Say you love me

John 15:9 (NLT) “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.
I want to talk to you about the freedom, healing and deliverance there is in being in love of Jesus Christ. I don’t know what is more powerful than His love for us. Because of love He made the sacrifice to be beaten and hung on a cross. Because of the power of love He walk out of the tomb ready to give to us everything the Father through His sacrifice gave to Him.
We are dealing with three different persons in the Holy Trinity but the love of all three is the same. And that love is available to all us in so many different ways. We have the power and protection of the Father through His love. We have the authority and wholeness through the love of Jesus. We have the ability and counsel through the love of the Holy Spirit.
When you walk in the fullness of the love of the Holy Trinity then you know the fullness of love for yourself and for others. The revelation to love yourself and to receive the love of Christ is the more freeing and delivering thing you will ever experience in your life.
It is because of THEIR love that you have access to everything that you want. It is because of THEIR love that you are not left alone and forsaken.
Be Blessed, Manie

Dealing with you

Proverbs 23:7 (AMP) For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. This is a message that I have given time and time again and it always does our spirit GOOD to hear it again so here goes.
There is this song by a older group called the The Emotions and the song is called What do the Lonely Do At Christmas. The truth of the matter is that it the song is sung beautifully with really touching lyrics BUT..
the lyrics are so SAD. I brought this up because so many people this holiday season feel this same way. The think that without the one they love there is no need for Christmas. The real reason for Christmas is to celebrate the birth of our ONE and ONLY living Saviour. Read Luke 2:10 We have to know that being along doesn't mean being lonely. We are NEVER alone because God says He wouldn't never leave us nor forsake us and that HE would be with us wherever we go. I can hear some of you saying but that is different I need someone REAL here with me flesh on flesh.. Yet the truth is GOD is as real as it ever gets for us. He is spirit and HE connects with the realest part of us and that is our spirits. The truth whether we feel like it or not is that God is more than enough and when you trust this then you are ready for someone else. It only when we are made whole and free that we are able to love and give to others what we ourselves have in the first place. Adam was in the garden chillin' and it was GOD who spoke it to him that it was not good for man to be alone. In our own lives we get things twisted and we decide when it is time for us to be in a relationship. So we reach out to others in our own loneliness, unfufillment and neediness and we get back from them what we think about our ownselves. If you are with someone that doesn't value, appreciate or love you in the right way it is because you FIRST think that way about you. You keep wanting and expecting God to change them when FIRST of all He wants to change you. See the truth is that when you have been processed, purged and purified and walking in the fullness of the Holy Ghost then you will discern that person that is not and has not been processed, purged or purified and is not right for you right now.
When you are in love with Jesus and walking in His love, His grace and His mercy then you want a companion that exemplifies those same qualities. You are not so desperate that you are willing to settle for anything or anyone other that God's absolute best for you.
Once you see the truth of Christ's love for you then you get revelation of your worth. Your confidence in your own greatness and specialness is so REAL that you are not willing or want to settle yourself for anything other than the best. Too many times when we don't love ourselves we settle for the caterpillar when God longs to give us the butterfly.
It is time to really KNOW and BELIEVE the truth about the person God has ordained and destined you to be and don't tolerate anything LESS when you know you want and what MORE what you deserve. The word says in 1 Corinthians 13:10 that when the perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
I love me some HIM and I love me some ME. Be blessed, Manie

His Love Heals

For a very long time in my life I was in bondage to rejection. It didn't matter whether the rejection was real or just my own perception of it I still suffered from thinking that no one loved or cared about me. Because of my struggle with rejection I suffered from with low self-esteem/worth and depression. I tried to protect myself from rejection and in the process I became a very cold and yet overly sensitive person. Every hill was a mountain and every speed bump was the end of the road. I got saved yet still felt this way for a very long But God...
Through personal storms and trials I started to SEEK God will everything I had in me and it was there in my mess that He met me and dealt with me. I started to learn and grow in how much Jesus loved me and what His sacrifice on the cross was really about. I want to stop here and interject that the word of God is not some pick-me-upper. Reading the word should not be on your to-do list for being a good christian. Before I ever read it in the book of Hebrews I found out a long time ago and still experience it today that the word of God is alive and powerful. There is no situation that can stand up against reading, speaking and believing the word of God. All the rejection I have ever experience from those near and dear and even distant acquaintance could NOT stand up to the truth of God's love for me. I realized that people and the world had LIED to me. I had believe the lies of rejection that I wasn't this enough or that enough. The more people rejected me, the more I rejected myself. BUT GOD...led me to His word to know the truth about His love me. The pain and the love of the crucifiction was MORE real to me than rejection from a family member or hurt from a past relationship. I fell in love with myself. I accepted me right where I was for who I am. I am not there yet..who is but I am being changed from glory to glory.
There is such love and confidence from ME to Me that it literally makes giddy sometimes. You could probably only appreciate that kind of statement if you have dealt with the kind of self-loathing that I heaped on myself.
That testimony was to tell you someone that no matter what has been done to you or what you believed or felt about yourself there is healing available for you today. Know that God loves you. Believe that Jesus Christ loves you. Trust that the Holy Spirit loves you. There are times when your problems crowd around you and there is no one there to help you and you aren't sure what to do or where to turn. Today make a decision to embrace the truth and experience God's love. His love is healing to hurting, the forgotten, the deserted and the abandoned. His love will do what money and other people can NEVER do.
I spent a lot of time and experience a lot of frustration hoping, praying, manipulating other people to do for ME what only HE was qualified to do.
Life and love is a beautiful thing when you are NOT going around expecting people to love you enough that you can feel and think better about yourself and your life.
I want to leave you with some truth to meditate on about His love for you and Your love for Him:
Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God will all your heart and all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
John 14:21b He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:13 And these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Finally I want to add one more thing there is POWER in the word. Your faith comes by hearing the word of God so please meditate and speak these scriptures often. Get in your bible and find more and do the same with them.
In Jesus Name receive His love, Manie

This is love...

1 Corinthians 13:8a (AMP) Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. Also it is written in Romans 5:8 But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us. When we least deserved it God most offered and showed us His love.
And today God is calling some of us to love those who have been anything but unlovable towards us. Love that absent parent, that mean boss, that distant mate or whomever. I am not talking about loving them not in the way that the world has taught us to love them. Love doesn't mean accepting abuse or tolerating excessive control and manipulation. Love is not about being a doormat. Jesus Christ said it was the sick that needed a doctor and not those that are well. So He hung around and minister to those that were considered the lowlifes of those times. I believe in the way He showed His love we need to do the same thing. His love flows through you when people do you wrong and you still do them right. His is love is there when you pray for them and their needs. In John 15:17 We are commanded to love one another. Jesus said in the next verse "If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. Jesus was the walking perfection of love and He was still hated anyway. So we who are far less than that perfections can take the hatred that is coming our way.
No matter what someone does to you it is not compared to what Christ has done FOR you.
In the book of Proverbs in 10:12b it is written love overlooks the wrongs that others do. Christ paid the ultimate price of love by giving up His life. Let us walk in that same love to others by giving mercy and grace. Giving love through our forgiveness. Give love with words of kindness and understanding. Don't get caught up in the natural circumstances of what is going on between you and someone else. Let go of what they are doing to you and become focused on what you need to do for God. In Jesus Name Be Blessed, Manie

Are you the real deal?

There are a lot of guys I know that though they are unmarried like to call their significant other their wifey. It seems cute to the guys and I am sure flattering to the girl but the truth is ITS neither. Maybe the females think of it as a way of calling those things that be not as though they were. I know for the guys they think of a compromise- I will call you wifey without through covenant obligating myself to you as your husband.
In the bible it records in Proverbs 18:22 He who finds a wife finds a what is good and received favor from the LORD. I know a lot of people use that scripture to stress that King Solomon was was putting emphasis on the fact that it is HE who finds a wife. Meaning it is up to the men to find us. The Holy Spirit revealed to me the part that need to be stressed was that finding a wife is a good thing.
I know that Paul talks a lot about marriage and does other biblical writers but for me when at all possible even in the word I like heed the personal direction of the Lord. So it goes In Genesis 1:18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." Then in verse 22 it is written Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man. Men don't just find wives, God makes us wives and takes US to THEM.
My prayer is one of not only wanting a husband but for God to make me a wife, a suitable helper and companion for my husband. My prayer is to be found full of the LOVE of God and giving back that same love.
In this day and age their are too many wifeys and not enough wives. Wifeys are knock-offs and wives are the God made real deals.
Isaiah 41:29 See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion.
A lot of men don't need the hassle of asking and seeking God about a wife when their are so many women ready to label themselves as their wifeys. They all think in bypassing God and working it out themselves they got over and ended up with a bargain. It may seem worthwhile to pay $50 bucks for the fake Huey instead of $500 for the real Louis. But the truth is the cost is not exclusively about the name but its about the value.
When you with your fake knock off get caught in a rainstorm or with just everyday usage you see the leather starting to chip and fade. You notice the stares when you pull out your bus pass from your Gucci bag. I use to be a buyer of knock offs myself until I got tired of wasting my money. I decided I would get the real thing only when I could afford it.
There are some men right now that are finding the value in having an anointed woman of God in their life. Someone who obeys the word of God to abstain from sex until marriage and protecting her life and his from the threat of HIV and other STDS. It is of value to a man to know that a powerful woman of God who can keep covered through intercession and prayer.
Jeremiah 31:22 The Lord will create a new thing on earth-a woman will surround {protect} a man.
It is time to become mature in the knowlege that God has placed on us as chosen vessels. Romans 11:5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
It is time to be TRANSFORMED by the renewing of your minds. We can no longer conform any longer to the patterns of the other {females} in this world.
We are the salt of the earth. We are the light of the world. Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Finally I decree according to Proverbs 13:5 The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace. In Jesus Name Be Blessed, Manie

Change starts with you and not others

For a long time I held on the misbelief that there were some people in my life that needed to change before I was going to be able to deal with them. I felt their behavior towards me was intolerable and it was within my righteous indignation to NOT deal with them any longer. I became a PRO at cutting people out of my life. I felt to vulnerable to being hurt because of wounds still untreated from earlier times in my life. Even after I received healing from Jesus for my emotional wounds I still felt the need to protect myself. In order to protect myself first of all I had to stay a little guarded and NOT let people all the way in my heart. I realized it was too much to let people know how much I loved and cared for them. It was especially in terms of male relationships that I hid my feelings. A lot of the times I went out of my way to out right lie about what I felt about the person. There was no openness, no honesty and no vulnerability from me . And as the scriptures goes in Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. So in return I didn't receive in those same relationships any openness, honesty and vulnerability from them. So then instead of paying attention to the plank in my own eye I was always trying to get the speck of sawdust out of someone else's eye. It use to boggle my mind why I would always meet the guys that needed to be taken care of. And then the Lord said to me it was a tactic from the enemy to keep me distracted from the work that needed to be done in my own life. Maybe I am alone in this but I was so frustrated at why people just couldn't love me the way I felt I wanted - no needed -to be loved. It was not until a few years ago that I realized that I didn't even love myself and worse than that was the TRUTH that I didn't really get it that God loved me. We take in the fact that God loves us with HEAD knowledge but when you receive it with HEART knowledge then things start to change in your life. Most of all you start to change. You start to see YOURSELF the way God sees you. You realize how much you are worth because of the price that Jesus Christ paid for you to live free and abundantly. You realize the truth that you are not forsaken and forgotten. God was right there with you all the time and every thing in your life that was meant for evil, He has promised it will be use for your good. When you see take time and read the word of God then it becomes personal and real to you How much You are Loved. Then you are able to stop FIGHTING against people and start praying for people. What was impossible with you becomes possible with God. When people don't treat us the way we want or even the way we deserve it is written 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins. In Jesus Name Be Blessed, Manie