Loving the Life you have ...

Have you ever heard the saying life is what you make it. Today I want to speak to you about what kind of life are you making for yourself today? Are you making the decision to honor God by living and loving life to the fullest? Or are you still stuck in the past, being a victim more than a victor, and more helpless than hopeful?

I want to give you this word from the Lord because so many of us are looking to be blessed by God in order to be happy in our lives. And yes when God brings us into the fullness of His provisions and promises for our lives that will be great. But I want you to make a decision to be full of joy and peace right where you are. Too many of us have been being miserable because of the conditions of our lives for too long. Too many of us have NEEDED for everyday to be a sunny day in order for us to be happy.
Matthew 5:45(CEV)...Then you will be acting like your Father in heaven. He makes the sun rise on both good and bad people. And he sends rain for the ones who do right and for the ones who do wrong.

Outside of the decision to receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and personal Saviour. One of the next most important decisions you will need to make is the decision to be responsible for your own happiness in your life.
Remember the written word in Job 22:28 (NIV) What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways. Be Blessed, Manie

Got Misery?

Micah 7:1a What misery is mine!
God gave me this message some time ago but it has been a struggle to get it from my spirit out into the natural. It is about misery. The bible has much to say about people dealing with misery. Like in the Old Testament Leah struggled with being miserable because Jacob didn't love her. As well the bible says that the children of Israel struggled with being miserable while under the harsh dictatorship of Pharaoh. I am not saying that in either of these cases or any other situation that people don't have circumstances or situations that can attempt to make them miserable. Yet I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying we have a choice to make in whether we succumb to accepting misery. You may NOT be able to change your condition but you can change the choice you make in how to see it and deal with it. For some people misery has become a way of life and just like the common cold misery is contagious. I know a lot of times the enemy tries to make us feel like we don't have a choice in how we deal with life. But the closer I walk with God the more I see that we a choice in the way we choose to live. For a very long in my life I was miserable and I had no problem continuing to staying miserable. It is sad to realize but sometimes we have no problem adapting to even the worst of circumstances. Then instead of pressing through the temporary discomfort of growth we stay comfortable in the pain of our misery. Saints of God, we have to make a choice and say NO MORE. Everyday is a choice to make the decision to rejoice and be glad in the LORD. Now in my life I have such an aversion to misery or any other sort of negativity that I can instantly sense it in another person. It is difficult being around a person that is not happy and pretty much hasn't made the decision to be happy. Have you ever been in close proximity to someone who makes a big deal out of EVERYTHING. Just burning their toast or spilling their coffee in the morning is ENOUGH to ruin their entire day. These kinds of people don't deal with disappointments or distraction easily. Every little breeze is enough to knock them down and keep them down.
Maybe some people are miserable because they don't know how much God loves them and how much He is for them. Maybe those people wallow in misery because they don't understand that God has made them to be more than a conqueror. Is it possible that these folks have never read in the good book that God always causes them to triumph. You don't have to be miserable when you realize that your future is destined to be brighter than your past. Let me go ahead and caution you that if you have placed all prospects of happiness in people and other things in this world then YES you are guaranteed a life of MISERY. But if you learn that those who hope in the LORD will never be ashamed then you will right now live a life full of blessings and success. Be Blessed, Manie

It's your world

Mark 8:36 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? I just have to say that serving Jesus is the greatest life in the world. Forget all that other carnal junk like shacking up with some dude who still doesn't want to married, drinking, clubbing dragging day after day to some dead end job with no hope of advancement and progress. When you have and develop a relationship with God then you get in on His good plans for your life. The plans to prosper you and for you a good future. You realize that as high as it is the sky is still not the limit and nothing is impossible to you. Your friends and family considered your servitude to Christ as extreme and that you missing out on all the fun. For me personally if what the world was offering me indeed was fun then I will pass on anymore of that.
Philippians 3:8 (NLT) Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ. So I will be alone for the value of learning who I am in Christ and what kind of mate I deserve from Him. I will in the mean time learn about real intimacy and true love in the shelter of the Most High. Also I deal with having pray through any pain or hurt and giving it over to him instead of numbing myself with pleasures from the world because I know He causes all things to work together for my good.
Let me tell you saints the enemy is a liar, a deceiver and a destroyer and what he is offering you is NOTHING compared to what God has in store for you.
Maybe people in the world will it doesn't take all that praying, reading your word, giving and offering and church going but that is ok it just means they don't want what you want. People in the world who haven't dealt with their pain can't understand your desire to be whole. People in the world attack our desire for wealth. They have no problem with every singer, actress, rapper, ball player or other media personality being rich but pastors, prophets, ministers and such should be nice little christians and stay broke. I don't always get it right but in my daily life I am representative of the kingdom and so I reflect the image and likeness of Christ and I expect the same. And when I don't get it back I love then anyway but I keep it moving. Believers dont attach yourself to former dead way of living. Choose life. Choose light. Believe good about you are- imperfections and all. Love you. Appreciate You. Leave the world and all its fun and pleasure behind. You are not missing out on anything. As Paul says in Philippians 3:14b By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward- to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back. Be Blessed In Jesus Name, Manie

The walking dead

Mark 2:21-22 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins-and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.
The are several passages in the old Testament where the Lord gives instructions not to go near or touch a dead body.
The life of a believer is a choice to life and to only be attached to living.
Deut. 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life that you and your offspring may life. Everybody in the kingdom of God represents heaven is life and everything under the power of the devil is death. There are some of us today attached to some dead habits, dead relationships, and dead situations.
Proverbs 11:19 says The truly righteous man attain life, but he who pursues evil goes to his death.
Matthew 7:14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that lead ti life, and only a few find it. There seems so much and so many that make promises of a better, happier and at the same time it so seldom can deliver.
The TRUTH is plain and simple about what it is that truly can give and deliver us life. Jesus is the deliver of LIFE.
John 6:47-48 I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life.
John 6:63 The Spirit gives life.
John 10:10b I come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Resist the lies of the enemy that would have to be seek anything and anyone with the promise that it or they will make life better. You start to live in such resentment and frustration when you think your joy is out THERE somewhere and you can get to it. The truth is that Jesus is our life. In Him there is peace that the world and all its concerns and problems can't take away. The truth is that Jesus is the way. The way of out your problems, frustrations and disappointment.
Jesus is the truth. The truth that the man, the woman, the better joy, the tighter body and more money won't accomplish in your life what HIS presence will. HE is the only way. Again I decree Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Stop believing the lies of the devil by attaching yourself to those dead things that only want to pollute your soul and kill you.
Leave the old and cleave to the new. Sever from your mind, heart and your life every dead thing that has the potential to kill your life.
In Jesus Name LIVE and Be Blessed, Manie