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It is True and it is authentic.  It is perfect and it is complete.  It has no mistakes in it and it is accurate.  It is from God and it tells us about God.  It was written by men who lived in the first century.  These men were inspired by God and they recorded exactly what God told them to write. This record has been preserved by the Power of God through the centuries and we have it today… it is called the Bible and it is the Word of God. 

            I want to tell you some things about the Word of God.

It is more than just a book.  It is more than just an historical record.  It is more than literature.  It is the very Word of God and it is alive and full of Power.  “For the Word of God is alive and powerful…”  (Heb 4:12)  It is filled with the Life of God and it is full of the Power of God. 

            It tells us about God.  It reveals the Nature of God.  It uncovers the mystery concerning God.  It tells us that God is Creator of all things.  “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth…”  God is the author of all things and the Creator of all things.  He made the earth, the heavens, the sun, the moon, the planets, the stars… He created all things that exist.  He created them by His Power!

             It tells us that God made Man in His own image.   He created them male and female and He breathed His life into them… Man became a living being created in the likeness of God, his Father.  God wanted a family to love and to bless.  God wanted a family that would love Him and honor Him.  The Bible, the Word of God, tells us that God created man.

It tells us that man sinned against God.  It tells us that man disobeyed God and betrayed God.  The Bible tells us that man refused God’s love and turned to satan because of pride and greed.   It tells us that this sin separated man from God and made it impossible for man to fellowship with God.  Man became a sinner and man’s sin built a wall or barrier between God and man.  The Bible, the Word of God tells us how sin came into the world and how that sin separated man from God.

            It tells us that God sent His Son, Jesus, into the world to die in behalf of man and because of man’s sin.  Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth and lived as a perfect man.  He was betrayed by man and crucified on the Cross as a sacrifice for my sin and your sin.  He became sin for us in order that you and I might be forgiven.  He died on the Cross so that we can be restored to God.  By His death, we are afforded Eternal Life.  The Bible, the Word of God tells us this.

            It tells us that all men everywhere can be forgiven of their sin and restored to God through Jesus Christ, the Son of God.  In fact, the only way for anyone to be reconciled to God is though His Son, the Lord Jesus.  How is this possible?  It is possible when you and I recognize that we need God…that we need forgiveness of our sin.  It is possible when we acknowledge that Jesus Christ is indeed the Son of God and that He died for our sins on the Cross.  The Bible, the Word of God tells us how we can be Saved… how we can be reconciled to God and how we can receive Eternal Life.  This is the most important information man can ever know.  And this information is given to us in the Bible, the Word of God.

            The Bible, the Word of God, tells us how to live.  It tells us how we can live life abundantly.  It tells us how we can overcome hardships and change circumstances.  It tells us how to live in victory when defeat is all around us.  It tells us how to be happy and filled with joy in times of sadness and depression.  It guarantees us that we can win over any situation in life that is bad.  I know that we all have times when we feel we can never succeed.  I know that you have times that are hard and impossible.  The Bible tells us how to win over any situation… no matter how impossible it may seem.  The Word is alive and filled with power.  It is filled with the Power of God and the Power of God is greater than any difficulty or impossibility anyone can ever face. 

            The Bible, the Word of God, tells us how to be well and not sick.  It tells us how to be healed from sickness and disease and infirmity.  It tells us how to overcome any adversity… it tells us how to get healed and stay healed.  This is why you and I need to know the Word of God.  The Word of God is TRUTH and TRUTH has more power than FACTS.  When we know the Truth, the Truth will make you free… free from sickness, sin and defeat.  When you believe the Bible you are elevated into the realm of the supernatural.  Jesus said that if Believe what?  Believe the Word of God!!

            Do you want to really live?  I mean, do you want to live life to its fullest?  Do you want to have victory over sin, sickness and defeat?  Do you want to have all your sin forgiven?  Do you want to receive healing and enjoy divine health?  Do you want to be free from depression, sadness, worry and heaviness?  Do you want to be assured that when you die you will go to heaven?  The Bible tells us how!  It tells us that if we believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that He died on the Cross for our sin that we will be saved.  Saved from sin, sickness and defeat.  It tells us that men can be saved if they will simply call on the Name of the Lord Jesus and receive Him into their hearts.           

You can be Born Again right now.

Word for Today:  May 30

God is so much bigger than we can imagine.

What He can do far exceeds our ability to understand and comprehend.  He is greater than the greatest, bigger than the biggest and more powerful than anything or anybody we can imagine.

John speaks of the “streets of gold” when he attempts to describe the splendor and opulence of heaven.  He is limited by the words at his command to describe what he sees in the spirit.  Did you know that the “streets of gold” are nothing more than the “garbage dump” in heaven?  The earthly streets that John knew about were littered with garbage in his day.  The inhabitants of the city would throw their trash and garbage into the streets and the traffic of human feet and the paths of plodding animals would pack down the garbage.  The streets in John’s day were the garbage dump.

If Heaven’s Garbage Dump is solid gold, I cannot begin to imagine what the houses and lands and habitations of the redeemed will be like.

Do you have a need?  Any need.  Big need.  Small need.  Few needs.  Great needs.  Many needs.  If your answer is “yes,” name your need.  Does it have a name?  What is it?  Call it out.  Give it a name.  Tell yourself what it is.  Tell the devil what it is.  Tell God what it is (even though He already knows.)  Is it a health need?  Is it a financial need?  Is it a marriage or family need?  Is it a spiritual need?  Is it an emotional need?  If you have a need, then God has the supply… and God is Able to get His supply to your need… AND HE WILL.

Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, (Jesus) and given him a name which is above every name:

Therefore, the Name of Jesus is ABOVE the name of your need.  And it is subject to that Name.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4:19

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us… Eph 3:20

God is Able to meet your need TODAY.

Word for Today:  May 28

God is able.

Most every Christian will agree that God is Able.  To settle for anything less would degrade the concept of Christianity.  God truly is able.  Paul declares in Ephesians that He is “able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think…” However, the majority of believers would agree with the FACT that God is Able but I want to add a new dimension to this confession of faith.  I want to declare that God is Able and God Will.  God Will do for you what nobody else or nothing else can.

The fact that GOD IS ABLE is the Magna Charta of the New Testament Church.     This is the Emancipation Proclamation of the Body of Christ:  God is Able.  This is the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for the Christian:  God is Able.  Confess “GOD IS ABLE!”  Now add to that confession:   “… AND GOD WILL!”

As we begin this day, I want to begin it with high hopes… with Great Expectations.  With great faith.  With awesome Dreams.  I want to take you with me into the place where you can rest and know that God is Able and…. God will!  No matter what.  No matter who.  No matter where.

God wants to encourage you.  He has set aside this day and this moment to build you up and strengthen you and to help you.   He is able to deliver you out of your fiery trial and out of your furnace and out of your Egypt.  And He Will.  He wants you to know that.  He wants you to know that today.

God wants you to get out of hoping and praying into confessing and believing.

And then from confessing and believing into Receiving and Possessing.

God is Able.

And He will

Word for Today:  May 26

The seed and the ground

Jesus gave us the parable of the Sower and the Seed.

This parable is found in all three synoptic Gospels.  We need to consider some characteristics that identify a seed and also some ground conditions that are necessary for the seed to germinate.

Jesus said that the Word is the seed.

The ground is the heart.

He pointed out that the condition of the ground in which the seed is sown determines the extent of the harvest.  Good ground produces a bountiful harvest.

The Seed is the Word and when the Word is sown in good Ground (the proper heart condition) then the Word will produce “after its kind.”  Ideally, Word production is the production of the Will of God.

Whatever is in the Word will be grown in the earth.  Whatever is in the Word will be produced on the earth.  Jesus prayed in the Model Prayer “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven…”  When our heart condition “draws out” what God has placed in, then God’s Will is accomplished on the earth.

In Real Time.  In the present.  In the now.

When and where it is most needed

1.         CATCH the VISION and KEEP it BURNING in your HEART,

“Where there is no vision the people perish.” Keep your calling and your commission fresh. “SEE IT” Let it rise up inside of you. Never lose sight of your objective. Remember that faith is the substance of things hoped for… Keep the Fire of God burning in your heart… never let it wane. (Discover and know your Potential).

2.         Really Believe that you can do what you have been called to do.                   

Never doubt. Know that what God has Promised God will perform. Do not be discouraged by the magnitude of the task. God expects big things from us… He is a Big God.  See it (your mission) with the eye of Faith. Believer that it can be done. Believe not only that it can be done, realized, accomplished, and fulfilled, but …  believe that it is to be done now. 

3.         Begin with what you have…Do not wait for what you need.

Do something – lest ye do NOTHING.  Satan’s big trick is to make you wait.  God says “Now is the accepted time…Today is the day…  You have been waiting for years… what have you gained by waiting? Start right where you are and God will supply what you need as you need it.  

4.         Look and search diligently for ways to operate Word and Kingdom Principles.

“…for I will hasten my WORD to perform it…” (Jer. 1:12) God is looking for ways to show Himself Strong in your behalf. Look for ways to Work the Word. What you do with the Word determines what the Word will do for you. Get above the natural and begin to function in the supernatural. Operate by Heaven’s principles while you are still on  earth.    

5.         Never Quit.

No matter what… Never Quit! Say first thing in the morning, “devil, I am    not       going to quit today! I did not quit yesterday and I will not quit tomorrow. I am in this thing to stay! I’m not quitting!”  Make the devil move … make your problems move … make your obstacles move…Stand your ground and Never Quit!

6.         Keep your Mind and your Mouth in line with the Word.

What you Think you ARE.  “As a man thinketh in his heart … so is he” Keep Your thought life above the natural world. Set your affection on things above. Speak the Word or don’t speak at all!  If you can control your mind and your mouth you can live in the Supernatural.

7.         Make Preparation for your Visitation.

Prepare to Reap because you have been faithful in sowing…Get ready for your harvest. You got ready to Plant… now get ready to harvest. You got ready to Plant… now get ready toReap! Get ready to receive what you have beenbelieving for.   Dig some ditches and borrow some pots! (2Kings 3:16, 4:3)

Php 4:13  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Word for Today:  May 24

The fact is, life does deliver some crushing blows

We need to “get real.”    It is unprofitable for us to live in some dream world where everything always is perfect.  Life is not some Hollywood American Utopia where there is no pain and no disappointment…  The devil is real and the kingdom of darkness is real.

Some of these contradictions that we are unable to understand are aimed at believers as well as unbelievers.  The church is not immune to demonic attacks.  In fact, the purpose and ploy of the devil is to kill, steal and destroy… primarily that and those who are not already “his.”   Therefore, how we react and cope in difficult and trying times is extremely important to the Kingdom of God.

We must understand that the “curse” is far reaching.  Even though the Redemptive Work of Jesus cancelled it for the Believer, its effects and influence is still very active in the natural world.  That’s why we are experiencing war and murder and injustice and abuse….  All manner of wickedness and evil that is contrary to the Kingdom of God.

The world we live in is influenced by principalities and powers and rulers of the darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph 6:12).  This is a principle that those in the early church were well aware of.  However, the Message that motivated those experiencing the trials and tribulations of such an unfair and unjust environment was a Message of great encouragement.  It declared that even though times were tough, they were Overcomers.

This is one of the recurring themes of New Testament Theology and it is a contemporary Message of encouragement to us as well.

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world

YOU need the Power of God. You cannot make it without the Power of God.  God’s Power in your life will make you an overcomer.  A winner.  God has made it possible for you to have POWER in your life.  In your Marriage.  In your Family.  In your Business.  God’s Power is ENABLING POWER.  It is POWER that will give you the ability to DO.  It will set you Free.  It will heal your body.  It will deliver your troubled mind and soul.  It will get you out of the pits and keep you out of the pits…It will save your family. It will save your marriage.  It will save your business.  It will establish you and keep you from falling.  It will strengthen you and help you.  It will cause you to REIGN in life and walk on demons and devils.  It will put you in victory and keep you in victory.  It will make you Overcome and keep you from being overcome.  GOD’S POWER WORKING IN YOU IS YOUR ANSWER!  Every solution to every problem comes out of God’s Power.  If you can find the Power you can find the Answer.  If you can get the Power you can get your answer.   

You know that you need God’s Power in your life.  You want God’s Power in your life. There are some things you want to do and you know you cannot do them without God’s Power operating in your life.  For example: 

(1) You desperately want POWER over sin and temptation. 

(2) POWER over being shy and timid and introverted. 

(3) POWER over feeling bad… sickness… weakness… power over disease. 

(4) POWER over worry and fear and anxiety. 

(5) POWER over wrong attitudes…. unforgiveness and bitterness and jealousy and greed and criticism and judgment 

(6) POWER over your mind and your thought life and your imaginations 

(7) POWER over the appetites and lusts of your flesh 

(8) POWER over poverty and lack and need and being broke all the time  

(9) POWER over your anger, your temper, your impatience, your meanness

(10) POWER over alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, tobacco, gluttony

(11) POWER over your unclean mind and your unclean mouth

(12) POWER over the devil and demons

            You KNOW you need POWER.  You know where you need POWER and you know why your need POWER. You know that GOD’S POWER will set you free and that you can do nothing without HIS POWER.  You want HIS POWER and you want HIS POWER NOW.  You are tired of waiting and procrastinating. You have intended to do something about your situation for a long time.  You have tried books and tapes and rules and regulations and formulas… you have listened to preachers and gone to church… but you have never received GOD’S POWER in your life.  Decide to GET IT TODAY!

            God wants you to have POWER in your LIFE.  He has fixed it so that you can have POWER in your LIFE.  He wants you to take His place and Function in His place on this earth every day of your life.  You know that you need GOD’S POWER in your life.  There are some things you want to do and you cannot do them without GOD’S POWER in operating in your LIFE. 

You need:

(1) POWER over sin

(2) POWER over being timid

(3) POWER over being sick 

(4) POWER over wrong attitudes 

(5) POWER over the desires of the flesh and mind

(6) POWER over the curse of poverty 

(7) POWER over your thought life 

(8) POWER over fear and anxiety  

(9) POWER over your hurt feelings and bruised spirit 

(10) POWER over depression and worry. 

(11) POWER over the devil and demons. 

            You know where you need POWER and why you need POWER.  You know what GOD’S POWER will do for you and in you.  You know that you can do nothing without His POWER.  You want His POWER and you want His POWER NOW.  You are tired of waiting and procrastinating… you have tried other things and they have all failed.  You have read books and you have listened to tapes and you have prayed and you have gone to church… but you have never received the fullness of God’s Power in your life.  It is now TIME for you.  This is your day.  This is your hour for deliverance.  This is your moment for your miracle. 

WHAT GOD’S POWER IS

            God’s Power is GOD’S ABILITY.  God’s Power is God’s MIGHT.  God’s Power is God’s AUTHORITY.  God’s Power is God’s GLORY.  God’s Power is God’s RIGHTEOUSNESS.  God’s Power is God’s HOLINESS.  God’s Power is God’s NATURE.  God’s Power is GOD-LIFE.  God’s Power is Victory.  God’s Power is success.  God’s Power is Healing. God’s Power is deliverance.  God’s Power is Peace, Joy, Satisfaction, Fulfillment, Rest.   

The Power of God is not of this world and does not operate by the laws of this world.  The Power of God is a PRIMARY POWER and is more powerful than any other energy or force or power in the cosmos.  All other power is inferior to God’s Power.  Nothing is greater than God’s Power!  We have great difficulty in comprehending God’s Power because the only frame of reference we have is in the natural world.  God’s Power can be understood only in the context of the Spiritual and the Supernatural. 

Notice:

God’s CREATIVE POWER

Col. 1:16   For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Hebr. 11:3   Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

God’s SUSTAINING POWER 

Hebr. 1:3   Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Col. 1:16   For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Col. 1:17   And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

God’s REDEMPTIVE (saving) POWER.

John 1:12   But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

            God’s POWER comes out of His Nature.  He is Power and He has Power because He is GOD.  One of His attributes is OMNIPOTENCE… or the fact that He has ALL POWER.  He is our ALL-POWERFUL GOD.  His POWER makes Him SUFFICIENT and ADEQUATE!  His POWER can do all things… meet all needs (according to His riches in Glory.)… supply every lack… conquer every foe… defeat every devil.

How is God’s Power received?

HOW TO GET GOD’S POWER

            Get saved…    Get saved and KNOW IT.  Get saved and SHOW IT!  If ALL POWER is in JESUS you need to GET HIM IN YOU to get GOD’S POWER IN YOU.  It is a simple act of your PERSONAL FAITH in really BELIEVING what GOD SAYS IN HIS WORD. 

            The BAPTISM in the HOLY SPIRIT is actually releasing the POWER that is already in you by faith.  It is RELEASING the POWER OF GOD (which is JESUS) who is already in you.  Have you ever prayed and asked JESUS (the POWER OF GOD) to come into your heart?  Did you mean it?  Did you stick with it?  Did you really believe it?  Did you experience the NEW BIRTH and do you still HAVE IT?  If you have never asked the POWER OF GOD (JESUS) to come into your life will you do it right now?  “For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord (JESUS) shall be saved…”  (Rom 10:13).     You cannot release GOD’S POWER if GOD’S POWER is not in you. You can’t get the ANSWER OUT if you don’t have the ANSWER IN YOU.   

            When you were born naturally, you received, biologically, certain characteristics from your earthly parents.  You live with and in these traits every day until the day you die.  You even “favor” or “resemble” your earthly, physical parents because of the genetic structure of the human race.  When you were born naturally, you received everything you needed to function in natural life.  You got lungs to breathe with, legs to walk with, eyes to see with, hands to work with.  Everything you needed to function and live naturally were received biologically at the time you were born.

            When you were BORN AGAIN you received, spiritually, the Character and Nature and Attributes of your HEAVENLY FATHER.  That is why Jesus said, “Except a man be Born Again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God…” (John 3:3)  The word “see” means to “know” or “have knowledge of”.  It means to “perceive” or to “understand”.  Jesus was NOT talking about HEAVEN in this passage.  He was talking about living and functioning in God’s Place and in God’s Kingdom on this earth before you go to heaven.

            You have RECEIVED the NATURE OF GOD if you are Born Again and, therefore, you have had GOD’S POWER transferred to you.  You receive God’s Power by getting BORN AGAIN.  If you are not LIVING IN GOD’S POWER it may be because you do not know how to.  You can have God’s Power and yet not live in God’s Power.  Thousands of Believers are right there… maybe you are one of them.  You can have God’s Power and yet not activate it and release it. This is where the Baptism in the Holy Spirit comes in.

            The Baptism in the Holy Ghost is essential in ACTIVATING and RELEASING God’s Power from within the Believer.  “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?”  (Acts 19:2)  The Baptism in the Holy Spirit or the Infilling of the Holy Spirit is an EXPERIENCE apart from and in addition to being SAVED.  You can be saved and not filled with the Spirit.  You can have God’s Power in you and not have God’s Power working out of you.  This is the very reason for so many defeated and unhappy and unfruitful Christians.  The 2 Essentials for receiving God’s Power:  (1) the New Birth and (2) the Baptism in the Holy Ghost.  (You can know if you have or if you have not received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit).   If you do not know you have it, you can lose it and not know you lost it.

WHAT GOD’S POWER WILL DO FOR YOU

            God’s Power will do for you what God will do for you.  It will bring God on the scene and release His Power at the point of your need. 

God’s Power will: 

(1) Deliver you from sin’s control and dominion 

(2) Provide you with weapons for effective Spiritual warfare (II Cor. 10:4-5) 

(3) Open the door to Revelation Knowledge and Spiritual Understanding

(4) Provide you with opportunities to operate in the Gifts of the Spirit

(5) Fill you with Agape Love 

(6) Give you power over the devil and demons 

(7) Encourage you to operate in Faith and Total Trust 

(8) Give you power over sickness and disease 

(9) Release you from the curse of poverty and lack 

(10) motivate you to Witness and bear Spiritual Fruit 

(11) Enhance your Prayer Life and encourage you in Praise and Worship 

(12) Cause you to see the world through the eyes of Jesus 

(13) Make you a part of the end-time army God is raising up to hasten the return of Jesus.

            NOW… you know and you admit that you need GOD’S POWER.  You know exactly where and why you need Power.  You know that GOD’S POWER will work for you and set you free.  You know that you can do nothing without God’s Power.  You want God’s Power and you are ready for God’s Power.  You want it NOW.   You want it TODAY.  You want it THIS MORNING.  You are tired of procrastinating and waiting and putting it off.  You have had good intentions for a long time.  TODAY you will DO SOMETHING about it.  You have read books and listened to tapes.  You have attended seminars and joined churches.  You have tried rules and regulations and formulas… but you have never experienced GOD’S SUPERNATURAL POWER working in your life… It is your TIME and this is your DAY!    

Word for Today:  May 23

God is so much bigger than we can imagine.

What He can do far exceeds our ability to understand and comprehend.  He is greater than the greatest, bigger than the biggest and more powerful than anything or anybody we can imagine.

John speaks of the “streets of gold” when he attempts to describe the splendor and opulence of heaven.  He is limited by the words at his command to describe what he sees in the spirit.  Did you know that the “streets of gold” are nothing more than the “garbage dump” in heaven?  The earthly streets that John knew about were littered with garbage in his day.  The inhabitants of the city would throw their trash and garbage into the streets and the traffic of human feet and the paths of plodding animals would pack down the garbage.  The streets in John’s day were the garbage dump.

If Heaven’s Garbage Dump is solid gold, I cannot begin to imagine what the houses and lands and habitations of the redeemed will be like.

Do you have a need?  Any need.  Big need.  Small need.  Few needs.  Great needs.  Many needs.  If your answer is “yes,” name your need.  Does it have a name?  What is it?  Call it out.  Give it a name.  Tell yourself what it is.  Tell the devil what it is.  Tell God what it is (even though He already knows.)  Is it a health need?  Is it a financial need?  Is it a marriage or family need?  Is it a spiritual need?  Is it an emotional need?  If you have a need, then God has the supply… and God is Able to get His supply to your need… AND HE WILL.

Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, (Jesus) and given him a name which is above every name:

Therefore, the Name of Jesus is ABOVE the name of your need.  And it is subject to that Name.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4:19

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us… Eph 3:20

God is Able to meet your need TODAY.

Word for Today:  May 21

Be Faithful.

Reinforce your determination to hold fast.  To stand.  Do not let the attacks on your faith prevent you from KEEPING ON.  The one thing satan really wants to do is to make you give up.  Through the years, I have seen saint after saint weaken and fall because they did not persevere.

You can be faithful.  There may be many things you cannot do, but you can be faithful.  Just because your faith is under attack is no reason to ease up, let up, back up, cave in or quit. This is the VERY time you and I need to make our most positive and determined stand.

Be faithful in your personal relationship with Jesus.  Be faithful in your daily faith walk.  Be faithful to your church.  Be faithful to follow the Word of God.  Be faithful in prayer.  Remember: the Word requires that good stewards be found faithful.   1 Cor 4:2.

Expect good things to happen any minute.

Keep your faith out for something.  Even though you get shot at and hit… keep believing for something.  Look for answers.  Expect results.  Do not be moved by the fact that you don’t see or feel anything.  Living by faith is living in expectance.  It is to be prepared for the harvest of the seeds you have sown…  Look for the increase.  Believe for the increase.  Expect the increase.

The woman with the issue of blood expected something to happen when she touched Jesus.  She pressed through all kinds of doubt, danger and hindrances.  She knew something good would happen when she came in contact with Jesus.

Live in expectancy.  Maintain a thankful heart.

Word for Today:  May 20

Never give in.

Never give in to fear.  Never give in to discouragement.  Never be moved by facts or consequences or obstacles or impossibilities.  The God in you is bigger than man, the devil, anything, any system, any movement, any government, any economy, any power…. nothing shall by any means harm you… when you go in the Name of the Lord God of Israel.

God was with Moses.  God was with Joshua.  God is with us…  Even our enemies shall be made to be a peace with us.  The move of God in us will strike terror in the hearts of those who resist God and resist God’s Word.

You have nothing to fear.  You have nothing to be afraid of.  God is with you.  God is in you.  His Power is working mightily through you.  Be courageous.  Be strong.  Be fearless.  Be not dismayed.  Be not discouraged.  Be aggressive.  Be on the attack.

The only way you can lose is if God loses…. and God never loses.  He never has and He never will.

Neither will YOU if you never give in to fear