. They were to dig a well . In Psalm 84:6 the first two words are encouraging: “Passing through.” You won’t stay in the valley of Baca foreverWhether it’s a difficult situation where a whole life, it won’t be like it is now forever. Remember, this is not your home. Heaven is your home.

How To Dig A Well

1. Dig a well by prayer (Psalm 84:8)

No matter what their circumstances they kept talking to God, realizing that through prayer they could experience power to help him get through the valley of Baca. When you are confronted with a difficult or sorrowful situation, stop what you were doing and cry out to God asking for His intervention and wisdom.

2. Dig a well by experiencing God‘s presence (Psalm 84:7-10)

Athletes believers obeyed God, they experience God’s precious present. The meaning of the second part of her seven is the experience God. It means our real contact with God. When you find yourself in a troubling moment pray, “God please let me be aware of Your presence right now. Let me know you are there.“ experiencing God‘s presence has a transforming affect.

3. Giga well by standing on God’s promises (Psalm 84:11-12)

There is a valley of Baca in the promises of God. you will either give into your feelings and circumstances or you will rest on the promises of God by faith. The promise is God will not withhold anything that is good or beneficial from you as you walk in the center of His will. God is the definition of good and our definition may be different at times, but God always does what is absolutely the most beneficial His Children. You must let God decide what is good.

4. Dig a well by praising God (Psalm 84:4)

In your difficult situation, begin praising God for Who His Is. You are circumstances, and bad if they are, have not changed who God is. Praise isn’t a feeling; it is a choice you make. Are you choose to worship God, he lifts you above the circumstances are you announce through your praise that the problem may be bigger than you, but it is not bigger than God. Further praise confesses that God is in control.

5. Dig a well by looking for God‘s provision (Psalm 84:6)

You have to do your part. You must dig the well, however, when there is nothing else you can do, when the resources have run out, when there is no way out and no way through, God meets the need. God often won’t do what only He can do until we do everything we can do. When we come the end of ourselves, then God can work. Someone once said, God is not all you need and until He is all you have.”

6. Dig a well by relying on God’s power (Psalm 84:3,9,12)

We serve an all-powerful God. In these verses we can see that God is the controller and a ruler of all. No one can defeat Him. Our strength comes from Him. Aziz believer walked through the difficulties obeying God they got stronger. Sometimes it takes a trial to strengthen our faith. The problem that could put you into a pit, when it is turned over to God, can become a platform that blesses you

When Will The World End?

Jesus’s disciples asked Him for signs of “the end of the world.” Jesus didn’t give a date, But He did a prophetic signs we should watch to be ready.

There are many ideas about when the world will end, and even about what the end of the world and the end times and mean.

For many, it’s a joke, Cartoonists draw a strange man wearing a sandwich board sign proclaiming “The end is nigh” to the y heeding crowds on a busy big city street.

But it’s not just kook’s and religious people talking about the end of the world. Scientists and politician throw around the phrase as well. Headlines discuss “ here’s how do you put in Hocking predicted the world will end” and “ how will the world end? Expert reveal 9 Most likely Way humans will be wiped out.”

Existential Threats And The End Of The World

Human survival in the world as we know it are truly under threat. Make passionate and even desperate people are warning and trying to reverse which ever of the dangers you are existence seems most real to them. But there is little agreement and precious little action. The dangers row worse, and most people use their best to put them out of their mind.

But is there definitive answers about what is going to happen and when? Is there a real Lucian to prevent human extinction?

Why not consider the source that most likely gave us the term end of the world and see what it says?

Where The Term End Of The World Came From

Before there was a scientific or political interest in the end of the world, there was a religious one, based on the wording of the most influential English translation of the Bible.

The king James version of the Bible there are 1611 uses the expression of the end of the world seven times. Four of these are in the book of Matthew, referring to the prophetic and times. In Psalms 19:4 and Isaiah 62:11, “ end of the world” instead has the connotation “to all parts of the world.”

In the Bible, what does “end of the world” mean? And when did Jesus say it would come?

The Disciples Asked Jesus About The End Of The World

Jesus had warned His disciples that the Most magnificent structure of the nation and religion was going to be totally destroyed (Matthew 24:2). They were understandingly concerned and wanted to know when this would take place. They connected His prediction of the destruction of the temple with other predictions that He will come again at the end time. So they approached Him.

“And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall do you think of me? And what shall be the sign of you coming, and of the end of the World? (Matthew 24:3).

End Of The World Means End Of Age

If you check other, more modern translations of the Bible, you will see that most of them translate the last phrase as “end of the age.”

In the Greek Bible the word used is aion, which here means an age – specifically, the time of man’s misrule that will end when Jesus return.

The disciples were asking about the time when Jesus will return to end humanities a obstruction and begin the rule of the Kingdom of God over earth.

What Are The Signs Of The End Of The World?

In Matthew 24 I just gave many signs that would lead to His return, including His promise that the good news about God’s kingdom would be shared around this world- a world steeped in bad news.

Jesus said,“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:14).

The good news is that, though Jesus will come back during a time of unparalleled “great tribulation “ when humanity is at the brink of self-annihilation, he will return and save humanity (Matthew 24:21-22).

The signs Jesus gave include religious deception, wars and rumors of wars, famine, disease, epidemics and much more.

We can look at all of Jesus’s prophetic signs and know we are very close to the end, but Jesus said we will not know the day or the hour (Matthew 24:36).

What Does Jesus Want Us To Do Until The End Of The World?

So what did Jesus tell us to do? At the end of Luke’s account of the same prophecy, Jesus warned:

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day will come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Watch therefore, and pray all week that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man (Jesus Christ).

Luke 21:34-36

Jesus compared the end times with the days of Noah, when most people ignored Noah’s warnings and were completely unprepared for the flood.

The Parable Of Tares And The End Of The World

His parable of the wheat and the tares (weeds). This parable what about how God sows His truth in this world and prepares people for His Kingdom, while Satan sows lies the produce people who pretend to follow God but follow Satan instead.

The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

Matthew 13: 39-49

To Be Truly Ready For Christ’s Return, We Must Be Sure We Are Living As He Lived And Doing What Is Pleasing To Him.

Yes can also serve as a sober warning two questions for you not for themselves into thinking they’re OK just because they attend church or consider themselves Christians. Satan is the master of deception. Should be ready for Christ’s return, we must be sure we are living as He lived and doing what pleases Him.

Jesus Christ’s Words Of Reassurance About The End Of The World

In what has come to be known as the great commission, Jesus gave His followers a job to do before His return and Hegave us encouragement as well.

Jesus said to go and “teaching all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen” (Matthew 28:20).

Gratitude Challenge

This challenge can help you add more thanks to your life.

5 Different Exercises

Feel free to do the challenges in anyway that suits you, whether it’s back to back days or spread over the weeks or months. Then if some of them resonate with you more than others, focus on those and save the rest for another time.

The key is discovering the practice that increases the gratefulness in your life. Enlisting a gratitude buddy – someone else who will do the exercises at the same time as you so you’ll be able to share your experiences can help, too. But it’s not necessarily needed.

Challenges

1. Take a photo Every day of something you are thankful for.

What good things in your life would you see if you just took time to look? This particular challenge has an on perk: whenever you need a reminder of what really matters to you, you have your photos to look back on.

2. In your transactions with cashiers, or others take the time to look in the eye and really think them.

3. Put up gratitude stop signs in your life.

Many of us spend our lives chasing after happiness – searching for people, jobs, possessions or philosophies that will lead us to contentment. After we get there I’ll get enough of those things lined up, will have the time in the world to be grateful. Right?

You can put up the kinds of signs suggested but you could also stop to take photos of the thing that provoke gratitude. Or you might pick a point on your daily commute to stop and take notice something you appreciate. Maybe you could set your phone to badgering the day, and let that be your prompt to look at your surroundings and your life for what’s good.

4. Write down some positive things about I loved one – and give it to them.

I lost my father suddenly. I know he knew I love him. But I never really told him some of the positive things about him. I wish I would of told him all the many blessings that he gave me.

5. Be honest about the thanks you’d like to hear from the people in your life.

Try this out with the people you’re closest to: Who are essential family or friends. After a while you’re telling them what you want to hear, be sure to ask them what they wanted to say to them.

Gratitude refers to the ability to show thanks for the things you have and the things you are grateful for. It helps us get closer to God by recognizing all the blessings in our life and make it easier to focus on the positive.

Why Do You Doubt?

No one is immune to doubt. It happens to us a,k. You’ve Judy got to know how to handle it when it comes. Even the greatest men and women of God recorded in the Bible had to deal with doubt. Jesus said John the Baptist.

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Immerser; yet he is least in the Kingdom of Heaven, is greater than he.

Matthew 11:11

That means John was greater in the sight of Jesus than Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, or any Old Testament character you can name. Yet John doubted the most important thing of all by questioning whether Jesuswas really the Messiah.

John the Baptist had been cast into prison for criticizing Herod about marrying his brother’s wife, an incestuous relationship. He had been there sometime between six months and two years and became so discouraged that he asked two of his disciples to go to Jesus and ask Him if He was the Christ. It’s easy to read that and not think much about it, but the truth is, it was nothing but unbelief on the part of John the Baptist.

Think about who John was. He was separated unto God and filled with the Holy Spirit while he was still in the womb. Even Jesus wasn’t filled with the Holy Spirit from the womb. It is believed he lived in the desert near the Dead Sea with the Essens, the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls. They are alegalistic people who were super-legalistic who dogmatically practiced many rituals of self-denial. He certainly had not lived what we would call an easy life. John was separated and focused on his purpose.

His entire life was committed to preparing the way for the Christ. He spent 30- years preparing for a ministry that would only last six short months. John is the one who saw Jesus and said, “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world” ( John 1:29). The anointing on his life had to be exceptionally powerful because his ministry defied logic. Thousands of people from many nations came to the middle of no where to hear this man preach, “Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” And God had revealed to him that through a visible sign from heaven he would know who the Christ was. He would see the Spirit of God descending upon the Messiah in bodily shape as a dove. That came to pass when John baptized Jesus in the Jordan River.

At that time, John was absolutely certain that Jesus was the Christ. He had no zero doubt. He was so adamant about it that he said,

“I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God” in John 1:34. In Luke 3:16 he said, “One mightier than I come the, the latchet of shoes I am not worthy to unloose.” And in John 3:30 he said, “He must increase, but I must decrease.

However, after being imprisoned for a period of time, he began to doubt. This says a number of things, but an important one is the fact that anyone can doubt. How did Jesus respond to John’s doubt? Well, He certainly didn’t respond the way most of us do. He told John’s disciples to go back and the him of the miracles they had witnessed and the John would be blessed if he would just believe. That’s it. Jesus didn’t try and make John feel better by letting him know He understood his pain or by making a few complimentary comments . Jesus reserved those comments until after John’s disciples left (Luke 7:24-28).

This confused me for many years. Why didn’t Jesus say these things about John the Baptist in the hearing of John’s disciples so they could have brought him that word? It seemed to me like that would have helped John more than just telling him to look at the miracles, and he’ll be blessed if he believes.

Then I read Isaiah 35 and came across the scripture that says,

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

Isaiah 35:5-6

It suddenly struck me that this was exactly the answer that Jesus gave John’s messages. Look at what Jesus said in Matthew 11:4-6:

Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

Matthew 11:4-6

Jesus performed all the miracles Isaiah prophesied He would do, and threw in the healing of a leper and raising someone from the dead just for good measure. What Jesus did was He perfectly fulfilled the prophecy about Himself, and then referred John the Baptist back to that word. Jesus reminded John of the scriptures, to deal with his doubts. That’s Jesus’s method to dealing with our doubts.

Many of us have Bibles lying around gathering dust, Some of us even carry one with us. But when we’re struggling with unbelief , we don’t want scripture; we want something tangible, something emotional that we can feel. We would rather have Jesus just put His arm around us and say “Everything will be all right.” That would make us feel better. But overcoming doubt isn’t just about feeling better; it’s about getting back into faith that only comes from the Word of God (Romans 10:17).

Maybe there’s a reason the Lord hasn’t used an emotional touch to deliver you from unbelief. Maybe it’s because He loves you so much that He’s trying to help you operate in the highest form of faith- faith that takes Him at His Word. If the least today are greater than John the Baptist was (Matthew 11:11), surely the Lord is wanting us to operate on at least the same level in which He dealt with John’s unbelief.