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Tag: #Friday

  • “Solid As A Rock”

    Bishop Houston Grow in Christ weekd logo picture 2222Praise the Lord Beloved – Happy Friday to Everyone!!!

    What a joy and honor to start the day with you once again.
     
    **I have changed the title of the “Weekend Word” to “Grow in Christ Jesus”
    My focus is to present a more spiritual and comprehensive concept that will produce a vivid spiritual thought going into the weekend.

    You know Beloved, sometimes, people get sidetracked by what they consider to be a difficulty or setback in their lives. It may be something about their personality or looks that they don’t like. Or, maybe they’ve been through an unfair situation such as a divorce, a bad business agreement or a bad discontinuity. We all have things that can feel like shortcomings; things that make it harder on us. It may even be a physical handicap, and you can’t get around like you used to. But just because you have a “shortcoming,” just because you’ve been through a tough time doesn’t mean you’re supposed to sit back and settle where you are. God still has something great for you to do!!! 😀 He wants to show Himself solid as a rock in and through you, and He’s given you His Holy Spirit to equip you in this life.
     

    Beloved, this weekend, let the Holy Spirit help you when you feel fragile, undesired or useless. Let Him empower you with truth that will set you free. Stay in faith and don’t get negative toward yourself or your future. Release your grip and let God take what you think is a liability and turn it into an asset!!! Let Him take what you think is a shortcoming and turn it around to be a benefit!!! Remember, you’re more than a conqueror today and every day because He is solid as a rock in you!!!
     
    Have a Blessed Weekend Everyone. 😀

  • “You Are Significant In God’s Eyes”

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    Praise the Lord Beloved – Happy Friday to Everyone!!! 😀
    What a joy and honor to start the day with you.

    You know Beloved, people today rate a person’s importance by their, reputation, titles, position, possessions, where you go, what you drive, what kind of home you live in or the area you live. But God’s rate classification is very different from the world’s rate classification. If you’ve ever thought that God has too many other important things on His plate to be concerned with you and your life, I want you to know today that, “YOU’RE GOD’S NUMBER ONE PRIORITY!!!” And there’s nothing you can do to be more significant or less significant. God rates you simply because He made you, and your rate will never change. You are significant. Your life is significant. The things that concern you, concern God. He carefully watches over every aspect of your life. There’s nothing too big or too small for His attention.

    Beloved, this weekend, take your apprehensions and cares to the Father. He loves to hear you call on Him, and He’s waiting to show Himself strong on your behalf. Because you’re important to Him, He’s ready to bless and authorize you to live successfully all the days of your life.

    Have a Blessed Weekend Everyone. 😀

  • Get Godly Wisdom”

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    Praise the Lord Beloved!!!
    Happy Friday. We are on the door step of another weekend.

    You know Beloved, Godly Wisdom is an essential component that each one of us need to apprehend. Without it, our comprehension of the spiritual things surrounding the Kingdom of God will be limited. On my “A Slice of Heaven” album I recorded a song called “Hear Ye God’s Children”, I recite one of my favorite verses (Proverbs 4:7) trying to increase the awareness about the importance of Wisdom.

    Jesus said in Mathew 6: 33 “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you”. But without Godly Wisdom, the spiritual discernment required to search the Kingdom of God will be pointless.

    Beloved, this weekend do whatever it takes to embrace Godly wisdom. Believe me, when you do, you’ll find it will saturate you with understanding the Kingdom of God.

    Have a very blessed weekend Everyone. 😀

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    “Hear Ye God’s Children”

  • “Walking Over The Belief Stripe”

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    Praise the Lord Beloved!! 😀
    Happy Friday to you all.
     
    You know, in the years since I’ve given my life over to God, there’s something I’ve learned to do that helps me accept the things of God from God when I’m going through some tough circumstances. It’s something I’ve implemented several years ago I call, walking over the belief stripe.
     
    A “belief stripe” is what you need when you want God to do the “incredible” in your life. It’s what you need when you want to be strong in your faith especially when you’re indecisive about something-you know, go back and forth between your circumstances and God’s promises, believe one thing one moment, then believe something else.
     
    Walking over the belief stripe helps you have the same faith as Abraham. You see, Abraham had natural facts to deal with just like we do. He knew there was no natural way for God’s promise to him to become true. Yet the Word says Abraham considered not his own body.
     
    In other words, Beloved, Abraham ignored the natural evidence around him and believed only God’s promise.
    Somewhere he walked over the “belief stripe”.
    He made a permanent decision to go with the Word of God. He made a final commitment. He chose to walk past the point of no return. If you and I are ever going to see God do the impossible in our lives, we’re going to have to do the same thing!!! 😀
     
    Beloved, this weekend why don’t you walk over the belief stripe?
     
    Now, there may be someone out the asking: “Bishop Houston how do I walk over the belief stripe?
    “Well I’m Glad You Asked.” 😀
     
    It starts with the Word. Search the promises of God and purposely believe what He said, and is saying, about your need. Meditate on those promises until your trust, confidence and belief intensifies in your heart.
     
    Then boldly walk over the belief stripe. Walk over it in your mind. You must become expressive with it!!! Walk over it as you walk the floor in your prayer room. Say: “I believe God exist, I believe angels exist in this room as I pray, and I believe that the devil exists and is watching is watching me as I walk over my belief stripe. From this moment on, I consider this matter done!!! From this day forward, I give God my admiration because I believe in His splendor in the Name of Jesus!!!”
     
    And from that moment on, only say things as if your miracle has already happened.
     
    Believe me Beloved, when you walk over that belief stripe, the Word of God greets you and then walks every step of the way with you. As you gain strength in your belief in God, turning your back on your complications-issues, and on the doubts become less complicated and easier to face.
    Beloved, God “will” do the impossible in your life. But you must walk over the belief stripe. 😀
     
    Have a blessed weekend Everyone!!! 😀

  • ” WHOOP THERE IT IS!!!”

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    Praise the Lord Beloved!!!
    Happy Friday to you all.

    You know Beloved, I personally feel the problem with our world today is there’s just not enough love!!!

    I believe (with all that I am) the only way that our problems and the problems of the world can be solved, is by applying love. There’s a Bible scripture Matthew 22 that tells us to first love God with everything that we are and then second to love our neighbor like we love ourself!!!

    “WHOOP THERE IT IS!!!”

    Beloved, that’s our answer!!! 😀 You see, if we’ll completely love God with our mind and emotions, we’ll develop will power to love our neighbors.

    You see true love the way God designed it, is just like the power outlets in our home, if we plug into the source we’ll get an electrical impulse  that will travel all over our body which will outwardly produce the fruit of the spirit that’s mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23.

    Beloved, this weekend find you a true power outlet that’s serviced by the power of God’s love. You’ll find that it’s the resource we all need to help change the current energy into a conducive world that we’re all looking for.

    Have a blessed Weekend Everyone!!! 😀

  • “Develope Inner Peace”

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    Praise the Lord Everyone!!! And it’s Friday!!! 😀 Here in Ohio we finally get a weekend to truly thaw out from our winter snow and cold weather.

    I just got off the phone with a client and we were talking about “inner peace”.   He along with so many believe that to gain inner peace we need a quiet physical dwelling place to incorporate inner harmony. But, acquiring a peaceful physical dwelling place isn’t always possible. With all the hustle and bustle in our society today, finding a quiet dwelling is almost impossible. So, entering inner peace must be developed.

    To establish the inner peace needed we must find a quiet spot in our mind and settle there. This takes lots of practice and focus. But once developed, you’ll find that inner state of complete quiet and internal clearness to the outer world around us. Beloved, true peace means that you can be in the core of hardship, around co-workers, distress, and external sounds, and still be calm in your heart (mind and emotions).

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    This weekend, try to discover your inner peace from the inside. Once you discover it and start to develop your inner peace, you’ll find that true tranquility is just a thought away and always there when you need it.

    Have a blessed weekend Everyone. 😀

  • “Cease Condemnation”

    Praise the Lord Beloved!!! 😀

    It is Friday and another weekend is upon us.

    Beloved, as we go into this weekend let us be mindful of one another’s feelings. There are many people that absolutely despise someone, there are many people that are calling someone an outcast, and there are many people that are looking down on someone.
     
    Beloved, life is too short to hold grudges and have animosity over something that may have happened many years ago. Many people have changed their life and lifestyle. But there are many people that don’t allow people to change!!! They consciously hold them captive to their past. Come on be truthful, you know who you are.
     
    But now allow me to ask you a question right here: Did Jesus condemn the woman that was brought to Him by the religious leaders for her act of adultery. What about the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well? Let me remind you that this woman was ostracized and marked as immoral (by her own people), an unmarried woman living openly with her sixth man. Did Jesus condemn her? Of course not!!!
     
    Beloved, no one absolutely no one can live in the past. Many people (after their life has been transformed-renewed, and given salvation) are “very remorseful for their previous life of immoral experiences. So why continue to attempt to stomp them when they have been given salvation and they have changed their immoral clothing for moral attire.
     
    Many people haven’t seen some people in a long time. So, they try to hold them to the old life. Beloved, you know a tree by the fruit it bears. Many of you out there who are saved now, was a sinner in some point of your life and God granted you salvation. If God did it for you why can’t He do it for them? His Grace and Mercy is for everyone. So, this weekend, don’t condemn someone on what you use to know about them.
     
    Beloved, God loves us despite our bankrupt lives. God values us enough to actively seek us, to welcome us to intimacy, and to rejoice in our worship. So, this weekend, let’s do our best to perceive people as God perceives them, not as they use to be!!! The Word tells us to lift one another up, inspire one another, and let the Lord handle the vengeance.
     
    Have a blessed Weekend Everyone.

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