Stop Being Mad at Yourself part one 1

This is one of a few teachings titles stop being mad at yourself on Youtube by Joyce Meyer. Just watch this and listen. God made us righteous and we need to decide before we do anything else to receive the gift that Jesus has already paid for. It does us no good to mull over past sins and failures and feel bad for ourselves. We need to accept the price Jesus paid and walk the good and full life Jesus made available!!!

GROWTH IN GOD= realizing WITHOUT HIM you can do nothing!

I believe the more I get to know God, to hear the Holy Spirit, the more I realize that He wants to be a part of everything in my life. He wants to help me make the big and the small decisions. He wants to hang out with me while out and when I’m at home working around the house or cooking dinner. He loves me more than any friend, husband, mother, father, or anyone ever could. He never leaves me, He never forsakes me. He is the best friend I could ever have. He is the comforter. He helps me to understand the Word of God that I am reading. I can’t effectively really read the Word of God and learn new things without Him speaking to me and being my guide. I am learning more all the time that I need to depend on Him for everything. We are told in John that without God we can do nothing and it is so true. It also says that in Him we live, move, and have our being. I believe that the more we understand how much we can’t do with God the more God can do through us and I have definitely learned that He does a WAY better job. It says in the Word that God gives grace to the humble. This is because people that realize how much they can’t do without God, the humble, are able to receive grace from God. We need grace to do EVERYTHING God has called us to do. We can do none of it on our own. SO I would say that this is the area of my life as a Christian growing in the Lord that I have grown the most in, learning of my inability without Christ. Religion always has and always will teach us what we need to do but the truth is Jesus did everything on the cross and only through Him can we do any of it. I believe that when we begin to understand the love God has for us and like the verse in 1 John 4:10 says, ( herein is love, not that we love God but that God loved us and sent His son as the propitiation for our sins) we will begin to truly fall in love with God and that is what will birth true change in our lives. I believe I have really begun to understand how much God loves me and I see the evidence of it in my every day life. I Think that this leads to growth in every other area. I want to read my Bible not only because I know I should and I need to learn things about who I am but I can get to know even more intimately through the Word about my God who loves me so much and that I have fallen in love with. This relationship is a love walk and I plan on falling more in love with my Jesus and the result of that will always be me acting more like Him as well.

ONLY BELIEVE!

Mark 5: 36, Jesus says, Be not afraid, only believe! When we see Jesus say this in scripture, it is directly following people telling Him that a girl He was going to pray for had died. Nothing moved Jesus!! He was a man like you and I, who got to know His Father God, and knew that He would do exactly what He said He would do and never even thought of another option. See, Jesus knew that it was God's will to heal, that it was God's will to prosper, that it was God's will for people to be free in their mind, etc. He knew God's will concerning these matters and that settled it. Jesus didn't just tell other people to only believe. He only believed every time without any second thoughts and we know and see in the Word that Jesus always got results!! He went on after telling the people to not be afraid but to only believe to telling the people when He saw the girl that she was not dead, but sleeping and He was laughed at. As  we can see in scripture, He was not moved because He was laughed at. If we are convinced of something we don't care what others say because TRUTH always wins. We have to get convinced of what the Word of God says and apply to our lives everyday. Jesus continued on put the people that didn't believe out of the room and told the girl to rise up and walk and that is exactly what she did. Jesus never even thought of another option. He knew that when He told that girl to rise up she had to because He knew His Father was true and true to His Word. We need to get convinced like Jesus was convinced. There is no other option. The Word is truth, completely ALL THE TIME, EVERY TIME and we must start walking in it and be convinced of it!

Joseph Prince - Speak God's Language of Faith - 31 October 2010

2 Corinthians 5:7 We walk by faith and not by sight. We need to speak God's Word no matter what things look like. God's Word is true and it is real. When we speak the truth we will see it, but we must believe it in our heart before we will see it. Speak it until you believe you it !!

He became my sin!

I was thinking, with the Easter season coming up, how often we forget what Jesus really did on the cross that day when He hung and died and later rose from the dead! JESUS became my sin. It says in I Peter 2:24 who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree. It also says in Isaiah 53:5 He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. Every sin, sickness, and disease of the entire human race entered into the physical body of Jesus Christ. God put all of our sin on His son Jesus for us. Jesus didn't deserve that. He was the only human that ever lived a perfect life and we certainly didn't deserve it. We were all full of sin and evil. Jesus took what we deserved...and we freely can receive what He deserved. Jesus paid the total price for all of our sin. He took it and the punishment for it by going to hell and raising again so that WE DON"T EVER HAVE TO! He was even forsaken by His own father. Jesus said in Mark 15:34 when hanging on the cross My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Jesus did that so that I would never have to be forsaken by God. JESUS paid a HEAVY price for our sin and He finished it once and for all. Once we decide to accept what He did for us on the cross and receive Him into our life and make Him Lord, we receive the benefit of everything He did on the cross. I have been made free from sin, free from sickness, free from disease,free from poverty.... free from being forsaken by my father God..and every other by product of sin. I am a free child of God. Let's not forget even for a minute what Jesus did on the cross for us....it where are freedom is at!

IMPOSSIBLE life!

This christian life that we live isn't just hard to live...it is absolutely and completely impossible! we are told in Matthew 5:39-41 But I (Jesus) say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. This is not just something that is hard to do, it is impossible. God constantly, throughout the Word asks us to do things that are impossible (in our own strength). As a christian, we must build a relationship with God. It says in Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  We must focus on Jesus, like I have said many times in this blog, give up and get rid of any confidence in our own flesh, and allow Jesus to flow through us. As christians, sons and daughters of God, God wants to live through us so we can be who he has told us we can be through His Word. So in our own strength, everything God asks of us is impossible, but with JESUS ALL things are possible in our lives and walk with Him!