Hello my most wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is so awesome to be able to share this time with you. A lot of things have been happening in our world. A lot has been happening in America. There is constantly some circumstance or situation vying for our attention. There is a continual bombarding of information and impersonal social media communication drawing our focus away. Distractions galore.
There is mail in your mailbox to read and respond to. There are texts to be read, there are ads trying to coerce you to buy their product, there are multiple social media accounts that you need to scroll through, click here, like there, respond with comments and there might even be a phone call now and then. When will you ever be able to experience peace?
JOHN 14:27 PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU; MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU. NOT AS THE WORLD GIVES DO I GIVE TO YOU. LET NOT YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBED, NEITHER LET THEM BE AFRAID. (spoken by Jesus)
While you are following other people’s filtered lives and either knowingly or unknowingly comparing them to your life that you now feel is mundane, how are you able to experience joy? Can we even experience real life any more or is it all a facade? There is True life to be lived. Let me share with you.
Dear LORD God Almighty, our Creator, our Heavenly Father, we love You and worship You. Thank You that You love to hear from us, Your children. Thank You that You are always with us and never leave us nor forsake us and You always want to have a True, intimate relationship with us without any filters. We can come to You just as we are, and tell You everything that is on our minds and hearts because You already know anyway. We can share our hurts and happiness and our praise and problems with You.
You see us, Truly see us. You know us, the True us; even better than we know ourselves. You love us so much that You will not leave us in our sin. You gave Your Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ to die a horrendous death for us even though He was without sin, to pay the price to redeem us from our sins. You change us from the inside out. You deal with our very hearts, our True emotions. You alone give us Your Peace that passes understanding and Your Joy that is our strength to those of us who accept You as LORD and Savior of our lives.
LORD, please call Your people to be saved. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit and wisdom. Cause us to hunger for Your WORD the Bible. Thank You for protecting us and all of our generations with Your angels.
LORD God please help all of the people in all of the countries and states that have experienced losses, tragedies, hurricanes, floods, fires, and wars. Holy Spirit please be with everyone of them and comfort them. Let Your Presence be so Real to them that it is palpable. Please protect the First Responders LORD. Please put on people’s hearts to want to give financially to the dire needs of those who are hurting and experiencing devastation. We thank You in advance. In Jesus’ Precious Name. Amen
Now let’s see what life could be like if we were living it truthfully without filters, peacefully without constant overwhelming stimulation and joyfully in-spite of our circumstances. I can share this because I live this. Not perfectly of course, but I do choose to live in this Truth. God’s Truth, Peace and Joy. I didn’t used to live God’s Way. That is why I appreciate His Way so very much. I lived the alternative. It was deadly.
We all get to live in this Truth. No one is excluded. The invitation is from God to every single person. God calls us the “whosoevers”. The choice is ours to make. The consequences of the choice is also ours to live with both here on earth and afterwards into eternity. Eternity offers Heaven or hell.
ROMANS 10:13 FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED. (kjv)
JOHN 3:16 FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
MATTHEW 7:24 THEREFORE WHOSOEVER HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF MINE, AND DOES THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM TO A WISE MAN, WHICH BUILT HIS HOUSE UPON A ROCK.
JOHN 11:25-26 JESUS SAID UNTO HER, I AM THE RESURRECTION, AND THE LIFE: HE THAT BELIEVES IN ME, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE: AND WHOSOEVER LIVES AND BELIEVES IN ME, (JESUS), SHALL NEVER DIE. DO YOU BELIEVE THIS? (pp)
ROMANS 15:13 MAY THE GOD OF HOPE FILL YOU WITH ALL JOY AND PEACE AS YOU TRUST IN HIM, SO THAT YOU MAY OVERFLOW WITH HOPE BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
ROMANS 14:17 FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT A MATTER OF EATING AND DRINKING, BUT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE AND JOY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.
PSALM 30:5 FOR HIS ANGER LASTS ONLY A MOMENT, BUT HIS FAVOR LASTS A LIFETIME; WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR THE NIGHT, BUT JOY COMES IN THE MORNING.
NEHEMIAH 8:10 ….DO NOT GRIEVE, FOR THE JOY OF THE LORD IS YOUR STRENGTH.
1 PETER 1:8-9 THOUGH YOU HAVE NOT SEEN HIM, (JESUS), YOU LOVE HIM; AND EVEN THOUGH YOU DO NOT SEE HIM NOW, YOU BELIEVE IN HIM, (JESUS), AND ARE FILLED WITH AN INEXPRESSIBLE AND GLORIOUS JOY. FOR YOU ARE RECEIVING THE END RESULT OF YOUR FAITH, THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS.
PSALM 29:11 THE LORD GIVES STRENGTH TO HIS PEOPLE, AND THE LORD BLESSES HIS PEOPLE WITH PEACE.”
So, you may ask, just how do you actually begin in your pursuit of the LORD, His Joy and His Peace? Well, start your day simply talking to the LORD. If it seems strange at first because you haven’t done this before, just keep talking to Him. He loves to hear from you. Tell God all about your feelings, your fears, your failures, and your hopes. He knows all about you anyway. He knows you, (the real you, the authentic you), better than you know yourself. He created you.
Tell the LORD that you are tired of being overwhelmed by life’s circumstances, communications, and filtered facades and you want to experience True life, True Joy and Peace from Him. Tell God that you want a peaceful and joy filled life in which you can actually like yourself instead of just busying yourself or avoiding yourself. Come to the place where you actually like spending time alone with yourself and love spending time with your God and doing life His Way in His Will. It is so worth it!!
Until we get to talk again, please remember that I love you and I am always praying for you and all of your generations and most importantly, Jesus loves you.