How To Guard Your Heart?

Author: Jerry Savelle

The God-kind of love is in your heart because Jesus lives in you. It is one of the fruit of the Spirit. The love of God that is shed abroad in your heart will be a guard and protection when Satan tries to gain a foothold.

When you walk in love, you are walking in victory. You are also planting seeds for future success in all you do. Let’s look at what God’s Word says about love and meditate on it today.

“Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy; is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.

It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly.

Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it (pays no attention to a suffered wrong).

It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.

Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances and it endures everything (without weakening).

Love never fails, (never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end)” 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 AMP).

Confession: Father, I receive Your grace to love others like You want me to love.

Confident Faith

Author: Jerry Savelle

Your ability to stand on God’s Word and stay focused on what you can’t see yet with your eyes determines how much of the goodness of God manifests in your life.

“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise” (Hebrews 10:35).

Every victory is made up of three parts:

1.         The initial assurance and confidence that God is going to come through.
2.            The season where it appears nothing is happening.
3.            The manifestation of the promise.

It is the second part that offers the greatest challenge. So how do we remain confident and stay patient when nothing appears to be happening?

We do what Moses did. The Amplified Bible says in Hebrews 11:26-27, “For he looked forward and away to the reward…for he never flinched but held staunchly to his purpose and endured steadfastly as one who gazed on Him who is invisible.”

Moses kept his eyes on the invisible reality, and not the natural circumstances. This ability to stay focused on the reward ahead was what enabled Moses to be faithful and fulfill the calling on his life.

Every challenge you face is an opportunity for you to build strength of character to endure the “nothing is happening” seasons of life. Determine to stay confident and endure with patience and you will see the manifestation of the promise.

Confession: I hold fast to my confidence and choose to continue in the will of God. I fix my eyes on Him fully assured that, in due season, I will receive the promise.

 

Face The Problem

Author: Jerry Savelle

God doesn’t want you to run away from any situation in defeat. Victory is always God’s plan.

Running away from problems and troubles—that’s society’s mentality. Just get in the car and go. “Oh, if I could just leave this place. If I could just get out of here.”

The psalmist David new this feeling when he said, “My heart is severely pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest” (Psalm 55:4,6).

When we’re in misery and we’re troubled, we can’t continue looking for the easy way out. Running from the problem’s that cause those feelings won’t do any good. If you avoid dealing with an issue now, you will only have to stand and face it later.

People often quit their job because of someone they work with, only to end up working with someone worse at their next job.

God wants you to learn to face problems and overcome them by applying His Word. He wants you to learn to work with unpleasant co-workers by overcoming evil with good. When they blame you for something you didn’t do, you bless them and help them.

Being a doer of the Word is not always easy, but it always works!

Later in Psalm 55, David changes his speech when he says, “As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me.”

God doesn’t want you to leave any situation in defeat. If it is God’s time to move you on, He won’t use negative circumstances to lead you.

Instead of running from the problem, decide to use the problem as a tool to deal with the character issue that you need to deal with! Face the problem, overcome it and move on.

Confession: I choose to face problems and apply the Word of God to overcome them.

 

Resist Oppression

Author: Jerry Savelle

Don’t fall for the devil’s trap of yielding to discouragement. He will use it to lead you to feeling hopeless and oppressed. As soon as you feel heaviness coming upon you, take immediate action.

“You will be established in righteousness. You will be far from oppression, so you will not be afraid. You will be far from destruction, so it won’t come near you” (Isaiah 54:14, GWT).

Isaiah 61:3 says that there is a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

What can you praise God for? Regardless of how you feel, begin praising Him for who He is. The God of love. The faithful and merciful God. The God Who delivers. The God who will never fails or forsakes you.

Thank Him for everything you can think of. For the specific times He has come through for you in the past. For sending His Son Jesus to die for you so that you would not have to spend eternity in hell.

Praise and thanksgiving will change your perception. It will move your focus from the bigness of your problem and onto the bigness of your God.

As you praise and thank Him, oppression will leave and encouragement, strength, and hope will return.

Confession: I am not moved by how I feel. I choose to praise and thank You Lord for all You have done for me. You are more than enough, You are faithful, You are good to me!