Posts Tagged ‘success’

Your Plans Or His Plan for 2012

Monday, 05 December, 2011 08:31 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

Is it too early to begin planning for 2012?

Proverbs 16:1-3 (NLT)

We can make our own plans, but the LORD gives the right answer. People may be pure in their own eyes, but the LORD examines their motives. Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed.

2012 will come and it’s fast on it’s way! (It will not take the Lord by surprise and neither should it take us by surprise.)

God is the master planner and was the FIRST planner! Before He spoke “Light BE” He had a plan for the light and everything else that He set out to create. He created all things with a purpose and on purpose. He didn’t discover man one day and say, “Oh, there’s a man. What should I do with him?” He had a plan for that man named Adam. He has a plan for you. (And He has a plan for you in the year of 2012!) (see Jer. 29:11)

God the Father has gone through some great efforts to make a way to get His plan for us transmitted to us. We are anticipating that 2012 will be the greatest year of our lives because God’s plan is for us is to ALWAYS “be fruitful and multiply!” (even when the earth is experiencing difficult times) He created us to succeed and be victorious.

Seeking His plan…

Share

Full of and Controlled By

Wednesday, 09 March, 2011 11:24 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

The prerequisite of doing the will of God is to be led by the Spirit of God and to be led by the Spirit of God we must be full of and controlled by the Holy Spirit.

Then Jesus, full of and controlled by the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led in [by] the [Holy] Spirit – Luke 4:1 (AMP)

He lives in us to fill us with Himself so that He can lead us and guide us. Only when He leads us are we successful and fruitful. We will do what He wants us to do and say what He wants us to say when we are filled with the Holy Spirit. Being filled with the Holy Spirit is not some level of spirituality to be proud or boastful about but a practical “equipping” in order to be productive for the Kingdom of God. The more filled that we stay the more closely we can follow Him.

Receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a one time experience but staying full of the Spirit is an ongoing practice of yielding to Him in His presence to receive all the strength, might and power that He has for us.

We put ourselves in His presence when we worship and magnify Him. We yield to Him when we wait upon Him so that He can renew our strength by His Spirit.

Get full and be controlled today!

Share

Add Hours To Your Day

Tuesday, 21 September, 2010 06:09 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

Each of us has 24 hours everyday but some of us have found out how to add more! (This is not a sales pitch for some new “daytimer” tool that makes you think you have more time) Here’s the truth:

My son, forget not my law or teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; For length of days and years of a life [worth living] and tranquility [inward and outward and continuing through old age till death], these shall they add to you. – Proverbs 3:1-2 AMP

This verse draws a distinction between “length of days” and “years of a life”. You can experience both longer days and more years in life by being a doer of the Word of God!

Time is something that becomes more valuable as we become older in this life because the time we have left compared to the the time that we have spent (or invested) becomes less the older that we get. Make sense? Hopefully as we get older we learn more about the value of time and how to be better stewards of time. We invest it rather than waste it. I like what the New Living translation says in Psalms 9:12 “Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.” Our time on this earth is like a vapor. It appears for a little time and then vanishes away. (James 4:14)

We add to each day by being a doer of the Word of God. We become wiser and more efficient the more that we hear the Word and put it into practice. Doing the Word causes a supernatural multiplication of your time each day! Believe it and confess it because it is the Word! Begin to say, I am more efficient and more effective because I am a doer of the Word of God therefore I experience an increase in the amount of time I have in each day! (and never allow yourself to say, “I just don’t have enough time”)

Share

Saying What The World Says

Wednesday, 15 September, 2010 09:57 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

Ever stop long enough to ask yourself, “Why do I say what I say?” The “world” has so many “sayings” that are totally opposite of what God wants us to say and to believe.

Here’s one: “I’ve got to go make a living.” What does that mean? Can you find such thinking and talking from the Word of God? Quite the contrary.

Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it… Psalms 127:1 NKJV

We are guilty of repeating what other people say just because we have not studied the Word enough to discover the will of God on a subject.

Looking at the subject of “WORK”…Here’s what Ephesians 4:28 says…”working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.”

Our working should not be something that we do in order to bring home just enough to pay the monthly bills. We have sold ourselves short and the Lord as well. Our every effort should be “as unto the Lord” in order that we can GIVE. This is how the Lord Himself works!  Can you imagine Jesus saying, “I owe, I owe, so off to work I go.” No way!

We are to let the Lord direct our steps to the degree that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are doing what He wants us to do with each minute of our lives. If this is the case, then the result will be NEVER be…”I’ve got to go make a living…*sigh*”. We can be filled with joy and expectation knowing that we are working in the right place, at the right time and for the right reason!

The purpose for living is GIVING!

Share

Making His Ways Our Ways

Wednesday, 18 August, 2010 06:11 Written by Pastor Bruce 0 Comments

Ever heard the phrase, “God is so mysterious.”? Most of the time this is used as a catch all phrase to indicate that it is impossible to understand God. But the Word is clear that God wants us to understand Him. He wants to shine the light where it is dark. To give us understanding so that we can walk in the light.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. – Isaiah 55:8-9 NKJV

This verse was not given to us in order to frustrate us but to identify that we are inadequate in and of ourselves. He wants to show us things to come. (John 16:13) He wants us to experience His leading and direction so that we can make the right decision, EVERY TIME! We do not have to take a “shot in the dark” when it comes to the issues of life (large or small). God has given us everything that we need to live a successful life every minute of every day and in every area! He delights to see us fulfill His plan. He is not trying to hide anything from us but He is endeavoring to reveal all things to us. Thank God for the Holy Spirit who is our guide into all the truth. When we take our thoughts to the Lord and say, “Lord, these are my thoughts…here you take them…and I in exchange take your thoughts…because they are higher…and always right…thank you that I have the ability to think like You by the power of the Holy Spirit!”. He is pleased with a prayer like that.

This is exchanging our inferior way of thinking for His superior way of thinking. Thank God that His thoughts are higher!

Share
« Older Entries

Email Sign Up


 

Archives

February 2012
S M T W T F S
« Dec    
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
26272829  

Categories