I’ve Been there For You, Will You be there for Me?

Have you ever been in a situation where you knew you should have died? Have you ever had that type of situation? How about when you got in a heated conversation that was going good at first then all of a sudden it went bad quickly, and it became so surreal? In that when you look at that term surreal, it means an effect, or fantasy, unreal, unearthly, strange, freakish, dreamlike. Have you ever been in a situation like that, were it was unfolding before your face, it start going that way fast and you couldn’t stop it? Then all of a sudden the Lord steps in and you don’t know it, but the situation changes, the atmosphere changes. Things started to calm down and goes back to a normal state. Have you ever been in a situation like that, which blew your mind? You know it should have gone somewhere else? At the end you looked at one another and said “Whoa, what just happened?” The Lord had to step in and squash yours and their temper, because Satan already threw his hand in and caused it to go out of wack. When it was all over, it seemed so surreal, unearthly.

Jesus has been intervening in our lives when we ask, for a long time. But we just equated it something normal, coincidence. There has always been something like that which has happened in our life, and you blow it off and make it seem lesser. Everyone around gets in trouble and you walk away unscathed. Have you ever been in that situation? Since Christ has been standing up for you and been there for you, can you do that for Him? Can you say in your heart, mind, and thoughts, with the different situations that have happened in your life, when He asks you, can you stand for Me, when everyone around you can’t or wont? Can you allow Jesus to work through you what he will for the time or the situation? Can you allow that? Do you remember when I was with you, when the circumstances seemed uncanny? Those moments that were close. Diving down the road, doing things, and all of a sudden a car comes another way in a split second where we know that we should have hit it.

The Lord loves His people. When you have a purpose in Christ, He makes sure that your life is different even when you don’t think it is. Everyone who comes around your life is blessed, and they don’t realize its the presence of God. Even you don’t know what blessings are bestowed upon you. The light Jesus is trying to shine through you, its not for the benefit of you, but others to see Christ in and through you. You don’t have a light. Its not you that He wants to shine, its Him that He wants to shine through you. Men will see you and give Him the glory. He’s been with you since you were a little child. Satan wants to destroy that in you so that he can win over God’s will for you. I say this to my daughter every time I see her “when you were a little child, you use to walk around the house, arms raised giving glory to God.” But Satan sifted your life, bringing people around you whose spirit was negative to defeat your walk, and defeat you even finding out who He is.” My daughter’s Grandmother always wanted to grab her and pull her to herself, and when my daughter would go to bed, she would lay down with her. But what is wrong with that, she was only her Grandmother? Satan will use whomever he will use. have you ever heard the phrase “transference of spirits?” That spirit will get on you because of touch or proximity. Satan brings people back from your past, and they are eager to hug you to be alone with you. Have you ever noticed when you leave an old friend who you always had problem with you feel like something had lifted, right? but when they came back in your life you felt very heavy and burden. My daughter had that spirit transfer onto her. She would start throwing tantrums, and quick to get a attitude about anything when she never had a tantrum before. She took on the ways and attitude of her grandmother, who had an attitude with people who wouldn’t do what she wanted them to do and she would curse them out. Transference of spirits its real people, It doesn’t matter if they’re family or friends. That negative spirit was transferred to my daughter, so what ever evil spirit is upon a person its will be transferred to the other person then they will begin take on that person mindset and attitude of the evil spirit have.

People rarely transfer positive things in your life, but they will tell you negative things in the form of gossips and that just jump off there lips to you. Have you ever found yourself walking into a situation, and coming out acting like it was your situation? Well you try to blow it off and say that it just who you are trying to take ownership of it, when you never behaved that way before until after that situation. No it isn’t you, its that situation that you just came out of. Satan is not trying to possess you, he wants to delay you. for example: What would happen to if you got to a train, or bus, or plane late? It would leave without you, right? Some people come into your life to delay your growth or walk in life, because they are under a evil or demonic influence that has delayed them. That is why your walk is a selfish walk. At the final judgment Who has to stand before Christ for you, you or the people who influenced you? You have to be concerned about you. But if your brother, sister in Christ Jesus is trying to get up, help them as best you can. But when their struggles has become a part of your struggles in life, you have to know when to cut bait, and run, in other word let there struggle go. Its not an easy thing to choose Jesus over family. but even in bible; Matt 10:37, luke 14:26 it reads, that you can’t love you mother, father, sister, brother, more than Him. Because they will cause you to turn away from Him. They know him or love him, and out of your love them you’ll wind up not loving Me base up on there will and understanding then you’ll wind up walking way from Me. Its a terrible things to look back over your life and say, what could have or what should happen if I had done this or that. Satan will bring back to your mind these type of though to condemn you, he will say thing s like, “You were doing good, You were on fire for Christ, you were in his will Now look at you now “! An for us human we don’t want to be single out or accused and the finger is being pointed at us.

In this day and age the biggest problem in the world, is worrying about what other people will say or is say about you!. Why do we spend hours in front of a mirror doing our hair or putting our clothes on and …etc.? Even when you have your day off, you don’t stay in front of the mirror the same way. Why? Because you don’t really care about all that and you don’t have to pretend anymore, you can just be real. That mindset leaves you after you get a certain age. We’re so concerned about what people say about us that we put the fake smile on, when we feel rotten inside. If your life is so wrapped up in that type of mindset, you can never serve God fully. We need to be more concerned about our souls, because the outer appearance fades. But will your love for Christ fade? Does you salvation depend on how your outer appearance is?

Hebrews 13:1-9

Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

The Lord sends angels down to check up on us. Hebrew 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Mr. or Ms. just got a brand new car, I need a brand new as well. Mr. and Mrs. just got a brand new house, I need that too. Mr. or Ms. just got a brand new cloths and shoes, I need that. Don’t talk about things that meet your vanity, your conversation should never be about that. What is content? Satisfied. When you’re satisfied with something are you concerned about someone else’s stuff? Oh Lord, they just got the latest MacBook Pro. If you’d never seen them, would you want a Mackbook Pro? Be content. Lord I don’t have what other people have, nor do I own what other people own. What is that saying? Doesn’t your Father know what you have need of? A lot of times we talk to the Lord like we’re ignorant. Lord I don’t have! You don’t have it because you don’t need it. We need to be content. Lord they’re going out and witnessing to 1000 people a day, I only witness to one person, be content its not the number he is looking for you might witness to over a 1000 people, and out of that 1000 only 2 people come to know Jesus, its about letting the word of Jesus be heard so that Christ sheep will hear his voice but a stranger want follow john10:1-27 .

When God tells you something today, will it be the same tomorrow? We think Jesus is like us. We change our minds everyday. But God is not like that. If He told you something in the Word, He won’t change it Malachi 3:6. If He did, He would be inconsistent. If the Word says today you shall not steal or lie, it won’t change tomorrow.

Philippians 4:4-8

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Even when there is disagreement between two people, you can agree to disagree. Then you move on and leave it alone. Kind words turns away wrath. Don’t sit there and fuss with someone. They don’t know, but Satan is using them to jack you up. People are not going to agree with everything you decide to do in your life. Why? They don’t know where they’re going, and they don’t want you to get yours before they get theirs. The Lord is telling you to walk on because its you that has to give an account of your life, not them. People don’t care about you. A lot of times people get jealous because you’re not riding along with them. When someone jumps out in front like they know where they’re going, then the others want to slow them down. This is how people react when you’re growing and they’re not. You don’t have time to worry about someone else problem. Because its someone else’s problem let them work and walk it out.

In conclusion, read Deuteronomy 31:1-6

And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the Lord hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. The Lord thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath said. And the Lord shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

I’ve been there for you will you be there for Me? When you’re around others what manor or conversation do you have? When you’re in confrontation, how is your attitude in that? What is the result after that situation? Can you walk away with a good heart, and no angry feelings? Are the results to the point where God will be happy?

Don’t allow someones sinful nature to destroy your soul. People who are governed by sin or flesh, they want to bind you with their mess so that you can’t do the will of God in your walk!.

I Hope You’ve Got it, Because You Will Get It

Today we will cover a territory we’re all familiar with but in denial about. All things shall be revealed. How many know that God is about growing us up? Some of us are still children. I’m open to the Lord to teach me. When you become unteachable, you become unreachable. The Bible says that there is a way that seems right to a man. They believe it’s a right way. Anytime you emphasize what you want, it’s about you. If you feel, then its your will. If we are not very careful, our will’s can steer us away from His will. When you get out in the middle of a desert and you’re away from the oasis, the first thing you do is look back at the oasis because it’s the only thing that you can rely on. It gave us a place of refuge to block us from the sun, and water to refresh who we are. We shouldn’t stray too far away from our opinion. There is that away that seems right. It may appear to be, but its a trick of the adversary to pull you away. He knows that if he can stray them away a little, he can lead them a lot. A mirage is a distorted reflection of something that may be out there. It may be a mountain or tree. That comes because Satan tries to bring in your vision things that might be, could be, but you are not able to know until you go to see. In the process you’re leaving your place of refuge and you don’t know what it is. By the time you get to that point of no return, you realize “oh my goodness?!” How can I ever get back, because there is nothing here? By the time you get to one mirage another mirage pops up which leads you further away. Now God has never left. He is still there and solid; I am God and God alone. If I said it was wrong 2000 years ago, it is wrong now. I know that if you go this way, it’s going to mess you up. Lean not to your own understanding but in all your way acknowledge Him and he will direct your path.

Have you ever had a moment in your life where you said “enough is enough?!” Even though you’re saying that what you’re really saying is this: “Lord I’m a mess.” God deliver me from me. I thought I had got it. Because I hope you got it, or you will get it. We make that step toward that mirage because there is always something that will pull you away from Christ, because when you are a Child of God, ain’t nothing coming easy. People always say when you’re in Christ that it’s so wonderful and He’s carrying you. You’ve seen the picture of the foot prints in the sand? The foot prints are first light, then they get deeper in the sand. If the person had just gotten rescued, those foot steps will be deeper in the onset, because that person should have been able to walk on their own. He won’t carry you all the time. The world will always tell you, those Christians in the world, that He won’t let you fall. Well then realize who is Job? God, if you love Him and are walking the way you are supposed to and constantly allow Him to be in you, your life will allow Him to utilize you to be an example for others. Job was an example for all of us. When I was a kid, my favorite song was All My Appointed Time. “All my appointed time, I’m going to wait tell my change comes.” I knew the song and as it became a part of me, it became a part of my life. As those things happened to Job, it happened in my life. Someone came and told Job this, and someone came and told Job that. Until the servant reached home and said Job all your children are dead. Because, a lot of times we can’t fathom a child leaving this earth before their parents. A child shouldn’t leave this earth before their parents. I told my children, I’d rather go before you do. Your life should go on to represent who I am, you should be me in the future. I’ve lived my life and gained all the things I’ve desired to do. I’ve walked with God, talked with Him and been filled with His Holy Ghost. I want you to go forth and live the experience I did. God has given us 3 score and 10 years to live. 20 years + 10 years = 70 years. Why would you spend your time chasing mirages, trying to be very aggressive, trying to reach a goal that is not for you to reach? When we get to a mirage its gone. We look back and have seen we’ve made a journey when we could have made a journey to what was right. I lost x number of time, when it could have been placed in Christ. It’s good to know this when you’re young, because when your old, you can’t walk that fast. We need to stop when we’re young and utilize the youth in us, not for our personal gain.

How many know about a savings account? Why do you put stuff away? For something in the future you haven’t seen. Have you put stuff in your soul, so you can bank it for the future? Have you taken the time to invest in your soul for Christ? You’ll only get out of you what you put into you. If you load yourself up with candy bars, pizzas, frosty drinks, and fountain drinks, then at the very end of your life it has destroyed your life. When you get older you think, where did the time go. The reason you don’t want to be here is because you’ve messed up your years. Your soul depleted, your body depleted. We need to make sure we get it before we get it. We need to get the point now so we can live on in this point as a Child of God. He has given us things pertaining to life in godliness. So why are we trying to pursue us, why are we trying to pursue our lives? It’s not about you it’s about your service to Him. If you abide in Me and My word abide in you, you can ask what you will and it will be what? Possibly done, maybe done. No! It will be done. If you do what I’m telling you right now and get the point right now, you won’t even have to ask for anything because He’ll give it to you, because you’re locked into Him. “You’ll remain faithful to Me and I will always remain faithful to you,” is what Jesus says. That is what we have to remember. He knows what goes on in our heart. Did you know that God is a heart regulator? He makes sure your heart is beating right. He wants to make sure if your heart is for Him.

We take the time to believe that we have the understanding of what it is. As we lean-to the understanding of what it is, as in “I have it,” as you begin to follow what it is, you began to follow what you believe it is. In the process, what are you doing? You’re moving further and further from what It really means. Not realizing that it is not about you. Most people don’t know that. As you begin to follow the teaching of it, I got it, I get it, it pulls your further and further away from what it really is. People tend to want to pull you further from it. Have you ever been dangling out somewhere mentally? “I don’t know what I’m suppose to do, why did they leave me out here?” I thought you had it? Well you’ll get it! So many of the mistakes we make in our lives is because we’re following after the wrong “it.” It will lead your further and further from the truth. Christ wants you to get it. Hopefully once you get it you’ve got it. He wants you to have that understanding so if you have the understanding about what something is, then you shouldn’t get lost as you go further in your Christian walk. Where do we lose the direction of that Christian walk? We allow ourselves to listen to other people’s understanding. Their form of what they got of “it.” As we listen to their form of what they got, now you are getting “it.” Got it? Then we get confused. To understand the truth about a thing, we need to understand who we are first, because who we are will determine the information that comes into you. If your information centers are jacked up, your reception centers are jacked up, what will you receive? Jackedupness. So, your receptors will say this or this, because they’re jacked up. You get garbage in, you get a virus. This is an awesome thing. It does so all the information that comes into you that is not what you need, it give you a virus, now your receptors can’t receive what you need. Now you can’t get it because you’ve got it. Now here you are in a state of confusion. Because when you got what you got it wasn’t what you were suppose to get. The understanding that you thought you got wasn’t clear because your receptors picked it up wrong. I hope ya’ll get it. All this mess leads us to a false sense of understanding, your whole life is built on a false understanding.

Proverbs 3:5-7

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

See if you already have jacked up information, how can you be wise in your own eyes? You’re a jacked up wise person, going on your own understanding.

James 1:12-23

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.Do not err, my beloved brethren.Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

What does being tempted mean? It means you go through a test. It tells you who you are in the subject. That is why you don’t want to despise being tempted. Taking the test. Sometimes tests can be so long. You’re up there thinking when you’ll be done with this test. “Please Lord how long?” We don’t want to say “test hurry up and be over with,” because in the process of a test it is bringing stuff up in who we are and reveals what we need. Salvation is not a person running through the field with grass and daisies flying. Its walking through the field and asking “why am I going through?” A test is there to make us, not break us. Do you stand there a waddle? You can’t tempt God with anything. He’s God, He already knows what your motives are. Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust. In other words, he didn’t get it. Your understanding is based on what you thought you had, and you can only walk in what you knew. “I thought I had it right?” Well, where did you get that information from? It was corrupted. Well why did you sense it was corrupted? Oh because your receptors were all jacked up. You got a virus. When you get a virus, everything that you download in that virus becomes corrupted. People don’t realize that. If you have a virus, the only thing you can receive is corrupted, because the virus in contaminated.

We allow mess to come into our lives and we exemplify it and say that it’s in the Word. Surface understanding is what a lot of us have. Surface salvation. Surface, Bible understanding. Ask them a surface question about salvation and all they’ll say is “yes you have to accept God, as your personal saviour.” Its a surface salvation. The point is that a lot of us walk in surface salvation, because to dig for something and to root up everything and bring it to the forefront of your life, you wonder where did that come from? Aunty Lucy did the exact same things, and I’m doing it today. We allow that to happen. Don’t talk the talk of Christianity when you don’t walk the walk yourself. The point is you need to behold yourself. Do you ever avoid the mirror when you walk into a rest room, and when you go to wash you hands you can’t help but look at yourself and say you’re a mess?

Know that in your heart things may be right, but a clear heart is what you desire of God. Lord I heard it but let it be clear to me, so I can go forth and be what you want me to be. Even with people, get a clear understanding before you fall off, because you can’t come back, you’re committed. Look before you leap. Before you commit yourself in a situation, make sure the Lord gives you a clear understanding. The Lord isn’t slow, and 5 months later you should be able to understand. Ask God for clarity in all you say and do. Because once a word has left your mouth, they don’t have strings on them to reel them back.

Proverbs 14:12-16

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

When you say you have something, make sure you have clarity of whatever the “got” is. What is the “it” you want to get? You ask, that way you get clarity in the statement. I hope you got it or your going to get it.

What Has Become an Idol in Your House?

Sometimes in our life we tend to be somewhat preoccupied with frivolous things that seem to captivate our time and our emotional well-being. We may be caught up reading a lot, watching our favorite TV program or working too much, or even being around our friends too often. Whatever you’re around, you begin to simulate their ways. That is why when couples get married, people say to them individually that they act like the other spouse. It doesn’t have to be a husband or wife, it could be a friend because of the cute way they do things. Maybe, possibly its going out ministering too much, or even your electronic devices. Its sad, but it’s not limited to just any ethnicity. Its is all people are just about. They are out there and the first thing you see is them on the phone. Getting off a bus, driving in a car, they have a phone in their hands. It’s not the latest news they are looking at. What were you doing before they came out with smart phones? Sometimes we get preoccupied with smart phones, with apps and such. How about talking to other people as a preoccupation? Spending more time trying to communicate with people and less time in your walk? A lot of things going on in our lives seem to grab our attention, and we’re so easily stimulated by visual stimulation. Those seconds turn into minutes, that turn into hours and you’re gone. Did you know that the time you spend doing nothing is not recoverable? Its lost; you can’t reclaim it.

The Lord is very concerned about how we spend our time. I’m here to tell you that we’re not here to witness 365 days of our lives. When the disciples went out they went out at a set time. Just as Ecclesiastes 3:1 says there is a time and a season for everything under the sun. S-O-N and S-U-N. How long ago did you say “Let me take a breath and take in what God has given me?” How many just sit there and stop and think about the fact that you are alive today? Or give Christ 5 solid minutes and say that our minds will only be filled with Him? Most Christians don’t do that, because were so caught up in what we can do next. You ever seen someone going on vacation? They are preoccupied with the preparations of the trip, frantically. We are so preoccupied with the things around us, and so many little things. Because we never take the time out just to enjoy what God gave us and let Him know that we appreciate it even though man is trying to destroy everything on the planet for their own benefit. God made all that. We don’t care how they got there, but guess what? They are there. Have you taken the time to enjoy it? Just take time; take 5 and just breath. When you see the awesomeness of God, just take time and breath. Why can’t we just take a deep breath and breath? Have we taken the time to say, Lord I’m not starving, Lord I’m doing very good? That is a statement. I’m not doing bad at all.

We need to watch what grabs our time and our emotions. People will try to steal your time and emotions away so you aren’t with Christ. Have you ever gone through the day and at the end of it wondered how you even got there? What captivated me that much that I couldn’t remember how I got there. Maybe you were angry and that blinded you to the present?

Matthew 12:34-35

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

So we allow people and situations and circumstances around us to dictate what will happen through out the day. If we are constantly thinking about evil, no good thing can come in or reside. People have a way of twerking your nerve, and you allow it. No one should be able to get to you and you allow it. Ever heard the term “get underneath my skin?” They would literally have to make an incision. What could be that incision? Anger, jealously? We can’t deal with it so we wrestle with it; we think about it. Someone gives you bad news, that your bank account is empty? How would you feel? Would you think about giving God praise? No! You’d wonder who did it? We don’t want to hear “give glory to God, someone needed that money more than you.”

Matthew 12:35-37

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Words are powerful. Every time Christ tires to give us a word or knowledge or understanding, something keeps us from hearing that word. Someone might email, text or call you. They know you don’t like so-and-so and they know so-and-so doesn’t like you. And they say, “You know what so-and-so said about you?” It’s amazing to me how people can just go through their whole life, have an understanding in their hands with their smart device and never try to find out about it. You can ask your phone about anything and it will tell you. Everyone in this world has no excuse who has a smart phone. If they don’t even have clothes on their back, they have a smart phone. Now I’m asking you. Is there any excuse for everyone to know who Jesus is? But we’re so preoccupied with what was the latest score on a sports game, or what is the latest this or that.

We never take 5 minutes to give God 5 minutes. Why? Because were so preoccupied with things that go on. But you say “I pray every night.” When you pray are you focused on Him or on just the words, saying them quickly so you can go to sleep? Have you really given Him the time He needs, having nothing else on your mind? We think that just reading the scriptures is enough. But you just read. Take the time to say that, Lord, I love You, Lord. Think about this. Take the next few minutes to stop thinking about things going on in your life when you leave here. The Bible says that tomorrow takes care of it self. Just clear everything from your mind…

Did you hear the noise when you tried to enter in? Did you enter in instantly? All of a sudden this happened, that happened, and things came into you mind. We don’t give Him the time that we need, because we’re trying our best to fight through all of the frivolous things within us just to talk to Him and say “Hey, thank You.” So when someone tells you that they took time with Jesus, did they really. We usually whine up telling Him what we want from Him instead of saying “Lord how are you doing today?” How many of you ever said it inside your heart without a word coming out of your heart? How are you today? Are you doing better? It serious; this is serious.

We tend not to stop and give Jesus a chance to be in our lives. We really don’t take much time for the Lord.

John 15:7 If you abide in me…if you spend time with Me. Not just any sort of time, not just praying. Praying is your requesting. If you would spend time with Me.. My wife and I are in the same room together. Are we really together? Am I spending time? What is spending time? How can I say I’m with someone? Because you communicate directly, and your spend that communication hearing and talking to one another. So if you take the time, a slot of your life, and time and give Jesus that so He can talk to you, then we build a relationship. A strong relationship. Because if you abide in Me…it didn’t say your cousin or friend, it said if you abide in Me, and My word abide in you…there is a define separation. If you have that communication with Me and love Me like you say you do, then My word will tell you were you are in Me. And when you find out where My word is in you, then you will know what to ask for and know what I desire of you, and it shall be done. Because I have a relationship with my wife, I practically know what she wants before she says it. Why? Because she is in my mind. I know what she doesn’t like. So when people say they have a relationship with Christ, you have to ask do you really? When is the last time you shut your mouth and let Him speak?

Philippians 4:7-8

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

What is this saying? Stop that junk taking in. It tells you exactly how to be in Him. It tells you exactly. Because if your conversation is jacked up…this is not a joke. Just, pure, lovely, good report; are you thinking on things that are just or unjust, pure or impure, lovely or jacked up, good report, or listing to someone giving you bad news about someone else? If there is any virtue…if there be any high moral standards…are we thinking on these things? What has become an idol to you and your house whether physically or naturally? What has become an idol? Your time, thought patterns, the little niches in your mind? Whatever a man thinks so is he. So if you’re constantly thinking about evil and vengeance, that is what you are.

Stop sometimes and give God 5 minutes of your time. Are you going to miss it? No. You’ll listen to someone telling junk for hours and you’re putting all that in spirit. Take some time to give God time.

Did You Ever Grow Up?

1 Corinthians 13:11-12

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

I was thinking about when I was child, I did some crazy things. Did you ever tempt fate? Tempt life and death? When you look back when you were in your teens and preteens; the peer group pressure? Do you remember things like selfishness; lies? It was easy to tell a lie when you were young, but you really didn’t know what a lie was. You remember being a thief? “Don’t mess with those cookies…don’t mess with this…” Your siblings told you “don’t bother that…don’t take it.” Though that seems small, its still thievery. I was with a company that I was a contractor at, and I was told I could go into the office supply cabinet. I looked in there and it was as though I made it to mecca! I had a pen fetish and they had all types of lead, ballpoint, felt tip point, roller ball point; All sorts of erasers, those like putty, the big white ones, the big brown ones. Post it notes, tape…they had all the goodies. Colored paper clips…you never know how bad you need a paper clip until you need it. I was told I could get whatever I needed. I got every pen and eraser that I could get…and it wasn’t going anywhere but back to my desk. I was doing work with them, but some of them never stayed at my desk, but went home, and rested there. Now because it didn’t come from management and came from one of the engineers on the floor, it wasn’t for me to take, but I took and took and took again. I don’t know if there is such a word as nice stealing, but I stole, often. I was justifying everything…taking 4 bottles of whiteout, just in case I may need it. But I was a thief.

How about cheating? Do you remember anger? How about faithlessness? As a teenager, we told other teenagers “are you going to be faithful,” yet we weren’t even faithful. We tell them “don’t cheat on that test,” yet we cheat on that test.

Lets look at our childhood. Have you ever been selfish in your childhood? You know there use to be a truck that came around and the driver was Mr. Liberty. He had popsicles, iced cold bazooka bubble gum, fudge sickles, freeze pops, eskimo pies, the ice cream bars with chocolate on the outside, and the neapolitan ice cream…He always carried the right stuff for the kids in the neighborhood. He came at the right time, and when he rang that bell, every kid on that street came running, hopping and skipping beside the truck. He tried to satisfy every child and teach us about our money too. We had a wonderful time waiting for him to come, and we use to promise each other that we’d help the kid who didn’t have money and get them something. But when that time came up, we didn’t want to share, even when you ate some of another kids iced cream before. Then you would order knowing you had no money, then you felt angry, disenchanted; let down because you couldn’t get the thing you wanted.

Do you remember something you took from your sibling or friend and never gave it back? Did you know that you can’t steal someone from another person? You saw one teen with a girl you wanted. So you went about trying to steal the girl from him? This happened to me. Pains and trials and let downs that I didn’t even know were there. Kids being talked about, being made fun of. Teenagers. Wanting to be accepted. “You don’t dress right. We don’t like you. You belong with the misfits.” The things was is the misfits were all straight A’s. These memories are still with me today. Sometimes memories are still there, but attached to those memories are a growth that you never grew beyond. What about when things didn’t go your way? Were you angry with the person, the situation or with yourself? What about when you didn’t get chosen to do a particular task? Some of us want to be chosen, others of us don’t because we don’t want to be called a teachers pet. You remember when your sibling or friend told a lie to your mom or dad? Think about those moments? Do we ever see some of the remnants of our past childhood come up in our life now…how we walk in Christ, how we choose our friends, how we do business? Yes we do. The Word of God says when I was a child, I thought as a child, spoke as a child…Some of the things we do today are still from our past as a child. Did our bodies grow up and our minds stay the same? What does it mean to become a man? Not looking at things from a child’s point of view, but looking sensibly and reasonably. I don’t need to smack you back because you smacked me. We need to realize one thing. We need to grow up.

You wonder why God can’t use us? Because we haven’t grown up. He can’t give a responsibility to someone who is still doing the same old childish things. Think about it. If a person still hasn’t grown up past the mindset of having a playful type mentality all the time, would you entrust them to manage your money? Would you entrust them to handle your business? Think about it. Just relate that with God. Will the Lord entrust you to deliver His word to a person who’s soul is aching, who’s heart is hurting if your still in a child’s mentality? We have a lot of immature Christians out there. Some of them have come into the understanding of what the being clear picture is about. But they begin to play around, and take it lightly. They don’t look at others pain, anguish or hurt, but they say rather it is kind of funny the way they look. When you were a child, some of the things you did carried over into your adulthood. If you grew up liking toy race cars, maybe you became a race car driver. You ever wonder what your life would have been like had you not chosen your profession? What would you have done, accomplished, succeeded in? Would I have known who Jesus is? Would I be in this state or this country? What would I have done?

A lot of times our faith or the lack of faith is due to something that is lingering over into our childhood, linger into our adulthood. We had faith in someone; they failed, so we saw that faith didn’t work, or we have less faith. It causes you to have a misunderstanding of faith. Lack of faith is usually equated to having an emotion disillusion. You have a relationship with someone and you know it would last, but they pull out for some reason. But they told you they had faith in the relationship, then that lessens your idea of faith. The delusion of it all is because of the attachment you had on others wasn’t strong enough to maintain the bond, your faith lessens. You ask, “what came out of me that caused their walking faith not to be strong? Did I cause them not to be faithful? Did they see a lack of faith in me so they became unfaithful to us?” Then you begin to test that faith on them and say “I will try this one more time.” Then when they do it again, you don’t trust them at all.

What does mature mean? Its being able to let things go that don’t make sense. Mature comes in when you’re able to look at something circumspectly, weigh it, not just accept it, but know the consequence behind it. Whereas a person who is younger will jump right in and do it and find out later that it was bad. Maturity will say I’m 72 years old, I don’t need to have a car note. Maturity makes sense. I’m not working anymore, why would I go and make a big bill? You can’t live off someone else. You say you did when you were younger, and think you can do it today. Making the same old mistakes you did when you were younger. “He’s cute, got nice hair and muscles. So he must have a brain.” That is the same thing you did when you were younger. You weren’t looking for intelligence, you were looking for looks. You still live the life of a teen and here you’re 62. You still turn out to be a teen and your 50, making the same old stupid mistakes you made when you were younger. When it says I let go of childish things…the way you talked and acted. You can’t do the same things you use to do when you were younger. You should have some wisdom. Have you grown up yet? Its not the shape or the color of the product. Its whats in there that matters. You don’t want a man who will be candy on your arms. You want someone who will enhance you and teach you something. Whatever God gives you, trust Him.

Don’t let the ways of your past control your future. Don’t make the same stupid mistakes; being giddy making your choices in life. Start looking at thing a bit more seriously.

Your Good Just Might Not be Good Enough

As people of God we want so much of God but we do and give so little for Him. Do you really know Him? Or maybe I should say do you really want to know Him?

Proverbs 21:2, 14:12, 16:25
Galatians 6:7-9, 1 Kings 18:21, Matthew 7:20-24

There’s a saying… “a little knowledge makes a person dangerous.” When most people gain a little knowledge about the Bible they believe that they are a Christian authority and their understanding is somewhat absolute even though they may not want to admit it. They fill that their understanding of the Bible gives them the right to speak for all
Christians, and from that they begin in corporate their own personal belief system into what ever the biblical topic being discuss is, according to the way they feel concerning what the Word of God is saying. They will begin to impose their understanding on everybody and thing. And a lot of times, this leads to a new belief system that contradicts the Bible all the time. Then that belief doctrine will begin to become infectious and nine time’s out of ten because there may be some kind of relationship or emotional attachment involved that people will begin to equate
this as being true words of Jesus.

People usually will follow after someone they care about when it comes to listening to the Word of Jesus instead of only listening to the the Word of Jesus Christ as to not hurt others feelings.

Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

The word Ponder means ‘to think.”

Isaiah 5:18-23
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

For those who think they know Jesus will begin to justify what they do in His name with a surety! It’s the people who tend to believe they know what a Christian is supposed to be like, but never had a relationship with Jesus. They don’t love Him, they really only heard of Him have a lot of mouth service all because they read the Bible like a book as in a fairy tale and only to be taken as such. Not as the true inspirational words from Jesus and the only way to know this is to travel down the road of salvation, to find out first who Jesus is and what He means to world and personally to you.

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