"Only Life Changes"

Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

Mary, the mother of Jesus was an incredible woman who followed God with strength and boldness. Her “yes” and trusting God’s plan for her life allowed for her to give birth to Jesus, the Messiah. Despite extraordinary circumstances, Mary decided to trust God without understanding. Her tenacity, strength, and unwavering commitment proved to be one of the greatest decisions of her life and for the Christian faith. When God spoke to Mary through the angel Gabriel, she was a virgin, unmarried and afraid.

It reads in Luke 1:26-38, ~ In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most ~ High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most ~ High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God will ever fail.” “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.

Mary, the mother of Jesus was an incredible woman who followed God with strength and boldness. Her “yes” and trusting God’s plan for her life allowed for her to give birth to Jesus, the Messiah. Despite extraordinary circumstances, Mary decided to trust God without understanding. Her tenacity, strength, and unwavering commitment proved to be one of the greatest decisions of her life and for the Christian faith. When God spoke to Mary through the angel Gabriel, she was a virgin, unmarried and afraid. Although Mary was afraid and faced uncertainty, she trusted God’s plan for her life and followed with faith, hope and trust. You may not have all the answers or don’t understand where God is taking you in this season, but I invite you to be encouraged by Mary’s example. Say “yes” to God’s plan for your life and be encouraged that He will strengthen you, provide guidance and always for fill His promises. Jesus Himself spoke very highly of John: “I tell you the truth, among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is” Matthew 11:11. Mary found out how it was to lose her son to the cross. Jesus didn’t want His Mother Mary to be alone. This account, found in John 19:25-27, tells us that the Lord Jesus entrusted His earthly mother, Mary, into the care of John, His disciple. Why did He do that, and what can we learn from this act? Many Christians, in an overzealous attempt to refute false beliefs regarding Mary’s identity, falsely claim that Christ did not really care for her. It reads in John 19:25-27, ~ Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

{Let’s Pray}

Father God, I thank You and praise You for the beautiful girl Mary Jesus’s mother that You used her to bring the Lord Jesus into the world. She surely loved Jesus with the special love and bond of a mother to her child, but she also rejoiced in Him as her Lord and Savior. I thank You and praise You for Jesus and for the wonderful way that You used the nation of Israel to protect and carry the Seed of Christ through the generations. I thank You and praise You for the wonderful miracle of new life in Jesus Christ that only could come because You sent Your only begotten Son to be born and die so that I may be reborn and live eternal life. You loved Jesus and Mary so much that You gave John whom You loved so much Mother Mary to be taken care of by him. Abba Father I am believing for those who have lost loved ones, that You will guide others in their life to help them cope. I am believing healing for mothers who have to go through this holiday with broken hearts, guide them to look to You for comfort and peace. I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Your Precious Name Jesus Amen.

{Power Verse}
Wisdom’s instruction is to fear the Lord, and humility comes before honor. Proverbs15:33

Father God, let others see that their prayers reach to eternity. Let this touch someone’s heart and soul today in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
All of us know elderly people who have touched our hearts one way or another. I remember this elderly lady that walked across Gosling Rd to Woodlands Church, and she would go to the chapel every Sunday. We asked her if she wanted a ride first time, we saw her, and she said no. Just walking to church, she was walking in God’s light and being a light to others. Some people just don’t understand the elderly when they are older are either like a child or they just need special care. Elderly people never give up on us. They may not be able to do all that they used to, but they do their best. God knows this most of all. Can you think of elderly people that you know that you could just say to them I am proud of you and give them a hug and just know you are going to be where they are at one day? Just saying. I have had a lot of elderly people in my path all through my past. I thank God for all of them. They have taught me a lot.

It reads in 1 Timothy 5:17, ~The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
I want to speak of a elderly woman Anna that was an 84-year-old widow who was present when Jesus was taken to the temple as a baby. Luke wrote that she “departed not from the temple, but served God with fasting’s and prayers night and day.” When she saw the baby, she “gave thanks, unto the Lord, and spoke of him to all that looked for redemption in Jerusalem”
It reads in Luke 2:36-38,~ There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.
Anna was dedicated and she was a child of God. Can you just imagine all her prayers God answered because of her love for Jesus and others she knew. Anna loved the Lord Jesus with all her heart and embraced His love for her.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You for Your word of truth. I really can comprehend that God the Son would lay aside His heavenly glory and be willing to come to earth, be born as a little baby, and live a perfect life, so that He could die a sacrificial death for the sin of the world. I thank You and praise You that Anna believed and prayed for You Lord Jesus and being a elderly woman showed glory and eternity from Your perspective. I thank You and praise You that Anna’s prayer to You is still influencing us to this day. I thank You and praise You for Jesus’s wonderful example of obedience through You and thank You that He demonstrated to us how to live a life that was totally dependent on You Lord. I believe that like the Lord Jesus, I would grow in grace and increase in wisdom and understanding, for Your praise and glory. I believe that I would learn to say, without hesitation, “Thy will not mine be done in all things.” I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the glory in Your Precious Name Amen.

{Power Verse}
The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their ways preserve their lives.
Proverbs 16:17

Father God, let this touch someone’s heart today, especially those that don’t believe women can be leaders. Thank You for Your truths in this bible in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

I think it is amazing how women were dedicated in the old times that still encourage to this day bring encouragement to all women who believe in God, including myself. Praise God for Deborah’s courage and commitment to God. At this time, Israel’s judge was a woman named Deborah. Oh, don’t be surprised, well you could. She was a prophetess, yes, women, like Moses, and Moses’ sister Miriam; they were prophets. Judges 4 is an historical account of God’s deliverance of Israel through Deborah, Barak, and Jael. It began with the children of Israel once again doing evil in the sight of the LORD. They started again once the current righteous judge died, which was Ehud. When Israel stopped serving the LORD, the LORD would make them serve their enemies.

It reads in Judges 4:1-24,~

Again, the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead. So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim. Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help. Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided. She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.’” Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.” “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him. Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh. When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor, Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron. Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the Lord gone ahead of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him. At Barak’s advance, the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot. Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera’s troops fell by the sword; not a man was left. Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite. Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come, my lord, come right in. Don’t be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket. “I’m thirsty,” he said. “Please give me some water.” She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up. “Stand in the doorway of the tent,” he told her. “If someone comes by and asks you, ‘Is anyone in there?’ say ‘No.’” But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. “Come,” she said, “I will show you the man you’re looking for.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple, dead. On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites. And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.
“She exclaims, “Awake, awake, Deborah!” With all of the turmoil in the world these days, we can relate to Deborah as a role model who lived in troubled times. After twenty years of oppression, while most of her people cowered in fear, God awakened within her a zeal to do something. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.”
It reads in Judges 5:7-12,~ Villagers in Israel would not fight; they held back until I, Deborah, arose, until I arose, a mother in Israel. God chose new leaders when war came to the city gates, but not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel. My heart is with Israel’s princes, with the willing volunteers among the people. Praise the LORD! “You who ride on white donkeys, sitting on your saddle blankets, and you who walk along the road, consider the voice of the singers at the watering places. They recite the victories of the LORD, the victories of his villagers in Israel. “Then the people of the LORD went down to the city gates. ‘Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, break out in song! Arise, Barak! Take captive your captives, son of Abinoam.’

{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You for the great example of Deborah who was ready and willing to be used by You in the most difficult of circumstances. I thank You and praise You for the truths of Your word and for the encouragement of Deborah, still teaching us that You are a faithful God Who is long suffering towards Your people and ready to forgive the sins of those that call out to You in humble repentance, in times of trouble. I thank You and praise You that Deborah was leading, she made clear the importance of glorifying You, in her actions. She knew that You God, used and elevated her to accomplish Your purposes, and she ensured that You would continue to be glorified. Use me, I believe in Your service, no matter what the cost may be, and keep me low at the Cross and broken before You and give You all the glory. I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

{Power Verse}

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14

Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

Having a happy heart sometimes hard isn’t the word for it. But we can choose to be happy. How? Looking to the good and looking to our knowledge of what we really like to do. Sing, dance, do a sport you like to do, do a hobby you like to do or really want to do. You can even get others to join in on the fun. If you are healing, look to doing what you like to do as you heal. Measure your strengths each day as you heal so you can keep a tab on your improvements. There is every day have to do stuff that can be annoying. But we can also make that fun. By looking forward to what we really want to do can make the annoying stuff go by faster.

It reads in Proverbs 17:22, ~ A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. “This phrase here crushed spirit means the spirit as “crushed” or “broken down;” that is, as in the other phrase, a spirit that is oppressed by sin or trouble. The world blooms with instances of those who can fully understand this language.”

It reads in Psalm 68:3, ~ But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God.

{Our minds can heal our body and choose to be happy with the powerful mind God has given us as a gift. Amen!}

{Let’s Pray}

Father God, we give this day to You to use Your will for our life. I thank You and praise You that others and myself can call on You in times of trouble or illness or loneliness and know that You are always there to hear and answer, to heal and comfort and help. I believe that You would help me to really apply this truth in my life, not just when I am sick, but every day. Guide me to learn to go each day with a cheerful outlook and whatever comes my way look to You in its goodness and truth. I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

{Power Verse}

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecclesiastes 2:26

Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
“It reads in Luke 11:1, ~ And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”
Being alone and just freeing your mind from all the clutter. Sometimes this is so hard. I will take a walk in the woods and take my camera. I free my mind of every thought. It becomes easier as I do this. I will walk and take pictures. God sends different things in my path to just take a picture. By the time I am done with my walk I am done taking pictures. Do I talk to God? Yes! I say oh thank you Dear Blessed Lord Jesus for guiding that crane in my path to take his picture. My mind is clear, and I am focusing on all that God has for me on the walk. I get some amazing pictures. Not like what God lets me see though. I can find quiet time with God even if I am busy. I can find peace in Him as I go about my day and feel His peace and presence. I can pray for the love of Jesus to heal or fill someone’s heart in a way they will know His presence. You ever hear the saying? “God is just a breath away.” I ask God to put peace in my heart. He does. People say if you pray for patients, God is going to give You trouble. Not so. Once you know God is just a breath away and you pray honorably. He is right up in your business. If you pray bad for others, even for yourself it will happen just the way you predicted but even worse it will come back on you hard. Just saying. For Christians, that means there is no such thing as going it alone. God lives inside us and will remain until we get to heaven, where we will meet him face to face. That’s a tough truth to believe to those who don’t believe.
The Bible reads that Jesus found an unoccupied mountain which allowed Him the opportunity to be alone with His Father. He ascended the mountain, and the sun began to set. As the evening drew nigh and was upon Him, there He was in the cool of the night with His Father, alone in prayer. We spend time alone with God and in corporate worship for the best nourishment. Without time alone with God, we will find needs unmet; we will not truly know the abundant life He gives. Spending time alone with God rids our minds of distraction so that we can focus on Him and hear His Word. If you are among those who had a bad experience with a local church, or several, there is that pull to withdraw and walk with God alone. However, there is value in being a part of a living and growing body of Christ that is beyond measure. Can I walk with God alone? It is important to recognize just what is meant by this question. God didn’t stop there. He didn’t create man to be in community with him alone. After he created the world and Adam, God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him” It reads in Genesis 2:18-25, ~ The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So, the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So, the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
We can pray for someone who is deathly ill and watch as days go by, and they make a total turn around and are healthy. We can pray for someone’s marriage to be healed and months down the line see the marriage blooming. Isn’t this the best adventure to be on with God? Watch and pray as God springs into action and every day is a great exploration that never grows old. As the Holy Spirit opens our heart, mind and soul we come alive with God. With God we gain knowledge of His love and Salvation that awaits us. As we grasp His truths and promises as God advances His work in us.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You for Your word. I thank You and praise You for Your never-ending love for all Your children that You pursue peace for us. I thank You and praise You that You grow all Your children to become mature and whole in You. Let me bring forth fruit, more and more fruit, much more fruit to glorify You. I listen to Your voice, hear Your promises and grow more and more in Your faith. I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

{Power Verse}
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 1 Peter 2:2

The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This is the outcome of allowing Jesus to satisfy every area of life to its depth. How to Have a Relationship with Jesus. As Christians grow in spiritual maturity, we hunger for an intimate relationship with God and Jesus, but at the same time, we feel confused over how to go about it. Keys to Having an Intimate Relationship with God. The relationship that Christians have with Jesus can vary greatly from person to person. Just because you have been converted, become a Christian, doesn’t necessarily mean that you have a deep and intimate relationship with Jesus. I have this friend who was swayed from the church because someone said they didn’t need her to volunteer because she was too old. Well, she went to another church all because of what one person said to her. This power is called the power of Satan interferences. One person cannot tell a volunteer that they cannot volunteer. But this lady did tell my friend this. Now the family of God works together. When Christians are learning this is not perfection. It is us all broken together. We also learn that gossip is not top priority in the Christian life, but this happens. What we do when someone that says something that is not right. Go to God and pray from your heart and ask questions to others who have the knowledge of what is going on around you. My friend came to the church during Easter and realized the woman that told her she was too old was not truth. Nor did she comprehend right. We are all still learning. Our students are a big part of the church, and they are all very giving and loving to others. Students are our next generation and should be included in everything with their time, praying for others, helping others, their talents and treasures. Sometimes we let confusion get the best of us and God is for unity. You know love in the church is what keeps the unity in the church. “It reads in 1 Corinthians 14:33, ~ For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.” No matter which church we go to we are all are the family of God no matter where we are. Forgiveness begins and ends with us. We are all one with Jesus Christ.
1) Understand that God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.
It reads in John 3:16, ~ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
It reads in John 10:10, ~The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.
2) Know that all of us sin and that our sin has separated us from God.
It reads in Romans 3:23, ~ For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
It reads in Romans 6:23, ~ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
3) Understand that Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for our sin.
It reads in Romans 5:8, ~But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
It reads in John 14:6, ~ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
4) In Christ we are justified.
It reads in Romans 8:1, ~ Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
“Our confusion begins with the word “intimate,” which has become cheapened because of our culture’s obsession with sex. The essence of an intimate relationship, especially with God, requires sharing. God Has Already Shared Himself with You Through Jesus.”
Glorified!
It reads in Romans 8:30,~ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
Sanctified!
It reads in 1 Corinthians 1:2,~ To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
Called!
It reads in 1 Corinthians 1:1:9,~ God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Made alive!
It reads in Ephesians 2:5,~ Made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions, it is by grace you have been saved.
Created anew!
It reads in 2 Corinthians 5:17,~ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
Adopted!
It reads in Galatians 3:26,~ So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.
And elected!
It reads in Ephesians 1:4–6, ~ For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will, to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You that we are all children of God learning and walking with You. Help us to forgive those who don’t know and ask more questions to keep our mind free from clutter that can clutter others around us or hurt them not knowing. We are all broken and growing. Let us do Your will as You guide each and every one of us. I know that it is Your will to help those that are afflicted, to support the weak, to provide for the widows and orphans and to help those that are in need. It is Your will that we keep in constant contact with You in prayer and supplication because You love us all unconditionally and that let me have the freedom to use my hands to be of service to those in need and use my voice to speak words of healing and encouragement to those that are afflicted and in distress. I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the glory for hearing my prayer in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

{Power Verse}
And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.

1 John 2:28

Father God, let this touch someone’s heart today. Let the Holy Spirit comfort them today and give them peace in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
How to receive the holy Spirit. The Bible shows us four steps that every person needs to take, in order to receive the baptism of the Spirit. ‘Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ’It reads in Acts 2:38~, Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
The apostle Paul clearly taught that we receive the Holy Spirit the moment we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior. First Corinthians 12:13 declares, “For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one bod, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.”
Luke recorded a statement made by Jesus Christ concerning the giving of the Holy Spirit: “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” Luke 11:13. By itself, this verse would seem to suggest that we are to teach our children about Jesus, so they themselves will live in the Holy Spirit also. Jesus is talking about teaching them to pray, to give, love others and walk in obedience as well as we are doing the same.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You that You that I can call you Abba Father. I thank You and praise You that You sent the Holy Spirit to intervene for me. I thank You for sending Jesus to die for me and to give me His resurrection life within my heart. I Thank You, praise You and glorify Your holy name for You are my peace, my Rock, my Salvation and my all and all. I believe that Your will be done in my life give You all the praise and glory! Let Your will be done in the world, in my country, my home, my Church family and the nation of Israel. I am believing for Your might power in the war and make all right and Unity in Your honor. I believe that You govern my heart and rule my life and that I reflect the light, love and beauty of Jesus Christ to all with whom I come in contact today and as I walk with Jesus in His Precious Name Amen.

{Power Verse}
Who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 1:14

Father God, let this touch someone’s heart. Assist them in the care of Your Unity with us in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

God may be pushing you, or prompting you, by His Spirit, to change things. The Holy Spirit of God knows what is best for us, better than we do ourselves, so try to listen to the Holy Spirit’s prompting of His telling you to do something or to stop doing something. God may be pushing you out of your comfort zone or into a situation for your own benefit to unite you with Him. Here are some bible verses to encourage you.

“Believers are created in Christ”
It reads in Ephesians 2:10~, “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
“Crucified with him”
It reads in Galatians 2:20~, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
“Buried with him”
It reads in Colossians 2:12 ~, And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
“Baptized into Christ and his death”
It reads in Romans 6:3~, Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
“United with him in his resurrection”
It reads in Romans 6:5~, For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.
“Seated with him in the heavenly places”
It reads in Ephesians 2:6~, And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
“Christ is formed in believers”
It reads in Galatians 4:19~, My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
“Dwells in our hearts”
It reads in Ephesians 3:17~, So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love.
“Church is the body of Christ”
It reads in 1 Corinthians 6:15~, Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
“Church is the body of Christ”
It reads in 1 Corinthians 12:27~, Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.
“Christ is in us”
It reads in 2 Corinthians 13:5~, Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you actually fail the test?
“We are in Him”
It reads in 1 Corinthians 1:30~, It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
“Church is one flesh with Christ”
It reads in Ephesians. 5:31–32~, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
“Believers gain Christ and are found in Christ”
It reads in Philippians 3:8–9~, More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

{Let’s Pray}

Father God, I thank You and praise You for Your word of truth. I thank You and praise You that it is by grace through faith in the finished work of Christ alone that I have been redeemed and have received the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting. I thank You and praise You for the truth that I am positioned with Jesus Christ, Who has become unto me wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption and protected by God’s promises. I believe that I may also live the Christ life, and allow His life to be shining through me, so that I am not only positioned in Him but allowing His life to be lived through me, in Who by grace through faith I have been redeemed by the blood of Christ. I thank You and praise You that my future is united with You always. I am believing if there is someone out there in this world that doesn’t know You or do want to be united with You that they will pray this prayer with me. Father God, I know that I am a sinner and I ask you to please forgive my sins. Jesus come into my heart I make You my Lord and Savior in Jesus Precious Name Amen. If you said that prayer and meant it with all your heart, then I want to be the first one to welcome you to the family of God!

{Power Verse}
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalm 92:12

Father God let this touch someone’s heart today in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

Our dogs they hate the thunder and the rain. So, I put them outside and they scratch on the door to get back in. So, I open the door. They run in. I go outside and shut the door. They scratch on the door to get back out. So I open the door and they run outside with me. I shut the door and walk down the yard and keep walking till I get to the end. The job is done. I walk back up the yard and go in the house. Then they come running and I let them in. I give them their treats. That was a tough job for them to do. But with my help. They did it! Then I rewarded them.

This is what God does for us.

“Good is its own reward.” But we may also wonder whether God rewards us in other ways if we obey His Word. Proverbs 11:17-19; Kindness is its own reward, but cruelty is a self-inflicted wound. The wicked earn a living by deception, but the one who plants righteousness gathers a true harvest. Indeed, those who do what is right will live a good life, but those who pursue evil will die.
Feeling broken usually means that you feel like there’s something you don’t know how to change but want to; there are usually additional words or thought patterns that can help you get a fuller picture of what’s going on and how to address it. We need to be beautifully broken before the Lord. He will use the brokenness in our lives to draw us nearer to Him. Once we are broken before Him, He can put us back together the way He sees fit. Then we can be beautifully restored through Him but first we have to trust Him with our brokenness.
It reads in Psalm 1:1-4; “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law, he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so but are like chaff that the wind drives away.” When we follow the way of wisdom, we reap better experiences, and those better experiences produce rewards such as material provision, relational benefits, and mental and emotional health. Those are God’s rewards for people who follow His instruction.
“When I first got my tracheostomy is a surgically created hole (stoma) in your windpipe (trachea) that provides an alternative airway for breathing.”

I went through a long healing process. A lady who was a volunteer brought a talker that you hold up to your neck and she helped me to talk with it. I couldn’t talk. This lady Sally was in her 80’s but she was showing me something new. Because she also had a trac, so she was able to show me exactly how it worked. But this was after I had already had an old talker that was given to my niece Sophia by a man with a trac at Wal-Mart. Old fashion talkers that you stick up to your neck and talk. They looked like old half phones. Now if you know me, I have a trac in my throat. An air hole that God knew would save lives one day. But through all my brokenness. God sent experienced people in my path who was also healing, and they were able to encourage me. My daughter Lena and family bought me a new talker that following Christmas. It was a great surprise. It was new and didn’t look like a half of telephone. More like a microphone. This was in 2003. God is good cause I prayed I could talk again and sing again. I can talk and sing not perfect. God has so blessed me all these years. God knew that brokenness could bring us blessings through our healing. Nothing we could have earned nor deserved. But God’s love through others can take our brokenness and keep bringing blessings as long as we don’t stay in our brokenness. Isaiah 53:5, reminds us that Jesus Christ knew brokenness firsthand. Scripture tells us He “was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” Christ’s submission to becoming broken led to the healing of our wounds. Brokenness was not the end of the story for Jesus, and through Him, neither is it the end of our story!
Let’s read Isaiah 53:5-10; But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth, he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. By oppression and judgment, he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested. For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.

The funny thing about healing is that something healed still holds the memory of its former brokenness. I still have nasty scars of my own that serves as a reminder of instances I experienced in the past. A day is coming when we will be fully healed from our brokenness and pain will be wiped from our memory. What a beautiful reminder that we should never be ashamed of our own brokenness and healing, because it is through that very brokenness and healing that we can encourage others.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I want to walk in Your ways and keep from foolishness in this world. Keep my heart and mind set on You Lord Jesus so that my thoughts are not influenced by the mindset of this world. I thank You and praise You for the beautiful description of the man or woman who is like a tree firmly planted by streams of living water, producing blessed fruit of righteousness and prospering through Your never-failing provision. I thank You and praise You Lord Jesus who is my worthy High Priest and that You walked this earthly pathway before me. I thank You and praise You Lord Jesus that You know and care about the difficulties I face in my earthly walk. I thank You and praise You that the Holy Spirit is accompanying me through all the changing scenes of life and is with me in every daily task I undertake. Brokenness is my past and blessings are my future as I walk in the light with You in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

{Power Verse}
“For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
Psalm 1:6

Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

I like to sew, make jewelry, crochet and it is really important to me that when I make jewelry it is tedious. I want it to be the best and stay together. Sewing with a pattern is tedious, but not as tedious as making Jewelry. But I want my stitches to be perfect as I put each piece together so that what I make lasts. I used to knit. but because of arthritis and carpal tunnel. Knitting has become tedious. So crocheting is a lot easier. But everything I make by hand someone can buy in the store. I want whoever that buys it to get the best product I make. To me though homemade is a lot better. Others wouldn’t think so. So if I break a necklace I make, I get more upset than if it was store bought. If I get a stain on my new shirt I made from scratch I try my best to get it out. If the stain don’t come out, I get upset. When it is homemade by me or if someone gives me a shirt or Jewelry. I get upset if I ruin it. This product was given to me with love and if I make it is made with my love. The material, thread and all it takes to make a garment is a gift from God through others. This is how God is. He made us with His love. He wants us to appreciate Him as much as He appreciates us. We are His. He guides us with His unique love and care.

“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go I will guide thee with mine eye.” Psalm 32:8

If I make beads as a necklace and I accidently let, go of the string and the beads fall on the floor. I have to start all over again. So, I start over again and clip one end, so the beads don’t fall off. Then when I am finished. I tie both ends. But if I want to use wire. The necklace is tied. Then I slip the wire through the beads and adjust the wire. clip it on both ends. With jewelry binder clips. so, it is one strip of beads. I cut the thread. Pull it out and have a strand of beads. One end of the wire I take a crimp tube, put the wire through it. I take a jump ring and put it on the wire, then I take the wire and put it back through the crimp tube and pinch the crimp tube to secure the jump ring. Then I do the same thing with another crimp tube on the other end of the wire. I add the clasp to the Jump ring then bring the wire through then put the wire though crimp tube and pinch it closed. So, the Jump ring is secure. Then I have a beaded necklace. Lot of work. It is well worth it. My necklaces have lasted me longer than store bought necklaces. God works in our lives like this. He makes us the best ever. He may watch us lose our beads, but then we turn from our sin, and He makes us His treasure the way He always wanted us to be. God is proud of us. He sees how we struggle, fall and get back up and move forward. But he gives more grace. Therefore, it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace (the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.) to the humble.”

{Let’s Pray}

Father God, I thank You and praise You for working in my life. I know I have been broken. There are many times when I have failed to listen to Your voice, strayed my own way, and fallen flat on my face! I thank You and praise You that I can confess my faults to You, and that You are faithful and just to forgive all my sins and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. I thank You and praise You that You are always here for me in the good and bad. I thank You and praise You for Your gift of grace. I want to mature in faith and draw ever closer to You. Let me be alert to your instructions, show me the path I should go, and guide me with Your eye. How wonderful to know that You have scheduled every day of my life for my greater good. I never want to stray from Your perfect path for my life, and may my life be a godly witness and Your light to others and give all the glory to You in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

{Power Verse}

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, they would be too numerous to count. Psalm 40:5