Feb 10 Wed
People can need emotional healing just as much as they need physical healing. It would shock all of us if our soul man could step out and we could get a look at him. We see ourselves and the people around us through that part of us. Your perception colors everything in your world. Your perception can be so real to you. Provers 14:12 says, “There’s a way that seems right to a man, butthe end thereof [are] the ways of death.”People relate that to getting on the wrong path and ending up in hell. But wisdom speaks much deeper than the most obvious things. There’s a way that seems right and feels right to a person, but when you get to the end of it, it produces death and not the plan of God. You can live your whole life and you might have done some great things, but if it wasn’t the plan of God, it was all in vain. There will be a lot of people who end up there because they build their lives on the wrong things. Everything else will perish except for God and His kingdom. The spirit of the worlds system will work its plan in your life every day and get you to settle for that life. In the eyes of the world, you’re successful. But a lot of times, you miss God’s plan for your life.
NUMBER ONE IMPORTANCE – develop a daily prayer life. Get to know your Father! You have to know Him to trust Him! Without a prayer life you won’t know Him, and you will not have the ability to live the life that He has planned for you. You can’t do it in human strength. You have to have that flow from Him to you. When you get to the end of your life, you will see that the very things you thought were so important, don’t mean anything. Be busy serving Him and learning your place in His kingdom. When you do that, and put that first, then, He takes personal responsibility for every need in your life. God has ALWAYS seen you through. He won’t stop now. This doesn’t mean it will always be easy and comfortable. But He will see you through. Build your life on prayer. There are things that God has planned for you! 1 Corinthians 2:9 says, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”You’ll never know the plan for your life without prayer. Before you were born again, the plan of God for your life was without. It was hidden in Him. It was hidden in Him before you were even born. It was hidden in Him before the foundations of the world. It is in the heart and mind of God. When you were born again, the plan that was without became within. You now have the ability to find out what that plan is. This journey of discovery MUST be prayed out. You won’t walk it out without prayer. The reason we don’t pray is because we are selfish and prideful. Pride originated in Satan. It comes from him.
Genesis 3:1-6 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it waspleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
The enemy was trying to get Eve to question what God had said. He was sowing wonder, doubt, reason, unbelief. She knew the truth. She knew what God had said. Adam was standing there watching all of this happen. He remembers what God said, because God said it TO him. He sees that Eve takes the fruit and she does not die. He sees that she eats of the fruit and does not die. She doesn’t die physically, but she dies spiritually. When they died spiritually, the nature of God that was in them is what left them. And they took on the nature of that snake. The devil. Pride originated inside lucifer and when Adam and Eve died that day, that nature came in them. The pride. Satan was telling them, you don’t need God! You can be your own God! You can make your own choices! You can decide for yourself what is best for you. We know this isn’t true, but can you see the pride? Pride is now in the natural flesh part of every human being that was born after them. We are so blind to it. It is why we won’t pray. Because we think we don’t need to. We think we can live without it. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” HUMBLE YOURSELF is the key part of this verse! Pride stinks in the nostrils of God. Before honor is humility. Humility will fill your life with riches and treasures. Life is light! God is light! In Him is no darkness! When that light starts to flow into you, you start to see things you wouldn’t normally see! You think beyond yourself. That light will start to blossom your understanding. We do not realize the level of deception we live under. Having a prayer life is the only remedy. Think of it like this: look at your phone or iPad. It is amazing what it can do. Pictures, information, videos, all at the touch of a screen. You can see the world in an instant. It has such potential. It is amazing what it can do. But it can only do those things if it’s plugged in the power source on a regular basis. It’s amazing what you have the potential for, but you cannot do it if you aren’t plugged in to the power source. The potential is there! Prayer helps you know God. It gives you the ability to walk out the life He wants to give you. It brings the life and light into you. When you start to pray and recognize that you don’t deserve anything that God has given you, it brings a humility to your life. The only reason you have it is because God chose you and because He loves you. If He loves you that much, shouldn’t you love Him back? If you’re that important to Him, shouldn’t He be that important to you?
Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
“For this cause” – In other words, in light of knowing what I know about God and His plan, for my life, it causes me to bow my knees. It came out of Him. He gave birth to it. The father is the one that has life in Himself. Everything that is alive came from Him. He’s a father!
Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;.
This strength will only come through prayer. Every time you pray, He is granting you that. He is strengthening your inner man by His spirit. He is putting might in you!
Ephesians 3: 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
You won’t get there apart from prayer. If you are grounded in love, you can’t be offended. Man can’t give you that kind of love. And it comes through prayer.
Ephesians 3:18-20 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
You can’t get it from a book. No human can give it to you. It only comes through Him. Every stupid thing we have done in our lives is because we were looking for love. You were created by God with a place in you that has to be loved. It doesn’t make you needy! You can come to a place where you know God as your Father! The love you are looking for can only be given by God our Father.
1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all your things be done with love.
It is easy to love others when you know how much God loves you! No one can disappoint you because you aren’t putting them in a place you shouldn’t! God is in His proper place. He’s the only one who will never let you down. He will never betray you. Everything about Him wants to see you win and do good. He wants to see you go to the top! You can’t have that operating in you if you do not know Him. When you’ve got divine love operating in you, you can forgive anybody for anything. You can’t get there apart from prayer. There is nothing more powerful than love. There is no person or situation that love cannot change. Take the time to let that love come into you.