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WE NEED TO STOP PLAYING WITH GOD, IT IS TIME TO GET CLOSE TO JESUS TIME IS DRAWING CLOSE FOR HIS RETURN. IT IS TIME TO STOP COMPRISEING AND SAY AS FOR MY HOUSE WE WILL SERVE THE LORD. WHEN WE SEE ARE CHILDREN GOING DOWN THE WRONG PATH WE NEED TO STOP THEM AND TELL THEM YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH WHAT THEY ARE DOING, WITH THERE FRIENDS OR WHATEVER IT MAYBE WE NEED TO STIOP IT AND TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. I HAD A SON AND I PRAYED FOR THIS SON FOR A LONG TIME AND FINALLY I SAID LORD WHAT IM I DOING WRONG AND THE LORD SPOKE TO ME AND SAID YOU NEED TO TELL THEM YOU ARE NIOT THERE FRIEND AND YOUR NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH ALOT OF THE STUFF THEY ARE DOING AND IT HAS TO STOP. AND I FINALLY TOLD MY SON HE HAD TO GET OUT OF MY HOUSE BECAUSE I WAS NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH HIS STUFF NO MORE WITH HIM PUTTING HIS HANDS ON ME OR DISRESPECTING ME OR MY SISTER OR HER HUSBAND,OR WITH THE DRUGS SMOKING OR SELLING IT NO LONGER AND I TOLD HIM TO PACK HIS STUFF AND GET OUT,IT HURT ME AND I CRIED, BUT AFTER I DID THAT I HAD A PEACE THAT CAME OVER ME. NOW THIS SON IS DOING FINE HE IS IN CHURCH HE HAS A NICE GIRLFRIEND THAT GOT HIM TO GO TO CHURCH AND HE GAVE HIS HEART TO THE LORD HE IS OFF DRUGS AND HE HAS A JOB AND WORKING ON GETTING HIS OWN PLACE RIGHT NOW HE IS IN A GROUP HOME AND DOING FINE. WE NEED TO BE EXAMPLE TO OUR CHILDREN AND TELL THEM YOUR NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH IT, TELL THEM YOUR NOT YTHERE FRIEND YOUR THERE MOTHER OR FATHER AND WHAT YOUR NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH AND NEVER GIVE UP ON THEM PRAY FOR THEM AND TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS AND HE IS THE ONLY WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE. I HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE, AND I ASK IF YOU DONT KNOW THE LORD THAT YOU GIVE YOUR HEART TO JESUS. HE DIE ON THE CROSS FOR YOU TO SET YOU FREE FROM SINS AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND SITTING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER. KNOCKING AT YOUR HEARTS DOOR WONT YOU LET HIM INTO YOUR LIFE.
Quiet time has been called alot of things morning watch,personal devotions,appointmet with GOD,or personal time.Quiet time is simply a daily time of personal fellowship with God through the Word and Prayer.It is a time we deliberately set aside in which to meet with him.The objective is that we might grow in our personal relationship with God,so that we can know him,lovehim,and become more like him.The Lord has showed me 3aspects why we should some quiet time; why we should have quiet time,how to have a meaningful time with God,and how to deal with common problems that arise during our quiet times. Why is a legitmate question. What are some good reason for it? The Bible gives 3majors reasons: 1Because we need felloeship with God, 2Because it is our privileges as Christians,3Because we gain tremendous benefits from it. Because we as Christians now rightly related to eternal God of heaven and earth, we must have regular fellowship with him in which we get to know him and love him more intimately.Why is daily fellowship with God so important? 1.We were created to have fellowship with God. God created people in his own image for the purpose of fellowship.We are the only creatures in all creation that have fellowship with Adam that had fellowship perfectly in the Garden of Eden before the Fall.(see Gen 2-3) 2Jesus died on the cross so that fellowship could be restored.When Adam sinned, his fellowship with God was broke.And all of us sinners who have followed in Adam's footsteps cannot by nature have fellowship with a pure and holy God.But considered that relationship important enough to send his Son to this world to die for our sins so that we might again have the privilege of a personal relationship with him. And God has called us Christian to have fellowship with them.(1Cor.1:9;1John1:3-4) 3.The regular quiet time during Jesus 'ministry was a source of his strength. Personal fellowship with his Father in heaven was the top priority of Jesus'life (SEE Mark 1;35;Luke5;16;22;39-44)He was never too busy for it; in fact when his ministry wasthe busiest, that's when he made certain that he kept in daily touch with the Father (see John 5:30).If Jesus needed this time with God,how much we need it. 4 Every great man or woman of God throughout history has spent much time alone with God.Anyone who has been used mightily by the Lord was a person of the Word and prayer.The regular quiet timevwas the one thing they had in common. The common denominator among MOSES DAVID DANIEL PAUL BILLY GRAHAM and all the other saints of history is that they all spent much time with God in personal fellowship.There writings and miistrises clearly show this.Someone said,"If you want to fd out what a man is really, find out what he is like alone with God."Martin Luther the father of reformation ,once said I have so much to do today that I must spend at least three hours in prayer." The busier he was, the more time he needed with God.If you are too busy to have a quiet time, then you're too busy! 5.We cannot be healthy,growing Christian without daily fellowship with the Lord.The quiet time is not just a nice suggestion;it's is a vital necessity for a child of God. It absolutely essential for Christian growth and maturity.Have you ever gone without food for a day? If we kept it up we would get sick and weak. The same is true in your spiritual life,for the Bible is the necessary food for your soul.If you go without reading it very long very long, you will get spiritually weak and sick. But yet many Christians get by with one "meal" per week( for some,perhaps two meals) in church on Sundays.You would not survive long on one or two physical meals per week, so how can you in your spiritual life? Job considered the Word of God more necessary than his daily food(Job 23:12). Jesus quoting the Old Testament, declared that man needs to live by every word coming from God (Matt.4:4;Deut 8:3) Peter called the Scriptures nourishing milk (1Peter 2:2; and the writer to the Hebrews thought of the Word as solid food (Heb.5:14) Have you ever gone without a bath? If you have, then you know how sticky you feel after a while and how your odors get so pronounced.The Bible says that when we read the Word of God, we are cleansed.A daily quiet time as a spiritual bath. Many of us Christians who would not think of offending their friends by not bathing regularly do not realize that they can be offensive to the Lord with their spiritual odors !(Psalms 119:9 Eph. 5:26; John 15:3) Look at the observations, you can conclude that if you are not haveing a regular quiet time.........YOU are missing out on the privilege for which you were created. YOU ae rejecting that which Jesus died for to make possible.YOU will never experience the same power and refreshment Jesus did. You will never be used greatly by God. You will remain a weak and sickly Christian all your life. " But I dont have the time !" is excuse we hear so often. Every person in the world has exactly the same amount of time each week----168 hours. You will spend some of those hours on things you think are important. You dont have time for everything; you must mae the time for things that really count,Its not a matter of time, but a matter of priorties. What is really important to you? The key to makeing time for quiet time is your commitment to Christ and the kingdom of God. Jesus stated ,"Seek first his kingdomand his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well"(Matt 6:33). Put God first in your life and you will have more time.Don't let anything rob you of time of fellowship with the Lord. Preserve it all costs. If Jesus Christ is first in our life, you ought to give him the first part of everyday . Your quiet time should be the absolute number one priority and commitment of your life.
We need to worship the Lord and when we worship the Lord we dont have the time to worrier or be stressed about our situation that we are going through. When we worship the Lord we can rest peacefully in His arms and know that Jesus hears us.So instead of worrier and being stress look to Jesus and he will carry you through every situation we go through in life.The devil gets mad when we worship and praise the Lord because the devils know he is defeated when we lift the name of Jesus. OH GLORY AND THANK YOU JESUS. AMEN AND AMEN
Metamorphosis decribes the stages that follow after the caterpillar spins a carcoon behind a piece of loose bark or something else it uses to hide.It goes into a resting stage amd a big change begins to take place.The caterpillar is gradually changed into an adult and emerges as a brand new creature. If we are trouble and upset, worried and worn out about all changes that need to be made in all of us, why not enter God rest ? Struggling wont change us -neither will frustration or worry.The more we rest in God the faster we will see change. If the canvas struggled under the artist's paint brush the painting would never finished.The canvas is perfectly still, totally submitted to the artist's wisdom and creativity. That is exactly the way we must be with God. He knows what He is doing and how to do it We should believe in Him and enter His rest. We need to stop warring with our own flesh all the time .Enter the rest of God and say, ''Lord I cant change myself. If you cant change me nobody can. I place myself in Your hands and wait upon You to make the changes that You know need to be made in me. Father God, I NOT ONLY TRUST YOUR WAYS BUT YOUR TIMING AS WELL".Then we can enjoy fellowship with God we can rest in His loving arms. The process of the metamorphosis is going to hurt. But we need it to hurt ,the more we fight it it the longer it takes and the worse the pain seems . A pregnant woman trying to give birth is always told to relax and breathe. Each pain that comes the actual birth closer, but with each pain she is reminded to relax and breathe. Even though change hurts, it is better than living in constant misery and discouragements. Let God do whatever it is He needs and wants to do in us. Tell him ,"Lord when You finished with me, I dont even want to recognize myself, I dont want to act like the old me I want to manifest the new creation that come s through the new birth.
The past 13 months I have been going through alot, the enemy has been attacking me from all kinds of angles and through so many different areas in my life.And sometimes I felt like throwing in the towel and just giveing up trying all togather, but deep inside I knew I had someone who really cared what happened to me and what I was going through, and sometimes I still felt like I was all alone even though I had my sister and her husband here and my friends I still felt alone and lost and didnt know what to do.I would pray and pray and I felt like God wasnt listening to me and I thought God had left me to deal with the enemy by myself.But to come and found out God was with me and he wanted to see what I would do if I would pass the test and stand and make it through. There was times I wanted to give up and walk away and just give up and there are some days that I still feel like just giving up, but I know I serve a mighty God and He will see me through every situation that I go through no matter how hard the situation might be He is right by my side and he hears my cry when I pray Lord I dont think I can make it through this situation it is getting to hard for me and I want to give up Lord show me what to do and how to handle this problem, I feel like I'm going to have a nervous brake down and all I do is cry and I cant eat or sleep Lord please help me make it through I cant make it alone and the enemy attack is getting strong and I feel like I'm getting weaker and I feel like I'm going to give into the enemy and do whatever I have to do to end this pain I'm going through and the hurt they put me through and I feel like I dont want to go on. And the Lord was preparing me for something that I kept running from and showing me that I could make it through the test and trials I was going through.And then the Lord had me read the whole book of Daniel from chapter one to the whole book of Daniel, Daniel was running away from God and what God wanted Daniel to, and the same with me I was running away what God wanted me to do. The last few months the Lord has lay on my heart to pray for our young people and then I was told I would have a buiding that I would be helping our young people and counseling them.And the Lord told me I want you to be a youth pastor. And the past eight months I have been going through probems with my teenage daughter and she is only 15 years old and she a pretty young lady and I had sent her to California to be with my neice and to start over and have a fresh start because she was haing problems here and my neice said she would help April in every way she could, all April had to do was go to school and come home and do her chores and that is it and my neice would do anything for my daughter and when she graduate from highschool she would have a car waiting for her and a laptop computer but my daughter couldnt do that because she was on her own page she would go to school but that would be all she didnt get no grade or no credit because she wasnt doing nothing to get a grade or credit because she was to busy running away or stealing. I had to get money togather to go out to California to go get her, and a friend of my got the money for me and I was out there for a week and I was told that because I had to go too the school she was attending that they wanted to meet with me and that was all a lie.For those 8 months I cried and lost alot of weight becasue of my daughter and she dont care, because since she been bac she has tried to do the same thing and I have caught her in lies and everything. A week ago she was with my nephew and his wife and she was fine for the first day and my nehews wife was so happy to have her over the next day se was fine and that night she waited until they went to sleep and slipped out and went inside this guys car and I knew who it was I called the guys job and everything I called the police and the guy she was with said APRIL had just called him and gave me the address where she was at, and I'm so glad the Lord gave us the gift of discernment because I knew my daughter was lieing and I knew the guy was lieing to me and the kept to that the story they were saying and I went up to his job and told him to stay away from my daughter and to not call her on the phone, if he did he was going to jail and be locked up and he would be register as a sex offender preying on unladys at the ages from 14 to 15 and the guy is 30 years old. Our young people need our help and our prayers because they are on the verge of destruction and eternity of hell forever.Please pray for our young people they are our future and the rate they are going with drugs and gangs and sex they are killing themselves. I ask you to pray for me as I take this step the Lord is leading me as a youth pastor.THEY NEED OUR LOVE AND SUPPORT SO PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
What does Easter mean to you? Does it mean the easter bunny and a easter basket and candy and colorful eggs.This is how man made Easter and with all the candy and colorful eggs and basket. Over 2000 years ago there was a child that was born and his name was JESUS. And he came and healed the sick and did miracle after miracle.He made the lame walk and the blind eys to see, He cast out demons. He came to do the work of his Father and he taught his disciples on what to do too bring the Word of his Father to the people of all the world.The same people that he spoke to and healed mocked him and spit on him, He asked His disciples to pray with Him for one hour and they could not even pray for one hour with HIM.The soldiers came and took Jesus to there King and said that Jesus was the King of the world and they wanted Jesus crucified on the cross and to take another prisoner and take Jesus and put HIM to death, a man that had done no wrong they wanted HIM to be put death. They took Him and beat him with 39 stripes and place a crown of thorns on his head and had Him carry his Cross to where a place is called Golgotha which is translated,place of a Skull.And when they got up at the top of Golgotha they lay Jesus down and nailed his hands and feet to the cross. And with Jesus there was two robbers that was crucified with him one on the right and one on the left,and one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him saying "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us,"and the other one answered and rebuke him saying",Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly for we recieve the due reward of our deeds;but this Man has done nothing wrong."Then he said to Jesus "Lord ,remember me when You come into Your Kingdom.And Jesus said to him 'Assuredly,I say to you,today you will be with Me in Paradise."And then it got dark and the Jesus cried out and said Father into Your hands I commit My Spirit."And on the third day they went to the tomb and found that Jesus wasnt there and Jesus was risien fom the tomb. Just like he told his disciple of the events that would take place,this is the meaning of EASTER. Jesus die for you and me for our sins he shed His blood on the Cross so we could be set free, Jesus took 39 stripes on his back so we can be healed from all sickness.So who ever comes and read this and they dont know Jesus as there personal Savior wont you give your heart to Jesus and be set free and have eternal life. All you have to do and say is a simple prayer:I know I'm a sinner and I know you die on the cross for me so I could be set free fom all of my sins Lord come into my heart right now and forgive me of all of my sins in Jesus name amen. 
LET'S GIVE THE LORD ALL THE PRAISE BECAUSE HE IS RISEN AND SITTING ON THE RIGHT OF HIS FATHER. AND NO MATTER WHAT WE GO THROUGH HE WELL SEE US THROUGH. WHEN WE THINK HE DOESNT HEAR US AND WE DONT THINK HE IS AROUND THIS IS WHEN HE IS CARRYING US THROUGH.HE WILL NEVER FORSAKE US HE HEARS OUR PRAYERS AND HE KNOWS WHAT WE ARE GOING THROUGH EVEN THOUGH WE DONT THINK HE IS AROUND US.HE LOVES US AND HE DIE FOR YOU AND ME SO WE COULD BE SET FREE FROM OUR SINS HIS BLOOD WASHES AWAY ALL OUR SINS.SO LET US GIVE HIM ALL THE PRAISE AND THE HONOR IN JESUS NAME AMEN.
How could you take a heart like mine, So insecure and broken, To seek me ,and want me that words could ever say. That you would love me,a heart like mine,And take it n your hands and shape it, and would not throw it aside. How could a heart like my be worthy, that it could be redeemed this heart unclaimed twisted and broken. Oh Father God above the wonder that you would love a heart like mine . You took your wounded hands and held me A new prasie I offer to you, The one you searched for , you have found . Oh wounded Lamb that gone astray,you stopped the world to recover me, Oh Lamb of God the price you had to pay when you took my twisted and broken heart for me to stay. Dorothy Frazier
Everything It's Going To Be Alright,when we are going through our test and trials we need to know eveything is going to be alright,no matter what the devil thows our way. We need to stand on the solid rock,without wavering back and forth, and take that step of faith. We can't be lukewam,and say we have faith that everything will be alright and just do the opposite of what we say and believe in.Jesus told us that He would send someone to help us with our test and tials ,he would lead us and guide us and comfort us through all the pain and and hurt we go through. All we need to do is trust and believe everything will be alright in the name of Jesus . With Jesus we know everything will be alright..... the devil will make you think it won't be ..... he will tell you listen to me and I will tell you how to work out your problems ...... you dont need to pray and have faith that Jesus will make it right ,I will tell you how to solve your problems and all the time the devil is laughing because He knows heis lieing to you and schemeing o take your focus off of Jesus. But am here to tell you dont fall for the devil lies ..........Because I know every test and trial I have been through and the pain and hurt and sickness Jesus had it alright ....... he had seen me through so much and it has not been easy. The devil tried his best to tell me just give up and walk away and end it all ........the pain and hurt will be over for you .........YOU HAVE TRIED PRAYING AND YOU SEE YOUR PRAYERS HAS NOT BEEN ANSWERED so let me show you what to do. But I thank God for my friends that was praying with me and seeing me through the test I was going through,they felt the pain and the hurt I was going through, they gave me scriptures to read and told me to pray and seek GOD. They told me to put my trust in Jesus and He would see me through. I knew I had to step out in faith and to stand on the solid rock and to look to Jesus for me too make it through. When I kept my eyes on Jesus I knew everything was going to be alright .
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