Serve Others...as Christ has served you..

Good morning Saints. My encouragement to you this week is to serve others as Christ has served you. Speak encouragement to another, spend time with those in trial, or volunteer your labor to better someone else. Be a servant to others.

Be a servant to others. My encouragement to you this week is that simple. It is our responsibility to give to others. Someone has given to us at one time or another. We have a responsibility to serve others. It is our expression of love, compassion, and joy to better the lives of someone. If we look at the life of Christ, Christ served others in so many capacities for a lifetime. His words inspired hope in the lives of many. His kindness expressed the love he had for us even in our times of rebellion against God. He was never too busy to help the life of another. Are we this way with others? Do we really try and give our service to better another or are we too busy self-serving ourselves? I look at my own life at times and wonder do I do too much for others. A very good friend of mine kept me encouraged to keep up the work and I am grateful for her constant encouragement. When you are impacting the life of another, the work will never feel like it is too much. You are doing a great thing to help someone else become the great person you want them to be. You are volunteering your time to see the joy on the faces of others. You spend time with those in trial because they will truly know what love is and how to give it to another person. All things that Christ has done for people and all the things Christ is doing for us...Be Blessed...

Greatness..It's In You!!

My encouragement to you this week is to realize how great you are, even in the midst trials! You are supplied with the strength of God. Don't let the memory of failure tell you different. God hasn't blessed us with mediocrity. God wants you to be great! He will strengthen you to endure your trials and he will empower you to succeed in all your ways!

Realize how great you are. You are capable of great things. I know when we are going through our trials it can be hard to even think of yourself as anything profound. But I want to tell you, YOU ARE GREAT!!! Realize your greatness. God has not made it so that we are to be unhappy our whole lives. We may go through trials that may last for a little while but we will not be condemned to our fates as long as God is involved. God will give you the strength to last through your situation. Believe in God. Believe in his everlasting strength. You have to be faithful so you will have to endure. God deserves the glory and the honor. Give it to him for what he has done for your life. The Lord will endure forever. His Love endures forever. Call to God. God wants you to be great too!! He wants you to be great so that you will know that it is through God's grace your success is given to you...Be Blessed...

God is Real..Seek God and God Will Find You...

Good morning Saints. My encouragement to you this week is to keep your eyes & heart focused on the qualities of God. In the midst of trouble, God will become more real in your life. God will be your Father, Provider, Healer, & Comfort.

Deuteronomy 4:29 says "But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul." I think sometimes when we are calling to God we are more in hope that he happens to catch our requests of him in his ear. Is there any real sincerity in our search for the Lord? Are we seeking God with our hearts because this is our desire or are we just hopelessly hoping he finds us? In the midst of our troubles, I think we have a tendency to call on him out of our desperation rather than call on him because our hearts are looking for him. God always seems to be the last resort. Make God the first choice and last choice. Seek him with your soul. When you call out to God, call on him with all your heart. God will draw closer to you to strengthen your resolve in his holy name. God has a lot of great qualities. God is our healer, our comfort, our provider, our everything. God is amazing. He is sovereign. God is compassionate. God is omniscient. God is omnipresent. God is all knowing. God is strong. God is love. God is aware. This list can go on and on of how great God is. Seek God with all of your heart and soul and you will see just how real God is. God says in Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me. This is something I need to work on myself. I know God is amazing. I want you to know God is amazing. If you already know God is amazing, keep your heart fixed on him. Keep seeking him. The day we become complacent, is the day we fail. Our salvation is a never-ending process. The closer we draw to God, the closer God will draw to us. We will truly know who God is and what God can do...Be Blessed...

Seek the Lord and You Shall Find...

My encouragement for you this week is to keep seeking the Lord amidst the chaos of our lives. The comfort & help God can provide WILL impact our lives in a powerful way. God is always paying attention. Give God your attention and he will give you more than what you can EVER ask for.

In the midst of our chaos, we say, " I don't know where to turn." Turn your face to the same place it should be even when things are not so peachy. Turn your face and your heart to God. It is easy to praise God while we're on the mountain top but always seems to hard to find God when everything isn't so clear. God is the same place he was when you got into your problems. He is there. He is our refuge when we need to be hidden for a little while against more things which tear us down. He is our strength when we need to confront our troubles. Do you know the God you serve. God is enduringly strong. God is imperially powerful. God is impartially merciful. God supplies strength to the weak. There is nothing that the Lord cannot do for you. Seek the Lord with everything that you have. God will never leave you where you don't want to be without taking care of you. You don;t need to keep looking in the wrong places for all of your help. Our God is an awesome God. He is all that we need ....Be Blessed..

Trust God..May not be easy, but it will never be wrong....

It is always scary in the midst our problems when we can't see how we will overcome. My encouragement to you is to trust God to provide. He will provide. You don't know what God will do or how he will do it, but just know God will do it for you.

It is very easy for us in the midst of our problems to never see the big picture. We can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. It is so hard for us to see ourselves coming through all the flames around us. We feel that we don't own the tools needed to deal with our problems. You may not have all the tools you need on this earth but you have the Lord. The Lord is THE PROVIDER. He is the One who can get us through our trials and tribulations. He is an awesome God. God will be our refuge and God will be our victory. I know it is hard to trust hat God can get you through in the midst of being in your darkest hour but trust God to provide. God has earned your trust and deserves your trust. Call on to him and he will answer you. He will not forsake you. "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."(Prv.3:5) It's OK that you don't have the solutions. I know that it can be frustrating but do not lose hope. Your friends may give you alternatives, but God will give you solutions. God will be the solution you need him to be in your dark hour. Trust in God. God will take your trust and reward it with much more than you have ever asked of him. Be Blessed...

Keep Fighting..God is Fighting with You

My encouragement to you this week is to fight with everything you have against the discouragements that surround us. Ask God to be all of your help. The power and grace of God knows no boundaries. It may be hard but never quit. You WILL fall but you WILL rise again. God is faithful to you. He will honor your faith.

We all know the lyric, "It ain't over...until God says it's over." How many really understand that? Do we really take that to heart? Do we really believe that God will do what he says he promised in our lives? Do you question that? I'm asking you to believe in God 100%. Unfailing. It may look very bad in your present circumstances but never give up on God.
My next exhortation is to you as Christians. Be willing to put up a fight against the things that that discourage you. Fight with all your heart because you may be in the fight of your life. You will never be satisfied by just waiting with no action. You have to be willing to fight through your discouragements. You will fail a couple times and that's OK. I know failure is very hard to deal with for anyone but your failure will make you stronger and wiser. You will rise up to fight back without a doubt. God will honor you faith to him. Go will provide you with the power you need to be great and to triumph. This life will be filled with problems but with Jesus we know that we will be triumphant in the midst of those problems. God will never place a burden on you that you cannot bear. He will build you and your faith to fight against your discouragements. As the song It Ain't Over says, " Keep fighting until your victory is won" Your perseverance in Christ will be the difference. God will not let you be defeated because nothing can defeat the power of our Father..Be Blessed...

Big Problems???....Bigger God

My encouragement is for you this week is to stand up to your challenges and keep facing them. You may get pushed back but ask God for the strength and will to drive forward. You can do it. You've always been good enough to do it. God will give you victory. You may doubt yourself but NEVER doubt God.

We all have challenges which can get us so far down it hurts to even think about it. It hurts us so bad we can't find the motivation to face all of our other challenges which have been barriers to us. I'm asking you to stand up to those challenges head on with courage. You may get pushed back but you drive forward. Invite God into the midst of your problems. You invite him in the midst of these trials to take on the battle for you and with HIM. Not with you because the battle has always been the Lord's, not yours. You can do it. You are good enough to do it. God is powerful enough to help your ambition become a reality of triumph. You may have doubts in your ability but NEVER doubt what God can do. God is awesome all the time. Psalms 25:3 "No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame." That is a promise and a fact. Believe in this. God says in Isiah 45:22 " Turn to me and be saved..." God is saying just follow and I will handle your problems. There is no other but God...In the words of Marvin Sapp, " There’s no question of Your greatness, no searching of Your power." God is all of our help. So this week, confront your problems. You can do it. You have the best help that can be offered. Your problem may not be resolved this week..DO NOT GIVE UP ON IT!!! Not all of our problems are simple. Some may endure but God will endure with you. Trust him and praise him everyday that you are able to confront these problems. There are days where you will want to quit but praise him everyday that you still push forward. NEVER STOP TRYING. GOD HAS NEVER QUIT ON YOU...Be Blessed...

God Makes Promises..and KEEPS THEM

God fulfilled his promise by sending his son Jesus to be born. God will fulfill all his promises to you through his faithfulness, compassion, righteousness, & peace. Let God take the lead in your life. Set the path in your heart and let God order your steps.

God kept his promise to send us a savior. Isaiah was talking about it even in the old Testament. He even prophesied from who's family will Jesus come from when he is born. God let him know these things years before Jesus birth and it happened. God will keep all the promises for you as a child of God. God promises to be faithful to you as his child. Was God not faithful to Christ? God heard his prayers and helped him in every moment of his life. God promised he will give you compassion. God's chosen people sinned against him repeatedly of the SAME SIN. But every time they called on to the Lord, in his faithfulness he helped them. He was compassionate because he know what they deserved but he was always willing to forget their transgressions in order to show that he is still their Father and he cares. God promises us righteousness, justice. God is not a God who cares how great you look on this Earth. Do not be jealous of those who have much more than you. Be grateful that God has not let you go without. He has been faithful to you to give you what you need to make it and and to be awesome. Continue to seek him with your heart. Not just with good deeds but with your heart. Lastly God gives us the promise of peace. This is a promise we all seek. Sometimes our lives our so calamitous that we can not even take a moment to think about the simplest things. God granted Jesus with the peace to do great things even in the midst of trial. We can be granted the peace we need to stand up to our trials or the peace we need to simply enjoy the great things around us God has given. I pray that anyone who doesn't know the promises of God, seek God and build your relationship with him. NOW is the best time. Do not delay. God is waiting on you and happy to have you..Be Blessed..

God Can Do It...

My encouragement to you this week is to stand with God and trust in God. Your ability will always be limited. But there is nothing God can't do. He will go to great lengths to provide you will all that you need.

As the year comes to a close in a few weeks, we all reflect on how the year has passed us by. For some of us, this year has been a good one. We have things God has blessed us with to give us joy. God has given you the family you wanted, the spouse you've need, the clarity you've been seeking, the job you thoughts wasn't there, etc. For some others this year has brought a lot of turmoil, heartache, physical and mental agony, financial instability, broken family bonds, etc. I am asking you to stand with him no matter what! Don't give up on God period. If you were trusting him before any of these things in your life took place, don't give up on him now. This life was NEVER meant to be easy. In 1 Peter it says " though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed." It says when Jesus is revealed...not a question of if he will be revealed. God will show up! God will not let any child suffer forever. There is much happiness to be found in our Father. There is hope for your circumstances. Life is very trying and very hard. This life does not come without its problems. I know it seems like you may be at wits with everything. You really need God...call on him. In Isaiah 40:29 it says "He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak." He will increase your strength to make you ready to bear and ready to be delivered. God will give you the strength to do great tings and achieve the things people say weren't possible. Our ability is limited but what is there on this Earth that God cannot do for you? Psalms says ," It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights. He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze." Love God with all that you have and he will show you what he is capable of. He will go through great lengths to provide for those in need of him. He will do everything possible to show you he deserves your trust. Trust in God and trust in his ability. He will do great thing sin your life. Be ready and thankful when he shows you who he is. There is nothing under the sun that can't be moved by the hand of God. His arms have never been too short. I pray you get to know him if you are not a follower of his will. If you want to the peace in your distress, accept God into your life now! For those of you who already know the Lord, don't give up on him now. He is making provisions for you. Be patient. He has provided for you so far right???? Exactly...stand with God..Be Blessed

God Will Give You Hope...

My encouragement to you this week is to maintain your hope in God. Keep trying. Let your ambitions for success be greater than the memories of your failures. God will not fail you.

Maintain your hope n God. In this time in our country, the light at the end of the tunnel seems so hard to see at times. It looks so hard and so bleak like goodness will never come your way. We may feel abandoned by God, but we are not abandoned. We will not be let go by God. God will be there for us. Put all your hope in him. Wait on the Lord. He is our help and our shield. He will lift you up when you need to be lifted and he will protect you from the things that want to bring you down. But e must put our complete hope in him. You're down on your luck and nothing seems to be going your way. The job that you are looking for is still not here. The diagnosis to your health is still not here. The relationship that is hurting you is still not fixed. The Lord's love is unfailing. The Lord is a redeemer. He his a God of redemption. He will place you where you need to be and he will place you better than where you were before your situation. God will give your situation back to you in better shape than what you gave it to him!!! Be ambitious and keep trying. Don't you dare give up on yourself. You keep trying to get it done. It maybe painful too encounter some of those barriers over and over again but you keep your ambition and don't stop trying. You will push passed it. God is with you and he will not fail you. Believe it. Believe God. I encourage anyone without a relationship w/God to seek him. Believe in him. Allow God to take your life in a direction better than the one you planned for yourself. Be Blessed...