If you can't give "thanks" for being set free from sin and death what can you
give thanks for? What a way to start a week end.
"because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you
free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:2
I have never been so aware of this until recently. I left a comment on a friends
post agreeing in prayer over the tornado catastrophe in Oklahoma. A state
where I also have family. People were so confused as to how God" could allow
such a thing to happen. I only replied saying that God was not the cause.
I based my reply on scripture.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may
have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10 (The thief being Satan)
So celebrate and enjoy being free in God!
I pray that God will Bless you all!
Have you ever noticed that when the sun is shining and the birds are singing
when you get out of bed that the world seems so much better in that day. The
minute the sky turns grey... our mood changes. We have been programmed
that way since birth. However that very mood swing has overflowed into all we
do. If we have ample money to do the things we need or want to... we are
happy. When funds are low, so are we. and so on... and so on... That was not
an intention of God that we be this way. As Christians we should pray for all we
need, for every situation we have and even for the things we want or don't want
in our lives. We should be happy in the Lord. Our days should start with Praise,
Prayer and Thanks Giving! Instead of worry we should be waiting expectantly
to see how God will answer! Remember our Faith and Belief in God is always
being tried by the devil! It is by Our Prayers and Our Praise that we are able to
overcome him.
For example, let us say you don't have enough money to meet the rent... instead
of allowing the enemy to rain on your parade, start praying and praising God and
feeling it in your very spirit, "that you can't wait to see how God will help you with
this!" Can't you just envision the enemy cowering down knowing that God has it
all under control! ,
So live by faith, don't worry, be happy, be blessed, God is right here!
Just thank Him!
I pray that God Blesses You All!
As hard as it is to accept we live in a cruel world. Definitely not what God
intended but never the less it has become such. Being a Christian does not
make us immune to the cruelties of the world but it does give us a way out.
A way to find peace and healing of our wounded spirits. A way to find strength
when it appears that there is no way or where to find it.
Standing on the word of God is our first way out. Knowing that He wants to be
our Shield, our Protector, our Comforter, our Healer, our Salvation, He is our
everything! He knows that troubles will come our way, however He has in fact
already provided our way out before we need it. When we know the what the
word of God says and His promises we always know we have a way out! Prayer
and praise and the knowledge of His word keep us connected to God and strong
in His ways so we can receive from Him.
I lost my son in death almost 8 years ago. I was angry, I was hurt, I was crushed!
I truly thought I knew what a broken heart was before he died... I didn't know at
all! Sadly I can tell you now that I know what a "broken heart" is now! At the
very first I denied it was real. How could it be so? I had raised my children to
believe and trust in God and I trusted God with them. Then I was angry... My
very question being, "How could God let this happen? I refused to pray, I also
refused to acknowledge that God had His reasons for allowing my son's death to
happen. I would like to tell you that at that point I had some kind of divine and
spiritual revelation. But I did not! For years following my heart ached, I cried
often and I felt like the very breath was pushed out of me. Nothing made any kind
of sense to me. The depression and the oppression appeared to be taking hold of
me. I was also taking care of my elderly and medically disabled parents during
this time. Though I loved them both so much, I was just performing the duties
that were expected of me. Sadly I became so withdrawn from life that I had to
place my parents in a nursing home so that I could recuperate. The pain in my
heart and spirit was so bad that I literally moved from the State I lived in to another
hoping I could lose the memories. Because everywhere I went, everything I did,
reminded me of my son and that he was gone. The move did not help because you
can't erase memories of your children. They are a part of you. Their ups and
downs. The good times and the bad times. Though when my boy died he was a
grown man I could vividly remember how it felt to hold him when he was an infant.
My arms ached for him. I remembered how he had been treated badly by a coach
for little league baseball and how I went to his defense. Then I remembered that
as he grew into an adult how hard it was to let go of him and let him become a man.
I remembered that as an adult he developed a bone condition in his feet and legs
and was in such pain that by evening he would have to crawl instead of walk. He
had surgeries that didn't help... but he kept going! How he never once blamed God!
I remembered sitting in a movie theater with him as we watched, "The Passions of
Christ" and how the tears ran down his face at the thought of the pain Jesus
endured. He loved God!
Then the revelation came! No I do not know why God took my young son, but I do
know he is with God. I know he is no longer in pain. I also know that God knew I
would be hurt and angry. How I know this is that when Jesus was placed upon the
cross... God was hurt and angry! The scriptures say that He had to turn His face
away when Jesus called out from the cross and that when Jesus died the sky
darkened because God was angry! So my feelings were not unique. And like our
children, God must let us go and grow up and make mistakes along the way.
However He is waiting for us to cry out for Him when we are stumbling around in
the dark and need His help! Though I did not realize it God was holding me in the
palm of His hand when I felt so far away!
Healing of my broken heart is daily! Daily trusting, daily prayer and learning to
accept God's will for my life. I have realized that I will always miss my son but one
day we will be reunited. My spirit is now always trying to work in sync with God!
No matter what, "ALWAYS RELY ON GOD!" if He brings you to it, He'll see you
through it!
I Pray that God Blesses You All!
This particular Blog will be short and simple. God never changes! His word
is as true for today as it was thousands of years ago. Reading it, learning it
and applying it to our lives is not only necessary, it is needed. We need it for
strength, for help and healing, for direction and I could go on and on but I will
simply say, "we need it for everything in our lives" and for those around us.
How can we be a good witness and example for and of God if we don't know
His word? The following scriptures tell us how God wants us to be where His
word is concerned in our lives!
Deut 6:7-9
Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them
when you are at home and when you are away on a journey,
when you are lying down and when you are getting up again.
Tie them to your hands as a reminder, and wear them on your
forehead. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on
your gates.
John 14:26-27
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name,
He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things
that I said to you.
So in just these 2 scriptures you can plainly see how God desires us to be in
His Word at all times and that He has sent the Holy Spirit to help us understand
and learn them and to also remind us of what we have learned when we need
them. This is how we live and share by witness the word that God gives us.
Without it we are an empty vessel unable to perform what God has shown us
and will teach us.
I will pray that God will open the word for you and reveal all the things you need
in your walk as a Christian. After all, "Jesus is the Word of God"
John 1, Verse 14: "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us."
(The Word became a human being, a Jewish man named Jesus.)
God Bless You All!
Before I became a Christian I was always so confused about the things of God
and His word. The Bible was a book that I read but could not fully understand.
I was very much like a little child who was given my first book with words in it.
I knew the story was there but the words made no sense to me. However when
I became born again through Christ and I knew to pray for understanding... the
word of God opened up to me. As I read God's Word I began to grow... the more
I read, the more I grew and the more I understood. However reading the word
of God was not all there was to it. Through the Holy Spirit I began to apply the
word to my life. Basic things in the beginning... knowing how much God loves
me, my loving others through His love for me, forgiveness towards others also
through His loving and forgiving me. The most basic and important thing to me
was learning that everything I did or would do was through God and by His Spirit.
Proverbs 3:5-6
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
This is the beginning of growth with God and for God. Learning to trust and follow!
I Pray that you all find His understanding for your lives!
God Bless you all!
I wonder when I read the passages in the Bible how many truly realize
how powerful the blood of Jesus actually is in our lives as Christians. He
being the blood sacrifice to spare us before God. To take our sins upon
Himself... so that we could have eternal life with God. Once we accept
Christ into our lives and receive that blood covering, God sees our sin no
more. We are then clean before Him. Without the shed blood of Jesus
that was not possible. It should make you emotional to know that God the
Father gave us His only Son so that we might be spared.
"If we walk in the light as He is in the light,
we have fellowship
with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ
His Son cleanses
us from all sin" (1 John 1:7)
It thrills me to know that we have such a loving God! Our salvation is only
one such way that the blood covering works for us as Christians. It is
our protection and our healing. I can't tell you how many times I have prayed
the blood covering of Christ on my loved ones or asked for healing. Then
know by "Faith" that it is done. In this day and age God "must" be our
refuge and our shield, there is absolutely no other way.
I want to encourage you to read the "Word of God" and seek out the very
answers you need from Him. Believe me they are there!
I pray that God Blesses You All!
