Give and get

For a believer, the greatest blessing is to realize that everything is a blessing.

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If you feel a need to pray for someone or some situation, stop what you're doing and pray.

If you feel a need to drop to your knees -- or even fall on your face -- and pray, then if at all possible, do it right then and there.

If you feel a desire to praise the Most High, then go ahead and do it. That is sometimes how the Spirit works. Learn to hear it and respond to it.

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"I Surrender All" is one of those mawkish, sappy church hymns I really don't care for.

But the principle of surrendering all should also express the life of every saint.

The problem is, nobody likes the idea of "surrendering all." It just doesn't sound very enjoyable, does it? At least, that's the opinion of the devil and the flesh.

"If you give it all up to him, then he'll take it away," Satan whispers.

"If you give it all up to him, then we'll never have fun again!" whines the flesh.

The truth is this: "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. ..."

"And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life."

Give, and you get more back -- more than you can even handle.

That's the divine principle, the divine promise, that we have in Messiah.