A Lifetime With God

When my mind overwhelms my heart and fights for the right to complain, I will bow before the throne of grace and yield my thoughts to You. Though tempted with confusion, I will choose to praise. I will commit myself to thankfulness and call to mind the many ways You’ve blessed me. is empowered as I lean into Your strength. Darkness.

These unanswered questions will be satisfied by Your love. The hopes that felt defeated, You will bring back to life. My spirit is empowered as I lean into Your strength. Darkness doesn’t stand a chance when my heart is filled with praise.

From Prayers On Fire, 365 Days Praying the Psalms by Brian Simmons and Gretchen Rodriguez

You are to view yourself as a servant. We are to have a spirit of serving. Jesus came as a servant of God. We are servants of God. We work for the Lord. Do it as for God and your attitude will change. If you complain, you lose your witness. Christ should so possess your life that when you walk in a room others will know. View Christ as our authority and in all things obey the boss unless it is against God. Don’t leave a job until God tells you to do so.

See other people as worthy persons.

God’s love is beautiful. Ask God to put more love in your heart for Him every day. You must, for the Devil steals it every day.

The God of the universe, your Creator, wants to be your Friend. You can know Him through His Word, the Holy Bible. Upon accepting Jesus as your Savior, He gives you the Holy Spirit. Then you can influence your home and, hopefully, your workplace with Fruits of the Spirit. That is joy, peace, and laughter. In your home, you can find strength to fight battles against Satan. For Jessus Christ takes sweet words of the Spirit. Let God guide you in His love and peace.

Friends know each other. Prayer, reading the bible, and alone time with God get you closer to him. Now, God knows all the good and bad in us but still loves us. When He looks at us all He sees is the blood of Jesus. My name is inscribed in the palm of Jesus’s hand (Is. 49.16). He loves us. He chose to love us and showed us grace. He wants us to be His friend. Friends spend time with each other. I can not understand all these thoughts He has for us, so I accept His love and I love Him. I love Him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength.

 God the Creator of all things, is our God. Just because you may not believe in a God, does not make it untrue. God is over all the universe. He speaks His will, and it happens. Every “i” is dotted, and every “t” is crossed. If God speaks, it will happen. Just because you don’t believe it will, does not make it untrue.

Do you want to know something that God spoke over 2,000 years ago that part of it is happening now? Plus, there is much to follow. Do you want to know what? Take the Holy Bible and read all of Matthew 24. Next, read the Book of John, which is, about the greatest love ever known to man.

Ask God daily to put more love in your heart for Him. The world steals your love for Him daily. Also, ask Him to put more thankfulness in your heart.

Be strong in your trust in your Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t let the evil up the road make you feel weak. You have prayed and listened. Oh, how He also listened to you too. God knows you want to be close to Him. Also, He knows how this world tries to pull you away. He knows of the struggle you go through to have time to be close to Him. Remember, He sent the Holy Spirit to help you. You will find your way when you learn to listen to Him. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Wisdom. He will enlighten you. Now may the God of Hope fill you with all Joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. “Be strong in your trust in your Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t let the evil up the road make you feel weak. You have prayed and listened. Oh, how He also listened to you too. God knows you want to be close to Him. Also, He knows how this world tries to pull you away. He knows of the struggle you go through to have time to be close to Him. Remember, He sent the Holy Spirit to help you. You will find your way when you learn to listen to Him. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Wisdom. He will enlighten you. “Now may the God of Hope fill you with all Joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 NKJV

Several Sundays back I heard a sermon that resonated with me. It was from John 5:1-9. This is the story of the crippled, sick, disabled man. The King James version says a man who was “impotent”, and I urged our pastor NOT to use that description unless he wanted to deal with Jesus and Viagra jokes after the service! Anyway, this is the man who had laid by the pool at Bethesda for THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS, trying to get to the healing waters. Jesus spots him and for unknown reasons picks that man to approach and He asks him what seems to be the most ridiculous question, “Do you want to get well?” I had always breezed over that question and chalked it up to one of the “riddle questions” Jesus made a habit of asking people. I mean, OF COURSE, the man wants to get well! Right?! Or was Jesus maybe probing at something deeper…

The man responded with his list of excuses on why he’d been unable to “get well” yet. Jesus simply responded, “Get up, pick up your mat and walk!”

It says the man instantly got well, picked up his mat, and walked. I guess that means he did want to get well. Is it possible that he could have just refused and continued to make excuses? Yes, I think it is. Why? Because I see it Every. Single. Day.

One of the hardest things I’ve ever learned is that not everyone wants to be made well. Some people enjoy being pitied or dependent on others. Some are reluctant to leave the familiar and explore possibilities for a better life. It is difficult to impose healing on a person who is comfortable with the way things are. Such a person is likely to sabotage efforts to produce change.

I mean, think about it. This guy had gotten used to depending on others for his every need. 38 years is plenty of time for some strong and comfortable habits to develop. If he were to be made well, he would be expected to get up and care for himself. He would probably need to get a job, find a place to live, get his own food, etc. Surly he had “counted the cost” of getting well over the years. Jesus healing him would not just change his circumstances but would ultimately change who this guy was. Was this guy ready for it? I guess so.

How heartbreaking would it have been for Jesus if the man had said, “You know what, I think I’m good where I’m at. This has worked for me for a long time, so I don’t think I REALLY want to get well. I think I like these excuses I have for staying right where I’m at.”

It seems absurd that someone would respond that way, but they do. Maybe not word for word like that, but they make the choice to not get well when the solution to do so is placed squarely in their lap. I don’t know how many nights I’ve cried myself to sleep, beat the steering wheel while I drove, or wanted to curl in the shower while the hot water pelted me because someone chose to throw the “cure for their ailment” I was offering them right into the trash. People who are so attached to their problems that they’d rather use them as excuses for never improving or changing. People who tolerate an issue while claiming to be a victim. Then some are so stuck in their depression, anger, hate, pride, or fear that those are the only emotions they know anymore.

It’s hard, really hard when you see this happen over and over again and keep from becoming angry, bitter, jaded, pessimistic, and cynical. Then, the other day, one of those spam emails came through that I have no idea how I got on the list and I usually mass delete but I stopped on this one and opened it. The paraphrase is, “Hey sister, I see you. You’ve been showing up. You’ve worked hard. You’ve tried your best to follow where He has led you. You didn’t expect it to lead you to where you are now. Your heart is in the right place. You sincerely want to make a difference, but your calling has burned you.

Written by my niece Katrina Robertson.

Throughout time, God reveals Himself to those who want to know Him. Even our world and the universe show that someone with knowledge, a knowledge that is without boundaries, made all things.

Now God did not make the earth, moons, planets, and stars for Himself, for He did not need them. God made everything for us. It was perfect. All things showed His glory. Now, I am not sure how God appears. I assume it reveals a type of Light that we cannot imagine. Maybe, it is a type of luminous light that penetrate all things beyond our comprehension.

I believe that when God made the first man and woman, they had the glory of God surrounding them. I believe, that when they disobeyed God, His glory left them and the universe. They were clothed in God’s glory, and then they were not clothed. Then they knew they were naked. Sin entered humans. From that time on, man has spiraled downward.

God is all-knowing. He knew before He started making the word that we would not have pure thoughts and actions. God knew we would enjoy loving Him and have immeasurable joy if we could be together. He knew, He would have to do something so He could look upon us. He is Holy. We are not holy.

He had a plan. He would come to earth as a baby through a virgin girl. Now the baby had God’s Spirit. God did leave some of His attributes in heaven. We call that part left in heaven, Father and/or God. His earthly part we call, Jesus. Jesus lived on earth without sin, although Satan tried His best to cause Jesus to sin. He lived without sin, even when the people of the Earth killed him by hanging him on a cross.

On the third day, He rose up from the grave alive with His body and Spirit. MANY, many people saw Him. They talked to Him. They felt the scars on His hands and feet. After 40 days, He returned to heaven. He told them that He would return one day for His children.

If you believe that Jesus did these things without a doubt, you can become a child of God. Then when God looks at you, He will see Jesus’s blood. He will not see all the unholy and bad things you have done. Then you can live in peace and happiness beyond measure in heaven.

You must believe:

1. ” Jesus is the only one that can bring you into heaven. “For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ” (I Timothy 2:5). “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31).
2. Believe that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin.
3. Tell Jesus Christ (Pray) that you want to turn from your sins. Confess them to Jesus and that you are sorry. Ask Jesus for help in not continuing sinful acts and thoughts.
4. You need to tell others that you have accepted Jesus as your Savior. “If thou shall confess with thou mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved (Romans 10:9).
5. Believe that Jesus will return.

When you do these things and believe in your heart, you will receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is sent to help you.

The Holy Bible is God’s Word. He tells of His relationship with people. It tells us the truth. The Bible gives us examples of the good things people did. It tells of the bad things people did. Also, it tells about how God responded to these things. In the New Testament of the Bible, it tells of Jesus’s life on earth and His teachings written by people who are called disciples and apostles who knew Jesus. It tells of Jesus’s teachings.

The book of John in the New Testament is a good place to start.