One Minute with God: For God, and Country

What a great nation we have been so privileged to inherit. The place where dreams become realities, and by hard work and toil the soil beneath our feet produce. The place where people would escape their needs, and risk it all to start anew. A place where freedom reigned, and where “God and Country” was a patriotic anthem.

America means the New World. A geographical place where you and I would venture to faithfully search, and set our eyes upon. A place where the unity of peoples and states formed our common bond and our shared possibilities were our responsibilities. A place where faith and determination was our driving force, and a “model of heaven” for the whole world to see.

Fellow Americans God has always had a plan for you, so don’t remove Him from your foundations. He is the one who refreshes your land with rain and causes your labor to flourish. He is the fire in your flaming torch and the light beneath your very feet. Return to God.

For God, and Country!

Jeremiah 29:5-7

5“Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.

7Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”

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One Minute with God: Anointed Victim

Have you ever felt the need to visit a professional massage parlor or visit a full-scale spa where you receive the full treatment of relaxation, therapy, and pampering to give your body rest? Don’t you leave that place feeling weightlessly renewed? And so, it is when you have experienced God’s presence, and have become a victim to His anointing.

The word “anointing” in Hebrew literally means “to rub”. So, whenever an individual draws closer to God, and God draws closer to that individual it is impossible for that interaction to take place without having evidence of smearing or rubbing of God’s hand. Like every investigated scene if both the victim and/or suspect of an incident were present there needs to be some forensic evidence that an encounter has taken place confirming their proximities.

So the next time you are in need of a priceless therapy invite God to the scene. He will surely leave behind evidence of His handiwork on the doorpost of your heart. He will anoint you with hope, and leave you with a renewed measure of faith that will enable you to supernaturally perform your God-given purpose even against all odds. Receive your rub today.

Anointed Victim!

Ezekiel 36:25-28

25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

27And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. 28Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

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One Minute With God: Don’t grow Idle

Have you ever got up Monday, and wished it was Friday? How about wrestling to drag your legs out of bed, and violently scrubbing off whatever “gorilla glue” is left on your eyelids? It can easily become very enticing to begin our workweek laying between the sheets and drifting away into the realm of laziness. But, since we have been crowned with influence we must continue to occupy whatever position God has commissioned us during this season.

Many are waiting at home for answers while others are anticipating what can become of the upcoming elections. Either way, you and I must understand that waiting may be a sound virtue of the wise, but it can also become the excuse of the idle. The Bible is clear in teaching us - to be careful of not folding our arms in slumber nor crossing our hands in the things of God so that poverty may not overtake us.

Cast all your cares in the Lord this week, and oust out of your presence whatever is making you lethargic. Remove any of your hidden fears that may paralyze or sabotage your hope. And, with new fervency make progress at every opportunity that the Lord provides. There is still work to do.

Don’t grow idle!

2 Thessalonians 3:11-15

11We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. 12Such people, we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat. 13And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.

14Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them, in order that they may feel ashamed. 15Yet do not regard them as an enemy but warn them as you would a fellow believer.

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