31 Dec, 2009. Word of the Day!!

31 Dec, 2009. Word of the Day!!

DETERMINATION: - it means the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose or the quality of being resolute; firmness of purpose.

Michael Notion: Ask God to humble and renew you so you do not continue any bad patterns. The road to recovery is the renewal of your mind! Just focus and use the determination Jesus gives you to turn your life over to Christ as LORD! Make the Determination to Turn your Life over to Jesus Christ as LORD! This is about your response to God! For you to recover you must make the determination to turn your life over to Jesus Christ as LORD!

When you fail, when you’ve had a loss, you can do one of two things: let your defeat become discouragement, or let your defeat become determination. Champions aren’t people who never lose; they’re people who emerge determined to beat what made them lose.

Maybe you’ve messed up recently and you feel like giving up. Well, I love the defiant repentance of this statement from God’s Word: “Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light…He will bring me out into the light; I will see His righteousness…then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame” (Micah 7:8-10 ). Paul was a man who showed great determination in times of duress. He persisted in accomplishing his goals even when his friends pleaded with him through tears to protect himself.

The road to improvement or recovery is the renewal of your mind! Just focus and use the determination Jesus gives you to turn your life over to Christ as LORD! Ask God to humble you and renew you so you do not continue any bad patterns or go back to your old bad ways. This is a continual process. As long as there is a hint of a bad desire in you (and there will always be), you must centre yourself in Jesus Christ.

The incentive for us to surrender to Christ is that His Way is better than ours! You do not need the bottle or the smoke or the extra piece of pie, you just need Him. He gave us a gift we cannot fathom, yet alone earn the gift of grace and eternal life, so why would we not seek to please our Living, Loving Lord? Then Paul tells us that God’s will is for us to be willing and able to please Him and serve Him.

When you are growing and in recovery, you are pleasing Him and in so doing reaping the benefits and rewards too and this is accomplished when we are on guard so that the distractions of the sinful life do not entice, motivate, or divert us from Him and His plan for us! The call is simple: be willing to allow God to transform you—not the world. Simple? Yes, but it takes diligence effort from the trust we have in Christ to succeed! When we do this, our thinking, attitude, mindset, all that we are in thought, will change and then impact all that we do in life.

Bible Reference:
Acts 21:13-14 (Amplified Bible)
13Then Paul replied, What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart like this? For I hold myself in readiness not only to be arrested and bound and imprisoned at Jerusalem, but also [even] to die for the name of the Lord Jesus. 14And when he would not yield to [our] persuading, we stopped [urging and imploring him], saying, The Lord's will be done!

Possible Prayer:
From this time forward, I want to change the direction of my life and follow you. Give me a hunger for your Word and a desire to spend time with you every day. I pray that I would love you with all my heart and all my soul and all my strength. Help me to obey you without hesitation and be faithful to you until the day that I die. Help me to love others and to demonstrate my love through concrete actions. Protect me from all evil. Give me wisdom to make right decisions that honours You.