Will you stand?

"For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 3:8

Ok, so things of this world are going to hell in a hand basket - is your faith also?

As Christians we are not to keep our eyes on worldly possessions, but on Christ.

He has our every need.

Most people traditionally tell you that the sky is the limit, that we can achieve whatever we set our minds to, that your success will depend upon dreaming big dreams and pursuing your goals with diligence.

I'm here to tell that God is what you need, He is everything you will ever need.

God wants us to run to Him for every situation.
God wants us to become totally dependant upon Him and Him alone.

A great deal of us go about our busy schedules not even asking for His guidance.

We would rather have that heavy burden to carry than to ask for help that He may sustain us, that He may bear our burdens.

"Come unto Me, and all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

God is telling you to come, and make use of His storehouse.

If we do not use the gifts and blessing that God has given us, then He and His gifts and blessings might just be the least most used.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that when we need any sort of help we go to others first for answers, when we should be going to God first and foremost.

We are to use our faith.

God wants us to run to Him, and tell Him all our needs, not just those we think He can handle, but ALL of our needs.

In those dark times when clouds just seem to hang above our head, He is the Sun of Righteousness.

"But unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall." Malachi 4:2

God is your shield, He is a shield of protection.

"Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory and the lifter up of mine head." Psalms 3:2-3

In this life you can so easily lose your way, you have let Him guide you.

"Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:" John 16:13a
If you don't know which way to turn, turn to Him, for He is your Shepherd.

"The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want." Psalm 23:1

The word want in the previous sentence means lack.

We will never lack anything with God.

When you are on life's road, remember that God is all that you need.

Where ever you may go down this road of life, remember God is just what you need.

God is what we need, He is just where you need Him to be, even if you have walked with Him and have not called on Him in a while, He will be there.

No matter what you do....

No matter where you go....

There is one thing that you can count on; You do not walk alone.

"Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I go from Your presence? If I go up to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, If I settle on the far side of the sea on the far side of the sea, even there Your hand will guide me, Your right hand will hold me fast." Psalm 139:7-9 New International Version

If you have trials, or you are free from them, make God your delight.

"But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he mediate day and night." Psalm 1:2

Sometimes answers are hard to come by.

There is only one answer that you can totally cling to with absolute, unwavering certainty.

God is with you every step of the way!

God who knows you intimately, loves you deeply, walks with you closely, and desires more for you than you could ever hope for or imagine.

He has filled you with life giving breath, will you not praise Him?

We must learn how to Worship in the midst of a trial, but even greater when we are not.

God is watching, listening and acting on our behalf even when it seems that He is nowhere to be found.

There is Someone out there who knows you even better than you know yourself.

Someone who cares profoundly about every detail of your life.

Someone who will place His on your shoulder and guide you.

This some one's name?

God.

We must learn to get past our possessions, our worries, our griefs, even beyond our families and Worship the Almighty!

It is generally through these hangups that God will bring us to our knee's, in so bringing us to Him.

No one can come to the Father except he be drawn.

"No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:44

We must become totally dependant upon Him, it will be His power, His grace, and His presence at every moment.

When we go to bed, when we arise, while I'm in my house, when I out doing daily errands, My God is always with me.

I love the quote by Charles Spurgeon it says it best....

"With Him I travel, I dwell, I lodge, and I will live forever." - Charles Spurgeon

Will you stand with Him, not matter what life brings your way?

Will you stand and worship Him for the storm that you are in?

Will you stand and worship Him for all those storms that you are about to go through?

Will you lift your voice in the midst of every situation good or bad?

Will you lift your voice in praise?

Will you give to Him the glory that is rightfully His?

Can you stand with Peter and say all is but loss if I have not Christ.

"But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know Him," Philippians 3:7-9a

May God, our faithful Lord and Shepherd, light your way and be your best friend forever!