Good Morning Brothers,
What an awesome day our Father has made! Father, I look forward to what You will bless me with today. It’s always exciting. I love Your gifts, the increase You give to me and to my family, how You protect my family and me from all evil, oppression, terror, weapons of the enemy, sicknesses, diseases, injury, from all attacks and effects of the curse because my Jesus took it all upon Him at the cross and overcame it. I thank You Father that I and my family are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ, my Lord, King, and Savior. Father, thank You that my children and my wife increase daily in all areas of our lives. Thank you Father that Your decreed Word has bound the evil spirits of blindness, hardness, lack, doubt, fear, sickness, disease, and infirmity in the lives of those we’ve prayed for so that Your Holy Spirit and Your Word would have access to their hearts to convict them. I pray Father they’ll set aside their pride and accept Your loving kindness, forgiveness, and blessing. Father, I pray my precious Brothers addressed here will believe in and receive Your wonderful blessing of the dew of Heaven and fatness of the earth. We have much to do in the name of Jesus Christ. Help us Father to always be in an attitude of blessing others as You’ve commanded. Father, most of all, help us to cast all of our cares on You, as You command in I Peter 5:7, because You careth for us. Father, I repent when I don’t cast even the least of my cares upon You each day. It is my silly, stupid pride which makes me think in some ignorant way that I can handle the care better than You can for me. I’m sorry I do this Father, but I thank You that You love me with a love I will never fully understand until my complete redemption. I can’t wait for that redemption Father, but I know You have much more for me to do in this earth for Your glory and Your honor. Father, I thank You and expect a mighty increase today, this week, this month, and this year in order for me to carry out Your commandment to bless others. You promised You would never give us an assignment that You didn’t provide the provision for it. So, I call You to remembrance of Your Word and to Your promise in II Corinthians 1:20 that all of Your promises to us are “yes” and “so be it” in Jesus Christ unto Your glory by us. I love You Father and look forward to our continued fellowship today. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Philippians 3:13-14
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are before [in the past], I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
John 16:33
These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace [shalom]. In the world ye shall have tribulation [trials]: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Brothers, I’m excited to wake up each day. What does my Father have in store for me today, I ask? I know it is wonderful, and I know what He blesses me with, I’m going to bless others with it. Isn’t this awesome!!
I encourage you to get excited by studying, believing, and receiving God’s promises to you and yours. First, forget about your past – this means yesterday, too – God has forgotten about it, so why haven’t you? Press forward today knowing Your Father loves you dearly and is trying everything possible, through His Word, to get all of His blessings for you, to you. What is the “mark” and the “prize” in Philippians 3:13-14. Religion teaches you, if it hasn’t slipped further into apostasy, the mark is eternal life and the prize is being in Heaven with God. WRONG AGAIN!! When you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, you obtain eternal life and entry to Heaven. Paul wasn’t saying he was pressing to something he already had with his salvation. Paul is pressing toward the “mark” of perfection in Christ so that he is able to believe and receive everything God has provided to him so he can be a greater blessing to others. Read II Timothy 3:16-17 and meditate on it. The Holy Spirit will show you that we are to be made perfect [godly maturity] and thoroughly furnished unto ALL good works. If you do this, then when you stand before Jesus Christ at the Bema Seat, you will hear, “Well done my good and faithful son.”
Jesus encourages us in John 16:33 that any challenge you are facing in health, finances, business, family, legally, etc. has already been overcome by Him at the cross and resurrection. Jesus never said we wouldn’t have trials as Believers. But, let’s have a firm understanding of the truth – God doesn’t send the trials – only Satan does or our ignorant, foolish, natural decisions by our free will. Jesus did say He has provided us an escape from the trials where we come out unscathed and prospered on the other side. If you don’t believe this, then you’ll just have to suffer. Me, I’m more than a conqueror in Christ in ALL things, not some things. I can do ALL things through Christ which strengtheneth me. How does He strengthen me? Through His Word.
Brothers, I encourage you to dive headfirst into fellowship with God – not a relationship – but fellowship. God has a calling on every one of your lives. He EXPECTS you to be mighty on this earth for His glory and honor and for the blessing of others. God is blowing my business up!! It’s not my doing, it’s His doing. I just believe and expect it! This I know as sure as I draw my next breath. The business God has blessed me with will be doing hundreds of millions a year in very short order. Why? Because God has given my wife and I a vision of what He wants accomplished for His Kingdom and for the salvation and sanctification of others. But Larry, it takes years to get to this level of business. Says who?? Man. Pssst, I don’t give a owl’s hoot what man thinks or says. God and the spiritual man is outside of physical time. Where God gives a vision, He gives the provision. Don’t make the mistake of shrinking His vision to your provision. EXPECT FROM HIM!! REMIND HIM [Isaiah 43.26]!!
Love to all of you. In Christ,
Larry