The IF Factor: IF You change the Formula THEN You Change the Result.

This Phrase is attributed to Albert Einstein: Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I confess that before i was insane (even if i didn't look like), because i did, as Einstein said, the same things over and over again expecting different results. For example: I was addicted to pornography but i honestly believed and hoped that God would deliver me from it even if i continued to deal with pornographic materials (movies, magazines, etc.). In the Bible, we can see that every promise that God made (even if it is not explicit), is conditioned to obedience. For example: 2 Chronicles 7:14. It is sad to hear many people talking about "revival" here in America and seeing different formulas being applied to get the result (healing) that can only be achieved if we apply God's formula, which is 2 Chronicles 7:14. Our nation will never be healed by "moral correctness" or "social justice", it will only be healed IF we apply God's formula for Healing. If you consider Jesus' Parable of the Sower, OUR HEART is the land and if we aplly that formula in our lives we WILL BE HEALED. I can testify before God that His formula works because when i applied His formula (with His help) i was completely healed (read the Post: Personal Testimony: New Life). Are you a slave of sin right now? Have you been trying to leave the sinful lifestyle without success? Do you really think that there is no hope for you anymore? Are you feeling like you are in a desert? Deuteronomy 8:2. All start with HUMBLENESS: Matthew 23:12. If you are not willing to HUMBLE YOURSELF God will not be willing to take you out of the desert! That's the FIRST STEP. The SECOND STEP is to PRAY and SEEK GOD'S FACE: Proverbs 8:17; Jeremiah 29:13. If you don't seek God with ALL your heart you will never find Him. The THIRD STEP is TURNING FROM YOUR WICKED WAYS (SINS): Hebrews 12:4. There will be a battle to abandon your sin, because even when we are been set free, we still are used to do those things (sin in this case) and we must fight against it, that's what they call the "habitual sin". Just like Joshua and the Israelites had to fight to possess the land, you will have to fight to possess your new life (promise land), but the same promise God made to Joshua is yours: Joshua 1:9.

A Divided House Will Not Stand!

I'd like to start this post with a few questions: 1) Are you a house (temple) of God? 1 Corinthians 6:19. 2) Are you divided between God and anything or anyone else (yourself included)? Matthew 12:25. 3) How much do you love the LORD your God? Deuteronomy 6:5. 4) Do you show favoritism? Deuteronomy 10:17; Acts 10:34. Do you remember the Parable of the Sower, when Jesus talks about the seeds that fell among thorns? Luke 8:7; Luke 8:14. If you are the house of God, how can you be a divided house? In Luke 8:7 you see that the seed fell on the ground and sprang up, but in Luke 8:14 you see that it never produced "mature fruit" because there were "thorns" that grew along with it (in this parable the seed is the word of God and the ground is the heart). Let's talk about one of the things spoken by Jesus that will not allow you, the believer, to produce the Fruit of the Holy Spirit described in Galatians 5:22-23: Riches. Jesus says this in Luke 16:13. So, who was mammon? Mammon is the name of an ancient deity worshiped by the Sumerians. He is the god of wealth and his name translates as "property". Mammon was an Aramaic loan word in Hebrew meaning wealth although it may also have meant 'that in which one trusts'. Why do we have printed in our dollar bills "in God we trust"? To what God is it referring to? The LORD God (Father of Jesus Christ) or mammon (god of wealth, that in which one trusts)? According to Jesus, whenever a person is driven to get rich, that person already chose mammon as a master. Of course there are those who are rich because God made them rich, like Abraham and Job for example. So, if your heart is divided between serving God and pursuing anything that is not God's will for your life, you already chose another master other then Jesus Christ and one day, when you stand before Jesus Christ for judgement you will regret it. Today you have the chance to choose Jesus Christ as your Master (Lord) and savior, you have the chance to choose eternal life: Hebrews 3:7-8; Deuteronomy 30:19. Ask the LORD to search your heart and show you if there's anything that is  dividing you heart:  Psalm 139:23-24.