You have a plan for 2024. You’ve written it out on paper and even created a vision board. You’re telling your friends, family and coworkers. You’re reciting it in the mirror or reviewing it on your phone.

God’s Plan OR Your Plan?

People of God,

There is a tendency to settle for things that are below the standard of being “Saved by Christ” wherein we’re transforming into Citizens of The Kingdom of God.

We ignore the very “kinship” that’s been given upon the acceptance of Christ as “Lord, Our Savior.”

When we don’t get what we expected, we blame GOD by saying, “it must not be meant.”

His Divine Will has already been stored up for us in The Heavens! However, we ignore obedience to Him, causing us to live below The Inheritance that was ordained. 

Obedience causes The Heavens to release and pour down Our Inheritance (abundant blessings).

Pr. E. Nelson

If we’re honest, it’s a simple computation but the devil causes some of us to feel it’s an impossible feat.

News FLASH! IT‘S NOT IMPOSSIBLE to fight against the flesh!

Obeying God produces favorable outcomes, blessings upon blessings! We should avoid opposing The Will of God; it’s dangerous to operate outside of God’s Will!  

John 1:16 AMP For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift].

God endows strength. We are His Warriors! OUR WORDS HAVE POWER! OUR THOUGHTS HAVE POWER, too!

What are you thinking? What’s and who’s controlling you? Who are you hearing?

For some of us, the issues of our hearts are confined (STUCK). We must take all of our issues to Christ. We must let The Holy Spirit work within us, causing us to change our thoughts and to handle all the heart’s issues. Many times we haven’t committed our will, our way to take on God’s Will and God’s Way. We remain stagnate and confused for no reason other than our own.

Why is it so hard to follow The Leader? We’re created to give praise and offer worship to God. These actions accompany obedience and produce both imaginable and unimaginable gifts from God – God will manifest things you didn’t even know you wanted when you obey.

He will pour out intangible (internal, Spiritual) blessings and then He will give tangible (external) ones. Why?

He does this in order that the intangible blessings prepare us to receive and maintain the tangible ones.  

For example, when we’re obedient to casting our cares to Him, we loosen our grips on life’s issues; the casting causes everlasting peace…you’ll literally experience an outpouring of peace — a peace that fills you up inside and overflows outside your body from The Holy Spirit. This peace won’t make any sense but yet you will have it!

Moreover, your response to circumstances are from a State of Divine Assurance. This “State of Assurance” causes a supernatural increase in your faith and hope which then gives you relief and strength. 

As we’re leaving January of 2024, let’s focus our hearts and minds on listening to Our Father’s instructions and directions. Let’s be conscious of working to do what’s right (in God’s eyes).

Ask God for “His interpretation of RIGHT,” by reading His Holy Word and by listening to His voice. 

[There’s a distinction between hearing GOD and listening to GOD. Listening to GOD is intentional whereas hearing GOD is for your reference]. 

Lastly, there are two methods of Obedience to God:

1) via Rhema, which is the Spoken Word of God, and

2) via reading The Holy Bible (inspired by God)

2024 will be better than 2023 when you do just what He says!

Pr. E. Nelson

Today’s Scriptures:

John 2:22 NLT | New Living Translation

22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.

Deuteronomy 28:1,12 (1-14) “Blessings for Obedience” NLT | New Living Translation

1 “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world.12 The Lord will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens and will bless all the work you do. 

James 1: 22-26 NLT | New Living Translation

22 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. 23 For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. 24 You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. 25 But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. 26 If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.

1 Samuel 15:22-23 MSG | The Message

22-23 Then Samuel said, Do you think all God wants are sacrifices—empty rituals just for show? He wants you to listen to him!
Plain listening is the thing, not staging a lavish religious production.
Not doing what God tells you, is far worse than fooling around in the occult.
Getting self-important around God is far worse than making deals with your dead ancestors. Because you said No to God’s command,
he says No to your kingship.