Are You Thriving in Life?

I recently heard the testimony of a young woman born to wealth! She had this to say to those who envy her position, and she said it with the deepest humility.

"Money only makes you happy if the only needs you have are material needs!"

Her statement was so true. You can be thriving financially yet empty and destitute in so many other ways. In fact that is the case for so many in this world. On the outside they look like they are thriving. Good looks, attractive spouse, healthy children, great neighborhood, in fact much of the best things money can buy. In fact there is nothing wrong with any of that!

But you can look like you have it all and still not be thriving in some area of your life. That area may be a secret addiction, a failing marriage, overwhelming debt, fierce anxiety, and unrelenting worry.

Which is why it's so nice to know Jesus said these words, "I have come that you might have life, and that more abundantly." Jesus wants every man, woman, boy and girl to thrive in every area of life. He came to make it possible.

So why if were not thriving somewhere would we reject his promise and his help? Why would we allow our unbelief and limited thinking to rob us of such amazing potential. Why would we chose not to thrive if he is offering the opportunity?

He made another promise. "Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved!" The door to thriving is humbly calling on his name. "Whoever!" That's all inclusive! He is leaving no one out of this opportunity.

Whoever wants to thrive in life just needs to believe and call on his name. Wherever you are not thriving matters to him. Are you full of anger and resentment that's destroying relationships? Call on his name and thrive. Are you battling addictions that seem impossible to overcome? Call on his name and thrive. Does your marriage seem to far gone to heal? Call on his name and thrive.

Don't waste another second, minute or hour believing there is no help for you and things will always be the same. Receive the grace and help his life and death have so richly provided and call on his name to thrive.

You will not be disappointed.

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The Culture of Heaven

John 10:10 The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but I have come that they might have life and that more abundantly.

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING

That's my opinion of the promise Jesus stated in the text up above. He came so we could thrive in every area of life. He confirmed through his ministry that he was the source of our thriving. Every where Jesus went people or circumstances thrived.

If people were hungry, provision flowed in abundance. If they were spiritually thirsty they could drink from a well that would never run dry. If they were sick, their bodies were healed completely. Truly Jesus was and is the giver of abundant life.

THE REASON

Jesus carried with him the culture of Heaven. Everything in God's Kingdom or the Kingdom of Heaven is thriving and full of life. Nothing happens there contrary to the will of God, and Jesus carried with him the very life and power of the Father's Kingdom.

This is the same Jesus that the bible declares is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He came that we might thrive in every area of life. The path to that thriving is repentance. Repentance is a call to align ourselves with the Kingdom of Heaven.

"Repent, for the Kingdom is at hand or made available." We can walk in the abundance of life Jesus promised through aligning ourselves with the culture of God's Kingdom. Then we will begin to thrive in every area of life.

Which is the reason Jesus told us to "Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto us." Again, when were in alignment with the Kingdom we thrive in life and our Father is glorified.

Truly the Lord wants his blessings to be upon us!

Put Your Praise On

Recently during a time of devotion in my One Year Bible reading which I highly recommend, I encountered this scripture in Psalm 8:1-2.

"O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger."

After reading these verses my thoughts were flooded with the following:

1. God has ordained praise through his children because of his enemies and there enemies. His purpose was to defeat the enemy through their praise and to establish a place of shelter and safety the enemy cannot enter into. Praise creates that place.

2. Praise upon our lips silences the foe and the avenger by moving us into a place the enemy is not aloud into. God will not share his courts with an enemy. Satan has no place in God's Kingdom, he has been cast out. God's Kingdom is where ever God's presence manifest.

3. We enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise, where God inhabits the praises of his people. Our praise is to be both spoken and sang. When this happens God fills that house of praise and the enemy is defeated.

So what are you waiting for, "Put your praise on!" The enemy has been defeated! God will fight for you through your praise. You will win.

Be Blessed

Pastor Danny J. Lorentzen

The Enemy Exposed!

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any three in the garden'?"

Every year at Rock Church we promote the reading of the "One Year Bible." Our motive is to have our people fill their hearts with a thorough understanding of the word of God. From Genesis to Revelation we want our people to know the "Wisdom of the Righteous!"

We want the hearts of our people filled with the truth so they have a solid foundation to work from when confronting the lies and deceptions that are rampant within our culture. After all, lies and deception are what Satan has been using since the beginning of time to trip up men and women as they walk through this journey called life.

The truth of God's word when rightly divided and correctly understood, exposes those lies. The truth of God's word exposes the enemy, and gives us a clear voice to follow in the midst of all the chaos that surrounds us. The truth of God's word is our greatest safe guard against deception.

But we must not only know it, we must believe it and allow it to be the final authority in our lives. Had Adam and Eve done so, the world would not be in the mess that we are in today. Think about it!

Now get busy learning the truth and applying it to your life and circumstances.

You are Loved!