A friend of mine gave me a definition of success that was quite unique. They said, “Success is the distance between failures.” This is simply another way of saying we’re to fail forward.
If you fell to your drug of choice on Day 1, got up and walked with Jesus using your biblical tools Days 2-4, but fell again on Day 5, what will you focus on, your successful faith choices or your disappointing failure choice? Remember this: you become what you focus on and what you focus on only gets bigger.
You should be praising God for the successes of Days 2-4 and learning from the failure on Day 5. This way you can lengthen the days of success between failures, which increases your Jesus praises!
One day will be completely be like Jesus. Until then, praise Jesus each day of successful choices, which will increase in number as you learn to keep in step with the Spirit.
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“Just know that I love you and am praying for you! Please be on your guard. You are on my heart in a very strong way.” This was the text I received last night from my BIG partner. It was just what I needed to achieve victory. This is the fulfillment of James 5:16, “Confess your sins one to another and pray for each so that you may be healed.” He prayed and texted me as the Spirit led him. Because of this contact, I stopped wavering about what I was about to do and chose victory through the Spirit’s power.
This is how our walks with Christ work. We were never meant to live our Christian lives by ourselves. In fact, the over 30+ one another phrases reveal that it is near impossible to become more like Jesus without other believers. We need to be honest and transparent with at least one other believer.
Who are you acknowledging your sin to so they can pray for your victory? As you do Christ will replace your temporary character with His eternal character. Once you have this person, listen to the Spirit for and with them! As He leads, pray. As He leads, text. You never know when your contact will be used by the Spirit to lead them to victory.
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I was sitting at a signal waiting for the red left turn arrow to change green when it hit me. Here I am parked while other cars are zipping by me. All I can do is look up at the stupid signal waiting for it to let me proceed. I wasn’t frustrated…this time. I’d given myself plenty of time to get where I was going. Yet, what if I was in a hurry? I’d have been very impatient and very much processing the urge to use another of my drugs of choice.
Does this describe you: have to be some where…yesterday? Keep looking at the signal – Jesus. Or how about, getting impatient at God for letting those around you go while you’re parked? Keep looking at the signal – the Word of God.
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” (Isaiah 26:3) Staying focused on Jesus and the truths in your shield of faith the Spirit put there will keep you at peace. Remember how He’s already worked in your life while you’re waiting for God’s go ahead and while you stop looking at what He’s doing in other people’s lives will keep you drug free.
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Jesus is sitting around the table, more like lounging back then, with His disciples enjoying a Passover Seder. He says one of those at the table with Him will betray Him.
Those eating with Him ask who. He says it will be the guy He gives a piece of bread to after dipping it. They saw Jesus hand it to Judas. The guys saw Judas leave the meal, thinking he was going to run an errand as he was the team’s treasurer. They heard and saw it, but still didn’t get it!
How many times have you been fooled by what you’ve seen and heard? Quite often what we’ve received through our senses, including our feelings, is not totally accurate. Yet, we make decisions based upon this inaccurate information, including the taking of our drugs of choice.
This is all the more reason why we must use our Freedom tools everyday everywhere. The truth sets us free; therefore, we need an outside source of truth to help us determine whether the data that makes its way to our brains is true. Make sure you have time to listen to Jesus in His Word and slow down throughout your day to ask Him to help you see through the situations you face.
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With their permission, I’d like to share the following true story. I’d been having a conversation with a fellow lover of Jesus. When I asked them, “How are you and Jesus doing?” They bowed their head. Their conversations had been far and few in between, especially when it came to listening to Jesus in the Word.
I said, “How’s that working for you?” With another bow of the head and tears in their eyes, “Honestly, not too well.”
I replied, “Don’t you think it’s time to jump start the conversation and restore the broken relationship.” They said with conviction with eyes now looking into mine, “Yes, it is.”
This person picked up where they had left off in their reading the Bible in a year schedule and just “happened” to be in the right place to hear exactly what they needed to hear from Jesus at that moment in time. They received both a kick in the backside and a word of encouragement in what they heard from Jesus.
You should have seen the smile spread across their face as they told their story. They knew their God was real and very personal. They felt their God deeply cared about them, enough to talk with them. Their God was just waiting for them to listen.
If you haven’t begun, it’s the right time to begin reading the Bible in a scheduled way. You will be in the right place exactly when you need it. Your God loves and cares about you that much.
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