If only...

I always feel rushed to pray and spend time with God in the morning but yet I alway find time for breakfast and to make my lunch for work (because I don't want to waste money).

Why couldn't I look at my time with God as neccessary as the food I put in my body? If only i regarded my time with God as important as my breakfast.

That will be my new resolution. I'm fasting today and it's my first fast this month. Beginning tomorrow I resolve to spend quality time in prayer each day just like I spend time eating.

It will be difficult but food for my soul is way more important than food for my body.

Stay blessed and may God bless you and yours abundantly in the new approaching month and for the rest of your life!

Never Give Up

So you've prayed, fasted, been to revivals and have even had hands laid on you but yet your miracle is not here yet.

That business that you're praying for is not here. That money you need to pay your bills is not here. The job that you've been desperately searching for has not yet come. Or has that husband/wife.

Times are starting to feel bleak. Especially when you think of all the awesome wonders that God has performed in the past (and for you).

So you want to give up. On your desire and even on God. You want to not tithe, pray or read the Word.

It happens to us all. It's called discouragement.

What usually happens is that we give up. On praying and believing that God has heard us and will provide all of our needs.

But what is the sense of that? It is far better to wait in expectation of something great from God than to sink in despair.

Get up and read the word and keep on believing and thanking God for his goodness.

Beware of False Prophets

I find myself putting certain people on a pedistal. People who are clearly lost. I say that without judging but with reference to the word. How can one say they are a Christian and prefer living in sin rather than getting married. Who picks and choose which things from the bible they are going to follow and not follow and then say they fear God?

I'm bringing this up because someone who I thought was an outstanding follower of Christ is proving to be a false prophet. The person I am refering to is Oprah.

She speaks to a wide variety of people, all races and society statuses, but I have begun to notice that she is not promoting a good image of a follower. While her not getting married to Steadman is an obvious flaw, she has also promoted some questionable new age philosophies.

I love Oprah and what she has accomplished but I just pray that we can dicern true prophets from the false prophets out there and not get caught up in their lives.

Take heed,

1 John 1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.