What is insanity?

     It is a condition that is out of touch with reality.

     When you put on the Armor, you must put on the Helmut of Salvation.  Why is that? Because agreeing with God is the ultimate sanity.

     Those who disagree with God enter in to a realm that is not only already defeated, but is also insane.

     You do not need to know why God does what He does..  You do not have the capacity to understand what God is doing.  When you are present with Him , you will understand everything.  In the meantime, faith is what pleases God and He can only be seen or known by faith.

     Soldier of The Cross,  there is no argument.  What is reality?

     Agree with God.  Aloud.
     Today.

     Soldier of The Cross, is your life an offering to the Lord?

     Do you want to please Him? 

     He did not name you and draw you to Himself for any reason other than the precious fellowship for which you were designed.  He designed you to worship Him.  What does that mean?  That is between you and your God. 

     Although this is a serious  matter, it seems to me that few Christians consider it.    Who are you trying to please?    Your family?
     Your boss?
     Your husband?
     Someone who admires you?

     Of course we do our best to do what is right with regard to our families and our jobs.  Of course we attend to our neighbors and those who can not attend to themselves.  It is quite another thing to live  in order to please someone else or to get others to please us.

     My husband has often said that when he prays each day, he asks the Lord to teach Him to be a pleasure to Himself.  Isn't that the bottom line of existence?

     In Heaven, we will have all knowledge, but we certainly do not have it here.    When we need to know more that is available to us naturally, the Holy Spirit reveals whatever we need.  That said, we are to take up The Cross and follow Him.

     He has said that obedience pleases Him more than sacrifice.  Why is it then that so many try to please God with a self-conceived sacrifice?

     Soldier stand before Him in prayer and commit yourself to pleasing God. This is the call of the Word of God.


     Can you come up with anything better?

     Those who are passive about the devotional life are not able to flex the muscle of faith, and they tend to become Christians who cling to the familiar.

     Faith is about what God can and will do, in spite of the way things appear.  
     Faith is about waiting for something that is completely out of the corners of your imagination.
     Faith is about agreeing with the one who is Omniscient, Omnipresent , Infinitely creative, is the Eternal I AM and dies for you.

     The only other thing is to cling to the familiar and refuse His way and His Love.  The familiar has no New Life.  The familiar has a gravitational pull away from the frontier of faith.

     You don't have to make yourself into anything.  Just agree with Him who is your All in All.

     We are to pursue Love. 

     We are also to pursue Peace and we are to seek the better gifts.  We are to serve.  We are to receive and entertain traveling Christians.

     None of these can be sought without first seeking Him.  We know that when we are with Him, ". . . we will be like Him for we will see Him just as He really is. . ."
                        [Amplified Bible]

   The real issue is the pursuit of God.  We must tell Him we want Him and that we want to be to be changed.  The older we are, the more important this request.

     The changes come from seeing Him just as He really is.
                       

       What constitutes release?

     Is there release before the circumstances change?  

     Is He able?  Is there anything too great for Him?   Have you ever met a believer who reported that God was not faithful or able?  Of course not.
  

     Soldier of The Cross, Billy Graham was attacked with regard to the inerrancy of God's Word.  He decided to stand on the Word and make it the end of the matter.

     What have you decided?  Whose are you?
     There is nothing else.  There is no one else.

     Christians who complain do not take God at His Word.

   
     People love to complain about what has happened to them.
     They complain about  a lack of money.
     They complain about being misunderstood.
     They complain about the church.   About not being treated well enough.
     Some love to complain about their families or how they were raised.
     Lots of folks complain about the weather and about their own physical imperfections.

     In fact, it is rare to meet someone who can relate something negative without whining about it.

     All of these things have been addressed in God's Word.  We address things in prayer and we see tremendous change.  But many blessings come in rumpled packaging and can only be recognized with the eyes of faith.

     Soldier, listen to yourself.  This does not mean one must never talk about things that are wrong or out of whack. 
     It does mean that your mouth should be His mouth.

      Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you. . .
                                                 Joshua 1:3

     Soldier of The Cross, what is the application to your life? 

     You must pray about this.  You have made the decision to leave all and follow Him.  You have made the decision that He knows best.  You have made a decision to invest in eternity.

       Is there anything else?  Of course not.  So, you must advance according to the need before you, the  Word of God, and the leading of the Spirit.

      Are there barriers?  Of course.  no Servant of the Lord has ever moved in obedience and failed to encounter opposition.

     Remember, you have told Him He could have your life, your body and your faculties.  Soldier move!

     He will give you the land.

     Soldier of The Cross, His way is the only  way.

     This means an overriding reason to govern the tongue.
     This means an overriding reason to refuse worry.
     This means an overriding reason to prayerfully move into the unknown.
     This means an overriding reason to love the unlovely.
     This means an overriding reason to consider the other person over yourself.
     This means an overriding reason to base all decisions on His Word.

     What else is there?  Nothing.  He wants us to love with his own heart.  The Indwelling Holy Spirit empowers, enables and encourages.

     Soldier, the issue is what is your life about?  Very well then.  The same motivation must be embraced in the days, the minutes and the hours.

 
     There is simply nothing else
     There is no one else.

     Soldier of The Cross,  you have decided to follow the Lord and obey Him in the taking up of The Cross.

     The Holy Spirit will lead you in prayer, and your prayerful declaration of submission to Him will give Him the freedom to work in the deepest recesses of your heart.

     You do not need to pray for trials. You do not need to pray to be broken nor do you need to pray for more divine correction.    All of these things are privileges that are ours when we truly His. 

     It is wonderful to tell the Lord He can do anything with your life.  There is nothing to fear, because we have His promises and we know what is important to Him.

     Yes, pray to be made more like Him.  Yes, pray to have the Word opened up to you. Yes, pray to be able to see what is really going on.  Yes, pray to be made into one who loves with His Love.  Pray to learn to lay up your treasure in Heaven.  Pray to learn what it means to loose your life so you can find it.

     Ask Him to make precious to you the things that are precious to Him.

     Today.
     Aloud.

     In Christ, nothing gets old.

     His Word is always new.
     Meeting someone who is excited about Him is always thrilling.
     The Presence of the Holy Spirit is always penetrating and delicate.
     Any answer to prayer is unlike any other answer to prayer.     
    

     Soldier of The Cross, your age does  not diminish the thrill of being His.
     Your limitations do not diminish His ability to carry to the heights of Glory.
     Your problems do not limit His radiant and explosive Life.  You must advance each hour and each day by faith.  It is His desire to set you free and reveal Himself to you.  It is His desire that you walk on the water.  It is His desire that you be flooded with joy.
 

     Life in Christ is not found in mere instruction about Life in Christ.  It is found in Him.  In His Body.  In His Word.  In His service.  In private and articulated prayer.
 

     Soldier if you want Him, just tell Him so.
     Aloud.