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Live Each Day as the Last

There was a song by The Costers called “Life Can be a Dream.” We tend to make our lives, not allowing God to make our lives. By doing so, we run into a lot of problems; problems with us, not with what God says.

Do you remember when you got out of High School, and began to look for your first job? Then you started making plans for your future. You started imagining, seriously, what your life would be like. You’re out of school now, and you have nothing left but to ponder what you’ll do for the rest of your life. Some would say, I’m going to fall in love, get married, have a family and have 1.5 kids. The future is not always what we perceive it to be. As we go on, as young adults, we always have a tendency to set up things in our minds ahead of time. You’re taught throughout school to have money so you can live you life, have the nice, car, clothing, home and significant other, then your life can move forward. You try to make the right decision, whether or not to complete you schooling, or get a better job. You’ve already calculated how your life will be. In your life you try to reach a certain thing at a certain time, so at the time frame you’ll have what your goal was. You have a goal that at the age of 27, you have your career, money in your pocket, and eventually have someone by your side.

Then life happens.

The chain of random or unpredictable and unforeseen events that throw you off balance. When you are going along in your life, you’ve got your savings, you set ways of what you’ll do, then all of a sudden life hits you. Life hurts doesn’t it? When it hits, it seems like life doesn’t care about you. You have a whole plan, and now its been ruined. As a man, these are the type of tings you run into in life: you get laid off, you don’t get accepted into the college you wanted, you start hanging around the wrong influences, you get in a car accident, or your girlfriend gets pregnant. Now your life stops, for a moment. How many unwanted kids are out there who are fatherless, and in some ways motherless, due to the mother trying to get her own life together? Here are the things a woman goes through: getting stuck in a dead end job, getting a lot of debt, under pressure to live according to a peer group; you get pregnant by the wrong guy due to overwhelming emotions, with not enough finances to take care of yourself or the baby.

You need to face the fact that your life has taken another change. Its too late in your life to go back and try to correct a decision, because once its done, its done. How many have every looked back over their lives and said “I wish…I should have…I could have?” Isn’t it amazing how God rearranges our lives, though we make mistakes—He changes our whole scheme of things about our selves and our walk–so we still will do what He wants us to do. We made the wrong step, we should have gone left, but we went right. He’s already planned that if they go left, then they’ll run into this person that will jack then up, but I’ll help them through it. You have a purpose in your life to do what God says. If it will take you going through Egypt instead of going through Ohio, then guess what, you’re going through Egypt, because you don’t listen to what He says. How many have heard the term “put it on the back burner?” When you put off to do something for another day, doesn’t mean you aren’t suppose to do it. Our biggest problem is we try to go ahead of ourselves and make plans and goals. I’m not speaking negatively about planning. Planning is good, but you need to handle the things of today, for today. The Bible says tomorrow is not promised to you. So live everyday as though it were your last. Would have, should have, and could have makes matters even worse. What do you do now? You handle the things of today, sufficient for today. Get your mind right, get your heart right, get you right. Then you can build from that point on.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Matthew 6:30-34

No one knows what the future holds–no one. The steps of a righteous man or woman are ordered by God. What leads and guides you? The Holy Ghost, into all truth. You shouldn’t be trying to figure out what to do because God has already worked it out. A lot of time, we don’t need to see what God has planned, because we’ll try to alter what He has planned. You try to situate yourself in a better way, but the trials and test you go through now are for this now. Handle them, deal with them, work them out, get it in you, and learn from the lessons. You’re establishing your foundation for your future.

Life is like a huge puzzle. There is a big board, and there are only 2 puzzle pieces on the board. You have one puzzle piece in your hand. So you try to fit the one in your hand with the 2 on the board, and they don’t go together. Sufficient for the day is the work thereof. Every time you go through life and trials, another puzzle piece is placed in your hands, and you can slowly piece together the pieces on the board. The pieces that go on the board of life, come from experiencing and going through different aspects of life. You can’t take puzzle pieces and with a pair of scissors try to shape them on your own. You don’t know what the shape of the next pieces will be. This is where we make the mistake of trying to out think God. Trials teach you how to appreciate things, how to be satisfied, how to have love, to be strong, to which you acquire the puzzle pieces of life. But if you go out of the realms of trials and try to control what you go through in your own life, then you won’t get the pieces that will form the life for you.

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Psalm 37:23-25

Why is my life like this? I’m tired! Because you created that for yourself because you stepped out of the trial and test that would have given you the perfect structure. If you don’t appreciate something, what will you do with it? You’ll abuse it. What do you mean? Picture the proverbial guy who couldn’t afford to buy a car, spent years working hard, to get himself a car. Now when he gets his car, he misses every bump in the road, cleans it often; but if you give a car to someone who never had the opportunity to work hard to get it, how would they treat it? They would drive it erratically, and not take care of it. You have to be taught the principles in order to move on. The only way to do that is to live in the now, experience the tests and life of now in order to be what you should be, not what you want to be. If you don’t allow God to mold you, you can’t be whom you should be. He who began a good work in you, won’t stop until He’s completed it in you. If you don’t have a certain quality in you that a Child of God needs, you’ll go through many trials. He needs to work out in you a trial to get you to understand what caring, loving, and understanding are. If God needs you to understand what love is, He will take you through something like that.

The title of the puzzle is Christian Behaviour, and you’ve been given 3 puzzle pieces. The first puzzle peace you’ve been given is God, the second is His son. Now you have to walk out your Christian walk to see what it means to be a Child of God. But in the process, the world is interjecting what it is to love or care; people have many options about things; about you, where you should live, when not to talk, when to listen; People have that all broken down for you, and if their message is incomplete, then your message is incomplete.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.5 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.


Psalm 37:23-25

God knows what you have need of.

4 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

James 4:1-6

If you’re a Child of God, why ask the world for help? You’ll never get that puzzle piece up there on the board of life if you’re constantly comparing God with world. You can’t serve 2 masters—you’ll love the one and hate the other. Can you say yes and no at the same time? No! Neither can you serve two different masters. Either you serve God or serve Satan. You can’t have one foot in the Church and one in the World. The scriptures says the Lord wants us to be either hot or cold, because if we’re lukewarm, He’ll spew us out of His mouth. That is why sometimes people go to ministries that endorse wordily things, or don’t care to point out their wrongs.

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

James 4:7-13

You can’t get to 100 unless you start with 1, then progress to 2, then three and so forth. Lets care about the number one thing in our lives today. This is where we start, then we can move onto the second thing, until we can reach our goal in Him, doing what He says to do, and not what we want.

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How Much of what You Do is for You, Not Jesus

Do we ever think how much of our day is spent concerning us than the things of Christ? As we ponder here in the house of God today, what has been your most involved thought this morning? Even before you started your day this morning, or even now. Do we ever realize how much of our day we spend thinking about what is most important to us personally and not of Christ or of benefiting of others? Sometime we, exclusive of Christ, can be the most
selfish people there are, because our hearts are so much involved with our desires, that evil thoughts
can invade our hearts. We tend to think that we need this or that, when Jesus said in Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Jesus also said that we should take more care for the things of others than ourselves. In a nut shell, how well do we know ourselves and what are our motives in Christ Jesus? Why do you do the things you do? Is it because you love Him, fear Him, or because you have nothing else to do?

Luke 6:44-48
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

Many people in Church today are showing up. To do what? Absolutely nothing. It becomes a routine or pattern. “I come to Church because I’ve been told to come to Church,” or because “The scripture says fail not to assemble yourselves together.” Its better that there be two honest people in the Church, than a whole Church full of folks that have the Devil in them. Anybody can see a body, anybody can have a body. But nobody knows about the body that is coming in. We all pretend we are of One Body, but the body doesn’t know about its own body. “We are of the Body of Christ.” Are we in the Body of Christ? If so, what body is that? The Word of God say that if you’re apart of My body the things I do you’ll do…the things I say you’ll say. The first part of Luke 6:44-48 says for every tree is known by its own fruit. Isn’t that something? You know an apple tree because you see apples on them; a lemon tree because you see lemons on them; a peach tree because it has peaches; a plumb tree because it has plumbs; and a pear tree because it has pears. You know everything by the fruit it bears. You plant seeds for potatoes and you get cucumbers how will you feel? So we want what we want, and everything that looks like what it looks like is suppose to be what it is. So when we see the Children of God walking down the street do we know if they are apart of the body? Everyone has a “talking game,” but you’re known by your fruit.

What is you’re foundation? How did you set your foundation? Was it built upon the words of other people, and not on the Word of God? When you build upon the words of other people and not the Word of God, its easily manipulated and washed out of you and replaced with what you heard. When you go to an all you can eat, buffet style restaurant, grabbing your plate, you don’t put everything on the buffet on it. You pick and choose exactly what you want. Are the people of God today, picking and choosing what Word they want in their foundation? If you don’t choose the right things in your foundation, you have no glue that will bring everything together. All of the Word of God is good for the edification of the Body, so we shouldn’t pick and choose. We take the time to pick and choose what we want to believe from God, but not what God wants to believe in us. Its not what you want, its what you need. You need this because God needs to perfect in you a thing. What is our purpose here in the world? To be a light for the world. But our lights are dim. What is your foundation today? How much of what we do is for us and not Christ?

Ephesians 4:20-27
But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

If you’re foundation in Christ is true and sure, why is your conversation sounding like when you were in the world? Was your foundation structured and sure? You’ve already been taught of Him. What part of the teaching did you hear and not hear? If you’ve been taught Christ, then your foundation should be sure. The only thing you should be concerned about is how to walk in Christ. You will get flustrated. Flustration leads to disappointment, and disappointment leads to being disappointed in yourself. You’re foundation may be sure, but things come by that may shake your foundation. Then you have to look back and see what caused the shaking. Were you being the “old you?” Its comfortable to be the “old you,” but the “new you,” isn’t so much. The “new you,” pushes you outside your comfort zone. Don’t give place to the devil. Don’t give him the keys to your house. Whatever was in our foundation that shook it, its a door way for Satan.

Isaiah 43:6-7
I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

So as you can see we were made for God’s glory, not for our own. Nobody can do what each of us can do, because He has assigned it us. So why procrastinate? Why are we only motivated to do something when it fit our needs? How would you feel if someone didn’t appreciate the gift you’ve given them? Would you give them a gift again? A poem by C. T. Studd from “’Twill Soon Be Past” reads “Only one life ’twill soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last.” Even though this is not in the Bible, I can see why this phrase has stood the test of time because when you look at your life it will tell others the truth about how you are or were your life is in Jesus.

1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Colossians 3:16-17
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. 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.

Psalms 37:7-10
Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

You must be patient. You cannot put God on a time schedule. What happens when you’re patient? In your patience, you shall inherit the Earth.

John 15:16-20
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

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On the Scale of Right and Wrong, Where do You Weigh in?

When we look at a scale, its a way to measure weight of things. If it is good it will be Good or Right: suitable, fit, sound, whole, truth, well-founded. If its evil or wrong, it will cause wickedness, causing harm,  distress, threatening,iniquity;

The quest is on, to be the most beautiful, the moist intelligent, the one with the most Savoir-faire as the French would put it, or having a polished sureness in social behavior. In other words, knowing what to do in any situation. Are you that type of person? People want to be the one, that no matter what circumstance or situation they are in, they know how to avail themselves in that situation.

People today have taken the wrong road in human development. They’ve moved from wanting to connect to the creator Jesus, Yahweh, God, the creator with the real intelligence, and they are choosing, instead, to be connected to an artificial intelligence that is compiled programming man made language to simulate. It does what man tells it to do. They tell machines what they want them to do. People would rather be controlled by a computer program, than by the intellectual intelligent program of God which is KJV language. Look at the society we live in. Its changed so much that man wants to be in a machine, that they are implanting themselves with machines. There are millions of people around the world who have decided to implant a chip in their bodies. Trans-humanism. The chip makes everything “convenient” in everyday life. They are allowing chips to communicate with other computers to tell them how to live; what is best for them. People want to be trans-humanists so badly that they are allowing machines to coordinate their day. The world is pulling toward that so much, that its trying to teach our men to be accpetant of them. Our young men don’t know if they are men, and some girls don’t know if their girls. They want to confuse you of your identity so that you’ll be acceptant of what they want to place on you. Our President and society tells people that its ok to be that way, as to prepare them for what they will do to them. This is something God gave us common sense to know; nature even gives us common sense to know. Animals procreate with the opposite sex; they know better. What would happen if all the men went to men, and all the women went to women? We all would die out. Why does our government make laws that accept such a lifestyle? To fulfill a fleshly need. Our government made laws and ordinances to make the rest of society conform to this philosophy. To them that don’t comply will be prosecuted under law. In other words to force you to accept this way of thinking even when it goes against common sense of a species that God had ordained, to maintain life of its kind on this plant.

In this world, Christ has warned us in health, disasters around the world, famines, pestilence, earthquakes, and
an incredible increase in man’s inhumanity to man. As in kids violence to other kids in this country. God has been warning folks. When kids walk into their high schools displeased and kill their classmates. You can only protect yourself so far, because Satan doesn’t care if you are a king, chancellor; he will attack you. If Satan took Christ to the pinnacle to try to swindle Him, what and who are we?

This country, the United States, is now known as the new Babylon. When you change the moral fabric of a society to suite the minority and not the majority, then you have a problem. We have people who say its ok to seek revenge on people who dislike you. Its ok because you’re the underdog in society. If anyone comes after you and attacks you, we will make a law to protect you. There will come a time when those of the Church who are preaching the truth will be attacked. Everything done in Sodom and Gomorrah, they are doing in the United States today. Homosexuality, bestiality, genetic experimentation, cloning… If they are cloning animals, you think they’re cloning humans? But President Clinton made a law against such things. You know how many rules against humanity the government has broken? Do you want to live in a society that you don’t know whether you’re male or female, teaching our kids to dumb them down? Is there any creativity in schools today? This country has been warned by the hand of God, even as Belshazzar in the Bible was warned by the handwriting on the wall.

Daniel 5

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.6 Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.8 Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.

They have disrespected God and His temple. We have to wonder if we do the same things in our lives. Do we take the things of God in our lives and make them for our own? They were having a party and all of a sudden there is a hand, writing on the wall.

10 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;

Belshazzar is doing the exact same things his dad did. This great man of pride who looked down on evey one else, now everyone was looking down on him! Your pride comes before a great fall. Daniel first had to get this straight before he interpreted the writing on the wall.

23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.25 And this is the writing that was written, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.26 This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.27 Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.28 Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

You who knows better, talking about you walking in the things of God, but in the world taking His things and using them for your personal use, you’re not far from being disciplined. Your arms are too short to box with God. Belshazzar knew better. Has your life been weighed on this scale? Has there been a hand writing occasion in your life. Its big to talk about Christ, but have you been living Christ? Talk is cheap? Why? Because there are no returns. You have to be able to walk the walk before you can tell someone else about the goodness of Jesus. Belshazzar got so big in his shoes, that he allowed himself to escape into mess. Are you doing what you should do in Christ as you should, or do you only just have good game? People who get rich and get money, they praise God, driving around in their BMW, but can’t help their brothers and sisters in need. They don’t share because they don’t want people to take advantage of you. You don’t hear this talk in Church, because these pay tithes. So those who have money aren’t preached to, but those who don’t are. Those who have money are allowed to sit in the respected places in the Church, while others without money are spoken to disrespectfully and told to sit in the back. Respect of persons.

In my conclusion: The word tell us “ were a man’s heart is there lies his treasure” Matthew 6:21. If you desire so much of this life of this earth and the people of this world plus the thoughts and hopes it brings, then your mind is weighed on the wrong evil side of this life!

Matthew 5:20
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Where is your heart? Where is your heart? Where is your heart? What are your desires? Some of us talk God, but the world is beating us doing it. We can’t go out into the world and minister to the needy, because they might hurt us, and because we complain…they need something. Meanwhile, we have others who don’t give honor to God about doing things, but they are out there shoveling out all they have to the needy. I don’t want to share the Word of God with anyone, you know why? Because they might ask me a question that I don’t know. Can you do good to someone who does good to you? Easily. But can you do good to some one who uses you? Its hard. But in-spite of you, you must do good.

Proverbs 17:1-7

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts. A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers. Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

A lie needs support, but the truth need only be spoken only once.

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I’ve Been there For You, Will You be there for Me?

Have you ever been in a situation where you knew you should have died? Have you ever had that type of situation? How about when you got in a heated conversation that was going good at first then all of a sudden it went bad quickly, and it became so surreal? In that when you look at that term surreal, it means an effect, or fantasy, unreal, unearthly, strange, freakish, dreamlike. Have you ever been in a situation like that, were it was unfolding before your face, it  start going that way fast and you couldn’t stop it? Then all of a sudden the Lord steps in and you don’t know it, but the situation changes, the atmosphere changes. Things started to calm down and goes back to a normal state. Have you ever been in a situation like that, which blew your mind? You know it should have gone somewhere else? At the end you looked at one another and said “Whoa, what just happened?” The Lord had to step in and squash yours and their temper, because Satan already threw his hand in and caused it to go out of wack. When it was all over, it seemed so surreal, unearthly.

Jesus has been intervening in our lives when we ask, for a long time. But we just equated it something normal, coincidence. There has always been something like that which has happened in our life, and you blow it off and make it seem lesser. Everyone around gets in trouble and you walk away unscathed. Have you ever been in that situation? Since Christ has been standing up for you and been there for you, can you do that for Him? Can you say in your heart, mind, and thoughts, with the different situations that have happened in your life, when He asks you, can you stand for Me, when everyone around you can’t or wont? Can you allow Jesus to work through you what he will for the time or the situation? Can you allow that? Do you remember when I was with you, when the circumstances seemed uncanny? Those moments that were close. Diving down the road, doing things, and all of a sudden a car comes another way in a split second where we know that we should have hit it.

The Lord loves His people. When you have a purpose in Christ, He makes sure that your life is different even when you don’t think it is. Everyone who comes around your life is blessed, and they don’t realize its the presence of God. Even you don’t know what blessings are bestowed upon you. The light Jesus is trying to shine through you, its not for the benefit of you, but others to see Christ in and through you. You don’t have a light. Its not you that He wants to shine, its Him that He wants to shine through you. Men will see you and give Him the glory. He’s been with you since you were a little child. Satan wants to destroy that in you so that he can win over God’s will for you. I say this to my daughter every time I see her “when you were a little child, you use to walk around the house, arms raised giving glory to God.” But Satan sifted your life, bringing people around you whose spirit was negative to defeat your walk, and defeat you even finding out who He is.” My daughter’s Grandmother always wanted to grab her and pull her to herself, and when my daughter would go to bed, she would lay down with her. But what is wrong with that, she was only her Grandmother? Satan will use whomever he will use. have you ever heard the phrase “transference of spirits?” That spirit will get on you because of touch or proximity. Satan brings people back from your past, and they are eager to hug you to be alone with you. Have you ever noticed when you leave an old friend who you always had problem with you feel like something had lifted, right? but when they came back in your life you felt very heavy and burden. My daughter had that spirit transfer onto her. She would start throwing tantrums, and quick to get a attitude about anything when she never had a tantrum before. She took on the ways and attitude of her grandmother, who had an attitude with people who wouldn’t do what she wanted them to do and she would curse them out. Transference of spirits its real people, It doesn’t matter if they’re family or friends. That negative spirit was transferred to my daughter, so what ever evil spirit is upon a person its will be transferred to the other person then they will begin take on that person mindset and attitude of the evil spirit have.

People rarely transfer positive things in your life, but they will tell you negative things in the form of gossips and that just jump off there lips to you. Have you ever found yourself walking into a situation, and coming out acting like it was your situation? Well you try to blow it off and say that it just who you are trying to take ownership of it, when you never behaved that way before until after that situation. No it isn’t you, its that situation that you just came out of. Satan is not trying to possess you, he wants to delay you. for example: What would happen to if you got to a train, or bus, or plane late? It would leave without you, right? Some people come into your life to delay your growth or walk in life, because they are under a evil or demonic influence that has delayed them. That is why your walk is a selfish walk. At the final judgment Who has to stand before Christ for you, you or the people who influenced you? You have to be concerned about you. But if your brother, sister in Christ Jesus is trying to get up, help them as best you can. But when their struggles has become a part of your struggles in life, you have to know when to cut bait, and run, in other word let there struggle go. Its not an easy thing to choose Jesus over family. but even in bible; Matt 10:37, luke 14:26 it reads, that you can’t love you mother, father, sister, brother, more than Him. Because they will cause you to turn away from Him. They know him or love him, and out of your love them you’ll wind up not loving Me base up on there will and understanding then you’ll wind up walking way from Me. Its a terrible things to look back over your life and say, what could have or what should happen if I had done this or that. Satan will bring back to your mind these type of though to condemn you, he will say thing s like, “You were doing good, You were on fire for Christ, you were in his will Now look at you now “! An for us human  we don’t want to be single out or accused and the finger is being pointed at us.

In this day and age the biggest problem in the world, is worrying about what other people will say or is say about you!. Why do we spend hours in front of a mirror doing our hair or putting our clothes on and …etc.? Even when you have your day off, you don’t stay in front of the mirror the same way. Why? Because you don’t really care about all that and you don’t have to pretend anymore, you can just be real. That mindset leaves you after you get a certain age. We’re so concerned about what people say about us that we put the fake smile on, when we feel rotten inside. If your life is so wrapped up in that type of mindset, you can never serve God fully. We need to be more concerned about our souls, because the outer appearance fades. But will your love for Christ fade? Does you salvation depend on how your outer appearance is?

Hebrews 13:1-9

Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

The Lord sends angels down to check up on us. Hebrew 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Mr. or Ms.  just got a brand new car, I need a brand new as well. Mr. and Mrs. just got a brand new house, I need that too. Mr. or Ms. just got a brand new cloths and shoes, I need that. Don’t talk about things that meet your vanity, your conversation should never be about that. What is content? Satisfied. When you’re satisfied with something are you concerned about someone else’s stuff? Oh Lord, they just got the latest MacBook Pro. If you’d never seen them, would you want a Mackbook Pro? Be content. Lord I don’t have what other people have, nor do I own what other people own. What is that saying? Doesn’t your Father know what you have need of? A lot of times we talk to the Lord like we’re ignorant. Lord I don’t have! You don’t have it because you don’t need it. We need to be content. Lord they’re going out and witnessing to 1000 people a day, I only witness to one person, be content its not the number he is looking for you might witness to over a 1000 people, and out of that 1000 only 2 people come to know Jesus, its about letting the word of Jesus be heard so that Christ sheep will hear his voice but a stranger want follow john10:1-27 .

When God tells you something today, will it be the same tomorrow? We think Jesus is like us. We change our minds everyday. But God is not like that. If He told you something in the Word, He won’t change it Malachi 3:6. If He did, He would be inconsistent. If the Word says today you shall not steal or lie, it won’t change tomorrow.

Philippians 4:4-8

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Even when there is disagreement between two people, you can agree to disagree. Then you move on and leave it alone. Kind words turns away wrath. Don’t sit there and fuss with someone. They don’t know, but Satan is using them to jack you up. People are not going to agree with everything you decide to do in your life. Why? They don’t know where they’re going, and they don’t want you to get yours before they get theirs. The Lord is telling you to walk on because its you that has to give an account of your life, not them. People don’t care about you. A lot of times people get jealous because you’re not riding along with them. When someone jumps out in front like they know where they’re going, then the others want to slow them down. This is how people react when you’re growing and they’re not. You don’t have time to worry about someone else problem. Because its someone else’s problem let them work and walk it out.

In conclusion, read Deuteronomy 31:1-6

And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the Lord hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. The Lord thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath said. And the Lord shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

I’ve been there for you will you be there for Me? When you’re around others what manor or conversation do you have? When you’re in confrontation, how is your attitude in that? What is the result after that situation? Can you walk away with a good heart, and no angry feelings? Are the results to the point where God will be happy?

Don’t allow someones sinful nature to destroy your soul. People who are governed by sin or flesh, they want to bind you with their mess so that you can’t do the will of God in your walk!.