Courageous Beauty: Recent Episodes
Krystal Mitchell
Like a Phoenix, I rise out of the ashes to an occasion! Anything tired by fire comes out beautiful! But it takes courage to rise out of the Ashes of Fear!!! That makes me beautiful! ~Courageous Beauty ~
Isa 61:3 KJV To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
A stumbling block but a Chief cornerstone 1Peter 2:7-10 KJV 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. I'm here to say I'm not a fan with injustices of God's people. Especially black people because I'm black but the situations of this current world is yet at a state of emergency across the board. How can we truly be mad at another race of people when we cause confusion in our own house, in our own back yards, in our own camps, neighbors, in our cities, in our own states, in our own country!!! Not just the world alone but the very body of Christ has seen so much confusion and division. It ought not to be so, as believers, kingdom citizens, children of the Most High God we are supposed to be the light of the world not living in the dark with the world. Yet we stop to fix our lips to ask God why bad things happen. We can't forget that Jesus said they hated him and would hate us too. No matter black, white, right, wrong or indifferent we ALL are God's children and we should learn to leave in love and harmony. Instead from what I've seen Christianity is one of the most construed, and criticized belief systems because the bottom line is to cause division and cause folks to deny what Jesus has done for us. It makes me lean in even more to God because he already foretold us what would come and now that we see things unfold before our eyes we all act surprised. He actually told us... Matthew 24 KJVDestruction of the Temple 1. And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 3.And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8. All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10.And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. I think sometimes people only think what the Bible says literally only applies to the folks of that time. Well im here to tell you that the Word of God is timeless, alive and will live on forever. We have to keep in mind in this life God never promised us that we wouldn't face hard times. Even with us being his children he covers us through the hard times not necessarily eliminate them. Our c--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/courageous-beauty/message
You are not dead, God is not done!!!Jesus died so we can live and have life more abundantly. He said he wouldnt leave us comfortless because he knew there would be times we would need a comfort. In order for great things to come about we must tread high waters, and step over serpents. But God made a promise to us in Isaiah... Isaiah 43 KJV Isa 43:1-2 KJV 1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. So even in the mist of our trails and tribulations Jesus, Whom is the very Word of God said greater works will we do! He said wait! and you after the Holy Ghost is come you shall be endowed with power from on high! Power to overcome the world as Jesus has already obtained the victory! So now that Holy Ghost is on the inside of us we know that Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world! Jesus was in the world and now is risen and sitted at the right hand of his Majesty on high and his Holy Spirit at the moment of our confession of him being our Savor have been saved from our sin and equipped with power at the same time!!! we have the power Beloved I pray that above all else that you be in good health and prosper even as your soul prospers! As long as we have breath in our bodies God is yet giving us another chance to align our lives to his will. Isaiah 43 3-21 KJv 3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; 6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; 7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. 8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. 10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. 13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? 14 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. 16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. 18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/courageous-beauty/message
Don't let your passion for something turn into pressure that could crush someone instead of influence them. You are the light of the world, a city that cannot be hid. Who would hide their light under a bushel instead you would put it in a lampstand for all to see. The Bible says we are living epistles read by men. So we ought to live our life accordingly. We need to let our light so shine that men(mankind) will see our Good works and glorify our Father in heaven. So when we find ourselves so passionate about something we don't need to pressure others we just need to live by example and allow the Holy Spirit to lead us and the power of influence which is also the Love of God will cause others to be lead to Christ.John 12:32 KJV32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.He was the seed that had to die under the pressure so we could have the promise of abundant life!! The thing is we don't have to force-feed any of the gospel. We also don't have to force our hearts desires and passions on others. We want others to worship God out of their own desires not ours. We also want folks to support us and be in our corner when we are going for something but that doesn't have to look like a screaming match to get support. That doesn't have to end up in offense because someone doesn't want to partake in what you are doing. Sometimes we must walk alone for a season and if we know that we know in our knower(spirit) that God has called us to do something he might just send you first. It doesn't mean your loved ones don't or won't support YOU, it means this is the vocation God has for YOU as an individual. Now if others are influenced by the way you live your life for Christ by walking in your truth, trusting the Lord all the way through your journey, while exemplifying the love of Christ, then let it happen organically. There has been times in my life that I have been so passionate about sharing the love of Christ to people and some receive what I'm saying and some don't. That's OK. It really is ok because as long as I'm being obedient to the call that God put in me it doesn't matter who won't follow, and or heed sound doctrine, advice or the very Word of God. It only matters that I planted the seed, God will water it. We are not Jesus Jrs he is the one whom can save anyone he is the only one that died for our sins and bought us with a price and rose again and is our savour!!! So with all of that in mind be a firey one for Christ be passionate and courageous but you don't have to have this spiritual chip on your shoulders walking around like a holy ghost bully just looking for offenses and opposition to come. Trust me you will have enough opposition as a believer as it is, you don't need to create opportunities to offend folks or to get offended. Let folks believe what they want to believe. Our Job if God gives us a task is to deliver in love and let the chips fall where they may. Trust me I've come a long way. I used to be so stressed out trying to save people and telling people about the word of God and getting angry if they don't listen. Listen honey it's a hard and long fall to the ground are emotions and ego can go to if we are not careful. Whatever you believe God might be saying to others you have to eat that word first! So don't allow your passions to turn into pressure, it will only crush someone not influence them. If someone needs to be crushed God will do it. He might use us to speak a word that will pull back a layer or two but it's never our job to force feed anything to anyone. God is such a loving father he doesn't force himself on us. He says what needs to be said and gives us a choice to follow what he commands. Now there are consequences for disobedience also but he still gives us the chance to get right. Deuteronomy 30:1919 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/courageous-beauty/message
Jesus was the ultimate wounded warrior!!! Isaiah 9:5-7 KJV 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.Isaiah 53:1-12 KJV 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 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. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 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. 6 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. 7 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. 8 He was 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. 9 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. 10 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. 11 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. 12 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.The chastisement of our peace was upon him. All the while he didn't stop pressing. Knowing his end even before his beginning in that he was literally born to die, stepped out of his rest in heavenly home; he thought it not robbery to trade in his glory for an earth suit in pursuit of his most prized possession, Us!!! Jesus was wounded for ours transgressions waging war on anything and everything that suffered the kingdom violence, so violent took it by force with his own life. He laid down his life for his friends. Jesus not only suffered physically for us but mentally as he was tempted on all points of life but without sin! Even in Garden of Gethsemane he sweat blood from what he knew what was coming upon him! But yet he said nevertheless and forged on!!!Mark 14:32-36 King James Version32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.36 And he said, A--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/courageous-beauty/message
I will do Isaiah 42:9Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.Isaiah 43:19 King James BibleBehold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. Isiah 43:19 Amplified Bible“Listen carefully, I am about to do a new thing, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even put a road in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.The earth operates within the realm of seasons and we follow and track the seasons because it gives us revelation of the times we are in. Therefore after the leaves have fallen then the ground is cold and hard we call it fall then winter. Everything that once bloomed has now fallen away and is now laying dominant for a time but even though it appears to be buried under the leafy rubbish, cold wet grass, mud, and some times snow it's really the roots are being nourished by the once bloomed but now fallen leaves, fruit, and triggs. It takes time for a plant/tree to bloom because the roots need time to grow deep and if the budding was exposes to the elements it would die out. So everything that has appeared to have fallen by the waste side in the winter time is really fuel to a fixed harvest that is coming in the spring time! Even our time springs forth!!! So I say man and woman of God to spring forth!!!2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! Your winter, your seemingly buried life is over! In fact you were not buried you were planted for a season for such a time as this!!! You were being nourished by everything that seem like it didn't work out. Every cold eye, every cold shoulder God was allowing your roots in him to grow-growing your character so that in him you can spring forth that you can be all new in Christ!!! Therefore God says he is doing a new thing but in order to accept the new season you must first shed the old!!! You can't put new wine an old wine skin because it would burst because what God is doing in you is a new thing and the old no fits you. No longer is made to hold what you once knew, what you once believed, who you are now, what you experienced is fuel for your spring time so spring forth!!!Exodus 17:6Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.The thing is sometimes it takes for us to strike the rock of our trials and tribulations as appearing as obstacles in our way to access the living waters that are on the inside of us in the mighty name of Jesus!!! All the while when we felt like we were buried under cold hard circumstances the rain began and the ground begins to soften again and now our budding breaks through! God reveals new ideas from our suffering, our peace is less and less snatched, we are less distracted because we know we have a purpose to fulfill, a call to answer, and duty to pursue! So spring forth a new, refreshed and following in the Love of Christ! Spring forth brand new and allow the light of this season to penetrate your frustrations and bloom baby bloom!!! Spring forth as rivers of living water pour out of you and allow yourself to step into your newness! All your faith to sprout like a fresh leaf on a tree that has just seen the sunshine and belongs there. You belong here, God woke you up this morning no longer buried by missed chances and broken opportunities. God has planted you in this season to be fruitful and not allow what was to contine to be, spring forth!!! Even time has to obey God the night appears longer in this season as we have stepped into daylight savings time. What that means to me is that he is allowing the sun to take it's time to show up so that it will seemingly appear our days are lighter and lo--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
Ephesians 4:22 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.I had a situation where a co-worker was really petty, rude and offensive to me. Especially if a make a mistake and it really started to way on me because this person trained me and it feels like sometimes this person's word is bond and it's almost like one minute we are cool but the moment I don't do something this person doesn't like it's a problem. Instead of just saying plainly what the problem is- it turns into passive aggression! We got really cool talking on our phones now all of a sudden it's back to zoom we go. I confronted the elephant in the room very kindly because I don't like Confrontation but more than that I don't like tension and uneasy work environment. My co-worker said everything was fine. However, you can tell in short answered responses and ego trips that it's not. So I decided to do what the scripture says and kill that person with kindness. I'm praying to be genuine as possible because I don't want to come off fake because I'm not fake. I'm annoyed but we are all human and have emotions and have outliner things going on in our lives that can unfortunately sometimes spill over to other areas of our lives. So with that being said I will pray for my peace, temperance, and ask the Holy Spirit to help me to control my emotions and I will do what Matthew says to do....Matthew 5:37-48 KJV 37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. 38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. 41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. 42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.They key scripture in this passage is Matthew 39. But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. In other words Jesus wants us to forgo retaliation especially personal offenses. We dont have to entertain pacifism our go so far as to not get ourselves out of danger but as followers of Christ he will avenge our honor. So in other words, Jesus is my lawyer and will go to bat for me and plead my case. Remember if God has the heart of kings in his hand how much more can he handle little meaningless disputes. There were and unfortunately still times when folks would wage war to protect his own honor with swords modern-day guns over what someone said and it would and stills ends in blood baths. This ought not to be so. The Bible says In Espesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: but the problem becomes when we try to step in the place that Jesus said he would set into to avenge us and wr take matters into our own hands. We don't need to worry about invasions of character we are to tolerate it, thus turning the other cheek.In fact...Rom 12:17-21 KJV 17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. 18 If it be p--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
The sun still shines through the clouds! The rays of sun exposes the night. Gives proof of a new day. Even when the clouds try to dictate your day, smile anyway oh smile anyway!!! Joy comes and turns your midnight into day. Just stand in light of the sun!!!Psalm 30:5 kjv5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.Meaning our troubles won't last always joy will come again if we just put our trust in the Lord!Jesus is the son that cascades light from the inside of us out into the world, he pours into our empty spaces, out into our situations, if we let him. When you find yourself low and you find no where to go, stand in light of his Glory and allow God's Word filter out what doesnt belong.He encourages us to be strong and to be of good courage. He didn't say we wouldn't have cloudy days. There will always be a sign of hope peeking through every trial, and every dark place that might seem to find you. We must stand still and see the Salvation of God! Exodus 14:3 Amplified Bible14. Then Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid! Take your stand [be firm and confident and undismayed] and see the salvation of the LORD which He will accomplish for you today; for those Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see again.Egypt was bondage for God's people, symbolic to dark clouds hanging down over your life. You might expect rain but it doesn't come to wash away the dirt of your situations but because we trust in the Lord his light will continue to shine through and give us freedom from our Egypt and hope for a land that flows with milk and honey!Psalm 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?Must stand still and allow God's Word to be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path!We must not be afraid to forge on even when we can't precieve a clear path and trust that God will see us through. The Son still shines through the clouds of heaviness, emptiness, bitterness, unforgiviness and he will fill you with The Joy of the LORD again !!! John 14:2727. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.Psalm 56:3-43. When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. 4. In God, whose word I praise— in God, I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?2 Timothy 1:77. For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline.Joshua 1:9-119. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” 10. So Joshua ordered the officers of the people: 11. “Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get your provisions ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own.”God will send people in your to help led and guide you where you should go when you are not able to see and or hear him clearly. Even though God speaks to us and we don't always hear him how we should. If we can't hear we don't follow directions correctly. So, being a loving Father he will send someone whom can hear and help us although the way until we can hear God ourselves! Respect those God sends to be your ears and eyes especially in dark times. Isaiah 41:10-1310. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. 11. “All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. 12. Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. 13. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all. For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and sa--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
You are not your own1 Corinthians 6:19 KJV What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?We make all these plans for our life but where did the desire come from? We need to check our desires and make sure they align with God's plan for us? My sister and I are reading a Dr Miles Monroe book and he said something so profound, if you want to know about something don't ask the creation, ask the creator. So simple but so profound. We spend time making purchases and we try to build things without first taking the time to even read the manual that came with all the parts that provide instructions and even how to care for your new product. Well.l it's the same with God; he is our creator you didn't create yourself and I know you have heard this old adage from your parents; I brought you in this world I can take you out. That's so far from the truth because even our parents were chosen by God to meet and to procreate but God knew us before we were in our mothers womb. Remember he created our spirit first and theirs and so forth and so on. So no one created themselves therefore you are not your own!!! What does this mean? Well to be quite honest I'm still learning everyday. God created a finished product meaning he created us with our purpose already aligned to us. He never would have created us if there wasn't a purpose he had for us but, most times we neglect to communicate to him to find out what our life's purpose is. I'm convinced that at this point in my life I can't make it without God, yet I struggle to do right. You know what the beauty about that is? Is God is merciful, and so loving, kind, and gracious towards us. He know we will make mistakes and bad choices and or decisions and be tempted by our own desires according to the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life yet he gives us chance after chance to try and get this right. So we have to remember we are not our own.and once we do we go to the manufacturer, whom is Our heavenly Father whom said we are fearfully and wonderfully made after his own image and likeness. God said it himself that what he made was good and very good. Therefore there is not question that he loves us and will always keeps his promises to us so the least we can do is present our bodies as living sacrifice to him! Our bodies are not our own they are the TEMPLE of the Holy Ghost whom dwells and lives on the inside of us to be a guide, a comfort, and our correction. God wants us to live Holy and be Holy after his Word because we are a reflection of him. “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”Proverbs 19:20-24 KJV 20. Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. 21.There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand. 22. The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. 23. The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.24. A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.Proverbs 19:20-24 NIV20. Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise.21. Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.22What a man desires is unfailing love [2] ; better to be poor than a liar.23The fear of the LORD leads to life: Then one rests content, untouched by trouble.24The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!In other words, the whole key is to consult God for his plans for your life and don't try to make it on your own as it will not profit you well. At some point allowing our own desires to guide us without God's direction will lead us to fall. We then have to accept accountability for what happens to us. Not saying Satan doesn't--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
Revival is here!!! What is revival? Revival is a unstoppable movement of God's power bringing about renewal and or awakening of God's people coming to him humbly, open hearted in true repentance asking God for forgiveness and meaning it and changing one's mindset and heart posture towards God!!! It is impossible to revive something or someone that wasn't spiritual dead! We need God's power to restore unto us the joy of our salvation in Christ Jesus who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. We need to worship God with our whole being and everything in us with a pure and sincere heart!!! Those who worship God must worship in spirit and truth!!! Just like in the days of Pentecost as the book of Acts tells us!!! God is pouring out his spirit all over!! The Holy Spirit is moving on God's people. Don't miss the move of God because we are wrapped in too much of what the world says how things of God should go. God will show up anywhere, anyway, and at any time he wants. All it takes is for a willing spirit to accept the call and be obedient to move in the way God wants them to. God can move on our behalf, or he can move us out the way. Which would you prefer? Which would you rather God do? It's time to pick a side and stick with it. Matthew 6:24 Amplified Bible 24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You can not serve God and mammon [money, possessions, fame, status, or whatever is valued more than the Lord].In other words, you can't straddle the fence of your faith any longer. You can't remain halt between two opinions. You are going to have choose ye this day whom you are going to serve. You can't serve two masters. You will love one and hate the other. Choose life and walk with Christ! God is calling for his raminet (his set apart) of God to stand up and worship him like never before and praise never before done. It's gonna look like Pentecost, but it's gonna be a new thing that God is going to do. He is doing a new thing in the earth and just like who Jesus said to suffer the Littles ones to come unto him it is so with the wave of Revival going on at the schools it's breaking out with the babies and us adults better follow suit!!! Trust that God will have his way in this world with or without you.I suggest that you get in order and join in. There is an appointed time ,an Jesus will come back and set things in order and tear down and destroy all the kingdoms of the world as you know and establish his kingdom!!! Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand!!! It's time of Revival it's time for the children of God to stand up as the kingdom of God suffered violence the violent will take it by force what the emeny has stole!!! Pull up your boot straps,baby, stand up in the kingdom of God, and worship God with the gifts he has laid on your heart to worship him with. Don't be ashamed as our Father in Heaven is not ashamed of you!!! Lord send a Revival like never before to each one your people that we will lay at your feet and repent of our sins and turn from our wickedness and that your Holy Spirit will spread like wild fires and there will be folks on fire for Christ everywhere in every corner of the world. We thought we saw a movement with how fast and violently the pandemic and with BLM happened; just wait until you continue to see the Revival of our Lord and Jesus Christ continue to spring forth like rivers of living water!! I tell you, the water you drink of you will remain thirsty, Jesus. says, In John 4:14Amplified BibleBut whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.”If you take a drink from him,you will have everlasting water and you will never thirst again from anything of thi world!!! You will be filled with --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
There was a little girl born February 15th 1985. Today is the day that God saw fit to bless her parents to conceive and 9months later here she came. Not a worry in sight. Her parents were best friends because their parents were best friends and here is this beautiful little girl that sealed two families together. Here is this little girl that as she grew up was special had many gifts and talents. Could sing, and was very energetic and brave, shy, bold and caring all at the same time. This little girl had the love of God in her heart at a young age and always shared that love of Christ with everyone she knew. Not knowing what her life would bring just lived life according to her own tune and grew up with many hopes and dreams and even came up with inventions that lie and wait for the right time and right resources but never came to past. You can't choose who God grants to he your family right. This little girl was blessed to have a loving family that did the best they could do. This little girl always knew there was more to this life but just never really knew how to do what needed to be done. This little girl grew up overweight and with low self-esteem and teased and sadden a little about life's issues within the family and also outside the family but always managed to have some joy and never allowed the world to consume her! It's me im her. Today is my birthday I'm 38yrs old! I'm that little girl who still has some hopes and dreams of what I envisioned for myself and some I accomplished like getting a job, helping out my grandma, graduating highschool and college, having a nice paying job, falling in love and getting my hurt torn to shreds and then God sending and angel and mended my heart strings and falling in real love and being a wife and learning myself all over again. I woke up grateful but emotional on my birthday and I got tired of my womb being empty. I've had 4 miscarriages in the natural but a million more in the spirit by way of allowing opportunities to pull myself together out of the ruts life threw at me. I was told I was resilient because I always bounce back after I've been knocked down and you know what I am. Thank you Jesus!!! I will always bounce back because that's how God made me!!! I've held up some of my own dreams because I wasn't feeling confident about how I look physically and I know it's really time to change that. It's been hard and if I may say so sometimes I've given up but not completely but literally just stopped caring sometimes if I'm honest but yet still having a glimmer of hope because I'm believing God for a miracle to yet again burn the weight off again like he did before but I messed it up y'all! I didn't change my eating habits and gained the weight back and now I have the weight on my shoulders and burden on my heart to become a natural mother as I wait for my flesh to catch up with my spirit to reignite this fire that I know burns within me to get up and do something about it. Well I decided today that I will take my life back and that starts now!!! No longer will I sit around feeling sorry for myself. I will enjoy this life that God's so graciously given me and I will fight for my life!!! I will stop self-sabatoge and live on purpose again. I can hear that little girl on the inside of me saying live! For the first time in a long time I will!!Are you tired of being barren not full of the life God has promised you? Not filled with your destiny? It's time to fill our wombs. A womb is a incubator, a life preserver, a life reservoir! Life Springs up out the womb! If you have ever been pregnant in the natural you know what it feels like to have life stirring on the inside and you can't wait to meet your baby. Well what if I told you everyone has been, is and will be pregnant with ideas, visions and answers to life's problems! God is not done with you yet if you are alive. We have to be tired of a mediocre life! I decided that today I will fill my womb with life and stir up those ideas --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
Jesus is the only true house fixer and flipperA wise builder first sits down to add up the cost of his build. God consulted with Jesus and Holy Spirit and said let us make a man after our image and likeness. But before he did that God created the earth that was with out form and void so that man he would create would have someone to grow. Just like God took time to tell the waters after he separated the firmament the sky from dry land he put life into the waters. God saw that it was good. God make vegetation and caused a mist to come up from the earth so it would grow. God create other beast and creepy crawling things to help the ecosystem grow. So after he created man male and female after his image and likeness which is a Spirit well the man needed a body so he formed man out of his original creation the dust of the ground. Then he breathed life into that dust body and it gave us life! God created everything to create after it's own kind but he did it first and after seeing that even after creating all the animals, beast and such he saw there wasn't one fit for Adam the man he first created so he caused Adam to go into a deep sleep (side bar get sleep God heals us the most there where there are no distractions from our faith on when it will happen, why, how, what, and who. He allows our bodies to regenerate faster, burn calories, and will even speak to us and show us things while we are sleeping) nevertheless while Adam was sleeping took a rib and created woman and when Adam saw her called her Eve and he took her as his wife. So you see God knew what all of this would cost and he knew that Satan and his emps, demons, or fallen angels were already down on earth because he cast them down into darkness and now God disrupted Satan's Kingdom by putting us here and made life on it and knew what the cost would be so he gave stipulations to Adam and Eve regarding what to eat because God knew that what one consumes would be what they are. Once you consume something that is in disobedience to God or something not like God you can soon become aware that there are other forces beside God in operation and can diminish your faith in what you once knew if you let it. Had Adam and Eve been obedient to God and not allowed the serpent influenced by Satan trick them life as we even know it would be much different. However, I'm sure God already knew all scenarios on how things would play out because he is a wise master builder and already had a plan to fix things because some how sin would enter the world. God knew it could happen because he commanded them from eating that fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. So evil already existed it was just that God created Adam and Eve without the need to know about it. So since sin happened I believe God's plan was already in motion for Jesus then because the Word was and so was Jesus because he is the Word of God. So after the fall of Adam and Eve, and the first murder of their son by his brother, the fallen angels mating with woman from earth creating giants and so much more sin, folks trying to build towers to heaven which is God's throne and much more sinful acts God was repented that he ever created man so he found one faithful man Noah and his family and scrapped the whole creation he created because of their sinful nature and he populated the whole earth again with Noah and his family!. Now let's take a step back as the title of this message is Jesus is the only true fixer and flipper of houses. Who would seeing a dilapidated, run down house that had some good bones and great locations wouldn't still survey the land and see what could come of it. If you were interested in something already broken you might have a vision on what the finished product will look like and that gives you joy and strength to press on to the finish line. But you also need a plan to figure out how things should start. Do you remove the walls all at once and start over from the foundation as long as --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
You have more power on your knees!I saw a video of a ram fighting a rhino and it was amazing that the ram was able to out power this large animal and it was only one ram and at least 4 rhinos. I saw the ram back up get on it's knees and have more stabilizing power to ram ahead and defeat the rhinos and they ran off. When we are facing opposition it would seem likely to want to always put up a fight and there is a time and season for all of that. But when we get on our knees and surrender to God he fights for us! We don't even have to defend ourselves! We have to acknowledge God in all our ways and he will direct our path! First seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added to us. What things? Anything you need that lines up with God's will for your life; peace in a storm, power to overcome, joy for mourning, comfort from sorrow, healing from pain, provision in the wilderness and protection in battles. We must remember we serve a God that is all powerfully and he will leave the 99 to go get the one. Therefore, if we seek him with our whole heart and have a relationship him God as our heavenly Father he will give us the desires of our heart. God puts his investment in us therefore he will protect his investment. Just like you put money our what you would consider your most prized possession into something and expect a return so does God! When he gave his only begotten Son Jesus to die for our sins we were bought with that price in exchange for our sins he cleansed us and made us whole. Therefore the return on that investment that God expects is really our reasonable service; for us to present our bodies a living sacrifice and whatever area that looks like for his name sake. Remember the wages of sin is death and since we were spared the least we can do is tell other folks about how God saved you, cleaned you up and set you free. You can also tell folks how God came to your rescue everyone has a story that could have went a different way but God's grace, mercy and protection saw fit for it not to be so!!! Glory to God I thank you Jesus for your sacrifice and for fighting for me, for bridging the gap! Jesus himself prayed all the time. He would go off by himself away from the disciples and the multitudes to pray and that will strengthen him. He taught the disciples how to pray given a model in how to pray and to a Model prayer!Not to say only pray this but how to pray and prayer is a constant and consistent and if we desire to be able to stand in the mist of adversity we have to have a solid foundation. A wise builder sits down and costs the cost of whatever is getting built right? Therefore we need God to be at the foundation of our lives so we can build wise. Our time in Prayer is what it cost to dif our foundation. As tall as a builder wants to make the building is how far he must dig down to be able to support the weight! Jesus prayed to God 3 times in the garden because he knew his time had come to fulfil his passion in not only having the burden of caring his cross but taking his last breath on it. So his time in prayer gave him the power he needed to endure!!! The Lord's Prayer!!! Mat 6:5-15 KJV 5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
What God has on Tap!!!Access to God anytime, anyplace, anywhere, always and forever!!! Once you accept him, he is available to you always! The thing is, God was, is, and will always be available and near to us,but he stood at the door of your heart and knocked and has been waiting for you to invite him in. God knows every scenario our life choices will take us to with or with him. Which is why he wants to be our God, our guide, and our father! He also will allow us to be given to our own demise if we are too hard-headed! Revelations 3:15-22 KJV 15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21. To him, that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. The truth is most of us are content in our mess and what we think to be the key to this life; wealth, and goods and think we are not lacking anything as long as the check clears. As long as I get the newest pair Jordan shoes that ar coming out. As long as I get the latest handbag, get my nails and my hair done or keep a fresh fade. A lot of us are fixated and fascinated with the tangable things that we can see. A lot of us will sell our soul just to be accepted in the sense of being a follower of man when we ought to be followers of Christ! So ,he cure to this mindset is getting access to God! Seeking and finding what God has on Tap! Tap definition: is to exploit or draw a supply from (a resource).a device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled. What we need to realize is that we can tap into God and draw from him because he is our source. Whatever you lack is what God has on tap. Whatever you need will flow from God to you,but you have to tap into him via having a relationship to have access to his riches and Ggloryin this life!We also need to remember that we have the power of life and death in our tougue,so we need to tap in God to gain life and speak life. We literally become new creatures in Christ and no longer are subject to the world but Nnowthe Kingdom of God. So our whole attitude, walk, thought patterns, and the way we talk must also change and line up with God Word and will for our lives. James 3:10-12 AMPOut of the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. These things, my brothers, should not be this way [for we have a moral obligation to speak in a manner that reflects our fear of God and profound respect for His precepts]. Does a spring send out from the same opening ,oth fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh. Jesus' blood is a filtration system for our sins, for our brokenness, our emptiness, loneliness, heartache,and dispar. Jesus' blood is cleansing and making new all the places in our lives that we missed the mark on. Giving us a refreshing and renewed way of thinking, speaking, and perceiving life differently. Jesus' blood is a covering hedge of protection literally a living fence like you would have around you yard of bushes, shrubs and/or trees Such is Jesus for our life and ou--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
Have you reached the point of no return in your walk with Christ? The point where you realize, wow my life has changed and so have I and now I no longer have to worry. I no longer have to be subjected to life per usual. Well if you haven't come to the point of no return that just means you may have not started your journey walk with God just yet, you might have just started, or you have been doing it so long you have become complacent! This is life! We can't be so far away from where God brought us from to the point we don't think that one move couldn't land us 10 steps back. We don't have to move in fear but we do need to move in the mindfulness that we don't deserve anything we are given. This gift of life is just that the gift of life from God! There is an alternative to life and that is death. You can experience both walking talking and breathing and not living truly to the best that God has for us! God first loved us even when he knew what we would be. So this should give us some peace and freedom understanding that we will make mistakes and bad decisions but we don't have to allow folks to count us out and surely we don't need to give up on ourselves or our relationship with God because we messed up. Did you know that God doesn't love us anymore now walking with him then he did when we were dead in our sins? Why is that you ask? Well I'll tell you why! Gods love is unconditional and he loved us when we were sinners or he wouldn't have given his ONLY BEGOTTEN SON JESUS for our lives. Even when we get saved and our lives have changed and we slip up God said....Matthew 18:11-1411 [a]For the Son of man came to save [[b]from the penalty of eternal death] that which was lost.12 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray and gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountain and go in search of the one that is lost?13 And if it should be that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.14 Just so it is not the will of My Father Who is in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost and perish.Romans 8:3333. Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?]See the thing is we can't even judge ourselves because we are bought with a price not as slaves but Jesus calls us his friends. We are no longer bondsman tied by link and chain to our sin!!! Romans 6:6-76 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.Another point of no return: Jesus foretold the disciples what they would do!Mark 14:27-50Amplified Bible, Classic Edition27 And Jesus said to them, You will all fall away this night [that is, you will be caused to stumble and will begin to distrust and desert Me], for it stands written, I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.28 But after I am raised [to life], I will go before you into Galilee.29 But Peter said to Him, Even if they all fall away and are caused to stumble and distrust and desert You, yet I will not [do so]!30 And Jesus said to him, Truly I tell you, this very night, before a cock crows twice, you will utterly deny Me [disclaiming all connection with Me] three times.31 But [Peter] said more vehemently and repeatedly, [Even] if it should be necessary for me to die with You, I will not deny or disown You! And they all kept saying the same thing.32 Then they went to a place called Gethsemane, and He said to His disciples, Sit down here while I pray.33 And He took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be [a]struck with terror and amazement and deeply troubled and depressed.34 And He said to them, M--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
The road to better!!! The road to better is reached one step at a time even if you run you still have to put two feet on the ground one foot at a time. You might get there faster but the road to better is also about God's timing. Some of us think that our situations are so bad but yet God knows our end before the beginning therefore our season might not be up yet because God hasn't stop the clock to release us from the season we are in and there just might be more we need to learn from where we are. Yet one step at a time will get us to the road of better. By and by and through the grace of God he has already given us a measure of grace to walk in the calling he has given to us. So stop trying to escape the parts of your journey that will make you stronger and that will make God's name great!! 1 John 4:4 AMP4. Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world. And because we know we can over anything because belong to God! We also need to know... 2 Kings 6:16 KJV 16. And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. Mentioned this last episode "The Word of God has to be in you or you can easily fall out of the will of God and the world will win. When we are building foundations we tend to build bad habits into them while God is trying to bless us. God will send us someone to correct us in the mean time and so that we are not so hard on ourselves so that we don't build condemnation in our foundation!!!" Krystal Mitchell That's where we get to... Romans 8:1-39 AMP8 Therefore, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death. 3 For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [[a]the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [[b]subdued, overcame, [c]deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice], 4 So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit]. 5 For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and [d]pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and [e]seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit. 6 Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that [f]comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever]. 7 [That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God’s Law; indeed it cannot. 8 So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him. 9 But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God]. 10 But if Christ lives in you, [then although] your [natural] body is dead by reason of sin--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
What is your foundation built on? Sand or a Rock!!! Sand is easily manipulated especially near water so if a storm comes the sand will become overtaken. Rocks are solid and can withstand the storms that walking on this journey called life might bring. People, places, things, and or ideas are symbolic of sand can be easily influenced and can cause you to be carried away by the worlds point of view and social standards. The rock is Jesus that came to build more rocks!!! If we stand on him we are standing on the word of God!!! So our foundation must be built on Jesus; He is the word of God and therefore we can by his spirit withstand all the wiles and or tricks, plots, schemes of the devil. Matthew 7:24-29 Jesus tells a story about two men who each built a house 24 ‘I will tell you about a man. He hears my message and he obeys it. Now, this person understands my words. He is like a man who built his house on rock. 25 Then a storm came and brought a lot of water. The water hit the house and strong winds blew hard against that house. But the house did not fall down because the man had built it on rock. 26 Another man hears my message and he does not obey it. He is like a man who built his house on sand. 27 Then a storm came and brought a lot of water. The water hit the house and strong winds blew hard against it. The house fell down. The storm destroyed it completely. 28 Jesus finished speaking. All the people were very surprised about the things that he taught them. 29 Jesus did not teach them in the same way as the teachers of the *Law. Jesus had his own authority when he taught them. Hebrews 11:3,103 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Abraham 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. So in other words we need to allow the Word of God to be our foundation that no matter who brings the storm, what type of storm comes, where the storm hits, why the storm came, and or how it came we can face any obstacle in life because our life is built on a foundation we can't see. When a house is build you can only see the top part of the foundation but usually there are crawl spaces under the house that will allow the foundation to be checked out. Well the Word needs to be so solid in your life that even if you had to crawl into a tight space or backed into a corner that you know that you are on a solid foundation and your house (faith) won't fail and or fall. You see God never promised us that the strong winds wouldn't beat up our house(life) he never said that storms wouldn't happen to and we wouldn't feel like we were going to cave but what he did say is that if we just wait on him he would renew our strength. Isaiah 40:3131 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Abram when he was on the journey that God sent him on he looked for a city whose foundations and builder was made by God and sometimes that is a physical place we have to pray and know where to belong; is the job we are at right for us, am I at the right church? We even need to know am I hanging with the right people. God doesn't what people that have the wisdom to build rock houses to be negatively influenced by folks that have built sand houses. In fact... Psalms 1:1-6 KJV1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.3 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. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind dr--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
Sometimes you have to dig in faith and dig to find your faithBible Gateway Genesis 12 :: NIV. The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.God counted Abraham righteous because he believed God!!! Just due to mere fact of life it might take some of us to dig to find our faith and or our belief system. Abraham just dug in faith so to speak because he just moved on God's command without question and believed that what God said would be so and acted upon it. Refer to Genesis 22:1-19He even had faith during the test of going to sacrifice his only son (born from promise) Issac he even told the servant once he found the place on the mountain while the sacrifice should be done to sysy here and I amd the lad will return. Issac even asked Father where is the sacrifice? Abram in faith said the Lord will provide a sacrifice even though he had no idea when, where, and or how God would do it but this had to be done as a foreshadowing of Jesus Father son sacrificial relationship with God!!! So you see Abraham dug with faith without worry and or doubt that God would keep his word!! We sometimes have to dig to find our faith not necessarily because we don't trust God but we haven't really been introduced to him and may not have a relationship with him. So we might have a hard time believing in a God you can't see. If you dont believe in him how in the world can you hear from him When Abraham got to that mountain top he put his son on the altar to be a blood sacrifice in obedience to God and as he was living his had with knife to come down on his son. He heard the voice of the angel of the Lord Abraham Abraham stay your hand!!! This is so loaded because Isaac was being obedient to his father like unto Jesus bring led to the slaughter and opened not his mouth. Abraham in the fear and admiration of God and his complete faith he was ready to slay his only son that God blessed him with in his old age and because of his believe and faith in God and his relationship he was able to dig in faith so to speak and actually find the place where the sacrifice was supposed to be done. God only told him to go to the place of Moriah he said I will show you when you get there so he had to trust God that he would hear where the right mountain was he had faith that God would provide the sacrifice, and in that moment when he heard the angel if the Lord's voice call his name twice there was a ram in bush caught by it's horns!!!! That is symbolic of Jesus being on the cross with the cross if thorns on his head for the chastisement of our peace!!! But that ram that was the sacrifice that probably was making its way up the other side of the mountain led by God because he knew he could also trust Abraham that he would be obedient to find the place and to preform the sacrifice!!! So relationship is key and as said before some folks have to rely on what they see before they believe but that ought not to be so when as when the trying of our faith comes and it will come we have to be able to recognize the voice if so we won't slay the wrong sacrifice, so that we can be that sheep led by our Shepard. God doesn't have to be seen to be heard!!! Faith comes by hearing and that by the Word if GodI'm here to tell you you don't have to see God in physical form to see him. You can just look in the mirror or look outside and behold the beauty of the Lord as the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.In others words if you allow yourself to open up your spirit you will feel God and see him too through his creation and the magnitude of the seen to be made of what is not seenHebrews 11:10 KJVHeb 11:1-10 KJV 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
Stop staying mad at extras; You are the main character of your testimony!!! God created you and only one you! You are a designers original. God created you after his image and likeness but with your personality and the things you have been tested on were to build, mode you and strengthen your character What is character? Character is the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. Rather, character is defined in how your habits, motives, thoughts, and so on relate to morality, particularly as it concerns integrity What is intergrity: the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness..the state of being whole and undivided. So God has called us for certain things specifically based on who he has created us to be. So we dont have time worry about the role someone else plays in our story because God is looking at our character and integrity to see how we will react and or respond or not to the things people do. We have to be so undivided and disciplined in our faith walk the we continue to look to the hills for my help! In other words we have to make sure we are focused on God and his will for our lives. We can be faithful one moment and faithless the next because someone said or did something to us because our life is not even our own we belong to God so why should I take my eyes off Jesus whom is my help and my exceedingly great reward! James 1:6-8 Amplified Bible (AMP) For such a person ought not to think or expect that he will receive anything [at all] from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides]. So I want to be steadfast and unmovable in God's word so I dont end up depending on the World and the folk in it to make me free! We created by the same God to give him Glory but how the Hloey is extracted out of me is not gonna look the same because we are not the same.Now you see you might have similarities with folks especially your parents because you share DNA but everyone has to walk this journey of life alone in the sense that you have your own cross to bare. Jesus already bore his cross and even died on it for us. He didn't die in the cross for you to stay angry at your situations and circumstances and especially not staying angry using unnecessary mispplacement of anger at who hurt you. Which is we have have to stop staying mad at extras you are the main character of your testimony!!! You are the one that lived the life you lived and are still living it by the Grace and complete and absolutely overflowing Mercy of God because we too could be extras in someone else's testimony that we could be the end of anger so don't get it twisted and feel like you are this victim and you are not someone that have created victims. Instead be a Victor and bless God and appreciate the ones that played the extra role meaning they will soon have to be on thier way to another assignment! You will be on this life stage with God and God alone and that is the only relationship that we can truly hang everything on! Folks will be here today and gone tomorrow once they have their thrill and or thrist fulfilled not to be worried about being upset because whatever lesson we needed to learn we must be grateful that we are not obligated to stay in the same place because we go from glory to glory and faith to faith and every step is just another notch in the belt of truth in your testimony as one Day God will ask you to tell it because we overcome by the blood of the lamb and words of our testimony so our job is not to waste anger on the extras who might not even have their lines right and who ever might have joined the cast late, whom were sent as a distraction or even a fill-in and or a bystander to push you where God needed you to be. ALSO when you get to a place you believe that God gives you something to do and or say stop telling everyone your plans because they might try to audition for your role and--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
Season 5 Episode 2 Courageous Beauty Podcast The more love there is the more things will grow. I believe that rain is a sign of love because it waters the dry areas and prevents famine. Although rain is sometimes synonymous for pain in our lives without pain we might not know we are truly alive and won't ever grow in areas we need to without being pushed to change and or maneuver things in our lives. God will cause us to grow and there will be growing pains because in life our flesh most of the times don't want to change. Therefore we must put our flesh under subjection to God's will and not our own as he knows what's best for us. We also have to be careful not to get complacent in areas of our lives because first of all this life is not even our own; we were bought with a price: Jesus paid it all with the sacrifice of his life in love. So God gave his only begotten son in love and gained all of us as his harvest! God first loved us and blessed us and now it's our reasonable service to present our bodies as a living sacrifice unto God. Romans 12 1-2 AMP (Amplified Bible)1.Therefore I urge you, [b]brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies [dedicating all of yourselves, set apart] as a living sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing to God, which is your rational (logical, intelligent) act of worship. 2. And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be [c]transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you].In other words, we can truly show our love for God in all that we do. We can show our love to God and to others by the way we speak, we respond, how we act, the way we treat others, and how we treat our relationship with God, and how we treat ourselves. Love is the answer! Love covers the multitude of sins. Why? Because without love nothing we do will ever matter. 1 Corinthians 13 love(see the end) We are a reflection of God made after his image and likeness therefore we must walk in the love from which we were created from! John 1-4 NIV(New International Version) "The Vine and the Branches 1. I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.2. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.3. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.4. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. (More later) We were made from a place of love created from just a thought from God's mind and God orchestrated the very event that caused our parents to meet which is love maybe not always at first sight but it can grow into love. Either way love got us here. You might say well why would someone having a child as a result of being harmed be considered love? Well I believe God knows the path we will take and there are so many lanes we can choose to walk through and that he is at the end of them all no matter our life chooses. Not matter if things were forced on us he will take what the emeny meant for evil and turn it around for your good. See when life happens and folks harm us that's a lack of love and that person's love hasn't grown and they are not reflecting God and if they that hurt you are not reflecting God then they are reflecting evil and God doesn't control mankind he made us free moral agents so folks have those paths to choose and unfortunately the emeny being evil can influence folks decisions and cause the opposite of love which is hate to be there blinder. So if a child is born from someone being forced I believe it's God's way of bringing a blessing and breathing life out of a dead lovel--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
Season 5 Episode 1 Courageous Beauty Podcast I was watching one of my favorite YouTubers cut up some giant carrots from her garden that she planted from seed. The thought process that I believe God gave me was that wow that carrot has a scab! The larger end of the carrot that was connected to it's life source had roots and dirt on it. It had the hard broken piece that was once connected to the soil that had the nutrients that have it life. Once it was broken away and uprooted from it's life source there was a decaying process that starts to happen and the part that was connected started to turn black mixed with the dirt. She cleaned them and peeled the carrots and proceeded to make a carrot salad. Although there was a scab on the carrot there was still life in it for a season because she uprooted when it was mature and ready to be picked and for it's purpose to be fulfilled. It was time for the life the carrot had from seed to give life to something else. Not all carrots or any plant for that matter will make it through this process of maturity because there is a sacrificial journey it must go through before it can even grow. The seed most be planted, watered and nurtured. It must be the right season for carrots to grow in in order for it to sprout into a harvest. The right amount of sunlight has to be present to help provide the right amount of energy to seep into the soil and transfer to the roots. There are many insects, bugs, and other creepy crawling things, even larger animals and birds that might pick at the root or even the top part of the plant. So in the life cycle before its maturity the carrot has had many obstacles and challenges get through just to then but plucked from it's original life source. Sounds a lot like us when we were just a thought in God's mind and saw fit for our parents to me and hopefully fall in love and conceive us. Our mothers are our incubators and protection from the outside world constantly and consistently sacrifici g her body, hormones, and lifestyle to bring us here. Here comes the due date that the doctor predicted because truly no one really knows when their baby will be born but God because he has already orchestrated the date as he knew us even before we were in our mothers womb. But now her water has broken and she is contracting and with every painful or painless contraction with pressure in tow she labors and pushes to get out our little bodies which is her living breathing healthy baby girl or boy and then the cry of a life happens but in all the mist of the excitement we are still attached to our life source which is the umbilical cord while for a little while longer we are still getting our nutrients from mommy and as we are breathing new air seeing such a bright and busy word the Father in most cases is given the opportunity to cut the tie to our life source off. Now we although very much still connected to our mom we are no longer physical connected and therefore now have a sustaining life source within our little bodies that must be nourished constantly. We now are outside of our main life source solely dependent on our parents to care for us. The place where the umbilical cord was connected to the life source inside our mom has to be tied down in order for healing to close up sealing the deal that we no longer need to be on the inside of mom to have sustainable life. But where there is a scab there is life because as we grow older that umbilical cord cut off section scabs up and becomes what we call a belly button but is at the very sit of where all of nutrients entered our bodies. As we get older we learn to depend on our parents for everything and one day we get a sense of our Heavenly Father and he is now become our new life source even though he hmwas the one that gave us life in the first place just how we had to learn how to focus on our moms face to try and recognize her we always knew her voice. It is the same with God. He says in John 10:4-5 KJV4. And when he--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courageous-beauty/message
There is a war going on so pull up your boot straps baby and as
Eph 6:11-13 KJV 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
The problem for Satan is that he knows his time is coming to an end because the Kingdom of God is at hand and Jesus return is soon to come!!! So the evil in the world unfortunately will get worse but we as God's children have to stand up and fight in the Spirit and keep praying for one another and keep telling people to prepare for the Kingdom of God is at hand!!!
Divination: according to the Bible in Deuteronomy 18:10-11 Amplified Bible
10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire [as a sacrifice], one who uses divination and fortune-telling, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts a charm or spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or a necromancer [who seeks the dead].
If you notice the times we are in everything going on right now it's definitely everything that God is saying in deuteronomy that should not be happening but it's all over social media just bold and upfront in our faces to see it! Witchcraft!!!
the whole motive of witchcraft is a spirit of control by any means necessary! That's why it comes in to try to lure us away from Christ sometimes even appearing like it's good or shedding light on things but we must remember that
2 Corinthians 11:14-15 Amplified Bible
14 And no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 So it is no great surprise if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, but their end will correspond with their deeds.
Don't be deceived God still reigns!!! Satan was lucifer and angel created by God to worship him and then lucifer became puffed up in his heart against God and so he is a fallen angel and is now called Satan whom was sent to earth in it's darkness and unformed state to rule over it. But Satan got even more angered because God formed earth and all it's glory and gave dominion to mankind and so he is big mad!
Since Satan is prince will the power with rule of the air only with the power God gives him over unbelivers and evil he trues to influence evil works on people and different territories. There are different spirits in operation in different regions of the world Which is why you see the same types of crimes in the same locations because that particular power, ruler, spirit is in operation over that area. We have to remember that there is two kingdoms the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of darkness and be mindful that the kingdom of darkness is not divided against itself be certain that they have no division in evil mind!!! However, we most remember also that darkness can't comprehend light and we are the light of the world a, city sat on a hill cannot be hid so we are sitting high looking low so in other words God put us in a position that if we trust him we can see our emenies afar off. But we still need to be ready for war not just a physical war but a spiritual war. It's sad that we can tell the times and seasons by looking at the earth and can look at the stars and sun and moon and know what phase it's in but can't tell when a demonic force is trying to take are over a territory. Not just a physical location but if we are keen in the Spirit since we were Spirit first God created us to also be able to know when the air ain't quite right. There is a scripture that says to shout unto God....if we shout in Jesus name we will disturb the air and kick Satan's Kingdom down.
Psalm 47 Amplified Bible
47 O clap your hands, all you people; Shout
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No masks in worship! God wants us to come to him naked and even afraid if that is our truth .
John 4:24 KJV
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
As broken vessels to begin with; God comes and wraps us up in his love and his holy spirit on the inside of us makes us whole by mending all the broken pieces of our lives. Although there is still a breaking away that happens when covered by God; without him we would completely fail apart. With God and in God he keeps all our fragments together while simultaneously allow our brokenness to fall by the waste side. He allows pieces of us that no longer support the foundation he has created for us to fall alway from us while he holds us together with what we think are just scraps but God continues to use the areas that were broken to make us whole in him so his Glory is Revealed. That's why no masks are required in God's presence because he had already seen our nakedness and in fact he created us to come into this world with it we will leave this world symbolically naked meaning there might be clothing on the corpse that used to house our soul but we will be with him and our corpse will return to the dust of the earth with out being able to take anything with it. So when are in God presence we dont need to bring anything extra with us. We dont need no titles, no money, no pride, no ego, no masks!! We are in this broken vessel mended by the wholeness of God he requires no facade to hide ourselves in fact when Adam and Eve sinned they hid from the Lord and tried to cover their nakedness because they were made aware only after they sinned that they were naked. God asked Adam where he was but not necessarily where he was physically but spiritually because God could feel a shift in the Spirit realm that would cause Adam to hide so that causes God to want to find the real you. No masks required in a time of uncertainty in a time of wearing mask for protection for over 2 years but when we go in our security of our secret place with our loving Heavenly Father we need to present ourselves in his presence just like we are. We do need to come with humility, gratefulness, and Thanksgiving first honoring him but we can come to God with the truth about how we feel about how we messed us no masks required, no secret rooms to hid in the shadows to confess our sins no need to shed blood to atone for our sins because Jesus paid it all. We just need to verbally repent and ask God for forgiveness and really mean it in our hearts and work on that change. God's Glory is Revealed Through our brokenness so no longer do we need to hid those seemingly imperfect parts of our lives to get to God and bask in his presence. That's the whole reason that God rent the vail from the inner court and the Holies of Holies because at one point in time only the priest could go inner the holies of Holies on our half and now I have access to the inner court at anytime because he put his most prized possessions which is his Holy Spirit on the inside of us. If we live our life without our mask or performances God can truly use who we are for his plan and purpose for our lives. A part of no masks required is the fact that those that worship the Lord in spirit and in truth! We can't be living a fairytale and worship God if something isn't right tell God he wants to know. Listen, because my Heavenly Father is even concerned with the number of hairs on my head than surely he will care about me and my feelings because we are his reflection so the very feelings we have come from God he has feelings. I think people forget that what we look like is his reflection and his image so we are love, peace, joy, fearfully and wonderfully made! We can be kind and we can be hard-core but we our his!! We belong we matter, we are the raiment, no mask required!!!
1 Peter 2:9
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the p
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You can't have grace without love and you can't have love without grace and mercy God is Love and he is mercy and he is grace there is no separation. That is why God can be all things to all men(mankind) we have to realize that whatever troubles we face we have to know that God put his Glory in earthen vessels that were common and easily broken. I believe one reason was to confuse the emeny to make him ask why we would still praise God in the mist if our trouble and pain but the breaking of the vessel was the whole plan to reveal God's Glory!!! Just like in order to get the oil out of an oilve it must be crushed but know that God doesn't plan to destroy us he just wants our earthen vessels to reveal him and his power. So that's why trails and tribulations happen and that's why we praise God at all times
As Psalm 34:1 KJV (King James Version) says
34 I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
God doesn't just want some of us he wants all of us. That the excellency of his power will make us strong when we are weak!!! God's power is his awesomeness and weightiness which under the pressure of it our earthen vessel breaks to expose the weight of Glory we hold on the inside of us so that God gets the Glory out our of lives!!!!
2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18KJV
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:17 AMPC
16 Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.
17 For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!],
18 Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.
Romans 8:18 KJV(KING JAMES VERSION) 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Romans 8:18 AMPC(Amplified Bible, Classic Edition)
18 [But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and [a]for us and [b]conferred on us!
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God has created us after his image and likeness therefore we have the power of Life and death in our tongue (see James Chapter 3) James 3:5-6 KJV 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Hebrews 11:3 KJV 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
So being that In Hebrews 11 the World was formed by the Word of God we can speak in and to our situations!!!
I CAN CALL THOSE THINGS AS THOUGH THEY BE EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT! I have the power through the Holy Spirit to speak things into existence!!! I can speak to the mountain(s) and say be thou removed and be cast into the sea! I can speak to my health, to my money and even speak back to the emeny and tell him to flee. I can speak to God in prayer and if my ways please him he will give me the desires of my heart. I speak to my mind will and emotions to bring balance to myself and speak positive affirmations and scriptures over myself and my family, friends, and foes. So if I can speak all those things then when choas arises I can then therefore speak to my peace and tell it not to leave. I can speak to the peace of the Lord in and over my life and say peace be still!!! If I believe that which I speak is a gift from God why wouldn't I receive it!!! Therefore I speak peace into everything every situation and circumstance and I don't want peace to move so I say Peace be still!!! If I receive it God will give me a peace that will surpasses my understanding. I will have so much peace in the Lord it won't make any sense how calm I am in the storm. Seek peace, be peaceful and tell your Peace to be still!!!
John 1:1-3 KJV 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
So in other words we are speaking Jesus when we speak which is why it works to speak the Word of God over our lives and since he is the Prince of Peace I can say Peace be Still and then you will find yourself resting in his arms in the very presence of God!!!
John 14:27 KJV 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Oh taste and see that the LORD is good!! Let's us Exalt his name together!!! Have you ever tried a new food and you had to trust your choice the right place and even after looking at the menu you question if you chose the right dish. The other hurdle is if someone recommended the place and they love it now you have to trust their words from their experience. When God is telling us to Taste or rather try him and trust him that he will give you water that if you drink of him you will never thirst again!!! But those that do hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled!!! Jesus is the bread of life. So if we would but oh taste and see what he has in his word and in him; because he is the Word he will have no need for another meat for the bread of Gods Word will do. Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God!!! So you see it's all about trying life on God's way and on his terms and trusting and having faith in him that no matter the path he has already ordered or steps. He knows the way we should take. He knows the plans he has for us plans to bless us and not harm us. For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.
— Jeremiah 29:11 confirms that for us.. For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. '” —
He knows our expected end he knows!! God knows the end before the beginning because he ordained us for those very moments. So why wouldn't I want to try God on his word and trust in him with all my heart, mind and soul. There is nothing in me and nothing in this world that will deliver me from me unless I evite Holy Spirit in to fill me with his power, love, joy, patience, temperance, meekness back to those fruits again. Because God speaks to us in a language we understand so he will use what he created and what our area is he created for us to show us the way around in and on our journey. Therefore for me trusting in the Lord is inevitable!!! It will happend one way or the other. I'd like to take the best less stressful way then having to redo lessons that I didn't have to. So I chose to trust God now in the mist of my situations and circumstances because he holds the key to unlock all the answers that I need. God you are so good and I trust you today and forevermore!!!
Psalms 34:8 kjv O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Lamentations 3:25-26
25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; 26 it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
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A tale of survival
What if we looked at our journey in this life like a worn garment? It was at one point in time new right? But what sacrifices went into getting the raw materials in order to create the garment that is supposed to be used to make something new. What happened in the process of sewing the threads together? What happened while shipping the raw materials? What deals were made? What sacrifice did these raw materials produce? What decisions had to be made? There is a lot to do, a lot to think about when creating something. Thank God he already created everything we already need but often times than not he gives us raw materials and wants us to sacrifice to get inspiration to gain knowledge in this walk of our life to get to a finished result. We have to know that in this life we might start of as a raw material but once God gives us the vision and we sacrifice to do the work to create something in this life at each stage there is a chance of survival there is a chance we will have to do what we need to do within him to survive. Just like that shiny new thread used to create the garment of your life you see a stubborn stain What have we been taught to do is to wash, Rinse and repeat until the stain is removed. But if you know anything about fabric the more porest the fabric is the harder it is to get the stain out of it and if you dry the garment the stain can become permanent!! The more you wash the garment the lighter the stain but the garment was dyed so the color is getting lighter so what do you do? Like our life we have to wash in the word of God and rinse in Prayer and when we fill like the load is getting lighter but the stains of this life are not yet removed the act of survival is to find what works and work it. Sometimes we dont have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to God we need to wash, rinse and repeat!!!
Just know Isa 61:3 KJV To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
So I saw wash in the Word of God rinse in Prayer giving God praise while walking in thanksgiving and repeat!!!
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Attitude of Gratitude: Rehearse Your Victories!!
Attitude: a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person's behavior. It is also a position of the body proper to or implying an action or mental state.
Gratitude: the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.
Rehearse: transitive verb. : to say again : repeat. : to recite aloud in a formal manner. : to present an account of : relate. rehearse a familiar story.
Whenever we get a chance to open our eyes with fresh breath in our lungs and God allows for us to wake up to another day. That is a reason to celebrate! Now you can have a party if you want to but something that's free is to posture our attitude for Gratitude and rehearse our victories. The Word of God even tells us to boast in the Lord!!!
1 Corinthians 1:31 Amplified 31 so then, as it is written [in Scripture], “HE WHO BOASTS and GLORIES, LET HIM BOAST and GLORY IN THE LORD.”
We can do this by way of worshiping God on a daily basis to show our love, admiration, and our gratefulness!!! It might cost you your time but God even gave us that as he doesn't even operate in time. He gave it to us to be able to tell the time and seasons from another not so he would have to operate in the same. We as humans beings need structure and things in place to function which is why Jesus was always the plan because he already flooded the whole earth once and vowed to never do it again with water which is why the rainbow is in the sky after the rain. When I see it I immediately praise God because he keeps his word and his promises. A rainbow is enough to make me praise his name because it serves as a reminder that he can destroy us for our sins but as a loving, gracious, and merciful Father he doesn't. So I will boast in the Lord and about the Lord for who he is and what he has done, is doing and will do for and through me and all. We must know that
Psalm 24:1 KJV 1. A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Therefore we must rejoice that even when we are persecuted for Jesus name sake we were bought with a price and our lives are not our own. Which is why the battles we face also belong to the Lord. We can rejoice and rehearse our victories boasting in the Lord when we tell of him and his goodness even in the mist of adversity. It might not always be easy but it can be done through the power of the Holy Spirit. Faith comes by hearing and that by the Word of God which means the more we rehearse God's word we will produce faith and actually believe it. Thus, pleasing God because the just shall live by faith alone. God loves us but he wants to hear about it and what's to know that we trust him even when life doesn't appear as we think it ought to be.
Having an attitude of Gratitude is having a position a posture we take in our bodies; our mind, will, and emotions and taking what we have overcome and testifying of Jesus and not sitting in mere survival. Survival is not good enough to just have made we have to procalm or like Paul says we must apprehend that which have apprehended me! We can chase God in our hearts and in the way we live, in the way we think, talk, act, and respond to our lives and choose to be thankful in spite of hardship.
We are able to do this...
Revelation 12:11 KJV 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
John 12:25 Amplified Bible 12. The one who loves his life [eventually] loses it [through death], but the one who hates his life in this world [and is concerned with pleasing God] will keep it for life eternal. So our focus should be on God anyway so why not start with our prayer, our worship, and our testimony!
As we are new creatures in Christ therefore we can rehearse the victory of another chance at this thing called life and Gl
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Fruits that remain are love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, temperance,(self control) long suffering
Galatians 5:22-23
King James Version
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
What has so beset you that you would loose your fruit? What happened to your love walk and love talk? Did you allow the test to hinder you from a greater testimony?
It's an honor and a joy to be salt and light to the earth. We do this not in our own strength, but by the power of the Holy Spirit within us. To God be the glory in our lives. May the world see Jesus today and every day through us.
Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Matthew 5:1-16 The Sermon on the Mount
1When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain and sat down. His disciples came to Him, 2and He began to teach them, saying:
The Beatitudes Matthew 5: 3-16 3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
5Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.a
6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
7Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
8Blessed are the pure in heart,for they will see God.
9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. 12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
Salt and Light Matthew 5:13-16
13You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
14You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
Psalm 119:130 kjv 130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
So the more word of God that you take in you the more light you will also have in you because Jesus is the light and he is also the word!!! The More Word, the More Jesus, the more Jesus, the more light, the more light, the more your fruit will remain 🙏🏾
So much so that we become like Matthew 5:14 says A city sat on a hill that can't be hid everything grows in light
We must be evaluating ourselves often, replacing worldly values with godly ones
Colossians 3:1-17 KJV 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scyth
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In, God, we are alike but not the same. God created us all after his image and likeness and therefore his attributes as loving diety is being a triune-Godhead(Father, son, and Holy Spirit)(God thinks it, Jesus says it and the Holy Spirit moves and does it everything changes) he loves us and wants us to mirror him in our actions and our love but he didn't want robots. Therefore he created reflections of himself and through his power, which is the Holy Spirit uses willing vessels to work on earth on his behalf. The earth is God's foot stool and we are his people, his children, his flock. He created a place for us that we will dwell in as heaven his his throne, for us to rule like he rules in heaven. He knew that if the free moral agents he created would lovingly accept the Holy Spirit that his power could manifest in so many ways. Same Spirit, different operations, like-minded folks used, but different characteristics. God created lots of different moving parts none greater than the other, which when all fitly joined together in unity will be a spiritual atomic bomb on the emeny!!! God has giving us the power to speak words audibly and we have the ability to understand God's voice and listen, comprehend so many blessings come with being God's child. Like with any loving parent will love on their children God is the epitome of love because he is just that pure unadulterated love. There is nothing missing and or broken about God's love. In fact it will cover the multitude of sins. Since Jesus became sin something God hates, even though he never sinned and Jesus is God made flesh. Jesus was willing to be born to became what displeased God and die so when God would see us he would see Jesus because he will remember Jesus' sacrifice for us and then have mercy on us. Therefore we are the multitude and our sins are far greater but through Jesus' passion, his Death and his resurrection we are covered by love and are no longer subjected to the things of this world. We are in this world but are of the kingdom of God therefore greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world and though this life be temporary it's but for a moment God really established his kingdom with Jesus and now in and through us. He didn't leave us without giving gifts to all mankind but not for us to sit on but to use!! Since God didn't make clones our individual impact is necessary and much needed in the world today like never before. So with all that being said we need the manifestation of the Holy Spirit to lead us and see us through 1 Corinthians 12:7-11
(7) But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: (8) for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, (9) to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, (10) to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. (11) But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
That's why it's God's Holy Spirit within us once we accept Jesus as our Lord and saviour but our characteristics that God uses to get his message through to others that are simular to us that can relate to us or we them based on our testimonies and us expressing how we have made it over and come through. So don't think you have to fit a mold of others God only made one you there is no one like you or I we are the designers original after his image and likeness our character, our love, our mind, and emotions which is why we still need God because we have been marred by the Potter being a lot of us have had trials and tribulations so God knows we are imperfect. But if we decrease and allow God to arise in us and let his emenies be shattered God can put his perfect on our imperfect and reveal our reflection of him and he gets th
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Be very careful to covet your neighbor's anything because God says Jealous is as cruel as the grave!!! So why would you want to act like a dead thing just because someone has something you don't? Jealously is what caused Cain to kill Abel his brother!
Lots of situations arise in our lives to make us wish that the grass is greener on the other side. Meaning that people are looking into a situation dimly without really knowing the truth about how a person is where they are. Remember when I said that facts don't always align to God's purpose and plan for our lives but the truth of God's Word is what we need to stand on? That is true about the seasons of life as we can find ourselves in and that is why society paints this somewhat vivid picture of possibilities! We have movies, music and TV shows that romanticize picture perfect lives and if we are not careful we too can fall into the traps of coveted some fiction. Fiction by definition is a belief or statement that is false, but that is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so. So social media can be used by Satan as a vice since anything over the airwaves is free game. That's were we as God's children come in at and we have to learn how to build up a spiritual filtration system in and around ourselves and in our life in general so that we are not subject to fall into jealousy. God has no respect or person he will make it rain on the just and the unjust. Sometimes rains comes in the form of washing away the bad so the good can grow. But the rain can also uncover deep dark dirty secrets if we are not careful. We feel like a social media post really shows the true nature of someone's life but truthfully that might be that person's only outlet from a hell that they face everyday. They may not have come to terms with what ills them so they create this persona to create an atmosphere they are loved, safe, and without harm. Then you see their post and because you let down your spiritual filtration guards you are vulnerably and aimlessly scrolling and find their post and the emeny seems to elevate in your ears what they are pretending to have but probably worst off than you and blinds your discernment and now you are coveted a lifestyle this person doesn't really have. Making permanent decisions and life choices over temporary things and fictional characters acting outlife on their own terms. When God called you out of your mess and because you had a bad moment in time you want to throw it all away because someone got a house or car before you! But because you don't have it either and you slipped and lost focus on God's plan you now fall into jealousy. You fall into envy and self-pity oh I should be driving that car, I should be rich like them. I want this and I want their life. Whoa? Do you really you have no idea if what you see is even that person's life. You have no idea what it even took for them to get where they are. Just like God is blessing you he is blessing them too. They just might be at a place that God could get them to pray and favor is on their life. But yet you are mad they are living a blessed life. Alternatively, they could be a messenger of satan sent to distract because he knows you see glitter and you turn from God to get God's stuff. But if you are obedient and patient God will give you what you desire but since we live in a mircowave gotta have it now I want it processed society. You settle for what satan himself can give you. Think about it, just because Jesus didn't bow to satan doesn't mean he can't bless you. Jesus wasn't having it, what about you? Really any so-called blessing from satan is the worst kind of blessing because really it's a curse and a counterfeit because you didn't wait on God. So now you out here making bad decisions, getting into debt trying to look like something and someone you are not. Now you are the walking dead because you are physically living but dead spiritually because you have adapted to a dangerous fictitious l
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Are you an instrument of praise or a messenger for Satan? Ezekiel 28
Chapter is about Prince Tyre concerning some things he has done being that his heart was lifted up in pride because of his wisdom. But then God speaks through Ezekiel to the spirit behind prince Tyre and called him king Tyre and what he is doing is calling Satan out. God will speak to Satan through a person because of spirit in operation. Just like when Jesus rebuked Peter
Mark 8:33 But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
God had just spoke through Peter saying Jesus is the Christ when Jesus asked the disciples whom do they say he is. Of course when God comes the emeny comes Immediately to try to steal, kill, and destroy the faith out of our hearts so that Spirit hopped on Peter and Jesus recognized it as satan and called him by his name rebuked him out of Peter! Jesus was born to die so whom else would try to speak against the will of God other than Satan because he does the opposite of God often times he uses a host because he is a spirit so with that being said. I ask you are you an instrument of praise or a messenger for Satan?
Which is why we even have to guard our thoughts because Satan would love to whisper in our ears because hearing producers faith. You can tell what spirit a person is in by the fruit that he or she bares. Don't be deceived you can bare bad fruit so becareful to make sure your spirit is aligned to God's Word on a daily basis!! He has given us the power to overcome when we fully accept the Holy Spirit which is accepting Jesus as your Lord and saviour.
God created us to worship and praise him. But that can get interrupted sometimes because of distractions, rebellion, complacency. This is what Satan wants he wants us to be distracted and in the dark on what God wants for us. Why? He was once the Instrument of praise, an Cherbim named Lucifer which means light bearer that God created to guard the very presence of God. He was so beautiful he ushered in the very presence of God and he was covered in all types of jewels and precious stones from head to toe and his body was literally Instruments. The problem is he let all of his beauty get to his head and thought he could be God.
So we must remember that God didn't create the devil he created lucifer the angel and his sin caused him to be the devil and evil. God casted him out of heaven and now he has power of the air and all matter of evil on the earth. Very brilliant and subtle but pure evil. Unfortunately mankind has fallen into his trips and traps and did Adam and Eve which is sin even exists on earth to begin with. Satan had power of death until Jesus died and took back that power. So now he is a fallen angel and no longer an instrument of praise for God and his presence but now have people deceived in to worshiping him. Sad but true, which is why the earth is in shambles and ruin in the Spirit and natural realm. So I ask you are you an instrument of praise. God needs us to know the enemy and know his tricks because Satan still has access to God's presence by way of being the accuser of the brethren. He literally goes and tells God our sins and tempts us in varies ways to try to ultimately get us to curse God. Don't believe me read the book of Job. That's exactly what happened. Job was an instrument of praise. He made sacrifices to God everyday for each of his children just in case they would sin. God even told Satan Job was upright and asked Satan has he considered Job because God knew that no matter what Satan would do Job wouldn't break because he knew what was in him. He gave Satan permission to do anything he wanted to do to Job but God say you can't kill him. Do you know God will allow things to happen to strengthen our faith. He wants to make sure you are just to giving him lip service.
(Matthew 7:21-23) On that day many will say to me
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When we accept Jesus as our Lord and savior we are given the gift of the Holy Spirit. Therefore we have a comforter and a leading on the inside of us, or what I like to call insight!!! God gave us eyes to see outside the body but gave us our mind, will, and emotions that are on the inside. But it's not until we have the Holy Spirit on the inside of us; which is the Spirit of Christ the annoited one that we will have insight. The vision to see inward. In the Spirit realm to have a foreknowledge of what's to come. How?
1 John 4:4 KJV Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John 4:4 Amplified Bible Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].
So when you have insight on who is inside of you-you can never be defended or condemned. You never have to fear what Satan or mankind will or won't do. When you know the God in you you will also find your identity because once we except Jesus as our Lord and Savior we then become new creatures in Christ. Meaning a new creation revealed to you. I believe that God already created us with everything we were gonna need in this life. He knew when you would sin and loved you while in it so don't think that now because you are saved he loves you more! No his love is the same. God doesn't change! Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
You just feel it more because you have insight and are more aware of who he is so now he can trust you with yourself! As one of his most prized creations God created was us in love ❤️ How do I know because God, Jesus, and The Holy Spirit are one God head with 3 operations therefore we call the Holy Trinity The Father, The Son, and Holy. In the beginning (Genesis) God said let us make a man (mankind) after our image and our likeness and before he created the body he created the spirit of mankind male and female and then created the body and breathed the breath of life in us. The insight we have on God is he said it was good after everything he created and allowed it to reproduce after its kind. We are fearfully and wonderfully made after Gods image what a beautiful insight to have into our Loving Heavenly Father's heart. We are the only creation that has speech so we can praise him and tell others about him. So you see we were created to worship and love our Father and reproduce more like us that will honor him!!! What Insight do you have? Don't be like that of a person that sees themselves in a mirror and forgets what manner of man he sees because you have no identity. Get a relationship with our Heavenly Father and he will reveal who you are and your destiny which is the result of Gods will and plan he already laid out for us in the blueprint of him creating us. Thank you Jesus!!!
Show me who I am in you Father. Show me what I am not so that nothing else matters. So that nothing or no one can influence and or persuade me otherwise. Holy Spirit Guide my footsteps so I will only follow the beated Path Jesus laid before me so I will only go the places that will give you Glory. So I will know that I have fulfilled my call and show you God that I love you. Lord give me insight of you!!! In Jesus name Amen
insight
perception; intuition; understanding: The older we get, the more insight we acquire. That may be true life creates opportunities for us to gain wisdom. But we all know that the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. Therefore I'd say the more we fear the Lord in reverence and learn of him the more insight we will have.
in·sight
n.
1. The ability to discern the true nature of a situation, especially by intuition.
2. A perception produced by this ability.
The gift of discernment is a gift that comes by way of Holy Spirit becau
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Without faith you might be subjected to facts which often times doesn't produce God's vision for our lives. Which is why we walk by faith and not by sight. Our Faith is not produced in what we see it's actually in what we don't see and when we don't see the facts that are presented to us about our situations and circumstances we lean not to our own understanding and we acknowledge God in all our ways and he will direct our path. So if we don't focus on Jesus we will sink. Like Peter when he asked Jesus to prove it was him walking on the water to bid him to come but he was walking on the Word of Jesus when Jesus said come! At that moment is Faith and focus were aligned!! But the moment he got distracted his faith ceased and he sank. Which is why Jesus said o ye of little faith. We have to ask ourselves what did hinder us and caused us to loose focus and now is causing us to sink?
What does focus mean anyway?
noun
• 1.
the center of interest or activity.
"this generation has made the environment a focus of attention" social media, society, social norms?
Similar:
center
focal point
central point
center of attention
hub
nucleus
heart
Jesus is the chief (cornerstone)
(Ephesians 2:19–21). And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; “In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord”
anchor
backbone • 2.
the state or quality of having or producing clear visual definition.
verb
• 1.
(of a person or their eyes) adapt to the prevailing level of light and become able to see clearly. JESUS IS THE LIGHT!! • 2.
pay particular attention to.
What does sink mean anyway?
verb
• 1.
go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged.
Similar:
become submerged
be engulfed
• 2.
descend; drop.
Similar: fall
Galatians 5:7 kjv Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth?
The truth we need to seek after is that we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. But we have to trust the process God allows us to take because he knows our end before our beginning.
Galatians Ampc 5:7 you were running the race nobly. Who has interfered in (hindered and stopped you from) your heeding and following the Truth?
Galatians 5:7 phillips were making splendid progress; who put you off the course you had set for the truth? That sort of “persuasion” does not come from the one who is calling you. Alas, it takes only a little leaven to affect the whole lump! I feel confident in the Lord that you will not take any fatal step. But whoever it is who is worrying you will have a serious charge to answer one day.
So in otherwords what happened to your faith that would cause you to look at the facts of your situation and believe contrary to what God has told you to believe in faith. Maybe the pain you feel in your body but for a moment knocked your focus off and you choose to sink in the place of what the doctors report has said. The fact is you might be dealing with a real issue but we have to know that God's Word is the truth that really holds the power and holds the weight over our situations. We have to believe in the Word which then we believe in Jesus because he is the Word that was with God and that was made flesh so we can be the righteousness of God. So if our focus is on Jesus than our faith will increase and thus we will be counted as righteousness because we believe in God. While he works out our the kinks in our favor our Focus on him will not allow us to sink!! We won't Sink in confusion, self-destruction, fear, failure, complacency, disobedient. We can choose to float even if we cant swim because God will reveal a way in our situations that will get us to the shore of our faith; now that we can truly stand on.
The emeny would love to whisper things in our ears why? Because Faith comes by hearing and that by
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John 12: 24KJV Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
John 12:24 New Living Translation(NLT) I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.
When a seed dies it becomes a new thing like unto us when we die a physical death we will than have the chance to cross over into our full salvation because this sinful flesh can't take on glory to come so we then have to cross over. In the meantime God gives us grace and mercy. Jesus bought us with a price! We owe him our lives. So while we are living in this world we need die to it and live life for Christ because he was that corn of wheat that first died for us.
Jesus cursed the fig tree even though it was not in the season to produce as a example that if we don't Bear fruit we will be cut off and become spiritual dead, impotent, powerless, good for nothing. Because the very thing we are purposed to do we didn't bring forth to harvest. Bring forth or be cut off! It's symbolic of how we always ought to be like Jesus. He in his flesh was one man yet, like the kernel of wheat will die and bear much. JESUS DEATH PRODUCED A HARVEST WHICH IS US AS HIS BELIEVERS!!! We now can partake of the fruit of life through the death of Jesus. Likewise we will die like that single kernel of wheat in order to be like Jesus. That's true salvation! We'll only gain our life in Christ if we die to the world!
John 12:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, еxcept a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
John 12:25 KJV He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
John 12:25 Amplified Bible The one who loves his life [eventually] loses it [through death], but the one who hates his life in this world [and is concerned with pleasing God] will keep it for life eternal.
Matthew 13:1-23 ;
Mat 13:1-23 KJV 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: 8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. 9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Folks these days are so woke to self they are spiritual sl
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The Lord is everlasting!!! GOD IS ENTERNAL he doesn't operate in time but I guarantee you he wouldn't want us to dwell in or own the past or put to much thought in the future without him! He wants us to have a vision for where we should go In fact his vision is the vision we should focus on. Besides God has all our past, and future cared for and covered but our focus is on the now!!! God has that covered too.
In....Matthew 6:34 KJV Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Meaning God had us covered we don't need to be anxious or filled with doubt. Fear and worry.
Earlier in the scriptures of Matthew 6 God points out that he cares for the birds and nature and we are much more important than them and they don't contribute to their own well-being so how much more will he care for us. So it's all about having faith in God so we can have freedom in the now.
Mat 6:25-34 KJV 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
We eat to live not live to eat! We don't live to be clothed God covers us while we yet live, so enough of worshiping material things. Where your treasure is your heart will be also. So store up your treasures with the Lord in heavenly places where no corruption or destruction can damage them. Your treasures are what aligns with God's vision for you not a handbag or new shoes. Not that God doesn't what us to have those things it's our heart, our spirit and our soul he wants. He wants our obedience, our sacrifice, our love, our faith and trust those are true treasures. Confidence in him not your worldly possessions you can't take them with you but you can live your life for and with the Lord now and later or not, it really is your choice. But he told us that your life is more than worrying about what you will consume to satisfy the flesh and what you put on to make you feel good and look good and impress others.
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
We also need to know that our past can affect our present and our future if we don't allow God to through the Holy Spirit filter out what has happened to us in such a way that we are not continuing to be a victim to situations and circumstances but in a way of being victorious and tell our story as a testament to how God brought us over. If we do this we will soon learn that as
2Corinthians 5:17-21 KJV
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unt
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We have to get out the dark place of pressure we put on ourselves and that we let others and society put on us to make it seem like we need to be on their timeframe for the way our lives should. By a certain age you should be this far in your like. If you are graduating high-school instead of exploring life right away you are supposed to already have your colleges lined up and have a plan figured out of what you want to be when you grow up but yet you just graduated high-school so now my brain is supposed to click and I automatically know the road God had for me and what paths to take to get there. Then once you take that educational path along the way you meet someone that fancy you and you both are in what could be love and then yall graduated college and now you both have careers and folks what to know when yall getting married and when yall gonna buy your first home to care for and juggle married life after being single all your life then folks what to know well when are yall gonna have a baby then baby turns into children and then folks say the women lost herself and needs to find herself and go after her career oh because I forgot to mention folks say once she got pregnant she was supposed to stop her life after all the education they wanted her to get to now stay home with the baby that is now children and care for the home while the man with the new found husband duties, protector, and provider now has to be the one that is supposed to carry that load. Now folks what to know what happened to yall yall seemed to change and recommend to need counseling STOP!!!!!!
The pressure of next is a horrible place to be when we we have a heavenly Father that has already laid our path and knows our end before our beginning and we have to just follow him to relieve the pressure of next from the world. At every turn at every test at every trail even walking with the Lord there is pressure for us to preform but man puts a lot of mandates on us we have to learn to stop what we are doing and breathe and seek God and get our direction or guidance from him not peoples opinions often times that are unsolicited. Now God will use folks that understand him to help you along the way and we can choice to except our help when he sends it but we still have to allow the steam of our choices and decisions in this life not build up pressure for us to preform and to make us make up what next is. There is a time and a season for all things we have to get in that season and allow God to show us how to navigate how we get to next and what next should be what next in our lives looks like!!!
Ask God to order our steps!!
Psalm 119:133-136
King James Version
133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
Vision Habakkuk 2
2:1-3 KJV 1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
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Act 10:42 KJV And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
Quick is synonymous of being alive or lively!!! Paying attention being apt and ready, eager, alert, at attention, focused, Courageous!!!
A lot of us are slow of heart to believe! God is looking not just for us to believe but for us to move quickly in our faith to do what he requires of us. If we wait too long doubt can creep in. If we wait too long we might miss the blessing and have to redo the lesson or may die in our sin without the change that God had for us all because we didn't move quickly.
The quick(alive) and the dead if you were in combat in a war you would have to make a split second decision on what to do to avoid being a target of an unruly weapon. Well same in the Spirit.
Act 10:38-43 ISV 38 God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, he went around doing good and healing everyone who was oppressed by the devil. 39 We are witnesses of everything Jesus did in the land of the Jews, including Jerusalem. “They hung him on a tree and killed him, 40 but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear— 41 not to all the people, but to us who were chosen by God to be witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He also ordered us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead. 43 All the prophets testify to this: everyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
So you see we have a mandate of God from Jesus after God rose him from the dead to preach is word. Preaching doesn't always have to look traditional and be in a church on a pulpit. It can you talking on the phone to someone and you being a witness of Jesus telling that person about how great Jesus is and what he has done and he will do when he returns. Praying for folks that their faith fail them not. We have a responsibility to use the gifts God gave us for him. Whatever you are into make sure it lines up with God's will and make sure folks know you are a witness not for your Glory but for the Glory of God and to help spread the gospel of Jesus. He is coming back and he will judge those alive when he returns and those that are dead. So look alive and move quickly!!!
While we are on our journey we have to remember that we don't have to fight our battles like the world does because
2 Corinthians 10:4 KJV(King James Version) For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
2 Corinthians 10:3-6 ISV(International standard version) 3 Of course, we are living in the world, but we do not wage war in a world-like way.
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not those of the world. Instead, they have the power of God to demolish fortresses. We tear down arguments
5 and every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive in order to obey the Messiah.
6 Once your obedience is complete, we will be ready to reprimand every type of disobedience.
In otherwords we are fighting in a war where our real emeny is invisible; we cant see all that he is up to. Which means we have Spiritual warfare going on. God has given us his Word as our weapon to fight anything that would even but try to come up against God's Word. But if we tend to drag our feet to get with God we might miss out on our safety in the middle of battle. God's Word will not work for us if we don't know it! Gods word wont work for us if we don't use. You have to Know his word to use it.
Hebrews 4:12 KJV “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:12 NI
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What will it take for God to allow to happen to us and this earth before we turn our hearts back to him?!?!?!?!
Amos 4:6-11
(6) "Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities. And lack of bread in all your places; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD. (7) "I also withheld rain from you, When there were still three months to the harvest. I made it rain on one city, I withheld rain from another city. One part was rained upon, And where it did not rain the part withered. (8) So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water, But they were not satisfied; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD. (9) "I blasted you with blight and mildew. When your gardens increased, Your vineyards, Your fig trees, And your olive trees, The locust devoured them; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD. (10) "I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt; Your young men I killed with a sword, Along with your captive horses; I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD. (11) "I overthrew some of you, As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.
2Ch 7:14-20 KJV 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. 16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. 17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments; 18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel. 19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
We have become so distracted, discouraged, disappointed, and detached from God so long we long for trends of the next best thing to belong to instead of having the courage to be different. Doing things afraid in the Lord!!! Even if it means going at it alone because truly we know with the Lord on our side we are never alone. Therefore we must break away from the fades from the temptations from the things of this world and really focus on the Lord. All he wants is you. He wants your love and obedience!!! Your faith and trust in him. He knows we will mess up but he cleans us up and a lot of times he puts back better than we were. But the world is in shambles because the children of God have become a wayward people drawn far from him. Return!!
I've mentioned before that through the inspiration of God the birth of Courageous-Beauty came through wanting to remind myself daily to face my fears head on. It's one thing to be beautiful externally but, to me real beauty is internal. Courage is not the absence of fear but, it's being able to use the fear as fuel and face life's challenges face to face! Being Courageous makes me beautiful! It takes courage to return to God! We have to first deny our flesh what it wants and listen to our spirit and admit we were wrong and turned our backs on God and his precepts to begin with. That can be hard because if you say you love God then it will hurt your heart to fail him. Even though he sees it coming and has already prepared away of escape from our own demise it still pains God bec
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We need an Anchor!!! Meet, speak, dwell Meet, Allow God to meet you where you are because HIS strength is made perfect in our weaknesses Speak with him daily as he is always listening Then Dwell in his presence it's your turn to be still and listen to what he has to say to you. That's how you stay anchored in the Lord. For the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory that shall be revealed in us but in order to endure we need an anchor!!! Jesus is our anchor as he sits at the right hand of our Heavenly Father praying and making intercession for us and sent his spirit, Holy Spirit that is the anchor that connects us to Jesus. We can't get to the Father except through the Son Jesus and we have no anchor to Jesus without his Holy Spirit.
My Soul is Anchored My Soul My Soul
Psalms 1
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. note We have to watch who we are around watch and the company we keep because there are other anchors that would desire to pull you away from God!
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. We have to tend to the chains attached to our anchor we do this in the natural if we have a boat we might clean the rope attached to the Anchor to make sure it's not torn or if chains we would check for rust and clean it appropriately taking special care to not lose our connection to what safely keeps us grounded. So as it is in the Spirit as in the natural we must keep rust out of our spirit and our minds and continue to meditate on God's Word so that we strengthen our connections and stay anchored to Jesus by way of Holy Spirit and therefore can get to God through Jesus. Waves might increase in the ocean which could reek havoc on a rusty chain or a tethered rope and the boat might start to rock but as we take inventory of our surroundings survival is imminent because we prepared for this we knew turbulence from strong winds would come to rock to boat of our lives but because we our anchored in God's word we might rock but we won't sink. Holy Spirt won't allow the cares of this world allow us to be capsized by waters that come to drown us. We have to block out the noise of the winds of this life but we can't do it if we are anchored to the world and what people think about us and what will folks say what does social.media have on me what is this life all about ENOUGH!!! I need to stay in the ark of safety
Psalms 91:1 says He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty Meaning I can take refuge in God and he will hide me from the emeny from the naysayers from my haters from Satan and from myself. That's why there are things we don't even know about our selves. If God revealed all of us to us we would be the first before the emeny had a chance to self-sabatoge what God has done that's if of course you are not anchored to God's Word then you will know that you can do all things through Christ that strengthens you!!! That you are the head and not the tail. Above only and not beneath!! So he gives us our blessings in doses so we don't mess it up and so that the emeny can't prevent our blessings to try to steal our faith.
3 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.
Instead of the waters, trials of this life overtaken you you will be the tree planted and anchored by the Holy Ghost and won't bend or break.
Isa 43:1-5 KJV 1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the
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Heyy My Courageous Beauties it's Wisdom Wednesday!!! My Husband aka Benny will be Joining This wisdom weds to introduce the First episode of season 4 of Courageous Beauty Podcast!!! First I want to say thank you Lord for this opportunity for allowing me and my husband to share our love for you and our life through the Holy Spirit on this platform. We you ask Lord that you continue to order our steps that our words are your words and not our own in the mighty name of Jesus Amen, Amen and Amen!!
Listen, God is always up to something he is always working things out on our behalf. Even when we don't see it ,can't see, won't see it. Those are all different things. Even if it feels that we are going through a whirlwind and there is not way out trust and believe God is working out how he wants to stop the whirlwind or how he wants to take you through it. Psalms 91Psa 91:15 KJV He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. So that means that he will be with us in trouble so that is indicative that trouble will come. We have to remember the trouble doesn't last always but while you are going through we are never alone. Refer to the book of Daniel for this story: Take Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego the 3 of there were put in the firey furnace but they say a 4th person that was One like the Son of Man (Whom is Jesus!!!!) Jesus didn't turn off the fire he got in with them and it doesn't say they felt any of the pain of the fire but they came out without even the smell of smoke therefore we know God always has a way of escape for us from everything.
As I always I believe new ways for us were already created even though God can do a new thing I believe it's only new to us because we were not in a position for it to be revealed to us yet. We haven't possibly gone through enough yet for God’s Glory to be revealed. Refer to the book of Exodus for this story: Take the children of Israel God raised up Moses in the enemies camp to take over and to be the led to set God’s people free and told Moses he would harden Pharaoh's heart so that he could show his power. If no trouble came how would we truly see what God's power could do. So trust and believe that God is always up to something for his Glory and our benefit. Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
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Signs of warfare means God's getting ready to unleash your blessings,.your potential, straighten your path and or open the floodgates of heaven and pour you out a blessing you have not room enough to receive and so God may need to enlarge your terrorty. The emeny however, wants to try to thwart God's plan. But in these times we need to know that if we stay in God's Word he will lift up a standard which is his word that will block Satan's tactics. Trust and believe that Jesus went through all sorts of trails but he knew what the end game would be. He knew he was born to die and to conquer the world and defeat Satan's kingdom: death, hell, and the grave. So trust there is always a battle going on somewhere if not in your current situations and circumstances but in someone else's so we must prepare for war and trust that God said he would be with us in trouble. Know that trails make us stronger through Christ because when we are weak he is made strong and we get to.see and opportunity for God to move on our behalf and take out the emeny and his imps. Know that God will protect us always and know that weapons will form in some capacity of our lives but we know that with God the weapons will not prosper they will not succeed. Why? Because loves us and has planted a seed down on the instead of us that knows will grow and he will get the Glory out of our lives so he is not going to allow the emeny to completely destroy us. We have to however keep up our part in our walk with Christ and that is to stay in his word and be obedient to God in everything he asks you to do. We are not perfect and we all miss the mark but just as soon as you know you have get back up, dust yourself off, and try again!!! Sometimes it feels in life like a merry-go-round in and out of sequence, up and down and round and round but in this life everything that God will allow to happen to you, for you, and through you sets the tone of who you are and what you shall be! We have to know that God will often times in the words of Bishop T.D.Jakes put problem in front of our blessings and that our problem might be the very thing he wants to use and get the Glory out our your life. So just know whe ln trails come, victory comes, and then the blessings. I'm not saying God.cant and won't bless us without first going to trails always but what I am saying like I've often said before that God wants a return on his investment he put into creating you therefore he will by his will get Glory out of your life even if he has to use people, places, things, ideas, and events to get to and through to you. He is the Potter we are the Clay. We have have flaws but God says we are fearfully and wonderfully made so we ought to be careful judging folks and ourselves over what we don't like because we are judging God's masterpiece!!! Just know when trouble arises God is by your side and he will work it out if you let him. Your breakthrough is just that breaking through whatever obstacles were in your way. The blessing, the sugar or cherry on top is that in our breaking through and breaking chains we don't have to go at this life alone. God will never leave nor forsake us we just need to not forsake him and his will, his purpose his plan for our lifes and learn to trust in him even when we don't have a clue of the outcome!!!
Thank you Father your love, your annointing, your favor, mercy, and most of your love we can't live this life without you so I rather be in your will than my own even when I have concerns about the road I might have to travel even when there are scary things along the way I know you will.see fit to comfort me through it all and I van trust that before, doing. And after you would not have changed my love so I pray my faith only stays strong in your and my love runs deep because yours is everlasting. In the mighty name of Jesus Amen, Amen, and Amen!!!
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Lord Make me a house,, make me a house of prayer Lord 2x!!! Dont have the rights to the song but the rights to the anointing and Power of God through the Holy Ghost because I professed and proclaimed the name of Jesus and I've accepted him as my Lord and saviour and I believe he died for my sins, took the keys to death, hell, and the grave, and he ascended and is now seated at the right hand of our father in Heaven. You can have the same authority and power through the Holy Ghost as well all you have to do is accept the Lord into your heart and ask him to be your Lord and forgive you of your sins but truly repent feel or express sincere regret or remorse about one's wrongdoing or sin.
view or think of (an action or omission) with deep regret or remorse.
feel regret or penitence about.
Find definition of Repent which mean to make a pentence or atonement for your sins orginally but to re or do over is to repent so you are not only making a pentence but a full 360 from the sin and making a conscious effort to dying daily to the flesh, or carnality, simply put means to put your flesh under subjection(or denying what the flesh desire) what it is you believe you can't live without that mirrors the world and allowing God to have reign in your life.
Prayer is how we can allow space and opportunity for the Holy Spirit to come.in and take root in our lives. We want to God to make us a house of prayer so that the Holy Spirit will want to dwell here. We don't always have to just pray for ourselves we can pray for others. The more we pray and invite in the Holy Spirit the less time we have to be concerned with the cares of this world. I didn't say theu wouldn't form, I didn't say you wouldn't have days you wouldn't want to pray! I didn't say you wouldn't have struggles, pain, frustration. We are not perfection by any means but we are striving everyday for the maturity in Christ. Therefore, having a sincere and repentivte praying heart and mind will get us there. So we ask the Lord to make us a house of prayer well he will love to dwell here!!! If there are times you are feeling low and feeling like you might be defeated remember Jesus said that his strength is made perfect in our weaknesses. Meaning he will show up strong in our lives and help us to stand! Stand through the mist of opposition, infirmities, and feeling defective. How do I know you ask? Well...
Isaiah 42:3 that A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice for truth.
Isa 42:3 EasyEnglish He will not break a reed that somebody has bent. And he will not put out a fire that has almost stopped burning. He will always be kind (to his people) and he will be a fair judge.
Matthew 12:20
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Mat 12:20 EasyEnglish He will not hurt weak people. He will be kind to people who are not strong. He will do this until there is justice everywhere.
ok so first of all let's break this down what is a reed and what is bruise what is the purpose of it.
Reed: 1. a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground. 2. a weak or impressionable person.
When one is down and broken, someone is treading water, feel like they are drowning can't cope with life. Even if you are in your elements lile The reed is in it's marshy ground it's rooted while it needs to be but a heavy strong wind bruised the top part of the plant, oh something happened and you lost a little faith and now you feel weak. You might be that reed Jesus is saying he will not break you down even when you are not bruised so especially all the more when you are he will pick us up again and give is strength in our inner man!
What is a flax why is it or why should it be smoking and what does all this mean?
Smoking flax- in relation to a wick of a candle we are the light but if we sin and or missed the mark of
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Key verses Matthew 13:7,22-23
(7) And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. 21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. 22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. 23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Full verses Matthew 13:3-23 KJV
Mat 13:2-23 KJV 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: 8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. 9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. 18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. 19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. 20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; 21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. 22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. 23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Don't let the world choke out the word! Meaning don't allow what you seek after in this world make you forget God's word. You may have it one minute then the next get distracted by your desires. Riches and things are not evil in themselves but can be a vessel for evil to brew if we let them consume us. We must remember that God created all things and
1 Chronicles 29:11–13 King David knew everything he
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Be Holy as I'm Holy meaning God is one with his Word so we are to be Holy by being One with his Word thus being one with God because the Word was with God and the Word is God!!! (JESUS IS THE WORD THE word spoken into time when God said let there be light and the Holy Spirit moved and there was light or illumination in the firmament before the Sun was created because the Son was already existing.
Joh 1:1-17 KJV 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Which I believe was the plan the whole time Jesus was literally born to die so that light could enter the dark world and save our souls from sin and give us salvation. Adam, whom is the man God formed out of the dust of the earth and then God breathed the breath of lifes into so that mankind can exist. I say the breath of lives because we already existed in Spirit realm but needed a body.
Also because the Word of God says God knew us before we were in our mothers womb therefore
Jeremiah 1 1
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." "Ah, Sovereign LORD," I said, "I do not know how to speak; I am only a child."
Adam was created from the dust of the earth and Eve formed out of man using a rib bone.. thus the verse bone of my bone flesh of flesh comes to mind which is why marriage is so sacred and should be cherished because it was God's intentions for man to not be alone or All one!!! So Adam "knew" his wife meaning that had relations and Eve conceived their children. Which is why God made the flesh and breathed lives in it that our Spirit could have a home and be birthed out of the flesh so we could co-exist in the spirit and the natural at the same time because a spirit needs a host. Genesis proves this to us by saying
Gen 1:26-28 KJV 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
So man became a living flesh with mind will emotion or our soul after God breathed the breath of lives in us so that life as we know could Perpetuate or continue replen
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Pro 19:21 KJV There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
I like the wording in this version specifically the wording devices in man's (mankind) heart. The bible says that our hearts can be deceitful and desperately wicked therefore we must take inventory of our thoughts we must take our own temperature to make sure we are not devising plans of evil or ill will towards God how can we think evil towards God you asked? If we think on another person or even yourself in an evil way you have also done this to God because we are all his children. Now in this situation our thoughts and our plans we come up with ourselves need to be filtered through the word of God or God will allow us to be left to our own devices. Meaning he will leave us alone and allow situations to play out as they may because he knows what's best for us. But if we are not careful we can easily get distracted and start doing our own thing. Like how the prodigal son didn't want to wait for his father to die to have his inheritance and asked for it so he could go live his life. As a loving Father his father gave him his portion and the son squandered it all away and had to learn to live without the money but also without his father and realized he needed to be back home. But just how God does us is the same way that the father did his son and accepted him back into his home with open and loving arms even after he messed up. When all along he could have been home in his father's house the whole time. Which is the same for us. This world has nothing better to offer us than what God can. After all he created us and everything else and can allow blessings to rain down on us any given moment. We have to learn how to sit with God and have a relationship with him because you don't really recognize the voice of a stranger. You might be able to tell by someones' accent where they are from. But you don't know their heart or their thoughts toward you unless you communicate with this person and get to know them so it's not any different with God. THE LORD IS OUR SHEPARD and we are his sheep. Therefore he cares for us. So if we have relationship with God as his sleep we will know his voice (his word) and a strangers' voice we will not follow.
Pro 19:21 EasyEnglish A man may have lots of ideas. But the Lord will do what he wants to do.
We may have lots of ideas and the Bible even tells us that if a man's ways please God he will give us the desires of our heart which could be the ideas we have in our mind but we have to give credit and honor to God for keeping us and ordering our steps. God may tell you to turn left while you are driving but the place you are going to it would be faster if you turned right but because you have a relationship with God you are his sheep you are able to recognize his voice and follow instructions and you turn left and later find out there was a 3 car pile up at the location you were going to but because you were obedient to what you heard your life was spared. Sometimes with God he will take us on a detour to save us or to teach us something before we get to our destination. See having a relationship with Our heavenly Father is a matter of life and death not about getting materialistic things. We have to learn how to seek God's face and not his hands. God knows the way we should go.
Pro 19:21 ISV Many plans occupy the mind of
a man, but the LORD’s purposes will prevail. Occupy means to take up space and or residence. Therefore we ought to allow the Holy Spirit take up space in our hearts, our mines and spirit. We already know that God is our Heavenly Father our creator and he loves us so why not put all our trust in the very fact he knows what we need and the way are life should and will go. All he asks from us is to obey him and keep his commands.
Pro 16:1 KJV The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
We dealt with our thoughts and
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Psalms 68:19 kjv Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.( selah take a min and think on that)
Psalms 68:19 niv Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,(A) who daily bears our burdens
Psalms 18:2 The LORD is my protector; he is my strong fortress. My God is my protection, and with him I am safe. He protects me like a shield; he defends me and keeps me safe. | Good News Bible
Psalms 91:1-16 but Main 1-4 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. note
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
2 thessalonians 3:3 New King James Version But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
1 Peter 5:7 King James Bible Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you
Amplified Bible casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully].
Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
Jeremiah 31:3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Psalm 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Psalm 142:4,5 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul… Meaning we can't depend on mankind heck we can't even depend on ourselves to get us through but no matter where we look we will see God by our side and at our aide.
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
Matthew 6:25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Matthew 6:26,33 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? …
1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Psalm 139:8-10
King James Version
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Even when we get to a place we can't get out of ourselves God has us covered .
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Folk hurt you baby but now you have to pull up your boot straps and seek Jesus!!! God wants to use us for his purpose but he can't use us if we won't focus on him. We may have wounds and scars but that creates the time line of our testimony that allows us to be able to remain humble as Jesus raises us up to see the salvation of God through him. Our scars are the evidence that God is who he says he is so others can see the Power of God working in our lives. Jesus came back so doubting Thomas can see his scars as proof that he died and rose and is the messiah but Jesus said those that haven't seen and yet believed are blessed.
John 20:29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
but God knew that folks will still need to see the evidence of the manifestation of Christ in your life and so as to show folks suffering they're not alone in this world. God will give us Pastor's, teachers, leaders after our own hearts that means folks that have suffered an can sympathize with you because they understand your plight. Liken as we can sympathize and empathize with one another.. but the historisity of your fight can't interfere with the journey God has you own. You can't keep rehashing what happened to you in a way that will take your focus off God. You don't want to keep giving power to dead things, dead people, dead ideas, and dead situations. Yes what happened to you can be and should be talked about but in a way that shows how God brought you over and through so that God will get the Glory but not in a way that you are wallowing in pity and seeking attention for someone to feel bad for you or so you can not take responsibility for your life for your future for your destiny. Don't allow your hurt to run around in your mind rent free don't allow the hurt keep you hurting. Don't allow the enemy to keep whispering noisome pestilence in your hears. As faith comes by hearing so if we could but just change our perspective of our realities. We ought to know that no one can ever minimize your pain but that you have a choice to continue a cycle of feeding it your attention and power until it renders you utterly powerless.. oh lift up your heads oh you gates and be ye lifted up you everlasting doors and let the King of Glory come in.
Psalms 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
What this means is that we focus on God we will see that he has been at the door of our hurt, the door our pain, our situations but we have to allow him to come into our life. God is so big and so grand that we have allow ourselves to open up to him fully so he can show us his power like never before. Allow God to be big in your life instead of your problems.
Now It's ok to seek guidance to get through in fact seeking help is wisdow. We must know that what ever our this is this too shall pass but another area we have to watch is our forgiveness. Don't keep holding what God has forgiven to be held over the offenders head so that your own offenses can be removed. Forgive that you can be forgiven also!!! Unfortunately unforgiviness can hold up our blessings.. If we rehearse our hurt instead of our healing we can reverse our blessing. How can we stop rehearsing our hurt we can focus also on the blessings of God we can count them one by one which would take up our time and we won't focus so much on our issues. If you have nothing to think about the Bible in Philippines says to think on these things. Read philippians 4:8 (See full write up on WordPress blog)
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What do we mean when we say Truma will make you time travel?
Well it means....
When something that happened in your past that effects you now and that makes you revert back to your past when that thing happened or makes you take on that frame of thinking when the and or wound occurred?
Truma deeply distressing or disturbing experience. Wound an injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken. We have to learn within God through our walk to allow the wounds to heal do that there are only scars left. So much so folks can see your battle wounds, which is proof you made it our the battles of life and we have to make it so that before we engage in relationships that we don't keep picking at the wounds and removing the scabs. Healing won't come if we keep carrying the baggage of old wounds. Healing can be promoted properly if we keep picking off scabs where there should be scars. You have to deal with your wounds in the natural by possibly putting ointment on it and there is a stage you have to let it breathe. In these stages the ointment is the annoiting of God applying the pressure of God's word daily to your hurt and wounds so Healing can take place kn the inside. Because how many of you know that all wounds are not just physical but are also spiritual. Once you get to the let it breathe stage of wound care that is allowing yourself to talk about it without the pain continuing to regurgitate your pain in defect but by feeling and dealing with it and not being in denial that it happened while at the same time not being in denial that you made it. You might have ptsd but you are free from that event it's over so now this work has to be done before you get into relationships but what happens when that is not the case we are going to touch on that today on how we handle and deal with each others wound care, each other's, baggage and truma.
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What do we mean when we say Truma will make you time travel?
Well it means....
When something that happened in your past that effects you now and that makes you revert back to your past when that thing happened or makes you take on that frame of thinking when the and or wound occurred?
Truma deeply distressing or disturbing experience. Wound an injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken. We have to learn within God through our walk to allow the wounds to heal do that there are only scars left. So much so folks can see your battle wounds, which is proof you made it our the battles of life and we have to make it so that before we engage in relationships that we don't keep picking at the wounds and removing the scabs. Healing won't come if we keep carrying the baggage of old wounds. Healing can be promoted properly if we keep picking off scabs where there should be scars. You have to deal with your wounds in the natural by possibly putting ointment on it and there is a stage you have to let it breathe. In these stages the ointment is the annoiting of God applying the pressure of God's word daily to your hurt and wounds so Healing can take place kn the inside. Because how many of you know that all wounds are not just physical but are also spiritual. Once you get to the let it breathe stage of wound care that is allowing yourself to talk about it without the pain continuing to regurgitate your pain in defect but by feeling and dealing with it and not being in denial that it happened while at the same time not being in denial that you made it. You might have ptsd but you are free from that event it's over so now this work has to be done before you get into relationships but what happens when that is not the case we are going to touch on that today on how we handle and deal with each others wound care, each other's, baggage and truma.
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You don't get to pick when God delivers us we don't get to pick the time. It might even come as an inconvenience to you...why would I say that? Your deliverance might come in the mist of your sin right dap smack in the act of you defling yourself and the very act of disobedience. God is like that he will save us in the nic of time or during the time but God!!! God will snatch you from the very gates of hell and bring you until his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:9-10 9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart all your might and all your soul he knows the time and season for your change.
Mark 12:29-31 29Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’g 31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’h No other commandment is greater than these.”
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Listen...a wise woman once told me that some seasons for deliverance for change appear longer than others it might be something we need to learn from this experience that we missed before. Ask yourself what did I miss that history repeated, or that my time for change hasn't come? Know that this too shall pass and even though weeping may endure for a night but Joy will come in the morning no one knows how long that morning will take to come or how long the weeping shall be BUT GOD!!! He does!!! He knows the very hour of the return of our Lord and Savour Jesus Christ. Which is why we should be preparing now.. He knows the times and season where our hardship may be great but he knows when he will allow our breakthrough to show up for us to be revealed to us. Know that God knows what you have need of before you are even aware you have a need.
Matthew 6:8-13KJV 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
The Lords Prayer!(because Jesus teaches us how to pray) 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
God has the answers before you have your questions. Listen beloved God will go before us to made the crooked paths straight.
Isaiah 45:2 King James Bible I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:(in other words I will tear down mountains for you and break the elements for you)
Deuteronomy 31:8 KJV And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
God knows our thoughts afar off. In fact Psalms 139:2 says Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. And
Psalms 139: 1-6
Psa 139:1-6 KJV 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain un
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Join me and my special guest my husband Benny discuss Thankful vs Gratefulness. Jesus gave thanks(he prayed to God) when he broke bread before he and the disciples ate it. Gratefulness is action behind giving thanks = Jesus healed the 10 leapers but only 1 returned his Gratefulness made him whole because he didn't just say thank you he came back to repay his respects and showing he was grateful!!
Psalm 136:1 says, “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.” Here we have two reasons to be thankful: God’s constant goodness and His steadfast love.
What are we going to do for God to show him we are grateful to him and for him. Our reasonable service to be obedient to God. If we love him we will obey him.
You can exhibit your thanks to the world through acts of service or words, but gratitude is felt by the soul alone, a soul connected intrinsically to a higher power.
The Oxford Dictionary defines the word grateful as “showing an appreciation of kindness.” This is where the difference lies; being thankful is a feeling, and being grateful is an action. It's easy for us to look around the Thanksgiving dinner table and say that we are thankful.
Gratitude= the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.
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ReferencingJames 1:7-8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways and shall expect to receive nothing from God
We have to be careful while walking with God that we are not straddling the fence in our faith. One minute we trust God in all our ways and lean not to our own understanding and we are acknowledge him in all our ways and he will direct our paths and the next minute we are questioning his very existence because we can't believe this trial arose in our life.
The World of God says God is the same yesterday, today and forevermore therefore we ought not to remain haught in between two opinions we are gonna have to choose and God said he would that we choose life because we can't serve two masters we can't serve God and mammon that is the that saying God put himself up against the things of this world because he knew some folks would have a hard time choosing the gag is there is nothing outside of God worthy of your time but if we would faith not and truly trust
Matt 6:33 proves that in God everything that we should desire will be giving to us as we have need. God is not wasteful God he is not going to give us more than we can bare/handle that goes for good and bad. Some of us can't stand to be blessed because as soon as we get some extra money we loose our minds and all that we knew about God gets thrown out the window. We need to focus on God and sometimes that's why our blessings are delayed. Don't think God is always just gonna bless you with money it's other things that we need that money can't buy. That is a peace of mind, that is joy, that is love, that is divine health!!! Sure you have a medical procedure to help save your live but that is the key word it can help but a miracle has been done when it does work but God himself because anything that could have happened if you survived was prevented by God. Which is why we need to trust him all we do and all we don't even know that is happening. We need to trust him with not only what we can see but what about what we can't see that's true faith.
Hebrews 11:1 We can hope but without faith hope doesn't matter!!! We can believe all day something will happen but faith is an action word we have to believe God is and God will because he can do what his Word says he can and becausehe loves us not becausehe owes us. And then we have to do our part to activate said faith because Faith does come by hearing the Word of God!!!
We have to pick the side of faith and doubt when we doubt God it's like a slap in the face to him because he is alpha and Omega which means beginning and end in Greek and we need to know that he will pave the way, go before us and therefore he knows the way we should take so we have to trust him. Which side of the fence of life are you going to choose God or the things and cares of this world? We are to be in the world obeying the laws and rules of the land but be of the kingdom of God where we are subject to the King which is God and also obey his commands over our life's.
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Galatians 5:22-25
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Take your own temperature to see where you are too hot and or too cold in situations that will cause you to be angry and fall into sin. The bible says to be anger but sin not.
Espesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
2 Peter 1:6
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
Meaning God understands our emotions because he created them and in fact he has them too but he doesn't sin. So Jesus was and is and will always be the example we should live by when it comes to controlling our anger. A man (woman) that can't control his spirit is like a city without walls. It's ok to be angry but it's not OK to lash out on folks venting is different and having heated fellowship and or a discussion with someone that you have a disagreement with is ok just as long as it doesn't turn into throwing darts and bows.
The Word of God in Roman's 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Berean Study Bible Romans 12:18 If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone
So when we get to a point of anger we feel there is no return from we need to remove ourselves from the situation to cool down and pray. It would be foolish to say be prayed up so you will never get anger that's not realistic but it's never foolish to stay prayed up to be able to have Holy Ghost insight on how to handle your temper and have a spirit of temperance when the trial or situations arises. I've found that personally often times I'm not really angry but the emotion I might actually feel is hurt or discouragement or disappointment so we need to as I say before feel, deal and heal with that feeling as it comes because we maybe misplacing our anger and we haven't been fair to ourselves to actually discover how we really feel. We just run to anger because it's really easy to get mad and release thinking it will make us feel better but because we walk by the spirit of God and not our flesh we won't be condemned or cut off from God but the Holy Spirit will allow conviction to arise up in us once we have blown off steam. If you hear God you will be able to allow yourself to receive peace from his word and eventually calm down. Don't let your temper knock you off the tempo of God and rob you of your peace.
Romans 12:1-2
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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Isaiah 53:5 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. Which is a foreshadowing of why he did what he did for us in laying down his life to become the ultimate sacrifice!!!!!
Matthew 11:28–30. Jesus invites all who labor and are heavy laden to come unto him, take his yoke upon them, and learn of him. Matthew 12:1–13; Luke 13:10–17. Jesus declares that he is Lord of the Sabbath.
Phi 3:12-14 KJV 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. It is are responsibility to chase after God but because we want and desire to not because we have to in a way for trying to make up lost time. Once God invites you into his kingdom by way of Jesus we ought to want to be like Jesus and live our lives according to God's Word. Which is why Paul said he isn't there yet be he will with much in him.he will press on because he know looking back will slow him down so we can only be concerned about how God wants us to move forward in him.
Gal 3:13 KJV Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Which is why Jesus can say
Joh 12:26 KJV If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Joh 12:32 KJV And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. Meaning he chose to be the sacrifice for us
This phrase, “lift up His countenance upon you” involves God taking us into His presence to see His face. ... This carries even more meaning under the New Covenant now that Jesus' actions in taking away our sins (which is one meaning of "nasa") have removed the separation between God and His people.
Numbers 6: 26-27 26The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
That's why we can look to Jesus and live
Joh 8:36 KJV If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.(meaning free from sins therefore free to have eternal life)
You don't have to be an on looker in the live of someone living for Christ you can live for him with your life you can try him trust him lean on him and look to Jesus and live invite him in your life for he is Christ the annoited one he is the messiah our saviour look up to Jesus look to him you are not alone now unto him that can keep our feet from falling worlds without end Lord we love adore you and we look to Jesus so we can live take up your yoke upon us, learn of you and be free
Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Isaiah 40:29-31 Niv
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Isa 40:29-31 KJV 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (See WordPress blog)
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Isa 41:10 KJV Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed;
for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee;
yea, I will help thee; yea, (succour: assistance and support in times of hardship and distress.)
I will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteousness.
Read Isaiah 41:10-21?
Luke 12:31-32 32 main
31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Psalm 46:1-3
1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.
2Co 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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Have you had a baby or someone you know had a baby or even saw videos of babies that are starting off younger and younger being advanced more and more! Think it not strange they just left heaven so they know the times they were born in and are showing us that we need to move quickly and get in line with The will of God!! Watch your child how they respond to people and how they respond to certain situations Jesus said a child will lead them. He knew because he was the child that was born to die for us all so he knew that the new children of this generation would need to be messagers for their parents and families so think it not strange!!!
God is doing a quick work! Hallelujah catch up catch on Move quick make a decision quickly get with God now now now you will notice the times going faster it's acceleration time!!! The quick and dead.
Act 10:42 KJV And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.(Jesus is the Judge and is Lord of all)
Read and discuss 2Timothy 4:1-18main but can mention up to 22 even mention about Paul gave them a time and season to come (winter)
2Ti 4:1 KJV I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
The moving forward or the left behind! God is moving and not stopping. This is a season of shift it's time to follow God like never before! Like never before it's time out for play time don't get left behind when Jesus comes!!!
Man need to read the full Matthew 25:1-46
Mat 25:1-13 KJV 1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Ten virgins and Ten lamps stands!!!! Gird your loins and your heart and set your watch!!! Get ready for the Almighty King Jesus to arrive!!! Don't miss it even if you have to be like the woman with the issue of blood and but touched the helm of his garment!!! Don't wait don't worry and don't fear!!! Trust God in all you do and all you say!!! Time must go on don't be left in the woods of acceleration and miss the ride to Glory!!!!
Luk 12:33-59 KJV 33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39
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God will order our steps in his word
Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalm 119: 130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. God's word enlightening us to allow us to know of him, of things, and even know about ourselves. So the best thing we can ever do is trust God in all and allow him to come in our lives to direct our paths. We ended the year off talking about knowing God and having a relationship with him is how we find our identity and what to do to maintain that by making sure we are checking our thinking and our gratitude and also preparing our first fruits of all our possessions of course pray and ask God how he wants you to do that it's not too late. Also we talked about this being a new year and a new you so now we are doing a deep dive on asking God to order our steps. That's how we are new in this new year. We are no longer going depend and or rely on people, places, things, and or ideas of our own we are going to pray and follow God's steps for our lives. We are all and I repeat we are all works in progress because our flesh wants to mind the things of this world be we will discuss further how we need to walk by the Spirit of God in order to be his child not after our fleshy and or carnal desires. We have to put alway the old man/woman and put in the mind of Christ and allow God to have place at the head of our lives. We need to for real allow God not to just take the wheel as folks like to say when something goes wrong "Jesus take the wheel" we need to start by letting him be in the driver sit in a lot of our situations and in other situations we need to allow him to be our GPS. Knowing that because God is our loving Father that he will challenge us to prune us to bare more fruit but he will never put more on us than we can bare. Besides his grace is sufficient for us in the mist of all our sin he has still spared us. Now don't be deceived God is not mocked and will not Chide with men always so in this new season we have to get it together. Know that old things are passed away and behold all things are made new and learn how to love and trust the Lord with all our heart, all our, mind, and soul. We need to lean not to our own understanding but acknowledge him in all ours ways and he shall direct our paths. God is a great God and he has truly giving us everything we need and when a mans(mankind) ways please God he will give us the desires of our heart. Did you know that our desires that align with God's Word he has given to us anyway? I believe this because God created us with intentions on loving us and us loving him and we can't truly say we love him and not obey him he is our creator. But I believe with that intention he knew what he was going to put into each and everyone of us therefore it's only right to expect a return in his investment in us. So our desires are not even our own. God has predestinate us and predetermined our lives he knows the way we should take. So I'm just saying why wouldn't you want to follow our loving Father that already knows where the cliff drops are in life? Why would we want to ever try to figure out a path for our lives that have already be created for us as long as we follow God's will and way for our lives. Now listen I'm not saying we won't have hiccups allow the way Jesus said he would even be a stumbling block to some because of their unbelief in him and lack of faith in God. We will continue down a spiritual spiraling path of stumbling blocks that wasn't even meant for us if we miss the way God has set the path before us. Now listen, my Courageous Beauties it will take courage to walk by faith and not by sight because we have been accustomed to in this generation to knowingbthe answers and depending and relying kn technology to do everything for us and Google search here and a siri, Alexa there. We have to remain focus on our creator whom is the source of all intelligence and not rely on ar
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New year new you? I'm hear to tell you I know it's been hard I know you lost somethings some folks lived some are gone on but I'm hear to to tell you you can still be new It's our choice to stay as we are or to leap in faith into who we shall be. The thing is we may not know the future you but God does so that means in this new space of time we have to begin to trust God again a fresh a new a leap of faith is what it will take because even though we know God's blessings are new every morning we don't know exactly what this new year will bring. The last 2 yrs were hell for some but for some we hailed to the King of Glory. We have a choice to embrace the idea of starting fresh and trusting God to lead us into a newness a refreshing or continue in the fears and Chaos and confusion and miss what God has in store for us. I tell you what, even if I'm beat battered and bruised I refuse to loose I'm resilient I'm can't quit because I have the Lord on my side so I will press I will press I will press on move on into the new it starts in your mind it starts in your spirit it starts with a new talk it starts with a new walk a faith a new outlook new thoughts. God ways not our way not our will but God's will but it starts with you make a choice, make decisions To be a new you a new you in a new year a new you in a new year ♥ choose you have to choose with Christ you can't loose he has you covered by the blood of Jesus He that has done a great work in you is faithful to preform it.
Philippians 1:6; “being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” “I believe you God!
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Prepare your First Fruits!!! Giving our firstfruits means giving our best to God. It means sacrificing something that costs us a little. It means putting God first, even before ourselves, or our family. Making a first fruit offering opens us up to allow God to work in our life.
James 1:16-18 NIV Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
• to offer firstlings or firstfruits
• to take away the firstfruits of the productions of the earth which was offered to God. The first portion of the dough, from which sacred loaves were to be prepared. Hence term used of persons consecrated to God for all time.
• persons superior in excellence to others of the same class a beginning of sacrifice, that is, the (Jewish) first fruit (figuratively): - first-fruits.
“When you come into the land which I give you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.” —Leviticus 23:10
By: Jesse Wisnewski True Life Church The Hebrew word for first fruit is bikkurim—literally translated to “promise to come.” The Israelites saw these first fruits as an investment into their future. God told them that if they brought their first fruits to him, he would bless all that came afterward.
“Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops.” —Proverbs 3:9
In the New Testament, the term first fruits takes on a symbolic meaning. In 1 Corinthians 15:20, Paul mentions Christ as the “first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.” Jesus was God’s first fruits—his one and only son, and the best that humanity had to offer. God gave Jesus, who was raised from the dead, up for us, in the same way that we sacrifice the best we have for him.
What started as a specific instruction for bringing crops to the temple priest was expanded on later in Scripture. It no longer refers to literal fruit—firstfruits means any income, wealth, or blessings that a Christian has received over the course of the year.
These are all harvest time moments when your hard work paid off. These are also great opportunities to turn back to God in gratitude for the blessings. By: Jesse Wisnewski True Life Church
Prepare your First Fruits should be done in love and adoration unto God. We really shouldn't be thinking about how hard it will be because God already knows what you have anyway he knows what will be a sacrifice but it is indeed a celebration for all God has done. It's been said many times over we cant ever truly repay God for all he has done so at the least, we can give of ourselves in all areas of our life. This is true worship!!! Especially us laying down ourselves and what we have to God because Jesus did it for us!!
Preparing our first fruits to God is walking in true gratitude and or gratefulness to whom God is and what he has done for us. It comes with scarface and to someone it might seem scary but this is where our faith is being made new as it allows us to truly show if we trust God or not because our faith is being stretched in this way. Are we just having lip services and hearing God's word but not being doers of his word lacking action behind what we say or try to portray.. But note as it says in Malachi 3:8 that if we bring all your tithes and offering into God's store house that there would be meat(provisions) in his house that we could test him on it he would prove to us that he would open up the windows of heaven (our blessings would be so big) that we wouldn't have room enough to receive them (he would have to create room for us to receive our blessings) that means more opportunities to receive would come to those that give the 10th of all their increase and offering that you prayed and asked what to give. (Full read on WordPress
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You matter!! You are enough and God created you with everything you need including your gifts already on the inside of you.. I hope you enjoy this episode!!! God bless you 🙏🏾 ❤
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James 1:13-15
(13) Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. (14) But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. (15) Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
Exodus 20:17
(17) "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's." New King James Version Change Bible versions
Every problem, individual or national, has its root embedded in sin. But what causes sin? Wrong desires brought to fruition, and everyone—from peasant to king—is subject to wrong desires. From the beginning of time, sinners have blamed their sins on others. Satan blamed God, Eve blamed Satan, and Adam blamed Eve. James sternly rebukes this.
God does not cause sin, nor do things. Sin would be helpless if it did not appeal to something in man. Sin appeals to man's human nature through his desires. If a man desires long enough, the consequence is virtually inevitable. Desire becomes action.
Desire can be nourished, stifled or—by the grace of God—eliminated altogether. If we humbly, thoughtfully, and wholly give of ourselves to Christ and involve ourselves in good activities and thoughts, we will have precious little time or place for evil desires. The tenth commandment pierces through surface Christianity, really showing whether we have surrendered our will to God.
The spiritual requirements for keeping it are in some ways more rigid than any other because it pierces directly into our thoughts. II Corinthians 10:4-5 sets a very high standard for us to shoot for:
These verses, revealing God's authority over even our thoughts, also sets what may be our ultimate goal in this life. The tenth commandment shows the depth of God's concern about the state of our inner character as well as our apparent character. If our thoughts are right, our actions will be too. Changing our thinking strikes right at the heart of character, emphasizing why spending time with God, in studying His Word and in prayer, is so important.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
— John W. Ritenbaugh-The Berean Church of the Great God
We bring trials on ourselves a lot of times we can't always blame the devil because sin comes from us giving into our desires of the flesh that don't line up with God's Word and and makes us out of alignment and out of synch with God and therefore can lead us into disobedience because God may be telling us to do something and we miss it because we are so focused on our own agendas instead of listening to him for instruction. God will allow trials from our chooses we made to be an result as to bring us back to reality to what God's purpose for us was all along and when we can change the course of our thoughts we can follow the Holy Spirit in us that will lead us to the truth to discover ourselves and put us on the right path to obey God. In the mist of our disobedience God is so loving that we didn't die in that moment we sinned he but gives us grace and mercy as to allow us to feel the pain meaning we are still alive and thus have another chance to get it right. God is so merciful and loving he doesn't always allow the outcomes we deserved to find us When someone is dead there are no more chances. So if it means I just need to change my thoughts to save my life well I will continually ask myself how am I thinking and do daily self checks to make sure I'm in line with The Word of God. Read Philippians 4:8 KJV
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We are a royal priesthood, which means we have direct access and fellowship with God like a priest but are also called to expand the Kingdom of God and influence the world like a king.
Because I have suffered a little with Christ through trails I too can be a witness that Jesus is my Saviour Because I've seen the power of God revealed in me through me for me towards me and has kept me to show me that he loves me and I'm not alone meaning all one so as apart of my identity in Christ is that I'm a overcomer and a witness so now I can speak of my testimony become of the blood of the lamb which came from the sacrifice Jesus made for us on calvary when he died. I now have access through Jesus to God whom can look at no sin because the wages of sin is death so as to spare us Jesus took my past, present and future sins onto him and died with them and rose again so that now his Holy Spirit can be on the inside of me and now when God sees me he sees Jesus Holy Spirit in me and not my sins so that's how im a new creature in Jesus Christ. That's how I'm new and I have been born again, that's who I am now not who I was before the power of being redeemed. God washing Way or sins in the sea of forgiveness manning he no long lay charge to me for those sins. But I can remember my past sins so I know not what to do and so I can help cultivate the futures of others by telling and confessing of God's power to save them too and in turn because I can't pay him back for my life I can win many souls to Christ at the least I can do as someone whom needed saved. I can now share in the redemption process by leading by example but really through no power of my own but through the Holy Spirit to allow myself to be used as a vessel that will house the Holy Spirit so he can lead me to the truth so I can share the truth. Who the son sets free is free indeed but if you are now free go help someone that is bound get free.
Walls give you Identity the walls we need is the Word of God for Jesus is Rock of our salvation where we can build on. In the presence of God where the righteous run in and are safe. God hides us in his secert place in his Bossom in his love in our obedience to him.
1Pe 2:1-11 KJV 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. 4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Rom 12:3 KJV For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Eph 4:1-32 KJV 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called
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What defines you as a person? Does what folks standards set in society dictate who you are? Does social media, your parents, your past experiences, your current events, your accomplishments, your dreams, goals, and aspirations define you? All of those things can influence your decisions, choices, and outcomes if we allow them to. We ought not to put all our eggs in one basket of life and the things of this world. We need to pursue our creator because he created us after his image and likeness therefore as we discover more of who God is through his only begotten son Jesus we will soon find our true selves. We go through life as babies learning ourselves through Discovery of the world around us. We go from discovering that we have hands and feet to growing pains of adolescence to Teenagers and young adults to older adults to elderly if we are blessed to live a long life. We should through all our stages of life walk with God as much as we humanly can and the Holy Spirit will help you through lives journeys, twists and turns. With all of that being said I'm still learning myself daily. Everyday I strive to know myself better and everyday there is an area where I miss the mark but I will keep on pressing. What I know to be true is that
My Identity is in Christ Jesus!!!!
Roman's 8:17 (Heir) says: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Joh 8:36 KJV (Free) If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Joh 15:15 KJV (Friend) Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
2Co 1:21-22 KJV (Sealed) 21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. (The Holy Spirit is a pledge in our hearts that we are sealed by God)
Deu 14:2 KJV (Choosen) For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Eph 5:1 KJV (Beloved) Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Rom 5:1 KJV(Justified) Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Psa 103:11-12 KJV( Forgiven) 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
2Co 5:21 KJV(Righteous)For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Rom 3:24 KJV( Redeemed)Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Gal 3:26 KJV(Child of God) For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
2Co 5:17 KJV( New Creation) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Phi 3:20 KJV ( Citizen of Heaven) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
When I worship him and learn of him I start to find me. I will find the answers to my issues and challenges and will find my purpose I will find my area of strength my areas of focus for which God has given me the power and faith to break the yoke of bondage. God has given us all a lane and faith to walk worthy of the vocation he has called us too. I must give God praise even in my trials because except a seed goes into the ground to die it can't bare fruit. I have to know that there are things within my flesh that create friction with the parts of my Spirit and that don't honor God. When I do this I'm discovering more and more of my true self my true identity.
John 15 read!!!
God wants us to bare much fruit full writing on blog
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Do you just get thankful when you have possessions, or money. Are you thankful for your health and well-being? Are you thankful for your job for your friends and your family. How do you give your thanks? Thanks be unto God who is the head of my life what about you? Ask yourself that question daily it will change the posture of your heart. We ought to be grateful for everything of course but what causes you to really be thankful when everything is going good what about in bad times are you still trying to find the good in the bad? Or are we just completing?
This holiday season is not just about being full from food or just about being with family and watching sports. It's about giving God thanks for who he is and what he has done and kept us from. I imagine that there will be folks cheering and crying tears of joy for having seen loved ones for a year or so. I can also imagine that this will be for others the first of many holidays without their loved ones whom may have passed on. This season can bring joy and even sadness. In whatever it brings we must know that Jesus is our rock, the every rock of salvation that we can hand our everything on. Which is why we ought to do what Psalm 100:4 tells us
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
So no matter what you are facing if we but put our faith and trust in Jesus we will come out of our trials and tribulations for his Word says in 1 Corinthians 15:57 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. So the way to victory is through Christ Jesus! How do you get through Christ you ask him to come on your life and be your God, your saviour, and ask for forgiveness of your sins, believe in your heart that he died and rose for you and allow Holy Spirit to continue to guide you to the truth in the Word of God!
Even when we are celebrating and having a great time we should be giving the first fruits of our day to our heavenly Father as 1 Timothy 2:1sats
1 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— while you cut I to your holiday meals think and really take some time reflect how you can sit there and enjoy this meal but how far God has brought you and really give him the praise do his name. Thank you Father in the mighty name of Jesus for who you are and all you have done for me and my family and friends. The next think we need to keep in mind is that God wants something from us. He wants our relationship that consists of our faith and obedience to him. He wants us to do what
2 Corinthians 2:14 says
14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. The while key to us dating we love God is to tell folks about him. You might not be about to shout it from the roof tops but you can tell someone that God loves them and tell them how you know and why he loves us. He created us after his image and likeness so that we could do somethings like him we can never reply God for what he has kept us from. The best we can ever come close to doing anything for God is to live our lives outloud in the beauty of his Holiness with a grateful heart and a willing spirit to obey his Word. I pray you all are safe and having joy in your hearts and peace in your relationships but most importantly I pray thank in all you do you don't forget to thank God first!!!
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I heard the song want he make you clean inside and I wasn't sure if there was a exact scripture that said that and I came across a couple of Jesus talking to the Pharisees recorded in Matthew and Luke so let's peek on in on the scriptures to see what Jesus had to say to the Pharisees and us too shall we?
Matthew 23:26
New Living Translation You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too.
King James Bible Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Luke 11:39
New Living Translation Then the Lord said to him, “You Pharisees are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and wickedness!
King James Bible And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
Read Matthew 4:1-4
Matthew 4:4 read Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds out the Mouth of God We shall eat meat of the Word and no longer milk but know that Satan will try to temp you and make things hard because of what psalm 51 says.
Psalm 51(we are born into this sin nature born into iniquity right from our mothers womb that's why you can see videos of little kids lying already and didn't even have to be taught. We laugh because we think it's cute and to be honest I think it's more of something that really catches us off guard and we laugh to cope. Because really is it funny for a kid to have icing on their mouth and say no to you asking if they ate the cake that's learned behaviors and as parents or as just a family member we must set the precedent that that is not acceptable. That's why we ask God to Create in me a clean heart O Lord and renew a right spirit within us we must know we were born into sin because we were born into this world but it doesn't mean we cant counter act the sin nature with the Word of God and making sure we monitor what and who we allow access to us and to Penetrate our spirits. We ought to know we are what we consume and what we eat the most will grown the most and show on outside of us which is why we need to be concerned more on the inward man and what is going to be coming out of our hearts we don't want the this of Mark 7:20-23 coming out of our hearts
Mark 7:20-23 KJV For he had said that it is what comes out of the man that defiles the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders, the thefts, the covetousness (excessive greed), the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness(driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires.), the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness: all these evil things come out from within and defile the man.
The Pharisees were so worried about their image Read 2 Timothy 3
2 Timothy 3:5 says they were having the form of Godliness but denying the power thereof from such we are to turn away. So much so the missed our saviour and crucifixed him. Even poor Nicodemus, a Pharisee wanted to follow Jesus and did so secretly but being in his position as a high priest caused him to fear loosing what he valued; his image, position, and power more. Which is why when Jesus told the disciples to follow him they had to too give up and sacrifice who they were to become who they were meant to be. Which is why we have to follow the scripture that says forgetting those things which are behind press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus. It's a press to forget what you once knew when it was the only thing and the only way you knew. Which is why we must died daily to our flesh and what we think of ourselves and what folks think of us and focus on what comes out of us so we can represent God like Jesus did in the Spirit of truth without being defiled and vile and cruel and sinful
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God never intended for us to have a spirit of lack. I know this because he created everything that we could ever need when he created all existence. God made it so we would have to be creative and make things from what was available to us.. The problem is that when sin entered the World by of deception and by way of the knowledge of good and evil. Evil grew by leaps and bounds due to the influence of the very sin nature God didn't intend for us to know about or even perceive existed. I believe two things: that God already knew that Satan would try to deceive Adam and Eve and therefore had Jesus already set to come. I also can believe that Jesus was the plan the whole time because God knew that at some point humanity as he intended it could fall privy to our own devices. Paul said that he does what he doesn't want to do and doesn't do what he wants to do but it is no longer him that does what he doesn't want to do or doesn't do what he wants to do but it's a law within his members (flesh) warring itself against God so when Paul said when he wills to do good eviI is always present. It's been said many times that Satan desires to sift us like wheat or even in it's refined state he doesn't care if you have been seasoned in life spiritually or what seems to be at the finished stage of your immaturity crossing over to maturity flour still has lumps if moisture enters in. Flour is a finished or mature state of wheat.. Satan's sifting is to take out the whole pieces of you like your faith, makes you whole, your peace, your love, the Word of God and your very relationship with Our heavenly Father he will do anything to sift all that out until there is nothing left. It ought not to be so. A lot of times lack exist as a distraction from what God has for us because although neither God or Satan needs your stuff it's easy areas of attack because most folks put their faith in only what they see. That ought not to be so as the Word of God in the just shall live by faith. So that means even if I'm in lack my faith shall be intact and trust that God will see me through. I should trust that we have a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities and know the very way we should take. Which is way rejoice and agin I rejoice when you go through divers trails especially lack because
Psalm 126:6
King James Version
6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. (A sheaf of wheat was currency) so these is plural abundance
Meaning if we suffer a little with Chirst we shall reign with him. It will as if the floodgates of heaven opened up. Malachi 3:8-12 get that even in lack we should sow not just money but our time and talent as well first so we are obedient to God's commands and not being curse with a curse we shall experience the windows of heaven opening up and pouring a blessing we shall have no room to receive because
God's blessings shall overtake you Meaning our blessing, Favor, grace and mercy on our shall be so great God will have to enlarge our territories for us house them. Not only will he bless us he will not continue to allow Satan to sift us because in Malachi it also says he will rebuke the devourer for our sakes and what we have won't lack. We do know even in blessings every relationship goes higher therefore be sure that Satan will still try his hand and we should
The blessings of the Lord maketh rich and addedth no sorrow with it
You will have dry places but suddenly in God will fill you to your capacity so dont be jealous or worry about folks that is jealous of you because we all have a capacity to handle what we can handle and my capacity to go through things and faith and to be blessed is not the same as yours. Work out your own soul salvation!!!! But just know you will go from weeping to a harvest full of sheaves!
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Genesis 7:16 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
When the Lord shut you in somewhere In life you can't move until he releases you and it's for your own good because you don't know what lurks out there from that spot that could befail you therefore don't try to go before God's timing into something God didn't release you too. So it's obedience and sacrifice to God and sacrifice to his self image and what he thought about himself and what others may have thought about him that saved his whole family. Had Noah not obeyed he and his family although he had found favor with God would have been destroyed with the all the other things and all other life on the earth. Yet he obeyed and God protected him and there was life on earth after the rain became he strategically followed the Lord's instructions and the Lord shut them in. In the right time the Lord also released them and first thing God did was make a covenant and after the covenant was made later on in the scriptures first thing Noah does was make a alter of sacrifice to the Lord. In the Bible's Genesis flood narrative, after creating a flood to wash away humanity's corruption, God put the rainbow in the sky as the sign of his promise that he would never again destroy the earth with flood (Genesis 9:13–17):
Gen 9:7-17 KJV The Lord never promised us that there still wouldn't be rain. Rain like trials in our makes things grow including us. But even God himself didn't want to destroy the whole earth again by flooding it to remove all life but he repented or had regrets putting man kind in earth because of all the evilness and corruption. But after some time God remembered Noah and his family after being shut up in a situation by the Lord to save you and Even though Noah and his family were saved it still took 40 days and nights for the rain to fall for the floodgates of heaven to open up but the waters were on the earth for 150days and just imagine with me if you will sometimes darkness with stinky animals and potentially dangerous animals that God protected him and his family from. The real reason we should celebrate the rainbow is because it's God's covenant his promise to us and reminder to him of his Word that the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. Not for any other reason is the rainbow for. It's making a mockery in my opinion to use it for any other way. Some folks use it to cope with losing a child which I can see as a symbolic meaning there joy have the rain and there is life after pain.. Others use it to represent freedom in expressing their choice of sexual orientation but that's not what is or was ever intended to be used for. Hosea 4:6 says My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
another version says Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
and you may ask why I tend to give two versions or confirm the Word of God in two places because 2 Timothy 2:15 says paraphrasing we need to be able to rightly divide the Word of truth and furthermore where it is two witnesses or two or more gathered together in his name he is in the mist so at least two scriptures coming together to confirm God's Word is enough to prove God not that we need to but we can. In regards to the scriptures saying even our children...We ought not to put ourselves in situations that can potentially affect our generations especially due to our own canal (flesh) desires especially when God puts his signs right in front of us to show us his love for us even when we don't deserve it but we still choose our own way.
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To whom much is given much is required. That means along our journey in life somewhere God blessed you to be a blessing to others but in his name. Our lives are not our own but our lives belong to God not man. We are our brothers keeper and are supposed to uplift one another however not at the expense of my relationship with God. You can't expect me to compromise my walk with God to suit or please you. Not sure how any of us have time for that anyway because we are responsible for our OWN soul salvation. Our soul needs saving living in this world and by any means necessary following God's Word, his Will, his way, and through his power (the annointing of Holy Spirit) I will walk this walk and talk the talk. This is what helps me in ever area of my life and I can't let it go.. The problem that I've experienced and that I've seen others do that we can longer allow is dumbing ourselves down when it comes to preaching the word of God or doing anything for God and comprising what we belive in to please others.. because I have nothing in my flesh left to offer you that I'm not already trying to die to daily to become a better person. I feel a lot times you don't want to hear what folks have to say anyway folks want to come to people and vent and dump mess without the responsible of what God has to say about it. Without taking accountability for their lives. Someone at some point needs to pray and have some positivity going on in the conversation. The problem is people have stopped wanting to hear sound advice but I'm not going to be a spiritual trash can either at this point I don't want my response to be nasty or negative so let me respond in the best way I know how and that's with scripture. Let me respond in a manner that will warrant us keeping our relationship/ friendship. You cant expect the people you love or the people you call your friends to always tell you what you want to hear we need to be able to accept constructive criticism. We should be teachable and able to hear the bitter words of a friend than the sweet words of an enemy. If there is something that needs to be said but you don't believe God is telling you to say it but you feel that what you said is justified you need to stop the conversation. If you believe that you don't have anything to offer a person in this conversation you need to know when to say hey I don't know the answer and for the sake of protecting my peace although I love you I don't have the capacity to handle this right now so let's pray or say let me pray about this and you pray and let's reconnect later. You don't have to be a spiritual trash can to be someone's friend and that goes for family too. You can't always expect folks to take on your problems but you don't want to really hear a sound solution you just want to hear yourself talk you just want to pull from someone else's annointing knowing you will leave the conversation feeling refreshed and because this person cares they leave feeling all heavy no the devil is a lie. No Ma'am no sir no more. If I know you are someone that has a habit of telling me Something and you want my opinion but you want to tailor my response to what you want to hear I'm not the person for you to talk to because I'm going to find some scripture some inspiration so motivatation some testimony somewhere to help you but I'm not going to not tell you the truth especially if God does lay something on my heart to tell you. The thing is I expect the same back if I'm having a moment because who doesn't don't give me no watered-down response especially if you know me. Tell me what I need to hear not want I want to hear or what you think I want to hear. If you close to me check me because I'm only human I'm not perfect I have down and weak moments too. No one and I mean no one is exempt from life's problems but God said he would make a way of escape from them all. I believe we can be sent or folks can be sent in our lives to help us get free but I'm not your way of escape.
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No natter what has happened to us is happening to us or will happen if you are still alive that means your life has a purpose because God has a purpose for your life therefore you have a purpose you matter.. it's all in how we approach, deal, respond, handle and think towards situations that will cause what we are facing to appear greater than what it is and we often times don't put in perspective of what God may allow in our lives to show his power in. Through and for us.. So whatever and no matter what state we are in we must be content. We must learn how to abase and how to abound. We must learn that there is somethings we just have to go through our else we wouldn't be where and who we are. There is a season(Ecclesiastes 3 KJV )for all things therefore we have to brace ourselves with effs and flows of this life. No one really knows the way he or she should take but God does. He knows the way we should take and he knows our thoughts afar off ours thoughts are not his thoughts and his ways are not our ways his thoughts are as far off and ahead as the distance between heaven and earth. God will speak to us through the Holy Spirit from Jesus to show us the way but not once did he promise us that the road would be easy but he did say there is an escape from them all but we might not like the pain and or hurt or discouragement and or discomfort we feel during an escape. If there wasn't trouble waiting and lurking for us along the way there would be no reason for God to have to create and escape or a get away from life's issues or the Satan's attacks. The Word escape 1. break free from confinement or control.
slip away sneak away
get out of someone's clutches
head for the hills I like this because there is a scripture that says I will look to the hills from whence cometh my help my help cometh from the Lord psalm 121
an act of breaking free from confinement or control. What is the full meaning of escape?
1 : an act or instance of escaping: such as. a : flight from confinement. b : evasion of something undesirable. c : leakage or outflow especially of a fluid. d : distraction or relief from routine or reality. Sometimes we might feel confined to situations and circumstances but God will see us through. What we can and do imagine what our escape should and can be might not be what God's plan looks like. He might have to allow us to face some of the current challenges because he knows what's on the other side. God knows that this time when he prunes us the growth in us of his power will far outweigh what could have been if he would have just saved us from that issue than. Even Paul being and Apostle asked God 3 times to remove a throne in hisside(symbolic of and issue he was facing) God told him no he wouldn't remove the throne because God's grace is sufficient for you. The wages of sin is death even when we ask for forgiveness we have to know that we don't deserve it so as a means of humility sometimes God will allow slight reminds of our humanity to remain so we can solely depend on him. We are where we are today only because Grace (God's unmerited, unearned favor and mercy =undeserved pity follows us all the days of our life. God will use the foolish things to confound the wise so Man(mankind) can't say he did it. Now adays everyone is on this I manifested this in my life kick. Ok love but check your motive and your power source you used to bring forth things into your life.. you can will things in and out your life but did you pray about this and ask God what was in his will for your plans?? because the devil can bless you too while you out here Manifesting blessings you are not seeking God for just your fresh and end up with counterfeit because Satan can't do what God can do he ain't God. But when our flesh is weak he can use that against us and try to pit our own selfish desires on us. Read Philippians 4:8-18 and Ecclesiastes 3
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1 Peter 5:8-9
(8) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. (9) Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. Whose voice will you hear? Who are you listening to. Satan? God forbid! The Bible says in Psa 100:3 KJV Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Joh 10:1-15 KJV 1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. God knows us by our name Satan knows us by our circumstances! Which is why he liks to remind you of said circumstances to through you off your walk, to try to steal and kill your faith
4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. 6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. 7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. • The Word Pasture means we shall not want the needful supplies for the true life in Christ if we hear his voice and follow him will have growth and increase lacking or wanting nothing. It's not always monetary but your peace, Joy, healing, love won't lack But Satan if you listen to his voice just know
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. Which is why we have to be sober and vigilant so we can hear our Father's voice
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. So since we know all of that now we have to also know what 1John 1-4 says in 1John 4:1-4 KJV 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Meaning Holy Spirit is our guide and will speak to us to allow us to hear what God has to say to us and because he is on the inside of us we don't have to listen to any other voices. Greater his he that is in us than he that is in the world!
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Jesus is a rulebreaker he didn't follow the Jews protocol to not heal on sabbath the Pharisees and shaduisees were more concerned with appearances in the way they looked to others and worrying about what others were doing lacking the love of God We have to break social norms and all our ideas about what we think things should be and follow Jesus. We have to be radical for Christ even when and if what we are asked to do makes us look foolish to the untrained spiritual eye. Jesus told the disciples to drop everything they were doing and said follow him that is hard to do when you are used to social norms, traditions, and cultures. The Jews had their work because they had to pay taxes in Rome and then Jews had the Tax collector that caused a lot of issues for folks to walk with him so it would appear there was strife and infighting because the disciples didn't all agree with each other's lifestyles and then of course they had to deal with the Roman's making a stir in the land because they wanted to control everything then you had to deal with all the religious leaders that couldn't understand the hype of Jesus and out of Jealously wanted him stopped his own people. They say a prophet is not without honor in his own home folks can't handle the truth. Leading up to Jesus you have a story in David's time who had to break the rules and exhibit Desperate faith to save her people Abigail story is that she was young married a older evil guy who didn't listen to sound judgment during wars David kept this man's people and cattle safe in which they didn't have too so David his men to the guy and told him what they had done for him and asked for food and the guy was really nasty about it saying who is David to make such such request.. so one of the guys that were in her came told the wife and she had to break the rules and by pass her husband to bless David she took it upon herself what had happened and asked for forgiveness at David's feet and brought offerings because David would have attacked them and her husband's men wouldn't have relented so it would have been a blood bath however she did what she had to do to try and save her family (town) she did however went back and told her husband but he was so angry he ended up dying and her and David ened up getting married and they had children that's a story of when breaking the rules was necessary. Another woman the (gentle woman) Read Matthew 15:21-28 🙏🏾 her faith broke rules she had something to fight for therefore she had to look past what her culture and former beliefs were to what she knew would work in modern times both woman had to look past what her granny taught her what her mama and daddy said and had to looked past well that's how we always did it she had to look past that's what everyone else is doing you have to be a rule breaker to follow after God Paul said it best I will apprehend that which have apprehended me we have Jesus sat with sinners and those that were unclean to set a President for us that he came for those that were sick because the sick need a physical and those that don't have it altogether those that can receive Jesus have to break past traditions, cultures, social norms and what looks unusual, what God himself said he will use the foolish things to confound the wise so Man can't say they did it. Break free from what you know to lay hold unto your newness in God. That's what the (gentle woman) did when she visited all that were other God's and was desperately looking for an answer because her daughter was sick so she came to Jesus and he knew whom God our heavenly Father told him to go too and he didn't answer her at first and he said it is not meat to give the children's food to dogs and back then they had lap dogs whom would catch the craps from the kings table and she said not so lord even the dog can eat the crumbs from the master's table and Jesus told her how great her faith was and healed her daughter. Her breaking the rules even though she was
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Mat 6:1-8 KJV 1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: 4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. 5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
God judges the inward appearance Who said that man looks on the outward appearance but God looks at the heart?
1 Samuel 16:7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, “Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”
man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” We now know it wasn't the height, strength, stature or resume God was looking for. Instead, as the Apostle Paul stated in Acts 13:22, God said, “I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.”
2timothy 2:2Ti 2:20-21 KJV 20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Luk 12:30-35 KJV 30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. 31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. 32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
This is why we go through trials sometimes
Mal 3:3 KJV And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
How to pray episode Matthew 6:9-13 The Lord's Prayer
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All roads in God lead to Glory!!!
God will make a way out of no way. I would like to challenge our thinking and say that God already created everything that we needed and especially when in Genesis 1:26 -31 that was us being a spirit he established making man and also telling us to be fruitful.(Gensis 1-28)..he gave us a mandate on our life an assignment if you will. It wasn't until Genesis 2:7 when our bodies were formed So with that being said I would say that because God knew us (relationship) with us before we were formed in our mothers womb that he already had the finished result to every possible outcome our lives would ever our could ever play out. I want to speak Victory today to situations and circumstances in your life today to let you know no matter and I mean no matter what it is you are facing God already has a way of escape from the eminies tactics and emeny in me things we cause ourselves so I don't believe that God has to actually create a new way for us I believe that way was already created and our paths were laid before us no matter what path we would take. I believe when God says he will do a new thing he already knows what he is going to do but it is new because it hadn't been revealed to us. Isaiah 43:19, NIV See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
so when God is doing a New thing that means he is doing a fresh thing in our life we have never seen he is the author of this fresh new thing, idea which he will cause then cause to grow and cause to sprout up in our lives such as like unto of plants, of hair, of speech(changing the why we talk but the experiences we have been exposed to can change our speech because our mindsets is changed and our transformed (figuratively) to cause to know. (He ordained us and our paths so ultimately he knows the way we should take and knows our outcomes) God has to get us ready to know that they way was already there this whole but we hand been cultivated enough to even notice our minds can't be a slave or Pulpers mentality in the land of freedom we have to be able to have a need mindset to even perceive and accept the newness of God but in all of that it takes time we prolong our seasons like the children of Israel by murmuring, coplaining, wallowing complacency, Faith without works is Dead We have to believe and trust God perceive what he is doing and then do the work to possess the land courage is the answer. Things take time, season change we might have to have had certain life lessons before that way God has for us can be revealed unto us. So I'm here to tell you that as long as you stay steadfast and unmovable in your faith and believe God to do everything he said he would that all roads in God lead to victory which is God's Glory revealed. I'll prove it too you Jesus said I've already overcome the world that it Jesus is our ticket he knew no sin, become sin, and died with our sin so we can be the righteousness of God and he died went to hell and took he took the keys to death, hell and the grave, and rose on the 3rd day with all power he spent 40days on earth after that before he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of our Father God in heaven thank you Jesus so right there that should tell you if it took 30yrs for Jesus to start his ministry which lasted 3 years to die, rise with all power and still took 40days before he went to heaven to show himself after his passion to his disciples that means it might take some time to get through your situations but the key is Jesus and The Word of God as a combination with the Holy Spirit and in due time your new paths will be revealed and even though God already knew all your outcomes no matter which road you chose because you are doing through Jesus the gap filler, bridge over troubled water, the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valley your road will lead to Glory in God and you shall have victory.
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It is time that we get away from a system of situations a system of people a system of organized chaos. In some cases church has become a system of chaotic organization almost like a cult. The church has become a institutional bed for belonging by any means necessary people can come without any relationship and accountablity to God. It's normal to want to feel accepted and apart of something but at what cost? The churchese such as doing church to say you go and the politics of it all is a lot of times negating real love for God and for each other. People spend half their time now uplifting the leadership and not God as they should be. Yes we are to give honor where honor is due but no one is above God. That in turn is a dangerous ground to play on as God is a jealous God and he will have no other God's before him and that elevated person can fall to their sins just like those of us that follow them. We tend to put folks on a high pedestal and at the first sign of mistake they make it's oh nope run for the hills he or she are not real they struggling but truth is we all are.. Pastors are people too.. Which is why God said he would give us Pastor's after our own hearts meaning folks that can relate to our situations, issues, and circumstances but are hearts are desperately wicked and decitful so what that means is that once we accept God once we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savour we are then under grace because we all need forgiveness for our sins no matter how spiritual you are or think you are. Most times folks have relationships with their Pastor's and live off their juice, their prayers, their fasting, and consecration. Following all the church protocols and programs, can clap on clue, shout, dance, know all the songs but know two scriptures having the form of Godliness but denying the power thereof because they don't have a relationship with God themselves therefore have to depend on the pastors prayers to get them through. Have to depend on the sermons to get them through alone. Listen we need church, because God intended for his Word to be planted in our hearts and it's a mechanism, a tool to help folks with like minds of Christ come together to learn about God, his will and his way. However, we have to know the Word of God for ourselves. Whatever God sends your Pastor or spiritual leader to tell you should be conformation and edification unless God is having them prophecy to you about something new. You should be able to hear in the Spirit what God is trying to say to you. We all need help sometimes because even the arch Bishop whomever he or she is doesn't know it all and can't prophecy to themselves. Our relationship needs to be so tight with God that we go to him ourselves for ourselves and if we don't understand something we go get council. There was a time in my walk where I was so depended on what my leadership said fear set in if I wanted to do anything without asking them. I should have been going to God for myself. If you have been under your leadership long enough you have picked up on how to do certain things like praying, studying your Bible, but after church service is over you have to learn how to live how to take the Word of God beyond the church doors. Your praise and worshipbeyond the church doors and get God for yourself. We need to destroy the systems that causes us to only look at church attendance because a wise man told me about growth and swell. If you have swell that means it's an attraction there and it's most likely temporary and therefore when the fire is out a little in a off season the folks dwindle away. The kingdom of God needs quality folk not quantity because even Jesus himself had the fishes and loaves folks. Most were spectators and hungry and allowed the Word of God to fall by the waste side but want credit because they can tell someone what church they went to for some type of clout. God don't need your clout he needs your relationship. Read Psalm 127.1 🙏🏾
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1 Samuel 16:1-13 But the Lord said unto Samuel, “Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”
God judges the inward appearance Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” We now know it wasn't the height, strength, stature or resume God was looking for. Instead, as the Apostle Paul stated in Acts 13:22, God said, “I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.”
• the heart
• that organ in the animal body which is the centre of the circulation of the blood, and hence was regarded as the seat of physical life
• denotes the centre of all physical and spiritual life
• the vigour and sense of physical life
• the centre and seat of spiritual life
• the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavours
• of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the intelligence
• of the will and character
• of the soul so far as it is affected and stirred in a bad way or good, or of the soul as the seat of the sensibilities, affections, emotions, desires, appetites, passions
• of the middle or central or inmost part of anything, even though inanimate
Mat 12:34-37 KJV 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 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. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Another version For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” Luk 6:45 KJV A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
What a Man thinks in his heart so is he Proverbs 23:7. The heart Seat of emotions where your heart is there will your treasure be also. Your address is where you live at in the natural but when and what you address is where you live in your conscious.(your heart and mind are synonymous for the seat of your emotions. It describes the ground you live on, by, and what you value. It's in Your addressing where your heart speaks from. Where you put your time and in energy into. Where your address is is where one would get their peace and rest from. Where one would seemingly lay their heads and even ponder in a safe place what they will address first then next. Make sure you don't sleep where you are addressing but where your address is. Most times they are not one in the same. Even Jesus himself when a far off in a boat from the crowd. He was addressing them and his address at the moment was a boat. An arch of safety even though he wasn't in danger he needed to be out of the mist of the crowd in order to address them. Seemingly like how God told Abraham to leave his country and his kin and go to a place I will show you. God ultimately wanted to test His obedience and faith but he addressed him in the place of his address which at the place of ultimate sacrifice so he can see what was in Abrahams heart!!! There was no crowd needed. So when you are at your address in the natural it's consecration time so when you need to address situitions, circumstances, people, things you have power of God backing you up and leading you on what you need to say or need to refrain from. Consecration is private you get your power from God there so you can have public demonstration to execute the power giving. The key is rest in God will get you power!!! Read Phi 4:4-8! KJV 4
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Sing a new Song unto the Lord! Psalm 96
Sing this!I will bless the Lord at all time his praise will continually be in my mouth!
Don't wait until the trouble comes praise him now for His Grace is sufficient. We are currently all in a spiritual battle even this whole world Espesians 6:12 we are fighting a battle that isn't actually seen. It can and will be made manifest at a point in time but we need to praise God and fight now war in the Spirit realm for us to be built up
We have to put and keep on the Whole Armour of God we are kingdom citizens The Kingdom of God suffered violence and the violent must take it by force
Jesus is a bridge! Like a bridge over troubled water the sick run in and are safe you hide hide us in your pavilion in spite of the turbulence life brings you never leave or forsake us thank you Jesus for being the bridge to Our heavenly Father for us to have access through your Holy Spirit thank you for the the opportunity of salvation we couldn't earn 🙏🏾
It's s sacrifice sacrificial praise is what God is asking for because our flesh is weak and in times don't want to praise but the spirit of the living God is on the inside of us to which makes our spirit willing we must
First look at why our flesh wouldn't want to praise God well life can cause us not to want to Satan wants us not to want to praise God because he wants our faith but no so no matter your situation, circumstance, element, sickness, weakness, guiltiness, evilness we must come into line with God and his Word through Christ Jesus by way of the Holy ghost we can do that by us Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise!! 👏🏾
Oh Magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt is name together Roman's 8 review
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The Lord's Prayer Matthew 6:9-13 JESUS teaches the disciples how to pray and he said we first must give honor to God our Father who is creator of all and while doing this we are in worship because we are referencing him and his name and his position
Our Father who Art in Heaven =says who God is and where he is.
Hollowed(HOLY) be thy name.=says you are so Holy that even your name is Holy
Thy Kingdom come Thine Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.=says The Kingdom =Place or Domain , the Power =the Authority or Dominance, and the Glory= the Victory or Dominion we want all these things on earth from heaven. So if God gave earth to mankind to have dominion over it how does that work or why does it work well let's look at
Genesis 1:27-28 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Be that as it may how would God's Kingdom, Power, and Glory be on earth if he is in heaven? I'm glad you asked lol it's gotta come through us. We have to allow God's Power to rest in us I say allow because even though God created us he gave us a choice to allow him in our lives and he is such a loving Father he doesn't force himself on us however with the kind of unconditional love he gives what else could we even ask for.
Give us this day our daily bread=says Lord please provide for us which he did even back in Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
But provisions are not just natural food God has given us spiritual food as well so daily we need to gleam from that which he already formed us to be daily we need to eat peace, we need to eat joy, we need to eat all the fruits of the Spirit [9 fruits find them]
Galatians 5:22-23 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance:
And forgive us for our debts as we forgive our debators.= says as me make the step to forgive others and forget what they have done meaning not have amnesia but by not laying charge to their account then God can and will forgive and Forget our debts, our sins, idiosyncrasies seen and unseen, otherwise known and unknown.
And Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. = says deliver us from evil and in doing so we will not be tempted as much because as I said before God can test us but Satan tempts us know the difference God will never set us up to fail so a test is one that can be failed and retaken if the lesson isn't learned or if he wants more out of us but Satan's whole agenda is to kill, still, and destroy and by any means necessary to him as he is opposite of God and will tempt us with intentions for us to fail because he wants to still our faith
For thine is the Kingdom , Power, and Glory Forever Amen!!! We are always gonna close our prayer once again with reverence to God in is holiness
The Kingdom =Place or Domain , the Power =the Authority or Dominance, and the Glory= the Victory or Dominion Saying forever because there is never gonna be an end to God and we say Amen because it means so be it as you put a seal on your prayer. Micah 7:19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
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Hey Hey Hey my Courageous Beauties!!! It's Wisdom Wednesday!!! This is the year of Jubilee !!!! Coming to me It's my life my hands time to take charge in the mighty name of Jesus!!!
Worship is sabbath rest and fallow time for renewal!
Old things are passed away behold all things have been made new. Let's not fall into the trap of recidivism To the point that we are like a dog returning to our own vomit Going back to the things that God has already removed from us and redeemed us from.. God removed captive from captivity. Gone are the days that we return back to the things Of old. gone are the days that we return back to the things that God has given us a way of escape from the enemies tactics and loosed the snare of enemy that allowed us to break free. We were the bond man and only the remnant of the memory remains to keep our humanity intact but we are free like never before. We are free in our mind and free in our Spirit we are free to fly , free to soar, we are free to cry tears of joy but we are free to release all our situations and systems of the enemy that lached onto us. Let us let the mind that was in Chirst Jesus also be in us and Holy Spirit breathe on us. God's blessings are new every morning we are now in new pursuits on our journey we have been made free now let's stay free!!! Whom the Son sets free is free indeed!!!
In order to not return we must be
1 Peter 1:13-16 be sober in your minds 1 Peter 1:13-16 KJV
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
1 Peter 1:13-16 NIV
Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
https://sojo.net/articles/prison-releases-loan-forgiveness-glimpse-jubilee By. A. Trevor Sutton
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The scripture references below....
I will look to the hills from whence cometh my help my help comes from the Lord
God never promised that there would be no trouble in fact he said he would be with us in trouble so expect that trouble will come
Know that you have an adversary and his name is Satan he he would desire to sift you like wheat. Back to the threshing floor again after that the wheat and tare or chaff is grown up together meaning the husk that is inedible then the wheat is sifted to make sure all the inedible parts are gown and also to further break the wheat down even though it's the best part in order to use it in it's best form it has to be further broken down in order to be properly consumed and back to the if you abide in me(the Lord) he will abide in me so in order for God to the Glory out if us that he knows is in us it takes trails and testing of our faith. We operate in the same.way because business offer free trail periods to see if our customers will like the products and we believe our products are good so we offer a money back guarantee knowing most won't send it back. God did this to Job when Satan was looking to and fro and God asked him what he was doing and he said seeking whom he may devour and God said, Have you considered my servant Job and Satan asked yes but you have a hedge of protection around him so I can't get to him. He told God that if he removed the hedge that Job would curse him to his face. God knew what invested,what Glory he put in Job and was confident that if and when he did remove his hedge of protection and allow the trouble to come in that Job's faith in God wouldn't fail and God told Satan that he could do anything to Job except kill him Job lost everything and was tried and even though was in turmoil he still trusted God and for that God restored unto all he had and more. God will get the Glory out us no matter what we just have to give I'm permission to work in our lives. The suffers of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory that should be revealed in us. He will prune us so we will produce more. With all the hedge of protection Job operated in fear and so much he even said the thing he feared has come upon him he was so afraid that him or his family would sin and be of the will of God but we must trust God and trust in him and his Word and Adobe in him
Scriptures:
Psalm 121 King James Version
121 and
Job 1:1-22 KJV
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Peter looked at the wind of the sea instead of keeping his eyes on Jesus knowing first that he said with faith if it's you Lord bid me too come. In that moment he forgot about the ship being in the middle of the sea and in the storm he just trusted God in that moment but in the mist of his circumstances he took his focus but for a moment off Jesus and allowed the cares of this world consume him. Look up Peter. Most times we are Peter! God gives us an idea and we will like a child run with it but when the going gets hard or something happens we look at the winds of our circumstances and we take our focus off Jesus who bid us to come and now we are sinking and have to call on Jesus for help so we don't drown under lives winds instead of just looking up Peter!
(PSALM 121)Looking up to the hills from whence cometh my help! My help cometh from the Lord with a knowing that he will not suffer my foot to be moved he that keep the me will not slumber. So just because the waves are blowing had Peter kept looking up at Jesus he would not have sunk he wouldn't have had to call on Jesus to save him from sinking because he bid him to come so why would God bid us to come in a sinking situation. See our faith has to be beyond what we see. If we trust in the Lord and know Habakkuk 3:19The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments. We must also know Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. We must all know that even while doing Good trials my come so like the very wind that was already there Peter stepped out into it was one thing to be in the boat with wind and waves roaring but it was another thing to be out of the safety of the ship and now into the very waves that was strong enough to rock the boat. but because for a moment in time he saw Jesus Peter looked and saw his help and by faith or some might even say by fear he walked on water and whether it was fear or faith he had courage for a moment in time enough to step out but when he lost focus he lost faith. Don't lose both as Galatians 6:9 says And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." "Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory." "But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing." Had Peter even in the tribulations of the wind had of not lost faith in due season he could have reap a greater reward of Glory knowing that he trusted in Jesus. See sometimes the winds of our life blow often not by happen stance but to to build character God says "I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory" so don't grow weary in well doing because this will make you stronger and you will reap blessing meaning your faith will pay off if you don't give up!!! I've found often times I've had a fresh wind or fresh annoting and fresh fire for Christ when I've gone through something but was able through the power of the Holy Spirit keep my cool through it because my faith is strong in that area.
Maybe the storm was to test their faith meaning the disciples and although in the end Peter still lost faith while in the mist of the wind that could have been sent by God he was the only one that stepped out of the ship and walked on water towards Jesus!
When it's all said and down we have an opportunity to be a generation of people that know that earth is the Lords and the fullness therefore and be those that seek the Lord's face and not loose our focus. We can be like them that dream even if we sow in tears we can reap in Joy!
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What is the threshing floor symbolic of?
Threshing is often used as a symbol for God's judgment; trials separate those who truly believe in him and those who do not. A busy threshing floor was a symbol of a plentiful harvest; a bare one indicated famine, and perhaps God's judgment.
What is the chaff in the Bible?
Ptyon, the word translated as winnowing fork in the World English Bible is a tool similar to a pitchfork that would be used to lift harvested wheat up into the air into the wind. The wind would then blow away the lighter chaff allowing the edible grains to fall to the threshing floor, a large flat surface.
Listen we press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus!! What is the mark it's our destiny our destination but what is the high calling? It's our purpose in God that will lead us to our destination the area we are called to produce fruitfulness of life the place where God gets Glory out of us happens at the threshing floor a place of crushing a place at the press of pressure a place where we are there and the good and the bad of us are separated like unto wheat and tare how God said let them grow up together and then the craft will be blown away by the wind and all that remains is the wheat the substance of our lives that is evidence of the fruit God has pruned in and out of us!!! Thank you Holy Ghost for the pruning and tuning of our flesh so we won't be left behind during the harvest. The harvest is plenty but the labour's are few. We must be at the ready during our press to even push through to get to our destination while fulfilling our destiny within our purpose of our high calling in Christ! In other words there is no press without a purpose and the threshing floor reveals in us what that is and how we will get there.
Philippians 3:14
King James Version
14. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Mat 3:12 ISV His winnowing fork is in his hand. He will clean up his threshing floor and gather his grain into the barn, but he will burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire.”
John 15:1-6
John 15
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. note
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Matthew 6 33-34 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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Communication with God is why we pray! He is our Heavenly Father to lead, guide, and direct us through the Holy Spirit!
Communication with man kind is how we learn to understand each other we need to be wise in how we communicate so as to not cause offense or intentionally tear someone down. Our first response doesn't always need to be to let someone have it. I find that letting someone have it often makes me feel worse because I did it in anger and bitterness can set in and now I'm left holding the bag of an unresolved issue because I didn't handle the situation with a little more grace. I will say it doesn't always happen that way because we all can feel justified in that we are right but that doesn't make it right to dismiss how that other person feels and what they have to say. If we can't speak without a screaming match try having a mediator if that doesn't work cool off a while and think about the situation at hand before you speak so you that you can also hold onto your power and not make a fool out of yourself in the end as well. So not letting someone have it will help you in the end learn how to control your emotions so that they don't control you. A man that can't control his spirit is like a city without walls. There is no structure and sometimes no remorse that's a dangerous place to be. Check out these scriptures for further information on this episode proverbs 18:21, 27:38, James 1:18-22 and James 3
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Heyy Courageous Beauties!!! It's Wisdom Wednesday and you already know what time it is! In this live Facebook episode I'm discussing Espesians 6:10-19 and I say It's on now!! Find out more in this video!! 😉
Eph 6:10-19 KJV 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; 19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
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Read 1 Samuel 8!
Why did Isreal what a King?
As for motive, Israel wanted a king in order to be “like all the nations.” ... This is most clear in 1 Samuel 8:20, where Israel says they will be like the nations in that their king may “judge” them and “fight” their battles. Israel wanted a king to judge them, despite the fact that Yahweh was their judge. -----------------------------------------------------------
Why didn't God want Isreal to have a King?
God was reluctant to give Israel a king when they demanded one because they were looking for an earthly and not a heavenly king; and because they did not want to wait for God's time. ‐‐------------------------------------------------------------- Let's not be like Isreal wanting a king or that "thing" we are so impatient for or we might get the counterfeit!!!
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Who, what, where, why and how you Release Matters. We have to make sure we choose the right outlet we choose to release our situations to become it can add fuel to the fire already brewing. It's safe to say we should be careful who we release to and who we allow to release to us. Listen for more insight on release....
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This was a Facebook live video from my Courageous-Beauty.com Facebook page! The main discussion is Genesis 45. Joseph's brothers torn the colorful coat his father Jacob gave him and threw him in a ditch. He was sold into slavery but all so he could be their savior in the famine. Joseph's response showed love to his family which in turn saved their lives and was a testament to Joseph's character and his love walk! We have to learn how to give and forget and know that our dreams will come true but the road to get there might not be smooth.
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This is a song of worship together expressing how I feel Free and how he loves me me! Listen, folks when we worship God with our whole heart we all can be Free from whatever is trying to keep you bound. Whom the son sets Free is Free indeed! I pray this song that God gave me gives you peace and helps you too find your freedom! More to come..unto next time be free!!!
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This episode I have my first guest on this podcast! It's my mom! We are talking about her take on what it's like to be a parent! We also discuss other issues please enjoy! Thank you for listening to Courageous-Beauty Podcast!
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Psalm 37:25 ► King James Bible I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Habakkuk 2:3 King James Version 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
You could be right at the cust of your destiny the very thing God has in store for you but because that they doesn't look like how you envisioned it, the timing is not your timing, the manner in how you thought things should have went is not how you saw it don't quit, Don't cave in, don't throw in the towel, don't abort the mission.
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My heart goes out to anyone whom has ever lost a friend and or loved one. It is up to us as a people to make sure we give folks their flowers while they are in out lives even if but for a moment!
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Having faith is taking a blind eye to your current situation and or events and also a blind eye to the outcome!!! Not as in doesn't exist but truthfully trusting God!!! That all equals "Blind Faith "
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1 Samuel 15:22-23 “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.”
Sacrifice always involves the choice of the person who makes the sacrifice. Obedience involves not only doing what we have heard God tell us to do; but doing it with a good attitude. Obeying with joy, even when we do not understand, is true obedience.
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The wound hurts especially an open wound. But the healing phase hurts too. No matter what it takes, how long it takes you have to allow the healing PROCESS to take place in order to get to that threshold called: HEALED! Let God arise in your life to get to and get through your healing phase so you can truly be healed too!! God bless you!
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Continuing Romans 12 series: Seek God First and all his righteousness and then seek peace like your life depends on it!!! Below are the scripture readings in this episode. Enjoy!!! Roman's 12:17 17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
reference 1 Peter 3:9 rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
[1 Peter 3:9, NIV: "Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing." ... Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will bless you for it."]
18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Psalm 34:13-15 13 Keep thy tongue from evil , and thy lips from speaking guile.
14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Roman's 12:20-21 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Philippians 4:8 8 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.
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What? Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
How? 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
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This episode of Courageous Beauty Podcast goes into detail on how we can let go of old things and walk into expectation for the new! Considering this is New Years eve of 2020. I know we all are glad to leave 2020 behind and walk into a blessed and prosperous 2021. Enjoy!
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This Episode is taking a closer look into what this scripture means to me....Isaiah 61:3 KJV To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
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