Watch!

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Good morning. Another blessed day that the Lord has allowed me to see. It's in him the live, move, and have my being. I'm grateful and I'm thankful for just the opportunity to share a word from the Lord. Yesterday I went to 1 Corinthians 16 and 13. And I want to go back there today because the Holy Spirit just began to talk to me yesterday and let me see something that I didn't see yesterday. So I thank God for the Holy Spirit because He will show us, He will guide us, and He will lead us and give us instruction. So 1 Corinthians 16, 13, watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. And that first word I skipped over yesterday. I didn't really spend any time talking about it. But the Lord began to speak to me about the word watch. And why do we need to watch? Because we have an adversary, the devil, who is as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. He comes to steal, kill, and destroy. And the scripture tells us to watch. That means to pay careful attention to. See, because the enemy wants to stop us from standing fast in faith. He wants to stop us from knowing the word, hearing the word, believing the word, and receiving the promises that God has for us. So if we are not watching, if we are not careful, the enemy is cunning. He will come in and steal our families, our finances, our health. He will come in and steal everything and kill and destroy. So we have to watch. We have to be paying careful attention so that we are not ignorant of his devices and that we can see what he's trying to do. Because he wants to stop us from believing God. So he's going to bring up distractions. He's going to bring up aggravations. He's going to bring up irritations. He's going to bring up, he's going to bring people into our lives who are on a mission from the enemy to destroy us. We have to be watchful. We have to be vigilant. When it comes to the things of God, we cannot be slack. It means to pay careful attention to and to take heed to. Because if you're not watching, then be because we're not paying attention. We don't see the enemy when he's coming. And then he comes in and he's taking something. He's taking things that don't belong to him. Because everything that God promised us belongs to us. But we have to be steadfast in faith. If we are not steadfast in our faith, we will lose the promises of God. We will not receive what God has for us because it comes by faith. So watch. Be diligent. Do not let the enemy come in and steal what God has for you. What God has for us is for us, but we have to obtain it with our faith. That's why we have to be brave and we have to be strong in the power of His might. We have to have on the whole armor of God. We have to keep our minds renewed with the Word of God. We have to listen and hear the Word of God and speak the Word of God. God has everything for us. He said He has given us everything pertaining to life and godliness, but it is up to us to do the work to receive it. God wants us to be blessed. He wants us to be healed. He wants us to be prosperous. He does not want us to always suffering, always going through hard times. If we will listen to him and obey him, see, we gotta obey. We gotta obey. We gotta be good stewards of everything God has given us. We gotta be good stewards of our bodies, gotta be good stewards of our minds, we've got to be good stewards of our finances, and we have to regulate everything with the word of God. We have to align everything with the word of God so that we can be in perfect health, so that we can be salt and light in this lasting evil day, so that we can help somebody else, we can be a blessing to somebody else, but we have to be watching, we have to be diligent. And as my daughter and I was talking to her about this, and she saw watch from another perspective from God, and she said, Watch means watch and see what the Lord will do. So we got to watch the enemy so we can watch and see what the Lord will do, he will do everything that he promised. We have to continuously bring his word up before him. Just watch and see what the Lord will do. And then the Lord said, Watch is a time. It's in his time and it's in his season, but we have everything provided for us. Watch the enemy, watch and see what the Lord's gonna do, and it's gonna happen in his time. God bless you. I love you. Make today great.