Unyielding

One of my favorite sporting events to watch is the kentucky derby. It is so exciting to watch the horses races to the finish line. Rarely do you see the horse that first leads the race win the race. As they turn the last corner a horse comes charging through the field and races to the finish line to victory. The unyielding strength of a horse that was in a place of certain defeat to press through the crowd to win inspires me to not give up. Yes the odds may seem impossible to overcome but I have an unyielding spirit that yearns for victory. I can't quit but I must endure until the path opens for me to run to the finish line.

In life we are faced with many obstacles but I want to encourage you Greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world. Don't yield to your circumstance but press through your situation for victory awaits you. God has placed His wager on you. He believes in you more than you believe in yourself. Don't give up you are a winner.

Not Guilty

While I was driving on the freeway a police car merged into the lane with me and immediately I made sure I was driving the speed limit. The question came to mind. What is it about police cars that make me so cautious and feel so guilty? I am not breaking any law but when I see a police car I don't feel protected I feel guilty though I am innocent.

I realized it has nothing to do with what I might be doing but what I have done. My past mistakes hide my present innocence. I once had I reason to be afraid of the police for I was guilty of breaking many laws. I would cover what I was doing so I would not get caught but the moment they left I went back into what I was doing. But I am not that person anymore.

Though I have changed, my mind is reminded of my former mistakes. The issue is not the police it is me. I have to accept the new person that I am.

In life we all have made mistakes but through the grace of God we receive salvation from all of our sins. We can live free from the guilt and shame that reminds us of who we once were. We are free to live and enjoy the journey that is set before us. We have nothing to be afraid of. We don't have to live in what we have done but in what Jesus Christ has done. Through Jesus Christ we are not guilty.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2

Live to Love

We can spend so much time trying to make an impact in this world. Trying to fulfill our dreams but the key to living is loving. When we live to love others we help to fulfill other's dreams. We help encourage and motivate others to never give up. We become the gateway for the hearts of others to be reconnected to God(Love). Living to love is a life consumed in positively impacting the lives of others by filling their needs. In this day let us seek to love, let us seek God, let us cherish our love ones, let us show kindness to strangers, let us smile at the store cashier, let us not waste our day loving to live but let us seize this moment and live to love. God bless you.

Expect Great things

I was talking to my wife today and I saw a bag in our living room that read "expect great things". For me it is the little things that make such a difference. A bag that has sat in my living room for months reminded me today that in each day to expect great things to happen. What a motto to live by. It challenges me to look beyond what I see and know. It pushes me to focus on the positive instead of the negative. It reveals that God is at work in my life.

No matter what has happened in our past our future is brighter. Today I want to encourage you to Expect Great Things!!

With Open Arms

As I slip into deep sleep. My mind ponders the events that just happened. Could it possibly be any worse. All that I have been is lost in a moment. All that I have possessed taken in an instant. Is this the end? Will I live again? Will I be released from the sleep that has captured me?

If I could just live again. I would be different and not conform to the world that I just left. As I reflect on who I have been I realize that who I have been is not who I am. The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.

We can live our entire lives covering who we really are to conform to the world that surrounds us. The lie must die. We have to be who we are. We were not made to be religious, riotous, rude, or prideful. We were made to love. Conforming hides the beauty of who you are and it makes us carry a burden that can be unbearable at times. When we get tired of carrying our mask we find relief in the true identity of who we are. Accept who you are with open arms.

Just Because

When you meet the love of your life, you tend to do things for them. Their reply is Why did you do that? Why did you get this for me? The answer we give is Just because. We appreciate them being in our life so much that we do things just because of who they are to us. It is not because they did anything specific for us but for the relationship we have with them.

In my relationship with God He does not do things because of my merit but because of I am His son. He loves me. I am the love of His life and He cares deeply for me. As He does you. He loves His children and loves when we are aware of His presence.

When I do something for God I don't do it to get something in return I do it just because. His love fuels my existence. He reachs beyond my imperfections and blesses me with His presence. I love Him because He first loved me.

I praise Him just because. I laugh with Him just because. I talk to Him just because. I write to Him just because. Just because His love is so awesome.

Finding Life and Understanding

Open to new experiences but closed to the truth. I have purposed in my heart that I know all I need to know about you. I am afraid of these questions that continue to reside in my heart. I rather avoid confrontation than allow them to flood my heart. Is this new life leading me to freedom or to bondage? I can not fulfill what is asked of me although I try. I have this curse hanging over my head and I don't know why. I gotta get free.

Then you found me. Covered in ignorance you enlightened me. The poison of my beliefs you purged from my heart as you filled me with unconditional love. Thank you for revealing the truth of who you are. No longer blinded from you I now can put my trust in you.
Jesus Christ is the answer to all our questions and it is through a personal relationship with Him that we find life and understanding. God bless you.

"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints" Ephesians 1:18

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In the Mud!!

Trying to defy gravity but to no avail. Is it meant for me to always be subject to the ground. I want to fly but I have no wings. I am tired of this dirt for it is an unforgiving pain. When will it rain? As I search for a place away from the Son. The rain comes and now I am stuck in mud. Wasn't the rain my way out? I cry, as I sink deeper into the ground. Now I am consumed in this mess and I can not see a way out. The Son I was running from now I yearn to see, as darkness consumes me. I desire to be free from this muddy cell as I am pressed against the wall.

In that very moment I hear a call. A call that rings into my ears and my eyes are filled with tears. The call is for my release as I breakthrough the ground. I look to the Son and see a new day. I don't resemble what I used to be. I have branches yielding fruit growing out of me. This is the place that I yearned to be, standing strong as The Son's power strengthens me. An unmoveable tree is what I have become. If it was not for the dirt where would I be? Thank you Lord for planting me so that I can become your tree.

"For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." Jeremiah 17:8

"And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." Psalms 1:3

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Out of the low dungeon

"They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life" Lamentations 3:53-58

When all hope is lost there we find our Redeemer. Our lives are filled with pain and anguish, some of us are even wounded and scarred by the hurt of others. As we cry in the darkness with our lives shut off from freedom we plead for the help of a redeemer. We don't want to die in this dungeon but we want to live. Saturated by our tears, our heart begans to drown in anguish. We can not leave this prision even if we wanted to. We cry but hear only our echo. Then from the pit of our soul we cry out to God. We are hurt, vulnerable and scared, the Lord speak to us in our darkness. Fear not. I am with you. I am pleading for your soul. I have come to redeem you from your dungeon. I know that you have endured many wounds but I am here to mend and heal every scar. I have come to replace your pain with joy. I have come to replace your fear with hope. I have come to replace death with life.

When I wanted to give up You came and rescued me. When I thought my life was over You shined Your Love in my heart. Now God I know that You can do anything. You are worthy to be praised. You are my Friend and my Savior. I depend on only You to lead me out of my darkness.
God is working on my heart as I write this. I am drenched in tears and so thankful for God's love.

KNOW that He loves you. He hears your cry. He has been waiting for your cry of desperation. He waits to redeem and deliver your life as He is doing for me at this very moment. You just have to let go of control and cry out to God right now. Give your all to God. Give him your addiction, your sickness, your fears and He will give what you have been yearning for. Love! His Love is what I and you need. Receive it in Jesus name for this is the day of your breakthrough. We are leaving our dungeon for God has redeem us. Let us rejoice and be glad for what God is done and is doing in our lives. God bless you.

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Embrace, Release, Receive

Embrace every moment
Embrace this time
Embrace your emotions
Embrace your signs
Embrace your failures
Embrace this opportunity
Embrace your pain
Embrace your fears
Embrace your weakness
Embrace your life
Embrace Release

Release your emotions
Release your fears
Release your pain
Release your weakness
Release your regrets
Release your failures
Release your life
Now Receive

Receive happiness
Receive joy
Receive peace
Receive love
Receive forgiveness
Receive abundance
Receive change
Receive a new beginning
Receive Jesus Christ
Receive Salvation

What we embrace, release and receive is our decision.
What are you embrace?
What are you releasing?
What are you receive?
We must be empty first to receive what God has for us.
God bless you.

Clean by Thy Word

Today I thought about something that would occur while I was a child. When I would play outside I was very adventurous. I always found a way to scrap some part of my body. As I came to my parents to treat my wound. They did something that I never understood. They would put rubbing alcohol on my wound. It would burn so bad and sometimes felt worst than the scrap. As a child I sometimes would be afraid to show my scraps and bruises because I did not want the alcohol I just wanted a bandaid. They would always say "The alcohol cleanses the wound so that it won't get infected and the wound can heal." Though it was painful it was necessary for my healing and to be protected from infections.

Are you wounded? Are there scraps and bruises that you are carrying? God wants to put some alcohol (His Word) on your wounds. Though we expect God's word to always make us feel good when we are wounded and infected, His Word can sting not to hurt us but to fight against what is trying to destroy you. An infection that is not dealt with can kill you. Give God your pain and allow His word to purify and cleanse you from your pain. The word purges us from all the inpurities that have taken root in our lives. The word pierces our heart and heals us from our mistakes.

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, Ephesians 5:26

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. Psalms 119:9

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. John 15:3

When my parents said my wounds were clean. I believed them. I went back to playing and enjoying life. We must believe God and what He has spoken to us. His word will clean us, it will give us peace, it will give us joy, and heal us. Receive His word, don't be afraid if it stings for it is pulling something out of you that was meant to destroy you. You are Clean by God's Word. God bless you

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Can these dry bones live?

1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 6And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 8And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. 9Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Ezekiel 37:1-10

Are you in the valley of dry bones? Have you watched everything in your life die? Have you lost hope in God? Now you stand wondering what is next. You see no hope for your future. God has a question for you. Can these dry bones live?

What do you mean can these bones live? They are dead and You left me alone in this grave of bones. I am angry Lord. Everything that I have cherished lays in ruins. But God thou knowest.

In spite of our pain and frustration will we tell God that you know if these bones can live. We have nothing to lose to trust God. Our relationships, our finances, our homes, our jobs lay at our feet. And God is ready to resurrect them. Not to their former state but to a newness of life. A life fueled and filled by His spirit. Without the Spirit of God our bones will remain in the valley but With God our bones can live. It is time to leave the valley and surrender our bones to our Father.

God desires to breathe on our bones. God is shaking our bones and their is a heavenly sound that yearns to be uttered we just have to open our mouths and allow The wind of His spirit to breath into us. Will we leave our valley and allow His spirit to transform us into the great army that He has designed us to become. God has a position for you in His army but He is waiting for your responds. Will we speak life over our bones and let God's Spirit quicken our lives? It is time to speak in the valley. Let us place our bones in His hands and He will transform us into a new creature. Let us enter into His kingdom as the new creature that will bring joy, peace, hope to those that are lost. Can these dry bones live? Yes they can. God bless you.

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." II Corinthians 5:17

The Blame Game

"And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat." Genesis 3:11-13

Do you see the issue here? The first words out of Adam's mouth after he sinned was it was the woman's fault. The first words out of Eve's mouth was it was the serpent that made me do it. Neither accepted responsibility for their actions. We fall into the same trap today. When we make mistakes we place blame on anything and everything but never seem to accept that we just messed up. When my children make a mistake they always blame why they did something wrong on the other one. Why is it so hard to accept responsibility? When my children are honest that don't get in as much trouble as they do when they place blame on their siblings.

Adam said the woman that you gave me. Adam found a way to blame God and Eve. So many of us have this same spirit working in us. The spirit of pride. We blame God for what is wrong in our lives we blame our spouse/love one for making us sin. This pride will always corrupt the gifts that God gives us. The woman was created for Adam to be a benefit to him. But when he messed up the fear in him provoked him to respond in pride. Don't think that you or I are any better we would have eaten the fruit to. We blame Adam for our problems today. "If he would have not eaten the fruit we would not be in the state that we are in." We are not lying but it deflects the blame onto Adam and we avoid taking responsibility for our actions.

Stop living in the blame game it time for us to be honest with ourselves and with God. God is not to blame for our mistakes. We are. Our family and friends are not to blame for our mistakes. We are. When we live in intergity it leaves no place for pride to destroy our fellowship with God. Until we are honest the mistake will be over our heads. It will stain our garments and it will permeate our lifestyle. Let us break the wall of blame and allow God to refine our hearts and cleanse us from our ways. Our spouse is not our enemy. We are our greatest enemy. We have to stop thinking everyone is against us it is our flesh that is destroying us. We need God. He is the only way and the only One that can defeat our flesh. Give your life to Him today.

Whatever you have done wrong confess it to God and allow His grace to cleanse you. It is time to recreate our marriages, our relationships, our lives by walking in love, humility and intergity. God bless you.

Seize the moment

If this was your last day on earth what would you tell the ones you love? Tomorrow is not promised to anyone. So seize the moment in this day and take time out to share your heart with others. God does not want us to waste our day. When we love, our eyes are concentrated on life not death. We experience joy and peace that the world can not give us. Loving every moment, everyday allows us to appreciate life and the people that God has placed in our life. Make it a desire to make a positive impact in the life of someone each day. When we take our eyes off of our circumstances and consider each other that love is contagious. God's love is contagious which can easily flow into the hearts of man. Spread God's love and watch your atmosphere change. God bless you.

"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my diciples, if ye have love one to another." John 13:34-35

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Not ablity but availability

I was listening to a testimony of a man that has a disease that affects his whole body. He can't speak clearly, He can't walk without help, He can't do what most us normally do everyday. He was told that he would never have children. He was told he would never get married because he was not a real man. He was told he would not make it as a preacher because he could not speak clearly. He has been preaching for 35 years, He has been married for 27 years and He has four children. In spite of His affliction he refuses to live life feeling sorry for himself. He said something during his testimony that has stuck with me. He told God I can't preach because I can't talk and God told him I don't call you by your ability but rather by your availability. Wow.

In this day let us stop looking at our problems and become available to God so that He can be seen through us. God has not called you by your ability but according to your availability. Where are you Moses, Joseph, Esther, Ruth, David, Jacob, Peter, Mary, Paul? Are you available to God so that He can reach the world through your life? God bless you.

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Learning to Forgive

"For if ye forgive men their trepasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trepasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." (Matthew 6:14-15)

Learning to forgive people that have hurt and wounded us is a very hard thing to do. How can we possibly forgive someone that purposefully inflicted pain on us? Most of us can forgive someone if they step on our foot on accident, jump in front of us on the freeway, even if someone speaks rude to us we can learn to forgive the simple follies that occur frequently in our society. We might be angered by others but we do forgive them. What about the drunk driver that crashes into your loved one's car and kills the one you love the most? or The man that abused your innocence when you were a child, the teacher that purposefully tried to scar you by calling you dumb or stupid, the parent that left you at a young age, the woman that seduced your man and he left you for her. Do these people deserve forgiveness? Their actions are wicked, wrong and hurtful but they are very people that we must learn to forgive. When we don't forgive we allow bitterness to take root in our heart. Everytime we see the individual that hurt us we become enraged and emotionally distraught. Just to hear their name can turn our mood. The bitterness that we carry is a slow poison that destroys our soul. We inflict and hurt those we love most because we have allowed the bitterness to affect our heart. In nature the most dangerous animal is the wounded animal for they might not naturally be dangerous but because of their wound and pain they inflict pain on those that try to help them. Forgiving is a painful process when the bitterness has joined itself with our heart but the bitterness can only be purged through forgiving. Jesus was spat on, He was beaten and flogged, His body was torn, He was betrayed, He was wounded, He was bruised, He was lied on, He was rejected, He was left alone, He was pierced in his side, He was hung on a cross and crucified, He was mocked. Jesus suffered and died because of our sins. He died for you and me not because we deserved life but because while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Hewas taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Isaiah 53:2-12

God has forgiven our sins and has forgotten our trangressions. Forgiving is a form of love that many of us don't appreciate. Will we forgive so that God can mend our wounds or will we continue to scrap off our scabs? God has paid the price for our healing. It is a healing that goes beyond just when we are sick it encompasses our mental and emotional health as well. We must forgive so that God can cleanse our hearts from the poison and we can live not die. Remember forgiving is a process and God desires to free us from our pains but we have allow God to work on us. When God forgives us He does not hold past sins over our head we have a clean slate. We don't do that when we forgive it is not in our nature to do that. So we must lean on God's unconditional love to forgive not our fickle conditional love for true liberation is in His love. We can't love if we don't forgive. Let us move forward and not dwell in our past. In this day let us walk in God's love and forgive our debtors. God bless you.

Are we content?

"Not that I speak in respect of want; for I learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." (Phillippians 4:11-13)
The writer of Phillippians spoke something so profound that many of us our ignorant to. Are we content in the state that we are in today? What is your prespective of your circumstanes that you are currently in? None of us are perfect but as the writer states what is our responds to what we go through. Have we learned to be content in the midst of affliction and lack or is our happiness based on what we have or don't have? We must learn to be content in our good times as well as our bad times. We want to be strengthened by God but don't want the pain of being hungry or empty. God wants to strengthen us but it comes to those that are content in Him. Contentment has to be based in our relationship with God not things. For circumstances changed but God remains faithful through whatever state we may be in. If you are in pain, lost, depressed, confused take your eyes off of what is going wrong in your life and begin to focus on the gifts that God has place in front of you. Being content is a choice that we must make everyday. Recognize that God wants to strengthen you in each day and be thankful what you do have. When our perspective changes we are empowered through our circumstances not consumed by them. God bless you and strive to be content so that God can reveal His strength through you.

Family Time!!

I love my family. I can write about all the great things God has revealed to me this day but I just want to write that I love my family. A verse that comes to mind is "God setteth the solitary in families" Psalms 68:6. I am someone that can enjoy alone time. I am content being by myself for long periods of time but my family brings out the best in me. I would not know love without them pulling it out of me. It is amazing what you can learn from the people that see pass the facade of perfection that others see. My family sees my heart. They see the bad and the good in me and in spite of my imperfections they love me. Well I have to stop writing because my baby girl is having a temper tantrum. lol.

Be blessed and treasure the people that God gives you. They truly make you a better person.

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Go in Peace

I have been thinking about a scripture that I read this morning. "Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." Luke 7:50 The story of Jesus forgiving the sins of this woman moves me every time I read it but today what really stuck with me was this verse.

In spite of her condition she recognized who Jesus is and she gave all that she had to Jesus. No matter what it may have looked like to the Pharisee or to anyone else she expressed her heart to the one she loved.

She could not change the facts of her past. She could not wipe away her sins but she gave her heart anyways. She was led by her heart not by her circumstances and her faith saved her.

Many times we try to come to God by trying to hide our mistakes or even try to fix our mistakes trying to appear perfect but God just wants us to give Him our heart. He has the power to forgive our sins and He does forgive us. Our faith in His forgiveness saves us. In the story people were like who is He to forgive her of her sins. No matter what others think God forgives those that have faith in Him.

"Go in peace" Whatever situation you may be in right now know that in God there is a peace that can calm any storm. A peace that can quiet the naysayers and allow you to enjoy the journey. You are not what people say you are. You are what God says you are. Have faith in God and go in peace. A new life awaits you.

the spirit of judgment

My heart has been troubled by some things recently. One of the biggest things is the spirit of judgment that we can so easily take on. We judge people for every choice and action they make like we are perfect.

The thing God revealed in me is that when I judge people they don't see love they see hate. It does not cause them to change but cover who they are. In my heart I would hate what people did and I would not accept them until they change to my standards. When I started writing God did not show me anyone else He made me examine myself. It was hard to see that my existence was a lie. I acted one way in front of people but lived a different way behind closed doors. I hated in my heart but loved with a lips. The more we judge and focus on others the more we miss our need for the same love that we preach about.

When we don't deal with ourselves it causes the next generation to live in the same bondage of pride and hatred that we ignored. I have to be honest with God and myself. I can't live a lie because you can not handle who I am. You can't live a lie because I can't handle who you are. Jesus Christ came into the is world to save us from ourselves. To redeem us and reconnect us to God. God is our Father and He loves us unconditionally. Our freedom lies in knowing who God is and who we are in Him. We are created to love not judge and condemn. We are created to show mercy and forgiveness. We are created to share and give to others.

When I see God I see Beauty, I see Love, I see Joy, I see Peace and I see You. God loves us let us love one another. be blessed.

Get a second opinion

I received some disturbing news from a so-called expert about a problem that I was having. The expert said he could not tell me what was wrong but assumed the worst and estimated the cost to be very costly for me. After I got off the phone it was hard for me to get his words off my mind. In my heart I knew that something was wrong with what he told me but I am not the expert so I allowed what he said to affect my mood. Then I got tired of fighting the thoughts in my mind so I confessed my thoughts to God and I received such a peace about the whole situation. As I prayed the next day God put in my heart that I must get a second opinion so I did and when I went to the other person that was in my heart to go to he stated some of the same issues but he said it is very fixable and not that costly. I received what I needed for a tenth of the price of the expert gave me. God takes care of us when we allow Him to have His way in our lives. I could have accepted the opinion of the expert but God allowed me to see that in every situation He is an ever present help.

You may have received a bad report in your life. You may be faced with life altering decisions that you will have to make today. Know this God is with you and He has placed your situation in front of you to reveal a side of Him you have never seen. Allow God to work in your life today give up control and watch Him put the bad opinions of men under your feet. Shut your ears to the words of men and open your ears to the inner voice within. God's report works for our good we just have to accept His plan and walk in it.

I thank God for delivering me. He is so good.

Back on Track

My son told me "When you lose track of God and His ways God will get you back on track to following His way." The truth of a child is amazing. When we are lost we need a guide to lead us back to path we are created to walk. God will not let us perish in pits that we fall in. He lifts us up and places in our hands our purpose. He reveals the importance of our life for our children and spouse. He ignites the fire in us to do what we are created to do. You are more than what you see. You are more than what you have done but you need God to place you where you can grow and succeed. Listen to the voice calling out for you. God will use a child, a movie, a song, anything to get your attention and bring you back to the path of life. Listen to the Voice within you and let the Voice lead and guide you towards your destiny. Be blessed.

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