Andthose who know your name will put their trust in You; For You, LORD, have notforsaken those who seek You. Psalm 9:10

Where haveyou been putting your trust? The question is not who you trust. It is one thingto say, ÒI trust GodÓ, but it is another thing to actually put your trust inHim. Could it be that you Òthink you trust HimÓ? Trust should not be about thought;it should be a knowing that comes from an understanding that GodÕs name is a strongtower.The problem behind your situation is, you are rusting from your situationwith no solution because you have not trusted Him. Trust in Him and rest fromrust.

~source~

The sourceof your trust is in knowing the name of God. The Psalmist stated clearly, thosewho know the name of God would put their trust in Him.(Ps.9:10)As aresult of this statement, it is clear that the source of trust is in knowingthe name of God not knowing about the name of God.

It doessound elementary to you but it has not been working for you because you assumeyou know. When the fact is, you only know about Him.Until you understand andknow the source of information that comes your way; your transformation is intotal and complete delay. Consider this a serious detriment to your breakthrough in life. Information from God is the transformation unto GodÕs side.When you are transformed unto His side nothing formed against you will prosper.You will rest and put all your trust in His awesome power of deliverance.

~Victory~

David;from mountain to mountain, wilderness to wilderness was being chased by Saul andall the resources in the power of Saul, to kill and stop David from getting tohis divine destination. In every step that David took, it is written that heconstantly asked from God when, where and how to move. That was a demonstrationof putting trust in the name of God. In 1Samuel 23:14, Saul sought him (David) everyday, but God did not deliver him into his hand. David put his entire move in thetrust of God. Do you still consider the issue of trust elementary? Examinedyour conscience and determine within yourself if you have actually beenconsciously and consistently putting your trust in Him during stormy season.

~Nameof God~

His nameis Mighty God; the all sufficient, and that settles it.

The nameof God that you know will work for you. If you know Him as healing God and youcall Him for healing he will answer. You call Him with understanding andknowledge not because you are conversing with people around you that are callingHim healer. He is the healing healer.

ThePsalmist said ÒFor you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek YouÓ. (Ps.9:10) David recognized God as God that does not forsake those who seekHim. David called Him by His name because he knows him as a deliverer. Do youknow His name? Which God are you calling concerning your situation? How willyou call Him when you do not know His name?

ThePsalmist said it all in this same verse when he said ÒFor you LORD havenot forsaken those who seek YouÓ (Ps.9:10) Those who trust Him enoughto seek Him find the secret of knowing the name to call. When you seek Him, youwill have word encounter; He will reveal Himself; and He will send you with Hisname. When you seek Him you will also know to put your trust in Him.

God is aGod of identity and He will not show up to you or send you without backing youwith His name. When He called Moses, He identified Himself; He gave him thename to use in his message to Pharaoh.

~Prescription~

SeekHim; (you can not seek Him and not find Him) discover and identify His name. Thename of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe. (Prov.18:10)

Put yourtrust in Him. You do not trust God with mouth; you trust Him with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Trust in Him and enjoy His blessing or trust not on Him and be less in His blessing.

ÒThespirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him norknows HimÓ

(John14:17)

What youdo not see you will not receive; what you do not receive you do not become.

When God directed Moses to send men to go and spy on the promise land, it was with apromise that he will give them the land (Num. 13:2).

InNum. 13:17,18 then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said tothem, ÒGo up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, and see what the land is like: Ê

Moses knewwhen God says go, it is good. He specifically asked them to see whatit looks like. He also encouraged them by reminding them to be of good courage.

Despitethe fact that the hand of God has seen them( you) through great miracles in andout of(your) Egypt; despite the fact that God has never failed them(you) of Hispromises in their life in your life) the spy failed to see Êtheir Canaan.

It is morethan important but very crucial that you begin to see by faith in allthat God has ordained for a believer that is seeking God.

Thosespies failed to see the positive that God has placed for them butnegative. They saw inability, defeat, hindrances, and failure that was unmovable.It is time for you to begin to see through the glasses of heaven and receiveby the grace of God.Ê ÊÊÊÊ

Num.13:30,then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, ÒLet us go up at once andtake possession, for we are well able to overcome itÓ

Caleb andJoshua saw and sounded it. It came to be and they received theirconfession.

As much asit is important to see, so is it important how you sound it if you arestanding in Him.

~Sound~

ÒAndthe LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and took an oath,saying, surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that goodland of which of which I swore to give to your fathersÓ1Det. 1:34.

Can you imaginedisaster caused by a negative sound? After getting out of bondage of over fourhundred years, into a wilderness journey that should not have taken more thaneleven days, took forty years. Passing through the wilderness was exchanged fortheir promised land.

Are youexperiencing stagnation in your journey? Is it true that what is supposed totake a couple of years is taking you more? Wilderness is a passage not ahabitation. You will have to change the sound you often produce. Your sound isdelaying and denying you.

~Seeing~

The bibledescribes faith as the substance of things hoped for, the evidence ofthings not seen Heb.11:1. When you begin to see things that arenot there as being there; when you begin to look at your mountains of hindrancesas being leveled; because you stand in the LORD then miracles will begin toanswer for you. The word of God says the just shall live by faith. Everythingthat you do is by faith and without faith, God is not pleased. If you pay carefulattention to Heb. 11, you will identify that all the giants of faith that werementioned from the time of the Old Testament to the time of New Testamentoperated by faith. Understanding was by faith, offerings, sacrifices, moves,obedience, waiting, subduing enemy, seeing, receiving; all wereobtained in faith by faith.Ê Ê

When youbegin to see, motion comes to life and stagnation will cease. See,move and receive by the sound of your mouth. Your mouth is the channelof your miracle. Begin to live by the word of God and you will begin to receive
by the word of God. The word of God is neither story nor mouthdecoration. The word is life and truth.

Jesussaid it all the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because itneither sees Him nor knows Him Jh.14:17 you cannot receive if you do not see.Ability to see Him is built in knowing Him and not just knowing about Him. Itis what you see that you will receive.

When youare able to see and hear in His

words, understandingwill make you stand

out in allareas of life.

ÒThereis a way that seems right to a man, But the end is the way of deathÓ Pro. 14:12

Whenever a dog chooses its way bynot listening to the owner, that dog will be lost and death is the dead end oflost. The same applies to a man that chooses to get out of the way. Jesussaid in John14:6, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes tothe father except through Me.

As anacclaimed believer, have you ever considered the way you are going?

Are youlooking into your material wealth as a determinant of your way? Let your successnot deceive you because success is not the measure of GodÕs blessing. Also, theposition of power you are now in is not the measure of GodÕs blessing.

Take timeout and sincerely identify the way you have chosen. Is it the way of the wickedor the way of death?

The way ofdeath is wicked and the way of the wicked is death. Let me bring to yourawareness the identity of one that is walking in the way of wicked or death.

~Identification~

Jer.12:1, In his conversation with God, he asked Òwhy are the way of wicked prosper?
Why are those who deal so treacherously? Verse 2, you have planted them,yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes they bear fruit. You are near intheir mouth But far from their mind.

If by any wayyou are one that has the word in the mouth but out of the mind, you shouldconsider yourself as wicked.

The wordof God says you should not lie, period. But in the corner of you mouth ahighway for telling lies runs through your mind. Half lies are the same aswhole lies. Deception is a lie. When you promise what you cannot deliver, youhave lied. A follower of Jesus telling lies is a way of death. The Lord iscoming back for a church without spot or wrinkle.

~Heart keeping~

Pr.4:23keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Judas Iscariot failed to keep hisheart. When you fail to keep your heart with all diligence through Christ Jesus,Satan will enter. Luke. 22:3 ÒThen Satan entered Judas, surnamedIscariot, who was numbered among the twelve,

Verse4, So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he mightbetray Him to them.

JudasÕfailure to keep his heart was costly to him. He lost his number and will not becounted in the last day. Keep your number and get counted where it counts; inthe kingdom of God.

Judas wenthis way. He left the sure and the true way. He went a way that appeared rightto him and not right to God. It was the way of his death.

Satan willnot announce himself before he enters your heart.Ê You have to renounce himfrom entering by keeping your heart diligent.

Jer.24:7 Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and theyshall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me withtheir whole heart.Do you desire this? What you do not desire, He will not deposit.Ê

Ask Godtoday, to give you a heart to know Him so that Satan will not enter.

~ConvenientWay~

Mark14:11 and when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money.So he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.

ServingGod is a commitment, not a convenience. The day you begin to seek for yourselfa way of convenience in serving Him, Satan will serve you with a convenient wayof selling Him. When you sell Him you have betrayed Him.

As smoothas telling lies could be; as easy as it can be delivered to achieve yourpurpose, it is a smooth step into wicked ways. Every act that is contrary tothe way of God is a wicked way.

Prov.15:29, the LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of therighteous. Today,pray the prayer of the righteous as recorded in

Psalm139:23 Search me O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; Andsee if there is wicked way in me,

Andlead me in the way everlasting. Ê

Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who may stand in His holy place? Psalm 24:3

It does not take a rocket scientist to know that to be able to ascend; one will have to be in a standing position. Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, was never in a crawling, sitting, or sleeping position against every force he encountered while He was on earth. Also at the time He ascended into heaven, it was evident that He was standing (Acts1:9-11).

Dear reader, what is your position before the LORD?

 ~ Position~

Are you standing, crawling, sitting or sleeping?

There is no other way to operate in the LORD when you are not standing. A failure to stand is a fall from standing. The bible described Elijah as a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months (James5:17). I believe that the purpose of this is to let Christians of today know that what Elijah did is not beyond us. God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. God has never stopped to honor His word.  All you need is to take your stand in His word and He will not fail.

In 1kings 17:1, and Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew or rain these years, except at my word.”

The stand of Elijah before God is what provoked the hand of God to honor Elijah’s request. As a believer, you claim to be on God’s side.  Can you step out and tell rain not to fall? Can your mountains respond at the sound of your voice?

 Do not deceive yourself because if you are not standing in Him, for Him, or by Him, no mountain will move at the sound of your voice. Mk. 16:17, 18 “And these signs shall follow those who believe: In my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Despite God’s promises, the sick are being taken from the church to the hospital instead of from the

hospital to church. Nothing is wrong with the word of God but the ones that claim to know the word have things wrong in them. Anyone that stands in the word will be a commander like Elijah.

~Who Stands? ~

Ps. 24:3,4Who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up His soul to an Idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. I pray that the grace of God will grant you what it takes to have clean hands and a pure heart.

~Track~

It is possible to be on the right track and be trapped.  

In John 5: 1-15 the story of a man with thirty-eighty years of infirmity. The man was by the Sheep Gate a pool. He was at a place where multitudes of sick people; blind, lame and paralyzed, waited for the moving of the water. At the pool, an angel comes in a certain time to stir up the water and the first to step into it will get well. At this pool where all kind of sickness and diseases were receiving healing, the man with thirty eight years of infirmity remains trapped. When Jesus saw him lying there, he knew he had been in his condition for a long time. The man was at the right track for healing but remained trapped.

Blind received sight; lame walked; paralyzed came out of stagnation; motion was in place. Are you being trapped?  All around you are receiving miracles? Jesus definitely wants to get you healed like the man with infirmity. No man will put you in the pool when the water is stirred because everyone wants to breakthrough. You need to look unto Jesus. He has paid the price with His blood, look up to Him, rise and break out of what has been holding you stranded for so long.

It is possible to be on the right track and be trapped if you are not taking the right steps on the right track.

God is a saving master not a slave master.

Not listening to God’s command is a choice not a curse.

It is your not listening that will bring you under a curse.

For whois this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the livingGod? 1Sam. 17:26

For forty days, morning and nightarmies of the living God (children of Israel) suffered assault from the Philistines as they gathered for battle.The bible referred to the leader of this assault as the champion, thePhilistine of Gath, named Goliath. 1Sam 17:10 And the Philistine said, ÒI defythe armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.Ó In verse 11, When Saul and all Israel heard these words of thePhilistines; they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

Ê~Very Serious~Ê Ê

What isthat situation in your life that has kept you so low in fear and being afraidthat you can not remember who your God is? For forty days!! The armies of theliving God were crawling before armies that do not have a living God. So sad! Doesthis sound like your case? As a believer, have you failed to remember who youare serving? When you fail to remember, you will not be able to identify yourself in God.

Ê ~Identification~ÊÊ

1Sam17:24 recorded, all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him andwere dreadfully afraid. Fleeing will not solve your case until you identify yourself in Godand face the case. Yes, everything in the physical is pointing you out aslooser of this case. All you need to do is identify yourself. David a young man;not a listed army; saw and heard the man that was defying the armies of theliving God. He decided to stand up to Goliath. He could reach that decisionbecause he remembered his God that delivered him from the paw of lion and thepaw of bear. By being able to remember the greatness of his God, he was able toidentify himself in God. His identity was his claim that, the same God willdeliver him from the hand of Goliath.

Ê~Oppositions~

Despitethe huge armies of Israel, none, not one could identifythemselves as an army of the living God. They all saw defeat; Saul the leadersaw defeat; only young David could identify himself.

~DavidÕs brother rebuked him not tofight Goliath. David was labeled by his brothers as someone that is proud with insolenceof heart.

~King Saul discouraged David.1Sam.17:33And Saul said to David, ÒYou are not able to go against this Philistine tofight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.ÓDavid maintained his trust and identity in God

~Weapons of the armies were at a disadvantagefor David; it limited his mobility rather than aiding DavidÕs mobility.

All ofDavidÕs surroundings were discouragement. David, being able to identify himself,was encouraged to take on the battle. Do not look around for help; look up if youknow Him as a living God, He will breath life into all that has been pronounceddead in you.

ÊÊ~KnowingHim~

Do youknow Him or you only know about Him? It makes the difference knowing God as theonly way. You cannot know God and doubt His deliverance. If you know God, callon Him and He will honor His word by not forsaking you.

If youonly know about Him, be very careful or your case will cage you. In Acts9:11-13, when some of the inherent Jewish exorcists attempted to identify withJesus in a battle against evil spirit, they lost. They only know about Him. Act19:15, 16 the evil spirit answered and said Jesus I know, and Paul I know; butwho are you? V. 16, then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them,overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of thathouse naked and wounded. What kind of identification do you carry? Areyou sure you know Him? If you are not parking inside of Him, the battle willsend you packing in a worse direction. Identification is not a religious game,but a Jesus reality. Get real with the LORD of Lords, king of kings, and Hewill see you through.