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Praise the Lord! What a day what a day!! It is only 9:11 AM and I am so ready to go back home and climb in the bed, it is raining and that always makes me sleepy!! Yet I am here at work as it is not my time to be home YET! LOL I was laughing as someone said to me – It’s Friday- and I thought we work 5 days a week to get to 2 days off – hey something is wrong with that equation. LOL  

I am smiling today for I am blessed…I am smiling today because I am free…I am smiling today because I am just me in Jesus…yes I am smiling today!  

I am thankful to read the blogs of freedom from my sisters in Christ and I am praying when I read the blogs of pain but yet as I remember the pain that the sisters have the Lord has blessed me to see them free in Him…for that I am smiling.  

I know that some are not sure of where they are in their life but when you look to Jesus in all that you do – you will see that He will lead you through – you will see that He is the only way. Take it to Jesus and then release it in your life – watch what He does for you when you do.  

We have all experienced pain, we have experience hurt, each of us on different levels, different reasons or maybe all the same – yet we are still here on this earth given a chance of happiness and love in the Lord. My mother died an unhappy Christian – oh she loved Jesus but she did not love herself – which I am learning that you can not love Him if you do not love you…for He resides in you and He grows in you – for when you look in that mirror you should see the beautiful person He has created you to be…. 

Yet many do not love themselves and end up leaving this earth is a lot of pain saying it is their cross to bear. Now I am not Jesus so maybe for some it is but I just find it hard to believe that we are to be miserable all the time – we can not win others to Christ in that manner – Jesus came to give life abundantly and I am going to have life abundant here with Jesus despite the mess around me. Sure I will have hurt and pain – but my abundance in joy, love, and peace in the Lord will outweigh that all the time.  

I did not want to be like my mom – I wanted to be happy in my life – I do not want to leave here and just be so tired and miserable – I want to go out of here happy and content in Jesus…I remember my mom saying that I just had to go through life and see it for what it is and then I will know that it is not a bed of roses. Well I am going through life with the Lord and guess what it is a bed of roses – sure I get pricked with a thorn here and there – sometimes the season is constant thorns but you know what I am blessed and it is roses – it could have been cactus. LOL 

I think this sum up my thoughts today – you get out of life what you put into it. My mother expected the worse things to happen to her and that is what she got, well I am expecting Jesus to led my life and to bless my relationship with Him so that I have unspeakable joy and peace that passeth all understanding….I am living for Him so that I can hear Well Done!! Praise the Lord and enjoy your day – enjoy your life – enjoy Jesus! If you are living for Him with your whole heart – you will have just that!
 
 
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Praise the Lord – this is a beautiful day – just a beautiful day! Why because you are loved! The scripture for the day from Bible Gateway is from Matthew 5:14-16 and I wanted to share with all today….

Matthew 5:13-16 13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

We do not have to say a word sometimes for those around us to know that we are a Christian, all we have to do is let the light of the Lord shine in us. We can let our light shine in our actions, in our day to day functions. We can let our light shine just be following the will of the Lord in our lives.

I am sure we have run across people who say they go to church but cuss like a sailor, lol, I have a co worker that I never figure to be one that went to church but recently she has been making statements really loud about church. I smile when I hear it as we have talked about WL4J before (which is how I usually start a conversation with a woman who I am not sure where she stands in life – it is a great witness tool – thank you Jesus), and most times I think she does that for my benefit…LOL Yet her conversation outside of the mentioning of going to church shows her heart and the light that she has in the Lord.

It is not a judgment call, it is a door opener for an opportunity when it presents itself to witness to her. She cusses all the time, she makes all kind of sexual remarks and things that are just not becoming of a Christian. So much so that someone has said to her – “YOU go to church, must not be listening”. (AND NO IT WAS NOT ME!! LOL) Yet is the light that is not shining for all to see.

When we let the light of the Lord shine within us, it is like a light on a lighthouse, as the lost boats try to find their way home. Jesus is that light house and all we are is the bulb! We need to remember to shine brightly and strong in the Lord – never to fade or bust! It is in each of us to stand in the Lord and allow His moving in us to flow from us to others.

Have you ever met people and just feel so comfortable with them – well it is because the light is shining in them, it is not them but the Jesus in them. We have to be that comfortable place for sinners to come – to be able to get a word and to come unto Jesus.

How bright is your light shining – can others see it from a distance – can your life show that Jesus is the head and you are a follower of Christ?

Yes it is that time yet again…we need to sit back and think on our walk with the Lord…are you living as Christ says is our reasonable service or are you hiding behind the word of the Lord lost and not even aware of it….come and let your light shine!
 
 
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Praise the Lord for the New Day that He has granted us – all things of yesterday are gone and done with – today is a new day to walk with a smile, joy and love in our hearts. It is in our walk with the Lord that we are able to see what God has in store for our lives. It is nothing put pure joy, love and life eternally with Him.  

I think of the song – When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that He has done for me…my soul cries out Hallelujah – Thank God for saving me! It is a blessing to be in this life – the Christian life with all the mess around us and we are protected and safe in His arms.  

We are working towards a goal and truly are covered by His blood – His love…yet we still head to places unknown to us in this world that can led us to separation from Him. So with today being a new day in the Lord take this opportunity to come out of the things that are not of Him…taking today as a new change in your life and not to give into the mess around us but to devote ourselves to Jesus and only Jesus.  

There comes a time when we shall say enough – I am living for the Lord no matter what and to do so accordingly. We have been blessed – we are ones of pure love created…we were created to worship and praise the Lord – not only with our mouths but with our lives – living our lives as an example unto others of the goodness of Jesus. 

Today is a new day – step into the newness of life that the Lord has for you!  

God Bless and enjoy your day!
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Praise the Lord for this day and every single day of our lives! I AM THANKFUL! I am so thankful. I could have been dead in my sin but He blessed me to come out of the dark and walk in His marvelous light. I thank the Lord for the joy that is in my life despite the struggles – despite the naysayers, despite all things that come against me – I still have joy! 

My husband wrote a song that our choir sings…joy joy – I really have joy joy in my yes it is in my life, Jesus nobody but Jesus gives me this wonderful feeling…I thank the Lord that despite what the enemy has been attempting to do, depression is not here, feeling lost is gone and truly the mess of the past is just that the past. It is in the joy of the Lord that I live. It is something as someone will say or do something that upsets me and I am thankful that the Lord reminds me to sing that hurt or pain out of my mind. 

I am blessed to have some sisters around me who are really encouraging and uplifting when it comes to this walk in Jesus. They have a spirit of joy and happiness with them despite the mess that is around them and it is so encouraging. We know that we are going to have troubles here in this walk because this is what we will have period. We know that we are going to have Judas’ in our lives that are coming to try to confuse and betray us but the Lord has blessed us with His spirit and it is what keeps us. Yet we will have those that come and inspire us and keep us moving. These are the people sent by God and often times they may not even have to say a word to us. Sometimes it is just their actions during times of stress that really move us or maybe just their demeanor in life period. 

I am blessed to have several sisters who are just that to me, I am very used to doing what I want when I want it so when Merv and I got married, it was hard for me to allow him to be in charge. It was hard for me to allow myself to sit there and not take charge for he does it a lot slower than I would like for things to be done. LOL Yet he is learning too to speed up somewhat…a growing lesson for both of us. Yet during all of that time, I watched two women in my church that inspire me to know that it was the right thing to do. As I watched both sisters, they showed me a side of them that if you are not watching, you never noticed but the Lord has made me a sister who is observant more than anything else and I noticed it. 

I watched my previous pastor and his wife interact with each other at church, always loving and showing such love for each other. If they ever had a disagreement, I would have never known it. Although he was sick, the love he showed his wife was beautiful as I watched them during Sunday school lessons and to see the strength that he gave her and the strength that she gave him. What a blessing that was to witness! I THANK GOD FOR SEEING THAT! Too many times you see couples in the church with no love being shown between them and it was something to see that in them. 

Yet the demeanor of my current pastor’s wife is something to me. It is so encouraging to watch her stand with such composure and stance with the love flowing from her. Meanwhile, I would have had daggers going at someone…it is a blessing to watch her stand by her husband with such strength and power – yet all so subtle and laid back. I love it for it is encouraging to me to know that this is where I can be one day. I am really thankful to the Lord for all He is allowing me to see in my home church with sisters who truly love the Lord. There is no question in my mind that they love Jesus. Sure they are not perfect and I am sure that they struggle but the things that I see that are unspoken speak so loudly to me that I can not even begin to explain how important it is to me. 

It is something as I talk with them about things going on with WL4J and the comfort that I have with them to express the things that I feel. It is like talking to a big sister – a big sister that I never had. I longed for that growing up and God has blessed me with it now. Yet I am the big sister to others and pray that I can be just like the sisters that I am speaking of one day….it is not an easy walk but through it all God is blessing me. 

It is in our testimony that we overcome the things going on in our lives. As all knows, I am not one to keep secrets that need to be shared. I have the wisdom and knowledge of what to share and what not to share…yet I know that most things are good to share and shall be shared. Of course there are those that do not agree and they are allowed their opinions but even in not agreeing – they are sharing and to me that is the step in the right direction. It is something how I will be talking to a sister who tells me that she can not do what I do and how it is against the word or it is just not something she can do…yet in all that she ends up sharing anyhow…LOL I just smile and say thank you Lord for they just shared more than they ever know and guess what I can pray for them. For even speaking against something is sharing a piece of you that no one would know…the only way not to share is to remain silent your entire life and to be honest – most people do not even know how to do that anyhow. LOL 

I walk in no fear of what others will say…sure it crosses my mind when I go into something so personal what others might say…yet most times either no one says a word or tons of emails come my way…yet either way I know tons of prayers goes up. I know that the Lord is working on me and that is all that matters when we are totally honest with things…I guess it can be said that it is therapy but guess what – we all could use some of that to get where we need to be. It is in all the love of the Lord that we have the ability to over come anything…there is nothing wrong with sharing and there is nothing wrong with letting go….as the Lord leads you …the Lord will really end up getting all the glory from our lives. 

It is all to the glory of the Lord in all things that we do. I am blessed to know that the path that we are on is one that shall lead to a place of peace and joy for all eternity – it is in Him that we will have this. Let us stand in the Lord for all things and let the direction of the Lord bless your lives as He sees fit…

Keep moving forward and allowing the love of the Lord direct you! 

Until next time…

Your sister in Christ,

Sister Alissa Lynne Griffith

 
 
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Praise the Lord! Good Morning to all…God is good and I am so glad to be alive today. I was blessed to celebrate my 1st anniversary with my hubby and it was a blessing to have him home all weekend long. We worked on WL4J stuff for the upcoming retreat as the workshops need to be on point and done in the manner the Lord has directed us. My hubby is teaching on Spiritual Warfare and he is so excited so I know that is going to be good, and I am doing a workshop on Our Purpose/God’s will and of course I am excited. We have more people coming than I thought at one point so I am glad about that, just want to make sure we get things straight. We know that the Lord works it all out and in all things He will bless us to have it completed. We only have 3 weeks until the retreat and a lot more work to do! Yet God is good.

I have been just sitting back listening to the Lord and trying to follow His directions in all things for He loves us in all that we do. I try not to allow my emotions to get in the way but man lately they have been and I am just trying to get a better understanding of all this being honest…as people really take it to me with it. I am a blessed woman and the more I share and open up the better I feel, yet of course the attacks come from those that are not able or willing to open up themselves for whatever reason. It amazes me how people react to the things I write and do, yet praise the Lord for every negative thing coming at me the Lord sends a bunch more positive remarks.

It is amazing if we let ourselves listen to the things that people say about us, then we will end up feeling less of a person but when we focus on what the Lord is saying to us AND truly listening to what the Lord is saying to us about things then we will be fine in all things. We must understand that the Lord is keeping us and it is in Him that we are to be directed.

There are so many things that come our way that people really amaze me – the things that people say that are not in line with the word of the Lord yet will justify it…we have to make sure that the Lord is speaking to us. Many are struggling to hear from the Lord – to know His direction, to know His will for our lives. We struggle, we think we know but yet we are not doing what we should to get a better understanding of His word.

I still pose the question to all…are you reading your word, are you praying to the Lord, and are you thankful to Him? It is clear that many are suffering because they are not being faithful to the word; they are making decisions on their own and not seeking the Lord. It is what is hurting them more than anything else, if we are not doing what the word says…your life is a mess and it will be a mess. We are quick to say that we cannot, that it is too hard, we think that we cannot do it, yet the Lord says that we can. We can seek the direction of the Lord in His word and do it with all that we have. It is when we allow our flesh to be in charge and then all things will be a mess….we have to come to an understanding to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh.

We are so quick to jump on others that are doing things that do not appear to be right to us without stepping back and seeing the entire picture. So many times I really look at things being said by our Christian brothers and sisters and find such pain in my spirit. This is a spirit life, we have all kinds of spirits in this world, and all are not good. We have to walk in the true life of the Lord and stop making excuses…excuses does nothing but make our flesh feel better. I am learning to just admit what is wrong in my life to the Lord and to those that He directs me to do so….yet many will hide behind the word of the Lord and never deal with that which is faced before them. Many will say that you show no compassion when you give them the words of the Lord and just leave it at that, many do not even know what the Lord is telling them to do or say….we need to pray for the Lord to reveal things unto us and then to act according to them. Sad thing is that many will not get what I am saying today and for that I must pray!

Until tomorrow,

God Bless

Your Sister in Christ,

Alissa Lynne Griffith

 
 
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Praise the Lord! I am blessed – so blessed! Last night we started the Spiritual Gifts Encouragement Hour – we did an hour last night and went over what Spiritual Gifts are and their purpose and tonight we will go over the actually gifts. I am just so thankful for the opportunity to learn more in the Lord.  

I am thankful that today is Friday and I am off for the next two days, and yet the blessing of it all is that my husband is off with me too. He is off for the next two days because our first year anniversary is tomorrow! Praise the Lord for the blessings of making it one year. We wanted to do something special but at this time can not do so. We are going to just relax all weekend long outside of church commitments and just enjoy our day! I can not believe it has been a year already – just seems like yesterday that we got married…wow…a year of learning new things of each other and a year of growth. LOL  

He asked me something about our anniversary and I said to him that I was thankful that we made it through our first year. We took two well established households and made one household, we are in a more crowded place with all three of us, we do not work the same schedule so we do not have one day off together without one of us taking a day off, we have a passion for Jesus and doing outreach ministry work and we have a 8 year old child that needs a lot of our attention…whewwwwwww….yet we are still in love, still happy and still married – THANK YOU JESUS!!!  

We have had some trying moments in our first year but we made it through with prayer and understanding….ahhhhhhh understanding…I am still learning that! God has blessed me with an awesome husband….he is more loving than I am at times as he has more patience than I do and this is a great thing for me…as I am learning from him. Yet he is learning from me to be more organized LOL Okay maybe not an even trade but is anything ever an even trade. 

I thank God for a husband who is a saved man of God, I know that there are days he prays to remain silent just as I do, I know that there are days that he prays that I be quiet and just give him a moment to collect his thoughts, I know that he prays and thanks God for our relationship and the growth in it. You know there is one thing I have learned, each day is a lesson and each day there is more to learn and guess what I love it!  

I love how we can come together to pray and how we work on things together in the Lord. I love how we can sit down and just sing songs of praise (he sings way better than I do) I love how we can just laugh and be silly. I love how when he makes me mad and I stomp off – he keeps his cool. I love how when I need someone to hold me and tell me how special I am – he does that. I love laying my head on his big heart and I love when he does the same. I love my hubby for all that he was, all that he is and all that he will ever be…I just love my hubby! He keeps me going with WL4J when I am having a bad day, he keeps me laughing when I want to cry. I pray each day that I am all that he needs for I know that he is all that I need and ever wanted…I am a blessed woman of God – I am a blessed woman!!!  

I was blessed with a man who is truly the perfect fit for me, we complement each other so well that the circle is complete – Jesus, him and me! What an awesome way to be! I am thankful this day for my husband and so thankful to see that we have been blessed with our first year of marriage – may we see a million more! 

Have an awesome day in the Lord and know that in all things God is able! 
 
 
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Praise the Lord! He is so awesome to us and His love is so free flowing – I just love it! I love how He will give you joy, peace and comfort in the middle of a mess! I am thankful to the Lord for it…just have to ask Him and watch Him do it! AMEN!  

You know sometimes we get discouraged or down because of different things in our lives, this is going to happen – no way around it but it is what you do after it hits you that make the difference. I have to smile as the Lord is teaching me and lately it has been an accelerated lesson that some days I just lose big time. I am one of the speakers of the retreat services and one of the presenters of the workshops – and the very topics that I have to speak on that I have never had any issues speaking on before have smacked me in the face!  

I spoke to a sister once about this before, it is something how when you are to present something to others, that the very thing you are presenting starts to show even more in your life. I am doing a workshop on My Purpose/God’s Will and let me tell you – my purpose and God’s will has been on the table since I started working on it for the retreat. I have spoken on this topic, I have done several workshops on it and yet and still this time – the questioning of myself – my direction in the Lord and with WL4J has been stronger than it has ever been – yet it is giving me an opportunity to ‘practice what I preach’.  

It is the same with my other topic, I have Joy as my topic for Saturday night and do you know that the Lord allowed me to go through my joy being stolen repeatedly the last few weeks but yet He has shown me how to stop it! It is awesome – oh so awesome to know that God is that mindful, I guess He wants me to be able to stand without a shadow of doubt and speak on these topics. God is so good in His preparation of His people; He knows just what we need and how to approach it with us so that we learn what He is trying to get us to learn.  

As we continue to walk in this life and things are coming at you – take it all in joy and know that God is molding us and take pride in the fact that He knows this is a lesson you are ready to learn for if it was not – it would not be a lesson that is presented to you. Remember that sometimes it is not everyone else – but us that has something to learn!  

Hey if you have time, join me tonight at 9:30 PM on WL4J Encouragement Hour as we discuss “Spiritual Gifts” it is so important that we truly understand Spiritual Gifts. You can call in or just listen in. We really have a good time on Thursdays as we discuss the topics after the words are spoken…so join us this evening…you might actually learn something about yourself or even the fact that you might have something to share with another about spiritual gifts – a lot of new people are coming into their spiritual gifts and not even aware of it – let us fellowship and learn together. We have a chat room that you can chat with others as you listen in and/or you can call in and talk live with others on the very subject…join us this evening at 9:30 PM (EST) http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/11529 or call n 724-444-7444 Call Id 11529  

Until next time,

Have a blessed and wonderful day in the Lord

Love your sister in Christ,

Sister Alissa Lynne Griffith
 
 
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Praise the Lord – how is everyone? I pray all is well with everyone. You know lately the Lord has me doing things that I just never thought I would be doing….man I have been biting my tongue so much lately…which I believe is teaching me to learn patience and wait on the Lord. 

It was said to me not too long ago that sometimes I come across rough and I had to stop and think about it. I had to take myself out of that situation and think about what was said. I try to evaluate what people say and take what I can take to learn from it and disregard the things that are not pertaining to me aside. It is something how the Lord will have us do that and put it on our hearts to do that. I have grown so much because I used to take everything that a person says to me to heart and I mean to heart. It was hard not to do so, growing up feeling criticized for everything that I did, I have a tendency to do that even still.

Yet as I move forward in the Lord, He has shown me the division between what others feel and what He says. How awesome is that? I am very passionate about WL4J anyone that knows me knows that I am. My poor hubby, I talk about things related to WL4J all the time, the great thing is that it is all about Jesus so he (hubby) does not crumble about it to me at least. Yet as I was thinking about what was being said to me, the Lord had me digest on it some and took to heart some of it and tossed the rest out. 

It is amazing how much damage we can do to ourselves when we take everything someone says to heart without consulting the Lord first. I am learning more and more to listen to Him and less to what others think or say about me. This is a big deal from a sister who has had and still struggles with acceptance issues. It is not easy to tune all that out, it is not easy to not allow my feelings to be hurt or to not get angry but I am getting better. I have learned with WL4J there is no option…everyone is not going to like what you do or say all the time. How many times I wanted to give up because of what was said to me or not said to me….thank God for having a relationship with the Lord to hear from Him. How awesome is it to also have a praying husband who will automatically start praying just because of my response to him…although sometimes I think he is praying that he does not smack me…LOL (Just kidding my hubby would NEVER smack me – this I know – now shove me a little…LOL still kidding) 

Yet how many times do we allow the thoughts of others ruin our days and nights, how many times have we allowed the thoughts of others just come and destroy us…I have done that so many times that I have lost count – but in the Lord I am learning to not allow others to determine who I am in Jesus but to rely on the Lord to determine who I am in Him. It is not always easy to look at someone who has hurt you or upset you with joy and love – it just is not easy – but it can be done – it truly can be done. 

Honestly I am not there yet, but that wonderful man that the Lord has blessed me with has shown me that it can be done if we just keep walking with the Lord. I just love my hubby! LOL We have to remember that it is not man who makes us but Jesus Christ Himself! 

God Bless
Love your sister
Sister Alissa Lynne
 
 
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Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 

Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord – yet another awesome day in the Lord! I am sitting here thinking about the Honesty Today for yesterday and let me tell you it has me fired up. See we do not really understand sometimes the strongholds we subject our children to or the roadblocks for salvation in their lives. We are just as guilty as the world is sometimes when it comes to raising our children according to the word of the Lord. 

We will excuse away what we allow our children to be subjected to because they are young children but ALL children are sponges…the soak up everything. It starts from the time they are born until they are old and die. I have noticed with my own son that he pays attention to everything…he misses nothing and quick to tell you and any one else what he knows. We are currently working on what is said in the house stays in the house, yet that is just taking forever for him to learn. LOL Yet some things we excuse away because of their age, or that we do not want to them to be ‘different’ or considered unpopular.  

We have got to snatch our children out of the world and bring them into the ark of safety in the Lord…half the problem is that many of us are still living in the world and for the world – this is why our children do not want to go to church…in their minds – Jesus is not working for you – why should they try Him? As a parent you are still angry, hurt, disappointed, not calling on the Lord, not praying, not praising and only doing what the word says for those moments you are at church…what does your child see when your child looks at you? Ask them but be ready to hear a tough answer if you permit them to be totally honest without getting in trouble.  

Are we truly raising our children to be separate from the world, to not do the things of the world, no matter how much it is calling them to do things like their friends? Are we living that life in front of them as shining examples of how to fight temptation, how to overcome the attacks of the enemy? Or do we pretend to do this in the public eye and our kids see a completely different person? Do you allow your children to know the struggles that you are going through and that you are calling on the Lord as you go through? Do you have family prayer time together where you pray as a family to instill in your children to have their own prayer life? What are you doing to show your child how to cultivate a relationship with the Lord? Do they not only see your read the word, but do you read it with them, do you have them read it on their own…do they even own a bible?

Are we sending our children out into the world unequipped to deal with it as the Lord wants them to do so? Are we permitting our children to decide when they attend church and when they are not attending church? You know just like I said yesterday, “my house – my rules”. We have to be parents and not our children’s friends, they have enough friends, they need the foundation to make it to spend eternal life with the Lord – we are the ones who start showing them how to lay this foundation in their lives by not only living it before them, but giving them the tools to live it also.  

Yes, we can not control our children and their habits, but we can give the direction, the guidelines, the tools, the know how and also the opportunity to get it right at a young age. We can enforce rules with our children that not only keeps them in church (at least til they move out) but also we can live the life before them with joy and happiness in our hearts. It is in this that our children will see that Jesus is the way. We have plenty of grown children coming back to the Lord and seeking His will for their lives, why because we trained them up right when they were young, yet we need to keep training them up – teaching them the right way and know that God is able. We can not slack on our duty as parents to find out who we are in Jesus – to find out what is going on in our lives, we should as adult already have it together….time is wasting…let us get it together and train them up right.  

Let us get back to the word of the Lord and the ways of old that raised children in the manner of respect for the Lord and all those that they know. Kids do not respect the church or Jesus because they are not being taught to do so, we allow them to come any way to keep them but not giving them the tools to change…give them the tools to change. Sure having a bowling night, going to the zoo and doing activities is great for them, but what about sitting down and just talking with them about the issues that they face, giving them sound biblical scriptures that tackle the issues at hand for them. How about relating the examples in the bible to them, showing them how this applies to their lives. Sunday service is not enough, bible study is not enough – we want our youth to be strong in the Lord – we need to give the ALL that is needed for them to succeed…we need to give them the instructions of how this is going to work in for them.  

Our youth need to learn how to prayer, they need to know why they are praying, they need to know what scriptures related to the situations they are going through right then, and they need to know that we care…if we do not show that we care – we will lose them to the enemy forever. Let us be more mindful when we are dealing with the youth, not just our own children but all the youth that we meet as we walk this life in the Lord. 

Until tomorrow,
God Bless
Sister Alissa Lynne Griffith
 
 
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Praise the Lord…you know when you do things that glorify the Lord – the enemy comes at ya like there is no tomorrow but yet I stand. I stood yesterday and gave my testimony on being content in whatever state I find myself, and of course what does the enemy do today – rear his ugly head trying to get me to be un-content…but I am going to remain content! AMEN!!!  

You know I started this blog one way and then this other way started coming on me, so I had to start again…today we are going to talk about our children….it is getting worse and I am not talking about the children of unsaved parents, they are doing what they see…yet I am talking about the children of saved parents. The word of the Lord says in Proverbs 22:6 6Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

We can all agree that everyone needs a foundation in their lives – something to believe in and stand for…for if you stand for nothing – you will fall for anything. This we all can agree on…the word says to train our children up and when they are old – they will not depart from it. Now as saved parents, we pray our children will come to Christ and stay with Him, yet some do and some do not…yet we have to see that the Lord deals with everyone as individuals and brings them closer to Him with the things they need to be close to Him. He calls and some answer and some do not answer – we need to remember that not all are going to go to the Lord – actually most are not, the word says that few shall walk the strait and narrow path…(Matthew 7:13-14 13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.) Yet we do not know who is and who is not, so our children could or could not – heck we could or could not be the ones that make it to eternal life. Yet – many are not doing what is necessary to raise our children up right.

As I was talking to two sisters yesterday briefly about our children, one thing is clear – things have changed in how we are raising our children. We have become so laid back with our children that they are running the home instead of us. Our children talk any kind of way that they want to us; they talk to whomever they choose to instead of the Lord and us. They decided a long time ago that they were grown doing what they think they are grown enough to do. As I was talking to one sister, I said I do not understand it and the one thing she said that hit home as she said several things that was right on the money – but the one that hit home is that our tolerance levels is one of the issues.

There are things our children do that our parent would have NEVER put up with and yet here is another thing – we would have never tried it with our parents either. We have decided to not be on our children as much as our parents for whatever reason, yet we wonder why our children are acting out against us. It was something as I was talking to my son last night about the neighborhood kids as there are some kids he is not permitted to play with because of the lack of disrespect for him. He is so much wanting so many friends and wanting to be liked so much by others that he puts up with anything with the children. I started thinking about that as I was thinking maybe that is my issue. I want him to care for me and want to be my son – not to dislike me that I have be come too laid back. I used to be called the “warden” by my uncle because I was on Jonathan all the time, then when his dad left, I felt guilty and started being laid back more. Hummm….wrong move….wrong move….LOL

Yet as I look at other families and hear so many stories…we have got to stop allowing the enemy to take over. I told my son last night that if he ever came home with clothes that I did not buy – he has to move out, for that means he is stealing or even selling drugs. I told him that in our house – there is no rap – there is no hip hop – we invoke the presence of the Lord in our home so all that other mess has to go. I have told my son that it is Merv and my way or the highway…I let him know NOW at the age of 8 that I am not playing – that there is a level of respect that must be maintained and if it is not maintained – then he is not going to like the outcome.

I tell you what…the attitude changed right then and I seen the difference – I could feel the respect from him…something though…so many of us are so busy trying to get the respect from our children that most times all we have to do is demand it…give the option of either give it or move! LOL Yes it is that simple, yet we do not want to ‘hurt their feelings”. My mom did not give a care if she hurt my feelings or not, I was to listen to her and do as I was told – end of story.

We are struggling with our children, letting our children decide on things that they should have no business deciding…sorry if I am living the life God has called me to live and you live under my roof – then guess what you are going to church period…you my child – you are going to church as long as you live with me…do not want to – MOVE, yet until you move – you have no option….make me late for church or do things that are deliberately making it so you can not go…time for some tough love…GOT TO GO! It is not easy hecks no – but they must respect and know that there is no other way to live this life…we have to make a stand and sometimes that is against our own children.

There are sisters with daughters who are sleeping around in their house, out there doing all kinds of stuff and bringing those nasty spirits home with them, sons walking around thinking they all that because of the little bit of money they bringing in, sons walking around dressing like thugs when you raised them to dress better or children expecting the best but yet giving you a hard way to go…it has to stop and we as parents need to make that decision to stop it.

It is something as I listen to the words of some of those songs that these kids are going around singing….we are allowing our children to sing those things into their lives. They walking around singing about being a hustler and then you wonder why they are hustling stuff…our daughters walking around about shaking what your mama gave you and you wonder why they are walking around shaking it. Some parents even encourage it. It is something…even when I had a job – my mom vetoes my outfits…if I brought something in the house that my mother thought I should not wear – it either went back or in the garbage…there was no option. She taught me how a young lady was supposed to behave, so while I was in her house I was a young lady – I was trained right and now I resort back to it now in my older years….which is what Proverbs 22:6 means….we have to get them now!

More to come on this…tomorrow…

God Bless

Your sister

Sister Alissa Lynne Griffith