Moving On

Trusting God is relying upon His ability to accomplish His Will no matter how we feel, what we think, what others believe, or how bad the circumstances may appear.
( See Exodus 14:21)

*Jesus knew that you can’t win them all, and sometimes you have to move on.

Matthew 10:14 If any household or town refuses to welcome you or listen to your message, shake its dust from your feet as you leave.

A spiritually minded man will never come to you with the demand – “Believe this and that;”
BUT A spiritually minded man will come to you with the Demand that you square your life with the “Standards of Jesus”.
*You will not be popular, BUT See for YOURSELF what the Bible says about your OWN circumstance and thoughts and take Action for YOURSELF to follow Christ.
*Don’t just listen to man’s ideas BUT GO TO THE TRUTH.
*Without the TRUTH there is only power and Manipulation left to try convince you of man’s idea of what the truth says to fit their agenda!!!!!!

*Always keep your life measured by the Standards of Jesus.
*Is there Respect, Honor, Wisdom, Love for the Truth, Responsibility, Accountability…..?

Mark 6:11 But if any place refuses to welcome you or listen to you, shake its dust from your feet as you leave to show that you have abandoned those people to their fate.
**We see here how to react when someone rejects God’s Bibical truths. We leave it behind and move on.

Matthew 24:4  And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray.
People are NOT readily LOYAL. God’s will is not hard to understand just hard to accept. (Roman 7:14 Philippians 3. Job 1:6)
*You cannot hear the word of God and not be effected.
* It will either draw you near or push you away.

*Folks sometimes don’t want to know the TRUTH because their truth is based on a LIE.
* Be careful of the company that you keep!!!!!
*When you go out into the world you go ready for a fight,
* but in the church sometimes, you have your guard down which is why you can get HURT the most by those in the church.

LIVE Your life in a way that you NEED God and you NEED others. We need community.  Don’t let Manipulation bring you down-be on guard to see and to discern it. Don’t fall into a trap of Justifying a lie!

*Manipulation is getting what you want by ignoring or harming the desires of others.
*Manipulation is understanding and utilizing almost any means necessary (usually discreetly and unknown to the person being manipulated) to get what they want for their agenda-NOT looking at God’s Standards.
*Often manipulators understand how people think and what things they can say or discreetly do to motivate people to do what THEY want!  Not what God wants! A way to Justify themselves to get others aboard to fulfill their agenda.
* Manipulation can also be used in the sense of changing things, like manipulating clay to make a toy figurine – so I guess maybe a better definition would be using the ability to change aspects of an object or situation to fulfill Your Personal Desires or Motivations.

*Manipulators use charm, persuasion, coaxing, trickery, and misdirection.
*The underlying idea is “I have to fool people to make them give me what I want.”
* When they are really caught up in their ploys, manipulators even imagine that they are doing their victims a favor.
You can catch yourself falling into this behavior when you aren’t listening to other people, when you ignore what they want and when you pretend that your desires cost nobody else a price.

There are also external signs. The presence of a manipulator brings tension, strain, complaints and conflict to a situation.
Some people use passive manipulations – they come up with “poor me” scenarios to coax sympathy and pity out of others.
-Or they lay subtle guilt trips with the aim of making others think that what they want is wrong.

Manipulation comes to an end when you stop assuming that YOUR desires are all-important.
Then you can reconnect with others and begin to Trust that their desires might be aligned with yours.

When there is no manipulation, people feel that what they want counts. They trust that you are on their side; you aren’t seen as a performer or salesperson. No one feels that he or she is being fooled.

Pride is the belief in your own importance, dignity, or a favorable idea/view of yourself for multiple reasons. Most people have some kind of pride, but the degree of pride can be different.
You may have pride in your morals, but not necessarily in your self image or vice versa.

Are you guilty of manipulation and controlling your circumstances to make your life more comfortable.

If you aren’t controlling your own flesh, your flesh is controlling you. Use prayer, confession, & repentance to train yourself.

So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.
Galatians 5:1

You will have opportunities in the days ahead to solve both short-term and long-standing problems.  If you will set your heart to know the solution, God will give you the wisdom necessary for breakthrough.  But, you must seek the Lord and His TRUTH and believe that JESUS will help you.
As you know, double-mindedness gets you nothing!!!
Your singleness of mind and faith will give you the answers you need, the progress you desire and the breakthrough you’ve longed for.

James 1:5-8  If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.  But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.   For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Let us Pray together–Lord I press through all the thoughts that would hold me back, I press dear Lord toward you. I will not look to my right, I will not look to my left but I will keep my eyes totally and  completely on you Lord my savior, my deliverer, my redeemer, my life, my all, my everything. I will activate my faith this day and I will walk by faith and not by what I see or what I may be even thinking. I will set my mind to meditating on your word- I will speak your word within my heart and my mind. I will stand on your word
Lord. I speak your word Lord which is life to the dead situations in my life. I
will come alive in you Lord Jesus. I thank you. I thank you Lord for doing exceeding and abundantly above all that I ask or think in my life. I bless your holy name.
In Jesus name I pray. Amen