Powerful Messages In The Word

What each of us needs knowingly or un-knowingly is to be inspired to a greater good or purpose by the word and the word is the word of God. This has been a weekend of inspiring words for me and I believe in the sharing of these words hopefully others will be touched as I have been. The first was a lesson based in understanding that what we speak can and is very powerful and that we need to be caution of what we speak into the world. The scripture is very clear on the power of the tongue to kill and while we think of it in the literary term of someone lying dead before us we need to consider the death of the spirit. When Adam and Eve were told that if the ate the fruit of the forbidden tree that they would truly die, Eve clearly didn’t understand the concept and indeed after that wrong decision of all wrong decisions they did die in the spirit as the result of bringing sin into the world. By the will of God this is a concept that goes far beyond the idea of positive thinking, thoughts and deeds and borders on the power of God in that Jesus said after his death and resurrection that we would have the power to do even greater things than he had done with the coming of the Holy Spirit his truth began to manifest itself into the world. This being said we can speak positive things into our lives and we can if not careful keep negative things alive. The other learning was the power of God to move things ahead in our lives if we just ask him to do so. The power of God to accelerate whatever thing that is before us to happen in a shorter amount of time. It may be in our jobs in the way of promotion, it may be in our desire to have a family, improve our health, reduce our debt or improve a marriage. It's all possible with God, and he has said in His word that all things work together for our good. There are times we will not understand how it is coming to pass and how God ultimately wants to bless us and enable us to bless others. When God is at the wheel years can become days, hours can become minutes and minutes can become seconds to God surprising you with his grace. I can’t say enough about the power of believing God's word, and the benefits of just saying thank you for his goodness.  You want to see what God has in store for you don’t let another minute past without acknowledging what he has already done for you. The second of many messages that touched me was the idea of God taking care of ever problem we might bring to his door and knowing that God does love and care for us like know one can imagine. It was proven time and time again in his word that when God is involved miracles abound. In the turning of water to wine, the feeding of the 5000 plus, the calming of the sea were illustrations of God’s power to bring about change in the blink of an eye. However the message I heard and understood today provided a totally new reflection of these stories. These stories were selected to be examples of situation where there was a shortage that needed to be filled, as we all have had or are now experiencing in our lives, the circumstance of being short of something that we might be leaning on God's promise to fill. What some of us may have missed in each of these stories, where Jesus filled a shortage being the underline messages, while less obvious yet ever so important is us understand the true clarity of purpose and power of God. The man of God who delivered this message in this case said while many may have thought the one and only shortage was food there were actually at least five more shortages critical to Jesus word and purpose in being able to resolve the issue at hand. Those was a shortage of time given the lateness of the day, the shortage of comfort due to them being in a barren land, shortage of compassion considering the disciples just wanted to send them away to find food to eat, the shortage of financials to go and just purchase enough food and the shortage of charity on the part of the disciples since they were tried and really just didn’t want to deal with the crowd any further. So the take away of the message being God can take care of every shortage we might have in our lives if we are born again and just ask him to take control of the situation. May God bless you with divine acceleration in the areas of your life that may not be moving at the rate you desire and may it be your portion that God fills every shortage you might have in your health, marriage, family, career, financials, relationship and most of all in your walk with him in Jesus Name Amen.