The Parable of the Workers found in Matthew 20:1-16 is a very important parable that promises that no matter how long you been in line for a:

Breakthroughs: healing, deliverance from a sin(s), needing peace in the midst of confusing and frustrating circumstances involving family and/or friends, deliverance from your enemies (as David says, as mentioned in Psalms) –God hears your cry and will tend to you just keep holding on! 

I am here to proclaim that Our God Prevails!  It doesn’t matter who tried to skip in the line, that is, the line where Believers are standing, kneeling, bowing in prayer for help, a change…God is right there and He has not forgot about your dilemmas.

God has not left you and no matter how long you been in line, no matter how long the battle (struggle), no matter the turmoil that has been going on around you, God is here (present tense – very present help in times of trouble, catastrophe – PSALM 46:1). 

Vengeance is the Lord’s so you do not have to spend ALL your time trying to figure out how to get back at someone who has hurt you because God will deal with them, in His own way and in His own time!

Listen, People of God, we can’t forget that God is not bias; He does not withhold His blessings that He predestined for your life, that brings much-needed Spiritual + Mental relief through valley experiences.  God makes ways not just for others.  He makes ways for us, regardless of our sins, regardless of our good deeds.  He must perform His Word (Jeremiah 1:12).

So, in His Word, we find that we are directed Matthew & Luke, especially, that we can ask and we shall be given and we shall find what we been looking for, desperately waiting for, and God, if it is in His Will, will give to you, according to His holiness, His ordinances, His deity. He will give to you just because He is a good God who loves His people and provides grace + mercy.

Actively seek God with all of your heart and work to train your mind to be obedient and submit to God’s authority, His majesty and dominion so that you can start to open up room in your heart with the blessings of The Father.  Oftentimes, we are so consumed by what’s going on around us that we allow satan to control our minds and ear canals; in this, we become weak and vulnerable; opening access for satan to use his tactics (creating distractions that don’t allow us to see that God is working it all out, in our favor). 

Hold on and don’t give up because God hasn’t forgot. He will restore and fulfill your life with Spiritual + Mental + Physical strength (health) which draws (flows) from Immanuel’s veins (Matthew 1:23). –Life is found in God and He flows through us like streaming waters and supplies all of our needs.

***News Flash: satan can’t stop God’s plans for your life.  Jealousy and envy push them (haters) far away from the deliverance line and their chatter motivates God to do what they thought couldn’t be done for you.  In other words, what credit issues you have had or what past or present sins you may have, your blessings are not tied to haters!  Don’t focus on haters, focus on God and see Him for yourself.

Let your motivation be one of great strength and resilience, peace in Him so that you don’t succumb to negativity when others do you wrong and/or don’t believe that God will deliver you.***

Today’s Scriptures:

Matthew 7:7 NLT | New Living Translation

“Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 20:16 NIV | New International Version

“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

Jeremiah 29:13 NLT | New Living Translation

“If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me”

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Sometimes life gets tough and you just can’t seem to find a way to express to God what the issues of your heart.  There is good news! God knows the issues of the heart and even though you may not be able to physically utter a word aloud, just be silence and send your issues directly by having your heart confer with God through Jesus Christ, by way of meditation.  Go into that secret place where it’s just you & God, God & you. (This may be a closet, a room, in the car by yourself, at the park or wherever you can find to commune, communicate with God) Sometimes prayer is subconscious! Like anything else, prayer life comes about from continued communication, connection with God.  Talk to Him all the time. [PRAYING FOR ONESELF]

The Bible tells us that Jesus makes intercession for us (Romans 8:34).  He is already taking our petitions, our requests, to God and He is added what is needed to get God’s attention.  How we get God’s attention through Christ Jesus is by praying The Word of God, The Holy Bible.  We also get His attention through honesty and submission and admission of guilt (confession of sin). [PRAYING FOR ONESELF]

Finally, utilize intercessory prayer and your own prayers to God.  Don’t be afraid to tell God how you feel.  Those whom are interceding on your behalf are those who believe in God’s power through prayer.  Don’t just lay down and accept the enemy’s devices to distract and discourage you. [PRAYING FOR OTHERS]

Sometimes you have to holler out Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! to cancel the enemy’s tactics.  Gather together and declare and decree victory over depression, anxiety, discouragement.  Band together with true God-Believers and pray and praise together!  Take no opportunity for granted when it comes to uplifting others.  Don’t hate on others; congratulate others.  Don’t be envious.  Pray for others’ strength in The Lord. [PRAYING FOR OTHERS]

GOD’S EXERCISE TO SHOW ME HIS FAVOR: I have had personal experiences where I was feeling down about something, not really having a great day and then God would send someone my way and make me be a witness to His goodness, anyways!  It was in that time space that God took my mind off my problem and directed, uplifted my heart & mind to the absolute realization of His power, His ability in times past of providing, making ways, opening doors and I was suddenly uplifted by ministering to others.  Has that happened to you?  Think about it—I bet it has….God is just good like that!

HERE’S THE PROVISION(S) BECAUSE OF PRAYER: God will make ways that are beyond your comprehension, beyond your imagination to prove His power, demonstrating His omnipotence by granting us protection, deliverance, strength, authority in Him through us, favor over circumstances, position and promotion through Him because of the inheritance given to us because the adoption was final! The inheritance is absolute.

Today’s Scriptures:

Colossians 1:9-14 (NIV) | New International Version

9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives 10so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you^f to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Philippians 1:19 (GW) | God’s Word Translation

for another reason. I know that I will be set free through your prayers and through the help that comes from the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 2:1-3 (MSG) |The Message Bible

The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live.

Ephesians 6:18 NLT | New Living Translation

Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.

2 Corinthians 1:11 (GW) | God’s Word Translation

since you are also joining to help us when you pray for us. Then many people will thank God for the favor he will show us because many people prayed for us.

People of God,

When God delivers us we are made FREE! The chains of our past are broken! When God gives us the breakthrough that we needed, desired, we must protect and maintain it.  How do we do this? By consistently seeking God for His direction, His strength, His protection, His ability to keep us in the right mind so that we do not lose the very thing that we prayed for.  Those of us that go before God, humbly, admitting our weaknesses, the places we get caught up in sin, God is able to come in and do what needs to be done, within us, so that we can resist the temptation to fall back into the very thing that God delivered us from.

EVERY DAY is a struggle, this life is not easy.  Temptations, like addictions, are constantly trying to invade us and detour us from reaching God.  Our sins separate us from God, but when we are saved, God draws us to repentance, which yields back to Him our souls.

Are you willing to upkeep your deliverance?  We must stay in constant, consistent communication with Christ.  We must realize that we need God.  We must be willing to acknowledge that without God, it is impossible to be delivered and stay delivered.  Do not let the enemy snatch your deliverance from you!

Pray and surround yourself with a kind of people that believe in God’s deliverance and depend, rely on Him for their existence.  Stay around prayer warriors and use the shield of faith….put on the whole Armor of God, God’s weaponry (Ephesians 6:10-18; 2 Corinthians 10:3-4) so that you can combat against the enemy’s devices (James 4:7).  Hide amongst God.  Know His Word. Trust His authority (power) and take on His freedom so that you are a direct descendant of what deliverance looks like (Psalm 34:17).

Do not let the enemy fool you (1 Peter 5:8-9); you, too, can be delivered!      

Today’s Scriptures:

Psalm 116:16 NIV | New International Version

Truly I am your servant, Lord;
I serve you just as my mother did;
you have freed me from my chains.

John 8:36 GW | God’s Word Translation

So if the Son sets you free, you will be absolutely free.

Galatians 5:1 CEB | Common English Bible

Christ has set us free for freedom. Therefore, stand firm and don’t submit to the bondage of slavery again.

Psalm 51:10 KJV | King James Version

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

No matter what we face (No Weapon)nor how difficult it is (valley experiences), God is still right here with us and helps us through the storms and through everything we endure that we have the ability to handle it in perseverance and with tenacity.

God instills the courage and faith to still believe that though God has not come yet, He is coming to our rescue because of His love for us! He has never been defeated nor will ever be defeated! We overcome the enemy because of the victory gained from the cross! God conquered so that we can conquer!

Let’s remember that what God destined for our life will come to pass, in His time, and that no one can scratch our names off because they are written permanently! What God decides will succeed in us! Unstoppable God! Unlimited God!

God’s purpose for our lives is to:

– be givers, not jealous, not takers

– loving His people and not being harmful with our mouths or our bodies

– praying for each other with genuine compassion without becoming gossipers (no vindictiveness)

– trust Him in all we do: realizing that He has unlimited favor upon us and He loves us so much that He destined us for greatness and has given us authority to trample over haters! He signed, sealed and delivered our Deliverance, our breakthroughs!

News Flash: God is bringing us out to bring glory to Himself and it is not because of anything we earned; we are not worthy without the resurrection of Jesus The Christ. But for grace and mercy!

Accept God’s grace and mercy! No condemnation.

Today’s Scriptures:

Romans 8:28 NLT | New Living Translation

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

Isaiah 55:11 KJV | King James Version

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent

Jeremiah 29:11 NIV | New International Version

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Your FAITH grows through two things, experiences and exposure:

Experiences

1. When you are faced with difficulty and God delivers you out of it, the lessons you learn while in transition, from in it to out of it, your faith grows. God has made so many ways for me; I cannot thank Him enough for His loving-kindness, His favor and His power moving throughout my life journey. I am convinced that God can do what was thought impossible and can take me to places I never thought I would get to go, in Him.
2. Through your actions, as you pray and believe that what you prayed for, that God will do it and trusting Him through it, your faith grows. You impart faith when you declare in Jesus Name that His Will be done in your life…that come hell or high water, you choose to trust Him with everything you got!  And where you lack faith, you pray for forgiveness—you become open and honest with God and you admit that sometimes your faith does not reach where it should, but that you will to trust, to depend, to believe, even believing when the situation seems impossible because you know God as limit-less so you pray God helps you to believe and understand that He can do anything, above your mere thoughts!

Exposure

1. When you hear others testimonies or witness them enter and exit trials and tribulations, things that test their faith, you grow in faith by seeing how God delivered them. For instance, I have seen God open doors for family and friends. I have seen Him make ways that were not possible, without Him.  I have seen God heal those who were sick, sick mentally and physically.  Similarly, your faith grows when you take time to listen to God’s Word being expounded upon, preached and taught, be it in a physical church, online, through Bible Studies and personal studies of His Holy and Divine Word.
2. When you read The Holy Bible and see testimonies of how God brought others out, like Paul, David, Job, Sarah, Abraham, Enoch, Jacob, Moses the woman with the issue of blood, the lame, the sick, the demon-possessed—God brought them out because of their faith. He proves His incomprehensible love, His faithfulness and as I grow in His knowledge, I grow in faith.

Today’s Scriptures:

Hebrews 11:1 CEB | Common English Bible

Faith is the reality of what we hope for, the proof of what we don’t see.

Romans 10:17 NKJV | New King James Version

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Ephesians 3:20-21 NKJV | New King James Version

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Mark 9:23-25 NKJV | New King James Version

²³ Jesus said to him, “If you can believe,^[a] all things are possible to him who believes.”

²⁴ Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

²⁵ When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it: “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!”

2 Corinthians 5:7 GNT | Good News Translation

For our life is a matter of faith, not of sight.

For those of us that are desperately needing God to deliver us, He wants us to know that He is willing, if we really, truly want to be brought out of bondage. POWERFUL! Read His Word below to find out.

Today’s Scriptures:

John 5:1-9(a) NLT | New Living Translation

Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches. b
One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.
When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
“I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”
Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”
Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking!

Psalm 40: 1-17 ESV | English Standard Version

1 I waited patiently for the Lord;
he inclined to me and heard my cry.
2 He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.
3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear,
and put their trust in the Lord.
4 Blessed is the man who makes
the Lord his trust,
who does not turn to the proud,
to those who go astray after a lie!
5 You have multiplied, O Lord my God,
your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;
none can compare with you!
I will proclaim and tell of them,
yet they are more than can be told.

6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted,
but you have given me an open ear.[a]
Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book it is written of me:
8 I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart.”
9 I have told the glad news of deliverance[b]
in the great congregation;
behold, I have not restrained my lips,
as you know, O Lord.
10 I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart;
I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;
I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness
from the great congregation.
11 As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain
your mercy from me;
your steadfast love and your faithfulness will
ever preserve me!

12 For evils have encompassed me
beyond number;
my iniquities have overtaken me,
and I cannot see;
they are more than the hairs of my head;
my heart fails me.
13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me!
O Lord, make haste to help me!
14 Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether
who seek to snatch away my life;
let those be turned back and brought to dishonor
who delight in my hurt!
15 Let those be appalled because of their shame
who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”

16 But may all who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who love your salvation
say continually, “Great is the Lord!”
17 As for me, I am poor and needy,
but the Lord takes thought for me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
do not delay, O my God!

PRE-Op Surgery Requirement: Confession of Sins to God, through Jesus.  The vehicle by which we confess is prayer.

DETAILS OF THE SURGICAL PROCEDURE: Think of it this way…when a person has a cut, a deep cut, the doctor usually flushes the wound before sewing it up; this is to avoid infection.  Stitching up a wound without proper cleaning is detrimental to the body.  The doctor works on the inside of the womb, sometimes requiring internal and external stitches, after the wound has been cleansed.

So it is in God’s Kingdom.  If God only dealt with our exterior, our internal Spirit and mind would be consumed by infection; infection would cause death.

What is Spiritual infection?  Spiritual infection is jealousy, deceit, conceitedness, arrogance, anger, bitterness [you fill in the blanks], fornication, abuse, murder…  God has to clear out the infection, first, because that is how we are truly delivered, healed, set free, and forgiven.

This is not an elective surgery, meaning that it is mandatory because it affects your survival.  A Spiritual flushing of waste must exit the body in order for God to take residence, a repentant heart must cry out to God for help.

SURGERY SCHEDULED DATE: When is a good day to schedule this consultation, this one-on-one with God, Our Doctor?  No time is better than NOW.

Today’s Scriptures:

Hebrews 4:12 NLT | New Living Translation

For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.

Psalm 51:10 ESV | English Standard Version

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

1 John 1:9 NIV | New International Version

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Psalm 32:5 NLT | New Living Translation

Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide my guilt. I said to myself, “I will confess my rebellion to the LORD.” And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.

Human growth shows the journey of a baby to a senior.  In between this time, growth and development happens with each stage.  In each stage there are some obstacles like from crawling to walking, from walking to running.  In this case, one cannot run if they don’t know how to walk.

When you give God your life, you are in the crawling stage.  You are being introduced to Christ and learning about how He died on the cross, was buried, and rose (for you, for me).  You are learning about His commandments and His love, His faithfulness to you.  While learning these things, you are being further enlightened through His wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, which is a continual process because rebuking self is the hardest, most constant and consistent battle we face on top of the enemy’s desire to kill, steal, and destroy.

But in the Scriptures, the point that Peter and David were trying to make is that when you find out how good God is and has been to you, through personal experience, and you are in constant communication with him, at the baby stage, then you shouldn’t be repeating, continuously, the baby stage all of your life.  Growing in God means to become or be in the process of transformation and transcendence into a higher Godly way of thinking. In other words, when you are no longer a child and you become an adult, you shouldn’t still be acting like a child in adult situations.

God is requiring that we grow up in Him, to mature in Him.  This means that at some point, there is no excuse that we can make up for the justification of our sinfulness.  There is no escape from living a Holy life, as acceptable to Him and not what man accepts.  We are challenged, just as if we are a teen who no longer takes a baby bottle and an adult who no longer takes a sippy cup.

We are challenged to grow in the knowledge and admonition of God.  We are tasked to learn His way and quit circling the same sin because when we grow in Him and our prayer is to rid ourselves of it, wholeheartedly, we must not continue to chase our tail; that is, if we believe that God can and will deliver us.

Some of us don’t know what deliverance is, but yet we profess to be God-believers.  God is challenging us to grow up; to stop making excuses and rise up in this evil and cruel world as People of God who are working to be Holy and acceptable to Him, for He is the reason we are living.

So then, The Apostle Paul, in Hebrews 6 is calling us to Spiritual Maturity in God.  He is telling us that once we have felt God’s goodness and have received His abundant grace and mercy, we must take up our cross, bearing it with Jesus Christ, and then be risen with Him, in the same manner.  To be risen with Him is to live how He has instructed, but to stay in disobedience and refute Him, we are re-crucifying Him again and this won’t happen because His Word is true, what He destined it to do, it will not return to Him incomplete.  We have to strive to get closer to Him, which means we must strive to obey and take heed to what He has instructed us to do.

Why does David say, in Psalm 34:8 (b) The Message Bible Version, “Blessed are you who run to Him?”  It is because you can get to God faster if you run than if you walk!  In other words, sometimes we are in positions where we didn’t expect.  We have been disobedient and need some help to get out of the mess we have made; so, in this instance, we have to run into His safety and allow Him to apply grace and mercy and rebuke the enemy, on our behalf.  Have you ever been in this position? I have.  You can lie to man, but God knows your every thought.  You can’t escape His discipline just like you can’t escape His blessings!

This Week’s Challenge:  This week, start to think of your sins against God.  Talk to Him about them.  Ask Him to show you how He wants you to be. Be convicted and ask for His Divine forgiveness.  Ask Him for mercy.  Talk to Him about how hard it is to give it up and ask for help in that area.  Acknowledge your sin. Pray for sincere forgiveness.  Ask that He break the chains of bondage in your life.  Repent and Let God forgive. Walk towards Him.  Don’t take your eyes off Him and you can surely walk into God’s Divine Deliverance.   Make up your mind as to what you will to do and ask His Will to be in your life.  Let God know that you desire to inquire in His temple and you desire to follow His commandments.  In reality, this is only between you and God.  This is not a social gathering for it is an intimate relationship with God.

Today’s Scriptures:

Hebrews 6: 1-8 MSG | The Message

1-3 So come on, let’s leave the preschool finger painting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on “salvation by self-help” and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment. God helping us, we’ll stay true to all that. But there’s so much more. Let’s get on with it!

4-8 Once people have seen the light, gotten a taste of heaven and been part of the work of the Holy Spirit, once they’ve personally experienced the sheer goodness of God’s Word and the powers breaking in on us—if then they turn their backs on it, washing their hands of the whole thing, well, they can’t start over as if nothing happened. That’s impossible. Why, they’ve re-crucified Jesus! They’ve repudiated him in public! Parched ground that soaks up the rain and then produces an abundance of carrots and corn for its gardener gets God’s “Well done!” But if it produces weeds and thistles, it’s more likely to get cussed out. Fields like that are burned, not harvested.

1 Peter 2:2-3 NLV | New Life Version

As new babies want milk, you should want to drink the pure milk which is God’s Word so you will grow up and be saved from the punishment of sin. 3 If you have tasted of the Lord, you know how good He is.

1 Peter 2:2-3 MSG | The Message

So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God.

Psalm 34:8 MSG | The Message

Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see—
how good God is.
Blessed are you who run to him.

Psalm 34:8 NLV | New Life Version

O taste and see that the Lord is good. How happy is the man who trusts in Him!