On Track

Proverbs 16:1-7

King James Version (KJV)

16 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

² All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

³ Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

⁴ The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

⁵ Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

⁶ By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

⁷ When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Getting on track with God is how you ensure a good life. It’s not always easy, it takes practice sometimes it takes years of practice, however when you get it that’s when the flood gates open up and blessings rain down on you. What better reward is there than the reward from our King?

I by no means am perfect or even close to being so, but with that being said I try to get better and gain more knowledge of the word and how the word works. There is no short cut to get to the “other side” other than cutting everything “cold turkey” and stop using idle words and so on. I haven’t met a man on this earth to have done just that. So for the rest of us it’s a process of being molded into what we need to be in order to live a good life and be instruments of God to help others.

There are both believers and non believers that think just because they have money and a decent job that they have the good life, not knowing that there is soo much more in life that they are missing out on whether it’s eternal salvation for the non believers or an abundant life with peace and joy for those who do believe.

Just like in my previous post about tithing-your words have a profound effect on what happens in your life. Your thoughts likewise are a contributing factor. If your thoughts and words are against you getting in line with God’s word-it will take that much longer for you to get on track, naturally. The enemy loves it when you speak against the things you want because he knows he can  act on what you say and pull back further away from your purpose.

Tithing

Hebrews 7:1-8

New International Version (NIV)

Melchizedek the Priest

7 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, ² and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.”³ Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

⁴ Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder! ⁵ Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their fellow Israelites—even though they also are descended from Abraham. ⁶ This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. ⁷ And without doubt the lesser is blessed by the greater. ⁸ In the one case, the tenth is collected by people who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living.

There has been much debate as to whether or not we should be tithing today.

The ones that debate against tithing typically have never tithed or haven’t done it correctly.

Anyone who has tithed consistently, speaks life over their seed and gives that 1/10^th of their income as they should, they would not argue against tithing.

As a tither myself, I have seen favor, savings and financial returns. As soon as I heard about tithing and saw the scripture I took it as truth and started tithing from where I was at financially, in the beginning the tenth (tithe) of what I would have was only $2. Despite my tithe being small in amount it was still a tithe and I was faithful to give exactly 10% of my earnings and because of it I was protected from having to come out of pocket for unexpected things that I didn’t have the means to pay for.

As time went on I had favor with the ability to earn more, therefore my tithe was more and I realized that my blessings/favor was building up because I continued to tithe along with my increase. This strengthened my faith in the financial aspect. However along with that you have to make sure to not speak death to things-such as “I know my car is going to break down sooner or later” or “I can’t get out of debt” or “I can’t afford anything,I’m always broke”.

Your words can easily defeat your tithe-meaning you have given according to the word of God but your words that contradict what you really want will prevent God from blessing you in any aspect but since we’re talking about finances, it will block financial protection.

All I can say is to try it! When it comes to having to give out money we all get so bent out of shape, even when it comes to the church. We have to understand that the tithe is not our money anyway-that 10% is what is His because without Him we wouldn’t even have a means of getting money-or even being alive!

Try Him! Prove to yourself that God is true to His word and that it doesn’t die out or get left behind.

Doubt Door

James 1:6

New International Version (NIV)

⁶ But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

I know I have spoken about this scripture before in regards to not doubting, however it bears repeating, doubt is a constant battle that will be with us until we join the Lord in Heaven.

Doubt is that ‘little’ voice or thought in the back of your mind saying “well, what if it doesn’t happen”, “what if it doesn’t happen IN TIME” and so on.

I believe doubt is the main gateway for depression. Doubt comes to unlock a “door” in your spirit and allows the spirit of heaviness to come in and manifest through you in different ways: helplessness to hopelessness to depression to suicidal thoughts which lead to suicidal tendencies which leads to suicide. There may be some other doors in the list, but those are the main ones.

I’m not speaking as an outsider in this situation, I’m speaking from experience with depression and the spirit of heaviness.

Circumstances affect the way you view the future and causes doubt that things will turn out better because of the way things look in the present. The future becomes impossible to think of because all you can see is what in front of you right now. The future is so unclear that when someone tries to cheer you up by saying tomorrow is a new day, it makes you angry because you don’t see it that way.

Depression manifests in many different ways-some people can go on with their daily lives and have no one even suspect it because they seem normal and happy-smiling to strangers. Some are like how I was, were we hated to make eye contact with anyone because you knew that they would see what a loser you are and struggle to communicate exactly how they feel to others because they know that others will judge them and tell them to stop being sad and try to smile.

Never assume that someone isn’t depressed because they don’t mope around, where black clothing, listen to rock music and cut themselves. It comes in many forms,but all through one door- Doubt.

To be continued….