This week’s “Wednesday’s Words to Live By” is a
special message; God woke me up early this morning and gave it to me; here is the
message:
God has a way to make us right with Him (Romans 3:21). It is vital that we believe God's Word and
embrace His truth. God's highest dream is not to make us rich, not to make us
successful, not to make us popular or not to make us famous. God's highest
dream for us is to make us right with Him (this is from my daily devotional, "Grace
for the Moment, Volume 1" by Max Lucado. This mornings' title is, "God's
Highest Dream.
God sent His Son
Jesus to die for us while we were yet sinners to make us right with Him. God
loved us so much that He did not and do not want us or anyone else to perish.
All those worldly things (riches, popularity, wanting to be famous or
successful without God) are hindrances when we seek after them before we seek
after God. I am not saying that God does not want us to have the finest of things
or to be rich but He does not want us to desire those things more than Him.
These things are not worth us losing our soul over as stated in Matthew
16:26: “And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose
your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?” (www.biblegateway.com - NLT).
Jesus tells us in
Matthew 6:19-21 not to store our treasures up here on earth but in
heaven. And He lets us know that where our treasures are, that is where our hearts
will be. Later on in that same chapter, Jesus tells us to seek first God's
kingdom and His righteousness and everything else we need, will be added to us.
Let's embrace God's highest dream for us! Let's get right with Him and stay
right with Him! I know 2 Corinthians 5:21 say that we are the
righteousness of God through Christ; Christ took on our sins making us to be in
right standing with God. Yes, Jesus has completed the work; He has provided EVERYTHING
we will ever need to live in this life.
Therefore, God
sees us righteous. But, we must walk in that righteousness! We cannot do what
we want to do, say what we want to say, go where we want to go, live the way we
want to live; I think you get my point. We were bought with a price; the
precious blood of Jesus! When He made us righteousness, we became HIS
disciples! We obey God, God does not obey us! We do not tell Jesus or the Holy
Spirit what to do; we obey what the Word of God says!
We need to get
rid of our twisted way of thinking, the way the "old man" thinks and
embrace the truth of God's Word. We must not be conformed to this world's way
of thinking which is the way the old man thinks, remember, we were once of the
world, but we must be TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of OUR MINDS
with the Word of God. That is the only way our minds are going to be
transformed! We must take the Word of God, which is truth and replace all those
lies that the devil, people, ourselves, etc. have told us from birth until now.
This is critical because unless our minds are transformed, we will continue to
be lied to by the devil, others and even ourselves; we cannot have the abundant
life Jesus has died for us to have when our minds are still being
controlled by the old man.
Let's stop this
madness!!!! Do you want to keep striving your way and getting no were until
Jesus come? I know I don't!! So we must take some action today!! We must dig
into the Word, pray, seek God, do what it takes for YOU to get a hold of God
and ask Him what is His plan for YOU; how can YOU come out of whatever place
YOU are in. If you call on Him, He will answer; just wait for Him to answer.
This is a time
that we must be like Jacob; we must hold God and don't let him go until He
bless us – I am talking spiritually. I am not telling you something I am not
going to do. The Word comes to me first; I have been up before 4 o'clock this
morning. I was first woke up around 1:20 then I laid there and went back to
sleep (I had went to bed at around 12). Then I was waked back up around 4
something so I knew I needed to get up. This message is the result of God
speaking to me this morning but I wanted to share it with you; we are helpers
one to the other. I pray you are blessed by this and that God speak to your
hearts as you read it.
I want to close
with Romans 12:1-2:
“Life in God's
Service
1 So then, my friends, because of God's
great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to
God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship
that you should offer. 2 Do not conform yourselves to the standards
of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your
mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God—what is good and is
pleasing to him and is perfect” (www.biblegateway.com - Good News Translation).
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God bless you all,
Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks
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