Wednesday, November 23, 2011

I Found the Perfect Recipe.

Colossians 3:12-17; Psalm 23:5; 2 Corinthians 1:5; James 1:2; Job 41:22; Nehemiah 8:10; John 10:11, 10:14; Hebrews 13:20; Psalm 23:1; Joshua 1:8; Proverbs 13:22; Isaiah 43:19; Psalm 126:5, 30:5; Isaiah 53:5; Romans 8:15; 2 Timothy 1:7; 1 Peter 2:9; Romans 8:37-39; Psalm 27:13; Daniel 3:16-17; 1 Chronicles 4:10; Proverbs 24:16; Proverbs 3:5-6; John 3:16, 5:24, 6:27

We are walking in today: 
I  Found the Perfect Recipe.

Colossians 3:12-17 12) Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13) Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14) And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 15) And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. 16) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17)And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.  A cup of mercy, a cup of kindness, a cup of humbleness, a cup of meekness, a cup of forgiveness, a cup of longsuffering, and a cup of lovePsalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.  David said my cup runneth over!!  He was not talking about a small cup like a cup of coffee, he was talking about the "shepherd's cup".  A shepherd's cup is a large stone hallowed out so it can hold 30 to 40 gallons of water for the sheep.  God has given us a recipe for life--obeying His Word!  Place this on a recipe card or add this to your cookbook!  I know many of us when we were children enjoyed cooking or baking with our mother's.  I remember spending lots of time in the kitchen just watching my mother, trying to learn how to prepare some of my favorite foods.  My favorite thing to bake was sweet potato pie.  When I was old enough to try baking on my own, I quickly learned that the first thing I needed to do before I began was to find a good recipe.  My mother had a box of recipe cards that she had collected throughout the years, and she also had plenty of great cookbooks.  Why is it so important when you're baking to begin with a good recipe?  You do want it to turn out right? That's right! You have to know not only what ingredients to use, but also how much of each ingredient to use.  It's important to follow a recipe exactly if you want what you're baking to come out right each time.  It's important to know, that God has written the perfect recipe.  We are blessed because God gave us more than just the Bible to help us understand how to live a godly life.  He also gave us a perfect living example in His Son, Jesus Christ.  God sent Jesus to Earth to show us how to live and how to abide by God's rules.  God gathered the ingredients; God wrote the recipe; God gave us rules and God sent His Son, Jesus as a living example.  So that we live our lives in the way that He intended, according to His perfect recipe.  If we do that, we will live lives that are full of God's blessings!!!  Yea and Amen!!
Anybody need a new recipe this thanksgiving?  God comes with a word this morning, bringing us a cup of forgiveness, a cup of longsuffering and a cup of mercy.  Often times we don't want to go through--our recipe says that we are to count it all joy, the joy of the Lord is our strength--2 Corinthians 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.  James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptationsJob 41:22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.  Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.  God has given us the recipe--a cup of longsuffering, a cup of forgiveness, a cup of humbleness--with His recipe we can really live this life!  The cookbook for our lives is the Bible.  We can turn to Genesis to find our beginning, turn to Psalms and find out more about our relationship with God, in Revelation we have God being reveled even more unto us.  Being in relationship with God means that He is taking care of us and watching over us like a Good Shepherd does for His flock.  John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.  John 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.  1 Peter 2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.  Psalm 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.  That is why we can say that our cup runneth over, because, God who is our Shepherd provides for all of our needs!!  A recipe for worry.  Our cup runs over with His grace and His mercy!  He came that we would have life more abundantly, fiveamprayer!!  So pick up that cookbook and find a recipe to help you to stand!  He has promised us somethings and His word can not be reversed!  In this cookbook you will find recipes for grace, mercy, favor--He is God and He changes not!  Day after day, He is always the same!  His recipes always come out perfect, there is no trial and error--just follow as He instructs and you are guaranteed good success!  Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.  God knows what we need!  Thank You God for all of Your recipes, for this recession--Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.  Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.  A recipe for depression--Psalm 126:5They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.  Psalm 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.  Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.  Deuteronomy 31:8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.  Fiveamprayer, we do not have to be dismayed nor fearful, it is the Almighty God that goes in before us, never leaving us nor forsaking us!  Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.  2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind--recipe for fear.  Look through this cookbook and write down the recipes that you need in your life, write them down and read them over.  If you don't need them, someone around you surely does!    Thank You Jesus, for forgiving us and dying for our sins, then He getting up on the third day with all power in His hands, sitting at the right hand of the Father.  1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.  Thank You for choosing us and bringing us out of darkness, into Your marvelous light!!  God's recipes keep us holding on--Romans 8:37-39  37) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  38) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,  39) Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  He is our all in all, He makes us victorious, He is our Jehovah Jireh!  No matter what we are facing, we know that we serve a mighty God!  Like it says in Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.  We can stand on His word like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who answered the king--Daniel 3:16-17 16) Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.  17) If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.  Every recipe that we need is found in God--hold to His word!  He is doing a new thing!  His grace, His mercy, His kindness, His forgiveness, thank You for all that You have given us!  We come to thank You today Lord, like never before!!  Fiveamprayer, our Father has the recipe for anything that would come up in your life.  Just turn to the cookbook--the Bible and find out what His word says about it.  Because He is more than able and He has made us more than able to stand and overcome any and all tricks of the devil!!  We lift up prayer requests those known and unknown, have them to stand on Your cookbook and use Your recipes only!  Have them to know that whatever they need is all in Your word.  The same word that shall not come back void nor reversed.  Sounds like a tried and true, tested and guaranteed recipe to me!  Thank You for giving us a cup of forgiveness, there are some of us who are walking in unforgiveness.  Thank You for letting us know that we must apply that to our lives, so that our prayers be not hindered.  Thank You for forgiving us and teaching us how to forgive others.  Matthew 18:21-22 21) Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22) Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.  We lift up this prayer to you in the prayer of Jabez.  We know that there is power in prayer, we are to pray without ceasing.

We seal this prayer in His precious blood: 1 Chronicles 4:10
And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

Welcome to the overflow...
Oh I found the perfect recipe, His name is Jesus!  The name that is above every name that, every knee shall bow and tongue confess that He is Lord.  Tell someone today, I got the perfect recipe, it comes out perfect every time!  That is why you can stand and have peace in the storm.  God is doing a new thing.  Thank You for a cup of grace, mercy and meekness!  Thank You Lord!  Thank You Lord!  That is the kind of God that we serve!  Is your recipe in Genesis, Proverbs or Job?  We can go through the fire and come out not smelling of smoke!  Pick up the cookbook and turn to Revelation and find out who is the Alpha and the Omega?  He gets gooder and gooder!  His recipe comes out perfect every time!  Sealed in the blood of Jesus.  God left us with the best cookbook in the world!  There are recipes for sorrow, marriages, finances--it's all in the book!  He has perfect recipes just follow it!  Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.  He even has a recipe for when we fall!  Thank You Lord!!  We can get back up again!!  Write down the recipes that speak to your situation!  God is doing a new thing, shall ye not know it?!  From the book of Isaiah.  Proverbs 3:5-6  5) Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6) In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.  Recipe for figuring it out yourself.  Hallelujah God!!  Thanksgiving this year will look totally different.  Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.  Recipe for the devil.  John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto lifeJohn 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.  Our recipe for eternal life!  Start cooking now, He has given us daily bread!!  The perfect recipe, sealed in His blood!  Thank You God!!  Nobody but You can set this up like this!!  So many are looking for recipe to celebrate thanksgiving and You bring us a a word that lets us know where to find the prefect recipe!  God is the potter, and we are the clay--He can mend the broken pieces.  It is actually better to be broken that way we are not in the way, causing a delay.  Thank You for this word, a word of healing for our souls!  Come on and get into the cookbook!  Stand on this word, trust in this word, God never fails!  Any recipe that you need it is all in here!  Keep your cookbook and those recipes close, you may find that while cooking dinner for tomorrow, you get a call and need to share God's word with someone who is in need of the perfect recipe!  Thank You God!  Hallelujah!  Praise His holy name!!  Visit us on facebook and have a blessed day!  Don't forget to meet us back here tomorrow, we will find out what more God has for us, to be thankful for!!  Amen, amen!


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