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It is Good Friday! Today is the day that God our Father chose as the day that His one and only Son would die to save every soul from the pits of hell, from then until He returns! Today is the day that as Jesus breathed His last breath, that your face crossed His mind as He said, "Father forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing!" Luke 23:34. He may have died for millions of people! But your name was on that list! My name was on that list!

I'm going to be real with ya all here. I have been on a true struggle with writing lately. Which is usually when I need to shut up and listen! Ha! But I have written things, they start out one way and end another, it doesn't make sense! So naturally I started throwing myself into other things! But back to reality, and what God is calling me to do! My devotional, that was inspired by these messages, is about to hit the shelves! (That maybe what snapped me back!) So now is the time to think about next steps! Another devotional? A study? God is stirring something in my heart, and it may just be the end to this blog. 

  I'm a dreamer at times. Of all the things I could do, I would do, I would want to do if... I won the lottery! How many of you think about that? How many of you have actually sat down and wrote out exactly what you would do if you were handed, say, six hundred million dollars! Oh! I have! Ha! Many times! How many of you think about how much easier life would be if you were just rich! Unlimited money! That imaginary tree that we always talk about, that grows money- what if it became a reality!

   Do you act differently around other people? We would all love to say no. That we are completely ourselves no matter who is around! But the truth is, most of the time, we don't even realize that we do it.  When we are around our grandparents, we are on our best behavior.  Around our friends and our siblings, we act like ourselves, whatever that means for each individual. However, in different friend groups, we change, maybe not much, but enough to fit within the group. We all crave to fit in! So we change how we talk and walk and interact!

 Do you seek the Lord in "good times"? Even when you feel like you "don't" need Him? Do you praise Him and thank Him for the calms within your storms? Or are you like some many, that quickly forget what God does for you? Living your life like you don't need Him, acting like you save yourself, and He has never intervened for you. Do you wait until your situation is no longer bearable once again to cry out for help? Do you wait until anger boils up with in you, and you scream at God, "How you could you let this happen!" Do you only acknowledge God when you have nowhere else to turn?

  Does anyone know the true definition of Commitment??

  I don't know if everyone truly understands the wrath of God. When God declares enough is enough, He has given enough warnings, enough time outs. Some people say that the rainbow is God's promise to never destroy the earth again. Folks, that is oh so wrong! The rainbow is God's promise to never wipe out the earth again with a flood! He made that very distinction! Genesis 12:14&15 says, "When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds, 15. and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life."

I heard this verse recently, and it felt like someone stabbed me right through my core. Isaiah 59:14&15 says, "Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed. 15. Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked."

  God is amazing! He keeps pressing on my heart, that this year is going to be awe inspiring! The most unexpected people in our lives are going to come into relationship with Jesus! There are going to be miracles that happen that will leave no other explanation other than God! There will be absolutely no doubt for anyone that God is ALIVE! God is not dead! That God reigns! The same as all these things that are going to absolutely amaze us, we will also be amazed at the heart break. The heart break of loved ones being completely sucked in by the lies of the enemy. Our loved one's denial of God. There will people whose hearts that will be turned to stone. For some of these people they will be people that we looked up to. They will be people that we perceived as godly. It will be shocking. 

  How good are you at twisting a narrative? Or twisting the truth just a bit... its still the truth! Just missing some key details!? We all do it! Especially when we are in trouble! Or when we get into a fight with someone, and you are looking for others to take your side... we usually state exactly what happened, and exactly what was said! But when we change the tone, and the attitude! Then we are changing and twisting what actually happened! It helps others pick sides in a fight! Fact is- both sides can be telling the truth 100%! But also changing the delivery 100%. So, is it then a lie? A half-truth? Or still truth? 

   Today I am writing directly from the heart! We are about to come into 2024!!! As you can all see, the world around us is not getting any better. As prophesied in the Bible, it is not going to get any better, in will in fact get a whole lot worse. I want to challenge each and every one of us this weekend, to do some serious reflecting.  Turn off your t.v.! Turn on some Christian music! PRAY! Pray about you mindset. Pray about habits you need to give up! Pray about people you need to forgive! Pray about whether or not you are walking with the Lord! Or if you are walking to the beat of your own drum.  Think about the movies and the t.v. shows you watch, are they speaking truth into you? What about the music you listen to? Is it drawing you closer to God?? 

Have you noticed that some of our key words are being taken out of our vocabulary? Some of the simplest words have been blacklisted. Or have been put in a category all of its own, as "trigger words". Now I am not an insensitive person. In fact, I would say the opposite. But I do know that I should be able to walk into a room and say, "Good Morning! It's a beautiful day!" Without being punished. How quickly we are now corrected on what is acceptable, and what is not. When will stand against all of this brainwashing and manipulation?? I will and can agree on some things! But the one I am hyper focused on today, is the word- "Nervous". That word has been cancelled! Void! Anyone want to guess what it has been replaced with?! Anxiety. Anxiousness. 

   I keep coming back to this, so buckle up! 

JESUS WEPT.

    That moment. That one moment when you find out that someone you loved and trusted, turns out to be someone else. Someone you have shared life with. Maybe a spouse. A best friend that you have had since kindergarten.  A parent. A sibling. That moment when they stab you right in the back. You can literally feel your heart falling out of you. You feel like it isn't real. You don't want it to be real! Because if that person is capable of doing that to you, then what about ALL the other people in your life? Who can you trust!! Especially now that the one you trusted the most was capable of doing that! What do you do? Who do you turn to?

Things are changing every day! Everything is now available at our fingertips! With the internet and smart phone being capable of connecting at any moment. We can search and Google anything and everything! The day of going out to the driveway to pick up the newspaper are over. That trusty paper that told all of the local news, and shared all the events that were about to come up! Now what? We don't have anything to give us those helpful suggestions! We go searching on our own, and type in key words that would fit our likes and interests, and a world of possibilities show up! From the world. 

   This is for the doubters. The one's that believe that God and all His infinite power is a made-up fairy tale. That He is something for weak people to find hope in. This is for the one's that do believe, but they believe they can manage their relationship with God all on their own. That they don't need to be around a family of believers to grow, To the one's that raise their hand and say, "yes" I believe in God! But live their whole lives within the wants and desires of their own flesh. 

There are so many questions about the end times. There are books and movies about the ending of the world and humanity. Many are created from very imaginative minds! Some claim to be based on science, and some are from what the Bible tells us. Here is what I know, Jesus is coming back! All the other details- we will all be in awe of and amazed by! 

    Does the Holy Spirit speak to you? Do you believe the Holy Spirit can speak to you? When you pray, and you cry out to the Lord- do you stop to let Him respond? Did you know that the Holy Spirit has as much to say to you, as you do to Him?! When you pray, in those still small moments, He is talking to you too! When you cry out in those moments of distress and fear- He is crying out to you!  These words have been on my heart so much lately!

  2 Peter 2: 4&5 says, "For if God did not spare even the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell, in gloomy pits of darkness, where they are being held until the day of judgement. 5. And God did not spare the ancient world--- except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the world of God's righteous judgement. So God protected Noah when He destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood."

  Have you ever given up hope? Are you on the verge of giving up hope? Have you ever thrown your hands up in the air, and declared, "If there truly was a great and powerful Almighty God!!- there is no way that He would allow these things to happen!!" 

  In that last post- we only got through the first 6 verses of Zephaniah! This one may be a bit longer! But now that we have had an eye-opening introduction to Zephaniah! We will go through the rest of the first chapter!

   We are going to start digging into God's power! If this doesn't stir up something in ya- ya better get to prayin! I'm convicted from these writings! There really isn't a human that wouldn't be! So buckle up!

  We have become so comfortable sitting in the lazy boy recliner of God's loving hands. We search the Psalms to be uplifted with verses of God's grace, and God's mercy, and God's love! We swaddle ourselves in the comfort that the Holy Spirit is with us - no matter what! And that He will pull us out of whatever pit we find ourselves in! Don't get me wrong! I LOVE all these parts of our amazing Lord!! But how often do we talk about how POWERFUL our God is!?!? He told Noah to build a boat! Save his family! And to save two of each animal! He sent the animals to Noah! We love that story! Noah listened to God! He was faithful! But we neglect the other half of that story! 

I apologize for being inconsistent! I am trying to do better! Life has been crazy! But I think that is true for everyone!! But here's what I got for you today!

We have used this scripture before, we are warned in 2 Timothy of how deceitful people will be in the end times. I feel things rings true a little more every day. 

  There has been much discussion about the people of the church, and how so many come on Sunday mornings, they smile, they wave, they drink their coffee, and then you don't see or hear from them again until the next Sunday. Then there is the small group that shows up for everything! Every Bible study, every worship service! Even just random times- just to pray!! People talk, and so many say that Christians are "Hypocrites". That they are only good on Sundays. Here is what I say. There are plenty of people that are hypocrites! We are all human! We are all going to make mistakes! I am not perfect. God is still working on me! But for those people that come on Sundays, just to check God off your list for the week--- I have news for you!!! That is not enough!

   Sometimes we get confused as to what we should or should not be doing! I have on my wall, 2 Timothy 3:1-5, You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. 2. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. 3. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no-self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. 4. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. 5. They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!"

This entry may be a little sensitive for some. If you feel offended or mad about anything that I have ever written, that is ok! That is the Holy Spirit convicting you. Pray about it! Seek your heart! Ask God to show you what about it is so painful for you! Let God start His work! Let Him start the healing process! 

    2 Timothy 2:20&21 says, "In a wealthy home some utensils are made of gold and silver, and some are made of wood and clay. The expensive utensils are used for special occasions, and the cheap ones are for everyday use. 21. If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work." 

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