Stop Eating “JUNK” Food!

In the past few weeks God has been teaching me to stop eating what the devil is dishing out.

Because the devil has a lot of crazy stuff he would like you and me to believe. And I was just there eating what ever he was dishing out which caused fear, anxiety, and hopelessness in me. I would cry out to God to help me in the midst of the attack because it was intense but God began to show me that I was not filtering the thoughts I was getting.

Our filter is the Word of God and that’s how we need to be measuring up everything that comes our way.

So He showed me that I need to reject the lies instead of entertaining them. And that’s what we tend to do right? Instead of taking the lies to God immediately we start thinking about what ifs, and project possible outcomes that are totally not according to God’s will for us. We let the fear shut us down.

But if we are going to hold on to the promises God has for us we need to stop doing this. We need to stop eating everything the devil is dishing out.

IT’S ALL LIES…

IT’S ALL LIES…

Resist and reject all of it. It’s not going to be easy I understand but God is with you and He will help you as you cry out to Him. The thoughts will come but they don’t have to pitch their tents in your mind. Cast them out with the authority Jesus has given you.

“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV

So as I come to the end of this post I want to encourage you with one more scripture,

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”

Philippians 4:8 NLT

Change what you think about. Stop thinking about the negative things the devil keeps trying to remind you about but instead think on the things God is doing in your life, the words He has spoken to you, on His beauty, on His grace, on the amazing things He has in store for you, His promises and so much more.

With that I have come to the end of the post.

Bless you friends and have a great weekend!

Rolain

What do you have faith for today?

More than ever we need to walk by faith. And as we come to the end of 2020 and enter 2021

I believe God has amazing plans and new things in store for us but we can only receive those

things by faith. We are not going to achieve God’s plans for our lives by our flesh. The only way we are

going to do it is by faith.

 

But our faith is under attack. The enemy doesn’t want us to walk by faith. He wants us to be in fear, anxiety, 

doubt and so many other things. And with that I want to touch on two things that can stop us from 

walking by faith. 

 

1. Make sure you don’t let someone else’s lack of faith determine your faith.  

There is so much negativity around us. So many people are negative because of the things that are happening 

but if you are going to walk by faith you need to be careful who and what you are listening to, and what you are

watching. 

There are a lot of things in the world if accepted that can hurt your faith. 

 

A perfect example of this is found in the story of the Israelites when they were at the door of the promise

land.  They sent out twelve spies who went to spy out the land. When they came back only two people, 

Joshua and Caleb were fully convinced God had given the enemy over to them. They were ready to go 

claim what God promised them but the other ten spies saw things very differently. They were fearful, 

and they doubted God and because of their lack of faith they influenced an entire nation to reject what 

God promised them! That is a sobering thought. 

How different it would have been if they listened to Joshua and Caleb. 

 

What narrative are you following? 

The world has a narrative it wants you to follow that is contrary to the narrative God has. 

The only narrative you should be following is what God has told you and shown you in His Word 

and times you have spent with Him in prayer. 

 

       2. For faith to work make sure you are looking at what God has and what He can do instead of

looking at what man has. If you base your faith on what man has, you will limit yourself and your faith. 

 

God is the One you should be looking to always. He has everything you need. 

He sees the whole picture and knows what is best for you. Resolve in your hearts to look to Him 

more as you enter 2021. 

 

God has amazing things in store for you. 

It’s time to crank up your faith dial to a hundred and you do that by getting into His word and by spending 

more time with Him. He wants to give you everything He has prepared for you so get rid of the things 

that are stopping you from trusting Him fully. It’s not going to be easy but the journey is worth it. 

Keep trusting Him always! 

 

Rolain

 

 

Rethink your value

“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground

without your Father’s leave (consent) and notice.

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Fear not, then; you are of more value than many sparrows.”

Matthew 10:29-31

There is a need to rethink and reshape the way we see ourselves. We are extremely

valuable in God’s eyes. Not everyone sees the value but that’s okay as long as we know

where to go to for affirmation. I made the mistake of looking for people to tell me what

my value was. It didn’t go well. But that has changed thankfully. I have been learning to turn

to God to tell me my value and the learning will continue.

Let’s look at the story of the woman who washed Jesus’ feet. This is what the bible tells us

about her;

“And behold, a woman of the town who was an especially wicked sinner, when she learned

that He was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of

ointment (perfume).”

“Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw it, he said to himself, if this Man were 

a prophet, He would surely know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching

Him-for she is a notorious sinner (a social outcast, devoted to sin). 

Luke 7:36-50

To the people around her because of her profession she had no value. She was looked down

upon by the people in her community. It’s clear the Pharisee only saw the ugly in her but

Jesus looked deeper. He saw her true value and welcomed her.

No matter what you have done, you are still valuable to God. He doesn’t reject and throw you

away. He doesn’t disown you. He loves you so much.

Man’s opinion of you will always change. They will love you in one moment and in the very next

moment stone you and that is why it’s important to know what God thinks of you. His opinion of

you is not up for debate. It doesn’t change.  He loves you full stop!

Like I said at the beginning of this post, it’s time to rethink our value. It’s time to challenge the opinions

of people who don’t have our best interests at heart. Whose goal is to tear you down and belittle you.

It’s time to let go of people’s negative thoughts about us and embrace how God sees you fully.

You are valuable in His eyes!

Rolain

What does God see when He looks at us?

“God has not beheld iniquity in Jacob [for he is forgiven], neither has He seen 

mischief or perverseness in Israel [for the same reason]. The Lord their God 

is with Israel, and the shout of praise to their King is among their people.” 

Numbers 23:21

 

This is a pretty amazing verse if you ask me. Balak hired Balaam to curse

the people of Israel but things were not going according to his plan.

Blessing was happening instead of cursing. Balaam could only speak what YAH

told him. But that’s not the amazing bit, whats amazing are the words YAH put in

Balaam’s mouth to speak (declare).

 

Up to this point Israel had rebelled against YAH in so many ways. They were back

in the desert because they failed to believe YAH could take them to the promise land

even though they were by the “door”.

 

They complained, tested, grumbled, and worshipped other gods (the golden calf) so you would think

YAH would allow the cursing to happen as a way of punishment for all the wrong things they

had done to that point. But that is not what happened.

 

Instead of allowing Balaam to curse them, He let him bless them!

He had forgiven them completely. Through all the bad they did and all the bad they were

going to do YAH still forgave them. He didn’t hold their sin against them.

This is a picture of how merciful our God is. We deserve worse because of our sin

but that’s not what we get.

The Israelites failed YAH so many times and yet He still loved them, He still forgave them,

He stopped Balaam from cursing them.

Do we really understand how great YAH’s love is for us?

I think the enemy lies to us that our sin is unbearable to YAH and because it’s so

unbearable, He will keep His distance from us. That’s a lie.

 

I am not saying it’s okay to sin, what I am saying is that YAH loves us no matter what.

There are consequences for sin and that is shown by the Israelites who never made it into the

promise land because of their unbelief.

 

But to say that the Lord hates us and can’t stand us because of sin is a lie. When He sees

us, He sees His children. He loves us so much.

You may have messed up and are continuing to mess up but know that you can repent.

Confidently cry out to Him when you fall. He doesn’t disown you when you sin. He picks

you up and that’s how much He loves us

We are truly blessed….

 

Rolain