People are looking for changes. This episode is about what changes lives and like the lyrics say in a song sung by Brian Duncan and the Sweet Comfort Band, “changed hearts make changed lives and I see one in you.”
One day, Rick as was putting petrol in the RV traveling across Iowa, one of his RLS band members, Scotty Madison, came up to him and asked, “Rick, how do you know that God is real?” Rick said, “Scotty, I know God is real because I can see Him in you.”
An interesting question shows that sometimes even believers have questions and doubts. The battleground is not Armageddon, the battleground is in the mind. Satan knows it and he tries to beat us up in our mind with our thoughts. When your heart is changed, it begins to affect your mind in a great way. When you have a new heart, it sends out and pumps out new blood out into the body. When Jesus comes into your heart, He changes things. Jesus is the change maker.
When you have doubts, the simple answer is to rise up in faith and believe. Practically, start with the word of God, it is full of truth. Get the word of God in your mind, open your mind to dwell on it and meditate on it. Let the word of God go to work in your heart. Let the truth of God set you free. God understands when you doubt. So, go to Him and ask Him.
But be cautious when you start to get a doubt. Remember when Satan talked to Eve, he was placing a doubt in her mind about God. He even used God’s word to cause her to question what God said. Satan even used God’s word when tempting Jesus in the wilderness. Any thought that might cause you to think God is less than He is, less caring, less loving, less good, that is not from God. That is the enemy trying to get you think that God is not for you or maybe that He is not real.
If God is before you, who can be against you. Satan would like for you to believe that everything is against you. So, if your doubt questions aren’t answered right away, keep believing in faith of who God says He is in His word. Speak out truth, say it out loud. Don’t speak words of doubt, believe in who God is and what He can do. Believe you are a child of God and can ask and will receive answers to your doubts.
When you ask, seek and knock, God will give to you more than you can ask. He gives more than enough. When you seek, ask, and knock, you are taking action towards God. Doubting leads you away from God. When you ask God don’t doubt. Get aggressive with doubt. Stand up against it.
We live our lives like they are unessential. But our lives are essential. God gave us essential lives. God gives us essential work to do. We need to be out there doing the essential work. Don’t you want your life to be essential? Don’t you want to be significant? What is God stirring you up to do? What did He put you here for? Meditate and ask God about it.
Know Jesus, know peace. No Jesus, no peace. The peace of the world is temporary. Jesus’ peace is perfect where you are not worried, fearful, angry, anxious, or churred up inside. Put your trust in the Lord and rest peacefully. Bring your requests to Him, make them known, lay them before Him and a peace that surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and mind.
If you are not feeling peaceful inside, it should be a huge red flag to you. Seek diligently to get back to peace. Everyone wants peace in the whole world and in their personal lives. Jesus wants that peace for you too. He says to put your trust in Him and everything will fall into alignment.
If you have never asked Jesus into your heart, you can do it right where you are. You can say, “Jesus, I need that changed heart. I need that life where blood is coursing through my veins that comes from you Jesus.” Stop and ask Jesus into your heart. It doesn’t matter where you are. Recognize Him as supreme. Recognize Him as the change agent. Recognize Him as Jesus, Son of God, Savior of the world.
