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Tag: #Repent

  • “Reproving Warnings”

    10 1 2019 Jonah 3 5
    Praise the Lord Beloved. Happy New Month. 😀

    Allow me to give you a little backdrop about our morning’s verse: Jonah had just been spit out of the mouth of the massive fish and God has called him a “second” time. This time Jonah responds and obeys God’s call. He travels to Nineveh and speaks the message that God has assigned him with. Now, it wasn’t one of those messages that are easy to hear either. It was a powerful message with a strong warning from God for the people of Nineveh, “REPENT or BE DESTROYED.” Wow!!! That’s a really disturbing message, wouldn’t you agree? But it was precisely what the Ninevites needed to hear.
     
    Beloved, sometimes in life we need to hear those powerful reproving warnings in order for God to actually get through to us. It’s never easy, but sometimes it’s precisely what we need to hear and act on. Amen? Aaamen. 😀
     
    Let Us Pray:
    Dear Heavenly Father, I know that You love me. I pray that You speak to my mind today. Give me the words I precisely need to hear and then help me to act in accordance with them.
    In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen.
     
    Beloved, life is very short. It comes and goes like an unannounced gust of wind. None of us know the hour or day when that gust of wind will be permitted to enter our room and blow out our earthly light. So today, reach out and touch someone and tell them you love them, BECAUSE TELLING THEM LATER JUST MIGHT BE TOO LATE – I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
     
    Have a blessed October and a pleasant Tuesday Everyone.
    😀

  • “Get It Right On the Inside”

    8 27 2019 1 Samuel 16 7

    Praise the Lord Believers in the Christian faith.
     
    You know, many times we ask God to repair the anomalies around us when what He really wants to do is resolve the problem within us. I’ve done that on many occasion especially when it comes to my weight. I used to pray and pray for God to help me lose weight. Yet I experienced repetitive disappointment. I would literally loose many pounds, only to gain them right back again.
     
    Finally one day, I made a firm decision. I said God, “I’m not going one step further until I find out what to do about this!!!” Then I went on a fast. I closed off anything that was going to hinder me until I heard from God.
     
    Beloved, during that fast the Lord exposed the actual cause of my problem. He showed me that I wanted to lose weight, but I didn’t want to terminate my eating habits. I was like an alcoholic who wants to be able to drink continuously and not be affected by it. I wanted to eat huge plates of food 4 times a day and get my weight down to 200 pounds!!!
     
    Then it hit me!!! I realized God wasn’t content for me to simply get rid of the extra pounds on the outside of me. He wanted me to get rid of the sin of gluttony on the inside of me. So, I repented of that sin right then and there. I also recognized just how hard it is for a person who drinks or have an addiction to face the fact that they’re an alcoholic or addicted to a substance. WOW-it hurts to admit something like that. So, instead of asking God for liberation from my weight problem, I asked Him to liberate me from my excess eating habit.
     
    Well, I’m pleased to announce, He has. 😀 I still barbecue large, but I don’t eat large plates of food and my weight is decreasing. “Hallelujah!!!! 😀
     
    Beloved, if your prayers don’t seem to be changing the problems around you, maybe it’s time to take a look inside. Maybe it’s time to ask God to go to work on the heart of the matter.
     
    Beloved, life is very short. It comes and goes like an unannounced gust of wind. None of us know the hour or day when that gust of wind will be permitted to enter our room and blow out our earthly light. So today, reach out and touch someone and tell them you love them, BECAUSE TELLING THEM LATER JUST MIGHT BE TOO LATE.

    I LOVE YOU ALL!!! Have a Pleasant Wednesday. 😀

     

  • “A New Beginning”

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    Our spiritual topic this morning is entitled:

    “A New Beginning”, and this morning’s verse is Lamentations 3:23.
    This morning’s verse reads this way:
    “They are new every morning; Great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness.”
    When I was growing up, one of my favorite T. V. shows to watch was “I Love Lucy”. Lucy (Lucille Ball) was one of the funniest women to grace this earth. She would always find herself is some type of hilarious situation that involved her landlord friends Fred and Ethel Mertzes (William Frawley and Vivian Vance) or her husband Ricky (Ricky Ricardo). But, by the end of each episode, her situation would get resolve and her landlord friends and husband would forgive her, and she would have a new beginning with no mistakes to be funny all over again during the next episode.
    I love that thought!!! You know, a new episode in life. Forgiven. A new beginning. With no mistakes charged to our life’s account.
    Beloved, today is a new day!!! A new day a when we can start our new beginning. We all make mistakes. Romans 3:23(NLT) tells us this. The Word says: “For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.”
    But because you have sinned doesn’t disqualify you from life!!! When it comes to sin, God’s forgiveness is what enables us to start each morning with a clean slate. Jeremiah 31:34 and Hebrews 8:12 says: “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”
    Sure, some of us have made wrong choices in our lives, but our past difference of opinion, conducts or activities doesn’t have to define our future in God’s eyes.
    Beloved, when we repent, He chooses to remember our sins no more. Not like a lot of men, women, boys and girls. Many will try to keep you subjected and use what God has forgiven you for. Many will  insult you and ostracize you as if they have never committed a sin. John 8:7-11 (AMP) says: (7) However, when they persisted in questioning Him, He straightened up and said, “He who is without [any] sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” (8) Then He stooped down again and started writing on the ground. (9) They listened [to His reply], and they began to go out one by one, starting with the oldest ones, until He was left alone, with the woman [standing there before Him] in the center of the court. (10) Straightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?” (11) She answered, “No one, Lord!” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go. From now on sin no more.”]
    Beloved, there’s always a “new beginning.” When we ask for His forgiveness, we take a first step toward restoring our relationship with Him and with others. 1 John 1:9 says: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness”.
    Lamentations 3:23 tells us that God’s compassion and faithfulness allows us a new beginning each and every day.
    Prayer:
    Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you once again for allowing me to set one of Your Spiritual breakfast tables.
    In Jesus’ name I pray Amen and Amen
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  • “Keep Your Head UP”

    Bishop, Dr. W. F. Houston, Jr.
     
    You know Beloved, every now and then we can focus too much on our sinfulness and immorality.
     
    Every now and then we get trapped in a state of remorse, and we go into a state of hopelessness over our past sins.
     
    Or, every now and then we start worrying about our current weakness, and we beat ourselves up over it.
     
    Beloved, if you’re there, “it’s ok”, acknowledge it, confess it and repent of those things!!! Beloved, don’t stay there, don’t live in the past, and don’t dwell on them. No matter what you’ve done, no matter what labels you have, stop staring at those things, they no longer define you if you believe!!!
     
    Beloved, Jesus defines you now, so focus on Him. Not yourself, not your sins, not the past. And those present weaknesses you face? He’s making you more like Himself daily, by the power of His Spirit. So, look to His strength, not your weakness.
     
    It’s ok to focus on the good things in life, and there’s none better to focus on than the Lord.
     
    “So Keep Your Head UP”.