God’s Spoken Ways

Right And Wrong

Right And Wrong – is about being honest in how we see truth, how we see what is right and wrong. The world is changing as the Lord said it would, our thinking of right and wrong is changing along with it. There was a day, a time when we all knew and believed the source of truth is found in God, through Christ Jesus. But our thinking is changing, we are beginning to believe in ourselves, more than in God.  Even within the Church, our belief system and thinking are changing. We are beginning to compromise God’s Word for the sake of those who don’t want to change their ways. We are exchanging the gifts and promises of God, what we will receive when Christ returns, for what we can receive in this life.  We are entering a dangerous time, many are not believing in God, many are calling what God calls truth, wrong. We are fulfilling scriptures that tell of a time when mankind will exchange the truth of God for a lie, so we can do as we please and still think we are doing good. We cannot call wrong right, or right wrong. We must stay with God’s truth found in Christ Jesus, so we continue to change and grow in faith, spirit, and truth.

God's Will

God’s Will – is about learning to walk in God’s Will. Many of us have accepted our relationship with Christ Jesus which leads to a relationship with the Father. We must ask ourselves a question, are we doing God’s Will? We have a Will within ourselves that we must be aware of, and it is different than God’s Will. Our Will was formed from the world and desires we have for our life, both of which make us indifferent to God. As we grow in faith, our Will causes us to struggle in understanding and doing God’s Will. Only by us coming to know and follow God’s Will can we achieve our true purpose through Christ Jesus for our lives. God’s Will requires we live a certain way, we act a certain way, and we obey God’s commandment to follow his Son, Christ Jesus. Do we know God’s Will for our life, or we seeking his Will? Unfortunately, many believers come to God so God can bless their Will, their plans, and dreams for their life. To grow in faith, we have to seek the Will of God, over our Will, by asking God to reveal his Will and plan for our life. We must follow Christ’s example, doing what pleases God the Father, and not our will.  If we are going to serve God and walk faithfully before him, we must seek his Will, and come to delight in doing the Will of God. 

Make Time For God

• Make Time For God – Busy, busy …. We are all so busy, therefore we look for ways to shorten our time with God. We want church service to be short as possible, our prayers are short, our time studying God’s Word is short if we read God’s Word at all. God honors those who seek him, those who spend time in prayer, those who study his Word. We must make time for God, to ensure God has time for us when we are in need. God’s Word is filled with scriptures teaching us about how we need to continuously seek the Lord so we can find him, so in our time of need, the Lord answers our prayers. This requires us to spend time with God. We are such a “me” generation, we have short attention spans, we can only pay attention for a short period, everything has to entertain us, or we quickly get bored. The more we make time for God, the less boring it will be because God will use us in a mighty way. Satan wants to captivate our thoughts and minds, to keep us busy and away from God.  If we want the promises of God, his protection, his blessings, his grace, and mercy, then we need to make time for God, so he makes time for us.

Pretenders

Pretenders – every once in a while, the Lord gives me a challenging sermon to bring, its one that causes some to be offended, but those who can receive, it helps them grow in their faith in God. This is one of those teachings that hits us where we are today. I pray you can receive this message with the intent the Lord meant, for he does everything in love. We have become people who love to pretend, we do things to ourselves to look different than we are, to attract others. We are willing to present ourselves differently by adding things to our body that are not real, this is very dangerous and harmful to someone seeking the truth. From the beginning, mankind has been pretending, but this generation is taking pretending to a much higher level. We must be careful, God is a God of truth, there is no pretense, lies, or falsehood him. Satan likes to masquerade, his servants masquerade as a child of the light, masquerading cannot be what we are in Christ. We cannot present ourselves as someone we are not. Our faith in God must be built on truth, that which is on the outside and inside must be who we are. We cannot be a pretender and stand truthfully in God’s sight. We cannot grow in faith if our life is about pretending, masquerading to be someone we are not. God is truth, we must be truthful, our lives must be about truth, who we are must be truthful, and what we do has to be done in truth.    

Only God Knows

Only God Knows – is about understanding where knowledge and understanding come from. The world would have us to think and believe that truth, knowledge, and understand comes from within us. The world teaches us how far we climb the corporate ladder, how successful our businesses become is directly related to our knowledge and understanding. We see ourselves as Christians, but we do not depend on the Father and Christ Jesus as the source of all knowledge regarding how we conduct our daily life and activities. We think God’s knowledge only makes us aware of God, and what the Lord plans to do. We fail to see as one with total knowledge and understanding, and nothing is done without God’s knowledge and understanding. God not only wants us to know him, his plans, his Son Christ Jesus, but the Lord also wants to receive his knowledge and understanding for our daily lives, so we avoid bad decisions, and walk in God’s wisdom. Only God knows all things, knowledge of mankind is limited and useless in teaching us how to do good, live right, love others, and how to serve God.

Crying Out To God

Crying Out To God – is about learning to cry out to God in good and bad times so he knows our name and answers us when we call. We can’t be the type of believer who allows pride and arrogance to control our behavior where we are too prideful to cry out to God. Pride makes us stiff-neck and we will not humble ourselves before God. We need to come before the Lord humbly, on bending knees, with our hearts open, and tears flowing from our eyes. Crying aloud, Lord we have sinned, we have done wrong please help us, we repent, we need your mercy Lord. We cry out for the Lord to bless us, our family, to help the lost, to lead our pastors, guide our leaders. Lord, you have blessed us in so many ways, we continually seek you, crying to you, many are in trouble, many are suffering. We need your forgiveness, grace, and mercy. With tears flowing from our eyes and hearts, hear our pleas, harken to our cries, we need you Lord more than ever. 

Thoughts And Ways

• Thoughts And Ways – The world teaches us every day, if we want to have happiness and be successful, we must take our thoughts and ways and put them into action. Whatever we think, whatever we desire, whatever we want to do, we must be put it into action. Do not let anyone stop you, not even the Lord. Those of us who are working to grow in faith, understand chasing after our thoughts and ways cannot, will not, bring us closer to God. The Lord has already told us, his thoughts are not our thoughts, and his ways are not our ways. To grow in faith, we must change our thoughts and ways to be like Christ Jesus. Our thoughts and ways must be transformed so we can take on the mind of Christ, to please God. Step by step our mind, our insight, our understanding must become like Jesus.  

No Turning Back

• No Turning Back - After we establish our faith in the Lord, we must grow and work on our salvation as taught by the Lord. We must reach a point in our faith where no trouble, no loss, no sickness, no pleasure, no situation, no circumstance causes us to turn back to our old ways, to our old self, back to seeking things in this world, turning away from seeking and obeying God. We have come too far; we cannot turn back now. We have overcome so much through Christ, we cannot turn away, we cannot turn back. We must continue to grow our faith through it all, there is much more work to do in us, much more service for us to do in obeying and serving God. If we turn back, we will not be fit to enter God’s Kingdom. We cannot turn to the right, back our old self, or to the left back to the world, to sin, to ungodly principles. We must stay the course, so we reach God’s Kingdom.

Seek Him

Seek Him – is teaching about when we all hit a point in life where we turn to seek God, where we take the first step to seek and find God. We do not doubt there is a need for us to seek God, the need is self-apparent.  We do not need anyone to convince us, we know we need to find the Lord for ourselves.  Seeking God is a continuous process, a growing process in Christ Jesus. In seeking the Lord, we must seek God in his prescribed way, not seeking him in a way defined by others. God laid out a path through his Son so when we seek him, find him, and walk faithfully before him. Many get mislead, take wrong paths, but we must stay on the path of God in seeking him.  

Growing Through Storms

storms. We can choose to allow storms that come our way to make us not believe or even worse, lose faith and turn away from God, or we can allow our faith to grow through the storms. We must come to understand and learn why storms are necessary for our lives, why storms are intended to help us grow in the Lord. Without storms, nothing would make us take notice of God, nothing would make us change our behaviors, nothing would make us cry out to God. Sometimes storms come because we have not paid attention to the Lord, we have done our own thing, and not followed his Word. Sometimes storms come because the Lord wants to test our faith, to see if the things we say with our lips are the same things stored in our hearts. We must grow through the storms of life, knowing God is always faithful.

Picking and Choosing

• Picking and Choosing – is teaching about us coming to accept all of God’s Word into our heart. Our faith must be built on the whole Word of God, not bits and pieces we decide to believe. The Father through Christ Jesus has made his Word plain to us, so we can receive it, so our children can receive it, and it transforms our mind and heart to seek God.  God’s Word teaches us that sin is not something you and I get to choose which sins we will stop, and which sins we can continue doing as Christians, for the Lord makes it plain to us, we must stop sinning.  Picking and choosing what we believe from God’s Word will make us a religious person, and we will miss the fullness of Christ Jesus, the Father wants us to experience in seeking him. We must accept it all, no picking and choosing, but be faithful in all things of God through Christ Jesus.

Clinging To Self

• Clinging To Self - This teaching is about our walk and ensuring we are not clinging to our old self but living in the newness of Christ Jesus. If we allow the Spirit to examine us, we will see just how must we still indulge in our old self and old behaviors, and sinful ways as a Christian. We can’t serve the Lord while still desiring the things we did in our old self, in our old way of life. Christ says if we take our hand off the plow and look back, desiring the things of old, we will not be fit for the kingdom of God. All our old habits, behaviors, and sins have to be put to death, they must go, so we can faithfully follow and serve Christ Jesus in pleasing God. We must learn to live in the new life we have in Christ, be complete in the Lord, not needing anything from our old self. (its riches, greed, cursing, lying, cheating, selfishness, boastful, pride, or arrogance). We can live without any of these behaviors and habits, be full of joy and happiness in Christ Jesus, living in our new self.

Oh My Soul

• Oh My Soul – is teaching to help us understand our walk with God, and how it is about the state of our soul. What will be the state of our soul when it is all said and done, when we stand before Jesus? We cannot allow others to deceive us into why we are blessed to have life.  We are here to learn of God, to develop, grow, and mature our faith so our heart yearns for God. It's through our heart, our soul is connected to Christ Jesus, so we have life in him. What good does it do for us to gain all the things of the world, yet forfeit our soul?  We must have a fear of God in our hearts, so we don’t turn away because we desire things of the world, more than life with God.  It's all about the state of our soul, not the state of our bank account, not the state of our job, not our business, but the state of our soul. God gives us grace and time on earth so we come to love him, seek his ways, become faithful to his word, learn to follow Christ Jesus so our soul receives salvation, and our souls are saved.

Journey Of Faith

Journey of faith  – is teaching to help us not get it twisted when the Lord calls us to go on a journey with him.  It will not be about what we want to do, or things we want to achieve in life.  This is a journey of faith, where the Lord places us in places to develop, grow, mature, and test our faith. Along this journey, we will be changed by the Lord. There will be many trials we will have to overcome on our journey.  Everyone's journey is not the same, though we come to learn the same lessons from the Lord.  We must count the cost before we decide to accept what the Lord has called us into, we cannot get in the middle, and when things get hard and tough, when troubles come our way, we want to quit.  This is a life long journey we must complete, so we have victory in the Lord, and the plans of God for our life is achieved to bring God glory.  

God Sees

God Sees – is about accepting the truth, God sees everything we do, everything we think, every desire we have, everything that is in our heart whether good or bad. There is no hiding place, there is nowhere we can run, there is no place we can hide, where God cannot see us. Knowing this should change how we behave, change our thinking, change what we do, knowing that God sees all.  Not only does God sees all, he also wants us to see him through his Son Christ Jesus.  It is for this reason Christ came into the world, so those who are blind can see the word and ways of God through Christ.  As Christians, we cannot see through the eyes of the world, through social media, or through the internet, we have to want to see through the eyes of God, so we have spiritual sight. We want to see as God sees, so we have insight into the things of God and do what is pleasing to God.

Circumcised Heart

• Circumcised Heart - is about the condition of our heart. God emphasizes the condition of our heart because it’s the gateway to our soul. The condition of our hearts represents the weakness or strength of our faith. We are from the world, and things of the world have to be cut out by the Spirit so we can grow and have great faith. The Word and Spirit cut away religious beliefs and practices, it cuts away hate and anger, it cuts away greed and selfishness. The work of the Spirit through Christ Jesus cuts away jealousy and revenge, it cuts away doubt and unbelief, it cuts away fear and worry. Everything that is in us that is not of the Lord is cut away. We want it all to be cut out of our hearts, so we don’t serve God with an uncircumcised heart, one that has not been changed and made clean. We don’t want a religious physical circumcision, we want a spiritual circumcision done by the hand of Christ and not mankind. Circumcise our hearts Lord so we are faithful to you and The Father, to his word and ways.

Hand Of God

• Hand of God – As Christians, we must desire God’s hand to be upon us, it’s the only way we know our walk is right with God. We need God’s hand to correct, heal, teach, guide, and show us the way to eternal life. We don’t want to produce work that is in vain, which does not please God. When God wants to place his hand on us, we have a choice. We can choose to accept the Lord’s hand, and receive understanding, be blessed, and have a purpose in life. We could choose to reject the Lord’s hand, and experience suffering in life. God is a God of grace and mercy, if we choose to turn from our ways and receive God’s hand, he will restore us and grant us peace. If we must accept Christ’s hand, follow the Lord all the days of our lives, we, our children, our families, and our churches will be blessed and not forsaken. God’s hand is awesome, powerful faithful, and effective in saving lives.

Justice

• Justice- Is teaching about God’s Justice versus the world’s form of justice. Today we see the suffering that comes when injustice is allowed to be the rule of law. Many people suffer, but this is not what the Lord has taught us about his justice, and how to administer proper justice for all.  We must turn back to the ways of God, so there is justice for all, for the measure we use, will be used to judge us.  We must administer justice the sets people free, that does not oppress or treat people guilty who are innocent in the eyes of the Lord. We must administer true and fair justice so all can be blessed by the Lord.  We have to seek the Lord in all our ways, so we understand the ways of God, he is a just God. We must follow Christ Jesus, who taught us to administer true justice, so those who are oppressed, the poor, the fatherless, and widows can feel justice in their lives. Justice must be fair, and cover both the small and great so there is justice everywhere.  Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.

Today's Idolatry

Today’s Idolatry - Idolatry is placing anything ahead of God.  We must ask ourselves; do we commit Idolatry?  Though we do not sacrifice food to idols today, some of us do place things ahead of God. We sacrifice our time, money, and resources to things, like our homes, jobs, possessions, money, titles, cars, people, and our children instead of God.  We must look at the things we place ahead of God, he is a jealous God.  Though we are under grace, the Lord plans to remove his grace, so judgment can take place. We will have to give an account of our lives, and the things we have done. Did we keep God first in our lives, placing nothing before him?

Fear Of God

• Fear of God– Is teaching about the importance of having a fear of God within every believer. Without a fear of God living on the inside of us, though we believe, we won’t do what God says. Fear is what keeps us from doing wrong, whether following the rules on our job, or following the laws, or doing sinful and bad things in our relationships, or to others. Though we want God through Christ Jesus to bless and love us, we won’t put away our sins. It’s only through learning to fear God you and I will stop sinning, it’s the only way we will treat others right, it’s the only way we will change our lifestyle to be pleasing to God. Without the fear of God working on the inside of us, we will want to do good, but we don’t. The fear of God living on the inside will make us obey, will make us share, will make us love one another. Fearing the Lord will make us turn from evil and sin because we don’t want to lose the Spirit of God, we don’t want God to turn away from us, we don’t want to lose our connection to Christ Jesus. The fear of God, will cause us to love God and others.