I AM TOO BUSY

You know I can find myself buzzing like a busy bee.  I am doing this thing and doing that thing but at the end of the day...I have been busy but not effective.   I think this is something we must guard against, The willingness to be busy for the sake of saying, "I am busy."  Let us map out our lives and become more strategic in our planning and doing.   So the next time busy shows up tell busy, "you don't have time because you are too busy being effective."

Devotional Today (The Language of Love )

Life can appear to be overwhelming at times but take heart the Lord knows all about you and your situation.God really does understand the needs, wants and desires of His children but He also wants us to communicate those things to Him.

You mean really talk to God? Yes, I mean really spill the beans to Him...Tell Him about the Wizard, Oz, Todo, Dorothy....


the Tinman...everybody lol...Ha,ha,ha but no foreal...Dorothy was rocking those ruby red slippers right? Okay, okay back to the devotional...

We can often miss how precious it is to have a God that cares, understands and listen to His children. Your voice really does matter to God. The Lord wants us to plug in and not just drain the energy out of our relationship with Him.

 He wants to have a very intimate relationship with us. So how do we accomplish that? We accomplish that by prayer, talk time and loving on God by our obeidence.

 Prayer must be an essential part of our relationship with God because  prayer is how we communcate with our heavenly Father.  Consequently, when God answers prayer and leads us with His gentle Spirit  this is how our Father communicates with us mostly.

 God has a way of sending someone by at the right time with the right word.  The Lord will speak rhema into our lives and when we leave that encounter we are so refreshed by that encouragement knowing that it was the Lord using that person to address our needs.

 This is one way to know that the Father has heard us and cares about how we feel.  He tells us to be "Anxious for nothing but by prayer, supplication and thanksgiving make our request made known unto God and He will give us an awesome peace that surpasses all understanding."

 Jesus really does care for His children.
How do you know that you are His child?  When you have accepted Him as Saviour and Lord and believed that God the Father has raised Him up from the grave.

 When we do this we have eternal life and also solidify that we are His.  So today put your anxiety, worry, doubt, frustration into the Master's hand and He will reward you with peace.  God bless you...

The Take Away

Know that you are not alone in your struggles. You have a caring Father just waiting to hear the deepest woes of your heart. He is ready to trade beauty for ashes, joy for mourning and peace for your frustration and anxiety.

Prayer

Father you know what we stand in need of today. Help me when I am stressing and feeling hopeless. Always reassure me as your child that you are there and you care about what I am facing today. Give me peace and strengthen my heart in Jesus name...Amen.

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Devotinal Today (Unfulfilled Potholes In Our Souls)

What do I long for?

I believe that this is a question that we have all asked ourselves. This question is deep but telling. It is a question that has the potential to reveal the innermost workings of our hearts. What is it that my heart truly desires?

 I think that this is a very valid question. Our hearts desires are different. Some of us desires to be loved by others, some of us desire to be filthy rich and have money oozing out of our ears, some of us desire to have the perfect family, some of us desire to be liked.

 However, I think that knowing what is really in our hearts can help us to grow spiritually. If you asked Christians who do they love? ...For PR purposes (public relation purposes) we will all yell Jesus (or at least I hope so). But if you were to look at the fruit of some of our lives it would indeed tell a different story.

 It is sorta kinda like driving through the streets of New York city, or Downtown DC. The streets are filled with potholes that are covered over with tar and gravel. If you were to ask the city, "Why are there so many badly covered potholes.?"  I believe they would answer, "The streets are okay, they are in workable condition." But when you drive on them you look at your car and you say, "Why wasn’t these potholes filled, this road is terrible."

The same can be said about our lives at times. We can walk around looking healed on the inside but if we would be honest we have covered over the Potholes in our souls with relationships, television, excuses, humor, addictions, overeating, pretentiousness, things, conquest but some how we are still unfulfilled.

 Why is this? I believe whenever we are using inferior materials (people, relationships, success, conquest, lust, things) we will always come up empty and extremely destructive to ourselves and the passers-by that are around us.

 We will always be longing for something that is lasting an absolute. Truth be told our souls are always longing for something. God has created us that way to always be longing, searching, never satisfied with this world. Why? Because He knows that if we keep searching we will find the answer to that riddle and that answer is

Jesus.

Romans 8:22-23 says, "For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

 We must understand that our longings must be for God but if we take those longings and misdirect them towards the lust of the world we will always feel empty. God has given us family, spouses, money, relationships, friends but those things come after we have put Him at the top of our priority list. Those things come to us after we have sought first the kingdom of God and the righteousness of Jesus.

The Take Away

Remember that only what we do for Christ will last. Jesus wants to be our number one priority not our number two or three. He doesn't want to be our go to when we are in a bind. But He wants to be our total fulfilment.

Prayer

Lord God help us to make you our number one even when we are feeling alone and struggling within ourselves. Keep us God when we are tempted to trust your glory to another or something. Give us the strength and vision to always steer clear of our unfulfilled potholes in Jesus name I pray...amen.


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Daily Devotional (From Carpet to Hardwood)

Did you know that you can be so careful with life that you will not accomplish much?  Some of us are struggling with a first aid kit mentally.  A mentality that says, "I will never take risks." "As long as I stay in my bubble I will never get hurt." Hmmm...I wonder is this wisdom or fear?

 I know that risk can be risky and fearful at times but some risk is necessary for success.  We must be able to face disappointments and know that we have done our best. Not only this but we must trust God enough that when we have done our best He will reward us for it.

 Just like babies when they are learning how to walk they take risk. My daughter is so daring right now. She will probably jump from our arms if we would let her because she is motivated to succeed and start walking (she hasn't truly processed fear yet at only eight months).

 I believe we need to at times take a babies approach to fear and disappointment. We need to take calculated risk. Now let me clarify...I am not talking about having an affair or robbing a bank or anything crazy like that.

 But I am talking about turning 50 and getting your GED, finding life again after divorce or starting a business in your 30's, continuing to press forward after you and your husband have had a miscarriage and trust God to bring forth that family, saving your marriage even when it looks like the bottom is about to fall out.

 2Timothy 4:7 says, "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." Also 1 Peter 5:6-7 says,"Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you."

 So if we will always walk on carpeted floors we can never discover the beauty of Hardwood...  I hope this helps... God bless!!!

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Why Happiness Alone Can't Sustain You!

One of the happiest moments in life was when I realized that life was not defined by happiness but by joy in Jesus. -The Blueprint-

Happiness is such a controversial word in my opinion because many people find themselves imprisoned by the meaning of this word. Truly if we were to analyze happiness we would realize that it is a state of being not an absolute. Happiness is circumstantial at best. 

Consequently, it is a feeling solely based on conditions but it is never concrete. If you were to show me 5 people that were happy...I could show you 5 more that said sometime in the day they were happy also but because of difficulty of events or circumstances out of their control they are no longer happy.

Happiness is an emotion that is always changing. It lacks depth and the deeply planted roots needed in order to build a stable foundation upon.   What do you mean?  Thanks for asking... Happiness says in essences if I feel happy today, if everything around me is conducive to my happiness, then guess what?... I feel happy today. But by some chance my circumstances don't provide me an atmosphere that is conducive to my happiness. ..then somebody better watch out, now I am on the warpath because I am not happy today.

Happiness is predicated on condition not facts. We may not feel happy today but God is still good. Fact not condition.

Consider this? We can wake up in the morning and hear the birds chirping,  the angels singing because we feel happy today.  However, if life hands us a plate of disappointments then there is a good chance that we will no longer feel happy. That is chilling right? We can't build our proverbial houses on happiness because eventually they will colasp.

The conditions of life can and will alter our attitudes and possibly rob us of our happiness if we will allow our feelings to dictate to us the direction for our lives. The seesaw, (The Feeling of Happiness) has claimed many marriages, friendships and has weakend our relationships with God because the feeling of euphoria that was once present when we received Jesus is no longer there.

Have you ever heard people say, "I don't feel saved or we have just fallen out of love?" Can I say this? Love and Salvation are not feelings they are choices. We choose to love our spouses or not. We choose to live submitted and consecrated lives to God or not.

Nehemiah had to remind the Israelites when Ezra was reading the word of God that it wasn't a time to weep but it was a time to rejoice. He had to remind them that their strength was found in the joy of the Lord and that His words are spirit and they are alive.

We too must realize that when I am happy God has my back, when my enemies are present God has my back and when I am feeling sad God has my back.   We must realize that we are not defined by our happiness. When we dont feel happy we are still strong because we have His joy, evelasting joy! It doesn't matter about our conditions because God never, ever changes, he is always absolute. 

Nehemiah 8:10 kjv

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Creations Chatter

By Mike Anthoni
God have you heard,  how awesome you are?

The sun shines so bright it warms my body like gramma's apple pie on a cold winter day,

God have you heard the news, how awesome you are?

Every morning like clock-work, I awake from last nights slumber, with no power of my own to control the clock of life,

God have you heard how awesome you are?

Every star in the galaxy has been named, every hair on our heads have been numbered.

God have you heard how awesome you are?

Rain comes down from the sky with the right amount of water to feed your creation,

God how awesome you are,

I can't help but give you the praise for mercies given unto me even though I don't deserve them.

The word awesome is to low of a praise for a God as big as you are,

How Awesome, how awesome, how awesome!
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The Journey Man

Only what you do for Christ Shall Last!

By Mikel A. Walker Sr.

There was no place to lay His head;

A kingdom not able to be realized;

A wicked world of closed hearts and eyes;

Sensual, yet not alive;

Created to be alive, yet dead;

God's creation had gone awry;

A machine who chose to reject the Operator;

A creation with child like character, with no site of maturing;

A people wanting to control itself;

A spirit that rather rebel then to humble itself under almighty God;

A people that had lost the sense of what it meant to be kept by God;

The Journey Man surname, "Savior";

Fully God, fully Man and fully Creator;

He journeyed a long way from home;

With one goal in mind, "humanity";

A noble cause one might exclaim;

Death was the only remedy for the sickness that sin had caused;

Perfection of the law demanded a price to be paid, that only a perfect lamb without blemish could pay;

Sin had crept into the holy place and turned over the alter and ruined the sacrifice;

But God replaced the sacrifice with one who could make atonement, for the wrong caused by man;

Jesus Christ became that sacrifice, that we might have a chance once again at eternal life;

The Journey Man, off he went to His throne in a distant land until he will descend again.
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