Today's Proclamation 10-17-2024
- Oct 17, 2024
- Michael Blank
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Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, we need to be living our BEST Lives! We need to be FREE from worries, FREE from depression, and FREE from FEAR!
AS IT IS WRITTEN IN Philippians 4:11-14
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.
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Dear ones, we all have learned how to accept certain things in our lives.
I don’t know what version of me that GOD is looking for when I come through the door but sometimes, I just have to sit myself down & say – God has been VERY GOOD to me throughout the years. I’m doing alright!
So, ask yourself where is the line between being content and being complacent?
I want to be content in every circumstance – but my contentment is not to be an excuse for accepting my immaturity! Do I become content by accepting immaturity in my life?
The FIRST step in growing into who God knows you are (maturity), to accept who you ARE! Accept IT and Step into IT!
I know that I am still under development – that I believe IF God would have needed somebody else to DO IT, He would have chosen someone else!
My fundamental belief is that IF there are 8 billion people in the world – God has options. Think about this:
He PUT me in that house! He put me in that business! He put me in that ministry!
He put me with that woman/man! He put me with those children! GOD Choose me!
GOD choose you! Will you? Will YOU choose you?
Do you feel the need to measure up to “perfection” that GOD knew you were never going TO BE! Can you accept the process, being better today than you were yesterday?
When you are performing for somebody else’s approval, there is one story about Jesus you should go back to. Picture yourself at the Jordan River when Jesus is being baptized – WHY? To be cleansed from His sin? No, JESUS had NO SIN!
Jesus was obedient to His Father, as Jesus comes up out of the water, A VOICE from Heaven says – This is My Son, whom I LOVE – in whom I AM well pleased!
God The Father is delighted (proud) of His Son WITHOUT ANY PERFORMANCE!
Jesus had NOT yet performed a single public miracle – deaf will hear, lame will walk, blind will see, yet God is Proud of Him for He-JESUS like YOU ARE ENOUGH!
When YOU ARE BORN AGAIN – YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD-JEHOVAH!
Jesus was not trying to prove anything to the Pharisees nor Lazarus’s family nor trying to prove His Worth.
His ‘starting place’ was the LOVE of OUR Father!
Every day we should try and find a way to be Baptized with this same kind of LOVE!
This IS the washing by the water of His Word. When you are reading the Bible – start explaining IT after you read it to somebody that you LOVE! This will edify both the speaker and the listener as we build UP our Faith!
Let GOD supernaturally Baptize you in the enough-ness that is IN HIM – WITH HIM – BY HIM & THROUGH HIM!
This is how we come from a place of ABUNDANCE! Like Paul when he wrote
I learned to be content in EVERY circumstance!
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Holy Spirit of TRUTH, we PRAY in agreement with Your Word in Romans 8:38-39
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s LOVE. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s LOVE.
No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the Love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
HALLELUJAH!!!
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