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A Marriage Of God Last Forever

September 4, 2010 by admin 1 Comment

 There is a distinct difference between a marriage that is of God and marriage that is of the flesh. A marriage that is of the flesh lacks the spiritual connection that is of God and without the spiritual connection in our relationship the physical connection will never experience the depths of love that will get us through. It is vital that we recall that everything in the physical life is only here for a season and everything that we receive in the spiritual life last for eternity.

 So many times when we do not properly understand the Word of God we allow ourselves to make decisions that are based solely in our own emotions or we tend to make decisons that only serve our self. Our emotions are very deceiving especially when we feel as if we are being pressured to make a decision due to our immediate desires or due  to giving in to the pressures of something else.

 In the eyes of a human we tend to not understand the difference between a commitment in the flesh and a marriage that is of God. This is why the divorce rate here in America is so high due to relying on the physical connection that is destined to change and never making the spiritual connection that last forever. Without the spiritual connection of God our marriages are vulnerable to the world and they often become lifeless because they fail to allow God to keep them alive. There is a constant spiritual battle here on earth with Satan to separate us from what God gives in the love that we have because of his own separation from the Kingdom of God.

 As a child of God we know the feeling of true love in our hearts but when we do not know the ingredients in the Word of God that make up the glue that holds it all together we often allow ourselves to be placed in a form of bondage through our fleshly commitments in search of the love that we know. True love is only given by God and maintained through His Son Jesus Christ and when we make commitments that are not driven by God then we are setting ourselves up for a divorce in the future.

 We are all susceptible to the deception of Satan and tend to fall at times to the things that we think that we see due to the way that we feel. This lesson is taught throughout the Holy Bible and especially taught in the life of Isaac and his two sons Jacob and Esau. Within this lesson we study four different characters with two that devised a plan to rob the other two of the blessing that they had received. There were decisions made out of desperation, pressures, and deception to achieve certain objectives without trusting in God and taking matters into their own hands. The decision that was guided by Rebekah the wife of Isaac to have Jacob deceive his father caused a division in the family for several years until Jacob humbly returned home in hopes to restore what had been broken. This is the whole message of God to each of us here today, “For when we humble ourselves and trust in God He will not only restore our lives but He will give us the direction to move forward once again.”  

 With God in our life there is constant growth that allows us to see things that others can not. The object in this life is to learn how to stand on our own under God without allowing the spiritual influence of Satan to misguide our actions.  What God gives us in our marriages is a blessing that we know only comes from God but there is also a spiritual lesson that we are to learn and that is how two can become one in the mind and soul. Once we learn this then we are on the way to learning about the Trinity that makes our lives complete in the Kingdom of God.

  For when we learn to wait on God and seek His will in everything that we do is when we will discover the peace that only He provides…amen

James Harrison

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Filed Under: Marriage, Raising Children, Spiritual Growth, The Church Voice Tagged With: 700 club, American Family radio, balanced life, Balanced Life Ministry, divorce, God, godtv, jacob, James Harrison, Jesus Christ, life, Marriage, special delivery book, the purpose driven church

The Spirit Of God Is Calling Out

August 6, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

 God teaches us that our actions display in whom we serve whether being our self, Satan or the Kingdom of God. When we drift away from the Lord it becomes very easy to neglect our responsibilities under God and neglect how we are serve others instead of ourselves. Why is it that we see so many churches chasing one another and trying to make the grand event? Why do so many Christians speak on having faith and trusting in God while their barns are full and overlook the needs of those in the crowd? Why is it that we complain about our government getting larger when the overall church is getting smaller? What is wrong with this picture?

 Do you think maybe we as Christians have neglected our responsibilities under God and passed on to others what we do not want to do?  The world says we need money stored up for rainy days while Jesus says to have faith and trust in God to supply our needs.  How long must we continue to sleep before we Wake Up to the Truth and help rebuild what the world has torn down? God has already given us everything we need to rebuild our nation here in America and until we quit fighting within ourselves and begin to love our neighbors as thyself America is only going to continue to lose what we have been given.

 Join me in prayer daily for God to open our eyes once again as One Nation Under God that was founded for the people and not for ourselves. For when we begin to help each other however God provides is when this nation will begin to rebuild and Stand again…amen  

   “A person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.” Luke 12

James Harrison

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Filed Under: Balanced Life Ministry, Church Assistance, Daily Growth, Economics & Finance, Leadership Forum, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: 700 club, america, American Family radio, balanced, balanced life, Balanced Life Ministry, for the peole, God, James Harrison, life, nehemiah, sara palin going rogue tour, special delivery, the purpose driven church, tithes, wealth

Unconditional Love Carries Us Forward

July 19, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

 Learning to love in the body of Christ is not something that comes easily in our flesh at times due to our human nature. The Lord teaches us to look beyond what we see in the physical to recognize the love of God in the spiritual. 

 The love of God is something that we can’t explain but when we open our hearts and learn to trust in Him to hold it all together is when the miracles of God can carry us forward. We all go through things in life and experience things that we may wish could have been different, but when we learn to recognize how God has brought us through is when we realize that God’s love is not only for a select few…amen

James Harrison

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Let’s Go Fishing On The Way Home

July 17, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

  It is very sad how so many individuals are displaying how they care more about themselves than the welfare of others. Where is the care and compassion within the family today that is truly reaching out to those in need and going the extra mile to show others how to properly serve within the Kingdom of God? Have the righteous  forgotten how to get down in the trenches and have those in the trenches allowed Satan to spiritually hold them down because they feel like they can’t stand up?

 Many people have allowed Satan to spiritually cause them to fall in fears, have lack of trust, lack of belief, and lack of understanding in the miracles of God that can take place when we truly display the love of Jesus in our words and actions with one another. There is nothing in this world that can compare to the encouragement that we receive and that we can give to others when we display the works of God within our life to help someone else with theirs.

 The Lord is challenging us in this message to recognize the division within the church body that has taken place due to our own lack of obedience in the Word of God and the partiality that has caused a separation between the people. When we look around it is easy to see how the rich have separated from the poor and the poor have separated from the rich due to both groups neglecting how we are all the same under God and how we are to work together in the body of Christ.

 Jesus did not tell us in Mattew 13 that the Kingdom of Heaven was only a net that caught certain types of people. He said,” The Kingdom of God is like a fishing net that was thrown into the water and caught fish of EVERY kind!” Jesus did not say this net is for the rich ones, this net is for the pretty ones, this net is for the academic ones, this net is for the poor ones, nor is this net is for any certain elect! He said,“Again, the Kingdom of God is like a fishing net that was thrown into the water and caught EVERY kind. When the net was full they dragged it up onto the shore, sat down, and sorted the good fish into crates but threw the bad ones away.“

 What determines a good fish from a bad fish? Is it their color? Is it their size? Is it where they have been? Or, is it how they have learned to use what God has given them for His glory and not their own while learning to be carried to shore? Can you imagine what it would be like in that net with the fish that knew they were headed to their final resting place? No more currents, no more waves, no more sharks, and no more sting rays. Plenty of pure water with food that never stops and plenty of light through the love of Jesus Christ.

 It is my sincere prayer that we recognize how to come together in the body of Christ to work together for our children’s future. The net is being pulled in the spirit of God towards the shore and it is time that we quit causing resistance in the body by learning to work together for who we are as a child of God rather than acting like we all have a net of our own…amen     

 God blesses us so we can bless others and if we are not sharing our blessings then we need to ask ourselves whom we are really serving?

James Harrison

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How To Reach The Other Side With Jesus

July 16, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

 What difference can you see in the ministry of Jesus Christ verses the ministry of many of the ministries today? Did Jesus walk out on a balcony and just wave to the people? Did He pull up to the front door of the temple where everyone would be sure to see His stallion that He rode in? Did He separate Himself from the sinners and only hang out with those that made Him look good? Did Jesus have those that were in need to answer a survey to make sure they qualified before He would help? What did Jesus do even when He was tired and the children just wanted to sit in His lap? Did Jesus have check His schedule when someone came to Him in need? How did Jesus hold back from the people that were hungry when there wasn’t enough in the physical eye to go around? Did Jesus have to advertise for people to come? Or, did He try to attract the people with something of the world to keep their attention?  

 Our Lord and Saviour taught us to spend time with each other regardless of our background in unconditional love for one another without allowing something in the flesh to stand in the way. He also taught us how to keep peace and how trust in God for the outcome rather than trying to control something ourselves. The spirit of God is what draws the people and this is what Jesus taught us to recognize rather than what we physically see because all we have to do is believe. 

  Until we learn how to quit playing church and begin to follow the Gospel as God directs we are going to continue the moral decline in our society! There is more to the ministry of God than just going to church on Sunday and then living as we choose through the week. The Lord teaches us to plant the Word in our hearts and carry it out to the people for others to see the light in the darkness of this world.

 Just because the world tries to dictate the removal of God on the outside they can never remove what we have on the inside! I challenge you to share your blessings with others in your homes, in your work, and in your church for others to see what God is doing in your life in order to recognize the momentum in the spirit of God that carries us forward…amen

  For until we learn to walk together without disputing over our positions which are determined by God we will only continue to wander in the wilderness without the direction to reach the other side…

James Harrison 

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Moving Forward At The Outpost…

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The Lord recently led me from my daily writings at BLM, to living it out in faith, at a little place on the edge of the TN River called The Outpost located in Pickwick, TN.

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