With our hearts we sing: ​"Whatever the cost I count everything lost for the prize up ahead. Whatever the price Lord I give you my life, there’s a crown that awaits me up ahead. I pray I die daily and surrender my will. My yes is required to all righteousness fill. When I stand at your throne let my works be found gold. I want to do your will." ​

 

     Sometimes, Somehow with all of that sincere desire to please God we find ourselves saying: God if you choose me why have I failed?

 

Is there anyone who has ever failed at what God has told you to do?

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God if you choose me why have I failed? To begin to get an answer this question lets got to:

 

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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     Doing things our way instead of Gods way is wicked. The word wicked is derived from the word wicker. Wicker means twisted, changed from its intended use. In other words when we read or even know what the word says and then go to do things opposite or different we are wicked.

 

     If we hold on to our old mindsets instead of accepting what God’s word say’s we are unrighteous. 

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     However when we go to do things the way that God directs many times we look foolish. We have to be willing to reject the opinions of men whether they are ours or someone else’s. In other words we must let God be true and every man a liar.

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Many times instead:

     We go our way and choose differently than God

     We end up in the wrong job, wrong marriage, the wrong home, the wrong church…

 

     God has a purpose for every believer

     Our dreams come from God

To fulfill them we must get out of our own way,  our own thoughts, our own will

 

     Our meat must be like Jesus’ to do the Fathers will. John 4:34

that would be to hunger (desire to do God's will) and thirst (desire for deep relationship with God).     Mathew 5:6  

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     Example: Moses knew he was called to deliver his people. He started out his way and       failed.  he didn’t forsake his way.  

     He set out to do a God thing without God!

     How many times have we heard God and ran before we had his full and complete direction or at least His presence?

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How many times have we gone to do God's will our way?

 

     God sent him to the back side of the mountain. He met his wife Ziphorah and connected with Jethro his father-in-law, a Mideanite Priest. Jethro somehow taught him true humility and the ways of the Lord.  

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     He then came back did things Gods way and succeeded in being the deliverer of his people.

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     We think that when we blow it its over for us. God says His thoughts are higher than ours. When we have done it our way and come to the end of ourselves he is Alpha the beginning, for us to begin again.

 

     He that began a good work will perform it. Philippians 1:6

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     We must be willing to look like a failure before men so that we can be a success before God's throne. 

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     2 Corinthians 2:14 believe God for the victory

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     While people are disqualifying you because of your weaknesses and brokenness

God has a plan to redeem you! He is a redeemer!

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     To dream big dreams is going to cost you everything

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     People may count you out don't let them have the final say in your life. Don't trust their choice! Trust God's choice! 

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     We in the body of Christ, sometimes, choose just like they did in the world

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     But only the maker of a thing has a right to determine its proper us

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God has given us dreams! 

No matter where you are you can still live the dream! Get back up again!

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     We must have courage like Ezekiel In the valley of dry bones!  ​When you feel like you aren’t good enough, as we sometimes can, remember ​God chose those people that failed Matthew Chapter 1. ​And he has chosen you and he gives you His beauty for ashes

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Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

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     When we change our way and embrace God’s Word we move to a place of success because His word accomplishes what it is set out to do.  We are moved from a place of judgement found in Genesis 3:17 to a place of great victory, the place where God’s Word is fulfilled in the earth. Isaiah 55:13

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     Gen 3:17-19 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed isthe ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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     However all of these curses are eliminated and our lives are restored to the Edenic state when we embrace the Word God’s truth we see manifestation.

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     Isaiah 55:11-13So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

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     God’s doesn’t require anything but our obedience to His will and His way (Word). He delights in making something out of nothing. We must stop trusting our will and our way and put all of our trust in God,  ​and press in with the word is to be transformed.

     

     Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.