Don’t mistake atmosphere for location. When you fill the atmosphere with complaining, faultfinding, and murmuring it's not inviting to the presence of God. The same is true with the Holy Spirit: atmosphere is everything.  The atmosphere of holiness, purity, praise, worship, prayer, love, and unity attracts the Holy Spirit—just as an atmosphere of lust, drunkenness, anger, and hatred attracts demonic spirits. If you are filled with the Holy Spirit, and He is dominating your life, then the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, self-control and gentleness—will become increasingly evident in your life (Galatians 5:22-23).

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Seeking first the Kingdom of Heaven means connecting to the source of life. It means pressing in to hear His active voice, reading His living word, and engaging in His power and present realities among us. When you turn your attention to those things, you turn on the power!

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Faith always moves us into action! Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Jonah, Nehemiah, Peter, Paul, and so many others had to go, obey, and open their mouths. We are called to live courageously and to put action to our faith. You may say, “I’m afraid!” The best way to break fear is to act. It is one thing to pray about a situation. It’s another thing to do something about it.

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Through praise and worship, David changed his focus. On the wings of a song his spirit was lifted above his present circumstances into the presence of the One who is high and lifted up. The Bible states it very matter-of-factly: “David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.” There was nothing about the circumstance that was encouraging, and if David had limited his focus to the present circumstance, he would surely have gone into a deep depression. In times of uncertainty and upheaval, God was David’s constant. Why? Because God doesn’t change. No matter what the circumstance, God is above it, seated upon the throne of sovereignty and holding the scepter of dominion.

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We will always come to places where discouragement is a choice. Like Zerubbabel, we need to confront those barriers with recognition of God’s grace in order to bring forth fruit and redemption to those circumstances.

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God wants to move you to a place of effectiveness and fruitfulness. Have you ever been in a desperate place of needing God to provide? Maybe you didn’t know where your next meal would come from, or how you would pay your rent or mortgage on time. In your deepest time of need, perhaps you cried out to God and He immediately provided in a miraculous way. I have been in this place more than once in my life, and it is amazing and remarkable to experience provision of this kind. It’s literally as if God is standing at your door and knocking! It’s one thing to be the the one asking for a blessing. It’s another thing entirely to be the one giving the blessings.

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There is only one light powerful enough to penetrate the human heart; Jesus, the Light of the world. We must all realize and confess our need for the light of God in our lives.

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When we ask God for things, we ask with thanksgiving. When we do that, His power becomes readily available to us in all situations and circumstances.

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Are you in a season where your word doesn’t match your world? Faith is trusting God no matter how impossible the odds are. Let me remind you that as a born-again believer you serve the same God Elisha served! He is the God of the impossible. Now is the time to make up your mind that you will believe Him for what seems to be impossible, and stop believing the lies of the enemy, who wants to see you defeated. It’s so important to be determined that you are going to get your edge back. Make up your mind!

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Have you bought into the lie that your anointing, your purpose, your dream, your family, your lost children are all gone forever? Are you facing dire circumstances? Have you lost a job, a home, or even respect and hope? I want to encourage you right now, God can still make iron float! Just like He did for the young prophet (2 King 6) He can return the edge you lost.

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"Many people are more than willing to give their opinion about God without first knowing Him. “Tasting God” means taking Him at His word."

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This week Scott shares a personal example about the power of learning to gaze upon Jesus. Enjoy!

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