HAVE YOU CHECKED YOURSELF LATELY?

Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart. (2 CHRONICLES 32:31)

I want to speak to you from my heart today. I want you to be honest and ask yourself a question as you read this devotional today, have you checked yourself lately?

Before we leave the house, we will make sure to stop and check ourselves to make sure we have our keys, our cell phone, or wallet or purse. Before we go on long trips, we make sure to check that we have everything we need to endure that journey. Strange isn't that we will worry about those things with such fierceness? I wonder how the church, the body of Christ, would be if we applied such firceness to checking ourselves with how we are with God?

I wonder how our own spiritual walk with God would be, if we stopped for a moment, in our busy schedules, just to check and say; "How do God and I stand with each other, right now?". I think we would have a church that once again walked in the power and fellowship of the book of Acts, and yes, you can walk in the power of the book of Acts, TODAY! Not anywhere in the Bible does it proclaim we cannot and do not let any preachers tell you any different, but I digress.

Our own personal walk would be adversely affected as well. No longer would our prayer life be powerless, our witness to a lost and backslidden world be useless and hypocritical. Done away would be the "pet" sins and secret temptations we hold on too, that hold us back from walking in victory and authority. Porn sites on your computer would be deleted, you would have more money in your wallet, and the greed for it out of your heart. Yes, things would definitely change, if we would stop and "check ourselves" just to see the garbage and sins in our heart before God was forced to, as he did with the king in the above scripture.

I challenge you reader. We have warned you of a coming storm, are you preparing? Are you taking this warning seriously, and preparing yourself, in your heart, to weather the storm and meet your God? Are you cutting off what needs to be cut off and crucifing what needs to be nailed to a cross, in your life? Are you cleaning house in your heart? Listen to the words of the Apostle Paul:

"For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. " (GALATIANS 2: 19-20)

I don't ask you, are you crucified today, that would be premature. I am asking, and God is asking, are you climbing up the tree today, or are you with the crowd below the cross, watching?
Preperation begins now.