“When will you ever learn,” thought the farmer to himself. He’d seen people come and pump the handle on his well only to stop before water came out. Once again, he’d have to teach these people a lesson.
“This well is a deep one as the sweet water is a good ways down. You’re going to have to keep pumping until the water comes out. If you quit after only a few pumps, you’ll never get a drink as the water that was coming to the surface only goes back down when you stop pumping the handle. So, if you’re only going to pump for a little while, you might as well not pump at all. If you want a drink of that sweet water, however, you must trust there’s water in the well and that by continually pumping the handle it will come to the surface.”
We can learn from this farmer. We all want our lives changed yesterday. And, I’ll bet we want it with as little effort as possible as well. It doesn’t happen that way if God chooses to use His normal method of change rather than a miracle. This process will take faith on our part. Faith in God’s Word there’s sweet water, life-change, coming. Faith that pumping that handle, living His way, will bring the water up. And faith in the Spirit to strengthen us as we keep pumping that handle, exercising the truth.
If you need faith, ask for it…today. If you’ve got it, keep pumping by faith. Sweet water, life change, is coming!
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It’s all about telling a story through planned deception, which is another way of saying making a movie. Someone wants to tell a story; and to do so using the medium of film, they must purposefully use deception.
The movies about astronauts floating in space are not shot in space. It’s simply not possible nor feasible to shoot the movie in actual outer space, so they do it on a movie set using various movie making tricks.
Our enemy is a great film maker, who also tells a story through deception. He wants to make you think you’ll be happy by living your life using his worldview. And he’s using every means at his disposal to get you to believe his message is true when in reality it’s as far from the truth as the earth is from the sun.
We can make all the excuses we want for not reading the Word while listening to Jesus, but we do so at the peril of being deceived and defeated. Every day we choose not to be in and with the Word, we’ll have a harder time seeing through the deception of the avalanche of messages we hear throughout our day.
Commit today to listening to Jesus in His Word by downloading the Read the Bible in a year schedule and getting started. Jesus will give you specific truths to not only see through the deception, but to successfully live in the real world you face each day you’re on this planet.
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A very famous US basketball player once said, “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” He was the go to guy when it came crunch time. When his team needed a basket to win the game, he wanted the ball in his hands. Because he always made the shot? No. Because he was not afraid of taking it! He missed a lot of shots, but he is not remembered for those misses. He was immortalized in the basketball world because of the few ones he made.
How did he come to make those famous shots? Because he wasn’t afraid to risk failure, missing those big shots. He practiced taking his shots and quite frankly missed more than he made. Yet the point is that he took the shot.
Walking by faith means risking failure by taking the shot. If we want to experience the good stuff that Jesus has for us, we must exercise the truth by faith asking the Spirit to empower us. Yes, we will slip up and sometimes fall, even when it’s not our intention. Yet, as we get up and fail forward, meaning we process that failure through the FREEdom process, we’ll be stronger the next time we face a similar situation. We took the shot before and missed. The next time we will take the shot and make it whereby the audience that really matters will say, “Well done My child.”
Take the risk. Trust the scripture the Spirit gives you in your BIG reading. Exercise that truth by taking the shot. Eventually it will go in and hands will be raised in victory!
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The reason I traveled the journey to learn the life changing process God laid in Scripture was that my dreams were being crushed. Others could make or keep my dreams from becoming reality. This insecure state of mind led me to lean on my drugs of choice, instead of Jesus, to bring me the pleasure that achieving those dreams would have brought me.
As dreams can be crushed by others, allow me to let you in on a secret. Don’t pursue your dreams. Pursue your passion. Others can affect your dreams, but not your passion. As a secure child of God, be who Jesus made you to be, not who or what someone else wants you to be or do. As we pursue the passion(s) the Spirit of God put within us, we will feel the pleasure that comes with pursuing that passion, which lessens our drive to take our drugs of choice.
Continue to listen to and follow Jesus everyday everywhere and you’ll discover and be able to pursue the passion He put within you. Pursue your passion in Jesus and you’ll enjoy the life He came to give you. Pursue your passion for Jesus and you’ll never be disappointed as you will be doing what He put in your heart. Pursue your passion with Jesus, no matter whether anyone ever recognizes or pays you for doing it and you’ll be the secure child of God that you are.
As you pursue your Jesus given passion(s) you will get to know Jesus in ways you never dreamed possible before. So, go ahead. Don’t be afraid. Get out of your man-made box and pursue your God-given passion with your personal Savior, Jesus Christ.
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“Wow, the wind sure is blowing today.” I was thinking this as I was on my prayer walk this morning. The wind was blowing strong enough for tumbleweeds and topsoil to zip past me at a pretty good clip.
Then I heard it. It sounded like a cellist lightly playing on their strings. I knew it couldn’t be. There simply was no way I could hear someone playing their cello from the nearby housing track through all the wind. That’s when I looked up. It was the heavy winds causing the overhead power lines to hum. The music it was making was quite pleasing.
Then I heard God say, “Without the wind, those power lines are nothing special to either look at or hear. Yet with wind they become something special. Without the Spirit empowering you, Chris, you’re nothing special. You need to continually stay surrendered to Me.”
So today, before I start any new task I’m going to say a little prayer, “Spirit, empower me to do this next activity for Jesus.” I’ll also be ready to repeat that prayer in the middle of that activity for without Him working through me, my life can’t be changed or make sweet music for those around me to hear. Hopefully, you’ll join me in that prayer.
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