HERE IS OUR FINAL DEVOTION ON THE SUBJECT OF JESUS HAVING ALL POWER AND SHARING THAT POWER WITH US.

HERE IS OUR NEXT DEVOTIONAL ON THE POWER OF GOD.

HERE IS THE NEXT DEVOTIONAL ON THE EXPRESSION OF THE POWER OF GOD IN OUR LIVES NOW.

HERE IS OUR FIRST DEVOTIONAL ON THE POWER OF GOD WHICH HE HAS SHARED WITH US.

This year as our church approaches its annual 21 days of fasting and prayer God has given us direction that we are to fast and pray that we would be prepared. We have been given a congregational sentence that comes through the many prophetic words which have been spoken to us over the last year or so. That sentence says: “Prepare! Prepare! Prepare! Prepare you Spirit (come out of the decay of your strongholds). Prepare your Souls(Prepare to practice and feel compassion). Prepare your facility (your structures, infrastructures and plans). Prepare for the storm (Pray for action plan, Pray for a spirit of perseverance). Prepare your witness (know your gifts, earn the right to speak, build your relationships with those outside the church, build your example). Prepare your hope and faith (think hope, speak hope, act in hope). Prepare your love (love each other, love the people in your towns, love those who disagree with you, love through the doors that open).“
seven prepare statements will be broken down into three days each of brief devotionals we will pray into over the next 21days.
DAY 7- Prepare your facility (your structures, infrastructures and plans)

WHAT ARE WE PREPARING FOR?
This next step of preparation seems to be intensely practical and external. We are being asked by God tho prepare our facility…our building(s). For the last six days we have been seeking to prepare our hearts, to make internal changes that will help us to be spiritually and emotionally ready for what is to come. This preparation is different. We are being asked to prepare our church building and our personal homes. For what?
HERE IS THE NEXT DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT ON THE WILL OF GOD.

This year as our church approaches its annual 21 days of fasting and prayer God has given us direction that we are to fast and pray that we would be prepared. We have been given a congregational sentence that comes through the many prophetic words which have been spoken to us over the last year or so. That sentence says: “Prepare! Prepare! Prepare! Prepare you Spirit (come out of the decay of your strongholds). Prepare your Souls(Prepare to practice and feel compassion). Prepare your facility (your structures, infrastructures and plans). Prepare for the storm (Pray for action plan, Pray for a spirit of perseverance). Prepare your witness (know your gifts, earn the right to speak, build your relationships with those outside the church, build your example). Prepare your hope and faith (think hope, speak hope, act in hope). Prepare your love (love each other, love the people in your towns, love those who disagree with you, love through the doors that open).“
seven prepare statements will be broken down into three days each of brief devotionals we will pray into over the next 21days.
DAY 1: PREPARE YOUR SOUL TO PRACTICE AND FEEL COMPASSION.

WHICH COME FIRST, THE FEELING OR THE PRACTICE?
Is it always necessary to feel compassion before we practice compassion? Is there a place where we practice compassion simply because it’s the right thing to do regardless of how we feel about it?
The answer to that question is….OF COURSE. The book of James teaches us, “17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” James 4:17
There are many things we do in our Christian walk that go against our “feelings”. Walking in the Spirit means letting the spirit (that part of us that connects to the Spirit of God) lead rather than our souls (our logic, personal will and emotions). We begin walking in the Spirit by coming to know and obey the commands and principles of the Bible. After a time of such practice we can begin to hear the voice of God directing us in the place of prayer.
What I have discovered is that when I practice walking the way the Spirit leads, my emotions line up with the Word, but if I wait to obey God until I feel like obeying Him my “feelings to want” godliness never grow.
HERE IS OUR NEXT DEVOTIONAL ON DISCOVERING THE WILL OF GOD NOW.
