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“Hindrances to Our Prayer Life – No Seed of the Word Sown, No Harvest.”

Posted by mcoxbmi on February 10, 2025
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Another major hindrance is that the words of our mouth, when we pray and after we pray, do not line up with the Word of God.

Matthew 12: 35 – 37 The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things. (36) But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak. (37) For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced. (Amp. C)

Are we sowing good seeds or bad seeds? Are we sowing to the problem or to the answer to the problem? Are we focusing more on the problems and issues than we are on God’s Word.

Read verse 37 again – Matthew 12: 37 For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced. (Amp. C)

Proverbs 18: 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. (NKJV)

Our answer is contained in the seed of the Word that we sow. No seed sown, no harvest.

The Living Word is like a Seed. Just as a seed contains life in itself, so does the Living Word.

The Living Word contains the Life that it needs to bring itself to pass. But that life must be activated. We are the ones who activate that life by applying our Faith to the Word as we speak.

God has already given us the Seed of the Word to sow. We take the Seed of the Word and sow it by speaking the Word to our mountains.

 

“God and His Word are One Part 1”

Posted by mcoxbmi on August 22, 2024
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John 1: 1 – 2 IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. (2) He was present originally with God. (Amp C)

Not only is God Himself the source of The Living Word but The Living Word IS God Himself.  God and His Word are One.

You cannot separate God from His Word.  Just as you cannot separate God from His Word you cannot separate man and his word, good or bad.

Matthew 12: 35 – 37 The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things. (36) But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak. (37) For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced. (Amp C)  

God’s Word is Alive. God Himself Is Life.  Since God and His Word are One then God’s Word Is Life.  Absolute Life.

 

“Do You Want to See Good Days?”

Posted by mcoxbmi on May 1, 2024
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If I was to ask you if you wanted to see good days, I would say that almost everyone would answer yes.  Most people would call that question somewhat stupid.  Everyone including myself that I know wants to see good days.

1st Peter 3:10 tells us how to do just that.  Psalm 34: 12 – 15 also has the same message.  Our words set our lives for negative or positive.  Words are seeds for life.  God designed it that way.  It was His idea.

It was, is, and always will be His Way of doing things for He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  Even if I do not believe it works that way it still does.  I cannot change it for it was designed by God Himself.

1st Peter3: 10 For let him who wants to enjoy life and see good days [good–whether apparent or not] keep his tongue free from evil and his lips from guile (treachery, deceit). (AMP C)

“Meditation on the Word builds knowledge of the Word.”

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 4, 2024
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Our knowledge of the Word, how it works, how and when to use it, is of extreme importance and value to us if we are to be victorious overcomers and successful in our Christian walk.

God’s Word is involved in every area of our lives. Our lack of knowledge, faith, and action determines our level of success or failure.

Meditation in the Word builds knowledge of the Word.

Meditation in the Word builds the inner image of the Word in our hearts.  Meditation in the Word builds a capacity for faith which is the activator of the Living Word.

Meditation in the Word causes the Living Word to abide in our hearts.

Joshua 1: 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success. (Amplified Classic) 

Psalms 119: 130 The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple. (NKJV) 

Every word that we speak is a seed sown.  The seed sown brings forth a harvest.  If you do not want the harvest of your words do not speak them.  Speak only what you want for a harvest.

All seed, good and bad, are sown by the words of our mouth.

Words are involved in every area of our lives.  Just think about the number of words we say, hear, think, and see every day of our lives.  Even when we are not aware of it, they are present and affect our very lives.

Words are involved and affect everything that we say, think, and do.

Words govern our life whether or not I believe that they do.

 

 

“The Law of Sowing and Reaping Part 2”

Posted by mcoxbmi on December 21, 2023
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Anything that has life originated from a seed of some kind.  All creation came from the seed of God’s Living Word spoken forth by God Himself.

Sowing and reaping are absolute laws that God Himself put in place.

Words are involved in everything God does and everything that we do. God and His Living Word are One.

John 1: 1 – 3 IN THE beginning [before all-time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. (2) He was present originally with God. (3) All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. (Amplified Classic)

All things, no matter what they are, came into existence and continue to exist by and through the Word. 

Colossians 1: 16 – 17  For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him. (17) And He Himself existed before all things, and in Him all things consist (cohere, are held together). (Amplified Classic)

Genesis 8: 22 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, and day and night Shall not cease (NKJV)

Galatians 6: 7 – 9 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. (8) For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. (9) And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. (NKJV)

All seed, good and bad, are sown by the words of our mouth.

Matthew 12: 35 – 37 The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things. (36) But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak. (37) For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced. (Amplified Classic)

 

“The Law of Sowing and Reaping Part 1”

Posted by mcoxbmi on December 14, 2023
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Anything that has life originated from a seed of some kind.  All creation came from the seed of God’s Living Word spoken forth by God Himself. 

The abiding seed of the Word must be applied or activated in order to bring forth fruit.

In order to apply the Word, we must believe the Word, we must speak the Word, and we must act on the spoken Word.

Our words are directly related to whether the Living Word abides.  We will bear fruit according to what abides in our hearts.

The words of the world and satan also abide and bring forth fruit.

If we do not understand the law of sowing and reaping, we cannot be victorious overcomers and be successful in our Christian life in this Earth.

The law of sowing and reaping is working 100% of the time in our lives no matter who we are, born again or not born again.

All that we do is done by, in, and through the Word.  There is nothing else.  

Sowing and reaping are absolute laws that God Himself put in place.

God’s Word is absolute Truth and absolute Law. God and His Word are One.

God Himself operates by this same Law.  He used this Law to create all things and all things consist by this same Law.

All creation, no matter what it is, are the result of seed sown.  The Word of God is the seed.

All things, no matter what they are, came into existence and continue to exist by and through the Word.

 

“The Abiding Word Always Brings Forth Fruit”

Posted by mcoxbmi on August 14, 2023
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Whatever is abiding will bring forth fruit for good or evil

Luke 6: 43 – 45 For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit, neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.  (44) For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. (45) A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth the evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. (NKJV) 

John 15: 7 (Amplified Classic) If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

We are to abide in Him and His Word is to abide in us. Both are by our choice.

Our Love Walk and the Abiding Word are determining factors for fruit bearing

A major hindrance and possibly the #1 hindrance is our lack of walking the love walk because Faith works by Love.

Galatians 5: 6 (Amplified Bible) For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

(KJV) faith which worketh by love.

If we are not walking in love our faith will not work.

Without our faith the Word cannot be activated.

Without our faith the Word will be dormant and unable to bring forth life or fruit.

 

“The Abiding Seed of the Word”

Posted by mcoxbmi on August 3, 2023
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“The Abiding Seed of the Word”. If the Living Seed of The Living Word does not abide it cannot bring forth Life.

Once the Believer has the seed of the Living Word planted in His Heart and activated by the Faith of that Believer that seed will bring forth life unless it is prevented from abiding.

Our enemy satan does everything that he can to prevent the Living Word of God from abiding in the heart of the Believer.  The only chance that he has is to deceive the Believer into making a choice to not allow the Living Word to abide in His heart.

If satan is unable to deceive the Believer, the Living Abiding Word in the heart of the Believer will come to manifestation.  Satan cannot stop the Living Word from coming to pass any other way. 

John 15: 7 (Amplified Classic) If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

Abide – The Greek word used here is “meno”  It means to stay in a given place, state, or expectancy – To abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry for.

IF – If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you. We are to abide in Him and His Word is to abide in us. Both are by our choice.

 

 

“God’s Word Is Alive”

Posted by mcoxbmi on June 14, 2023
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God Himself Is Life.  Since God and His Word are One then God’s Word Is Life.  Absolute Life.

The Living Word is like a Seed.  Just as a seed contains life in itself, so does the Living Word. The Living Word contains the Life that it needs to bring itself to pass.  But that life must be activated.  We are the ones who activate that life by applying our Faith to the Word.

John 6: 63  It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. (NKJV)

This Living Word of God is constantly at work in us who believe It.

1st Thessalonians 2: 13  And we also [especially] thank God continually for this, that when you received the message of God [which you heard] from us, you welcomed it not as the word of [mere] men, but as it truly is, the Word of God, which is effectually at work in you who believe [exercising its superhuman power in those who adhere to and trust in and rely on it]. (Amplified Classic)

 

“Overcoming the Temptation to be Selfish”

Posted by mcoxbmi on March 16, 2023
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We must learn how to love God so that we can love others and be more effective in the kingdom of God.

If God’s agape love is not working in our life, then the Kingdom of God will be limited in its ability to produce or manifest in our life.

Two of the greatest forces in life that effect everyone one of us are Love and selfishness.  These two forces are involved in everything we do.  They are involved in every decision that we make.

Everything we do and every decision that we make are related to one or the other of these two forces, Love or selfishness.  One or the other is always present, but they cannot work together.

Mankind is born with a selfish nature. Selfishness is the reciprocal of love.

Agape love is not a human form of love.  It is unconditional, limitless, selfless, and is not based on emotions.  It tolerates anything. It is always others centered.

Hebrews 2: 14 – 15 (Amplified Classic) Since, therefore, [these His] children share in flesh and blood [in the physical nature of human beings], He [Himself] in a similar manner partook of the same [nature], that by [going through] death He might bring to nought and make of no effect him who had the power of death–that is, the devil– (15) And also that He might deliver and completely set free all those who through the [haunting] fear of death were held in bondage throughout the whole course of their lives.

Hebrews 4: 15 – 16 (NKJV) For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. (16) Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Jesus was also tempted with selfishness.  Jesus used the Word to defeat selfishness. He anchored His choice in the Word.  We should do the same.

 

“The Law of Love vs The Law of Selfishness Part 1”

Posted by mcoxbmi on November 17, 2022
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Law:  A Law can only be enacted by someone who has the authority to do so.  A law must be enforced by someone who has been given the authority to do so. A law carries a penalty if broken.

All things function by Law.

A Commandment is a Law

A Promise from God is also a law because it is God’s idea.  He Himself said it.  It became Law when He said it.

The Law of Love, God’s Word, His Promises and Commandments are absolute Law. They are a higher Law than natural law. When activated by the Believer the Higher Law supersede lower natural law.

There really are only 2 laws, from these two laws flow all other laws.  The Law of Life and the law of sin and death.

“A Life of Peace in Troubled Times”

Posted by mcoxbmi on April 25, 2020
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Just in case you have not noticed there is trouble in this world. In this season we are living in we all, in one way or another, are concerned by what is taking place in the world around us. Whether it be in our own personal lives or the world around us.

Trouble is not something new to this world it has been around since the fall of Adam. If you are alive there are times of difficulty that come your way. The troubles and storms of life very seldom just affect us. What we do during these times of trouble and storms will also affect others around us.

John 16: 33 (Amplified Classic) I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]

What we do in the midst of the troubles and storms of life will determine the amount of effect they have on us. It will also determine how long they last, when, and if we come out of them.
We choose whether we walk in peace in our lives or fear and worry.

God is not keeping us from walking in peace!

The Word of God brings peace and confidence. Peace will cause us to stand firm on the solid rock. Fear stands on sand. When the pressure is on, fear runs and cannot stand. When the pressure is on, Peace will remain firm, and we will be able to stand therefore.

“A Renewed Mind”

Posted by mcoxbmi on April 19, 2020
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“A Renewed Mind” or “Becoming Spiritually Minded”

In order to become Spiritually minded and have a renewed mind we must be Born Again.  Once Born Again if we are to grow and develop our Spiritual man, we must become Spiritually minded. If we do not develop our Spiritual man, becoming Spiritually minded, we will still be carnally minded and walk in the flesh as the rest of the world even though we are Born Again.

Romans 12: 2 (NKJV) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 8:5 – 6 (NKJV) For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (6) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

We, not God, determine whether we are Spiritually minded or Carnally minded.

Deuteronomy 30: 19 (Amplified Bible Classic) I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life

Our Loving Heavenly Father has already set life before us but He will not make us choose life. He paid the entire price for all mankind but He will not make us choose life. It is totally up to the individual as to what he will choose, spiritually minded and life or carnally minded and death.

 

“A New Beginning”

Posted by mcoxbmi on April 15, 2020
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A new beginning.  To begin means that it has a definite place or time of starting, a place of origin, something that did not exist before. A new beginning means to completely do away with the old and make a new one completely different not related to the old one. To begin again or renew means to restart, to revise or revive the one already in place.

To begin something means that there is action taking place. There is movement. If you remain where you are and never move you cannot begin. You cannot stay the same and begin.

Beginning suggests a path, a purpose, a process or task. Every path, process, or task has a point of origin or place where the journey started. This would be the beginning.

God Himself Is The Beginning and He Is the end.

We are all on the path of life as long as we are alive in this Earth. There are many choices to make along this path of life. Many of those choices have a major impact on our path of life, good or bad. Those choices have an eternal effect on our lives and the lives of others. There are many roads and choices in this life but only one true path.

John 14: 6 (NKJV) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

What we do today will determine not only our future, the future of our children, but also the future of those yet to be.

The right to choose has been given to Man by God and we are being held accountable for the choices that we make in this life.

Deuteronomy 30: 19 – 20 (Amplified Bible Classic) I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live (20) And may love the Lord your God, obey His voice, and cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

When God said “I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life” He was giving us the choice between being Spiritually minded and carnally minded.
We cannot be both at the same time. We will be one or the other. God then said choose life or choose being Spiritually minded.

Romans 8: 5 – 6 (NKJV) For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (6) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

In order to change anything our choice is involved.

It is time to make a new beginning. It is time to let your past be your past at last. What you do with today will determine your future. Your life today will be the fossil of your life tomorrow.

“The Abiding Word”

Posted by mcoxbmi on February 2, 2020
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John 15: 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

Abide – The Greek word used here is “meno” It means to stay in a given place, state, or expectancy – To abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry for.

IF – If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you

We are to abide in Jesus. We are to abide in the True Vine. The Word is to abide in us. We are to abide in His Love. Jesus will abide in us. When we abide in the True Vine we are one.

If we abide in Him without the Word abiding in us we become a weak and diseased branch and have to be pruned, purged, or cut-off.

We are to abide in Him and His Word is to abide in us. Both are by our choice.

The Abiding Word! It is a condition of the heart.

The abiding Word always brings forth fruit.

What hinders or prevents the Word from abiding and being fruitful? A major cause and possibly #1 cause is our lack of walking the love walk. Faith works by Love

Galatians 5: 6 (KJV) … faith which worketh by love.
(Amplified Bible) … faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

If we are not walking in love our faith will not work.
Without our faith the Word cannot be activated.
Without our faith the Word will be dormant and unable to bring forth life or fruit.

“No Middle Ground”

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 31, 2020
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Righteousness and right standing with God is an exciting subject.

Most of us mistakenly think that in order to be righteous I myself have to make myself righteous. The truth is I cannot do enough in my own strength to make myself righteous before God. Righteousness or right standing with God is a free gift from God. God is the only one that can make us right with Him. Righteousness cannot be earned; it is a free gift from God. There is no amount of works that I can do that will ever make me right with God.

Either we are right or we are wrong. There is no middle row. There is no neutral. Either we are saved (Born Again) or we are not. Either we are in darkness or we are in the light. Either you are walking with God or you are not walking with God. There is no middle ground.

Righteousness is simply being right. God said Today I present to you, Life and Death, Choose Life. If you are going to be right you have to do it God’s way. You have to choose Life.

The only one that can determine whether I am right or wrong is me. You say then, ok then I am right. No, you have to choose and act on what God says is right. God determines what is right and wrong but I am the only one that can choose to be right or wrong. God’s ways are the only ways to be right. Our set stands of being right has already been set by God Himself.

It is harder to live wrong than it is to live right. The only real peace in life comes from being right. God has made a way but He will not make us walk in it.

Psalm 34: 12 – 15 (Amplified Bible) What man is he who desires life and longs for many days, that he may see good? (13) Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
(14) Depart from evil and do good; seek, inquire for, and crave peace and pursue (go after) it! (15) The eyes of the Lord are toward the [uncompromisingly] righteous and His ears are open to their cry.

There is a big difference between walking right with God or right with the flesh and the world. The fruit and the effect are going to come from one or the other.

Psalm 33: 18 – 22 (Amplified Bible) Behold, the Lord’s eye is upon those who fear Him [who revere and worship Him with awe], who wait for Him and hope in His mercy and loving-kindness, (19) To deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. (20) Our inner selves wait [earnestly] for the Lord; He is our Help and our Shield. (21) For in Him does our heart rejoice, because we have trusted (relied on and been confident) in His holy name. (22) Let Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, be upon us, in proportion to our waiting and hoping for You.

We need to be making a daily and moment by moment heart check in our lives. What is the motive behind what I do? Do we walk with God here but not here?

Romans 8: 5 – 6 (NKJV) For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (6) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

 

“Made Righteous by The Blood of Jesus”

Posted by mcoxbmi on August 8, 2015
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Romans 3: 22 – 26 (Amplified Bible) Namely, the righteousness of God which comes by believing with personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [And it is meant] for all who believe. For there is no distinction, (23) Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives. (24) [All] are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus, (25) Whom God put forward [before the eyes of all] as a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood [the cleansing and life-giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, to be received] through faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment. (26) It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time (in the now season) that He Himself is righteous and that He justifies and accepts as righteous him who has [true] faith in Jesus.

Romans 5: 8 – 9 (Amplified Bible) But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us. (9) Therefore, since we are now justified (acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God) by Christ’s blood, how much more [certain is it that] we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God. (10) For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more [certain], now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved (daily delivered from sin’s dominion) through His [resurrection] life.

 

“Abiding In God’s Word – The Anchor for Our Faith”

Posted by mcoxbmi on July 30, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150322 – Abiding In Gods Word – The Anchor For Our Faith

John 15: 7 (Amplified Bible) If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

Galatians 6: 7 – 9 (Amplified Bible) Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. (8) For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (9) And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.

James 1: 5 – 7 (Amplified Bible) If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him. (6) Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. (7) For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord,

“What Are You Sowing? That Is What You Will Reap!”

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Click Here To Download This Message – 150315 – What Are You Sowing – That Is What You Will Reap

Galatians 6: 7 – 9 (Amplified Bible) Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. (8) For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (9)And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint

James 1: 5 – 8 (Amplified Bible) If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him. (6) Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. (7) For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord, (8) [For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides].