Don't Shrink Back

Friends,

How often do you find yourself “ready, set, go” in your relationship with GOD, only to be stalled by people, places and situations making a guest appearance in your life? In show business, a guest star, is not a regular cast member. They only appear if the storyline requires them to. You know, some people only come around to be a diversion and they may even have a form of godliness, but they deny the TRUE POWER of YAHWEH. We must learn to turn away from such people that can cause us to shrink away from the things GOD is calling us to do. Amen! I am not telling you to say “shoo, shoo, you worker of iniquity.” I’m saying be aware, alert, and know the tactics of the flesh. 

Romans 12:2 MSG Bible
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Child of God, your life’s script was written by the one and only TRUE GOD., the KING of Kings and Lord of LORDS. You must not allow circumstances of any kind to keep you from fellowshipping with HIM. Our place of employment is only a means to an end, but Yahweh is our source. Jobs will use you and abuse you, then cast you aside. We must not allow ourselves to be tossed to and fro by summarizing our identities by our work load, because that is a form of deception. If this is a pattern for you or someone you know, I want to encourage you today to remove the blinders from your eyes, and the pride from your heart. Turn to GOD, so he can cleanse you of all doubt and fear that you do not measure up. You are enough as you walk by Faith and not by sight. 

Hebrews 11 AMP Bible
6 But without faith it is impossible to [walk with God and] please Him, for whoever comes [near] to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He rewards those who [earnestly and diligently] seek Him.

I cannot stress this enough... Faith (GOD), Faith (The SON) and more Faith (The Holy Ghost) will help us through it all. Life is going to happen.  Right. Right. I cannot tell you how many times, I have said, “This is not the right time.” Only to discover that anything for GOD is not the right time for the devil. He wants us to think that we don’t have the time to do, “thus says the LORD” or the resources. Don’t believe it. Return every lie to him. If the Lord gave you the blueprint, he alone will come up with the resources, just be obedient and don’t shrink away. 

Do you believe what the LORD says about you? Or are you destined to be a pile of salt that is trampled upon and thrown out? 

As I prepared for this message, I focused so much on the word “SHRINK” which means to be made smaller in size or amount, to move back or away, especially out of fear or disgust, and thought “Wow.” It is so easy to shrink back from GOD when we are hiding our true selves from ourselves. You see, the LORD’s way is the standard. His qualifications to be a Child of GOD, is simple:  

1 John 5 Msg Bible
1-3 Every person who believes that Jesus is, in fact, the Messiah, is God-begotten. If we love the One who conceives the child, we’ll surely love the child who was conceived. The reality test on whether or not we love God’s children is this: Do we love God? Do we keep his commands? The proof that we love God comes when we keep his commandments and they are not at all troublesome.

We are making this way of life too hard. We are adding man’s philosophy. We are adding our flesh. We are being led away by demons, and we are shrinking away from our first love.

So, come all in confidence to the “Throne of Grace” to receive mercy through Christ Jesus and repent of all manner of sin to be called “Children of the Light and of the Day.” Amen!

No more self- help books pick up the Good Book (Holy Bible) and discover who created you, who you are, and your purpose. 

Hebrews 4 MSG Bible
12-13 God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. Nothing and no one is impervious to God’s Word. We can’t get away from it—no matter what.

In His Love and Service Always,