Welcome again to this week's word for the week. Do you know where you're going in life? If someone asked you that question would you be able to readily give them an answer? If they asked you the details would you be able to give real facts or just bluff your way through?

Those are some powerful but very necessary questions for you to ask. We are not in a season of games. We are in a season where God is doing a great out pouring. In the midst of that great out pouring is an all out attack from the enemy. The problem we face in recognizing that attack is simple. It does not always come from the outside. Instead, it sometimes comes from the inside. Let's go a little further with this point.

The evidence of you knowing where your life is headed is not just in "what" you say. You can talk a good talk but if you let someone talk long enough you will soon find out if it's true or not. A person's character can be heard in what they say if you know what to listen for. We are not in a pretending season.

If you know where you are headed then your talk will reflect that. You will be speaking life because life is where you are headed. You will not be speaking about being broke if you say God is going to make you debt free. That is opposite of where He is taking you. In other words, you will speak where you are going not where you are. If you speak where you are then you are still unsure where you are going. Why do I say that? God calls those things that be not as though they already are. It has nothing to do with what is when He already sees what shall be.

While death and life is in the power of the tongue that is not your greatest obstacle. Instead, your greatest obstacle is your own mind. Why? As a man thinks so is he. Your mouth is simply speaking what you are already thinking. If there were no thought then nothing would've been spoken. Your mouth is simply verbalizing what your mind has been thinking. It becomes critical to pray for the mind of Christ. That will allow you to think on levels that are based on where you are going and not go by what you currently see.

You can't wait until the question is asked of you before you think about the answer. My point this week is very simple yet extremely difficult. Live on the level now that you expect to be at later. Don't wait until you get there before you find out what you should be doing. Learn in advance so that you can be prepared when you get there. Hopefully you would not wait until you are seated with the President or a King before you find out how you should conduct yourself at the table. You should know that beforehand so that you may accordingly when you get there.

Ask yourself a few honest questions. Does your life right now show you know where you are headed? If you are called to be a Pastor are you faithfully serving your leader realizing that how you serve them is how others will serve you? If you are called to be a singer are you practicing vocal inflections and enhancing your breathing control? If you are called to be a musician are you taking the time to recognize the differences of notes and chord progressions? Are you carrying yourself now on the level you are headed to?

Those are not baby questions. Those are questions that you must be sure about before you even attempt to live as you should. It is time for many of you reading this to get in position and quit making excuses. I remember being in the military many years ago and there was a saying that said the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero. In other words, it gets you nowhere because nobody believes it in the first place. You can blame many things and claim to be waiting on many things but there is one thing that will always ring true. It is not what you say but what you do!

May the Lord continue to bless and keep you in His grace,

Bishop Carlos J. Lennon