Whatever our calling is, it is meant for others, to help others. We are here to do the job God has called us to do.

There are some things we believe are our calling, that clearly does not line up with the word of God. But, when God calls us to do something, we quickly dismiss it because we don’t feel adequate to do the job, or for some other excusable reason.

Some of our excuses are trivial. Either we don’t want to give up our time, our money, or of ourselves.

What we fail to realize is, when God calls us to do something, it is for both ourselves and for someone else. He has fully equipped us to do the job He has called us to do. It is ourselves who feel like we can’t do what we are called to do. But it is God telling us, we can.

We must stop putting off what God is calling us to do. It is when we serve that we receive the blessings of God, and move forward in our purpose.

I Thessalonians 5:24 (KJV) faithful is he that called you, who also will do it.

Philippians 1:6 (KJV) – being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

John 12:26 (KJV) – if any man serve me let him follow me: and where I am there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

Are you ashamed of the gospel? Are you ashamed to pray in front of others? Are you ashamed to bless your food in public?

If we are ashamed, then we’re ashamed of God, therefore, we are denying him. His word say, if we deny him, he will deny us.

When we deny God, it’s our pride, pleasing the flesh. Check your pride. You don’t want to allow your pride to get in the way of yourself, to the point that you are denied by God. You don’t want God to say to you, go away, I never knew you.

II Timothy 2:12 (KJV) – if we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.

Proverbs 11:2 (KJV) – when pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

Matthew 7:23 (KJV) – and then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Whatever we do, we are to do them all to the glory of God. When things happen in our lives, they are for our good and for God’s glory. We, for the most part, look at the “our good”, and not the “God’s glory”.

We tend to take the glory from God and put it on ourselves. We turn God into “I”. I did this, and I did that.

The trials we have come out of, are not trials that “we” have conquered, but what God has done in and through us. What we have experienced is a testimonial to help someone else, to give God the glory. To show and tell how God has used us to strengthen our faith through and in our struggle.

Remember, God is to be glorified, not you.

I Corinthians 10:31 (KJV) – whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Revelation 14:7 (KJV) – saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

We must be careful, in everything,. Especially, who we allow to govern our thoughts, and our lives. We will either walk in the Spirit, or we will walk in the flesh.

Choosing to walk in the Spirit, takes effort to do it on purpose. Walking in the flesh doesn’t take any effort, and has no purpose.

When we choose to cast out satan and walk in the Spirit, remember, he will come back. And if we are not filled with the word of God, when satan returns, he will bring 7 more evil spirits. And we will be worse then we were before.

Therefore, keep your mind filled with the word of God, and walk in the Spirit, so we will not be guided by the flesh.

Philippians 4:6 (KJV ) – be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God.

Luke 11:24-26 (KJV) – when the unclean Spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through fry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he sanity, I will return unto my house whence I came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and rage last State of that man is worse than the first.

Galatians 5:16 (KJV) – this I say them walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

We must always know who we are. Satan doesn’t want us to be reminded of who we are, because when we speak it, he gets less attention and less power.

God choose you before the foundation of the world! He ordained you! He adopted you, and made you joint heirs with Christ!

You are a child of God! You are more than a conqueror! You are fearfully and wonderfully made! You can do all things through Christ! No weapon shall form against you. God gave you power over all the enemy.

Speak this daily about yourself, it’s the truth. Know it, and own it!

Ephesians 1:4 (KJV) – according as he hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.

John 15: 16 (KJV) – ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you.

Ephesians 1:5 (KJV) – having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

Romans 8:17 (KJV) – and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Romans 8;16 (KJV) – the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

Romans 8:37 (KJV) – Nay, in all things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Psalm 139:14 (KJV) – I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Philippians:13 (KJV) – I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Isaiah 54;17 (KJV) – no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

Luke 10:19 (KJV) – behold, I give unto you power to trend on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Our flesh fight against the Spirit, because the flesh is filled with envy and strife, jealousy, anger, adultery, fornication, which leads to destruction, and are not of God, but of the flesh.

To have a life of abundance, we must learn to add fruits to our lives by walking in the Spirit, which is filled with love, joy, peace, goodness, faith, and meekness, which are of God.

Let us learn, daily, to walk in the Spirit, and not in the flesh, on purpose.

Galatians 5:16-25 (KJV) – this I say then, walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Burn the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Excerpt from Get It or Get Got . . . Fighting temptation takes courage. Temptation is only temporary, and there are consequences for our every action, whether good or bad.

Temptation has a way with our feelings; therefore, we must be careful not to walk in our feelings because our feelings and emotions can get us into some things that are easy to get into but so hard to get out of.

It’s up to us to make the choice to walk in the Spirit, to rebuke temptation.

Galatians 6:7 (KJV) – be not deceived, God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Ephesians 6:12 (KJV) – for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Matthew 26:41 (KJV) – watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

James 1:22 (KJV) – but be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Galatians 5;16 (KJV) – this I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

When harm is done to us, we don’t often think that we will prevail, or that the wrong done to us is actually our blessing.

God catches our tears and puts them in a bottle. And when we cry out to him, he turns those that have wronged us away from us. Not only that, but those things that are meant to do us wrong, God turns them for our good, and into beauty.

Therefore, give thanks and praise to our Father!

Psalm 56:8-9 (KJV) – thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

Genesis 50:20 (KJV) – but as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Isaiah 61:3 (KJV) – to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

Psalm 92:1 (KJV) – it is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High.

He is risen!

We are saved by grace, through faith. The resurrection of our Lord and Savior dying on the cross for us, and proving that He is the Messiah, by raising from the dead, has promised us eternal life

This is the day the Lord has made, rejoice in it! He lives and reign forever and ever!

Ephesians 2:8 (KJV) – for by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.

Acts 24:15 (KJV) – and have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

Psalm 118:24 (KJV) – this is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Revelation 11:15 (KJV) – and the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

When we pray, most of us wonder if God hears? Or wonder if we will be delivered from out circumstances.

When we cry out to God with a pure heart, a righteous heart, He hears us. And when he hears us, He delivers us out of our troubles.

Believe it, because God cannot tell a lie. What God speaks, happens, and His word does not come back void.

His word says, the righteous will have many afflictions, but God will deliver us out of every last one of them.

Be transparent with God, tell him all your true thoughts, and your true feelings, and watch him answer your prayers and deliver you.

Psalm 34:17 (KJV) – the righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Isaiah 55:11 (KJV) – so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Psalm 34:19 (KJV) – many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth Him out of them all.

Psalm 62:8 (KJV) – trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.