LariatResources

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

“Love is the most practical thing in the world. Ask God to fill you with His love when you sleep so you can leak when awake. If you have an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you’ll eventually get along.” Make this adjustment and life will start changing. Pain will leave, sorrows will lift, disappointment fade. The conquer in you will rise above the worldliness. I am not sure where this came from yet it is so true: “If a couple pursues peace and chooses love over self-centeredness, they can work through almost any issue. If a couple is at war, most any issue can be a point of contention.” The next step is over coming fear.

Today we conquer fear, by riding through the storm, by using God’s core values.

Practice your core values in new mindsets daily. Focus on the best use of your time, the activity that gets you the greatest results. That means spending most of your time practicing what you have learned or soaking in God’s presence.

Be 100% committed. Commitment destroys your negativity. Soak and set your plan to God’s plan. Don’t know? Then ask Him. Keep up the good fight through adversity in Cowboying-up with Jesus.

Doubt – don’t open the door or make an agreement with fear or doubt. Make a decision whether you are going to agree with faith or agree with the devil.

Stay involved by plugging into tools that increase your skills and feed your spirit & belief system. Read bible verses and listen to CD’s, attend seminars. Protect and feed the growth of your spirit that you are experiencing. Soak in God’s presence especially when sick or distraught.

Surround yourself with like-minded individuals, people with vision and dreams who are awake and stirred to do great things. Write in a journal.

Giving up is not an option. Make the decision to press on. Once you have made a mindset of pressing on, there is no room for fear or doubt. Study meekness and walk in it the best you can, God will do the rest.

Keep yourself moving forward in a positive action mode. Lack of action creates idleness which opens the door to satan and his gang. Keep riding through the storm or circumstance with Jesus. Remember John 10:10

You and I are uniquely crafted by God to lead. Yes we all are. That means we cannot do what others do. You can do more or less, yet God accepts you the way you are, do the best you can and God will do the rest. Our great challenge of leadership is to calmly define and change your “true self” from the demands and voices around you. Discern with God the desires, vision, pace, and mission the Father has given you to lead. Take off Saul’s armor, put on Paul’s heart. How much activity can you sustain without losing your soul? And remember, “to live unfaithfully to yourself is to cause others great damage”, love is the answer even though you may not be loveable right now, it will come.

When stuff happens it comes from the world and satan, yet I do beleive God allows it to happen so we turn to Him or it can be a test to see how well you use what has been given to you. When it happens we respond “What did I do? I must have done something terrible.” Then we proceed down the trail of morbid introspection, a self destruct mode of blame or condemnation. We look down and into ourselves. We take ourselves apart piece by piece, examining and re-examining ourselves. I ask for what purpose? Then we try putting ourselves back together while trying to figure out what we did wrong. It may be that you have done absolutely nothing wrong. You see, if we don’t understand John 10{10 and your walk with Jesus, then this can be or get very discouraging because the seeds of doubt and discouragement sprout in the soil of lack of knowledge. Claim the promises of 1 Peter 1:3-9 for strength in the midst of your trial. When you are tempted today (notice I didn’t say “if” but “when”), ask God to provide a way of escape. Then trust His way and obey. I do my best in not saying the word ‘but’, the word represents an excuse.

Remember that “a man can receive only what is given him from heaven” (John 3:27). You will be a ‘present’ to your spouse and children in proportion to what you’ve received from being in God’s presence. So soak in it. Be a present from the presence. Say more Lord more, whack me and my loved ones. It takes time and effort to think through thoughtful gifts with meaning for your family and prayer list for others. Soaking is not just love for you, it is a gift for others at Christmas. I encourage you to make sure you have the margin (room) in your life for soaking. Also breaking bread with Jesus often, commune with Him is your responsibility for others. Make the bread and fruit of the vine an inoculation against disease and whatever satan throws at you. Cowboy-up with Jesus. Ride cowgirl, ride cowboy ride…

Triumph in life, success in what you do or face. Success is when you use what God gives you. What is in your heart, for it is there that rules your life. 1Jn. 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Set your mind and speech to what God says in the bible on goodness. Say your favorite verses aloud. Ask God to peel off one at a time of what hinders you and let it go. Know that God causes us to triumph in Christ, which comes from Jesus’ knowledge, this happens by you giving thanks. Do you want to hear God, give thanks. Live a lifestyle of giving thanks. Engage your will to God’s willm say Papa have your way with me. Know the devil wants you to forget your victories with God. So ask God to go over your past victories and give thanks for them. Write them down in your journal as you remember them.

Mk.11:24 Therefore I say unto you. What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them. Rom 4:17-18 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

2Cor. 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

1Thess. 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Study and remember 1Thess, 5:16-25.

John 7:16-17 I am paraphrasing in what Jesus saying in these verses; "What I teach doesn't come from me it from the one who sent me. Those who want to follow the will of God will know if what I teach is from God or if I teach my own thoughts. Everything we do is by the grace of God, the way you get this is by being humble and meek. Now understand meekness is not weakness. It is walking with authority and power of Jesus using it in the ways of Jesus, not being a loud voice, or a sore. It is walking in the dark as a light confident in who you are in Jesus. Say this whenever you think of it; ‘ I am the righteousness in Jesus Christ’. Faith begets faith. Remove bad attitudes of the world. Most people think the world owes them, this is a lie from the bowels of hell.

Big secret is get your mind off yourself, do your best in doing something for someone else. Sure it is hard when you are up to your butt in alligators, when your goal is to drain the swamp… Take authority over spirits of infirmity and lack… know what your fear can or will come upon you. In Mark it says what you perceive as is will be, if you picture bad things then they come, if you picture as they would be, good things they will come. Go love on someone even if it hurts, get your mind off the office, the pain, the alligators… Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions. 1 John 3:18 (NLT)

Don’t do or say anything for your own benefit or glory. Everything must be for the glory of God and by love. God says He never will leave you and He will make a way for you. Don’t settle for anything less than God’s promises, He does not lie, the devil does. Refuse the devil, God is working for I am the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Be a prisoner of Hope. Believe for your break through. Be more than a conquer be a victor not a victim. Live in authority in and by Christian Protocol Be more than a survivor be an over comer, a storm calmer. Strive to become a wave walker. Speak things into existence God did and He says we can do greater things than He. Live by the Holy Spirit for living large and being super charged.

Do you really love someone? Let's see how you act toward that person. Love is more than attraction and more than arousal. It's also more than sentimentality, like so many of today's songs suggest. By this standard, is love dead when the emotion is gone? No, not at all. Because love is an action; love is a behavior. Behave on purpose, love on purpose. Don’t let circumstance dictate your behavior. Stop depending on others for your level of joy and peace. Turn to God and His word. Pray and love on someone, give of your time and money to others.

When something goes wrong or like when you break something just say, ‘I am not impressed’… don’t you see the devil tries to upset you through smaller things so you can remove peace and joy so pain and negativity will move in and all hell is ready to break loose. I am the righteousness in Christ Jesus.

Giving thanks all the daylong is setting up to receive grace and giving the glory to God. God will open your eyes to the next step and keep guiding… keep praying and giving thanks. Which giveth us the victory - Us who are Christians; all Christians. The victory over sin, death, and the grave. God alone is the author of this victory. He formed the plan; he executed it in the gift of his Son; and he gives it to us personally when we come to die. 2Co 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. Give heartfelt thanks, this how the cycle works for blessings and the way. Today is a good day to die, let go of the old, drown the old man in Baptism of water. Burn away the old with Holy Spirit fire.

1Co 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2Co 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

Wait till you read this next article, I am writing on imagination, how satan his gang takes advantage of our imagination. Yet God uses it for our good.

How to become what I call a imagineer… Walt Disney word.