WE CELEBRATE JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR EVERYDAY -- 1 CORINTHIANS 10:31
Post date: Sep 12, 2013 4:00:27 AM
What you knew yesterday were design to change you then and what you know today is designed to change you now. In desiring to realize your dreams, visions, expectations and change your life, your actions must be in consonance with your knowledge, your decision and the three must be renewed daily. Stop going about with obsolete knowledge. The decision of yesterday will not produce the required expectations today and the actions of yesterday might not be enough to bring the needed result today. You have to seek to renew and grow in knowledge, pray every day and take the right actions every day. “But be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you.” Romans 12:2b
When you consistently base your actions on the knowledge you have on any subject, you will definitely be distinguished in a very short period of time. Everyone who will ever make or desire a difference in this world must be a person of a consistent knowledge based actions, Knowledge will inform you and action will change you. What have you done with what you have known? That is where the change you need will come. Christ Jesus said; “I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance, to the full, till it overflows.” John 10:10b
One of the greatest weapons of affliction against believers to prevent changes in their situations is ignorance and unfounded fear from the devil. Fear of what they think might and might not happen, this kind of fear keeps you from acting positively against what you are experiencing through what you have come to know. Let me tell with all assurance, the devil cannot and will not do anything against the truth when you stand on it to act on your situation. When you begin to act against the fears around you, you will realize how soon your expected change will begin and your joy will be restored. Jabez parents were afraid to pursue a change in the right way, but decided to transfer their frustration to their son, but Jabez was not afraid to stand up and demand the change despite what the devil might do based on what he knew.
Jabez was born as any other person, an ordinary man from a family that was identified with an odd and shameful situation, an unusual and uncommon problem. Based on their knowledge, his parents gave him a name that was easily identified with their ongoing pains. That was their thought of getting over the problem, but Jabez, based also on knowledge, thought otherwise and acted otherwise. “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7. The day you begin changing your thoughts, thinking differently and correctly than yesterday, thinking godly according to the word of God and not according to your fears, thinking with a definite positive purpose and desire, things will definitely begin to change in your life.
The day you declared to yourself, enough is enough of the dominion of evil forces in your life, that day things will begin to change, God will begin to give you transforming ideas, greater opportunities will begin to come, doors that had been closed before will begin to open, you will begin to meet people who will encourage you, stand with and pray with you for change.
Convinced with the information he had received, moved by faith in God’s ability to fulfill all His promises and with a true hearted determination to seeing and enjoying changes in his life, Jabez dedicated himself to pray to the God of Israel rather than spend his time fighting with human beings, enduring the shame, humiliations and living in the anger and the mistakes of his parents.
If what you know about yourself, about your immediate and distant family, your past and present environment are not compelling enough to move you to pray, then what you do not know, which are a direct result of what is existing or had existed will indefinitely dominate your life in a very negatively way and destroy your efforts. Action based on knowledge was what Jabez needed to realize a change in his life. For Prayer Click here