Selah for Today 10-22-219 - Adventure

 Many people, including believers, live boring and dull lives. They need adventure.

Adventure is defined by Webster's Dictionary as 1) an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks 2) an exciting or remarkable experience. To have days full of adventure, it takes walking by faith. Faith equals adventure. When you walk with God and listen to Him you will have exciting and remarkable experiences every day. So, step out in faith and step into adventure.

  

Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.

Selah for Today 10-17-2019- Choose Life

Deuteronomy 30:19-20(NIV) ¹⁹ This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life,* so that you and your children may live ²⁰ and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

God gives us a choice and then gives us the answer, "Choose Life". God wants us to choose life in everything we do, say and think. We need in every area of our lives to choose Life. In other words, choose God for He is Life and gives life. 

*Boldness added for emphasis. 

Selah for Today 09-24-2019 - Clarify

Clarify: to make understandable, to free of confusion.

Psalm 96:2-3(NKJV)  Sing to the Lord, bless His name; 

Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. 

3 Declare His glory among the ^[a]nations, His wonders among all peoples.

Selah for Today 09-09-2019 Chaos

Don't miss the sound of heaven in the midst of the chaos- Amy Bales

1 Kings 19:11-1 (NKJV) Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; ¹² and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire ^[a]a still small voice.¹³ So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, ....."

What is God saying to you?

Selah for Today 09-04-2019 Step out!

Adventures begin when you step out in faith

Acts 3:5-7 (NKJV)  So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. ⁶ Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” ⁷ And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength." 

Now that's an Adventure!!!

Selah for Today 09-02-2019 Responsibility

Responsibility: mature “response-to-my-ability” – The ability to act independently without supervision – A moral obligation to act appropriately in respect towards others as well as tasks

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will—his personal responsibility.” (1) –Albert Schweitzer
“Then God said to Abraham, “Your responsibility is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all your descendants have this continual responsibility.” –Genesis 17:9 (NLT)

Selah for Today- 08-16-2019 - Move

God is Moving in This Moment. He said, "I am with you always"(Matthew 28:19-20) and He has given you power (Acts 1:8, 2:38).  So, choose to move with God, Today!

Selah for Today 08-10-2019-Choose

Hate and Unforgiveness cause your brain to Shrink. Love and Forgiveness cause your brain to Grow. Which do You Choose? 

Deuteronomy 30:19 (NIV)This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. 

Selah for Today 08-09-2019 98%

98% of the body of Christ is already positioned IN the world to bring light (truth) into darkness!!!

Mark 16:15-18 (NIV)  ¹⁵ He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. ¹⁶ Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; ¹⁸ they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

Selah for Today 08-07-2019-Walk

Getting out of the boat is one thing, letting go of the boat to walk on water is another. Jesus calls us to walk!

Selah for Today, 08-06-2019 Why Selah?

I have already been asked, "Why Selah?"  Selah has many meanings in Hebrew: a can mean to "to lift up or exalt". "to pause or reflect, to stop and listen, to pause and think on that."
   So what better way to start today and every day than to pause and reflect and exalt the Lord God!
Blessings to you and Selah!!

A Memorial Day Speical Post: Just One More Lord

This is honor all our military, for they all are Heroes.

Just One More, Lord!

I was watching the movie Hacksaw Ridge, about Desmond Doss a Seventh Day Adventist conscientious objector and Medic and Medal of Honor honoree during World War II.

During one of the worst battles of the war. The battle for Okinawa and the worst battle for the island, Hacksaw Ridge.

While the Japanese Army held the ridge, He rescued 75 wounded American Soldiers, lower them 350 ft. down the side of the escarpment to safety.  Japanese Soldiers reported having him in their gunsights, but their guns would jam when they tried to shoot him. During this time, he kept praying, “Lord, Just One More!”

 That prayer stayed with me, “Lord Just One More!”  I asked the Lord, “Why is this is staying with me.” 

Lord said, “I want my people to have that same cry in their hearts, “Lord Just One More.”

In 1 Corinthians 9:16-27, Paul has this attitude of the heart, doing and being whatever it takes for the Gospel.

Mark 16:15-18 (NKJV)  And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; ¹⁸ they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Then Jesus was beaten and crucified, He was doing the Just One More!

 We Must Cry Out from Our Hearts:

Lord, just one more pledge, here.

Lord, just one more deliverance.

Lord, just one more demon cast out.

Lord, just one more healing.

Lord, just one more miracle.

Lord, just one more Baptism of the Holy Spirit

Most importantly, 

JUST ONE MORE SALVATION!!

 Oh, don’t worry about the devil, God will cause his guns to jam like he did for Desmond Doss.

WHO ARE YOU? Part 1

(This is older teaching republished at this time. It is as important today as then. I pray this 4 Part Series Blesses You)
 
  The question, “Who are you?” plagues many a person, including many Christian. Who you are is at the very core of your existence. Most people go through life thinking what they do is who they are. They themselves as a mailman, doctor, mother, father, minister and the list goes on. Those who think of themselves as only what they do have a crisis every time what they do changes. The man or women who spend a lifetime building their career and identity is wrapped up in that career have a major problem when they have to retire or are no longer have that career path available to them. So where do we go to find out who we are? Where do we go to “find ourselves”?

  The best place to find out who we are is God and the Bible. Who does God said you are? Let’s look and find out.

The first thing we see is the servant according to Webster’s is one that serves others <a public servant>; especially: one that performs duties about the person or home of a master or personal employer. Abram uses the first reference of the servant in his relationship to God. This now Abram saw himself in relationship to God. In Genesis 18:3 (AMP) And said, My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant, I beg of you.

   A servant is one who goes and does what the master tells him to do. A servant does things whether they want to or not. They do what they are told. Their relationship with the master is to do or be punished. There may develop a love for their master (if he is a good person), but the relationship is overshadowed by having to please the master or be punished. If the servant wants something from the master, he must beg for it and may have to extras for the master, who may or may not grant their request.

This is true of many Christians, we see ourselves only as servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. We go and do as the Holy Spirit tells us. Many believers never get beyond the servant level of relationship with God. We limit ourselves to the servant, as did Abram. We try to please God into granting us His blessings. The servant attitude prevails I have to pray more, fast more, read more, memorize more and do more to get God’s favor so He will bless us with finances, health, healing, deliverance and anything else we might ask.

   This leads us down the road of legalism, of having to do to get. Unfortunately, this attitude and relationship with God have been taught, by many church leaders as “The Relationship with God” and in order to serve God, we must serve them without question, as a good servant.
 
  I am not saying that a servant of the Lord does not love God because he or she does. But, the mentality of the servant position colors everything about our relationship with God. Notice that I said, “Servant position” for it is not who we are in Christ. It is what we do out of our love for God. God stated later in Genesis 18 that He saw Abram as more than a servant, and He sees us as much more than a servant, but more about that later.

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Be Strong and Courageous

As I have stated before, God spoke, “He is moving in the moment and not in the hour. He is doing a new thing. We will see and do things, unlike anything we have done before.”

  This bought me to Joshua Chapter 1. In verses 3-5 The Lord tells Joshua that He will be with him. Then the Lord gives the boundaries of the territory that the Lord promised. The Lord also said, “^I will give you every place where you set your foot.” An amazing promise.

 In verse 6 God tells Joshua, “Be strong and courageous…” Then in verse 7, the Lord tells Joshua, “Be strong and very courageous. The Lord repeats it again in verse 9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”

 Here is Joshua, a man who saw the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, when up Mt. Sinai with Moses and the elders and met with God and who led the army of Israel to victory on more than one occasion. So why is God telling Joshua three times to be “strong and courageous”. Simply put Joshua and Israel were moving into something new, “the Promised Land” and they were going to have to fight for the promise.

  We are today in a new move of God. We need to take the words of God spoken to Joshua and to be strong and courageous. We have all the promises of God in His Word and spoken by His prophets to us today. As with Israel, there are enemies that would try and keep us from those promises.

The enemies we face are, political correctness: telling us to keep quiet, we are seeing the rise of an anti-God, anti-christian culture like never before in our country and around the world. We have Satan and his demons, reminding us of our past, that we are not good enough, sowing doubt and unbelief.

 We need to choose to believe God, to determine that we are going to be strong and courageous. We all need to remind ourselves that, all the promises of God are yes and amen for us. We need to remember the God is only with us Matthew 28:20, but lives in each one of us Colossians 2:9.

  So be Stong and Courageous and fight for the promises of God for yourself, your family, your city, your state, your nation.

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