IS GOD OBLIGATED TO US?

IS  GOD  OBLIGATED  TO  US?

I have heard sermons preached and statements made that if Gods’ people will do so and so. that God is obligated to bless that person with so and so. Namely perfect health, monetary prosperity, worldly gain and the list goes on, and on.

DEAR READER GOD IS NOT OBLIGATED TO ANYTHING OR ANYONE,  GOD IS  ABSOLUTELY SOVERIGN.

God does not give us His complete love, mercy, grace and unmerited favor because He is OBLIGATED TO DO SO. HE GIVES IT TO US BECAUSE OF HIS NEVERENDING LOVE FOR US.  We are HIS and He gave His ALL, His Son, Jesus Christ to die on the cruel cross and shed every drop of His Precious Blood, to pay our sin debt that He did not owe, and that we would never be able to pay.

John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

God loves us and His most earnest desire for us is to spend eternity with Him, not to be lost and spend eternity in hell with the evil one and his demons”

We give our tithes and offerings to our church in obedience to His Word.  We pray for healing of the sick and those in desperate need because the love of God dwells within us. We pray and read His WORD to draw closer to Him and have daily communication with Him, because He is our best and most personal friend.

Every time a seemingly impossible need is met by God we are amazed and awed at such an Overwhelming, Caring and Loving God.  He knows every need in our lives and He loves us enough to meet that need. Sometimes He meets the need in the way we ask, and if the way we ask is not His Will for us because our way is not always the best way, God answers the need in His Way. We see only the now, but God sees down the road around every corner and into the eternal.  God knows each and every one of us personally; He even knows our thoughts, motives and even every hair on our head.

God’s desire is for us to surrender our lives to Him, not for what we can get from Him on this earth, but because He loves and cares for us so much He wants for us a life secure in Him, and He wants us to spend our eternity with Him in the home He is preparing  in heaven for those who love Him with all their hearts. This is the only way to have that peace over every situation  that arises in each of our lives, the peace which that passes all understanding.

I love you dear reader, Love Gloria

Copyright 2011 Gloria B. Powell. All rights reserved.

THE PRAYER THAT NEVER FAILS

“Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”  So He said to them, “ When ye pray, say: “Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”   Luke 11:1-2 NKJV

This is known as “The Lords’ prayer, but Jesus’ disciples’ had watched and heard Him pray.  They knew that He prayed constantly and fervently and they wanted the same kind of relationship with God that Jesus had.  They wanted to know how to pray to God the Father, just as they saw and heard Jesus pray to the Father.

How many times have we said the Lord’s Prayer and used the word’s “Thy will be done on earth as in heaven”, and not given them really a second thought of what we REALLY are saying?  When we say “Thy will be done,” we are saying God I give this situation entirely to you. I will accept your decision on how best to take care of it. I now leave it entirely up to you, I will pray constantly for your will to be done and I am convinced that the way you answer will be the best.  You are eternal, all knowing and all powerful; God, you know the beginning from the end only YOU know the best answer to this need. I am leaving the answer entirely up to you, not my will but Yours be done in this matter. 

Dear Reader this is not playing around with God this is complete trust in God to make the best decision for the problem, and to bring honor and glory to His Name, and to cover us completely with His love and His Mercy for us.

The Bible tells us to “pray without ceasing”, not just when there is an emergency or crisis, praying without ceasing is to be in a constant communication with God, keeping in mind that His greatest desire is for us to be his children, obedient to His Word and live our lives completely committed to His Will for our lives.

If Gods’ Will is not what we personally wanted, or prayed for, the spiritual part of us will automatically seek to be at peace with Gods’ answer, but the earthly, fleshly part of us will be sad, sometimes mad, angry and so very confused.

 Dear friends God knows this and He wants us to climb up in His Lap and ask Him to hold us while we cry. If we listen we can hear Him gently speak to us as we Hear His Precious Holy Spirit say to us, “My child I love you, go ahead and cry it is okay, My child when you hurt, I hurt also, just keep trusting me and I will help you get to the place in your love and faith in my Love for you, that you will be able to go on with life until you can be at peace with my answer for this problem.

Love God with all your heart, mind and being, He will NEVER LEAVE OR FORSAKE US, BUT WILL GO WITH US TO THE END.

Love Gloria

copyright 2011 Gloria B. Powell. All rights reserved.

GOD IS ALWAYS ON HIS TIME

For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false.  Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.  See he is puffed up; his desires are not upright – but the righteous will live by his faith.” Habukkuk 2:3-4 (NIV)

Has the Holy Spirit ever given you a message in your heart that you KNEW was from God?

If you are like me, when this happens, we get ready, for we want it to happen NOW, not down the road we are so consumed with the message that has entrusted to us that we literally are about to burst open, and we think that God just cannot go one more minute without making it come to pass.

When God entrusts us with a message from Him, do not let the enemy steal it from you, even though he may tell you over and over that you did not hear from God, but you know in your heart and mind, that you did.  If you have doubt,  remember that when God gives us something from Him  IT WILL ALWAYS LINE UP WITH HIS WORD, AND WILL ALWAYS GLORIFY HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON JESUS CHRIST.

But,  precious reader, remember there is NO time frame with God.  When He gives us a prophetic vision, it is for a certain time, and He usually does not tell us the when or where of it.  BUT when He entrusts us with a special message or vision, He expects us to be faithful to write it down, and be faithful to remember that our timing is not His. We are to keep praying and studying His Word to keep the message from Him fresh until His appointed time.  While we live on this earth we will live in minute to minute time, but when He takes us to live with Him eternally then we will never know anything about time again, everything will be eternal, no more counting time.

Verse 4 says, the ungodly people in this world are puffed up with themselves and will not listen to a word from God, they go about their way saying, “Look what hard work and sweat has accomplished for me no one has helped me, I owe no one anything.” But dear reader, where do they think they got the strength and the sweat to do the hard work?  Yes you are right they got it from God.  God is so merciful with people He gives them so many chances to live for Him every day He is patient and kind to them, but there will come a day of judgment and there will be no more chances for the ungodly to change their ways and live for God.

But take heart and keep believing and keep praying, because the last of the verse four says, “but the righteous shall  live by his faith.”

Love,  Gloria

Copyright 2011 Gloria B. Powell. All rights reserved.

I-AM-WHO-I-AM

     "Then Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the people of Israel and I tell them, The God of your fathers sent me to you'; and they ask me, "What is his name? What do I tell them."
     God said to Moses. I-AM-WHO-I-AM. Tell the people of Israel,'I-AM sent me to you.' " 
    EXODUS  3:13,14 (The Message)

I was in a grocery store several years ago and on their P.A. system they were playing a trivia radio show, and one of the D-Jays made the remark that the most complete sentence in the whole world consists of  just two words and those two words are," I AM."

I had often wondered just why God would say His Name is I-AM.


I prayed and asked God, "Why did you tell Moses that your name is I-AM?"

The other night God woke me up out of a sound sleep, I guess that is the only time He can get to me  when I am quiet, and  give me His Word.

The Holy Spirit began just pouring thoughts into my mind, it was like He had lifted the top off my head and just began pouring it into my brain.

Just think, I-AM, IS  ALL SUFFICIENT, ALL KNOWING, ALWAYS PRESENT EVERYWHERE AT ONCE, THERE IS NO DEFICIENCY IN GOD, NO LACKING IN GOD, NO BLEMISH IN GOD,  NOTHING  IS BEYOND HIS DOING, NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR GOD TO FIX OR TO ACCOMPLISH.

 NO MATTER WHAT THE SITUATION, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, IS TOO HARD OR TOO MUCH FOR GOD, HE  IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE I-AM. NOTHING CATCHES HIM BY SURPRISE OR IS HE EVER UNAWARE OF THE NEEDS OF HIS CHILDREN.

Not only was God The I-AM of the Old Testament, He is also the I-AM of the New Testament and He can and will be my and your I-AM, in fact He Wants To Be my and your I-AM today and for eternity.

How you ever asked yourself,"Can God be my I-AM?  I am so glad you wanted to know. Dear Precious readers, before the world was formed God has a plan for you and me to know Him as our I-AM. That plan is Jesus Christ, Gods' only begotten Son.  Before the foundation of the world was laid Jesus Christ was the chief corner stone.

"Jesus said unto them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures:'The stone which he builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORDS'  doing. and it is marvelous in our eyes." (Matthew 21:42 JKJV)  This was Jesus telling the people that He is the Chief  Corner Stone of the world and the people rejected Him.

But in John 3:16 the Word of God tells us how God made a way before the world was formed for all people in every nation, every race, creed and tongue, every one, me and you also "praise the Lord.)

"For God so loved the world that HE gave His only begotten Son , that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16 NKJV)   GOD loved us so much that He prepared a way for us to live forever with Him, by sending His only Son Jesus Christ to be born from a virgin girl as a baby on this earth, grow up and give His life and every drop of blood in His body to cover our sins.  By accepting that blood to cover our sins and repenting to Him of our sins and living each day with the goal of pleasing Him and telling others of the saving grace of Jesus Christ we can and will live with Him forever.

Ephesians 2:19-22, (NKJV) "Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets.  Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building being fitted together, grows in to a holy temple in  the Lord, in whom you are are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit."

Precious readers please allow THE I-AM-THAT-I-AM, BE YOUR I-AM-THAT-I-AM,  after all that is really the most important thing you can or will ever do.

I love you, Love Gloria


Copyright 2011 Gloria B. Powell. All rights reserved.

JESUS IS COMING SOON!!! PLEASE BE READY!!!

"Jesus said the her, "I am (Myself) the Resurrection and the Life.  Whosoever believes in (adheres to, trusts in and relies on) Me, Although he may die yet he shall live." John 3:16 Amplified 

When we accept Jesus into our hearts by faith because of His Supreme Sacrifice for everyone by His freely giving His life and shedding His blood as an innocent Lamb on the cross, we also accept the eternal life that our faith in Him brings to us.

If we die before His return for His redeemed people, those that died in faith believing that they will live eternally with God in Heaven will hear the trumpet sound on the day of His returning to gather up His redeemed souls.

The dead in Christ will rise first then those which are still alive on this earth will join them in the air to live forever with our Savior.  Just imagine He has been preparing a home for His redeemed for over 2000 years now, the Bible tells us that we can never comprehend with our human minds what our heavenly home will be like.

Dear precious reader, please stay in the Word of God as much as you can.  The "day of the Lord" is very, very near.  I know that we  have heard all our lives that the coming of the Lord is near.  It is nearer now than it has ever been.  Please stay in the Word, stay in prayer. Keep your lives in sync with Jesus and know at all times that all is right between you and God.  Listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit in your mind and heart He will never lead you astray, but will keep you close to God.You can know that you are ready to hear the trumpet sound that will take His redeemed home to be with Him forever, eternally without end.

Precious reader if we do not heed the calling of the Holy Spirit drawing us to accept Jesus as our personal savior and we miss hearing the trumpet sound as Jesus calls His redeemed home to Himself, those that are left upon this earth will experience the most tragic and terrible time that has ever been upon this earth.

God, who has been so loving and patient with us will remove His mercy and a time of seven years of tribulation will cover this earth.  Please do not take the chance of missing out on hearing the trumpet sound, signaling the Lords' return to take His believers home.  Nothing, NO NOTHING, is worth missing His coming for His believers and having to live through the seven awful, terrible years of the time of tribulation.

Please, right now, bow your head and repent of your sins and wrong doing and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord. It is so simple to become a child of God (1) Admit that you are a sinner,  (2) Believe that Jesus died on the cross just for you to forgive you of your sins,  (3) Confess your sins to Jesus and ask Him to forgive you of every sin,  Not only will He forgive you of everything you have ever done that you thought was too terrible to be forgiven of, but he will wash you as white as snow, you are now a NEW creature in Jesus Christ.  Tell someone, "I am a new creature in Jesus Christ".   I have given up my old ways Jesus has put a new nature in me.  Find a good Bible believing Church and start attending.  Read the Word diligently and pray every chance you get,  each time you think you have made a mistake and do not be afraid that you will sin and not know it, the Holy Spirit will gently nudge you and tell you not to do that. And if we do sin all we have to do is ask for Jesus' forgiveness and  GO on from there a new creature.  God has forgotten your past do not let satan remind you of it ever again, it is gone it has been covered by the PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS.

"For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He (even) gave up His only begotten (unique) Son so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting life). John 3:16 Amplified








Copyright 2011 Gloria B. Powell. All rights reserved.

JESUS AND ME ALONE, AND IN COMPLETE UNITY

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you:  Before you were born I sanctified you;  and I ordained you a prophet to the nations."Jeremiah 1:5 NIV. (Every time we give a penny or whatever to missions, every time we pray for Missionaries over the world, be are helping be a prophet to the Nations.  We are to show Jesus in our daily living so all will know we belong to Jesus Christ.  Remember there are many people from many Nations living in our own vicinity, show them JESUS!


This morning in my prayer chair, I felt such an awesome presence of God, and I said, "Oh God speak to my spirit, let me be quiet and concentrate on what You have to say to me."


In my spirit I heard Jesus say to me, "Oh my child I have known you before you were created in your mother's womb, and I gave you an early sense of my presence when you were just a child."


"Even though you did not follow me closely through your teen years you always had a "knowing" that I was there.  I have kept you from many dangers and harm even when you did not walk hand in hand with me,"


""I was so filled with Joy and Love for you when at age 24 you turned your heart and life completely over to me, as you let my blood wash away all your sins and mistakes."


" I have been with you and your husband and children through life's good times, and I have given you the faith and courage to walk, to walk with Me through the hard times.  But remember everything in this life good or bad can not ever compare to the joys laid up in Heaven, for you and everyone that accepts me as their Personal Savior."


"I am coming soon so be like the Apostle Paul and say with Him, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.  Heretofore there there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the  Righteous Judge shall give me at that day: and not to me only but unto all of them also that love his appearing." 2 Timothy 4:7-8 KJV


Precious reader I hope that you also have a special prayer chair that you get alone with God every day and just ask Him to speak to your spirit, and just commune with in the unity of a quiet spirit of love and togetherness.  REMEMBER, HE IS YOUR DEAREST FRIEND FOREVER!!


I Love You, Love Gloria



Copyright 2011 Gloria B. Powell. All rights reserved.

ALONE WITH GOD -- LETTING GOD SPEAK IN OUR SILENT WORSHIP

"Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you  affectionally and cares about you watchfully". I Peter 5:7 Amplified

"Cast your burden on the LORD [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you: He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved, (made to slip, fall, or fail). Psalm 55:22 Amplified

As I read my devotion this morning, the title was "Spirit Sounds, from God Calling, published by Barbour".  The house was empty so I just sat there in my "prayer chair", and was silent just wanting to hear nothing but the Holy Spirit speak to my spirit.

I had been going through some difficult days and God knew that I needed to be silent in His presence and let His precious Holy Spirit renew my mind, my heart and most importantly my worship to Him.  I can never enter the presence of God without a praise to Him.  Even though I was silent, my spirit was praising Him.  It was though I was one with the Trinity [God the Father, Jesus the Savior, and the Holy Spirit of God].

I do not know how long I silently sat in His Presence, but I could feel my mind and my body relaxing and becoming one with God.  It felt like I was being completely renewed both physically, mentally and most of all spiritually, all anxiety was gone.

In a few moments I felt the Holy Spirit speak to my mind to hold out my hands, palms down and to empty everything in my life that was dragging me down, every problem, EVERYTHING  in my life that did not uplift Jesus, to let it go let it all fall from my hands and let Him take them.  I obeyed His instructions and I literally felt the weights of life's trials fall out of my hands as I let go of them.  In a few moments I heard in my spirit to turn my palms up to receive what God had for me for this moment, this day, in His Word the Bible, Jesus speaks to us in Matthew 6:34, Amplified, "Do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own.  Sufficient for each day is its own trouble".  Precious readers we have no promise of a tomorrow, we must leave that to our Father God who knows ALL.  Then I felt the Holy Spirit speak to my spirit. "Now lift your hands into the air and praise Me out loud,  what a glorious time of praise I enjoyed with God.  How renewed and refreshed I was and my mind and body and spirit was in tune once again with God.  I felt a complete renewal in my walk with God.  Please get alone with God often, just be silent and let His Holy Spirit speak to your spirit, He really enjoys being alone with you as much as you will enjoy it.

Precious readers, we must take time regularly to be "silent" in God's presence and let Him do all the talking.  When we do this by being silent in His presence, He can truly speak to us and renew us, our minds, our bodies and our spirit  so that in our daily walk with Him, His thoughts will be our thoughts and His wishes for us will be our wishes for ourselves, and we can be "His Hands" on this earth to reach out to others in need and lead them to Christ Jesus; after all that is our immediate and ultimate task in this world is to show others Jesus through our lives.

Time is short. Jesus is coming soon for those who have accepted His provision for us that He prov ided to all mankind by freely giving His life and shedding His precious blood on the cross 2000 years ago. "For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up  His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal  (everlasting) life". John 3:16 Amplified When we accept Jesus as our Savior, and let His precious Blood cover all of our sins and wickedness, and His Blood will cover all our sins and wickness, they will be covered by His Blood and forgotten by God.  Then  we leave the past behind and go forward from that moment on to live our lives for Jesus Christ and read and study His Word (the Bible), we must immediately find a Bible believing church and get involved with others that  their lives have been made new by the Blood of Jesus, and dear friend that is everyone that is a Christian. A Christian is our name after we have accepted the provision that Jesus made for us to become a new creature in Him.  We are new like a new born baby and as we read and study His Word, talk (pray) to Him every day all during the day, you will grow in your walk in God and you will build up your faith in Him and you will lead others to this saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and His gift of eternal life to everyone that accepts Him as their personal Savior.  You may say I don't know how to talk to God.  Just talk to Him like you would your best friend and He is the BEST FRIEND you will ever have.  Grow closer to Him each day, witness to your friends and if they will not believe you or if they ridicule you for believing in Jesus, just pray for them each day and by your living a completely new life, you will show them that you are sincere and life in Jesus is real.  Get involved with new friends that believe in Jesus and ask them questions, join a good sound   Bible discussion group.  Sunday School is the best group  there is and be consistant in your new walk in God.
With Love, Gloria

Copyright 2011 Gloria B. Powell. All rights reserved.