Is our walk with God the same no matter the circumstances of life? Do we trust in the Lord no matter the situation? Are we a thermometer or a thermostat? What is the difference? A thermometer goes up and down based on the temperature. A thermostat is set and stays at the same temperature. Too many believers are up and down in their walk. They are like a yo-yo up and down based on what is happening in life. They have no stability because they are not standing on the Word and trusting the Lord. They are not receiving strength from being in His presence because they do not pray. They attend church sporadically.
We need to always have complete trust in the Lord. Faith is belief, and trust. Trust is having assured reliance on the character, ability, and strength of the Lord God. Being a believer is to trust in the person of God and His character. Psalm 9:10 (NKJV) “And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.” Knowing His name here refers to knowing His character by His acts.
Meyer stated, “Men complain of their little faith: the remedy is in their own hands; let them set themselves to know God.… But for all this, you must make time. You cannot know a friend from hurried interviews, much less God. So, you must steep yourself in deep, long thoughts of his nearness and his love.”
Copyright @June 2021 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center
Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].” Matthew 12:37 (NKJV) “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words, you will be condemned.” What kind of words are we indulging? Do we indulge in uplifting words and bring encouragement, or do we speak words that bring hurt and harm? Are our comments positive or negative? It is easy to be negative and not always easy to be positive. We are influenced by a negative world daily, through news and others.
Our mouth has great potential for good or evil. All our words have consequences. If we talk a lot, we must be prepared for the consequences. A farmer knows that his harvest is dependent on which seeds he sows’. The fruit of our lips can give one of two harvests, wholesome or toxic. Good words will bring comfort to the hearer and the one who speaks them. We need to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and He will help us guard our tongue. James 1:19 (NKJV) “So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;” Slow to speak means we should not be hasty with words. We need to keep in mind, we two ears and one mouth. We need to put a guard over mouths.
Copyright @May 2021 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center
Many people, even believers, base their life on feelings. How do they feel about their spouse? How do they feel about their work? How do they feel about what is happening in the news? Believers often judge the worship, the message the minister brings by their feelings. Feelings are unpredictable, nit-picky, and unreliable. If our life is based on feelings, we will not have joy or peace. Colossians 3:8 (AMP) “But now put away and rid yourselves [completely] of all these things: anger, rage, bad feeling toward others, curses and slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances from your lips!” We are so used to living our lives based on feelings, we do not realize that this is not how we should live. Not only do individuals base their life on feelings, but they also speak their feelings to others. Basing our life off feelings leads to attitudes that will lead to behavior and speech.
Without the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, we will continue to live by our feelings. We must renew our minds. Instead of a life founded on how we feel, we base our lives on what God’s Word says, then being a doer of the Word, not a doer of our feelings. As believers we need to live differently than the world; our life needs to align to the Word of God all the time.
Copyright @May 2021 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center
Worldly wisdom instills that prayer is non-essential and that prayer does not work. The devil desires us to neglect prayer and the Word of God because if He can get us to disregard or abandon prayer. With the Word of God, we will easily be overcome by the devil's subtle poisons. The devil works with diligence to control our minds by any means. We must continually renew our minds. Romans 12:2 (AMP) "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]." We should not live according to the world's lifestyle, ideals, beliefs, or anything that causes rebellion against God.
The mind is the control of our thoughts, attitudes, feelings, and actions. Our walk with the Lord includes the continual renewing of our minds or transforming our thoughts and attitudes. We are constantly bombarded by things contrary to the Word of God. Our minds are transformed by the input of God's Word and prayer. As believers, we must think differently.
Copyright @May 2021 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center
Romans 8:26-27 (AMP) “So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance. And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will.” We are not left to our resources; the Holy Spirit is here to help us pray. If we pray in tongues, we are communicating beyond our ability to express with our minds when we pray.
Tongues will enable us to communicate with the Lord God in a means that is not limited to our understanding, knowledge, or capability and to express our heart to God. The Holy Spirit is our companion in all that we do. The Holy Spirit helps guide and inspire our prayers. It should bring us encouragement to know the Holy Spirit is our advocate in prayer. Ephesians 6:18a (AMP) “Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty….” We should pray on all seasons, and every occasion.
Copyright @May 2021 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center
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