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Have you ever been in a place to where you felt alone, week and famished? Well your not alone. Jesus was there in Matthew 4 when we has tempted of the devil. The Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness in order to reveal his strength against the accuser Satan. Even though Jesus was in the wilderness and he was week and famished he always overcame with the word. Every time Satan would say something Jesus would come back with the word. My prayer is this, ” Lord, every time we feel alone, week or famished I ask for your strength to be revealed in us. Let your words rise up inside of us to where we can come against every attack of the enemy because your word never returns void. In Jesus Name, Amen.

If you focus on verse 17 I want you to understand that we are always going to have an accuser but we can be of good cheer because we have a Savior that has been tempted just as we have and he always makes away of escape. The more we keep turning away from sin and we run to God we always have eternal life cause heaven is accessible to us because of Jesus. Lord help us to always hear and obey your voice. Give us the strength to resist the temptation that come our way as we run after you. In Jesus Name, Amen.

www.bible.com/1849/jhn.3.18.tpt

God loves us so much to where he gave his only son as a gift to each of us. To where we no longer have to feel condemned for our mistakes instead we have forgiveness of sin along with grace and mercy as children of God.

How Are You Living Your Life?

If today was your last day on this earth how would you live it? What would you do differently? Would it be a day all about you or showing the love of Jesus everywhere you go? Would you allow yourself to be easily angered or be more merciful? I had asked myself these questions after hearing a song that had some lyrics that made me think. Some of the lyrics said,

” And I loved deeper

And I spoke sweeter

And I gave forgiveness I’d

been denying.”

If you think about these lyrics it’s how we are to live daily. We are called to love others the way we love ourselves. If we will really do that we would live out 1 Corinthians 13 that says, ” love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant, is not rude, is not self seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs. Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hoped all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”

Are we doing this? I know we are not perfect but 1/3 of us is, as children of God and we should be striving to living out true love on a daily basis. Our lives are not all about us it’s all about others because we are ambassadors of Christ.

Another part of the lyrics say,

“I was finally the husband

that most the time I wasn’t

And I became a friend a friend

would like to have

And suddenly going

fishing wasn’t such an imposition.”

It says in Ephesians 5:25-28,”Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church- a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor since they’re already “one” in marriage.”

It’s so easy at times to get caught up in life and just going through the motions of being married. If we can keep to scripture our marriage can be better than the beginning. It can also cause us to be more focused on others and being a friend that others would want cause it’s not all about us. We are told to treat others the way we want to be treated.

If you have children and they wanted to go fishing or do something that isn’t a normal routine would it really be such an imposition if it’s the last day you had with them? Would being tired or lazy have such an impact over quality time?

So my question is if you picked up Gods word and you took a good hard look at your life what would you do if you could do it all again? Living your life like today was a gift and like the lyrics say,

“You’ve got eternity

to think about what you’d do

with it

What did you do with it

what can you do with it

What would you do with it”

These are questions to ask yourself. Let’s be determined to live out life and love daily. Don’t let any of your days be wasted on what if. Be the change you want to see in your family and in your community.

Live Out Victory Everyday.

Hello Sunshine

“You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray. For you don’t know dear how much I love you. Please don’t take my sunshine away.”

We have all heard this song and have probably sung the song ourselves. I want you to think about something as the song goes through your mind.

We are called to be the light in the darkness. When we walk into a place we should brighten up any room with the presence of God. When we see someone down we should be that encouraging word when things aren’t going right. Showing the love of Christ should be part of our daily lives to where others can truly know and feel how much they are loved.

On another note I know we too need that in our lives as well. That’s why God is saying to you today, “Hello Sunshine.” Even with your flaws you make him happy. When you are feeling a little gloomy and things don’t seem to be going your way he wants to be your light. He wants to shine his word even brighter to where it rises to the forefront of your mind and over powers every negative word and every bad day. He loves you so much to where he doesn’t hold your bad days against you instead he helps you through them.

Remember you are never alone. Even on your not so sunny days God loves you. Lift up your head and be the light and the encourager someone needs today. In return watch Gods word come to the forefront of your mind and destroy every negative word and turn things around in your favor.

You Don’t Have To Worry

What you are concerned about God is already making provision for. He is already making a path for you to walk through it unharmed. That thing that keeps you up at night is already being handled all you have to do is cast the care of it over on the Lord and let him in exchange give you peace in the midst of it. God will never allow you to go through it if he doesn’t already have a plan for you to come out on top. You just have to release your faith even when you don’t see the finished outcome.

Even with your mishaps God has already made away out. That in itself is the love of a father in action; that has already gone before you and planned a way out all you have to do is seek him and get his guidance and trust that he will get you through it. What the enemy means for bad God always turns it around for your good. No weapon formed against you can prosper. The weapons that have formed against you don’t be fearful of them lift up your shield of faith and stop them. How do you do that you may ask? Your shield of faith is your confessions that line up with Gods word that combats everything the enemy says to you. Example the enemy says, ” you want make it through this one” your shield of faith rises and says, ” When I pass through the waters,God is with me and when I pass through the rivers,they will not sweep over me. When I walk through the fire, I will not be burned; the flames will not set me ablaze.”

I want to encourage you today to lift up your shield of faith. Don’t let the lies of the enemy paralyze you. You know the truth of God’s Word and the truth is what will set you free today.

Freedom

A lot of times we think about the word freedom as the right to act, think and speak as we please; but that isn’t necessarily the whole truth. The truth of the matter is even though we have the freedom to act, think and speak we should always do it in a way that is right, just and fair and not with selfish motives. Freedom is a privilege that we have not just a right.

Those that have served and protected our country along with those that still are made a choice so that we could have the freedom we have the United States. Our national motto is, ” In God We Trust.” If it wasn’t for God we wouldn’t have the hope and the assurance we have as a nation. I know we can look around us and around our nation and we could say where is God? When in all reality he is all around. He is in the faces of your loved ones that your spending your day with. He is in the smiles and the laughter of your children because they know they are loved and taken care of. He was right there with you when that car ran the red light or pulled out in front of you. He was right there with you when that tornado came through and you came out unharmed. God is everywhere. Watching over you and his nation that he created.

I know there is evil everywhere but God always triumphs evil with good because of the blood that Jesus shed for each of us so that we could be set free from the hand of the enemy.

As you are celebrating today the freedom that you have not only remember our soldiers and the freedom you have because of their sacrifice also remember the freedom you have because of Jesus and the sacrifice he made to set you free from the hand of the enemy.

Thank You

As we are approaching Independence Day let’s remember what that means. The Declaration of Independence states, ” We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Let’s also remember why we celebrate Independence Day. Independence Day represents a severing of tithes between the original 13 colonies and the rule Great Britain along with representing the core of our beliefs, and the very makeup of the citizens of the United States. Those that have served in the Armed Forces and are serving give their lives daily for you and I to live in freedom. They pledge there lives and honor to protect yours. With that we should be forever grateful.

Not only are we to be thankful we need to constantly be lifting them up before God for protection. If you know a soldier or are one I pray Psalms 91 over you and I ask that you pray over you and your team.

Psalm 91

When you sit enthroned under the shadow of Shaddai,
you are hidden in the strength of God Most High.
He’s the hope that holds me and the Stronghold to shelter me,
the only God for me, and my great confidence.
He will rescue you from every hidden trap of the enemy,
and he will protect you from false accusation
and any deadly curse.
His massive arms are wrapped around you, protecting you.
You can run under his covering of majesty and hide.
His arms of faithfulness are a shield keeping you from harm.
You will never worry about an attack of demonic forces at night
nor have to fear a spirit of darkness coming against you.
Don’t fear a thing!
Whether by night or by day, demonic danger will not trouble you,
nor will the powers of evil launched against you.
Even in a time of disaster, with thousands and thousands being killed,
you will remain unscathed and unharmed.
you will be a spectator as the wicked perish in judgment,
for they will be paid back for what they have done!
When we live our lives within the shadow of God Most High,
our secret hiding place, we will always be shielded from harm.
How then could evil prevail against us or disease infect us?
God sends angels with special orders to protect you wherever you go,
defending you from all harm.
If you walk into a trap, they’ll be there for you
and keep you from stumbling.
You’ll even walk unharmed among the fiercest powers of darkness,
trampling every one of them beneath your feet!

For here is what the Lord has spoken to me:
“Because you have delighted in me as my great lover,
I will greatly protect you.
I will set you in a high place, safe and secure before my face he will answer your cry for help every time you pray,
and you will find and feel my presence
even in your time of pressure and trouble.
I will be your glorious hero and give you a feast.

You will be satisfied with a full life and with all that I do for you.
For you will enjoy the fullness of my salvation!”