Look Alive and Move quickly!!!

Courageous Beauty

Act 10:42 KJV And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. Quick is synonymous of being alive or lively!!! Paying attention being apt and ready, eager, alert, at attention, focused, Courageous!!! A lot of us are slow of heart to believe! God is looking not just for us to believe but for us to move quickly in our faith to do what he requires of us. If we wait too long doubt can creep in. If we wait too long we might miss the blessing and have to redo the lesson or may die in our sin without the change that God had for us all because we didn't move quickly. The quick(alive) and the dead if you were in combat in a war you would have to make a split second decision on what to do to avoid being a target of an unruly weapon. Well same in the Spirit. Act 10:38-43 ISV 38 God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, he went around doing good and healing everyone who was oppressed by the devil. 39 We are witnesses of everything Jesus did in the land of the Jews, including Jerusalem. “They hung him on a tree and killed him, 40 but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear— 41 not to all the people, but to us who were chosen by God to be witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He also ordered us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead. 43 All the prophets testify to this: everyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sins through his name.” So you see we have a mandate of God from Jesus after God rose him from the dead to preach is word. Preaching doesn't always have to look traditional and be in a church on a pulpit. It can you talking on the phone to someone and you being a witness of Jesus telling that person about how great Jesus is and what he has done and he will do when he returns. Praying for folks that their faith fail them not. We have a responsibility to use the gifts God gave us for him. Whatever you are into make sure it lines up with God's will and make sure folks know you are a witness not for your Glory but for the Glory of God and to help spread the gospel of Jesus. He is coming back and he will judge those alive when he returns and those that are dead. So look alive and move quickly!!! While we are on our journey we have to remember that we don't have to fight our battles like the world does because 2 Corinthians 10:4 KJV(King James Version) For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 ISV(International standard version) 3 Of course, we are living in the world, but we do not wage war in a world-like way. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not those of the world. Instead, they have the power of God to demolish fortresses. We tear down arguments 5 and every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive in order to obey the Messiah. 6 Once your obedience is complete, we will be ready to reprimand every type of disobedience. In otherwords we are fighting in a war where our real emeny is invisible; we cant see all that he is up to. Which means we have Spiritual warfare going on. God has given us his Word as our weapon to fight anything that would even but try to come up against God's Word. But if we tend to drag our feet to get with God we might miss out on our safety in the middle of battle. God's Word will not work for us if we don't know it! Gods word wont work for us if we don't use. You have to Know his word to use it. Hebrews 4:12 KJV “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 NI