Location! Location! Location!

Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way:

“I’ll live in them, move into them;

    I’ll be their God and they’ll be my people.

So leave the corruption and compromise;

    leave it for good,” says God.

“Don’t link up with those who will pollute you.

    I want you all for myself.

I’ll be a Father to you;

    you’ll be sons and daughters to me.”

The Word of the Master, God.

(2 Corinthians 6:14-18, MSG)

This morning, I overheard Mike and our ten year old daughter talking business. He was stressing to her the importance of location. He explained to her that all five of our stores are purposely strategically geographically located.

The Holy Spirit spoke to my heart and told me to add, "Not only does location relate to geographics but also applies to goals and visions people have for their lives. Where people locate themselves in their lives."

In the book, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive, (T.D. Jakes’ newest book) he states, “surround myself with talented, well-informed people in order to prepare for the future.”

In order for us to insure we are making forward progress and preparing for our future, we must determine to strategically locate ourselves...geographically as well as in our relationships. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12) We cannot link up with those who will pollute us. There is no time for compromise. That is war. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18)

As we go through life, some of the people around us will rise to the level of the challenges we place before ourselves and we conquer together. Other people compromise (Themselves and us if we let them.) and will refuse to step up and do what is necessary to make the vision manifest. Insuring we prayerfully partnership with those who hold our same values, goals, dreams, and vision will propel us into His perfect plan and purposes for our lives. They propel us as we propel them. 

Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray for every reader right now that we all have eyes to see and ears to hear as you order our steps. Strengthen us to quickly recognize those who You have placed in our paths and those You have not place in our paths. Strengthen us to love all, but to only link up with and surround ourselves with the ones who propel us into Your perfect plan for our lives. We thank You for Lord, and we give You all the honor, glory, and praise, in the name of Jesus.

Ears to hear and eyes to see--both are gifts from the LORD. Proverbs 20:12

The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.

Psalm 37:23

"Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves. (Matthew 10:16)

But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. (2 Thessalonians 3:3)

Stop forming inappropriate relationships with unbelievers. Can right and wrong be partners? Can light have anything in common with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:14)