Stop Settling For Less Than. . .
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Jesus Christ Came For More Than!
Jesus Christ Came For More Than!
31 Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?
So often we settle into the cycle, we settle into the current circumstances, we settle with saying; “it has always been this way. . .” You may not say verbally but your physical language is speaking loud!
There is always that thought, that thing, we done or experienced that troubled our heart so, we keep allowing that thought to rise up above the knowledge that God has placed in us!
The Prophet Ezekiel empowered by God, to instruct the people, to stop settling for less than; yes, you did do this or that, but forget that and go get your New Directions!
Do not wallow in pity, do not wallow in the decision that may have cost you, it is over now, nothing you can do about, stop settling for less than, when you have been awakened to More Than in you!
What Jesus Christ has done for us, when we consider that, much more than we consider what we are experiencing, or have experienced. When we consider The Gospel (Good News) that alone should be enough to empower us to reach for more than!
Even in the midst of persecution, you can expect The More Than Factor to be in your favor, but you must cast down that thieving thought, so that you allow The Holy Spirit Whose in you, to speak to you and guide you! Psalm 16:7 (NKJV) 7 I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel; My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.
Victory is yours already, Jesus has already done the work, all we have to do is follow the blueprint; you are settling for less than because you rest in your flesh, but when you know that you are in His Presence, then you will know that there is an abundance of Joy in His Presence ( Psalm 16: 11)
In John 10, when Jesus speaks to His Disciples concerning The Shepherd, He is instructing them to realize whom to listen to and whom not to. I believe in eating my chicken, but throwing away the bone after the meat is gone. . . The bones are too hard for me to eat, but the bone is nourishment to particular earthen creatures. . . Yes, you can eat the marrow, but you cannot chew the bone, and if you swallow a piece by mistake, look at the problems it cause!
This is why you cannot settle for less than when it comes to whom have spoken into you and has awaken you to realizing Whose in you!
You cannot allow the thief to come in an ram-shack your humble abode, and when he does, you better wake up to the power you have on the inside you!
Matthew 16:23 (NKJV) 23 But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."
Jesus gave us instructions on how to disarm the enemy when he tries to get you to think less than; when he tries to remove you from your purpose that The Father of lights has already illuminated you to!
Because He has counseled me, and given me a clean heart and a renewed Right Spirit, I refuse to let the thief rob me of my More Than Mentality!
I may look foolish to the world because I continue on when it seems like, to the world, I should be giving in, but Psalm 16:8-9 (NKJV) 8 I have set the LORD always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope.
You must get to the place that even your flesh must adhere to Who You are! The flesh is your thief, that wants to steal your joy, but I bring the flesh into subjection because God has empowered me (given me the authority) over all things!
I am not settling any longer, God has shown me too much favor for me to settle!
Regardless of the attacks in my mind, my heart will remain steadfast, immovable, always rejoicing and resting in the Hope of God!
Because I know my location, I am with Him always and He is with me, therefore I cannot be moved from this joy that I have!
I cannot be moved from this peace I have - I refuse to let the thief cause me to think I am less than any longer!
The sickness is a thief; By His Stripes I am Healed!
Death is a thief; In Him There Is Everlasting Life!
Worrying is a thief; If God is for me, who or what can be against me!
Trouble is a thief; God is able to deliver me, He has already delivered me!
Lack is a their; He has already provided for all of my needs according to His Riches in Glory!
Loneliness is a thief; For I Am With you, I will never leave you nor forsake you!
Pain is a thief; For These Light Afflictions Are Momentary, Not Even Worthy To Be Compared To The Glory That Will Be Revealed!
When life brings you circumstances that want to cause you to believe less than, be reminded that God has already predestined you for Greater, you just have to stop settling for less than and believe The I AM God will manifest the More Than Blessings into your natural!! Genesis 15:5-6 (NKJV) 5 Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be." 6 And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
Abraham is considered The Father of Faith because he believe The Word of God and did not settle for anything less!
I just believe this is what Jesus is saying to us today thru this text here in John 10:10 - Don’t settle for thinking on what the thief has come to do, you rest in knowing that in you is an Abundance of Joy, Peace, Power, Strength, Commitment, Endurance, Love, and Victory!
Matthew 16: 24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
The song writer says; “Must Jesus bear The Cross alone. . . “ I will stop right there, because I heard The Lord say to me, stop settling for defeat when Jesus has provided The Victory!
The Cross represents Victory!
Jesus has gone to prepare a place for you and for me, therefore, it is already done and when you are awaken to the fact that you are there where He is, you will stop gazing up into air and begin becoming whom you are predestined to be in the earth!
Jesus says; John 10:10 (NKJV)10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
We were not designed to expect less than, only greater than because we serve A Great God!
Whom has called out of darkness into His Marvelous Light! So why are you allowing your mind/heart to settle in that place where the thief resides; Jesus has instructed you and I to live an abundantly life!
Abundant - More than enough - To Multiply - An Overflow - Fullness