Seeking happiness is not as hard to find as most of us think. One of the first things Jesus told us to do is, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all things will be added to us." He will add that peace and happiness to our journey.
Jesus taught the Beatitude-Kingdom blessings-on the mountain, he began his statement with Blessed are. Blessed translated means happy are. In every statement, he said we will be happy if we do this and that:
Matthew 5:3-12 HAPPY
Blessed -happy- are the poor in spirit :...
Blessed are they that mourn ...
Blessed are the meek :...
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst: ...
Blessed are the merciful: ...
Blessed are the pure in heart: ...
Blessed are the peacemakers: ...
Blessed are they which are persecuted...
Blessed are ye, when me shall revile you,...
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven:...
Christians across the nation should practice the Sermon on the mountain, because it lets us know we are going to be tempted, tested and tried in every way. It is up to us to maintain our peace and happiness through the Holy Spirit, who gives us the Fruits of the Spirit.
Until we meet again - soon.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
A Faithful Battle
(Thought)
In our darkest hour when the night has come and the moon is dark, and we can not see the break of day, we need the Lord to stand by us.
Many times concern and doubt grasp hold of our mind and will not release it for processing. We become very depressed or stressed out. This happens to many of us usually when we are in despair. There is no better time than the present to use our faith by standing on the word of God.
A well known Pastor said:
Little Faith - Hopes that God will do what He says.
Strong Faith - Knows He will do what He says.
Great Faith - Believes He has already done it.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Jesus tells us, Our faith makes us whole; if we ask anything of him, and believing we will receive them, we will have them; faith pleases God, according to the bible.
It seems very hard to hold onto our faith when we don't see the things we ask of God manifesting.
If we have the faith, God will fight the battle.
Lets HAVE FAITH IN GOD, according to Mark 11:22
Until we meet again - soon.
In our darkest hour when the night has come and the moon is dark, and we can not see the break of day, we need the Lord to stand by us.
Many times concern and doubt grasp hold of our mind and will not release it for processing. We become very depressed or stressed out. This happens to many of us usually when we are in despair. There is no better time than the present to use our faith by standing on the word of God.
A well known Pastor said:
Little Faith - Hopes that God will do what He says.
Strong Faith - Knows He will do what He says.
Great Faith - Believes He has already done it.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Jesus tells us, Our faith makes us whole; if we ask anything of him, and believing we will receive them, we will have them; faith pleases God, according to the bible.
It seems very hard to hold onto our faith when we don't see the things we ask of God manifesting.
If we have the faith, God will fight the battle.
Lets HAVE FAITH IN GOD, according to Mark 11:22
Until we meet again - soon.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
You Don't Live Here Any More
(From The Minister's Heart)
Many times after awakening each morning we allow the same situations to hold us down.We must lay aside every weight that so easily hold us back from experiencing what God has for us. Speaking to the situations in the name of Jesus, and letting them know they don't live in our home any more:
1. Family discord-A family that prays together will stay together. A house divided among itself will not stand.
Mark3:35
For whosoever shall do the will of God; the same is my brother, and my sister and mother.
2. Sickness & disease- get out of our body. God says, "He do not dwell in an unclean temple."
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.
3. Unemployment and lay off - leave our home in the home of Jesus.
Deuteronomy 8:18
But thou shall remember the Lord thy God; for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
III John 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Lets use our power to speak to our mountains/difficult situations in our life and tell them to be removed and cast into the sea.
Until we meet again - soon.
Many times after awakening each morning we allow the same situations to hold us down.We must lay aside every weight that so easily hold us back from experiencing what God has for us. Speaking to the situations in the name of Jesus, and letting them know they don't live in our home any more:
1. Family discord-A family that prays together will stay together. A house divided among itself will not stand.
Mark3:35
For whosoever shall do the will of God; the same is my brother, and my sister and mother.
2. Sickness & disease- get out of our body. God says, "He do not dwell in an unclean temple."
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.
3. Unemployment and lay off - leave our home in the home of Jesus.
Deuteronomy 8:18
But thou shall remember the Lord thy God; for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
III John 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Lets use our power to speak to our mountains/difficult situations in our life and tell them to be removed and cast into the sea.
Until we meet again - soon.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Kiss Of Love
Song of Solomon 4:9-11
Thou has ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou has ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
***Solomon, a King and the wisest man during his life time was full of Godly wisdom. We notice that he wrote beautiful love poems between a husband and wife, when reading the book of Song of Solomon.
God is love and He wants spouses to have and enjoy that true love that Solomon is speaking about in poetic ways. Sometimes we love hard and hurt very easily. Knowing that love covers a multitude of faults helps us to keep on forgiving and loving our significant others.
Love between a husband and wife is so divine that God made it Holy through His Holy Matrimony.
Until we meet again - soon.
Thou has ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou has ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
***Solomon, a King and the wisest man during his life time was full of Godly wisdom. We notice that he wrote beautiful love poems between a husband and wife, when reading the book of Song of Solomon.
God is love and He wants spouses to have and enjoy that true love that Solomon is speaking about in poetic ways. Sometimes we love hard and hurt very easily. Knowing that love covers a multitude of faults helps us to keep on forgiving and loving our significant others.
Love between a husband and wife is so divine that God made it Holy through His Holy Matrimony.
Until we meet again - soon.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Mercy and Grace Given
(Thought)
Lamentations 22-23
It is of the lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfullness.
***Jesus knew before He ascended back to heaven that we were going to be tempted in every way as He was. The difference is that He didn't yield to temptation as we do. He became that temptational sin for us even though He knew no sin, as the bible states.
The temptation to commit sin and do wrong things are going to be a challenge for us every day. We must yield ourselves to God. Resist the devil as Jesus did, and he will flee from us. We must let Satan know that we do not live our life by what he says, but by every word that God tells us. "Get thee behind me Satan" is one way to put him back in our past life. He don't rule our new live because we have been born again, and bought with a price on Calvary hill. Those old, childist things that we use to do, we don't do them any more. Greater is God that is within us than he-Satan, the father of sin-that is in the world.
***Paul went through many difficult situations in life and the answer God had for him, and us is:
"My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness". Paul replied by saying, "Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Therefore I take pleasure infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, than I am strong." (II Corinthians 12:9-10).
***Can we say, as Paul said, "When I am weak in my mortal body, that is when I am strong in the Lord"? When it seem as though a world of troubles are on our shoulders, and we are weak and worried, it is then that the Lord is strong and mighty.
Let's remember that God's Mercy and Grace is given through out the day, in our utmost time of need.
Until we meet again - soon.
Lamentations 22-23
It is of the lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfullness.
***Jesus knew before He ascended back to heaven that we were going to be tempted in every way as He was. The difference is that He didn't yield to temptation as we do. He became that temptational sin for us even though He knew no sin, as the bible states.
The temptation to commit sin and do wrong things are going to be a challenge for us every day. We must yield ourselves to God. Resist the devil as Jesus did, and he will flee from us. We must let Satan know that we do not live our life by what he says, but by every word that God tells us. "Get thee behind me Satan" is one way to put him back in our past life. He don't rule our new live because we have been born again, and bought with a price on Calvary hill. Those old, childist things that we use to do, we don't do them any more. Greater is God that is within us than he-Satan, the father of sin-that is in the world.
***Paul went through many difficult situations in life and the answer God had for him, and us is:
"My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness". Paul replied by saying, "Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Therefore I take pleasure infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, than I am strong." (II Corinthians 12:9-10).
***Can we say, as Paul said, "When I am weak in my mortal body, that is when I am strong in the Lord"? When it seem as though a world of troubles are on our shoulders, and we are weak and worried, it is then that the Lord is strong and mighty.
Let's remember that God's Mercy and Grace is given through out the day, in our utmost time of need.
Until we meet again - soon.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
DON'T TURN BACK
Our past is behind, there is no giving up and no turning back, although, Satan want us to fall and be under attack
We look back over our life to see how far we have came. We fall down many times and can't get up, so we call on Jesus' name.
Old things have passed away and all things became new. This is not what Satan want us to know and hold true.
It seem so long ago that we sinned with shame. Life is too important to play a meaningless game.
Through sun shine and rain, don't turn back or give up, because we go through many heartaches and pain.
He bore our sins and by his stripes we are healed. This was not by nature, but because of his perfect love, and will.
When we were lost, we done nothing to deserve Jesus giving up his life for us, and dying on the old rugged cross.
O Jesus, Jesus how sweet the sound. It is better to be free and not be bound.
DON'T TURN BACK.
We look back over our life to see how far we have came. We fall down many times and can't get up, so we call on Jesus' name.
Old things have passed away and all things became new. This is not what Satan want us to know and hold true.
It seem so long ago that we sinned with shame. Life is too important to play a meaningless game.
Through sun shine and rain, don't turn back or give up, because we go through many heartaches and pain.
He bore our sins and by his stripes we are healed. This was not by nature, but because of his perfect love, and will.
When we were lost, we done nothing to deserve Jesus giving up his life for us, and dying on the old rugged cross.
O Jesus, Jesus how sweet the sound. It is better to be free and not be bound.
DON'T TURN BACK.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Children Lives Worth Living
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, before trouble days come, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.
Temptation is really at at its highest peak among teenagers today:
Suicide, depression, bitterness, anger etc seems to be part of their life style.
Drunk driving, speeding, drag racing and vehicle homicide is at an alarming rate.
Crime is constantly rising at a rampage, anger and revenge is what they seem to long for.
Drugs and alcohol sometimes substitute for food and beverage.
*Our children of today are the leaders of tomorrow. Lets continue to educate them on things that are not Godly. Things that are taken for granted and has many benefits to offer them:
1. A good education
2. A prospering job
3. A wholesome life style, etc.
Lets remember during our life time we are once an adult and twice a child.
Until we meet again - soon.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, before trouble days come, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.
Temptation is really at at its highest peak among teenagers today:
Suicide, depression, bitterness, anger etc seems to be part of their life style.
Drunk driving, speeding, drag racing and vehicle homicide is at an alarming rate.
Crime is constantly rising at a rampage, anger and revenge is what they seem to long for.
Drugs and alcohol sometimes substitute for food and beverage.
*Our children of today are the leaders of tomorrow. Lets continue to educate them on things that are not Godly. Things that are taken for granted and has many benefits to offer them:
1. A good education
2. A prospering job
3. A wholesome life style, etc.
Lets remember during our life time we are once an adult and twice a child.
Until we meet again - soon.
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