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

Waiting for the bottom to fall out..

Life is beautiful. I am blessed. The presence of God is with me from behind and out in front. Revelation, insight and knowledge is pouring out of me day and night. The anointing of the Most High God has me covered and smothered. All is well with my soul and it is not because of what I have but who He is to me and my life.
So why the title of this message you may ask because that itty, bitty, tiny part of my soul just can't bear all this goodness. That not quite restore claiming to be realistic part of my soul that just keeps saying things can't always stay this great. The depression and misery can come back or disappointment may be right around the corner but today I drown out the voice of that lying mentality with songs of praise and worship in my complete deliverance and healing that I am living inside and out the GOOD LIFE.
The Lord is saying to me to tell others that we must keep the ball rolling to keep up the momentum of victory.
1 Thess. 5:24 The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.
Psalm 103: 1-5 Let all that I am praise the Lord; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name. Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He redeems me from death and crowns my with love and tender mercies. He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagle's!
Be blessed by this word from the Lord, Manie

New Beginnings..Again?

Isaiah 42:9 See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you."
Since the start of the 2009 I have read a couple of places online where some christians have felt cheated because of what DID or DIDN'T happen in 2008. In their hearts and mind it was NOT their year of New Beginnings that so many said it would be. In return they have decided that those ministers and teachers of the word are false prophets or counterfeit teachers. They criticize the personal lives of pastors and preachers and blame them for what they themselves HAVEN'T receive in their lives.
It is time for us to become familiar with the passage of scripture in 2 Chronicles 20:20b Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.
When we see a pastor prospering while his flock doesn't we think he is a crook and a con. We don't know how much time that congregation is spending believing in God and meditating on the word. As well you need to be praying for discern and truth to see if it good soil there for you to learn and plant seed. I myself mentioned in another message that even as believers we should NOT live our christian walk through other pastors and teachers. They are flesh just like we are and susceptible to the same attacks of the enemy. I am not trying to excuse SIN from anyone's life but too much of time I see such a religious backbiting spirit in the church. When we see ANYONE especially our generals in the body of Christ fall down LET us refrain from saying A-HA! and instead pray for that one to get and STAY back up.
In fact we need to take responsibility for the quality of our own lives. I believe that EVERYTHING God said for me and to me will come to pass. It may have NOT been in way I had planned but I myself DID have an exciting New Beginning in '08 and the blessed part of that is that it is just the beginning. In the midst of economic turmoil and all the doom and gloom projected by the media I can TESTIFY that 2008 was a time of New Beginnings for me in personal and professional life. I can say that even in obeying God to leave my job to start and concentrate on ministry I have learned how to be sustained on the FAVOR and word of God.
And everything that was meant for my evil last year God used it for my good. Your life will be what YOU make it in Christ. Like the man in John 5: 6-8 we don't need someone else to help us get in the pool all we need to do be obedient to HIM who says Rise, take up your bed and walk. Be Blessed, Manie

Good God!!!

Psalm 34:8a Taste and see that the LORD is good.
You must know that and believe that HE is for you and your highest good. You will have times of crisis and troubles and you will want to blame everyone and everything most of all you might consider blaming God. It is especially during those times that you must know that God is good and He is for you. It is time to repent and ask for forgiveness for all the times you thought, felt, said or even acted like God was the blame and cause for all your problems, bad breaks or the overall poor quality of your life. It is said by Jesus Christ 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. The word advises us in John 8:31-32 "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Today God wants you free in knowing that you are not in this fallen, recessed and depressed world all by yourself. The truth is that you have been chosen out of the world.
Decree today according to Ephesians 1:6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Revelations 12:12 The devil is defeated and he knows his time is short. We need to understand most of the time we are doing battle not with him but with the harvest from the seeds he has sown in our heart.
Forget the former things and do not dwell on the past and KNOW and DECREE today that God has good plans for your life. He made it possible for you to be blessed coming in and going out. He wants you prosperous and successful. Don't give up or give in to the deception from the enemy and the world.
You can have all the God has for you. In Jesus Name Be Blessed, Manie

The Great I Am

The Lord tells Moses in the beginning of Exodus 3 that he has heard the cries and seen the plight of the Israelites enslaved to the Egyptians. It is recorded to be over 400 years of bondage that the Israelites endured while in Egypt. We read in Jeremiah 23:23-24 Am I a God at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? says the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the Lord. We should take encouragement in that word knowing that we serve an omnipresent God. And now like it was then He sees all the trials, tribulations and oppression we are going through. I would have thought in all their suffering that one of the children of Israel would have called out to God for deliverance much sooner. Yet God in His sovereignty, his power, and his mercy decided to for once and for all intervene and take His people from oppression to the land of plenty. Again it the same with us God is saying to us today that we need not suffer through the warfare, generational curses, sickness and lack that burdened our ancestors. We are promised in the Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]--. The time is now as written of in Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).
After Lord sent Moses out with instructions to go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt. Moses inquired of the Lord what is the name of the one that is sending me? What shall I say to them of who is the God of their fathers?
In verse 14-15(AMP) it is written And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM and WHAT I AM, and I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE; and He said. You shall say this to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you. God said also to Moses, This shall you say to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your fathers, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and by this name I am to be remembered to all generations.
He was first revealed to Moses as The Great I am but He has promised to show Himself to us in that way as well. It is when you know Him as the Great I am that all of the questions in life are erased.
Maybe someone needs healing in their body and all the doctors have given up on you. So you ask Who is going to bring healing to my body? I am.
Father God, in the name of Jesus I am need financial provision. Who will supply for this need? I am.
Lord, I feel all alone. Shady family members and fairweather friends. Who will be there for me to stick closer than any brother? I am
Who is that is GREATER living in me than all the wickedness in this world. I AM .
Who has destroyed all the forces of evil in my life and allowed me to triumph over the enemy. Christ says I am.
I am here today reporting to you the GOOD NEWS. No matter how long you have been oppress, in bondage, felt left all alone. Like the declaration of the Kirk Franklin song This is it.
The Great I am has said to announce to you He has heard it all and seen it all. He has promised to bring you of your afflication in to a place of freedom and abundance. In Jesus Name. Be Blessed, Manie