Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Friday 12/10/2010)

I Need You To Make It to The Promise Land and Into My Destiny…

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (Amplified Bible)

⁹Two are better than one, because they have a good [more satisfying] reward for their labor; ¹⁰For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! ¹¹Again, if two lie down together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone? ¹²And though a man might prevail against him who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

            In Bible study on Wednesday our Bishop said something that I understood all too well, but that I have found is often missing vastly in the body of Christ.  He said that the brothers and sisters in Christ and in that room were not our enemies that we need to be able to recognize who the enemy really is.  How often that we as people of Christ turn on one another and make each other the target of our aggression, when we have a very real adversary that would like nothing more than to rob us of the destiny that God has intended for us and to keep us from entering the land of promise.  We often allow the enemy to plant thoughts in our mind, or for us to see something in a way that is skewed and is not conducive to us working together or working in unity. We have all heard the term, “Divide and conquer.” The enemy seems to have this down to a science with us and we fall prey to it more times than naught.

            How often do we stop and take inventory of our lives and those who are in our lives, what their purpose and place is? Probably for many of us, that is a task, or an undertaking that we do not bother with.  We would rather react first and then think later.  One of the things that I have heard blamed on God is the “he is changing my circle,” all too often God is not changing our circle we are, because of offense, hurt feelings or deception from the enemy.  We do not realize that individual that is now in the spot light may be the person ordained to guide us into our destiny or impart something into us. Many times we will abort our own destiny with our emotions, by allowing them to become the overwhelming judge of who stays and who goes, instead of allowing God to define, who is in our life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. We have to learn what our Achilles’  heel is, because that is the one thing that can separate us from someone who God has ordained to have our back on the journey, or to follow us on our journey and even into battle ensuring that the enemy never over takes us and takes us under. We need to understand that we need those who God ordains to be around to make it to our destiny and to complete our mission. Whether we want to believe it or not we need the help to pull us out of the pit, to pray us out of a place, and praise with us in our place of promise.

            Whether we are you heading into battle, or out of battle, we need those of the household of faith that are ordained for our reason, our season or our lifetime to be there to share with us, be with us, conquer with us, wage war beside us and hold us up when we may be too weary to stand. Understanding who we are, how our emotions run and how the enemy can use them against us will prevent us from dismissing those who God has placed there and from falling victim to being manipulated by an emotional state or a deception of the enemy.  To remember as in the words of Hezekiah Walker, “I need you, you need me.  We're all a part of God's body.  Stand with me, agree with me. We're all a part of God's body. It is his will, that every need be supplied. You are important to me, I need you to survive.  You are important to me, I need you to survive.
I pray for you, You pray for me.  I love you, I need you to survive.  I won't harm you with words from my mouth. I love you, I need you to survive. It is his will, that every need be supplied. You are important to me, I need you to survive.”