How can we apply God’s promises to our daily lives? Are God’s promises conditional? What does it mean to be a child of God? What are some key promises found in the bible? Are God’s promises for me? How can we be sure God will keep His promises? What‘s more important than getting a life-changing handle on what God has promised you specifically? Expect this podcast to help you know who you are...REALLY & to help you live fully believing God‘s promises to you...REALLY.
Episodes
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Psalm 103:2 (New Living Translation) - "Praise the Lord, I tell myself, and never forget the good things He does for me."
Consider memorizing Psalm 103 - it is a life-changing passage to commit to memory!
OR
Consider reading it every day for 7 days straight - you'll benefit from this exercise!
Reminding ourselves of the good things God has done for us is the best kind of "self-talk" we can engage in.
Grateful people are not "sour" people.
Thankful people are the ones you want as your "LIFER" friends.
What do you need to put into place to help you remember to praise the Lord?
What could you ever write down on your daily to-do list that's more important than taking time to praise God for all the good things He has done for you?
Can you READ Psalm 103:2 & then DO Psalm 103:2 & then GAIN all the BENEFITS of Psalm 103?
(Of course you can because you can do all things through Christ who gives you strength!)
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Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Genesis 18:14a (Amplified) - "Is anything too difficult or too wonderful for the LORD?"
Make up your mind & choose to decide right now that you already have faith to believe this promise for your life today, right from the very start of this episode.
The Amplified version of Genesis 18:14 offers a broader view by adding "or too wonderful" to this verse, which often reads, "Is anything too hard for the LORD?"
I want to challenge you to a new level of faith today - don't paint with a broad brush regarding this verse & it's application to your life. Apply it in this exact moment, on this exact day. It's for your "right now", not just for your "later on".
Some people are not "happy" with life unless they are at their appropriate level of misery.
Some people are just not okay unless they're not okay.
God's Word is never, ever silent. So I gotta ask...what is Genesis 18:14 saying to you today?
Learning from the hard things in your life is growth - but learning from the hard things in someone else's life is wisdom. Choose wisdom as often as you can.
God does not need your intervention. Remember that when you are tempted to "help out"!
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Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Psalm 40:16-17 (New International Version) -
"But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who long for your saving help always say, 'The LORD is great!' But as for me, I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my deliverer; you are my God, do not delay."
Psalm 40:16-17 (Amplified Bible) -
"Let all those that seek and require You rejoice and be glad in You; let such as love Your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified! (As for me) I am poor and needy, yet the Lord takes thought and plans for me. You are my Help and my Deliverer. O my God, do not tarry!"
Key Points ~~~
The Lord is great - this is present tense! Don't solely remember His past greatness but acknowledge that He is great right now.
Our enemy will work overtime trying to prevent us from ever getting real & raw in our prayer time. Why? Because that is exactly when we will find true healing & lasting deliverance.
You drive your own car differently than you try out a drive in your BFF's brand new automobile...you paint your own house any old color you choose, but no when you're a renter...
Is God your God? Then pray like that's true for you - make it your truth!
Christ-following is more about how we live than what we know. When we live like we don't know what we truly do know, we are living like tenants (or renters) instead of like heirs in Christ.
Know your place! When it comes to prayer, your place is never to be out of the Lord's presence.
God takes thought of you. He sees you. And He is planning for your based on the promise that He takes thought of you.
In the Amplified, "Help" and "Deliverer" are capitalized - they are names of God. If He is "Help", can He do other than help? Since He is "Deliverer", will He not deliver us? Will He tarry? Will He delay? Will God be tardy? Is He going to linger and take too long? No, God cannot ever show up too late because He never tarries for too long.
Isaiah 43:19 (ESV) - "Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."
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Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Romans 12:2 (New Living Translation)
"Don't copy the behaviors and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect."
Does this verse have conditions for us?
~ it tells us to "LET" God transform us, specifically our minds...in order to actually change the way that we think, we have to decide to let the Lord do that transformational work.
~ it tells us not to copy this world's customs & behaviors...Where are you living your life by a set of customs that are more worldly than godly?
~ it also teaches us "THEN" we will learn to know God's will for us, which is good & pleasing & perfect.
So, once we stop copying the world's customs & behaviors, and instead allow God to transform the way that we think, we will be able to begin the life-long process of learning, step-by-step, exactly what His will is for us.
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Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Deuteronomy 31:8 (New Living Translation) -
"Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; He will neither fail you nor abandon you."
(and verse 7 of this chapter says: "Then Moses called for Joshua, and as all Israel watched, he said to him, 'Be strong and courageous! For you will lead these people into the land that the LORD swore to their ancestors He would give them...")
Key Points ~~~
We need to listen up - take notes - pay careful attention - and do whatever we are called to do when we study our Bible and sense the Lord speaking to us.
Don't be an inactive, indifferent student of the Word!
This promise is massive - it is so big that it leaves us no room to talk our way out of it or wiggle our way around it in order to avoid it...we must simply believe it.
The only way God's promises will not be for you is if you refuse to move with the Lord & instead just sit down on the sidelines. Do not sit out on your own life!
The promises of God should go hand-in-glove with our prayer lives. Appropriating God's promises is the real point of knowing God's promises.
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Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Joshua 23:14b,c (New Living Translation) -
"Deep in your hearts you know that every promise of the LORD your God has come true. Not a single one has failed!"
Other verses to take a look at:
Joshua 23 - verses 4 & 5, verses 6-11, & verse 8 (in that order).
Deuteronomy 7:24 (Amplified Bible) - "And He will hand over their kings to you, and you will make their name perish from under heaven; no man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them."
Deuteronomy 7:24 (New Living Translation) - "He will put their kings in your power, and you will erase their names from the face of the earth. No one will be able to stand against you, and you will destroy them all."
Deuteronomy 11:23 (Amplified Bible) - "...then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than you."
Deuteronomy 11:23 & 24a (New Living Translation) - "Then the LORD will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and stronger than you, and you will take over their land. Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours."
Joshua used his last words at the tail end of his astounding life not to talk about himself, but to remind them that these exact promises from the Lord had proven true & not a single one had failed.
God's promises are as true for us today, right in this very moment, as they were in Joshua's day.
2 Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified Bible) - "For as many as are the promises of God, in Christ they are (all answered) 'Yes'. So through Him we say our 'Amen' to the glory of God."
Make every effort as a follower of Jesus not to live in or act out of fear.
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Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
2 Corinthians 2:20 (Amplified Bible) - "For as many as are the promises of God, in Christ they are (all answered) 'Yes'. So through Him we say our 'Amen' to the glory of God."
Homework Idea ~~~
This week, try to read Joshua chapter 23 one day & 2 Corinthians 1 the next day.
Before you begin reading these chapters, pray and ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you via these passages & see what the Lord has to say to you through His word that relates to your current life circumstances.
Key Points ~~~
Why would we ever willingly choose to believe that God doesn't intend to do what He has clearly, plainly & implicitly said in His Living Word, the Bible, that He desires, intends, wills & wants to do?
Do we refer to ourselves by the title "Believers" and yet live in unbelief?
Believers ought to live lives of belief! If believers don't really believe, it's like they are taking sides with the devil & saying they think he will come out on top.
We can sort of "revolt" when we are asked to step up to the plate and believer in God's Word (as in, actually acting on God's Word, depending on it, banking on it, relying on it, leaning on it, living out God's promises by faith...not by sight, but by faith."
Don't let yourself forget the "Yes" that Jesus offers and the "Amen" that means He has completed the work necessary to prove every promise of God as absolutely true is for you today. So live in it, sweet friend!
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Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Hebrews 4:14-16 (New Living Translation) ~~~
So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for He faced all of the same things we do, yet He did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive His mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
Key Points ~~~
Sometimes we believe God's promises are true for us...but that they will prove true later on, at some point in the future (just not right now).
God's promises are for the "Right NOW"!
We are "Right NOW" to hold firmly to what we believe.
Hebrews 12:12 (NLT) says this: "So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen you weak knees."
Take a firm grip - grab hold and refuse to let go!
You have a gracious God who totally understands you. All that He is asking you to do right now is to hold firmly to what you believe.
Think about a king who describes his throne as "gracious" - that is profound! We have an enormously gracious God!
God's help is truly beneficial to us. When we receive His help, it benefits us in this very moment in time.e 18 for moer
See Luke 11 & Luke 18 to learn more about praying with importunity.
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Friday Dec 06, 2019
Friday Dec 06, 2019
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Okay - back to the show notes!
Isaiah 43:18-20 (NLT) - "But forget all that - it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. The wild animals in the fields will thank me, the jackals and owls, too, for giving them water in the desert. Yes, I will make rivers in the dry wasteland so my chosen people can be refreshed."
Verses referenced in this episode: Hebrews 13:8 ~ Malachi 3:6 ~ Hebrews 11:1
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