Saturday, August 11, 2012

Why Should I Accept 2nd Best for My Life???



God doesn’t want us to walk around with the attitude that whatever comes our way must be what God wants for us to have!!!


When I hear someone say that, it makes me want to stand up and scream!!!  I just want to stomp my feet and tell them what a lot of HOG WASH that is!!!!   


It just makes me want to slap the devil and scream: 
                
              LIAR, LIAR!!!!!  PANTS ON FIRE!!!!! 



The devil has told ALL OF US that we are just supposed to accept whatever happens to us, because if God didn’t want it to happen, then it wouldn’t!!!!   



THAT IS JUST A DOWNRIGHT LIE!!!



The truth is that EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT COMES FROM OUR FATHER GOD and HE NEVER CHANGES HIS MIND ABOUT GIVING THEM TO US!!!


James 1:17 (CEB) Every good gift, every perfect gift, comes from above. These gifts come down from the Father, the creator of the heavenly lights, in whose character there is no change at all.



Because we are created in HIS IMAGE, we have FREE WILL!!! 


Genesis 1:27 (NKJV) So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.



Having FREE WILL means that we are FREE TO CHOOSE!!!  We can choose what we are going to do in our lives!!!  And our choices determine what happen to us!!!



God tells us in HIS WORD, that HE wants us to have abundant life and live it to the fullest!!!  That means that HE wants us to have plenty of everything that we need and want!!! He does NOT want us to live in lack or poverty!!!


John 10:9-10 (NKJV)

I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.


Abundant means that
WHAT YOU NEED IS EXISTING OR AVAILABLE IN LARGE QUANTITIES AND THAT YOU HAVE PLENTY!!!  It also means PROFUSE, AMPLE, AND RICH!!!!


John 10:9-10 (CEB)

I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out and find pasture.

10 The thief enters only to steal, kill, and destroy. I came so that they could have life—indeed, so that they could live life to the fullest.



Our Father owns the cattle on a 1000 hills and ALL the land under those hills!!! 


Psalm 50:10-12 (NKJV)

 

10 For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.

11 I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.




So, what am I trying to tell you???  I am trying to tell you that Father God wants us to have ALL good things!!!  And HE has a right to give them to us, because they belong to HIM!!!! And HE WANTS TO GIVE US ALL GOOD THINGS!!! 


Matthew 7:9-11 (CEB)


Who among you will give your children a stone when they ask for bread?

10 Or give them a snake when they ask for fish?

11 If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.




God tells us in HIS WORD that we can have even more than we can ever imagine, let alone ask or think!!! 


Ephesians 3:20 (NKJV) Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us




Do you know that you can have those things that you ask??? 


1 John 3:22 (NKJV) And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.




Do you know that you get what you say and what you believe for???



Mark 11:22-24 (NKJV)


22 
So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.

23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.

24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.



Do you know that God wants us to have our dreams and the desires of our heart???


Psalm 37:4 (NKJV) Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.



God wants us to have good things and do well!!! He wants us to prosper!!!


3 John 1:2 (NKJV) Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.



God wants us to succeed in ALL that we do!!!


Psalm 1:3 (NKJV)


He shall be like a tree
    Planted by the rivers of water,
    That brings forth its fruit in its season,
    Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.

 


And finally, just in case there is any doubt left in your mind that God wants the
VERY BEST FOR EACH OF US, God assures us that HE THINKS GOOD THOUGHTS ABOUT US AND THAT HE HAS GOOD PLANS FOR EACH OF OUR LIVES!!! 


Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.



Jeremiah 29:11 (CEB) I know the plans I have in mind for you, declares the Lord; they are plans for peace, not disaster, to give you a future filled with hope.


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