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Praise the Lord for the mighty day in Him. What a day – sneaking a few moments at work to write as this is just on my mind. It is funny – work has picked up so much lately and my mind is going a mile a minute at work and have been keeping notes on things! Praise God for notes!  

It is really awesome to be walking in the Lord and knowing that in Him is all things and in all things is Him. We all have moments of doubt and frustration in making sure we are on the right path of things. . . there are always times that make us second guess what we are suppose to do and where we are supposed to go. 

It is all based on making sure we know whom we are listening too…remember that we need to test the spirits…despite what we think it is – test the spirits – ask God if that was His direction or self.  

When we look to God before running off into a new direction, we will know what God has for us to do. We have to keep our minds/hearts open to the voice of the Lord and if God does not speak to you while you are seeking a direction….sometimes you need to sit still and WAIT! 

Sometimes we want things so badly that we open the door for more mess in our lives. . . always seeking God and His direction is what we need to do at all time. It is a learning process – sometimes we think God is saying one thing – but we need to remember God’s people know His voice…. 

Do you know the voice of the Lord? Do you know when He is speaking to you? If not – seeking God’s direction is a MUST before you move to do a thing, then testing the sprits against the word of the Lord before moving forward. We must work on our relationship with the Lord and know that you are hearing from God. 

Too many of us make decisions or speak things into the air of this life and it is NOT related it to the will and voice of the Lord – we will make more headaches for ourselves but know this – we will learn!  

God bless and enjoy your blessed day in the Lord for He is worthy of all praise! 
 
 
Praise the Lord – my pastor spoke on a topic that many of us do not like to deal with – our choices! Our choices can make destroy us or even kill us. It got me to thinking about my choices in life and then one of my friends on Facebook asked this question. . .

Absent fathers: are they invisible men or deadbeat dads? What does FB think?

I answered at first with this response. . .

A little from column A and a little from column B - if we are talking about the ones who are not being forced to stay away because of the mother - some men are absent dads because of the mother - then they are neither - just trying to be safe!

Yet there were some more comments that made me think there are a lot of bitter women out there who made the wrong choices in whom we are going to discuss for a minute today.

I started really thinking on this…

Whose fault is it when a father is a deadbeat/invisible/absent? Not that he is not held responsible for it but what about our choice to father children with him? Are we not held to some accountability for our choices that we make?

If we would listen to the Lord solely and not ourselves – would we be better off with the right man for us who would be the father of his children? Why do we never see that we make the wrong choices in men and that is why we have children who are fatherless - is it just me or is this the case for most of us?

Okay – yes he is wrong from being out of the children’s life but as I responded back to a sister who was so negative on her post – I thought about it…do we really think we can teach a boy to be a man and why do we kid ourselves thinking that? We can do all that we do and still have great kids – but we as women can not teach our sons how to be a man – we can teach them how to be a great person but not how to be a man because we are not men! This does not mean he will not learn it and it does not mean that we are bad mothers. God made it so that we can have children with a spouse and we raise the children together.

Now I can only speak for me - my ex husband choose to walk away from us - but I am not bitter or mad about it - if he was not right for my son - then he is not right for my son. I made the HUGE mistake of choosing him as my husband - if I would have paid attention beforehand I would have known he was going to do this - I can't blame him for doing whathe always did before Jonathan and I take full blame because I knew better BUT I am blessed - for my son has several positive role models. I do the best I can and let the rest be handled by God! Of course - I can only speak of myself!

I think we as sisters need to slow our role and suck it up. We made a choice and in most cases we have children out of wedlock – the father never made a commitment to us and we expect him to make a commitment to his kids. Well for some reasons most of them do not. Yet sometimes we make the wrong choice of who we are going to have as the father of our children.

Yet what about the fact that some of us – keep the children from the fathers due to our own emotional issues – not because of him but because of us. How many sisters do that? Yet they blame him – but in reality it is them.

I have heard a million times – MY KID IS NOT GOING WITH HIM AND HER!! What the heck is that? Who cares about her as long as she is good to your child what difference does it make – a child needs both parents – we cannot forget that and just because you have a daughter does not mean she does not need her dad.

Now of course there are situation where the father is not able to be a father due to his own issues such as drug abuse or something like that- this is not what we are talking about – let us stand in the way of the Lord and follow His direction in all choices that we make!

Let us trust the Lord in all things!

 God bless!
 
 
Praise the Lord! It is in the Lord that we must be…it is in Him for always that we are supposed to be.

I was reading Sister Nicey’s blog and she had this statement in her blog that sang such volumes to me…

The tiniest choice that is made reverberates throughout our entire lives.

It is really something when I read that – it screamed volumes to me and as I think about it even more – it reminds me of how we must follow the word of the Lord at all times. I am always saying the following verses:

Proverbs 3:5-75Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 7Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

Mathew 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

We have to realize that our choices are what define who we are and what we are about. Our choices tell the world who we serve and what we stand for. We struggle with trying to do the right thing and then end up second guessing ourselves, but when we follow the word of the Lord – we will not second guess what we are doing…we know that our steps are ordered by the Lord and we need to make sure we are in His path and not on our own path. It is in Him that we will have all that we need – we have to follow His direction.

We have to be more than hearers of the word – we have to live the word. We have to stop making excuses and just do it…so many of us wonder why our lives are so ‘crazy’ and just not feeling right – take a look around yourself – are you doing things that you know are wrong – drinking, drugging, sexing and all those other ‘feel good’ sins….well maybe the Lord is trying to tell you that something is out of line in your life. We have to be careful with the choices that we make – we have to line our lives up with the word of the Lord! We must do all that we can to live the word of God.

Sometimes it means giving people up, giving up old habits, giving up things that are just not what we want to give up. Take for example – the young rich man…in Matthew Chapter 19….yet in verses

21Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. 22But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

We need to make a small choice – just one choice – the choice to follow Jesus…we do not have to lead – we just have to follow. We do not have to guess…we just listen and follow. We do not have to do a thing but what God has called us to do. It is in Him that we have all that we need.

It is the choices that will help us and keep us. We need to be ready because the times are coming that we are going to have to make a choice on standing for the word of the Lord or the words of the world. A sister was testifying at church on Sunday, she was saying how one of the state agencies that gives assistance for daycares by offering different suggestions. Often times the suggestions are not really suggestions but determine if you stay in their good graces and receive the funding. Well the agency asked the sister to read stories to her children about having two mommies and how that is okay. Of course she refused to do so and knowing this sister – she most likely witnessed to them too…yet they had to take it back to their supervisor to see what is to be done. We need to get ready – we need to prepare our minds.

The acceptance of this ‘new’ thing in homosexual agenda – we are going to be wiped away from the rest of the world. Those of us who stand are going to be cussed out, talked about and  maybe eventually placed in jail. Do not fool yourself to think it will never happen – the ground work has already been laid down and as much as many that read this just love President Obama – he is signing all the paperwork on this and our prayers need to go up asking God for decisions to be made in righteousness. It is not going to be easy for Christians – most likely sooner than later. It is not a bad thing to stand for the Lord – sometimes it is painful and lonely but it is NOT a bad thing to do for God said that if we are for Him – He will be for us!

I say all this today – to remind you that we have to make sure our choices in life line up with the Lord and that our decisions are in line with the word of God for our very soul and where we will spend eternity is determined in the choices we make and the things we stand for.  

Revelation 21:3-8  3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.  4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.  5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.  6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.  7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.  8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Remember we need to do the things that God has called us to do in Him…we cannot be those that God speaks of that will not make it to heaven because of our own desires…do not fool yourself but know that God is not mocked sisters – we have got to be striving to live for Christ and not giving into all those urges that we have to satisfy self – we have to know that God is good and He will help us for everything that is against us – God has an answer – He has a direction for our lives – we cannot let our own vision block His vision for us for we might just miss out on the best time of our lives at the very end of life as we know it and end up hearing words that we never wanted to hear and that is eternal separation from God!!