Stay true to the word of God

Have you seen how easily our nation has been knocked off it's axis so to speak? From November's election to where we are today? Do others around you in your circle of influence seem to be shaking their heads or even stumbling along from day to day in fear?

Please, I know there are readers of Higher Grounds that did not vote the way I did, and this is not about who you or I voted for, but this is setting the tone for where God has me the past couple of days.

What I am getting at is how QUICKLY we take our eyes off of Jesus, or how QUICKLY we place them on Him. There is always a gimmick in our world, not just our nation! What is the gimmick about? The latest and greatest. New and improved. Throw out the old and toss in the new. I'm right and your wrong.

I know for me, God has really been pressing in and it hasn't been a fun time of refining. NOT FUN, do you grasp what I'm telling you Girlfriends and Guy friends? This refining is between my God and me. Convictions not condemnations. In the process of not swaying from the TRUTH of God's word, I have been placed in a situation with someone that I dearly love. I do NOT like hurting others, it is not my new nature, but an obedient heart to God is where I am today.

I want to encourage you that it is vital in the days we are living to be in God's word, to know His truth for yourself. That way when the enemy sneaks in to try to sway you a different direction, you can get in his face and say....NO NOT ON MY WATCH! I will NOT let you have my life. I will NOT let you have my family. I will NOT let you have my joy, my peace, my love for Christ Jesus. I will NOT let you have my marriage, I will NOT let you have my.....get it?

Stay true to the ONE TRUE GOD. Do not be swayed!

"If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you to live in that wicked men have arisen among you and have led the people of their town stray, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods you have not known), then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you" Deuteronomy 13:12-14 NIV

God's Word preaches on it's own. I am not adding to or subtracting from. By no means am I calling any one wicked....but God's Word is pretty black and white.

"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below." Exodus 20:2-4 NIV

Father, You are God. You brought me out of slavery and gave me freedom. You are MY God. I desire to be found connected to the Vine*. I need Your guidance each and every day Father, to not make an idol, not follow after idols, and to stay TRUE TO YOU AND YOUR WORD. Lord, direct my steps. In the saving name, the One and Only saving Name....Jesus Christ. Amen.

*John 15:5-8* But actually all of John 15 is full of promises and truths, and I encourage you to grab your own bible and seek for yourselves.*

"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. "

Lovingly as I reach for Higher Grounds,
Yolanda