Overcome and Pursue

Job 42

Here is an excerpt from Live For Results that I believe you will find useful.  I welcome your comments.

The enemy is always looking for a way to get into your ear.  He understands that if a bad seed is planted in soil that accepts and nurtures it, it will produce bad fruit.   Since you were born, he was looking for opportunities to plant seeds of doubt.  The mind is fertile ground and one seed can produce much.  If you accept the first seed, he will continue to plant in you one carefully constructed, strategically planned lie after the other.  With this tactic, he has deceived many to the point that they don’t believe anything really good can happen in their life, and if it does happen it won’t last.  Keep in mind that our purpose in God is to believe in Him and do what He wants us to do.  In return, He promises to bless us beyond what we can even imagine.  Your purpose and your promises go hand-in-hand.  If you don’t believe that good things could, and actually, should happen for you, they won’t.  This is not because God can’t perform them.  But it is because He can’t perform them through your doubt...

...Too many of us have become paralyzed, emotionally and physically, simply through the thoughts we have accepted over time.  If God says you’re healed but you don’t start walking in the wisdom of that healing, it will not manifest.  If God says you’re delivered but you don’t change and start living a delivered lifestyle, your deliverance won’t take root.  If God says He’s going to give you the relationship you desire but you don’t walk in patience and prepare yourself for the type of relationship you want, you may never get it.  And, if you do get it, you won’t be positioned to keep it.  If you somehow are able to keep it with a wrong mindset, you will regret ever wanting it because it is hard to handle what the relationship gives you when your mind is rooted with bad seeds.

James 2:20 proclaims that faith without works is dead.  What is dead has no life, and if there is no life in a thing, there is no God in that thing.  This is what walking in faith is all about.  Acting on what it is you say you believe.  The first and most important part of your faith and actually the core of your faith is trust in God.  Trust, first of all, that God loves you and will love you forever without ceasing and without condition. Then trust Him to care for your needs as you focus on His needs through you. 

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