Worry gets no one anywhere

“… People who “worry their prayers” are like wind-whipped waves.  Don’t think you’re going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.”

-James 1:5-8 MSG

Worry is the same as insanity – it causes the mind to frantically do one-legged sprints around and around a mountain without realizing we have another leg to help, as well as keeping us blinded to the fact that there is a freeway running right through it.

What enslaves you?

“Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey?  You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.” Romans 6:16 NLT

What are you worshiping right now?  What can you not stop focusing on that can overtake your mind at times?  What do you feel like you have no control over, such as temper, frustration, regret, food, man, money, exercise, etc.?  Or, what/who is making the decisions for you?  If any of these answers are anything, or any one,  but God, then it is time to get re-grounded and re-focused; it is time to dig in deeper with Christ and wash away the darkness that is suffocating your life.

I know I have one or two things that I need to let go of or they can eventually lead to destruction – mental and physical – so I am ready,  I am ready to breath again.  How about you?  Well, if you are ready, then join me, and let’s kick this darkness to the ground, stomp it back to HE**, and move forward with our beautiful lives set before us by God himself.  

IT IS TIME TO LET GO!

Your body is not your own. Your body is God's.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20New Living Translation (NLT)

19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

Are you honoring God with your body?  Are you following the Spirit of God, or your own spirit of never being quite up to par?  Are you consistently beating yourself up, putting yourself down, over-eating, over-exercising, over-critizing yourself, your looks, your body?  I know that most of us can answer these questions with a big ol', 'YES!', which means we are beating up God's beautiful creation; which means, we are basically living in sin - sin (all sin, no matter the sin) which leads to death.  

Well enough is enough!  It is time to stop focusing on death and begin to focus on God, LIFE! We must try to remember that He owns our bodies, He made our bodies, and, therefore, we must change our way of thinking about our bodies; the way we talk about our bodies, the way we torture our bodies with food, exercise, stress and strain, and the way we look at and see ourselves, (our bodies), in the mirror.  

Friends, change is in dire order if a good portion of your life is spent being unhappy with YOU; who you are and how you were made.  So, let's begin to live out the way God has made us.  Let's see our bodies the way that God made them: perfect!!  And, most of all, remember this: our bodies are God's and made by God, and He makes no imperfect being. 

You are beautiful!  Now, begin to live and believe like it!!!

New Living Translation (NLT)

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It will happen for you

“God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks:

“Exactly as I planned,

It will happen.

Following my blueprints,

It will take shape…”

God-of-the-Angel-Armies has planned it.

Who could ever cancel such plans?

His is the hand that’s reached out.

Who could brush it aside?”

Isaiah 14:24-27

God has many plans for each and every one of us - those that believe in him, and worship him with all that we are, are planned to prosper in all things good and God-given.  So, although in the natural it may not seem like it, as God’s child it is just a matter of time before one of his many plans come to pass – it will happen.  As well, although it may not seem like it, you are blessed in whatever moment of your life you are at right now, it is just a matter of time before you realize it.

Go and be blessed today.

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When life isn't fair, God is!

When God realized that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb…” Genesis 18:31, The Message, Pg. 56

Watch out!  When God realizes you aren’t being fairly treated, blessed, loved, or honored, He’ll come in and pour out His blessing so abundantly over you that the world will have to step back because you’ll be blinding them with the glory of God from within.  

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Test and prove yourselves

"Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it.  Test and prove yourselves [not Christ].  Do you not yourselves realize and know... that Jesus Christ is in you - unless you are [counterfeit] disapproved on trial and rejected?" II Corinthians 13:5 AMPC

There's not a better way to put it: Examine and test and evaluate yourselves daily to see if there is anything, (sin, wrong thinking, darkness, depression, etc.), in you that needs to be removed.  If there is, and as humans we usually have something dark within, then we need to repent, and ask the Lord to remove it from us; ask the Lord to change our thoughts and actions.  I believe that it is so important for us to stay on our toes when it comes to sin and darkness that we hold on to.  In my opinion, it is what we hold on to that leads us to, or away, from God, so consistent accountability to God of our thoughts and actions is a must.  

Remember, God lives within you!  You are so unique, and so special - you have so much to offer this world.  So, don't let the dark-side of life get the best of you - don't let go of God, not even for a second.  Soon, your inner Light and beauty will come out naturally, you will have more confidence because of the Spirit within you, and the devil will stay further and further behind you, knowing that you are getting too strong for him to even want to deal with.

We all have one thing in common.

It doesn’t matter who you are, Who you believe in, or whether you believe in God (or not); one thing stands true, and one thing only:

There will come a day when you will come face to face with God Himself! And, it is at that moment you will know (understand and realize) that the King of kings, and the Lord of lords, is God, and God ALONE. 

God is no statue, no ordinary man, no beast, no object – NO, He is God and He is real, and the best choice you can make, (if you haven't already), is to receive God into your heart make Him your Lord and Savior.  It is not only imperative for this life that you make this decision, but for your life everlasting; because, with Him will be love, mercy, grace, blessings, beauty, health, prosperity and abundance in the full, until it overflows, along with many other spectacular surprises that our minds cannot even fathom.  However, without Him, will be gnashing of teeth – screaming, crying, and torture, and more screaming, crying, and torture… death! 

So, it is your choice … hopefully, it isn’t too hard a choice to make, and I just know that once you make the choice for God, you will never regret a single second of it!!

 

Praise God

My thoughts after reading the Book of Ezekiel, Chapters 26-30.

Day of reckoning.

“Thus your lewdness shall be recompensed upon you and you shall suffer the penalty of your sinful idolatry; and you shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord God.” Ezekiel 23:49 AMP

There is a hard way to finding out that God is who He says He is, and He will do what He says He will do - By, knowingly, continuing in your sinful way of living; hence, keeping your back turned on God.  Friend, if this is you, then you can rest assured that your day of reckoning will come, and when it does, it’ll will be a day you wish you could of avoided.

God gives us choices, and He wants, so badly, for us to choose Him, but many of us do not. Or, many choose Him, but choose to follow Him on ‘conditional’ terms.  Well, there are only two choices: Follow Him, or don’t follow Him – there is no middle ground!  So, please, prayerfully consider how you are presently living; what your motives are, Who you are choosing to believe in, what kind of decisions you are making, and the people who you are affecting.  If there is anything, anything at all, that you know is wrong in the eyes of God, then please put the brakes on, run to God, and do whatever needs to be done to change. If you do choose to change your ways, (and I pray you do), and give up your sin(s), then when all is said and done, you will be stronger, more blessed, truly ALIVE, full of peace, full of joy, abundance in the fullest, a legacy in the making, and, most of all, redeemed and made whole by the mighty hand of our Mighty Savior – Jesus Christ.

Praise God – Hallelujah!