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How To Get Back On Track
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How To Get Back On Track

by GOD TV
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I’m Joseph Z. I want to talk to you very quickly about how to get back on track. Let me explain. Many times people are going through life and something sudden happens to them. Whether it’s discouragement, somebody maybe said something terrible to you. Maybe you lost a job, maybe a loved one has left, maybe someone has died. Challenges come to us through sickness, through economic issues, through many different means. We can deal with things that are very challenging, and what it can do is cause us to get off track.

Now, everybody gets off track at some point in their life, or you get distracted. Maybe you start at a workout routine, something as simple as that, and you couldn’t keep up with it and you’re down on yourself and think, “I’ll never get back on track.” Well, let me help you with a thought today. Let’s go here if we could to the book of Proverbs. Proverbs chapter 24. I want to give you a very good scripture today. Proverbs 24:16. Please pay very close attention to what I’m about to tell you. It says in verse 16, “For a righteous man, (that would be you or woman), may fall seven times and rise again.” It goes on to say, “But the wicked shall fall by calamity.”  Let me say something about this. I’ve heard this preached for years, that if you’re righteous and you wipe out, or rather when people wipe out or they fall, they make a mistake, they stumble, you know what? They may fall, but it just means that they failed and they just gotta repent and get back up and do this.

That’s not what the scripture’s saying here, though. Notice it says a righteous person falls seven times. If a righteous person is falling, it could mean that they were stretching in faith. They were taking a step of faith. Because, it says a righteous person. It doesn’t say an ungodly person. It’s saying a righteous person is stepping. Okay? They may fall, but if they fall, it’s because they’re reaching. They’re probably in faith reaching for something, and they fall short.

Listen, if you fell short or you’re falling short with something, you’re righteous, what you must do is apply this scripture. It says, if a righteous person who stretches out, you’re reaching for a goal and you just fall short. Don’t quit today. Quit tomorrow, but don’t quit today. How many of you know it’s always today and it’s never tomorrow, so just quit tomorrow, but don’t quit right now. What happens is, is you stretch out. It says you fall, but it says a righteous person will rise again. You may fall seven times, but you rise again.

Now, let me give you a word of encouragement with that. Something I’ve practiced for years on how to get back into a routine when you’ve been knocked out of the saddle in any area of your life, whatever’s come against you. Here’s how you get back. The most effort you can bring, or the most challenging part of getting back in the saddle, is the first step you take. You gotta start with that first step. Now, whether it’s a workout routine, or overcoming a loss of a loved one, or overcoming sickness, or whatever the tragedy or turmoil might be, you must respond with every bit of your faculty, every bit of your ability to rise up in faith and take proper, positive action. If you can do it once, you now have done something: you’ve broken through.

Ladies and gentlemen, it might take all your effort to do it one time, but if you can do it once, you can muster all that strength, all your faculties, and do it a second time. Now, if you can do it a second time, you can then muster all your faculties and everything you have and you can break through again a third time. Now, something powerful happens when you break through or you overcome or you do something for the third time. If you can do something with positive change three times in a row, now you have momentum. And nothing motivates like results. And momentum is results in action. I encourage you to break through three times, and that fourth time you’re going out with momentum and now you’re encouraged. I really believe that this helped you today. I hope it did. Jesus is Lord. I’m Joseph Z, and I really look forward to seeing you again very soon.

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Do The Hard Thing
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Do The Hard Thing

by GOD TV
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I’m Joseph Z and I really want to encourage you with a thought. If you will do the difficult, God will do the impossible. Let me explain. It says in Galatians 6:9, it says, “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season (man, listen to this), in due season, we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” Let us not grow weary while doing good.

Listen, when you’re going through life and challenges are coming at you and they seem to not stop, like one wave after another, you’ve gotta not grow weary while doing good. You gotta not grow weary while you get hit with wave after wave of situational moments. And what you need to do is continue doing good. But listen, it says, “For in due season,” in other words, there is an appointed time for you. There’s a time that as you endure and you continue to maintain your footing and faith and you continue to rise to the occasion, that is difficult. And as you do this, you will maintain a position that will ultimately deliver a victory. Trials don’t last always. They come to an end. I like to say it this way. Whenever I have a trial, I like saying it this way, “This trial,” I like to speak it out. “This trial has the shelf life of a banana.” And I wanna say it to you right now. If you do not grow weary while doing good, in due season, listen closely to the word of God, you shall reap if you do not lose heart.

What does that mean? It means that in the middle of it, you keep yourself encouraged, you stand strong, you don’t lean back. You know, Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled” in John 14:1.  Let not your heart be troubled. And when you recognize that you can govern how you’re gonna respond, how you’re going to feel regarding a situation, you can begin to look at the word of God and find victory. I’m telling you, I’ve applied this many times and you can overcome. What happens is, in due season, you shall reap if you do not lose heart.

Let me give you another scripture on the same thought. It says in Proverbs 24:10, it says, “If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.”  Now, I know that might not sound encouraging, but if you faint in the day of adversity, it’s because your strength was small, or you had not built up the ability to not lose heart and not grow weary. You must not grow weary while doing good and not lose heart. So what am I saying? The difficult is to stay encouraged in difficult scenarios, is to stay with your heart and countenance up no matter what’s going on. Lean into the fight, continue to trust God, apply staying power, fill yourself up. That is difficult, but here’s what we know: you’ll reap if you don’t faint. In other words, if you do the difficult, God will do the impossible. God is not mocked. Whatever you sow, you will reap.

I encourage you to sow faithfulness, strength, and victory. And I believe for you right now, whatever you’re going through, that you will reap in due season. Don’t faint today. You can do it. Go just a little longer and watch God break you through in the end. I’m Joseph Z. I’m so thankful I got to share this with you today. I hope it blesses you and I’ll see you again very soon.

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Overcoming Hinderances
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Overcoming Hinderances

by GOD TV
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Hebrews 12:1 tells us to throw off every hindrance and the sin that so easily entangles and run the race marked out for us. That word ‘sin’ in that scripture is ‘to miss the mark.’ So we are holy and blameless, we are forgiven. We are seated in the heavenlies, but we can miss the mark through things that we have done, or that have been done to us that have caused us to walk in a way that’s missing the mark of the glory that we are called to.

We can walk in a lesser reality. That sin is simply missing the mark of God and what He has and what He has, whom He has made us and what we’re called to be in Him. And that other part, that throw off everything that hinders, you know, we don’t grow up in perfect families. I certainly didn’t. And we can inherit, if you will, iniquities that slime us, that cause us to live as less than we are in God. So I want to just encourage you. If you’re like me and you need to be cleaned up, you just need to work on some things, to get rid of some lies or to let God heal some wounds that have hindered you or been a weight. Like God says, throw off everything that hinders. It’s like a yoke on your neck, or it’s like this, this heavy thing that’s put on you. That is not you. If that’s you, I encourage you to be courageous and to take steps to actually get help. I had to do that. I had to go through a lot of inner healing and counseling and deliverance. And there’s no shame in that. It’s just part of the human condition that we need others. We need the body of Christ. People have walked through healing. People have walked through deliverance to help us. So I encourage you, if you have something that is a weight that’s hindering you from running the race that God has for you to run, that purpose, that calling that thing that’s in your heart that you say, that’s what I’d like to do, but you can’t get there, and you stumble to try and figure it out and to get there. I encourage you allow people to come and alongside, reach out, take steps, and don’t give up. Even if it takes time, even if it takes a year. What’s a year of pursuing help to get free so that you can run that race that God has for you to run?

Let me pray for you, if that’s you. God, I just pray that you would come alongside this one who’s hearing this and knowing I have things that hinder me. I have sin that causes me to miss the mark of who I am in God. I pray God, that you help them. Give them heavenly courage to take steps and connect them with people that they need that will be mature fathers and mothers in the faith, or those who have the training and the experience and the spiritual discernment. Connect them with those people, either online or in their lives. Bless them, open the way so that they can find the pathway so that they can run the race that’s marked out for them. I bless them with the courage, in the Name of Jesus, to take the next step.

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Your Mayday Has Been Heard And Heaven is Responding

by Margaret Green
written by Margaret Green

Beloved, I want to prophetically encourage you. Although the storm has raged its war, in this place called “New”  and ‘Next” God has already released a supernatural calm. Heaven is voice activated and is responding to the distress call. 
In Mark 4:35-39 The disciples followed Jesus into the next place not realizing that following him soon after they would be faced with a strong vicious storm. 

The Storm After Obedience.

For some of you reading this article, you have obeyed and followed the leading of the Lord into a new place, new venture, a new ministry, new business, new project, new relationships, new connections, and you’ve obeyed what he’s asked you to do but it’s seeming as if as soon as you stepped into this place called “New” and “Next” without warning, trouble and adversity showed up, a storm came out of nowhere. God revealed the new place and  what the next thing would be concerning your life and assignment and all its goodness but there wasn’t any indication of the spiritual warfare you would meet once you obeyed and stepped into this new and next place.

The Lord Will Never Leave Nor Forsake You.

As the disciples entered the ship, getting ready to move from one place to the next, a storm arose covering the entire deck of the ship, tossing them back and forth.  Seemingly it appeared or one would have perceived, as if Jesus was not disturbed or bothered by all the things that occurred neither did he wake up from his nap. The bible said that he rested below deck in the midst of the storm, so it would also appear as if the disciples faced the storm alone and without Jesus. But the scripture reminds us Deuteronomy 31:6 to be strong and courageous. To not be afraid or terrified because  the Lord our God goes with us; he will never leave us or forsake us.”  

Use Your Weapon.

It wasn’t until the Disciples used their mouth and called in a mayday for heaven’s assistance. They knew if they were going to have a successful transition from one place to the next, they needed Heaven to intervene. They yelled; Lord save me. And in an instant Jesus woke up and rebuked the wind and the waves. 

They didn’t allow fear to cause them to retreat to the place they just left. They didn’t try to turn the boat around, row back to land, as some of us would have done, they didn’t question if they heard Jesus’ right, they didn’t jump off the boat, they didn’t phone a friend to discredit the instructions Jesus gave them, they didn’t go find a life jacket or find the nearest lifeboat or look for a floatie, they called out to the one who headed the charge. The one that not only gives life but saves life. 

When the disciples opened their mouths and yelled Jesus something supernatural happened. The storm stopped, it moved, it shifted, it ceased to exist. And they were able to continue to the next place. 

Be Encouraged! Heaven is Responding.

Beloveth, we must understand that even in obeying God concerning our “Next” and our “New” we are going to be faced with adversity. But we must not retreat or question the voice of God, but we must stay and pray and declare the word of the Lord. Stay on the boat and use our weapon “the word.” Psalm 18:21 says that the power of life and death are in the tongue and those who love it will eat of its fruit. Our mouths can do something a storm can’t, and that’s get the attention of Heaven. When you open your mouth and declare the word of life, Heaven responds and the result of it is a breakthrough! Be Encouraged! 

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The Lord Is Not Finished With You
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The Lord Is Not Finished With You

by GOD TV
written by GOD TV

Have you ever felt like there was something inside of you, a dream or just something that you’re passionate about, and you get disappointed with it? Me too. I just want to encourage you today and start with the verse Philippians 1:6.  It says, “I’m sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion…”

Let me tell you something: That has gotten me through a lot. Just for an example, I have so many examples, but just one example of something that I feel like has been disappointing over and over again for me, is getting to lead worship. Getting to sing and share what I feel like God has put inside of me. And I feel like it was for no reason. And so I cannot tell you how many times that I had gone after that word from the Lord that I felt like was inside of me. And even something that I love doing, and been disappointed with it. People telling me I’m not good enough, people with good critique and good help, just thinking that they knew what were they were saying to try and help me, but ended up disappointing me. A lot of no’s, a lot of just laying it down, and surrendering it and then just being disappointed in it, and being real with the Lord of like, “Did you really? Are you sure? Are you sure this is for me?”

I just want to encourage you today that after a few years of that, and it looks different with all the different things, but it’s been years for me, and I am finally starting to see little things happen with that dream of mine. And it may not look like exactly how I want it to, or wanted it to, or thought that it would look like, but it is so much better. And I feel like we hear that a lot, and it’s something that can be so cliché, but it is so true. I would not have it any other way in the way that it’s happening, in the way that I’m seeing myself come alive in something that is a word from the Lord.

And so I just want to let you know if there’s something inside of you that you have been chasing after, but you feel defeated and disappointed in it, do not give up. And remember these words that “He, who began a good work in, you will finish it to completion.”

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Young Woman About To Commit Suicide Was Stopped After Hearing God

by Rhoda Gayle
written by Rhoda Gayle

A young woman who was about to commit suicide inside her car was stopped after she heard the still small voice of God.

Suicide Attempt Stopped

It is such an amazing feeling when we hear stories of how God moved on someone’s behalf. Today, we will be in awe again of God’s love through the powerful testimony of a girl at Sean Feucht’s “Let Us Worship” event in New Jersey.

On Monday, Sean Feucht posted a video of the young woman’s testimony. Olivia was about to end her life that day in her car, however, she heard God encouraging her to never give up.

“She was in her car with some pills and she was about to take her life by suicide. And tonight, something amazing happened,” Sean said as he introduced the young woman.

“Don’t Give Up”

Olivia and her friends traveled from Connecticut just to attend the worship gathering and testify God’s power.

“I was at the lowest of my life and I really just thought that I had no purpose, but something kept me there. This thought just said ‘Don’t give up’ and I listened and I came tonight and I changed,” she testified.

Knowing that many people are struggling with their circumstances right now, Olivia has a powerful message to everyone.

“God loves you and He has a purpose for your life and I just want you to know that if you’re dealing with anything, just reach out to someone. Never give up. Give up the thought that you have to do everything on your own, you don’t. God is for you, people love you, just don’t give up.”

New Jersey - Olivia's Testimony - Sean Feucht

Sean Feucht

Bethel worship leader Sean Feucht has been traveling across the United States to hold outdoor worship gatherings. This is an effort to stand against the government’s ban on church singing. Sean has been lately vocal on speaking out against the “unlawful censorship and discrimination” worshippers have experienced in some states.

“We are going to keep worshiping,” said Feucht. “We are going to keep singing.”

Read also: Christians Gathered In Worship In California To Stand Against State’s Ban On Church Singing 

Reference: Church Leaders 

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#365ReasonsNotToGiveUp

by Corine Channell
written by Corine Channell

How do YOU want to be remembered?

Unfortunately, as humans, we find more delight in dwelling on the negative instead of the positive. We gravitate more towards bad news, than good news. We enjoy talking about each other in critical ways, more than discussing the good in someone. I mean, really, do you ever hear people sitting around talking about how awesome someone is? Generally it is more, “Did you hear that so and so did THIS? And what’s his name had the nerve to do THAT…blah blah blah.”

I figure there is a  distinct possibility when I am gone from this earth, I may only be remembered for the black marks on my life. My mistakes, bad choices, failures, stupid moves, and on and on. Ugh. So, go ahead. Take note of ALL of them. Count them one by one if you want. THEN remember this above all of that: SHE MADE MISTAKES, BAD CHOICES, STUPID MOVES…BUT SHE NEVER GAVE UP.

To me, THAT is what I want to be remembered for.

We each have a road to walk; we all wish we knew THEN what we know NOW.

(sigh)

I have come to the conclusion that I cannot offer others the idea that life is easy or predictable, without suffering, or without black marks. What I CAN offer is that GIVING UP IS NOT AN OPTION.

You fell? Get up. You failed? Try again. You made a bad choice? Make a good one. You did something stupid? Own it.

I will never offer my inspirational thoughts from a “perfect life”. I don’t live in a white house with a white picket fence. You know what? I used to WANT to. In fact, that was my goal in life. Now, I am grateful that I have hit the dirt, that I have felt like the scum on the bottom of the barrel, or wad of gum stuck to a shoe. It has taught me compassion. It has taught me endurance. It has taught me not to judge. It has taught me that there is ALWAYS tomorrow to try again.

So, how do I want to be remembered? That I may have been a hot mess, but I never gave up!

Now I offer you MY story in stories; one for each day of a year. I want YOU to join me in NOT giving up.

Let’s make 2019 our best year yet!

 

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When You’re On The Verge Of Giving Up

by GOD TV
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Tired. Worn out. Unloved. Rejected. Hopeless. Defeated.

Maybe these are the facts.  Maybe that’s what you feel right now.  Maybe that’s what your circumstances tell you now.  That’s your reality right now.

A hopeless situation – maybe that’s where you are right now.

And you believe it.

It seems so real.  You cannot see an answer to every question, you cannot see a clear vision because you’re overwhelmed with confusion, and you cannot see a way out in every situation. It is so overwhelming to the point that it numbs you of everything.  It feels like it is the end.  No hope.  No answer.  No anything.  No one stayed by your side, you feel so alone and lonely.

I may not know you and I will not pretend to understand the pain and struggles you’re going through right now, but there’s someone who knows exactly how you feel, and He even felt worse.

Alone.  Betrayed.  Humiliated.  Hanged.  Crucified.  Buried.

Jesus went through all of that because He doesn’t want you to go through hell in this lifetime.  He died, hanged on the cross so that you will have an abundant life.  He wants to free you from everything you’re struggling with right now.  So if the Son sets you free, you are free indeed!

He would rather experience hell than go to heaven without you.  Tired of fighting?  Then be tired and rest.  Surrender it to God.  But don’t give up. Give your battles to God.

Don’t let the lies tell you what to do.

To enlighten you more about this, Jon Jorgenson provide as a video on how God redeems people who are facing a pile of hopelessness in their lives.

THE WALL: A Hopeless Situation

Credits: Jon Jorgenson

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7 Things to Remember When You Face a Storm

by Chandi Perera
written by Chandi Perera
We will all face a storm at some point in our lives, however Christians know who to turn to. As we keep our eyes on Jesus, we can rely on Him.

Stormy seas in life, are inevitable for all people. As the Bible says John 16:33, “In this world we shall have tribulation”. It is non-negotiable and cannot be side stepped; but for the Christian, the verse follows through to say “but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Furthermore, James 1:2-4 says: “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.”

Counting it all joy may sound absurd for those who critically analyze what James is saying. It doesn’t fit with the natural mind. However the Word of God operates at a much higher level. Navigating the rough seas of a personal trial, I took time to ponder on this verse and the following seven points surfaced which I would like to share with you.

7 things to remember when you’re in a storm

  1. Embrace the One who can calm the storm. In a moment of deep distress we have two choices. We can weather the storm by facing the One who is able to calm it, or we can focus our eyes on the storm and drown in it. Choose to count it all joy and keep your eyes on Jesus.
  2. Jesus is very good at showing up in the middle of our storm. It is what He does. If we take time to focus our eyes on Him, He comes to us. There is no cajoling, pleading, supplicating for Him to come. That is what He is best at doing. Coming to us, in the storm. He sees us surrounded by raging waves and He knows we cannot navigate it on our own an He keeps His Word: “I will not leave you nor forsake you”. He comes!
  3. Don’t rely on your human strategies, expertise or spirituality. It is Jesus Who calms the storm.  As Psalm 107:29 “He calms the storm, so that its waves are still.”  The waves know who to obey. Trust Him.
  4. When we focus on Him, in the storm, we drop the unnecessary. In a storm, we no longer need to wear a mask, our wings are clipped and our ability to move forward is curtailed. We are surrounded by a storm. When we keep on gazing up at His face and meeting Him in the eye, when we keep our eyes on Jesus, we know what baggage we need to drop and what tools we need to pick up. He lightens us and equips us – when we look Him in the eye, in the storm.
  5. Storms are an ideal time to develop faith and hope – Romans 5:3-5. Waiting, watching and trusting for Him to come through for us in the storm, builds perseverance, a patience, a yielding and a submitting. At the end of it all, our hope is not differed, because – HE will surely come!
  6. Nothing can separate us from God’s love. As Romans 8:38-39 says, nothing, absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God and He is no man that He should lie. He comes because He supremely loves you and I. He loved us, way before we ever came to know Him. He will not allow His beloved to drown in a storm, surely! So, He comes.
  7. God will use the storm to establish and prove you. When He commands the waves to be still and calms the storm God establishes and proves us, because after all, we are His workmanship created for good works, long before we were born. He will come so that we can continue the good works He has ordained for us.

With these seven things in mind, I choose to keep my eyes on Jesus and not at the waves that rage around me. Will you?

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Don't back down when you face trials
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Facing Fiery Trials? Don’t Back Down!

by Palitha Jayasooriya
written by Palitha Jayasooriya

Don’t Back Down When Facing Trials

Pastor Palitha Jayasooriya is a leader at the People’s Church (Assembly of God) situated in Colombo, Sri Lanka and the author of The Preaching Platform. In this short video he offers encouragement in the face of adversity, using the example of Daniel in the Lions’ Den. 

When trials come our way, we must never back down. As Ephesians 6:13 says: “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” We have to keep standing in the face of fiery trials, just like Daniel in the Lion’s Den. He refused to compromise or give up and God supernaturally closed the mouths of the lions, preserving his life and giving him an extraordinary testimony to share.

If the devil comes to you as a roaring lion, introduce him to the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. If he comes as the king of the beasts show him the King of Kings. Remember the righteous are as bold as a lion and as you trust in Jesus he will not fail you, so keep standing and don’t back down.

Keep trusting God to deliver you from all the trials the enemy may bring, through His supernatural power!

 

 

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