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Monday, 4 October 2010

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Breakfast of Champions: Monday 4th October

Good morning, Champion – welcome to a new week!

Deep-rooted confidence

Hebrews 10:35-36
Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Jesus revealed the devil as a thief (John 10:10). He was and will always be a stinking thief, intent on stealing from God's people. What do thieves do? Steal things. What is he ever wanting to steal from you and me? The answer is simple: everything that God has given us which is good.

• Our peace (that peace that passes all human understanding and guards our hearts in Christ)

• Our joy (that force beyond mere happiness that keeps us strong in even the hardest of times)

• Our revelation of righteousness – Oh how he ever longs to get us back into the grind of performance and works.

But I think the one he really, really wants is our confidence – why? Because Hebrews says it is of great reward.

He wants to snatch from under you your confidence in:

• Who you are – your God-given identity (he is the greatest identity thief of them all)

• What you can do – your God-given potential

• And what you can have or expect – your God-given expectations.

Your godly confidence is of great reward, because when with confidence you endure (just keep on going) you will inherit (come into possession) what God has promised you. If the devil can get you to cast away your confidence then he can stop you inheriting all that God has for you. Don't let him!

Have you ever watched people walking around the shops? You can tell by how they hold and carry themselves those who have confidence and those who don't. Those with confidence have their heads lifted and their shoulders back, and they walk with steps that say "I belong here". That's how God wants you to walk through this day; His word should cause you to lift your head up, put back your shoulders and face the day and all it holds with courage and boldness because, as with Joshua so it is with you, GOD IS WITH YOU!

Confidence does not need to be loud – it needs to be silently and deeply rooted!

Often quiet confidence has more power than loud confidence; that confidence that you have deep down that says, quietly yet firmly, "I know God is for me and His promises over me are yes and amen, I know that things may seem strange now but THEY WILL TURN AROUND FOR MY GOOD!"

Isaiah 30:15
For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: in returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength."

The world can only take away or take back from you what it gave you – that is why we do not live by worldly-given confidence but God's, because then when the world or the devil try to take or steal it we can say, "Get stuffed, you did not give it so you cannot take it away!"

Hold tight to the confidence you have from God today, be that hero He has called you to be because 'the Lord thy God is with you'!

Have a great weekend, Hero – live confident, get your head up, you're a child of God not a pauper.

Andy
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Friday, 1 October 2010

Breakfast of Champions: Friday 1st October

Good morning, Champion.

God's three-part life restoration plan

Zephaniah 3:20 (NIV)
"At that time I will gather you; at that time I will bring you home. I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your very eyes," says the LORD.

What a great restoration promise!

God made this three-part promise to His people many, many years ago; we read in the Old Testament that it was a promise originally spoken under an old "law-based" covenant. I believe that it is still a valid promise for you and me today and we should be even more excited about it than those it was original spoken to, because we receive it knowing we have a new and better agreement (covenant) with God, one based on faith and grace.

There are three distinct promises of restoration in this verse:

1. I will gather you and bring you home (redeemed and restored).

2. I will give you honour and praise in the earth (re-established).

3. I will restore your fortunes before your eyes (prospered).

Wow – this is a three-part plan you do not want to ignore! This is one of those promises that are worth learning inside out and upside down – make it such a part of you that you can recite It in twenty different translations, and even Hebrew!

Notice what the first step is: God says He will bring you back to Him. Listen, if you want the other two you have to first experience this one because it is the most important one to God.

If you have been away from Him, or drifted a bit in your relationship and seen stuff in your life go wrong, realise that first God restores "you and Him", and then He will restore everything else. Don't try and bypass step one, let God "bring you back to Him", then see Him re-establish your life and name and then, as it says so well, you will watch as He restores your fortunes or, as it says in the amplified, "reverse your captivity". The reverse of captivity is freedom and that is God's intention for your life. But remember, first He wants you back!

God bless,

Andy
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Thursday, 30 September 2010

Breakfast of Champions: Thursday 30th September

Good morning, Champion.

Carpe seasons

John 4:35 (NKJV)
 Do you not say, 'There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!

The journey (pilgrimage) of life is certainly a journey of different seasons; the art of living well is to make sure that you live (squeeze the juice out of) each and every season, both sowing into and reaping from each and every one of them.

Being alive means that we will all walk through the various seasons of life. Here is a classic verse from the wisdom of Ecclesiastes to make you think this morning:

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 (NKJV)
To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted.

• If you get the chance, read the rest of this classic chapter to see the different types of seasons each and every one of us face as we journey through this thing called life.

• Like King David said in Psalm 37:25, we will all experience being young and being old and every season in between. I have met some older people that live in the regret of not being a teenager anymore and I have met younger people that can't wait for a later season of life (like being married), but the problem is they are missing the one they are in – neither of these are good enough, love the season you're in.

• You can't always go back and re-live seasons gone but you can learn from them, and you really don't want to fast forward to the ones in the future because when the ones you are in are gone, like flowers when they have flourished, they are gone.

The key for us all today is to carpe (seize) the one you're in!

• So today learn from days gone by; love the ones you're in and, with faith and expectancy, have excitement concerning the ones yet to come that are promised by God. Every season has something for you: make sure you harvest it out!

• To everything there is a season. There are seasons of age, seasons of relationship, seasons of ministry and business, seasons of everything. In them all there is a time to plant and a time to reap what was planted.

Here is some food for thought for you today as you consider the seasons that you are currently in:
• What season are you in today?
• Is it time to plant, or is it time to reap?
• Are you getting from this season everything that you should be and that is in the season to be had?
• What else do you need to do to enjoy and seize the season you are in?

God bless you; I pray that this season of your life prospers – don't say, "In four months . . ." but make the decision to live large the life God has given you today!

Andy
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Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Breakfast of Champions: Wednesday 29th September

Good morning, hope this finds you well.

Carpe Diem living

John 4:35 (NKJV)
 Do you not say, 'There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!

We have been looking at living outside of procrastination, living with a desire to harvest and seize what is in our world now. Too many people are waiting for what one day will come, we too need to remain in faith concerning the yet unseen of God in our future but also be the people that grab the day.

We looked at relationships yesterday. Today I want to challenge you with opportunities. I believe God brings and offers opportunities to us all at different times and we have a choice to grab them – "carpe" – or let them pass us by. Live in such a way that with wisdom you seize opportunities, especially those which are authored and sent by God.

At different times in the Bible you see God turn up and offer something, then you get to witness some who carpe the God-offer, and those who don't.

Think of Elisha, that moment when Elijah walked across the field and offered him his mantle. God's intention was clear, the choice was now his. He chose to burn his plow and step into his God opportunity; he could have chosen to keep on plowing.

The disciples were fishing; they never saw Jesus coming but He had been watching them. Suddenly a God-opportunity comes out of nowhere: "Drop your nets and follow Me, and I will make you." Again they had the choice to say, "No thanks, we like fishing"! But they seized the moment and stepped into their destiny.

Sadly, the rich young ruler thought he was ready for his moment but when the cost was explained he really wasn't.

• God will always bring opportunity to you – some small, some large, some bigger than you could have ever imagined – make sure you are ready for the 'no warning' offer of God when it comes.

• Let us all make the choice, like the wise virgins, to live ready – not just for the second coming of Christ but for those divine opportunities that suddenly come that need us to respond in faith not fear.

• I believe He prepares you for these moments when you are not even noticing. I believe He had been working on the heart of Elisha prior to Elijah's arrival; He had been working in the hearts of the fishermen before the one-time offer came; He is working on our hearts now concerning future moments.

Just as King David was prepared for his opportunity with Goliath while defeating lions and bears, so what you are getting victory with today is setting you up for golden opportunities that God is going to bring to you in your tomorrows.

Live ready for God moments, because they come to us all!

Andy
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