How to Eliminate Frustration
1) Know God's Word. You must read what God says daily.
2) Spend time communicating with God. Don't ask Him to bless your idea. Ask Him for His idea.
3) Worship God. Spend time in His presence exalting Him and He will speak to your heart.
4) Submit to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Pray in the Spirit and you will be praying His will for your life.
5) You must have faith in God. This means you must trust in and rest in His will and timing for your life.
Remember, 1 John 5:14 says, "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us." Romans 8:26 says, "Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered."
Receive God's will for your life and act on His plan. And don't forget, He knows more than you do.
Don't Serve the Problem
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him. - Isaiah 55:7
You can't win a victory as long as the problem is the biggest thing in your life!
Matthew 6:24-25: "Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life."
Immediately after Jesus said, "No man can serve two masters," He said, "Take no thought." But we serve our thoughts!
That's why Isaiah 55 says for us to forsake our thoughts, and by the Word, take God's thoughts. That's why 2 Corinthians 10:5 says to cast out thoughts that challenge the Word and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Do you want deliverance from your problems today?
Then quit serving them! Quit allowing them to consume your thought life. And don't wait until circumstances change to do it. Instead, realize that circumstances won't ever change until you switch from wrong to right thinking.
I know that's not easy to do, especially in the midst of heavy darkness and trial. But you can do it if you'll do these three things:
First, remember you aren't alone. You have the Word (God's thoughts). You have the Holy Spirit to strengthen you and you have the mind of Christ.
Second, get around people who are full of faith. Instead of rehearsing your problem, let them do the talking. Make yourself listen. Join in with their faith and resist darkness.
Third, praise God. Do whatever it takes to make yourself praise. When you begin to praise, God's presence will turn back those worried thoughts and make them fall!
Your problems are not the biggest thing in your life. Jesus is. Serve Him with your thoughts and He will set you free!
It's Beginning to Rain
"Be glad then, ye children of Zion,
and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain
moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain,
and the latter rain the first month." (Joel 2:23)
There's a spiritual flood coming. God has
promised it. He's promised us an outpouring of Holy Spirit power that will
bring in the greatest harvest of souls any of us have ever seen.
As believers, we've been reading about it
in the Word and hearing about it from the pulpit for years. We've been staring
toward heaven so long, waiting for it to come, that we've gotten cricks in our
spiritual necks. We've had this mental image of God pouring down His Spirit
from some sort of big heavenly pitcher above us.
But you know what? We've been looking in
the wrong direction!
The pitchers God is going to use to pour
out His power are right here on earth. Jesus explained it this way. "He
that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow
rivers of living water" John 7:38.
The end-time flood we've all been
expecting is going to be composed of living waters that will pour forth from
believers. The Holy Spirit within us will be the source of all the signs and
wonders and miracles the prophets foretold. And when we begin to fervently pray
the prayer of intercession, the flood of that power will begin to flow.
Zechariah 10:1 says, "Ask ye of the
Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds,
and give them showers for rain, to every one grass in the field."
Our prayers, our intercession, is what
will release the great outpouring of God's Spirit. As we begin to join together
and become a flood of Spiritual power in the earth.
So, ask, pray for a Holy Ghost
gullywasher. Intercede for the outpouring. Make this mighty flood of spiritual
power a priority in your prayer life.
Glory to God, it's already beginning to
rain!
Scripture Study: Joel 2:23-32
God of Your Trouble, God of Your Heart
"Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt
preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of
deliverance." (Psalm 32:7)
In this day and time, trouble seems to
surround us on every side. If it's not a failing economy, it's a failing
business, a failing marriage, or failing health. Yet, in the midst of seemingly
overwhelming problems, God has promised to deliver us.
If you want God to be God of your trouble,
then you must let Him be God in your heart. God honors those who honor Him. If
you're facing problems, don't just start kicking and screaming and begging Him
to save you from them. Honor Him by going to His Word and doing what He says to
do.
Psalm 34 is a good place to start. It
says, for example, to seek God (verse 4). As you seek Him, He will deliver you
from the things that threaten you.
Secondly, it instructs you to cry out to
the Lord. He will save you out of ALL your troubles (verse 6).
Next it tells you to fear the Lord. Verses
11-14 tell you exactly how to do that: Keep from speaking evil and deceit;
depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Remember, if you want God to be God of
your trouble, let Him be God of your heart. When you do that, all of heaven
will get involved in your deliverance--and your triumph will be guaranteed.
Scripture Study: Psalm 34
Be Loyal
"...them that honour me I will
honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." (1 Samuel
2:30)
God honors those who honor Him. He'll
never forget the seeds of loyalty you sow. He'll multiply them and give them
back to you in a harvest of blessing. And Malachi 3:17 says when He makes up
His jewels, you'll be forever among them.
Forever. Think about that for a moment. By
honoring God with your life and your lips, you're stepping into a realm of
blessing that will literally take an eternity to explore.
Once you begin to get that kind of eternal
perspective on things, you'll see that it's grossly immature to get mad at God
when temporary things don't work out exactly how and when you want them to.
You'll see that your loyalty must be first of all to God, that you must seek
first His kingdom--even when things seem to be going wrong. The Bible says that
if you'll do that, all these other things will be added unto you.
God never forgets. He'll never forget that
in the heat of the battle, when others were giving up and saying, "Hey,
this faith stuff doesn't work!" you were still honoring Him by standing
firm and speaking His promises.
So determine in your heart today to be
loyal toward God in every word you speak. Make up your mind once and for all
that nothing in your life is as vital as honoring Him. Keep honoring Him and
speaking words of faith.
It will work deliverance for you in this
life, and in eternity you'll sure be glad you did.
Scripture Study: Psalm 61
WALTER KAMBULOW
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