This Is The Reason You Lack Consistency In Reading The Word..

This Is The Reason You Lack Consistency In Reading The Word..

Wondering why you are inconsistent in reading the Word of God?

It’s simply because it has not become your lifestyle!

One day, as I was meditating on something, I heard the Lord say, “When something becomes your lifestyle, then I know you believe in its power”.

So, if your Bible reading is inconsistent, it means it has not yet become your lifestyle. Because at the heart level you still don’t believe in its power.

This applies to other areas in your walk with God, as well.

If you really believe that worship is takeover, you wouldn’t miss worshipping a single day. 

God's Plan

Maybe you are inconsistent in your giving or inconsistent in the way you are serving in the House of God. Again, it is because it has not become your lifestyle, and that’s because you don’t really believe in its power. 

For instance, if I know sugar is bad for me, and I still consume it every day, now it becomes my lifestyle. Because I don’t really believe that sugar is bad for me. But when it gets established in my heart that sugar is poison, then saying “no” to sugar becomes my lifestyle.

So, the reason why we are missing our time with God, and not deriving much from the Word is because at the end of it, we have other things that are more powerful in our life. Girls, this has to change. 

In this season, make reading the Word of God a daily custom, until it is fully established in your heart and it becomes your lifestyle.

XOXO

Author Kim Dsouza

 

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“What If I Miss God’s Plan For My Life?”

“What If I Miss God’s Plan For My Life?”

“What if I don’t fulfill my God-destiny?”

“What if I don’t end up where God wants me to be?”

“What if I make a mess in my decisions?”

“What if I disappoint God?”

“What if I walk away from Him?”

“What if I miss God’s plan for my life?”

Are these some of your fears? If yes, then there’s good news for you.

And the good news is Acts 7:20.

“At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house,” Acts 7:20 (ESV)

“At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months.” Acts 7:20 (NKJV)

God's Plan

Do you see it? 

This is the Word of God settling all your fears.

God was well pleased with Moses, even before he could do anything for God.

God is pleased with you, whether you do anything for Him or not. 

Your mistakes cannot cause God to hate you because His love for you is based on the fact that He is love.  

The moment Moses was born, he was pleasing to God. The moment you are born again, you are pleasing to God; you become His child, and He becomes your Father. And no matter what you do in life, that will never change. 

When He looks at you, He sees a reflection of Jesus in you. He is so awed that you look like Jesus, and that you are carrying the DNA of God Himself. 

Imagine a baby in the hands of a father. The father is in love with the child because the child is a part of him. That’s how God looks at you. 

As a mother, I love my children because they are from me. It doesn’t depend on what they do or don’t do in life. And, that’s how God is. 

So never fear that you will miss out on God’s plan, because His love for you will never change. 

That means, when you fall, His love will always draw you back. If a child falls, the first person to run towards the child is the father or the mother. They don’t like to see the child hurt, so they will make sure that the child is ok and that he is restored back. That’s how God is.

God has invested too much in you to let you go, or to allow the enemy to fool you by bringing in fears. He has invested in you too much to let disappointments bog you down. 

So, let every fear of missing out on God’s plan be removed from your heart. Irrespective of what you do in life, you are a part of His heart. You are pleasing to Him, and this is the point from where God wants you to function.

XOXO
Author Kim Dsouza

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What Is Worship Really? A Powerful Revelation on Takeover

What Is Worship Really? A Powerful Revelation on Takeover

Some time ago, I was worshiping God, and He gave me a definition of worship. Want to know what worship really is? It’s TAKEOVER! In the spiritual realm, worship is takeover!  

When you praise God, what you are really doing is you are fighting. Your praise is the weapon with which you fight the enemy. 

But as you keep praising, there comes a point when worship comes out of your heart. At this point, you enter into a phase of takeover. In the spiritual realm, this is the point when the battle is given to you.

That means the more your capacity to worship, the more you takeover.

worship, takeover

Some months ago, we had a worship session for 3 hours. Until then, when I stood for a long time, my lower back would begin to hurt. 

But that day because I had received this revelation before the worship session, the way I worshipped completely changed! Now I want to worship more because I realized I’m taking over what the enemy was trying to steal. 

Child of God,.worship is an ambush! It’s a surprise attack on your enemy. So, never lose your worship, no matter what situation you are in When your problems look big, worship. Because, that’s when you’re taking over. 

When Job lost everything, he might have not understood why things were going wrong, but the Bible says that Job “worshipped” (Job 1:20). That’s when he began to takeover. 

In the physical realm, he may have not seen the manifestation immediately. But, in the spiritual realm, when he genuinely worshipped God, that’s when he began to takeover. 

Job must have got this idea from Abraham. Because when God told Abraham to sacrifice his son, the devil tried everything to stop him from doing it. 

But Abraham said, “we are going to worship” (Genesis 22:5). And that’s when takeover really happened. 

Your TAKEOVER lies in your worship.

Now that you have understood worship from God’s perspective, may your worship go to the next level, where you begin to TAKEOVER!

Some months ago, we had a worship session for 3 hours. Until then, when I stood for a long time, my lower back would begin to hurt. 

But that day because I had received this revelation before the worship session, the way I worshipped completely changed! Now I want to worship more because I realized I’m taking over what the enemy was trying to steal. 

Child of God,.worship is an ambush! It’s a surprise attack on your enemy. So, never lose your worship, no matter what situation you are in When your problems look big, worship. Because, that’s when you’re taking over. 

When Job lost everything, he might have not understood why things were going wrong, but the Bible says that Job “worshipped” (Job 1:20). That’s when he began to takeover. 

In the physical realm, he may have not seen the manifestation immediately. But, in the spiritual realm, when he genuinely worshipped God, that’s when he began to takeover. 

Job must have got this idea from Abraham. Because when God told Abraham to sacrifice his son, the devil tried everything to stop him from doing it. 

But Abraham said, “we are going to worship” (Genesis 22:5). And that’s when takeover really happened. 

Your TAKEOVER lies in your worship.

Now that you have understood worship from God’s perspective, may your worship go to the next level, where you begin to TAKEOVER!

XOXO

Author Kim Dsouza

God is Not Fighting Your Desires, This is…

God is Not Fighting Your Desires, This is…

Many of us have desires that we are waiting to see fulfilled in our lives. And sometimes when we don’t see those desires fulfilled, it becomes easy to think that God is fighting our desires and we start doubting His goodness.

But it is not God who is fighting your desires. In fact, He says in His Word, “Delight in Me and I will give you the desires of your heart.” (Psalm 37:4)

Actually it’s ‘YOUR’ desires that are fighting you!

That’s because those desires were not conceived right. Our desires are either birthed from our intimacy with God or from the world.

DEsires

Desires that come from intimacy with God

God called Abraham His friend, and in that sweet friendship, God told him, “I’m going to make you a great nation,” and “Your children will be as numerous as the stars in the sky” (Gen 12:2, Gen 26:4).

With that, God placed a desire in Abraham’s heart. It was birthed in intimacy with God.

Desires that come from the world

You see, every time God spoke, He spoke to Abraham, and not directly to Sarah. So what did Sarah do? Right after Abraham received the promise from God, Sarah told Abraham to sleep with Hagar, and Ishmael was born (Genesis 16:2).

In that moment of weakness, Sarah looked around and saw everyone else with children and there was birthed a desire for a child. It was a good desire, but it didn’t come from her intimacy with God, and that’s why it ended up as a mistake.

So how does it apply practically to you?

Most of us are getting our desires from the world – from YouTube and Instagram, and it may even seem good – like the desire for success in ministry. But then those desires cause us to push to “make things happen”, like Sarah, and ending up in chaos and confusion.

How to Receive God-desires for Your Life?

God wants you to take your desires from Him, and not from your community or social media. So, in this season, spend more time with the Holy Spirit and you will begin to get unique desires. And the best part is, He who began it, will bring it to completion. He will not only meet, but exceed your expectations.

Now, isn’t that a better way?

 XOXO
Author Kim D’Souza

Why Choose Christ-Minded Friends Over Like-Minded Friends?

Why Choose Christ-Minded Friends Over Like-Minded Friends?

We prefer surrounding ourselves with people who agree with us and make us comfortable, don’t we? These friends that we choose more often than not, reflect the condition of our heart and more importantly, will influence the person we are going to be tomorrow.

 That’s why more than like-minded friends, we need Christ-minded friends! You need to surround yourself with those who think more like Jesus and less like you.

 The Bible says in Proverbs 13:20, “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.”

Who is a Christ-Minded friend?

So you may be wondering, what is a Christ-minded friend like? Proverbs 11:30 says, “he who wins souls is wise” – this can only be a hallmark of a Christ-minded friend.

Christ-minded friends are friends who genuinely love the Word and who can correct you in the ways of God. As David says in Psalm 119:63 NLT, “I am a friend to anyone who fears you— anyone who obeys your commandments.”

When David committed adultery with Bathsheba, it was his friend Nathan the prophet who confronted him and that opened David’s eyes to the blunder he had made.

“Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” (Proverbs 27:17)

Christ-minded friends are precious because they are not afraid to challenge you to look more like Jesus, speak more like Him, and be more like Him.

The Bible says, An honest answer is the sign of true friendship (Proverbs 24:26).

Another example of godly friendships is Daniel and his three God-fearing friends, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. They were brought to Babylon as captives, but in their friendship they stood together against all odds – whether being in danger of annihilation by King Nebuchadnezzar, or whether being thrown in the fire for their faith.

The end result of their lives? God raised them to influential positions in the province of Babylon next only to the king.

Oh the sweet joy of godly friendships where your faith and love for Jesus becomes contagious and together you start influencing the world around you.

 

Choose Friendships That Will Keep You in the Perfect Will of God

 

You see, “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labour: if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.” (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)

There is nothing greater than to be in the center of God’s will for your life – that’s where you will find success and abundance of joy flowing into your career, marriage, family, ministry and everything that is connected to you. Christ-minded friends will drive you into this!

This season let’s evaluate our friendships. Are they pushing us closer to Jesus, or are they drawing us away from Him? Remember, the friends you choose to keep will influence not only your present but also our future. So, choose well!

Want more guidance in the area of friendship? Check out this ebook “5 Lies You Believed About Your Friends”, by Author Kim D’Souza. You can buy it here.

XOXO

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