Oct 4, 2013
JUST CLAIMING IT
I first wrote this devotion July 10, 2013 but the subject fits in with my three part devotional on stretching your faith to the limit through Christ. Tomorrow it will end with JUST CLAIMING IT ll, PLANTING THE HEDGES FOR GOD
Increase my territory Lord Out of All of Gods promises I ask for. Good friends are at the top of the list, and not for the sake of having friends. But Godly Christian friends, friends who will always encourage you in Gods name and His name only. Who’s mission on earth is like yours and that is to finish up God’s work here on earth, so we who believe and have faith in a Crucified, and risen Savior may live throughout eternity in His pure and holy kingdom.
Today, it was good Christian friends of mine who were the inspiration for my title for my Devotional, JUST CLAIM IT, As they conveyed their unique story about 
CLAIMING IT, and how through there Faith and dedication to Jesus Christ and Him Crucified there prayers and vision was answered.
It begins with them looking for a new home, upon finding one it was already occupied by someone in fact it was designed and built by the developer who built the subdivision where the house was located, so With him being a builder, and a developer it had everything a family could ask for. Soon He died and his family moved in.
But a year later they put it up for sale. My friends applied to get the house along with many others who were interested, but as Christians they claimed it in Jesus name, but not saying the other potential buyers were not Christians either.
Each day they would go to the house walk around, sit on the porch, and at times wave at there soon to be new neighbors sometimes at the door greeting other potential buyers as they came in. They even went so far as to take the measurement for curtains and other accessories for there JUST CLAIM IT new home.
But to make a long story short God blessed them with this beautiful home, and at a price that only God could have taken over the negotiations. But they were not too surprised because they had already CLAIMED IT in Gods name.
Today I go to Joshua to one of God’s promises when I think of my friends story.Joshua 24:13-15 “So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant. “Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness………..
then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve…….. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” My friends our God is so willing to bless your life and open doors for you that you did not think would ever be possible. Paul say’s in Ephesians 3:20 “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
according to his power that is at work within us.” Luke also states in Luke 11:9-10…… “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” But it is all about CLAIMING IT in Gods name.
John 15:7 says If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. The good news today! There is a king of kings and a Lord of Lords who is named Jesus Christ. And He has declared that every blessing recorded in His word is available to you for the asking.
But most of the time, You have not because you ask not. Ask now and receive the blessings that God the Father ordained specifically for you since the beginning of time. but there is another side to JUST CLAIMING IT also. When you do ask God for something. The key to you getting it most of the time is, it needs to be all about God and His glory.
James states it best in James 4:3 “When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” So my friends today have faith in our God and start living a life saturated in overwhelming blessings that focuses on Gods needs and not yours.
Each faithful follower of Christ is born with a pure connection to God. But As we move around in this sinful world and we become more attached to earthly things, that connection weakens, and is sometimes broken. That is why our focus must be forever on Christ, His word, and Him Crucified.
So each day remind yourself that Salvation is a gift if we choose to accept it. Life will always bring it’s challenges, but there is always Gods blessings. Some of the many blessings God gives could be just a heartfelt knowledge of yourself and learning that you are stronger than you thought, because you gave it all to the Master,
Or it could be that God is teaching you grace in a way you never expected. Or it could just be a beautiful house, that each day you wake up and realize it was a gift from God and your thanks to Him will be to serve Him, and give Him all the glory and honor each day of your life.
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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