Have you done an Examination?

Test me, LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind.” Psalms 26:2 (NIV)
 God has been dealing with me lately about examining the heart and I would like to share some things with you.

We all get busy and overwhelmed with the cares of this life, we go days and even weeks without taking time to examine ourselves and see where are hearts are. We often times spend so much time focused on the people around us that we forget to take a careful and contemplative look at ourselves.


The purpose of this post is to encourage you to take a look at your heart. The heart is that part of us that no one can see but God, it is that part of us that is so easy to hide. Lately, God has impressed upon me the need to take some time to ask him to search my heart and to make sure that my heart is in good condition (motives, desires, and sins).

God cares about our hearts and he wants our hearts to be pure.  Everything in our lives flow out of our hearts, every word we speak comes from our hearts. (”You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks”. Matthew 12:34). It is important that we examine our hearts.

 None of us are perfect and we all are here because of the grace and mercy of God. God is full of unconditional love for his children and it is safe for us to allow Him to face our “ugly spots”. He wants us to acknowledge and confess even small areas of sin in our lives. He wants us to allow Him to cleanse and refine our hearts. When we allow him to do this we can experience freedom in every area of our lives.

Remember to guard the most precious thing about you-your HEART.

“Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)
I love you and God loves you,

Kendra G.

Where is your Confidence?

I shared this with co-workers at work a while ago and I felt inclined to share this with you. I hope you are blessed by this.

        And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him” 1 John 5:14-15

This verse can give us all confidence when we approach God because it reminds us that anytime we ask anything according to God’s will we already have whatever that we ask of him. The enemy wants us to believe that we have to beg and plead for something that already belongs to us. Healing, deliverance, blessing, peace and prosperity are all a part of God’s will for us, therefore when we ask God for those we already HAVE those things. He has already given them to us, we just have to receive it. I looked up some definitions for the main words in this passage and this is what I found:

Confidence- Full trust and certainty
Ask- to inquire of or request
Anything- to any degree or extent
According- agreeing or in harmony
Hear- to perceive or to apprehend

This scripture really encouraged me and hope it does the same for you. 

I love you and God loves you,

Kendra G 

Its a New Year, Are you still holding on to the Past?

Are you still holding on to the past?

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14 

I am thankful that God has blessed us to see a New Year; I am excited about what God is going to do in our lives this year and the fresh start that he has given us. This is the year of INCREDIBLE OPPRUTUNITIES!
    
 I must admit that as I was reflecting on 2010 I began to see how in many areas of my life past issues held me back from receiving all that that God had for me and everything that he wanted to do through me. It is a trick of the enemy to make us dwell on the past and miss the new thing that God wants to do in us. Satan likes to put those little thoughts into our minds…..
“God can’t use you in that way.”  
 “You’ll never be good enough.”  
”After what you did?
I’ve had to learn a hard lesson……Don’t dwell on the past.   When you dwell on the past, it’s never really your past life, is it?  When you continually think about something, it becomes your world, your reality.  Satan knows this, and likes nothing better than to throw things up in our faces to discourage us, and to keep us from doing what we should be doing for God. This year I have made up in my mind to let go of the past and walk in the newness of life.

The purpose of this post is to encourage you as we began a new year to let go of anything from your past that can hinder you from being everything God has designed you to be. You will not be able to take hold of the incredible opportunities that God has for you until you release your past. Everything that God has for you will be ahead of you. Let go of that old mindset and those old habits that keep you stuck in the same place year after year. Do whatever it takes to the reach a new level in your life.

I want to encourage you to give your all to Christ and allow him to change every area of your life. I must tell you that there will be challenges along the way; the enemy will not make this easy for you. You will have to FIGHT to stay focused on what is ahead of you. Place your confidence in Christ and allow him to lead you into a new place in your life. Speak and declare victory over your life! This is your year and this is your season! I am so excited about God is going to do through you and I this year! Stay encouraged and keep your trust in God.

I love you and God loves you,

Kendra G.