It’s Your Time to Flourish! By Karen Rowe

Dear Friends,

May I share with you, because of our past year’s struggles; and I believe you can also testify, are more than anyone knows, BUT, there is Victory in Jesus!  Because of God’s Kindness to open my eyes, recently even more over the last two weeks, Praise God, Worship has elevated in my understanding in the power of Worshiping God! And, To God be the Glory!  Thank you Jesus!

We believe in the power of God, yet, can I get an amen, do you ever just get worn out, stressed out, and feel defeated & depleted?  This should not be so!  Take time to rest and spend some real long time worshiping God in your heart!  Go someplace new (a different environment & away from the comfortable & complacent habits; and make that sacrifice to discover what true worship is between you and God!  I have never felt so much more alive than I have by making the sacrifice to get this time of rest with God in His Spirit!  And, I give God all the Praise and Glory!

 

This message is for you too!  It is your time to Flourish in Peace and Joy, by worshiping the God of your heart; instead of  _____ … the self in your thoughts.

 

How do you do this?  We let God’s Thoughts become our thoughts; instead of trying to make our thoughts more important than God’s.

Complacent:  showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one’s achievements.

 

Friends we can’t afford to be complacent when it comes to our heart of worship!  Like an Rose bush than has never bloomed well; prune it back (to give it a chance to grow new) and watch it bloom more vibrant than ever!

 

This is our time to Flourish for God’s glory!!!

 

We can worship God and give thanks to HIM ALWAYS … instead of fussing about things we think we have all figured out.  We don’t have it all figured out, & Praise To God that God is God; we are not!  We worship you God our Father and thank you for the grand plan you have for us through Christ Jesus!  Thank you Father for this Revelation and I pray this is a light of structure and order that will guide others to your Word, Wisdom & Peace.

 

Friends, This is your Season to know Jesus & Grow in your most Holy Faith to Worship the God of all of Creation!

 

Don’t hide from God; to blindly follow the enemy!  Come to Jesus and be set free to WORSHIP the God whom loves you & the Christ whom Sets you free!  I truly believe, no matter what level of growth in Christ we are,  we are just lacking in our knowledge of how to let Go to  grow to the next level in Christ … until the Worship arises from our heart that beleives!

Don’t hide from the fear of the pain in the prune – run to one who prunes and Worship the God of new beginnings!  Friends, It is your time to Flourish!

 

I believe what the Bible says, be encouraged in Christ, because the Victory is His; and our Victory is in Him!  How do we come into this level of Peace that Jesus has left for us?  We worship and honor God in everything & A L W A Y S!

Friends, I have fellowship with God constantly & to His Praise, His Honor and His Glory, even when I am weak … HIS Holy Spirit is correcting me & pruning me.  This is a relationship; I am His child; and God is my Father.  I can feel that distance to God when I am wrong, stubborn and fussing about my own way;  and I don’t like the way it feels, but I would fuss anyway?  …  I didn’t know my worship was wrong to God; I only knew I was wrong… when I choose my own selfish way.

 

Until recently, I really didn’t know the real power of worship / I didn’t know there was a power of anti-worship.  Worship invites spiritual help … What kind of help do we want?  And, where do we want our help to come from?

 

Will we choose to worship God?

 

My mind is made up!  This new understanding makes me desire to dedicate and commit my words that I will choose to be a 24/7 Heart Worship as my priority to honor God and invite His Presence to remain … when I need His help most!

Think about this… when do we complain?  When things go wrong for us.  So, when do we worship God?  Always!!!  My complaints will not go up to God anymore; as long as I remember to trust and depend on Jesus to help me and the Holy Spirit to remind me, hold me and keep me.  I won’t over-ride God’s will for my life a moment, I will choose to Worship the God whom loves me!   My worship is my duty & responsibility.  The Way … Jesus is the Way … and our worship must be to God!

Here’s a Bible example of wrong placed worship (Peter rebuked Jesus?):

Matthew 16:22Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. “Far be it from You, Lord! he said. “This shall never happen to You!” 23But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”…

 

Peter was not satan, but satan used Peter to TRY to rebuke Jesus from saving us all …

Goodness, Lord Jesus, thank you for being strong when you were hungry, tired, thirsty & by all human means vulnerable, but thank you Father for giving us your Word to grow in our knowledge!  Jesus is the Victory!  And, God wants us to believe, worship God and flourish!

Satan even tempted JESUS  to bow down and worship him! 

⁹ And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me (Matthew 4:9 King James Version).

Jesus responded with power and authority!

Luke 4:8, KJV, “And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Jesus answered, so must we respond with God’s Word to the troubles of this world:

1. “It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God (Luke 4:4, KJV).
2. Jesus answered; and so must we speak to the devil:  “Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve (Luke 4:8, KJV).
3. Jesus answering to the devil who was quoting God’s Word in a way attempting to trick Jesus using God’s very Word…so must we be aware of what God’s Word is really saying to us:  “It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God (Luke 4:12, KJV).”

Worship is Praising God for His Son, His Word, His Spirit & even for HIS Creation, His LOVE, His Patience, His Kindness, His beauty, wonder and mighty Hand of POWER whom stepped down from Heaven to accomplish all things for us.  Worship is praising God for – HIS MIND, HIS WILL & HIS EMOTIONS (Peace and JOY); and the Holy Spirit has the MIND of God.  Praise God for all things gifts.  Worship is surrendering it all to the glory of God, because we are so grateful for His love, His sacrifice & His gifts of Grace; and  Worship is thanking God and praising God for loving us so much that He gave us JESUS!

Who is Jesus to you?  Let God know by your worship to Him always!

When we need help thanking God in our challenging situations, God’s Word guides us & there is an opportunity to praise God and release the power of Worship in our life …  In other words, change the location & the position of your heart from ____(you; how you feel, think and desire) and, to the worship of God in all things.  God’s presence will increase (self will decrease) and the power of worship is a good position to choose.

Philippians 4:8 New International Version (NIV)

⁸ Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

God asks me, so I  will ask me; you can ask you…as God leads you: Will any challenge to your emotions be able to move your worship & fellowship with God through Christ Jesus, from God to ________(entertaining / fellowshipping with the demons in this world)? Yeah… wow… think on this.  Does slander come from God?  Is it worship to God?  Gossip?  Complaining?  Arguing your opinion?  Let’s go to the Word of God:

Galatians 5:17 “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

 

Worship to God is the way we respond to God’s gift of Grace?  We believe!  As far as me, I have made up my mind to Worship God  ALWAYS; and in all things!!! With PRAISE and THANKSGIVING trusting in God through Christ who gives us the Victory!

 

God’s word tells us that we must not bow down to satan, even if it means praying, “God give me the strength to accept your will!”  If God is reaching to your heart too; just make up your mind to love God most!

Numbers 11: And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them,

Worship is useful & powerful!

Philippians 2:14-16 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁴ Do everything without complaining and arguing, ¹⁵ so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. ¹⁶ Hold firmly to the word of life; then,

 

Friends, I believe God is calling us to release the power of worship over our life & throughout this world; when we worship God, God is whom we are inviting to the troubles we need help in!

We don’t need to fellowship with our troubles!  We need to fellowship with our Father from Above, whom is greater than any trouble we face.

Troubles will come to us; and at us, but Jesus teaches us to worship God and DO NOT LET the troubles come in our heart!

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me (John 14:1, NKJV).”

 

Let Jesus melt your heart with God’s love for you!

 

So, I change my mind & make up my mind to Praise God to the glory of His Grace …; and not by my strength, but by the love Jesus has for me to call me a friend.  God helps me and the reward is a great Peace and JOY that has come to us from Heaven above.  Yet, we have to go to HIM also.  We enter into His gates and courts with ______ (Yes, Praise and Thanksgiving)!

 

Psalm 100:4 King James Version (KJV)

⁴ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

 

We can recite these Scriptures (And if you need help finding a Scripture, we are here to help you; just ask; or google, KJV at the end of the question; and the Bible is readily available to you too, because He cares for you & it is your time to flourish!) …

It is time for you to flourish

It is time for you to flourish by letting the nutrition of God’s love for you in the Written & Living Word of the God of all understanding melt into your heart, by your faith and choice to worship God in all that you do.  Yes, by God’s Grace this is possible to change our habits of self-will to God’s will be done.  ON earth as it is in Heaven.  :)

Let the word of truth melt into your heart!  To Worship God by your faith … Call out the good and Praise God for all good and righteous things!  His love for you is found in Christ Jesus!

Friends, I am telling you the truth, I didn’t know that my lack in constant rest in my faith was in my lack of knowledge of how powerful worship is!  And, how powerful anti-worship is …

 

 

What does God look at?  Our heart!  And, What does God respond to?  Our Faith!  And, What is our faith based on?  God’s WORD / Christ Jesus Living & Written!  I don’t want to waste morsel of the faith God has given me!  So, I will share by my faith, what God’s Word in Worship and in Truth will do for you too!!!

 

Something has to get our attention to change our old ways!  GOD!  And the power of Worship!  And, the power of Anti-Worship!  Can we anti-worship?  And what are the effects of each?  Lord, have Mercy; and thank God HE does have great mercy on us!!!

Fussing / Complaining & just plain sitting around trying to figure things out … are we really worshiping God?  Or, could this (complaining / fussing) be “self-worshiping” and even “idol worshiping?”  Why figure it out, when we can live life well by honoring God with a grateful heart.  Be careful for nothing, …

Philippians 4:6-8 King James Version (KJV)

⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

 

God’s Word tells us to Worship Him.  WHY?  For our benefit of Peace, Joy and LIFE.  Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life!  Pray, seek, look it up in your Bible, learn what God is telling us in HIS Word about the power of our worship.  And make your mind up.

 

How empowering to take control of our thoughts and give them all to God before we speak!

 

The power of God WITH us is greater THAN the powers of darkness around us.  Which do you want to fellowship with?  Which do you want to entertain / invite into your situation?  The God of Peace who will help you?  Or the enemy of God who stirs up aggravation, strife, frustration, hate …  – satan (&  I won’t even give him the respect to capitalize his name in this sentence) (I have made up my mind, not to give satan, nor his demons any of my worship)< because satan in this world is lower than Christ in me!  I will worship the God of my heart, not selfish ambition.  Jesus lives and because Jesus lives, so can I have life and life to the full of Peace and Joy Always (yes, even & especially in difficult situations when I need peace the most).   The same gift is for all who will believe.

 

I won’t bow down to complaining, arguing, … gossiping; or even bow down to being right …no, I will surrender to God, whom is right in all things; and I will worship HIM alone; and I will worship Him High and Exalted above every trial and trouble that I face.

 

Jesus is the ONE who gives the Victory and in Christ we can take the Victorious Stand WITH GOD against the enemy who is loose in this world.

God speaks order to our life; and gives us a resting peace & constant joy.  Why not remain there with God always?  It’s our change of position & posture of our heart that we choose to worship God.

If God were to show you your heart of Worship; how would you say you are doing in the Spiritual warfare battle of the moment of the adversity? – Do you believe in Spiritual warfare?  Do you believe in the spirit of good?  The spirit of evil? Choose Life and Blessings by choosing to worship God, in Jesus Name and in Word and Truth!

Lord, help us see the power of our worship to you to the effects our worship has to invite you over our situations.  We can choose to worship the God who is ALL-Knowing & ALL-POWERFUL!  Oh, Father, thank you for loving us so!

 

“Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD” (Psalm 139:4). … Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit” (Psalm 147:4-5).

 

Coming into agreement with trusting a God whom is ALL-Powerful & whom loves us is a good, good thing!

 

Since my revelation over the last two weeks, I won’t touch that hot stove of fussing again!  With the Lord’s help, I will flourish in Worship & to God be the Glory!

 

For example, last night, as we planned our Monday, normally, …but, I stopped my words of fussing!  I began to say, WHY … Don’t you KNOW that will (_____) … thinking I am protecting the (seemingly) negative effects of husband’s (seemingly overbooked) schedule …

…because like Peter loved Jesus, when we love someone, we by nature want to protect them, shelter them, but GOD wants us to TRUST God and Worship the Lord our God with all spiritual prayers, praises to God, supplication and Worship!

 

Because of my new level of recent learning, and maybe you are like me, you just didn’t know the power of Anti-Worship …like fussing ; and how we can invite negative spiritual energy against us; I wasn’t really fully aware of the negative effects of my fussing as Anti-Worship…although we can sense when we pull away from God to go the wrong way.

 

We can allow the Holy Spirit to transform our “worrysome” words (into the form of a prayer & praise to God instead) BEFORE our thoughts leave our mouth; & to the Praise of the Glory of God’s Grace instead of saying what we want to anyway!  Last night, we experienced the power of worship; like I have never before, by releasing God’s goodness by the power of praise to God UP lifting (and a simple change of words!  When I chose to allow the Holy Spirit to redirect my thoughts to God & HE transformed my worries into Worship to the God whom makes a positive difference in our every day concern!

I chose to Worship God with my words!  And the power that is releasing over my family is amazing!  It’s drawing us nearer to God!!!  And, this is my refreshed 2 week journey of growing to a new level in Christ! And this is to encourage you no matter where you think you are; God wants to promote you to a new level of trust in Him!

 

Friend, if you don’t know Jesus as your savior, meet Him Today!  God loves you so much, it is impossible for me to write how great this love of God is for you, except but to say, that God so loved you, that He gave Jesus, His only begotten Son, who died for your sins, So that you can choose not to perish, but to have everlasting life with God!

 

Friend’s don’t run and hide to the one who lies to you about who God is; Run TO the God whom is GOD and the Truth is JESUS; and Jesus will set you free from sin, guilt and condemnation!  WOW! This a great and tremendous love that God has for you; and to all whom will believe God’s Word.

I am not here to convince you, but rather encourage you to open our your Bible and pray.  Listen to what God will say to your heart and one more thing … RESPOND TO GOD with and open heart to believe!

 

I believe I am about done saying all that God has placed on my heart to say to you today.

Turn to Luke 13:1-9

As you read, believe, It is your time to Flourish!  Become a Child of God through your faith in Christ Jesus; and not of your own doing, but by the Grace of God you are saved through faith.  God in His great mercy and patience is waiting on you to seek and to grow in your understanding; as you are drawn closer to God in Spirit.

 

Jesus rejected the way of thinking that we can condemn others, but instead look at ourselves.  It is our time to flourish and make a choice to live in Him.

 

I grew up in the presence of Jesus!  So I never knew what is to not know Christ.   Yet, there was a time that I had to speak my commitment to God by my faith in Jesus.  Billy Graham lead me in that prayer … through the Television Broadcast.  Yes, just as the Holy Spirit of God can touch your heart; and you will never be the same!

 

This is the Good News!  The God of all of Creation, Whom made you, knows you, draws you near to Him, loves you, teaches you, saves you, protects you …

 

God made His commitment to you.  You can’t do God’s part.  That’s God’s gift of love to the world He made!  Yet, have you made up your mind, who is Jesus to you?  I hope this encourages you to focus more deeply on your response to Christ.

 

Perhaps you have made that decision!  Great!  Me too!  Our heart becomes ready to have the live seed of true LIFE planted!  NOW, here we go!!!  What is the condition of your heart?  Get rid of bitterness!  This is where our work begins, but the work is of the Holy Spirit, whom prays for you, with you and in you to help you!  Our job is to obey and change our mind to worship God; instead of worshiping self!!!  And, make a choice to follow and pursue PEACE (JESUS) ALWAYS.

 

Worship God always.

 

Although we never doubt the power of God, we can get drained and begin to believe a lie, this is as good as it gets?  Did God tell us this in His word?   Jesus told us, do NOT LET your HEART be troubled!!!  Yes, Troubles WILL come at us to (from God to promote us) and from Satan to stop our worship to God … BUT, will we worship anyway to grow in our faith and experience the Presence of God!  YES we can!!!  Let your Worship arise!

 

NO matter the situation that you are facing, Lord Jesus, Thank you for the promise you are with us in this life and through all eternity we will be with you, because of the sacrifice You made for us.

 

Lord, when we receive this, the world will never be the same, …because of the power that comes from God to us in times of worship even surrounds us … Choosing to position with God makes a positive difference in all that we do.  Release your Praise & Worship to God; and invite God into the troubles around you.

 

Father, I thank you for allow me time to complete this, even through the distractions, I honor you with this work.  I pray that through YOU, More and more praise will be going up in Worshiping you, Our Father God!

 

One can chase a thousand, two can put 10,000 to flight!   I pray, as me and the one who reads this, choose to be the two by two of less and less fussing to totally can completely surrendered to Praise and worship to God, that the Peace of God released into this world will rule over our hearts and the God of peace will soon crush Satan under our feet.

Romans 16:20 New International Version (NIV)

²⁰ The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.

The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

 Jesus transform our minds to Worship God; and God I know this worship to you will release the peace that Jesus left for us.  A Peace to release through the Worship of Honoring God with Praise and Thanks Giving.  Holy Spirit swell in our hearts; help us to come and agree with God … help us to know what that is, according to your Word; and help us to be the peacemakers in these times that the world needs to experience God’s Presence.

 

Friends, the last two weeks, we took time to change our environment & to get a refreshed perspective on what is this life God has given us to live!  I don’t ever want to be normal again!  I choose the extraordinary life in the position of & with God in the power of Worshiping God ALWAYS in all that I do or say!  This is my sacrifice to God saying to Jesus, thank you for taking the stripes for our healing; and thanking YOU God for dying for my sins … just so I could fellowship with YOU, My God & my LORD and Savior!  Thank you God, Creator & Maker!

 

How can we refuse this opportunity, just because it is a difficult challenge to our faith to grow in God’s Grace!  Faith is moving with God; understanding will come when we seek & faith will grow as we obey, through a heart filled with true worship & by Trusting in God alone.

 

Grace and Peace come in our heart!

 

Hope in Today Ministries Daily Devotion to God’s Holy Word

“For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. BUT THANK GOD! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

SO, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.

1 Corinthians 15:56‭-‬58 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1co.15.56-58.NLT

~ KJV ~

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/1co.15.58.KJV

 

Love in Christ,

Karen Rowe
Hope in Today Ministries, Inc.
#TheTrainWhistleKarenRowe

 

TILL NEXT TIME!