We represent God and God is not rundown

We represent God and God is not rundown. God is not second class. He is an excellent God. God honors excellence from each of us. Just think, we have God's DNA all over us.The design code that God created in all of our cells. You are not a second class citizen.  If you want to please God, don't go around looking run down, defeated and depressed. Your life will go to a whole new level by speaking faith and victory. Prayer changes everything because it releases God's wisdom into your circumstances.

What If Everyone Worked With God In Mind?

Work as if you were serving the Lord, not as if
you were serving only men and women.
                -Ephesians 6:7

Suppose no one worked to satisfy self or please the bottom line but everyone worked to please God. Many occupations would instantly cease: drug trafficking, thievery, prostitution, nightclub and casino management. Certain careers, by their nature, cannot please God. These would cease. Certain behaviors would cease as well. Imagine if everyone worked for the audience of One.  Every nurse, thoughtful, every officer, careful, pastors & singers would glorify God not self, every professor, insightful, every salesperson, delightful, every teacher, hopeful, every lawyer, skillful.  Impossible?  Not entirely. Let's shift the focus back on God in all we do, let's work with God in Mind.

Don't Let Your Temporary Situation Become Everlasting

We already got the best that God has to give. We just need to receive it!  God wants us to start paying attention of just how much he loves us. Trust God, He knows what you need and will give you all of it in due time!  God has people already lined up to be a blessing to you. You don't have to look for them. They will come to you. When you honor God, His blessings will hunt and chase you down. You won't be able to outrun the good things of God. Believe that something good is going to happen to you today! Claim your blessings every day!  Don't let your temporary situation become everlasting. When God is in it there is no limit.

What God has in your future will take the place of what you've seen in the past. Release your faith for the abundance and variety of your destiny that God wants for you. Something out of the routine and ordinary is coming your way; new levels of favor, unexpected and astonishing opportunities, or divine connections.


Go back and review Psalm 23, and pay close attention to verse 6... "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:..." Let those words sink down into your spirit. Know who you are. You are the child of the Most High God! You are truly somebody.

I Have Never Seen A Storm Last Forever,

In life we may feel shipwrecked, we may feel that our storm resembles a tornado, earthquake or hurricane. We are tossed and turned in every direction and it seem like our whole world has fallen apart in a pile of mess and debris surrounded by the stress and demands of everyday life. Remember you can reach the port if you weather the storm. No one is exempt from the turbulence, bumps & discomfort that come with the storms of life. Your best stories will come from your struggles. I have never seen a storm last forever, keep standing. "Sometimes God calms the storm, but sometimes God lets the storm rage and calms His child". When it's all over, you are still standing because when God see that your storms are raging and tossing high, He will say "Peace Be Still" in the midst of your storm, He will carry you through.

You Cannot Possess The Fruits of the Spirit If You have No Roots! Check Your Soil.

You cannot possess the fruits of the spirit if you have no roots! check your soil.  Is your soil rich, poor, fertile or infertile soil,  do you hear the word, accept it, show God's love and produce followers of Christ?  Soil texture and soil structure are both unique properties of the soil that will have a profound effect on the behavior of the soil. The same is with the fruits of the spirit.  If you apply the fruits of the spirit to your everyday life it will have a profound effect on your behavior and others. If the fruits of the spirit are not present, then how can the Holy Spirit be present?  A person must have a willing heart to change in order for God to use them. Before you can bear the fruit of the Spirit, you must first have the LIFE of the Spirit. When you find yourself in Christ Jesus, you have found your life.
Galatians 5:22.

Finding A Church That Is "A Perfect" Fit.

Every church has something that's not quite right.  Too short.  Too long. Too big. Too small, Too tight. Too loose. These words describe most of the clothes I try on. Finding the perfect fit seems impossible.  Finding a church that is a "perfect fit " poses similar problems. Our gifts aren't recognized.  Our talents aren't appreciated. Our sense of humor is misunderstood.  Certain attitudes, beliefs, people, or programs makes us uncomfortable.  We feel as if we don't fit.  We struggle to find our place.  We know, however, that God wants us to fit together with one another, for there to be no divisions in His church. This means that we, the building blocks are to be "perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." (1 Corinthians 1:10). No church will be a perfect fit, but we can all work at fitting together more perfectly.
Christ's love creates unity in the midst of diversity.

Christ, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.  Ephesians 2:21

When Facing A Crisis, This Is What God Ask Us To Do

God didn't ask us to try and figure out anything, what He did say is "Trust Him" in everything.  When facing a crisis, trust God and move forward. God's dawn of deliverance often comes when the hour of trial is darkest. Every season needs faith to get us through it and every crisis need us to rely on God to carry us through. We do a disservice to ourselves and others when we portray the Christian life as peaceful and happy all the time.  Instead, the Bible portrays the believers life as consisting of seasons of ups and downs. There will be crisis in and out of season but there God will be all the time; TRUST HIM.

 

Solomon's father, David, was called a "man after God's own heart" (1 Samuel 13:14; Acts 13:22).  Yet David's life illustrates how life is filled with seasons of ups and downs.  David wept over Bathsheba's first child who was fatally ill (2nd Samuel 12:22).  Yet he wrote songs of praise and joyous laughter. Psalm 126:1-3).

Blessings

J.P. Olson