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Praise the Lord for this day and every single day that I am alive! God is so good to me and I know that God is just reigning in my life. He is awesome and I am thankful to Him for all that He has done in my life.  

I was reading FreeSpiritHaven (Sister Angela)’s blog and it started me to thinking of how far He has brought me and how much more I still have to go. So I had to do yet another self evaluation against the word of the Lord! Always painful but always strengthening and uplifting in Jesus!  

We are all works in progress and will not be finished until the return of Christ, but yet I am still trying to make sure I am moving forward and not being still in my walk with Him. I know that we can come as we are to Jesus but I do not plan on staying where I was either – I want to be better in Him. 

Yet what was stopping me – I started looking at the words of the Lord that started flooding my mind. . .

Psalms 37:3-5 3Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 5Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

I Peter 1:7-97That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Philippians 4:6-86Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Yet today I am going to speak on the last one first – how often do we read this and not take this in our heart. My Pastor spoke on this on Sunday and let me tell you what – it was nothing but confirmation.

I was starting to see that I would get all happy in Jesus and then something would happen and I would stop being happy, it would be the little thing that would change my thoughts and how my day went. Just one thing would knock me out of my joy and happiness for days. I kept reading the word and wondering why I can’t have that joy all the time, why does it come and go – never to stay for long.

As I was speaking to the Lord last week, it was ME!! I was the one that kept stopping the joy and happiness – I kept being not content with the way things were going. I kept realizing that I am slowing things down in my life. I was affecting the household with the nasty poison of the enemy. I was doing it all by myself – no one else. The enemy placed the thoughts – but my mind and words put it in action.

I started looking at myself and seeing all that I needed to change at this time to get happy all the time. Oh man the anger issue was the biggest one – the hot temper – the hurt feelings still not dealt with . . . wow Lord – here we go again! It is in my walk that I see the molding and now here comes the test! Praise the Lord – the first set of test – I passed!

God is good and I am seeking His direction in all things . . . in dealing with my son and nephew this weekend – when I raised my voice it was needed to be raised but not yelling. When my husband pushed that with me – I did not succeed as well as I would have liked it to be, I yelled loudly but calmed down enough to talk reasonably and it only took 15 minutes to get there! Thank you Jesus for the growth!

Yet the phone call came from the school. . . Jonathan took $40.00 from Merv’s wallet to give to another kid – to impress him so he will be his friend. Okay – breathe mom – there are deep lining issues here that need prayed on and turned over. WOW – I am talking to my son and not yelling at him! Praise the Lord for it!! I am excited now – what a blessing this is – in Jesus I can keep my calmness.

WAIT – GUESS WHAT!! I am still happy – I AM STILL SMILING AND I HAVE JOY IN THE LORD! Praise Jesus for this – okay – fight against the negative with the positive. I had to smile – I know that in Jesus I can do all things. I can kick my flesh to the curb – it is hard to do but I did it.

One day, one step, one praise, one scripture, and one thought at a time. Jesus is good to us and I am staying with him – I love the Lord and He is good to me! I love how He works on us and changes us. As much as I could resist and no matter how much it hurts, I am going to be molded and be happy about it too!

Well God bless – shall continue tomorrow on the other aspects of the scriptures He gave me.
 
 

Praise the Lord…studying the word of God. When was the last time you had a thought of something, or wanted to know what God thought of something and turned to His word to look it up? I have always been curious about the End Times, and really do not have a complete grasp on it because there is so much information about it and not just in the book of Revelation. The book of Daniel, speaks of the end times and I believe Isaiah does to, just too new a few. I believe that it is important to really get into the word of God and get an understanding of the things of the past and yet to come.  There are many Christians that only open their bible on Sunday, and the rest of the week, it sits on a shelf somewhere. There is an importance of reading the word daily because it is where the words of God are. It provides direction, compassion, education, encouragement and love in His word. There are many whom I speak to who are struggling daily with things and yet, when I ask them about reading the word of God daily, they admit they do not do so. Well, of course you are going to struggle more…you are not getting feed the food for your soul to keep moving forward in Jesus. I find that we as Christians feel that going to church on Sunday, Bible Study on Wednesday, Prayer Meeting on Fridays, and Choir Rehearsal on Saturdays is enough…well it is not enough. It is not going to keep us during the trials of life; it is not going to bless us to make it through the week. We need a relationship with the Lord outside of church activities; we need to know Him for ourselves.  Let us continue to encourage each other to read the word, to live the word and strive for excellence in Jesus.

Today’s truth is I write to release my struggles and to encourage myself. It amazes me at what is all in me and how the stuff just pours out. Most of my subjects are things I am struggling with or just realized how to get past it and come out of the mess that I was in. It is truly a release in me that is needed. I have a temper, a strong temper. It can eat at me for days if I do not work on letting it go. I have learned to get in the word and talk to Jesus. I was home yesterday due to not feeling well and hubby was here too…I came to see that he is more unlike me in the cleaning and stuff like that around the house. I grew up, get up and get it done then the rest of the day is yours. He did not grow up like that. He is very laid back about that stuff…I am looking at my house that to me is too messy not to clean…but to him it was not that bad. I had to bite my tongue, call out to Jesus and pray that I could control the anger that was boiling up in me for his lack of attention yesterday to the things that I felt needed to be handled in a different manner. Well it was all good until he made a comment about me being a Christian woman, LOL, for about 1 minute I forgot I was and let him have it. I think it was then that he realized what he was saying and causing between us, which was my prayer in the first place. I am still learning to “hold my peace” as we are become more into one…there are days that I say it is going to take a lifetime to be one with this man. (smile) Yet the Lord reminds me that it is a part of life, which in turn is a process! Praise the Lord for the growth yesterday and the consideration that Jesus is showing us by granting us the answer to our prayers!

Have an awesome day in Jesus this and every day!

Love your sister in Christ,

Sister Alissa Lynne