SAM HONIBALL BLOG

MATTHEW 22:37-38 (NIV) “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD… THIS IS THE FIRST AND GREATEST COMMANDMENT.” God says if you don’t get anything else here’s what you’re supposed to do in life. You’re supposed to learn to love Me back because I made you to love you and I know you and I want you to know and love Me back. There’s a word for this. It’s the word “worship.” Worship is knowing and loving God back. MARK 12:30 (NCV) “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND ALL YOUR SOUL, ALL YOUR MIND AND ALL YOUR STRENGTH.” God wants me to love Him three ways: First, God wants me to love Him PASSIONATELY. He says “With all your heart and with all your soul.” I want you to love Me passionately. Because He passionately loves you. Second, God wants me to love Him THOUGHTFULLY. It says “love Him with your mind.” In other words, He wants you to think through. Third, God wants me to love Him PRACTICALLY. “Love Me with all your strength.” Your abilities. The truth is that even though God created the entire wo

“WHY WAS I BORN? WAS IT ONLY TO HAVE TROUBLE AND SORROW AND TO END MY LIFE IN DISGRACE?” JEREMIAH 20:18 (TEV) Jeremiah was having a bad day here. I’m sure you’ve had days like this when you go, “Why am I alive? My life is a mess! All I have is problems, difficulties, trials, tribulations. Is this what I’m here on earth for? Just to have problems?” If you are alive, your heart is beating and you are breathing, God has a purpose for your life. He has never made anything without a purpose. In World War II there were some prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp in Hungary. They worked in a factory that processed human sewage. One day the Allies came along and blew up that factory which left the prisoners with nothing to do. So the guards had the prisoners take the rubble of that factory and move it to a nearby field just for work. The next day they reversed it and had them take the rubble and move it back to the original site. They did this over and over and over. No meaning to it. No purpo

EPHESIANS 5:15-17 (NLT) “BE CAREFUL HOW YOU LIVE NOT AS FOOLS BUT AS THOSE WHO ARE WISE. MAKE THE MOST OF EVERY OPPORTUNITY FOR DOING GOOD IN THESE EVIL DAYS. DON’T ACT THOUGHTLESSLY BUT TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE LORD WANTS YOU TO DO.” The opposite of careful is careless. God says don’t be careless about your life. Don’t just breeze through life. Don’t just drift through life. Don’t just go through life going, “I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing.” Be thoughtful. Be wise. Know what God wants you to do. It says, “Make the most of every opportunity.” And then it says, “Try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.” How many of you would say, “I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE LORD WANTS ME TO DO WITH MY LIFE?” Here’s an amazing little secret. WHEN YOU DO PUT GOD FIRST IN YOUR LIFE HE TAKES CARE OF EVERYTHING ELSE. The work, the relationships, the finances, the health – all those others. In fact He’s promised over and over again in the Bible. He says, “You put Me first. You make My

DO YOU HAVE A CLEAR SET OF GOALS WITH A WRITTEN PLAN FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENT? YOU BECOME A CREATOR WHEN YOU START WRITING GOALS. With goals we create the future in advance, we create our destiny and we shape our lives. DESIRE IN LATIN MEANS “OF THE FATHER.” That means the thought process regarding my desire is given me from above and with that comes the ability to achieve it. GOALS MUST BE INSPIRING ENOUGH to create a motion and drive on the inside of us that makes us want to jump out of bed every morning. THIS IS THE POWER OF GOAL SETTING. Thoughts are things. WHATEVER WE FOCUS ON CONSISTENTLY WE EXPERIENCE IN OUR LIFE. What you focus on you will feel, it becomes real to you. As you think you create or manifest. You have to have a consistent focus on your goals. (PROV 23:7 AS HE THINKS IN HIS HEART SO IS HE.) GOALS GIVE US PURPOSE AND DIRECTION 1 CORINTHIANS 9:26 I RUN STRAIGHT TO THE GOAL WITH PURPOSE IN EVERY STEP. I AM NOT LIKE A BOXER WHO MISSES HIS PUNCHES. Instead of guiding the I

As any good athlete will tell you: “The way you start your race is very important.” In the same way, it is also very important how we start this New Year. Let’s have a look at what God says in EXODUS 40:2 (AMP) ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH YOU SHALL SET UP THE TABERNACLE OF THE TENT OF MEETING [OF GOD WITH YOU]. We know that the Old Testament is a shadow and a type of what was to come in the New Testament. The plan given to Moses on the mountain established the way for the Israelites to approach God and hear His voice and also the way we should do it. The three parts of the tabernacle depicts the body, soul and spirit of man: THE BODY corresponds to the OUTER COURT where we receive sense knowledge. It was illuminated by natural light. THE SOUL corresponds to the HOLY PLACE where the Spirit reveals truth to our mind. It was illuminated by oil in a lamp stand. THE SPIRIT corresponds to the HOLY OF HOLIES where we receive direct revelation within our hearts. It was illuminated by G