Don't be a Dog

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
2 Peter 2:20‭-‬22 KJV

  Once God delivers us from something why do we return to it? Very simply, it's because we don't do our part to prevent it from happening again. We think just cause he delivered us we're ok now, everything is good. I've been there myself, carried something so long, finally came to a replace of repentance, received deliverance only to get slack in prayer and fall right back into the same garbage that had me bound. The same stuff I swore i hated.

We have to maintain our relationship with Him, through prayer. If that communication breaks down we'll turn to something else, every time. Stay strong! Pray! Don't be like the dog returning to it's vomit! Be so strong in your relationship with Jesus that you love Him too much to go back to those things he delivered you from! He loves you, and so do I. Be blessed!

Don't be afraid of the Deep!

1 Corinthians 2: 9-10
  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

As a child i can remember going to the creek close to where we lived. I can remember playing in the shallow water, watching the older kids and adults swinging from the rope swing into the deeper water. I can remember being scared to go and do it myself, but as I grew older I finally had the courage to try it for myself. What a feeling it was, jumping from that rope into the deep water! That was where the fun was at, how come I had been missing out all of those years? It is the same way with our walk with God. When we are young in our walk, we try to stay in the shallows, to afraid or unsure about venturing out into the deep, but as we mature that's where we need to be.

The Holy Ghost shows us the deep things of God while we pray and fast and through His Word. This is where we should stay in our spiritual walk. I know myself in times past have left too early from a deep move of the Holy Ghost while in prayer. Maybe if i would have just tarried a little longer i wouldn't have missed what the Lord was trying to impart into my spirit.

Luke 5:4-6
  Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.

Peter told the Lord, " Master we have been out here in the deep all night and nothing has happened." It might just be me, but i feel like the Lord was telling him that maybe if he had stayed out in the deep a little longer he would have gotten what the Lord wanted him to have!

I know the deep places are somewhere we're not used to, somewhere that makes us uncomfortable, but when we are out of our comfort zone that's where the growing takes place! Let's not be afraid to launch out into the deep!

Speak Life

Ezekiel (KJV)

37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

² And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
³ And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.

 We've all been there, in our valley. It's a place no one likes to be, but it is necessary for growth in our relationship with our Lord. Oftentimes we don't see that the valley is here for this very reason. Our fallen nature tends to always try to look for the bad in a situation. Everything looks bleak, or "dead" to us. In this passage God shows Ezekiel a valley full of dry bones, no life exists there, or so it seems. When God asks him can these bones live, he basically replies, "I'm not sure."

 Why do we always accept our situations for what they look like, or seem to be? We should be like Ezekiel, and tell our Lord that even though it looks bad to me, you know God what it really looks like.

Ezekiel 37
⁴ Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
⁵ Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
⁶ And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

All that we see in our situation is death, nothing lives, it's a dead end, we're not getting anywhere. God sees life! While we're down, and can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, our Lord is wanting us to speak life into that situation!

 Ezekiel 37
⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
⁸ And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
⁹ Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

 When we speak life into our situation, as commanded by God, life happens! The situation in your life is not dead! Listen to and obey the voice of God, speak life.

 

Proverbs 18:21Amplified Bible (AMP)

²¹ 
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it and indulge it will eat its fruit and bear the consequences of their words. 

 I love you all, be blessed, and speak life!