When the Lord wonders who shall He send to do His bidding, can you say, here am I Lord, send me. Takes a real man or woman of God to say yes, I will go. Many of us are on assignment already from God as we should be, answering the call of our purpose in life. When God puts us on assignment, it’s either to get us better equipped for our God given purpose, or we’re in full blown ministry all about our calling and purpose ready for the next level. We are laborers together with God, (1 Corinthians 3:9). He gives the assignments or tasks, and we are His arms, legs and mouth piece in the earth. God is always speaking to us but we’re not always receptive due to everyday life. So pull away from it all and give the Lord the opportunity to be heard. The plan of reconciliation is the plan of spreading the gospel. It is the Great commission assigned to every Christian (Mark 16:15). The Lord needs us all to help complete His plan, so the great family gathering of the last day can come to pass. Go tell the world about the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For our plans to be established, on our way to achieving permanent acceptance or recognition, we must commit to the Lord. When we pledge or bind ourselves to the Lord in word and in our actions, we move into the realm of God’s favor and grace. Having God’s favor and grace in our lives is like having an anointing oil for success poured on us. Things will start to work out in your life that you had no control over making it happen. That’s His favor and grace working in your life for good things, and good situations to be attracted to you. God will cause our thoughts to be agreeable to His, over time. Commit your works, and all you do to Him. He will establish our plans as we run them by God first. We are laborers together with God (1 Corinthians 3:9). As we acknowledge Him in all our ways He will direct our path (Proverbs 3:6). With the Lord at the helm of your ship, you’ll be off to the ride of your life. Imagine, sailing through life on the waves of success unto victorious living.

Jesus came that we may have life and have it to the fullest. Satan came to steal, kill, and destroy. With the constant activity of Satan’s demonic influences in the world, mankind had no choice but to follow it. After Jesus completed His work at Calvary over 2000 years ago, He freed us from this demonically influenced world system. Jesus became the living sacrifice that took away the habitual control of sin on a human being’s life. Today it is still a choice that must be acted upon to reap the benefits of a sinless heart that’s right before God. Sin in our lives blocks the grace and favor of God in our lives. Without God’s favor and grace there are more chances for this demonically influenced world system to rightfully claim you (2 Corinthians 9:8). Without Jesus in our lives we will have zero control of resisting or even realizing this world has us by the you know what. There’s good and there is evil in this world, decide which side you’re on before it’s too late. There are no gray areas with God; black or white, hot or cold, Jesus or the devil. Without choosing Jesus, you default to evil with its punishments (John 3:3).

The power of the Godhead is the Holy Spirit. He gets things done like raising Jesus from death after three days in hell. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that transforms our death doomed human spirits to spirits that are alive to God (Ephesians 2:1). If we allow Him to, He will be our helper, our teacher, and comforter telling us things that have not yet come to pass, so we can be ready for it (John 14:26). What an advantage in life. And since the Spirit of the living God has raised Jesus from the dead, He will give life to our mortal bodies. We have become new creatures in Christ, something that has never existed before, with everything we need pertaining to living a godly, victorious life (2 Corinthians 5:17). The presence of the creative power of the Holy Spirit living in you, will affect your body and give supernatural energy to fulfill your assignment from God. As we walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7), we may look back from time to time realizing how did I get to this place of strength. It’s the Holy Spirit energizing your faith, working together with God’s word coming out of your mouth, declaring and expecting victory over every life struggle.

Oh taste and see that the Lord is good. This verse requires our participation and trust. Some of us are closed minded to try anything new, or different. We miss out on so much with a closed mind like that. To taste is to experience, to experience is to give amble time for understanding to come. Many folks try God and then say, it doesn’t work, nothing happened for me. The bible says through faith and patience we inherited the promises of God (Hebrews 6:11). Because we live in this microwave paced society, we expect things to happen quickly and in a hurry. God’s manifested help does not generally happen instantly, only the necessary miracles preplanned by God which is according to His sovereign will (Psalm 71:16); so don’t count on the miracle way as the norm. Once we make a conscious decision to believe and trust God with all of our hearts, all of our minds, and all of our souls, then the commitment will be in place to produce the desired results; accentuate your taste buds. You will see how good God is as you spend the necessary time with Him. You’ll have small victories at first for practice, then God will totally deliver you from something that will seal the deal of you trusting Him. At this point you’ll know, He is good.

We all have plans and desires of becoming this or that in life, but unless that desire, the plan, or occupation you choose lines up with your God given purpose, you won’t be all you could be in life. God’s plan and purpose for us is designed to conform to our makeup, our individual personalities and natural strengths and abilities (Jeremiah 29:11). Many people don’t have a clue what their God given purpose is.The footsteps of a man or woman should be ordered by the Lord (Psalms 37:23). Our growth in Christ becomes the revealer in finding out the reason for having been born. We all have a purpose; you just may not know yours yet. The person who considers different perspectives is a person of great understanding and growth potential. It will always be that the Lord’s purpose prevails. With our purpose lining up with God’s purpose (the plan of reconciliation), it will cause us to be positioned for window blessings from above that there won’t be room enough to receive (Malachi 3:10). As we sort through all the ideas that come to mind, we must acknowledge the Lord’s input before decision making. Pray first and wait until you have peace about the idea, or the plan.

When our conduct is controlled by the Spirit, we should keep in step with the Spirit. We do that by following our inner man, that gut feeling, it’s sometimes known as intuition. Those gut feelings or the leading of that still small voice in the core of our being is where God communicates with us. We can only live by the Spirit if we understand God’s will, because the two should agree. The Spirit of God cannot speak in opposition to God’s word, or His will. So it’s time for more study to show ourselves approved by God, and become more sensitive to His leadings (2 Timothy 2:15). We walk by faith not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7), meaning we may well not know why we’re about to do what we’re about to do, or how but follow that gut feeling without ocular proof. It can feel scary but the more we act on it the more we’ll be in step with the Spirit. Living by the Spirit requires much discipline and practice. If our fellowship with the Lord is low and almost inactive, you will not be living by the Spirit nor will we be capable of keeping in step with the Spirit. Living by the Spirit is pretty much living in line with the original plan of God for mankind before the fall in the Garden of Eden. Get to stepping folks, walking by faith in your belief of God’s word.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh, the godless human nature. When we belong to Christ our flesh should be crucified, or we are in the process of crucifying it. It takes time to keep the flesh under control to the point it no longer gives you orders, and you’re obeying them. The flesh (your body) has not been saved as our human spirits have (Romans 8:23). The sin nature is still very present in our bodies after getting saved. We must focus our energy on not yielding to our lower nature. The more of God’s teachings and precepts we live, the less our flesh we speak to us with authority. Paul said, “I keep my flesh under daily” (1 Corinthians 9:27). It’s all connected; our flesh, unrenewed minds, inordinate desires, lying, stealing, killing, disobedience, unruliness, etc. is all connected to form a synergy with this fallen world system to keep us all defeated. If we don’t actively seek the things of God, there will be so much fleshly baggage, we will fail in life. If you belong to Christ, don’t let the hunger of your body’s inordinate desires take you out. Victorious living is available for everyone.

The fruit that the Spirit of God produces in our new recreated human spirits is love, joy, peace, patience, faithfulness, kindness, goodness, meekness, and self-control. There are nine fruits to be developed in us. Fruit implies growth so the work to be done for allowing these fruits to grow is based on dealing with opposition. We must invoke our will to not shy away from dealing with trouble, and storms of life. If we ask the Lord to help us, He will. There are many blessings we will never obtain without dealing with the suffering of bad situations and crises. To develop love we need unlovely people in our life, for a time. Joy comes by way of a lifestyle conducive to God’s word, the bible. Peace can be partially obtained by not hanging around certain people, and then seek the Lord everyday (Joshua 1:8). Patience can be further developed by dealing with people who get on your nerves. Kindness and goodness grow by simply practicing being kind and good to others on purpose. Faith comes by hearing God’s word over and over (Romans 10:17). Gentleness grows by being gentle on purpose and meekness grows as our knowledge of God grows. Self-control grows as we become more understanding of God’s word. These fruits are what makes us holy before God. Do your best to grow them.

The pure in heart shall see God, is our text for today. When our hearts are pure, it’s because of the heart change of the new birth when we became Christians. We start pure and clean in the beginning. Without finding out who we are in Christ Jesus we’re kind of running amok in the dark with unrealized potential because of our lack of knowledge. Obeying God’s teachings and precepts puts us in the category of the real time love walk (John 14:15). Since God is love and we are His children, it is expected for us to take on that part of our father’s nature (1 John 4:7-8). Love is the ultimate key in seeing God. We will never see him with these physical eyes, it would kill us, we’d burn up in His presence (Exodus 33:20). Our bodies are not made to handle that part of God’s manifested presence yet. Once we’re in our glorified bodies (1 Corinthians 15:40) we will see Him face to face as He has said (1 Corinthians 13:12 NLT). We can see God now on planet earth by soaking ourselves in the study of God’s word, meditating day and night on it (Joshua 1:8). He can and will become very real to us by His Holy Spirit giving us revelation knowledge of Himself through study. The pure in heart will see God in every way he wants to.