Good morning and a happy Saturday to each of you, it is a beautiful morning, the skies look as they have been airbrushed with clouds gently swiped across tapering off into the horizon, the temperature is a wonderful 50 degrees with just a titch of a breeze...I am wrapped in my Betty blankie and have so enjoyed sitting out with Father God this morning, not only enjoying the world during wake up but also the smells of nature, the songs of the birds and the rise of the sun...what beauty to be blessed with over and over again! I love mornings the best of all times of the day, it is such a sacred time for me, the time before the hustle and bustle of the day are under way, the time when everything is fresh and ready to awaken and give thanks for the blessings of another chance...Amazing in my eyes is the time I get to spend just sitting with HIM and loving the fact that HE loves me, HE hears me, HE gave his son for me...HE is my everything and I pray that if you have yet to find HIM, if you have found HIM but have not sat down and had a good conversation, that you will do so right now...Stop what you are doing, yes STOP reading this for a moment, bow your head and ask HIM to hear you, ask HIM for a bit of HIS time, ask HIM to see your needs, to make provision for you and to shine HIS light through you...ask HIM to allow you to begin the journey with HIM and then believe that HE has accepted your plea and begin on a slow steady pace in the direction HE will lead you....I will not tell you it will be easy, it will not be.....when you get on the right path, there will be many thorns, stoned, even shards of glass and crevices that will stop you dead in your tracks leaving you scratching your head in wonder as to how you will get across. The sun will beat down on you at times and you will feel faint with dehydration, the climate will change from frigid to burning and back again...every thing that can and will be cast in front of you will be...satan is not going to give up on you that easy...When you take God's hand, you really make the evil one angry...when you confess your love for Jesus Christ the firey one will do anything to get you to stop, to make you doubt, to make you feel stupid...he will throw out anything he can to trip you up, to knock you down, and to win you back...just remember the more adversity you are faced with, the more important you were to satan, he is building his army and he does not want to lose you...so then the choice becomes yours....do you overcome the obstacles and fight for God or do you lay down in weakness and allow satan to win??? Really the choice is a simple one, no one wakes up one morning and says..."I think today I am going to join the forces of darkness" SO today, get ready to punch, jab, kick, climb, sweat, fall, trip, and persevere...don't just lay down and be what satan wants you to be...anything worth having is worth fighting for!!!!
In keeping with the June theme of kindness and compassion I wish to share another story with you this morning...I pray that you have been enlightened by my words and that if you are on the fence in wonder of who to follow that you felt the spirit and now know the truth and what you must do to get on the right path...Walk with God and you will never walk alone!!!
"HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP OTHERS. UNHAPPY AND UNSUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ASKING "WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?"
STORY
A HOLY MAN WAS HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH THE LORD ONE DAY AND SAID,” LORD, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT HEAVEN AND HELL ARE LIKE. THE LORD LED THE HOLY MAN TO TWO DOORS.
HE OPENED ONE OF THE DOORS AND THE HOLY MAN LOOKED IN. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM WAS A LARGE ROUND TABLE. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TABLE WAS A LARGE POT OF STEW WHICH SMELLED DELICIOUS AND MADE THE HOLY MAN’S MOUTH WATER. THE PEOPLE SITTING AROUND THE TABLE WERE THIN AND SICKLY.
THEY APPEARED TO BE FAMISHED.
THEY WERE HOLDING SPOONS WITH VERY LONG HANDLES AND EACH FOUND IT POSSIBLE TO REACH INTO THE POT OF STEW AND TAKE A SPOONFUL, BUT BECAUSE THE HANDLE WAS LONGER THAN THEIR ARMS, THEY COULD NOT GET THE SPOONS BACK INTO THEIR MOUTHS.
THE HOLY MAN SHUDDERED AT THE SIGHT OF THEIR MISERY AND SUFFERING. THE LORD SAID, “YOU HAVE SEEN HELL.”
THEY WENT TO THE NEXT ROOM AND OPENED THE DOOR. IT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE FIRST ONE. THERE WAS THE LARGE ROUND TABLE WITH THE LARGE POT OF STEW WHICH MADE THE HOLY MAN’S MOUTH WATER. THE PEOPLE WERE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME LONG-HANDLED SPOONS, BUT HERE THE PEOPLE WERE WELL NOURISHED AND PLUMP, LAUGHING AND TALKING.
THE HOLY MAN SAID, “I DON’T UNDERSTAND”.” IT IS SIMPLE SAID THE LORD, “IT REQUIRES ONLY ONE SKILL. YOU SEE, THEY HAVE LEARNED TO FEED EACH OTHER. WHILE THE GREEDY THINK ONLY OF THEMSELVES.”
WHAT WE LIVE WITH, WE LEARN; WHAT WE LEARN, WE PRACTICE; WHAT WE PRACTICE, WE BECOME; WHAT WE BECOME, HAS CONSEQUENCES! ALONE WE CAN DO SO LITTLE; TOGETHER WE CAN DO SO MUCH."
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