When we walk with Jesus we are going to experience all kinds of different things. We will lose friends and family because we turn from our wicked ways(2 Chronicles 7:14) "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
When WE finally decide to truly turn from our wicked ways and follow him full time and stop just being a "Part-time Lover"
you will see such a great and dramatic change in your life, you'll start seeing things in a new light. We focus too much on the how’s and when’s and ifs in life when we really should be focused on God. Recognize your problem but never dwell on it life is to short, you can have your way God has made us all free moral agents and responsible for our own actions either serve him or Satan
(John 5:30) "I can of mine own SELF do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me."
(Luke 16:13)" No servant can SERVE TWO MASTERS: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
To be a Christian is a choice that we choose, to be a saved Christian is another story. I’ve met many people that said they were Christians and be in bars and night clubs on the weekends and never show evidence of even knowing Jesus. We have too many of these popcorn Christians that will pop in Sunday and then you might see them again on Easter or the church homecoming.
We need more Jobs in the church, someone who will fight the fight of faith and stick in there when all hell is raging against you, when you are dealing with unpaid bills and on the verge of losing your home and your vehicle but most of all your mind, the bible says to “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalms 46:10)
It takes a sold out man or woman of God to really stand in and endure the afflictions of this world. My dear
grandmother is what I call a true saint, through it all she has stood in the gap for more years than anyone else I know, her faith in God has strengthened over time and her walk has increased through every fiery dart and temptation, she has witnessed her children saved and in church and her grandchildren in the ministry, she has went through a 55 year marriage and that has also increased her faith.
I can remember the nights she would stay up and I would hear her praying in her living room as she read the Bible, to be honest I don’t know where I would be today hadn’t she prayed those nights.
I have two sisters who also are in ministry; it is so awesome to have a family that all five members are in ministry.
There were times when we all wanted to give up and call it quits but we knew that God had a purpose for our life and so we hung in and clung to the cross with our entire mite.
I remember a night I was driving home about two in the morning and I was praying and worshiping as tears flowed down my face I began to weep harder almost to the point to losing my breath, about that time I see some lovely blue and red lights in my rearview mirror, after getting my ticket for a small license plate light being out I began to think why me lord?
Little did I know that he was preparing me for what was to come in the future I would go on and be a mighty man of God.
(Luke 6:38)"Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again."