The word for today is - Grow !

Good morning,

The word for today is - Grow !

 

Do you not know that God wants you to grow up? So,the question is what does it take to grow up? In the nature man the things from the earth, but the Spiritual man, its the things of the Spirit realm. So, is this your season for Spiritual Growth? Read Psalm 1:1-6, Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. We have to start reading God's word and meditate on the word. You see when you meditate on God's word a change takes place.You will start laying down some of the old ways, but if you think just reading God's word is it your wrong. You must meditate on the word, it is very important to pay close attention to what your thinking about. You see do you know that you are what you are thinking right now? Not what you would like to be, nor what you ought to be, nor are you what you used to be. You are what you are today. The word of God says, what is in a man's heart so is he, the 'real you' is shown by what you do and by what you think about in your heart,what you meditate on. The things that you allow your heart to dwell on today is building on what you will be for tomorrow. Ask yourself do you review yourself better than others? Do you dwell on lustful and impure thoughts? Do you dwell on your needs or on the praise you feel you deserve? Now lets read Psalm 150:1-6, Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Not praise you, but the Lord. Now read Matthew 4:4,But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Why? because we will be try by Satan. Satan often takes advantage of our circumstances and wants to tempt us to move outside of the will of God. But we must stand on the word of God inorder for us to live, or you will fall into the lust of your flesh. The important thing is the purity of your inner self. Consider the words of Christ as he said to the Pharisees and the teachers of the law. Lets look at the Pharisees they were an obvious case of hypocrisy.From the outside, it appeared that they were keeping God's law perfectly and were therefore righteous men. In spite of all their work, they are all dismissed as being filled with greed, self-indulgence, hypocrisy and wickedness. So, what is clean and what is unclean? First not want you eat, but want comes out of your heart makes a man clean or unclean! This is the word of God, read Galatians 5:14-17,For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. You see, our God is not impressed with what we appear to be. We are all very good at 'Playing Church'. You see, God is most interested in what we are like on the inside. He wishes to change us from the inside out. His goal is to make us clean on the inside so that we would naturally be clean on the outside. If you are clean in your heart, then you will automatically be clean on the outside. Paul talks about the importance of having a loving heart. So lets look at the unclean man from the word of God,read Matthew 23:25-28,Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. We are told if we resist the Devil, he will flee from us, but if you play with Him some days you will lose. Sometimes you can lose everything thats good for you and to you. Get this, this is God talking about unclean men, He sees everything thats going on from the inside out (your heart)! Thank you Lord for your word. Amen !