Tag: Faith

“When I call you to move with Me, you will know in your heart that it is the right thing to do. If you have any check in your spirit or are not clear as to what you are to do, stand and wait for things to unfold. There is no hurry. I would rather that you know for sure and move in confidence, than to guess and not be where I want you to be. My children do not need to guess when I am available to confirm My directions and bring My presence to their every move. Why would you want to be where I am not? Make sure that I am the initiator of where you are going and then move with confidence. I will be there with you.”

Exodus 33:13-16 NIV

13) “If I have found favor in your eyes, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”

14) The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

15) Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.

16) How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

Psalm 127:1 AMP 

Except the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; except the Lord keeps the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.

Proverbs 16:9 AMP

A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure.

Isaiah 30:21 NIV 

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

 

It is such a privilege to know that we have the ability to check and double check with our Lord to make sure that we are in His will. It is also wonderful to know that the Lord desires for us to have His presence with us to accomplish things that we could never accomplish on our own.

So often we are afraid to stop and check our motives, or reverse our direction if needed, or even abandon an idea should it be out of the will of the Lord, when the Lord has provided His promise of guidance to us. He desires that we don’t make mistakes. He desires to guide us and direct us wherever we go. He wants us to be sure of our steps as we follow Him.

Thank You for Your patience with us, Lord,

Jim Corbett

“You must understand that it is necessary to covet My relationship with you as your priority in life. It must be the most important element in your life, or the enemy of your soul will chip away at it, until it no longer resembles the kind of relationship that I intended for you.

"Our communion is deteriorated by many small factors that, when combined, add up to your being cold, confused, and incapable of coming to Me as your source for everything. Starting as small as holding a grudge, adding the entertaining of a lust, mixed with a small amount of unforgiveness, stirred by a smidgeon of jealousy; and little by little, you have separated yourself from Me. Is it any wonder that you can’t hear My voice, or even desire to spend time with Me? Satan has you hamstrung. He has built a fence around your heart and separated it from hearing My call to holiness.

"You must resume your original zeal for Me and My Word. They must once again be your priority. Each moment that you hold anything between Us, or against anyone, the less you will want to change. Turn now. Shake off all the strongholds and pet sins that hinder you from being free. Time is too short for you to be ineffective in doing My work. I need you to be free and able to hear My voice. I am waiting.”

Galatians 5:1 AMP

In [this] freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery [which you have once put off].

Gal. 5:7-10 NIV 

7) You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth?

8) That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.

9) “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.”

10) I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.

 

I heard once that an alligator - or maybe a crocodile, what do I know - eventually overcomes its prey one small bite at a time. I was told that it will grab a small bite with its vise-grip jaws and hold on, waiting for an opportunity to get a larger bite; and then larger still until it has gained complete control.

That premise is very much like sin destroying our relationship with the Lord. It isn’t very often that we see how a small stronghold or pet sin could be so dangerous. But it really is.

Each time we fall, it is a little easier to fall again if we don’t immediately repent. It then becomes easier to hold the next sin, until we develop patterns of cultivating little sins rather than patterns of pursuing holiness. That is deadly to true fellowship with the Lord. The subtlety of that kind of pattern is that if it becomes our lifestyle, we are already defeated without knowing it. We become desensitized to its horrors.

Never really getting intimate with God, we are constantly struggling through the mire of half-hearted service and surface praise and worship, wondering why we feel so cold. Satan loves to keep us there because we are of little danger to his plans. The Lord hates for us to be there because He knows the danger that lies around the next stronghold. He knows that we are very close to spiritual death and complete ineffectiveness with regard to souls should the pattern continue.

Needing to break all old patterns,

Jim Corbett

“Do you realize the power of your prayers? When you pray, make sure you are ready to deal with all of the results of your desires. I take your requests to Me very seriously. I’m the One Who allowed the cross and all of its physical consequences to Jesus, so that you might spend eternity with Me. I move on your behalf every time you present something or someone to Me. I will move heaven and earth on your behalf when your prayers are in line with My will.

"The results of your prayers, however, do not always look like you may have wanted them to look, especially if you want people to turn from their rebellion and embrace Me. In those cases, you need to totally release them to Me, trusting that I know what is best to bring their hearts home. I care far less about the comfort of the flesh than I do about the salvation of the spirit. Often, My destruction of a rebellious heart has the appearance of harm taking place in the life of the person for whom you pray. It may seem as though things are getting worse as you pray. It may sometimes appear that way, but the opposite is more often true.

"One of the biggest mistakes you make is when you start to become emotionally fearful while I am destroying the flesh in others, and change your prayers by praying for their safety or asking Me to protect them. Because you are Mine and We are in covenant, I honor your wishes. I need to then go to work on your heart, making you realize how damaging your prayers have become to their salvation. Again, it is vital that you release those in need totally to Me and trust that I know what I am doing. Let go, and allow Me to be God in their lives. It is My desire that they spend eternity with Me. I will do all that is necessary to make that happen.”

Proverbs 15:29 NIV

The Lord is far from the wicked but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Matthew 11:12 NIV

“From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it.”

Galatians 4:19 NIV

My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you...

 

So often, we forget that this whole life experience is about one thing—the plan of God. We also forget that the work of the cross and all that it accomplished is pivotal in that plan. This means, of course, that Father God is deeply concerned that everyone should have the opportunity to embrace its outcome and come to Him.

Those of us, who have been saved from our flesh, are the main instruments used to destroy the flesh of others who need Jesus. We are called to labor on their behalf and rely on the Holy Spirit to orchestrate their world, bringing them to their knees. Sometimes that is not a pretty sight. In my case, it cost me everything—my business, my family, and my reputation—before I surrendered.

After I did embrace my Lord, I found out that there were several people who loved me enough to pray for me through all of my idiocy and rebellion. If they had stopped praying for my salvation, and prayed for worldly comfort of any kind while I was being made very uncomfortable by God (even to the point of considering suicide,) it might have taken much longer for me to come to the Lord. If the weight of my sin was eased, even a little, I may not have felt the need for God to help me as soon as I did. Looking back, I am very grateful that my Lord cared little about my comfort and cared a lot about my salvation.

Needing to be thankful every day,

Jim Corbett