Jesus Christ is the Way Maker
But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble. Proverbs 4:18-19
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, And He ponders all his paths. Proverbs 5:21
God in Christ Jesus is the only Way-maker. The enemy would have many people on many and varied tangents except the place God wants them most to be in. That place He has ordained would fulfill His greatest purpose for their lives. This place is where most people are not. They have continued in their own path and agenda forgetting to ask Him what He wants them to do. Every decision of life should be discussed with Him before it’s clear where or what people should be doing. He should be the desire of their heart. He should be the one they want to please and not themselves. Financial success goes to many people’s heads because they have not asked Him what they should do with it or with it in relation to their lives. Then, they would be truly successful in Him and walk in Him purpose for them and they would find their deepest happiness there.
A close personal relationship with God is possible for everyone who knows Him, if they understand the great importance of such an involvement with Him. He has all the answers they need to live life successfully. Live as He desires them to live it not as the world dictates. They need to be discerning between His voice and their own desires or the voices of demons. They can do this with practice and experience. Then they will be free to flow in Him and walk by His statutes and commandments. They will do it naturally. It will come out of them easily.
Those who flow in Him begin to glow in Him and everyone around them will want what they have and ask how they can have it for themselves. This is the better way to serve Him and walk in Him. Then witnessing will flow like a river out of them because the love and discernment will be there. Right attitudes of forgiveness and discretion will be there. The best approach to each person will be there and easily accomplished. God’s children must flow with Him. He has all the answers. They are to go to Him and ask Him and He will give them the Kingdom. For His word is true:
"And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. "For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things. "But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you. "Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. "Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:29-34
What a different world we would have if all of God’s people were really working and exercising themselves to real change in their spirits through the power of the Presence of the Holy Spirit. It’s possible by the Blood of the Lamb and a sold out commitment on their part to face their worst fears and carry on in His service no matter what. The road may be froth with pitfalls but the Spirit of the Lord is their anchor and defense against the enemies they face.
God has promised and given His authority and power in the midst of the storms. The enemy is defeated because they will never admit defeat. For Jesus Christ has an only conqueror in His army. They will not be defeated if they will hear what the Spirit says to them: For His word is true:
"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it." ' Revelation 2:17
"He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." ' Revelation 3:5-6
Those who over come will not have their name blotted out from the book of life and Jesus Christ will confess their name before His Father and before His angels. But to many the Lord will say even this day:
These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. "So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. "Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'-and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked- "I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." ' " Revelation 3:15-22
Rebuke, chastening and repentance are words that are missing in the lives of many of God’s people. God is not asking for perfection but for change and faithfulness to Him and His word... If a person expects perfection in him or her self they will never find it. Only God in Christ Jesus is their perfection and beauty and protection and provision. Only He is capable of moving every mountain in their way out of the road and bringing true prosperity, even in a way they never expected for He is their Heavenly Father. He is their Creator and Provider. He is the Way-Maker in the midst of the storm. He is in the boat with them as He was with many servants before them He is with them. As they listen to Him, the things that are contrary to Him or His word He will show it to them. They can count on it. But He will also fulfill His word and give them many things as promised in His word:
'I will go before you And make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places, That you may know that I, the LORD, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel. For Jacob My servant's sake, And Israel My elect, I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these things.' Isaiah 45:2-7
The road of life for God true ones is protected by many angelic hosts--legions of angels meant to protect His true remnant soldiers. They do not march alone or to their own tune. They march to His tune and serve Him in spirit and in truth. They desire all of His truth and hunger for it as one hunger for real food. The health His truth brings runs true to all He promises to His children. His life is health to their very bones. It is healing and covenant blessings. It is strength in the midst of the storm. It is victory in battle. It is courage in the face of the enemy--mainly man. It is wisdom in the hour of debate or moment of truth. For God loves them and is in charge of their life. Even when they are walking through some fires and going through some storms, they are to be happy He is with them and for them and not against them.
God true ones must walk in His path He has laid out for them to go in. Expect Him to lead and guide and uplift them. They are to turn to Him and He will give them rest in the storm so they could sleep during its passing as Jesus did. So that they can step out on the water and remain in faith and trust. So that they could face life with boldness and assurance and peace. So that they could fight in the battles of life with confidence and wisdom. For as Apostle Paul had stated:
Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:11-13
As they keep on trusting Him and walking in Him, He will heal them and give them strength and more wisdom and more of His gifts and more of His person and more of His power and more of His courage and boldness. God is more able to supply all their needs from all the riches in Glory through which they have in Christ Jesus. He is able to meet their needs and supply them and provide an over abundance. This God loves to do for those who care about righteousness, truth and true justice. For those who want what is right and want what He wants. For those who care about Him their God and care about what He cares about. Such as these will have all the desires of their hearts.
The way sometimes will be difficult and precarious. The road will be rocky and uncertain before them. The road seems never-ending in front of them. But it does have a turn off and get off here sign for them. It does end in promise like the Rainbow with Jesus being the pot of Gold. It does have all the riches and provisions God has promised to those who have started the long and tedious journey with Him. Nothing is without risk and pain. All that is worthwhile bears the marks of pain and suffering in them. It is not to be desired but it is to be expected. The way may be long and hard but the results are written in eternity. They will have a great reward for all their sacrifices. God will repay them generously for their hardship on His behalf even in the current time of life. He will not let them go without proper rewards.
God is on the Move! He is marching against the forces of darkness and His army is right along side Him. The enemy is in full retreat though he thinks otherwise. He is trying to regroup but he is not very successful. The battle is the Lord’s and great is His Victory! He is defeating the enemy. His brave soldiers are to keep on and are not to forget that He Himself is with them in every battle of life and every storm of adversity. He has never lost an ounce of His power or might. His own presence and person is with them and one day their struggles will be over. But the reward they will have will be very great! For God’s word is true:
"Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's, "who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time-houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions-and in the age to come, eternal life. Mark 10:29-30
But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who "will render to each one according to his deeds": eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness-indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God. Romans 2:5-11
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18
TRUST IN THE LORD AND NO OTHER! ALL OTHERS ARE MEN AND LIARS
Psalms 4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in the LORD.
Psalms 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.
Psalms 40:3 He has put a new song in my mouth --- Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the LORD.
Psalms 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, That I may declare all Your works.
Psalms 115:9 O Israel, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.
11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.
12 The LORD has been mindful of us; He will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron.
13 He will bless those who fear the LORD, Both small and great.
Psalms 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man.
9 It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in princes.
Psalms 125:1 Those who trust in the LORD Are like Mount Zion, Which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
Isaiah 26:4 Trust in the LORD forever, For in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.
But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble. Proverbs 4:18-19
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, And He ponders all his paths. Proverbs 5:21
God in Christ Jesus is the only Way-maker. The enemy would have many people on many and varied tangents except the place God wants them most to be in. That place He has ordained would fulfill His greatest purpose for their lives. This place is where most people are not. They have continued in their own path and agenda forgetting to ask Him what He wants them to do. Every decision of life should be discussed with Him before it’s clear where or what people should be doing. He should be the desire of their heart. He should be the one they want to please and not themselves. Financial success goes to many people’s heads because they have not asked Him what they should do with it or with it in relation to their lives. Then, they would be truly successful in Him and walk in Him purpose for them and they would find their deepest happiness there.
A close personal relationship with God is possible for everyone who knows Him, if they understand the great importance of such an involvement with Him. He has all the answers they need to live life successfully. Live as He desires them to live it not as the world dictates. They need to be discerning between His voice and their own desires or the voices of demons. They can do this with practice and experience. Then they will be free to flow in Him and walk by His statutes and commandments. They will do it naturally. It will come out of them easily.
Those who flow in Him begin to glow in Him and everyone around them will want what they have and ask how they can have it for themselves. This is the better way to serve Him and walk in Him. Then witnessing will flow like a river out of them because the love and discernment will be there. Right attitudes of forgiveness and discretion will be there. The best approach to each person will be there and easily accomplished. God’s children must flow with Him. He has all the answers. They are to go to Him and ask Him and He will give them the Kingdom. For His word is true:
"And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. "For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things. "But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you. "Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. "Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:29-34
What a different world we would have if all of God’s people were really working and exercising themselves to real change in their spirits through the power of the Presence of the Holy Spirit. It’s possible by the Blood of the Lamb and a sold out commitment on their part to face their worst fears and carry on in His service no matter what. The road may be froth with pitfalls but the Spirit of the Lord is their anchor and defense against the enemies they face.
God has promised and given His authority and power in the midst of the storms. The enemy is defeated because they will never admit defeat. For Jesus Christ has an only conqueror in His army. They will not be defeated if they will hear what the Spirit says to them: For His word is true:
"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it." ' Revelation 2:17
"He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." ' Revelation 3:5-6
Those who over come will not have their name blotted out from the book of life and Jesus Christ will confess their name before His Father and before His angels. But to many the Lord will say even this day:
These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. "So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. "Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'-and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked- "I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." ' " Revelation 3:15-22
Rebuke, chastening and repentance are words that are missing in the lives of many of God’s people. God is not asking for perfection but for change and faithfulness to Him and His word... If a person expects perfection in him or her self they will never find it. Only God in Christ Jesus is their perfection and beauty and protection and provision. Only He is capable of moving every mountain in their way out of the road and bringing true prosperity, even in a way they never expected for He is their Heavenly Father. He is their Creator and Provider. He is the Way-Maker in the midst of the storm. He is in the boat with them as He was with many servants before them He is with them. As they listen to Him, the things that are contrary to Him or His word He will show it to them. They can count on it. But He will also fulfill His word and give them many things as promised in His word:
'I will go before you And make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places, That you may know that I, the LORD, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel. For Jacob My servant's sake, And Israel My elect, I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these things.' Isaiah 45:2-7
The road of life for God true ones is protected by many angelic hosts--legions of angels meant to protect His true remnant soldiers. They do not march alone or to their own tune. They march to His tune and serve Him in spirit and in truth. They desire all of His truth and hunger for it as one hunger for real food. The health His truth brings runs true to all He promises to His children. His life is health to their very bones. It is healing and covenant blessings. It is strength in the midst of the storm. It is victory in battle. It is courage in the face of the enemy--mainly man. It is wisdom in the hour of debate or moment of truth. For God loves them and is in charge of their life. Even when they are walking through some fires and going through some storms, they are to be happy He is with them and for them and not against them.
God true ones must walk in His path He has laid out for them to go in. Expect Him to lead and guide and uplift them. They are to turn to Him and He will give them rest in the storm so they could sleep during its passing as Jesus did. So that they can step out on the water and remain in faith and trust. So that they could face life with boldness and assurance and peace. So that they could fight in the battles of life with confidence and wisdom. For as Apostle Paul had stated:
Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:11-13
As they keep on trusting Him and walking in Him, He will heal them and give them strength and more wisdom and more of His gifts and more of His person and more of His power and more of His courage and boldness. God is more able to supply all their needs from all the riches in Glory through which they have in Christ Jesus. He is able to meet their needs and supply them and provide an over abundance. This God loves to do for those who care about righteousness, truth and true justice. For those who want what is right and want what He wants. For those who care about Him their God and care about what He cares about. Such as these will have all the desires of their hearts.
The way sometimes will be difficult and precarious. The road will be rocky and uncertain before them. The road seems never-ending in front of them. But it does have a turn off and get off here sign for them. It does end in promise like the Rainbow with Jesus being the pot of Gold. It does have all the riches and provisions God has promised to those who have started the long and tedious journey with Him. Nothing is without risk and pain. All that is worthwhile bears the marks of pain and suffering in them. It is not to be desired but it is to be expected. The way may be long and hard but the results are written in eternity. They will have a great reward for all their sacrifices. God will repay them generously for their hardship on His behalf even in the current time of life. He will not let them go without proper rewards.
God is on the Move! He is marching against the forces of darkness and His army is right along side Him. The enemy is in full retreat though he thinks otherwise. He is trying to regroup but he is not very successful. The battle is the Lord’s and great is His Victory! He is defeating the enemy. His brave soldiers are to keep on and are not to forget that He Himself is with them in every battle of life and every storm of adversity. He has never lost an ounce of His power or might. His own presence and person is with them and one day their struggles will be over. But the reward they will have will be very great! For God’s word is true:
"Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's, "who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time-houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions-and in the age to come, eternal life. Mark 10:29-30
But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who "will render to each one according to his deeds": eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness-indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God. Romans 2:5-11
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18
TRUST IN THE LORD AND NO OTHER! ALL OTHERS ARE MEN AND LIARS
Psalms 4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in the LORD.
Psalms 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.
Psalms 40:3 He has put a new song in my mouth --- Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the LORD.
Psalms 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, That I may declare all Your works.
Psalms 115:9 O Israel, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.
11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD; He is their help and their shield.
12 The LORD has been mindful of us; He will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron.
13 He will bless those who fear the LORD, Both small and great.
Psalms 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man.
9 It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in princes.
Psalms 125:1 Those who trust in the LORD Are like Mount Zion, Which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
Isaiah 26:4 Trust in the LORD forever, For in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.
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