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4 things for success in 2009 – pt. 4

Get the strife out
Strife will stop growth and open the door to all kinds of wickedness…let’s see
James 3:16

(AMP)  For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices.

(CEV)  Whenever people are jealous or selfish, they cause trouble and do all sorts of cruel things.

(KJVR)  For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

(Moffatt NT) for wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there disorder reigns and every evil.

(msg) Whenever you’re trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others’ throats.

(nas)  For where jealousy (127) and selfish [59] ambition exist, there [60] is disorder and every evil thing.

(NIV)  For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

(NKJV)  For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

(nlt) For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and every kind of evil.

Strife is deadly. Some Christians wonder why they stop growing and they are not experiencing all of God’s best when they continue to cause and/or allow strife.

Strife causes division in local churches, families and will stop growth.

You are responsible for you. Don’t wait for others to get “right” or make things right.

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4 things for success in 2009 – pt. 3

Don’t ever stop tithing & giving

There is a certain promise to tithers – God will rebuke the devourer for you!

Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the LORD of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” Says the LORD of hosts; And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land,” Says the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 3:10-12 NKJV

God’s nature is to give. He is love and love gives.
Luke 6:38 – Give and it shall be given to you. (Jesus said this – it is not someone’s opinion.)

There is a spirit of debt that has a hold on our nation. For years people have bought things with money that they did not have to impress people that they did not like. Debt is a vicious cycle that includes “fear of losing it all”. This fear is a part of the “spirit of debt” – and is ultimate bondage.

Giving that is motivated by love and in obedience to God and His Word is the only way to break the power of the spirit of debt!

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4 things for success in 2009 – pt. 2

The second directive for the year 2009 is…Change your way of thinking.

Romans 12:2 (AMP)  Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

Look at the Message translation of this verse: (msg) Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Don’t agree with the world because Matthew 18 (power of agreement) works for the negative as well as the positive. If you agree with the negativity of the world it will come to pass in your life. So renew your mind with the Word of God so that you can think like God in order that the will of God can be accomplished in your life.

You are responsible to renew your mind until your thinking is changed. Get in the Word everyday and let it wash the stinking thinking away for good! Be transformed.

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4 things for success in 2009 – pt. 1

Don’t talk lack and recession!

Everyone in the world is talking about the lack and recession. It is rampant.

God did not call us to agree with the world, He called us to be different and to agree with Him. He knows that times are tough but He has not fallen off His throne or is not pawning off the gold from the streets of Heaven.

God does not get nervous if the stock market drops. He was in control before the stock market was ever created!

We must speak God’s word in order to walk in God’s will.

Agree with God, not with the world.

We say that God supplies all of our needs according to His riches in glory. His blessing is upon us. (and it is independent of the world’s system…read the story of Joseph.)

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Out of your mind

Pro 3:5 (AMP)  Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.

Get out of your mind and begin to trust in the Lord….because you can’t do both at the same time.

Either you are trusting God or attempting to scheme and figure out a way in your mind.

Trusting God begins in the heart. It is a heart issue.

The heart of the matter is always a matter of the heart.

Deep down inside yourself you must settle the question of “who is in control of my life?”…are you or is God?

Give yourself (and all that that includes) to God. All of the stress and worry, pain and grief, disappointment and discouragement…give it to Him. now.

Quit thinking so hard and trust God.

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