After the Tears – Encouraging Yourself

‘Encouraging yourself has to become a priority in your life to win!’ –@rkblue

If you’ve been in a battle emotionally, physically, spiritually or emotionally…or perhaps all of the above then I’ve got good news–there’s hope beyond your discouragement. Everyone and I mean everyone has moments, days, weeks, months, and sometimes years where you don’t feel like you’re winning at life.

There’s more to life than just moving from one struggle to the next–more than just moving from one trial to the next. Check out this message to learn meaningful ways you can start changing the course of life today.

Take some notes, grab a Bible and prepare for life to change.

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Time to Get UP!

Proverbs 24: 16 No matter how many times you trip them up, God-loyal people don’t stay down long; Soon they’re up on their feet.

It’s time to get up…you’ve been down long enough and God is for you so noone can keep you down except…you! Reach up–speak up–worship up–pray up—whatever it takes—get up!! You have all you need to move forward in the promise of grace, favor and blessing–surrounded by God’s peace!! It starts today! this moment! You’re READY!!

Working Behind the Scenes

All is not lost when you don’t “see” or “feel” movement. God does His work by faith which means we are not always invited behind the scenes to see what He’s up to–we’re commanded to trust Him. Trust doesn’t remove our responsibility to press in and seek Him through His word, prayer, and worship –it simply removes the worry and anxiety that somehow if we don’t know every single step…God might mess things up. The certainty of God is that no matter the outcome–He is still God, He is still Good, and He still loves you and will work it out for your Good. Stand on that and be encouraged!!

Randy K. Blue

Don’t Give Up!

Be encouraged today…God sees what you’re going through and what’s ahead. He didn’t cause the trouble, the pressure, and the heartache so don’t direct your frustration and anger towards Him. In this moment quiet your soul and pray…in this moment worship…and prepare for God’s amazing peace and supernatural strength to cover you and lift you. Your Best Days are Ahead!! Don’t give up!!

Randy K. Blue

 

As a Man Thinks…Life Follows

Nothing we do in life occurs without Thinking about it first.  There are some things that happen to us that we never think about, but that’s outside of our control in many cases. I’m talking about the things that we do control –such as our outlook, perspective, attitude, will, choices, and thoughts. We have the awesome opportunity every day, every hour to drive our life towards something we can actually enjoy and love or towards something we dread.  It’s the matter of “THINK” and life will follow.  This is more than just positive thinking–it’s transformational thinking because it involves faith in God and not in what we believe we can do on our own. Trusting God’s thoughts as a foundation for my thoughts—makes me better in every dimension.  Commit to trying this for one week and see if you can tell the difference. Let me know how it goes.

Blessings,

Randy K. Blue

 

 

It’s Time For My Breakthrough

 

Click here to watch the message – It’s Time For My Breakthrough

This is a special message birthed from spending time with the Holy Spirit and truly hearing His heart for us not to waste another day. That Breakthrough is His desire for us everyday, not just “someday” or “when we go into a New Year” or new job, or new relationship.  The goodness of God is so expansive and so complete that there is absolutely nothing that He hasn’t already considered for us each and every day. Abundant living is not waiting for “it” to eventually happen…it’s knowing God each and every day. Not coincidentally that’s the same definition of Eternal life.

“God’s idea of abundant living is for us to be just as excited about seeing a New Day, as we are about seeing a New Year.”–@RKBLUE

In the message, I outline 4 clear Keys to Living a Breakthrough Life!

Grab your Bible, a note pad or tablet, iPad, phone a good comfortable seat and get ready for your LIFE TO CHANGE as you BELIEVE!!

Blessings and Peace,

Randy K. Blue

 

 

Living a Life of Thanksgiving

Living a Life of Thanksgiving – Sermon by Randy K. Blue –Click here to watch

There’s a familiar story in the Bible from Luke 17:11-19 (AMP) about 10 lepers who were healed by Jesus, yet only one of them returned to give thanks and acknowledge what the Lord had done for him.  Like all scriptures, this is something that we can gain powerful insight and lessons for living in a way that pleases God and truly makes a difference in how we experience life.  That life of course includes the good things and the bad things that happen.  In this season of Thanksgiving, our hearts are in a mixed state–many are celebrating and preparing for family, feasting, and fun. While other dread the mere mention of the holiday with memories of lost loved ones, painful dysfunction of family relationships, or the overwhelming weight of loneliness because there’s no family around.

The Holy Spirit of God is in this message to help you understand in brief order that there’s always something to understand about God.  He is with you–and cares about you and knows where you are RIGHT NOW and what’s to come.  Those in Christ are promised tremendous promises of His peace, power, and presence regardless of what you’re dealing with during this holiday and beyond. Let’s learn some lessons from the one leper who returned to Jesus–here’s four things to consider in LIVING A LIFE OF THANKSGIVING:

1) RETURN – this is to go back and remember that when you called out for Jesus to have mercy, He not only heard you–He delivered it with the power of His word. His mercies for us are new every morning so everyday there’s an opportunity to remember His goodness. I don’t know about you, but I need that fresh mercy daily.  All the lepers had faith in Jesus’s word that sent them to see the priest and show themselves as cleansed according to the word of God from Leviticus. Yet there was only one leper that RETURNED to Jesus when he realized that he had been cleansed and RETURNED to the ONE who had cleansed him. This acknowledgement alone triggered a set of events that would change his life forever–so the question for you–have you RETURNED (REMEMBERED) the one who showed you new mercy today?

2) RECOGNIZE -this is to re-cognize… to re-think the present circumstances and situations and see it from the perspective of God. He is still in control and He is still Sovereign.  You’re recognizing like the leper that the Lord has given you the gift of life and that warrants an expression of GRATITUDE toward the one who sees what you’re dealing with and has not abandoned you.

3) GIVE THANKS – the leper responded to Jesus with THANKS (over and over again) after his RETURN and after he RECOGNIZED that he had been cleansed from his leprosy. The word of God tells us that we should “Give Thanks to the Lord for He is Good; His love endures forever” According to Psalm 100 (MSG) – Thanks is the password to God’s presence. As we deal with life and wondering what we have to be thankful about…we have to reconcile our feelings with our faith. We’re helped by Philipians 4:6-7 that says, “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.”  I’m excited about that word because the promise of God kicks in after we’ve given THANKS with “peace that passes all of our understanding”

4) GIVE PRAISE – the leper didn’t stop with just giving THANKS and neither should we when we have an opportunity to be in the Lord’s presence. Thanks get us into His presence, PRAISE is what will keep Him there…and in HIS presence is fullness of Joy and at His right hand pleasures that don’t end. Living a Life of Thanksgiving is incomplete without your PRAISE. Don’t let fear or concern about whether what you’ve prayed about will happen in the timeframe you expect. God’s got His own perfect view and timeframe–our PRAISE refreshes us from the weight and burden of anticipating the change in circumstances and allows us to focus on enjoying intimacy with God.

This is not a restrictive word or opportunity–it’s open to anyone who has faith to believe in Christ. Watch the message via the link  and let me know how it impacted your perspective.

Blessings,

Randy K. Blue

The Most Important Factor to Your Success

Excellence is never achieved through random efforts. That’s why you’ll never find an accidental champion, an undetermined billionaire, a disinterested innovator, a non-strategic visionary. In every one of these examples, the opportunity to “just get by” is presented—and not chosen. Why? Because their better than most of us…? Or rather is it because they’ve chosen to give their best efforts to a dream, a goal, a plan, an idea bigger than themselves? Only the EXCELLENT will discover that answer.

I’m in…what about you?

Randy K. Blue

Time To Rise – 3 Things to Consider as You Move Through Your Valley

Time to Rise – 3 Things to Consider as You Move Through Your Valley (click the link for the full message)

Time To Rise – Sermon by Pastor Randy K. Blue

On Wednesday night, I had the opportunity to share one of those life changing messages that God gives you to make an impact in the lives of people. I know it’s that kind of word because I’ve lived it myself and experienced everything that I deal with in this message.  Dashed hopes, dreams that from all accounts look dead, depression, fear and the things that most of us encounter, but don’t always deal with effectively. If you’re like me–then you ask at some point “when do I begin living an abundant life that Christ promised?”  We begin living that way when we trust God and navigate through the valleys of life remaining close to Him and ready to not simply pass through—we come through stronger, wiser, more humble, more committed, and hopeful.  Here’s some special notes that will help you as you consider this Word from God.  Let me know if it blesses you and how I can pray for you as you deal with your valleys. 

3 Things to Consider as You Move Through Your Valley:

1) Stop Complaining about your valley and start prophesying to it

How do I start, what does this look like, what do I say?

Start by simply looking in the mirror and begin speaking to yourself and reminding yourself of the promises of God. David Psalm 143:7 Depression deepens

• “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”
• “Lord I know you’re with me and you’ll never leave me nor forsake me”
• “Greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world”
• “I am more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus”
• “I forgive so that my Father in heaven can forgive me”
• “I seek the Lord, and He answers me and delivers me from all my fears”
• “God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind”

This isn’t simply voicing words, or reciting something like a magic spell, this is wielding the most powerful force in the universe and that is the “active, living, creative Word of God that is able to shift and alter the very substance of what we see in the natural and things that we only see by faith in the spirit.

2) Don’t stop prophesying when the process takes longer than you think it should

This is the area that traps more people in their valleys than any other factor. We have an expectation of time and God operates outside of time. His perspective is on what you are becoming and not on the amount of time. Don’t get me wrong, what God says has a perspective of time, but God is never bound by time.  He does what He does in DUE TIME, His APPOINTED TIME,

Ezekiel 37:7-8 “So I spoke this message, just as He told me. Suddenly as I spoke, there was a rattling noise all across the valley. The bones of each body came together and attached themselves as complete skeletons. Then as I watched, muscles and flesh formed over the bones. Then skin formed to cover their bodies, but they still had no breath in them.”

3) Your job is to obey and prophesy – God’s Spirit is the One who brings life

 …but they still had no breath in them…

 God can do Suddenly and often demonstrates immediate results. What I’ve seen more often are situations that sometimes takes days, months, years. As Pastors, we’re not doing you a service by saying every time you’re going to see the turnaround in one day. Help yourself by not trying to play “Holy Spirit Jr.” and trying to fix things yourself. That always proves disastrous because we’ll never have the full perspective that God has and wants to use in order to help us move through the valleys successfully.

Your attitude can turn around in one day, even if the situation or circumstance doesn’t change for a while after that day.  A key for us is to remain connected to the LORD and what HE is saying, just as Ezekiel did…

Ezekiel 37:9 “Then He said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man, Speak a prophetic message and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.’”  Ezekiel 37:10 So I spoke the message as He commanded me, and breath came into their bodies. They all came to life and stood up on their feet—a great army.

Randy K. Blue

A Leader’s Keys to POWER

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A Leaders Keys to POWER

P – PRAYER
O – OBEDIENCE
W – WORSHIP
E – ENDURANCE
R – RELATIONSHIPS

Jesus made the promise to give us this power and authority in Matthew 16:18 when he said to Peter: “The gates of Hades will not be able to withstand or withhold the advancing church.” Jesus was going to build his church on this revelation of who He is… The church was going to advance. The gates of Hades could not withstand it.
Jesus is saying that he who is in us is greater than he who is in the world. His power is greater than the power of the enemy. When there is a head-on conflict between the power of the enemy and the power of God, the power of the enemy will lose every time.
How do we then live and walk in this power and authority?

Ephesians 1:18-22 (NIV) 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church

Power of Christ described as Supreme, unlimited, over all flesh, over all things, glorious, everlasting, able to subdue all things, it’s exhibited in creation, upholding all things, salvation, His teaching, working miracles, enabling others to work miracles, forgiving sins, giving spiritual life, giving eternal life, raising the dead, raising himself from the dead!!!

Key 1 to POWER: P – Prayer

Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees. ~ Corrie Ten Boom
James 5:16-18 declares, “…The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Corinthians 10:4-5 “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ

The power of prayer is not the result of the person praying. Rather, the power resides in the God who is being prayed to and believed in.

Key 2 to POWER: O – Obedience

Have you ever made a decision to obey God as a way of life? I’m not talking about obeying once in a while but in every area to the best of your knowledge and ability. Or do you find that there are times when you struggle to do what you know is right and in keeping with His principles?

If we’re honest, there are times when all of us deal with this dilemma. Many times its not that we don’t know what the truth of God’s will is, but it may be that we want to do what we want to do. Secretly we hope that somehow we’ll get by…that’s not the way. Not only because it has consequences but also because it has some additional impacts:

• Robs us of Confidence
• Pushes us away from talking with God – Prayer

Deut 28: 1-3“If you diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country

Key 3 to POWER: W – Worship

William Booth the founder of the Salvation Army used to say: “If a church was on fire for God, people for miles would come to watch it burn.” To paraphrase Booth: If believers experience the fire of God’s worship then lost people would be drawn to God like a moth to the flames.

In this house we emphasize worship as a lifestyle. It’s an understanding and experience of the all consuming and abiding presence of God.

We are the temple and He manifests His power in us and through us. Lay aside your troubles, your anxieties, your fears, and your cares. Celebrate God’s gift of mercy and grace; God’s touch of forgiveness; God’s power to lift you out of the slimy pits of life; God’s provision to set you on firm footing. Sing a new song. Sing a hymn of praise.

Worship releases the POWER of God – a declaration and proclamation that God “YOU are first in my life!”

Key 4 to POWER: E – ENDURANCE

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

NLV (New Life Version) 12 Our fight is not with people. It is against the leaders and the powers and the spirits of darkness in this world. It is against the demon world that works in the heavens. 13 Because of this, put on all the things God gives you to fight with. Then you will be able to stand in that sinful day. When it is all over, you will still be standing. 14 So stand up and do not be moved.

The true lesson of endurance is not how strong or weak we are–its true lesson is that with God’s power we can endure anything–@RKBLUE

Key 5 to POWER: R – RELATIONSHIPS

Personal union with Christ gives believers this same divine power (Hebrews 6:5).

(2 Peter 1:3)3 We have everything we need to live a life that pleases God. It was all given to us by God’s own power, when we learned that he had invited us to share in his wonderful goodness.

(2 Timothy1: 6-7) 6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

He imparts His resurrection power to each of us the moment we believe so that we, too, can overcome the enemy, proclaim the message of the gospel, produce the “fruit of the Spirit” and persevere to the end.

(1 Cor 2:1-5 )When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.