When the Bottom Falls Out

When the Bottom Falls Out

What is hope?

According to Mr. Webster, it means to cherish a desire with an expectation of fulfillment. Hope is a confident anticipation of good. It is not just wishful thinking or thinking positive. It is not the same as saying, “Well, I hope so.” Hope is as solid as a helmet, but no helmet will protect you from danger if you have laid it aside. When we lose hope we lose the battle.

You may feel like your world is crashing in around you, but you must be able to say to yourself, “Something good is about to happen.” Many times you won’t feel like it. You may feel abandoned, and have no idea at all how you’re going to make it. You’re going to have to reach deep into God’s resources, because no one has any reserves of their own to keep moving forward.

The whole thing is a heart battle and there are three typical responses to pain or rejection that deaden our hearts:

We move away from people and God.
We move toward some other source of relief or acceptance.
We move against others.
In order to learn to hope again, one must go back to their ABCs, to their foundations. I figured out three core values: (1) God is good all the time; (2) “all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28); and (3) something good is just about to happen.

Hope is vital to your well being. How can you start to find it again?

Evaluate your responses to your pain. Get help to find your way past automatic reactions such as bitterness and despair.
Figure out the core values of your life.
Put on your “helmet of the hope of salvation” (1 Thessalonians 5:8), which protects your soul and spirit.
Prayer:

Father, I present myself to you in Jesus’ great name, and I declare that you are the source of my life. In you I live and breathe and have my very being. Take me on a journey to a place where hope is no longer deferred but where fulfilled desire becomes a tree of life. As I come running into your arms of redemptive love, do what only you can do. Only in you can all things be made new. Amen.

Your New Life With Each Other

Colossians 3:12-17


12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
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The Bible says there are three reasons you have to let go of your past and the people who’ve hurt you, and the reasons have nothing to do with whether that person deserves it or not.
You have to forgive those who’ve hurt you because God has forgiven you.

Colossians 3:13 says,

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, don’t be angry with each other, but forgive each other. If you feel someone has wronged you, forgive them. Forgive others because the Lord forgave you

Colossians 3:12-17

Your New Life With Each Other
If you want to be a forgiving person, you need to first accept the forgiveness of God through Jesus Christ.

The Bible said that God came to Earth in human form in Jesus in order to forgive everything that’s ever been done wrong.

He paid for it so we don’t have to. That’s Good News.
You have to forgive those who’ve hurt you because resentment controls you.

The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 7:9,
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Don’t become angry quickly, because anger is foolish.
Resentment makes you miserable, and it keeps you stuck in the past.
And when you’re stuck in the past, you are controlled by the past.
Every time you resent something, it controls you.

We hang onto stuff that hurt us 5, 10, or even 20 years ago
Things in our past that we allow to hurt us to this day.
That’s stupid.

Don’t let it happen. We keep running those old tapes.
Your past is past. You’ve got to let it go.
You have to forgive those who’ve hurt you because you’re going to need more forgiveness in the future.

Colossians 3:12-17 (KJV)

Your New Life With Each Other

Jesus said in Matthew 6:14-15,
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Forgiveness is a two way street. You cannot receive what you are unwilling to give. Someone once told John Wesley, “I could never forgive that person!” Wesley replied, “Then I hope you never sin.”
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2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (KJV)
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 unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
“God has done it all! He sent Christ to make peace between himself and us, and he has given us the work of making peace between himself and others. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them.
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Colossians 3:12-17 (KJV)
Your New Life With Each Other
Nearly 60 years ago, five American missionaries headed to the rainforest of the eastern Amazon in Ecuador to make a second visit to the Huaorani tribe, which anthropologists said was the most vicious, violent society on the face of the earth. They had a culture of killing, and studies showed 60 percent of the tribe died by homicide.
As soon as the missionaries got out of the plane, they were speared to death by members of the tribe. The brutal murders made news around the world and the cover of Life magazine, Time, and Newsweek. Many newspapers reported the deaths of these men, who included Nate Saint and Jim Elliot.
A couple years later, Elisabeth and Valerie Elliot, wife and daughter of Jim, and Rachel Saint, sister of Nate, moved into the Huaorani village to show love and forgiveness and minister to the people who had killed their family. Eventually, Mincaye, the leader of the tribe, and the five men who participated in the missionary murders all became Christians.
The kind of forgiveness that Elisabeth Elliot and Rachel Saint modeled doesn’t make sense until you have been forgiven by God. Once you’ve experienced it, how do you forgive? You do the four things that these women did: Relinquish your right to get even.
Romans 12:19 says, dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Colossians 3:12-17 (KJV)
Your New Life With Each Other
Leave it up to God. He’ll take care of it, and he’ll do a much better job than you ever could.
Respond to evil with good.
How can you tell when you’ve completely forgiven someone?
You can actually pray for God to bless the person who hurt you.
The Bible says, “
Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Ask God to bless the people who ask for bad things to happen to you. Pray for the people who are mean to you.
Repeat these steps as long as necessary.
Peter asked Jesus in Matthew 18:21-22,
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
Sometimes forgiveness has to be continual. Rescue others with the Good News of God’s forgiveness.
Colossians 3:12-17 (KJV)
Your New Life With Each Other
Conclusion:
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:18-20,
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
“God has done it all! He sent Christ to make peace between himself and us, and he has given us the work of making peace between himself and others.
What we mean is that God was in Christ, offering peace and forgiveness to the people of this world.
And he has given us the work of sharing his message about peace.
We were sent to speak for Christ, and God is begging you to listen to our message.
We speak for Christ and sincerely ask you to make peace with God.”
Alter Call

You Are Never Alone

Deuteronomy 31:8

 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.

Hurts,Habits and Hang ups  are major problems facing people today. The three often go together because many Christians and unbelievers grieve over being broken that we are alone and no one will understand 

 In my ministry, an increasing number of people request prayer for their broken spirit .

God's Word tells us plainly that we are not alone. He wants to deliver, comfort and heal us. But when you encounter pstrugels in your life, you can lose sight of this simple truth.

Satan wants you to believe you are alone ( he comes to steal,kill and destroy). He wants you to believe that no one understands how you feel, but his claims are false. In addition to God being with you, many believers understand what you are experiencing .

You are not alone now nor will you ever be, no matter what confronts you.

You may not understand much when you are hurting and the pain of  is ripping through your soul, but know and hold on to this one truth: God loves you, and He has a future for you. Hope in Him and trust Him to turn your mourning into joy (see Isaiah 61:1-3).

Prayer : God, I can't always see through my Hurts,Habits and Hang-up`s, but I know that You never leave me. Help me to remember that You are near, and guide me to other believers who I can join with to fight off the enemy's attacks.

God Can Deliver

1 Samuel 17:37

David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee.

God Can Deliver

In times of crises, it's easy to feel like God can't deliver. To bolster your faith, consider the biblical accounts of when God delivered His children from their afflictions.

In 1 Samuel 17:37, David knew he could defeat Goliath because God had already saved him from a lion and a bear.

In Daniel 3, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused the king's edict to bow to his idol, and continued to worship God. As a result, they were thrown into a fiery furnace heated seven times hotter than normal. But God delivered them so completely from this ordeal that they didn't even smell like smoke! He even showed up with them in the fire!

Daniel is another example of God's willingness and ability to deliver. Thrown into the lion's den for praying to God, Daniel knew such deliverance that he came away from the ordeal unscathed while his enemies were completely vanquished (see Daniel 6).

Do you notice a trend here? God can deliver His children out of any circumstance. Know today that His power to deliver is bigger than your problem.

Prayer : God, time and time again, You have delivered Your children from trouble, and I know You won't fail now. You are more than able to deal with my situation, so I trust in You.

The way you think. By James MacDonald

If you really want to see improvements in any and every area of your life, it is crucial that you learn to change the way you think!

Proverbs 23:7 says: As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

That’s why this is such a foundational message for the body of Christ—who we are is determined by how we think. 

And friend, this change in our minds doesn’t come by trying harder. It’s not about yelling louder or being filled with condemnation. It’s all about getting the right mindset—a Godly mindset— in order to produce a long-lasting transformation. 

Maybe you’re reading this and you can relate. 

Maybe you’ve tried everything you can to improve that situation, fix that problem, live up to that promise, or accomplish that dream . . . but you feel like you’ve fallen short. 

If so, I want you to hear this very clearly . . . 
 

It’s not too late to change your mind!
It’s not too late to experience victory!
It’s not too late to live with joy!
It’s not too late to see real, tangible change!

All of us have areas of our life that we’d like to change. Maybe it’s your marriage, your business, or your relationship with God. But if we all want to change, why is it so hard? You see, it’s not about yelling louder, trying harder, or being filled with condemnation. It’s all about getting the right mindset, a Godly mindset. And when that happens, long-lasting transformation follows!

 

Friend, change is not dependent on trying harder. Real change comes when you choose to embrace a Godly mindset because the way you think affects everything. I want to invite you to request the resources below so that you may experience the victory of lasting change in your life beginning today.

—James MacDonald

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All About Demeanor

Genesis 25:21-22(KJV)

 And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

Everybody is conceived with a demeanor, however it doesn't generally appear as significantly as twins warring in the womb. Possibly it's putting the blades point-up versus point-down in the dishwasher. Then again energizing through being separated from everyone else instead of being in a major gathering. Despite how it shows, your demeanor is something God gives you. It's your regular mental viewpoint; your dominating inclination or inclining; you're winning perspective. 

God plans it for good, but since of our corruption, our manner gets twisted. At the point when this happens, what were impartial propensities can prompt fortifications. 

Notice the word battled in Genesis 25. The Hebrew word implies pulverizing or abusing. This suggests the kids were warring inside Rebekah which, obviously, is not run of the mill child development. This is what I need you to get from this: Disposition influences each relationship and each choice. It's the channel introduced on your reasoning through which you handle reality. It's the reason four individuals on a road corner can all watch the same mischance and have diverse sentiments about it. 

At the point when Rebekah brought forth her twins, "The principal turned out red, all his body like a bristly shroud, so they called his name Esau. Subsequently his sibling turned out with his hand holding Esau's heel" (Genesis 25:25–26). 

Why was he holding his sibling's heel? Since he needed to be conceived first. The name Jacob implies heel catcher or heel grabber. It's the way to go of needing to discover a way, regardless of the fact that it includes misdirection. Jacob can likewise mean to advance beyond the other. 

Do you perceive how their demeanors were at that point in that spot? God's Word is not saying, "Gracious! How fascinating! How irregular! He was clutching his heel. Isn't that interesting?" No. That is not what the Bible is stating by any means. It's uncovering that what they will get to be is available in the womb and in their conveyance. Later we see the young men's miens wind up impacting the way that Esau sold his bequest to his sibling for a dish of stew. 

On the off chance that you need to think distinctively and break out of fortresses that torment you, you need to inspect your own air. Do you see that you were conceived with a state of mind that you have fought your entire life? It's anything but difficult to slip into musings such as, This isn't a way; this is the way. This isn't a decent way; this is the right way. 

How you prepare what happens in your home, kids, marriage, funds, work, church—everything experiences the channel in your psyche. That is the place the fortifications, contentions, and elevated suppositions start to take up habitation. 

Auras are God-given, however Satan dependably tries to bend what God means for good. So pause for a minute and let this truth settle in your heart: You can't change your aura. Nor does God need you to change it. You are consummately suited for what God needs you to do. Rather, get to be mindful of fortresses that have created out of your attitude, and make it your every day objective to take your musings hostage to the compliance of Christ. That is the way to finding and obliterating the fortresses of attitude.

Dwelling in the place of death.

Mark 5:1-20 (KJV)

1And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit

3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.

14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.

15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.

17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.

19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.

When Jesus climbed out of the boat, a man possessed by an evil spirit came out from a cemetery to meet him.

Many hold the virtue of Christ in admiration, and yet they will not lose even the least thing they have in order to redeem it.

Literally, "in an unclean spirit"; now they are said to be in the spirit because the spirit holds them tightly locked up, and as it were bound.

The helplessness of men to stop the sway of sin. Stop and consider the efforts that are daily being put forth to save the lost of this world.

Think not that the world does not try to save the world. Of course it does. Every hospital, every rescue home, every temperance society, every reform movement, every court house, and every jail is an effort to save men from their ills, and from the ravages of their sins.

The Gadarenes had bound the demoniac time and again; however, the man, in his seemingly superhuman lunacy, had broken every chain. Poor fellow, what were ropes and chains to him?

 Just so many good, but useless and easily broken strands. No man could bind the man of Gadara, and no man can bind the sinner.

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Dwelling in the place of death.

The Gadarene in the mountains and tombs suggests to us that the men of sin are shorn of comfort and peace.

The place of tombs, the graveyards, is no place for the living to dwell.

They speak only of sin and its wages, death.

They may be beautiful without with fern and flower, but within they are filled with dead men's bones.

Yet this world is itself only a great graveyard.

Men are walking constantly in the shadows of foreboding death.

Everything around us says, "It is appointed unto men once to die."

We dare not sit in judgment against the people of Gadara, for the children of this age are as corrupt as they.

The ungodly hug to their hearts the things which make for their undoing.

Men do not want to retain God in their knowledge, because men are filled with unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, maliciousness. They are even haters of God.

Once again we need but to look around us to see the very same thing being done in our generation.

Multitudes of people will not accept Christ to rule over them.

Plainly stated men and women in sin, want to be left alone.

They will welcome no hand that seeks to rescue them.

The masses are saying, "I know not the Lord, neither will I let my sins go."

 Yet the man who wants to be set free comes to a point that Jesus is the only answer and they know him

The request of the man of Gadara.

He prayed the Lord that he might be with Him. This was a perfectly natural and honorable request.

Where is he who, being saved from so great a death, by so great a Saviour, does not want to be with Him!

The Lord's command. The man wanted to go with Christ.

Christ suffered him not, but said, "Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee."

Perhaps we, too, can hear a similar word. 

Here it is:

 "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel."

Every creature must hear.

We must go and tell. We must go to the end of the earth, until earth's last man has heard the Blessed assurance. 

Dead in trespasses and sins! Yet Alive In Christ

Ephesians 2:1-10

1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Here Paul affirms two essential truth`s

1.   we are all born with an evil nature powerless to stand against our tendencies toward sin and failure

2.    God is rich in mercy and love and even though we are far from him and entrapped by sin God graciously reaches out to us with love and mercy

God wants to forgive us and give us the power to rebuild our lives through the work of Jesus Christ God has already conquered the power of sin and death

When we admit that we need God's help and ask him to act on our behalf that empowers us to overcome the problems and dependencies of this life

1 Corinthians 10:13(KJV)

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.

Sin is the death of the soul. A man dead in trespasses and sins has no desire for spiritual pleasures.

A state of sin is a state of conformity to this world.

Romans 12:2(KJV)

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.

Wicked men are slaves to Satan. Satan is the author of that proud, carnal disposition which there is in ungodly men; he rules in the hearts of men.

2 Corinthians 4:4 (KJV)

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

From Scripture it is clear, that whether men have been most prone to sensual or to spiritual wickedness, all men, being naturally children of disobedience, are also by nature children of wrath.

What reason have sinners, then, to seek earnestly for that grace which will make them, of children of wrath, children of God and heirs of glory!

God's eternal love or good-will toward his children, is the fountain whence all his mercies flow to us; and that love of God is great love, and that mercy is rich mercy. And every converted sinner is a saved sinner; delivered from sin and wrath.

The grace that saves is the free, undeserved goodness and favour of God; and he saves, not by the works of the law, but through faith in Christ Jesus.

Grace in the soul is a new life in the soul.

Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved ;)…2:8, 9 for by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

A regenerated sinner becomes a living soul; he lives a life of holiness, being born of God: He lives, being delivered from the guilt of sin, by pardoning and justifying grace.

Sinners roll themselves in the dust; sanctified souls sit in heavenly places, are raised above this world, by Christ's grace.

The goodness of God in converting and saving sinners heretofore, encourages others in after-time, to hope in his grace and mercy.

Our faith, our conversion, and our eternal salvation, are not of works, lest any man should boast.

These things are not brought to pass by anything done by us, therefore all boasting is shut out.

All is the free gift of God, and the effect of being quickened by his power.

It was his purpose, to which he prepared us, by blessing us with the knowledge of his will, and his Holy Spirit producing such a change in us, that we should glorify God by our good conversation, and perseverance in holiness.

We may feel like we are not good enough to be an example for others.

We may realize that we need other people but find it hard to believe that our story of deliverance could help anyone else.

The Apostle Paul said,"

Romans 12:4-5

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being Many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another"

Ephesians 2:10 (KJV)

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

We need to see that God has a purpose for our life. God created each of us with abilities and talents,

If you isolate any one part of the body and examine it apart from its proper place among the other members, It may seem odd and useless. 

And so it is with us we need to find a place where  our talents and abilities can be used to help others. Doing this will show that we have gained an honest understanding of who God created us to be. He loves us and wants us to help each of us realize our place in the body

Life’s relationship with the future

By faith Abraham when he was called obeyed to go into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance and he went out not knowing whether he went by faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise

Dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob the heirs with him of the same promise for he was looking for the city which has the foundation who's builder and maker is God

Hebrews 11:8-10 (KJV)

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

By faith Moses when he was grown up refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season

Looking for the greater riches of Christ then the treasures of Egypt for he looked on to the recompense of the reward by faith

Hebrews 

11:24-27 (KJV)

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Moses grew up and became a man. He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 

He chose not to enjoy the pleasures of sin that last such a short time. Instead, he chose to suffer with God’s people. He did this because he had faith.  He thought it was better to suffer for the Messiah than to have all the treasures of Egypt. He was waiting for the reward that God would give him.

Moses left Egypt because he had faith. He was not afraid of the king’s anger. He continued strong as if he could see the God no one can see.

Man cannot live without faith

Life’s relationship with the future is an affair not to be walked alone I once thought it was but life is a continuous adventure into the unknown

Abraham and Moses trusted God and walked accordingly

Life`s experience would have unknown issues they could not foresee

Typical of all the great lives they have adventures that only God can show you how to face faith is the first word necessary to walking through the journey we call life “I feel the time in my face”

Every one of us must understand each playing days work if we are to do it well

Life demands faith the more one sees what venturesome risk he takes every day what labor and sacrifice he invests in hope of a worthy outcome

With what great causes he falls in love with

Until at his best he is willing for their sake to have hazard fortune and happiness in life itself the more he sees that the soul robust in service with his character is faith

Oh God who hasn't encompassed the test with so much that is dark and prep and lacing yet you have set within us light enough to walk by faith and enable us to trust Yet with all our iniquities we steadfastly refused to follow.

When we learn to hear your voice and to become loyal to all the truth we know and seek we learn to walk by faith as your holy spirit guides our  conscious so that we may come at length the perfect light in there and find our world in harmony

Since we have planted or feet in your word we have become so full of believe in change that we know not what a day may bring forth grant that we may use with diligence you’re appointed spawn of time

Since we are so feeble faint and foolish leave us not to our own devices not even when we pray thee

Plant thorns about our feet touch our hearts with fear give us to know rest apart from the least we lose our way and missed the happy gate

A letter for the journey

We must understand that we are chosen by God that he will take hold of our hand while we walk along this pathway and journey

Galatians 3:14 (KJV)

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Romans 3:29-30 (KJV)

Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8 (KJV)

For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.

We are sojourners threw this life chosen by God the journey of life will

Lead us to the final and true home as long as we are obedient and

attentive to the spirit following the doctrine of Christ

1 Peter 1:1-5 (KJV)

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time

Greetings from Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ.To God’s chosen people who are away from their homes—people scattered all over the areas

God planned long ago to choose you and to make you his holy people, which is the Spirit’s work.

God wanted you to obey him and to be made clean by the blood sacrifice[a] of Jesus Christ.

We are a living Hope;

These blessings are kept for you in heaven. They cannot be ruined or be destroyed or lose their beauty.  God’s power protects you through your faith, and it keeps you safe until your salvation comes. That salvation is ready to be given to you at the end of time.

2 Thessalonians 2:13-17(KJV)

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,  Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

Standing Strong On God`s Promises

DISCOVEING YOUR IDENTITY

Judges 6:11-12

And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

2 WAYS TO FIND YOUR IDENTITY

1.    Do Not Look At  CIRCUMSTANCES

2.   Listen  TO WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY ABOUT YOU

How To DECIDE YOUR ACTIVITY

1.      Don’t Wait for strength You Don’t Have

2.      Go in the strength You Dou Have (God)

3.      DETERMINE YOUR Capacity do not Rely on your Resources

 (you are not enough) then Watch God use your weakness because  you are not strong enough

Judges 6:13-14

And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us?  And where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?  But now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. And the Lord looked upon him, and said, go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites:  have not I sent thee?

God’s process for using our weaknesses to bring him glory:

1. God reduces our resources

2. God magnifies our need

3. Someone Trust God with what little they have

Judges 7:2

And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, mine own hand hath saved me.

Judges 7:7

And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

Judges 7:16

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

We need to depend on God he uses the little we have to show how great He is

God Works through us to accomplish his will. to show his power and glory 

I want to hide in my weakness but God wants to use my weakness to change the world

I am the Least likely to do Gods will and task but he has called the least likely To Change The world

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

And he said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 things I must understand to accomplish Gods call on my life

(1) Under my own power I will fail

(2) God will never fail what he has called me to do  

We Must Stand Strong On God`s Promises

Judges 6:15-16

And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. And the Lord said unto him, surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.