Monday, September 20, 2010

God’s Got an App for That!

Overlook the opportunity to be overcome by oppression by keeping your mind right by your daily session. You are like a cell phone in the aspect that you have to keep your batteries charged up. The amount of things a cell “phone” can do these days is amazing, but no matter how many apps you have none of them will work without power. The more you use the more you have to charge up, and some days you will have to plug in more than once. Likewise, you need to keep yourself charged up spiritually through prayer and meditation in the Word. Skip a few fellowship sessions and pretty soon you’ll get a low battery warning. It won’t just ting and pop up on your screen, but will probably come in the form of anger, weakness or sorrow. But it doesn’t matter what you have to face in life, God’s got an app for that! And His apps are supernatural, unlimited and awesome but they still won’t work without power. So you need to make sure you connect with God at least as often as you plug in our phone. Don’t forget to update. And when you use it let it also be a reminder that “it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.” (Phil 2:13) Because if you don’t stay consciously connected, it won't be long before you start feeling neglected. But if you will live in His presence you will be protected, by His great goodness charged and affected.

John 15:1-8
15 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
NKJV