Do what must be done

"... "Strengthen your position and see what must be done, because next spring the king of Aram will attack you again." 

1 Kings 20:22

Unfortunately, battles in our lives will never cease to end.  However, we have Christ, therefore, we have the victory.  Nonetheless, the victory will not be ours until we learn to stand up, take the battles, victories, and defeats from our pasts, and learn from them.  In order for victory and victory-forever-more, we must take the lesson for every event in our lives and become stronger and wiser from them.  Hence, my friends, until we take the lessons and choose to learn from them, our victories will always be within reach but not close enough for us to grab them.  So, learn, learn, learn, and stand strong; for the more we make the choice to strengthen, then we will become strong; yes, if we choose to learn and become strong, victories will be never-ending in our amazing lives.

Be blessed

Why keep sinning the same sin?

"Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians did?..."

1 Samuel 6:6

Why keep sinning the same sin over and over again? The outcome is always the same: DISASTER.

Therefore stop the sin, put an end to your sure defeat!  Ask God to help you - he will!  He will give you a way out and he will put you on the path to make your 'wrongs' right.

Let them talk all they want

Let them talk all they want, and not to worry, they won’t get away with it.  Their fate will soon reign down upon them and destroy their wayward lies and deceits:

“… They’ll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you.  They won’t, of course, get by with it.  They’ll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.”

-2 Peter 2:2-3 MSG

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Simply love - a life open to God

“The whole point of what we’re urging is simply love - love uncontaminated by self interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God.” 

-1 Timothy 1:5-7

Simple LOVE - the kind of love given to us by God - nothing added, nothing taken away; no judgement, no critique - no end.

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None of what you've done is wasted

"Yes," says the Spirit, "and blessed rest from their hard, hard work.  None of what they've done is wasted; God blesses them for it all in the end."  

-Revelation 14:13 MSG

Whether you can see it or not, when you work hard, do the right thing, live with a right heart, and keerp striving forward for Christ, nothing - and I mean NOTHING - will be wasted.  Soon, the fruit of your hard work and dedication will shine through.  Hang in there - it will happen sooner than you think, better than you can imagine, and hand-blessed by God himself.

The wise will stumble...

"Some of the wise will stumble so that they may be refined, purified, and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time." 

-Daniel 11:35

When we seem to always stumble and fall short of the God's glory it only means that we are being beautified, edified, quantified, and justified, by His great might and power.  

So embrace the stumbles, for you are being purified and made spotless, my friend!  Yes, you are God's glory!

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Faithful to the end

“… Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life.”

Revelation 2:10 NIV

Be faithful to Christ to the very end, and the very end will become your glorious new beginning.

Grace wins hands down

“All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.” Romans 5:20-21 MSG

Satan leads us to death; the end - death. 

Jesus leads us to live; the beginning – life, which is Heaven here on earth and ending in Heaven above with Him in which there is no end.

The end of self

The end of me equals the beginning of Him ~ God Almighty

Have you had enough?

Are you at the end of your rope?  Have you lost what is most clear to you?  Are you in severe darkness, persecution, or distress in your life?  Have you had enough?  Yes?!!  Well, take a moment and rejoice, because it as these times when God can finally come in and take over.  God's Word says if you are at wits end, (had your final straw, can't take it anymore), then you ARE BLESSED (Matthew 5:3-12)!  How can that be, you ask?  I'll tell you: When you've lost it all, had enough, at a loss, are ready to give up, ready to quit - have no more left in you, then God can finally do what he needs to do in your life; you've finally come to a point where you'll let him take over and make it all right.  Yes, when you lose yourself, you gain the gift of God - full and complete.  Get ready to be blessed my friend - it is time!

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Lies and rumors gain nothing

“The person who tells lies gets caught;

The person who spreads rumor is ruined.”

Proverbs 19:9 MSG

Lies bring end to good things, and rumors ruin lives one works so hard for. 

Hence, don’t do either – you, and/or those you love, will lose either way.

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Be the end to gossip

“When you run out of wood, the fire goes out; when the gossip ends, the quarrel dies down.”  Proverbs 26:20

Be the end to gossip; when it comes to you, turn and walk away.

The end of you

"Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything." 

@Oswald Chambers

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Gods presence

God said, “My presence will go with you.  I’ll see the journey to the end.”  Exodus 33:14, The Message

Not a moment of our lives goes by where God is not with us.  Therefore, we can keep moving forward in confidence knowing God is right there with us every step of the way.

When Jesus comes back

When Jesus comes back, His home will be with me.  He will live among us; we shall be His people, and He shall personally be with us.  He will wipe away every tear from our eyes; death shall be no more, neither shall there be anguish nor grief nor pain, for the old conditions and the former order of things have passed away.  God makes all things new.  God is and always will be the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.  Adapted from Revelation 21

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My goodness!  The second coming of Christ is something to excited about.

This sickness will not end in death!

“When Jesus received the message, He said, This sickness is not to end in death; but [on the contrary] it is to honor God and to promote His glory, that the Son of Man may be glorified through (by) it.” John 11:4 AMP

Although you may be going through a sickness, the loss of a loved one, the loss of a job/career/business… (a dark time in your life), you can rest assure that as a believer and lover of Christ, what may seem like something that is going to set you back, or destroy you, is actually God’s opportunity to shine through – and He is getting ready, and going to, my friend.  So, stand back and give Him room, because soon your life is going to be blazing with His glory and His might!

You are so loved!!