Striving To Be "Christ-Like"!

I am in competition with no one. When it comes to ministry and my life, what I do, I do it ALL for the glory of God, and I seek His approval only, not man's. And if God calls you to do a work, He will complete the work in you as long as you stay in line with His word, and stay focused on Him and His will for your life, and remain obedient to Him. Oh, you better believe when you step out in obedience to do something God has called you to, you will face opposition and criticism. The Lord is my spiritual bulldozer, and He SHALL plow every roadblock, hindering, distracting, opposing. intimidating, envious, jealous demonic spirit out of my way as I do the work He has called and prepared me to do (His Word promises us that He will go before us and pave every crooked path straight). I do not fear opposition. I am like Nehemiah, I am not coming off these walls, for God has ordained and anointed me to do a work for Him. Praise God, because He is our vindicator, He will fight our battles, an...

One of the best benefits we can receive from a prayer life is learning to let go. In fact, I think prayer is really the process of letting go. You are letting go by taking your burdens and giving them to God. People are carrying burdens they were never designed to carry. The sooner we learn we are not in control of our lives, situations, or heartaches the sooner we will learn to trust God on a much deeper level. After all, our lives are in His hands and not our own. I have realized that prayer is essentially telling God, "It is not up to me, it is up to You." His perfect will must be done in every situation, and He must get the glory for it all. Prayer is where burdens change shoulders (from yours to God's). There is power in prayer and prayer changes things. Don't ever think your prayers are in vain. However, 99.9% of the time the mountain (obstacle) that is standing in the way of our deliverance, healing, breakthrough, miracle, etc. is our refusal to 100% give it ov...

Jesus instructs us to build into our prayers a request for God to forgive us in the same way that we have forgiven others who have harmed us (i.e. The Lord's Prayer). If there are those we have not forgiven when we ourselves pray for forgiveness, then practically speaking we are asking God not to restore a right relationship with us after we sin. To emphasize the importance of restoring broken relationships with our brothers and sisters (in Christ), Jesus states that asking for God’s forgiveness for one’s own sins, all the while withholding forgiveness from someone else, is not only bizarre but hypocritical. We cannot possibly walk with God in true fellowship if we refuse to forgive others. An unforgiving spirit is a serious sin and should be confessed to God. If we have unforgiveness in our hearts against someone else, then we are acting in a way that is not pleasing to God, making our prayers and a proper living relationship with Him difficult.

I hear so strongly in my spirit, the Lord saying, the day is soon approaching when I will separate the goats from the sheep. People get ready, you want to be at the right hand of the Father. You want to be the sheep who knows His voice and follows Him. Matthew 25:31-46 (KJV) 31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto...

I woke up from a dream I was having several years back and I cannot forget it. I wrote it down, because I knew I did not need to forget it. In fact, it has really been on my heart to share it. In my dream, I was in a large arena full of people, and it was a Christian event/conference that was being held. Everyone was holding a sign with a topic written on it to discuss. As people would lift their sign, and asked if we wanted to talk about this subject... the crowd would break out in loud applause and cheers... it was subjects such as lifestyles, food, music, dancing, clothing etc... when it was my time to hold up my sign, it said THE CROSS... as I waited for the crowd to get excited about discussing this topic, a complete hush fell over the arena, and I was left holding the sign up, crying and praising the Lord, confused that no one else wanted to discuss the cross. I was begging and pleading with people to talk about the cross, but no one would. As I woke up, the Lord said this is the...