The time is now...get moving!!

I have been feeling down on myself lately because I know i haven't been in the Word like i ought to and i have been feeling the effects of it. i do talk to God, but when i look back at the last couple of weeks, I know that I have been making it real difficult for me to hear him now.i have been letting my circumstances overshadow my focus on the Word. I have asked him to help me with managing my finances better, to help me with expanding my ministry, and to also hear him more. I have been getting answers to some of my prayers, but i now realize that i can get stuff from God, but not have God,because i havent been listening to him when he speaks. He can allow me certain things that i ask, but if I am not fully into the Word, then i dont have him. I understand that he wants to spend time with me, so therefore the feeling should be reciprocated. but all to often, he gives us things we say thank you, but dont spend any time with him. Just like the woman who was with the rich man, who was not only rich monetarily, but also spiritually. He gave her things, but she never spent any time with him. Only when she was going through something, thats when she would call on him, but she never took the time to listen to anything he said. every word out of his mouth was an answer to any problem she had.
but because she knew what he COULD do, but did not KNOW him, she never grew. So today i was looking for the word that would help me overcome this cloud of despair that sits above me. I went to Joyce Meyers daily devotionals and read it, it was good, but my spirit was telling me to go to Kenneth Copeland's website. Lo and behold lol, it was right smack on point!. it just confirmed exactly how i was feeling and going through, WOW! the WORD IS POWERFUL!!! im realizing that I have to get myself submerged into this Word. the Lord has told me that he has so much blessing and favor he wants to pour out on me, but until I learn how to better manage them and get more into my Word, he cannot give them to me now. People tell me that they enjoy my music, they love the words, the enjoy watching me ministering in person. My goal is to get 100 churches or more before the end of 2010 that will allow me to come minister my music to their congregation. Im just getting started and i have a long way to go, but i know that i have to get back into his Word like i was. it has been a wonderful journey and there is no way in the world that i would stop this for anything. Satan CANT WIN!! God hurts when we fall, but he hurts even more when we dont get back up and continue to walk with him when he's been with us the whole journey. the Word for the day is exactly what i needed to hear to get myself motivated. I hope that it does the same for you. The time is now...get moving!!






From Faith to Faith -- Daily Devotional


May 11, 2010



Never Fall
Kenneth Copeland

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.

– 2 Timothy 2:15

A lot of people have been playing games when it comes to the Word. They claim to be faith people in public. But, in private, they never open the Bible at all. Then, when a time of trouble comes and they try to stand on the Word, they fall flat on their spiritual faces.

Well, the time for playing games is over. It's time for us to realize that real faith involves action. James 2:20 says faith without works [or corresponding action] is dead.

If you want the kind of faith that will keep you on your feet when others are falling around you, you need to take some action where the Word is concerned.

First, you need to study. You can study the Word in many ways. You can not only read it, you can dig deeply into it with concordances, Greek/Hebrew dictionaries and other study guides. What's more, if you have a cassette player, you can walk around half the day listening to teaching tapes. It's only one way of study, but it is a powerful one.

The second thing you need to do is go where the Word is being preached. When Romans 10:17 says "faith comes by hearing," it's talking about the preached Word.

Whenever I start feeling surrounded by problems and I'm having trouble hearing from God, I drop everything and find some place where I can hear the Word preached. I've received more answers from God that way than I can count. Even though the preacher may not have been preaching about anything even remotely connected with the issue I was struggling with, some Word of Scripture would suddenly start my thoughts in a certain direction. I'd realize, "That's the answer to that problem I've been dealing with for the past six weeks!"

Third, you need to start confessing the Word you've heard. Find the promise of God that covers your situation and then declare it out loud as if it had already come to pass in your life.

Get serious about the Word of God. Study it. Go hear it preached. Confess it. Become such a diligent workman that the devil himself will look at you with fear and say, "There's one believer who's not playing games anymore."

Scripture Reading: 2 Peter 1:3-10