CampfireTALK: June 21st, 2014

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WORD CHURCH is a church, a ministry, and a fellowship, even an outreach, where like in the days of the Apostles and Acts, the people joined together! 

Our vision and our goal, is to bring churches together in the unity of the faith, to help them to begin to bring together the gifts and talents of each separate church, and to share those gifts and talents with each other, that we may be better and more effective in teaching and training the Body of Christ, for the word of the ministry, to tell the World about Jesus!    .... Learn More

Guys, ever notice when a beautiful woman enters the room, that it seems like everything stops when she steps in?  I mean just about everyone turns to notice, and all eyes are focused on her, as she sachets into the room?  Wives are punching their husbands ... to get their attention back, and the young eligible bachelors just can't seem to take their eyes off of her! 

Ladies, ever notice a handsome young man as he enters the room, wearing an awesome tuxedo, holding his head back and his shoulders high, like he's the "alpha male" in everybody's world? 

We've all seen it!  There is someone who comes into the room, who maybe is very good looking, extremely handsome or breathtakingly gorgeous, and everything seems to stop!  How about when a friend just arrives at an almost dead party, and all-of-a-sudden the entire atmosphere changes!  It's as thought they picked up the beat and tone of the whole atmosphere? 

You know when the life of the party arrives, because everyone is glad they are here!  Or maybe the bell of the ball arrives, and all of a sudden the men are all adjusting their suits and looking smart! 

These are people who, in whatever manner, bring with them an air and atmosphere of change to the room!  It may be light-hearted and funny, or an buzz of the news of all the latest!  Did you know that God expects "you" to be that way when you enter the room? 

Yes, "you"!  You see, you carry with you the presence of an Almighty God, "THE CREATOR" of all the Heavens and the Earth!  This is THE very greatest Being that will ever be known ... and YOU carry HIS presence with you when you come into the room!  The very life-changing essence of HIS POWER ... is - inside - of - you! 

Like royalty when they show up at an event, or a Hollywood personality as they enter the room, God expects "YOU" to change the atmosphere in the very same way, when YOU come into the realm of those around you! 

"Uh, not me, pastor Rich", you might say.  But this is only because of the inner image you have of yourself - NOT because of the inner image that GOD has when HE looks at you.  You see, HE is so ever proud of HIS creation!  And if you will meditate the Word of GOD, and study to keep HIS presence in your midst, the people at a party, or an event ... at an area, or even a city ... will all be in anticipation of YOUR arrival!  Why?  Because you carry the presence of GOD within you, and you "rock their world"! 

Think about this.  Imagine yourself as GOD sees you.  If you can only do this, and begin to study HIS Word and apply it in your life, then I guarantee you that YOUR LIFE ... will never be the same again! 
Dare to imagine!  Dare to "see yourself" ... as GOD sees you, today!  

If we confess our sins, HE is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleans us from all unrighteousness."  In order to remain holy and clean, before GOD, we must avoid sin, and when we do sin, we must confess those sins before GOD, so that we can be made clean again.

2.  Study the Word - Jesus said in John 8:31-32, "If you continue in My word, then are you truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."  Folks, rare is the time you will ever see someone skip eating for the day, let alone days upon end.  But we do that all the time spiritually.  The Word of GOD is food for our spiritual bodies!  We need that spiritual food, for spiritual energy, and for the faith that we need ... to live the life that GOD has called us to live, here in the Earth.  When we study and meditate the Word of God, our spirit man grows strong, in much the same way as a battery is charged!  (Romans 10:17)  But when we do NOT study the Word, our spiritual battery begins to run down, and the natural man begins to surface.  We act more like our "old self" than like the renewed man that GOD created us to be.  In other words, the "flesh" wins out. 

3.  Pray in the Holy Spirit - Paul teaches us that we are to pray in the Holy Spirit.  "But you, beloved, build yourselves up [founded] on your most holy faith [make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher], praying in the spirit."  [Jude 1:20 - AMP]  Our supernatural energy, our faith, is charged and built up when we spend time in the presence of GOD, and when we "pray in the Holy Spirit".  We are told in Ephesians 6 to "be strong in the Lord, and in the power of HIS might", putting on the whole armor of GOD.  We cannot be strong if we do not spend time in GOD's presence, and in supernatural prayer! 

ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS: 
"This is YOUR day ... YOU control it, how it goes, how you deal with the obstacles that come, and how you finish it!   Master it!  And don't let the day, or the little bumps that come with it determine how "YOUR DAY" is going to be.  This is "YOUR" day!" 
Master it!  Conquer it!  MAKE IT ... what your Father wants it to be!

-pastor rich-