A New Direction...

Think about your life right now...Are you where you want to be? A better question is, "Are you where God wants you to be?"

The greatest quality we have as human beings is the ability to make choices. This can be for good or for bad. How powerful of a thought it is to know today you can change the entire direction of your life!!! No matter what you've done in the past, no matter what your educational background, today you can change the direction of your life.

I've heard a speaker once say that life is like a big cruise ship, at first glance it looks impossible to turn around, and you can't change the destination instantly, but you certainly can change your direction. With this new direction you can ultimately end up at the destination you want to be and more importantly the destination that God wants for you to be.

Pray today for God to show you the direction for your life and pray for the faith and strength to aim your life in that direction.

God bless!

No Matter What You're Facing...

In the most difficult times we can find comfort from the Lord. The lyrics to this song are a great reminder of how we can simply focus our attention on God for our strength in times of need.

Unconditional Love

Truthfully, I don't think in our human form we can really even comprehend unconditional love. We are so used to having our own agenda and motive. We often do good to get something in return or if we forgive someone we still wish for them to suffer harsh consequences for what they have done to us.

Have you thought about God and how he loves us? It amazes me every day. When you think of his holiness, his lordship, his perfect ways, and yet he still loves us unconditionally. In John the woman who got caught in the act of adultery had to be thinking Jesus would want nothing to do with her. But how did Christ respond? He jumped in and defended her to the religious leaders and he did not chatise her. He wanted her to experience a better/holy life so he commanded her to go and sin no more.

WOW! Let that register today. God loves us in ways we cannot even comprehend. Just like the story of the prodigal son, no matter where you are at in life God is standing there with his arms open wide calling for you to come rest and find shelter in his arms.

Praise the Lord!

Memorize Monday - Proverbs 3:5-6

Take time this Monday to memorize this awesome scripture. If you need direction, if you need help in the middle of temptation, if you want God's will for your life, learn this scripture and repeat it often.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not in your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.

SING for the LORD!

Are you feeling discouraged? Are you in doubt about something? Do you wish to have more peace in your life? Do you want the kind of joy that David mentions over and over in the psalms....Here's how you get it......SING!

Do you realize there's no one that can't sing! Even if you can't speak you can sing for the Lord. Singing is a heart issue. That's what worship is all about. Lifting up high the name of Jesus in all that we do! Singing has been proven to release tension in our body and lowers stress levels drastically. If we are singing for the Lord it does even more good for us! It restores our soul and renew's our mind. It causes us to stop everything and focus on what really matters in this life.

In America in particular we have so many distractions around us. Everything is competing for our time. This is why it's important we put praising the Lord on our schedule. It won't just happen. Make a choice today that you are going to take time today and just sing to the Holy One. We know he's worthy, we know he's deserving....let's worship him together out of the overflow of blessings he's given us all!

Living Water...

Is there anything more refreshing than water? Whether it's a cold drink on a hot day or a good warm shower in the middle of winter, water refreshes like nothing else. Do you know that Jesus told us that HE is the living water. He can "restore our soul" as David says in the psalms. One drop of this water and you will never thirst again. We literally have everything we'll ever need in Christ.

Take time today to really think about Jesus as the "living water." Let him wash you clean today of any issues or heartaches in your life and give you a fresh new start!

What do you think of when you think of God???

How do you picture God? or better yet...How do you think God pictures you? Sometimes we see God as this big eye in the sky that is waiting to jump on us when we do something wrong. This morning I was reading Romans 8. Rather than me try to expand on this issue that Paul was writing about, I"ll copy and paste and let the word of the Lord speak to you like it did me! Wow! what powerful scripture!



31 If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord