Where's Our Treasures?

Where's Our Treasures?

Matthew 6:19-21
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

I was going to use Matthew 6:25, the Do Not Worry scripture, but the Lord asked me, "where's your heart?" He asked me this because when I was in my prayer corner complaining and not being grateful of what I have been blessed with, and not really wanting to know where my heart is. The Lord showed me my heart through Scripture. I proceeded to tell the Lord that I wanted to have fancy clothes, beautiful jewelry (diamonds and such), a fancy car, but the Holy Spirit stopped me in my tracks and showed me that my wants are nothing. The Bible tells us if we seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
I may not have a Mansion on the hill or even a home on the hill or fancy clothes or fancy jewelry or my fancy car that I have always dreamed of, but do know what I have. I have clothes on my back, food in my stomach, a roof over my head, and a car to drive. All my needs are provided. He will never leave me nor forsake me and He's proven Himself to be true. So where is my (our) heart? I repented of being ungrateful and just being a spoiled rotten brat. I know where my heart is now.

Lord, help us all to have a grateful heart. To see God that You love us very much. In Jesus' Name, Amen!!!

Why Do We Gossip?

WHY DO WE GOSSIP?

Earlier today I was in prayer and I asked the Lord, "why do people gossip?" you know our God is faithful? He answers us, and He answered me.

This is His answer to me:

James 3:6-And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

James 3:8-But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

James 3:9-With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse man, who have been made in the similitude of God.

Jeremiah 17:9-"The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?

In the next Scripture tells us who knows our hearts.

Jeremiah 17:10-I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways according to the fruit of his doings.

I would love to stop right here because I'm pretty well convicted, but I can't.
The Lord has showed me that gossipers has the spirit of division,
Proverbs 16:28-A perverse man sows strife and a whisperer separates the best of friends.

God is extremely good and He will help us with our tongue if we want Him to.
The Lord revealed something to me when I was writing this, in James 3:9 the word similitude is used, that word means likeness, so when we gossip about our sisters or brothers we doing that to Jesus.
I believe another reason why people gossip is, they do it from wounded a heart.

There is a couple of ways that you know someone is gossiping about you:

1- Prayer: The Bible tells us that He will show us mysteries. And I believe He tells us if someone is gossiping about us.

2-Body language: Your body never lies.

Self-Control !

SELF-CONTROL!

Galatians 5:22-25
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ's have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

For two Sundays in a row my Pastor has said, "If the computer is your problem, take a baseball bat to it," well I can't use self-control with Face Book so I have deactivated it. I want to finish my testimony from birth to now and I can't do it if I'm always on Face Book. I remember when I could read a book a month, the book that I'm reading now I should have been done with it a long time ago. I have peace about this, I'm also pretty excited about it. I'm excited to see what God will do in my life.

Lord, I pray that You will help me in this. Show me how to use self-control not just with Face Book but in every area of my life. In Jesus' Name, Amen!

TRUST NO ONE BUT GOD!!

Micah 7:5
Do not trust in a friend; do not put your confidence in a companion; guard doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

The Lord has been showing me a lot of things through the stuff that I've been going through with the people I go to Church with. I am learning that I can't trust no one but God. I have had people tell me that I need to trust people to a point, I believe even is a very fine line. People are fickle, they love you until they see or feel like you're coming between them and with the person that they are very close with; they will turn on you like a Pit Bull turns on her master. W need to be gentle as doves but wise as serpents, Matthew 10:16. We need to have wisdom and discernment when dealing with people. I know I serve a God who never changes, He will never turn on me like a Pit Bull turning on her master and this is very encouraging. He knows I can do all things through Him.
Psalm 118:8
It is better to trust in the Lord then to put confidence in man.

No Condemantion!

NO CONDEMNATION!

Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, to those who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

This Scripture has become the Scripture of the year for me to meditate on. It is pretty black and white to me; There is therefore now no condemnation, I am no longer condemned because of what Jesus did on the Cross. This winter has been exceptionally hard for me. With cold snaps every time we turn around and when they come I can't get out of bed to spend time with Jesus because of pain. I always put on self condemnation until the Lord showed me, He wants us to spend time with Him but our Salvation is not based on us spending time with Him it is based on the Cross. His Grace will cover it, His Grace is sufficient for us. I don't know about you but I'm so looking forward to summer.

Put Your Focus On Jesus!

Revelation 12:10-11
Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives to the death.

I know how it feels to have a family member have nothing to do with you, because my mom wants nothing to do with me. At first I felt as if I did something wrong, the Lord showed me that I did nothing wrong. I started to see that I was feeling sorry for myself and depression was setting in and that's when that old snake came in and started to accuse. Just like the Scripture says, he is the accuser of the brethren. I have also noticed that during this time all my focus was on me and I gave the devil foot hold for guilt and shame. The Lord showed me that I need get my focus back on Him, and start remembering what He did for me. He went to the Cross for the guilt and shame. In Romans 8:1 it says, There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
The Scripture that I opened up with has a promises in it and that is, that the accuser of the brethren will be cast down, it's a promises that we can stand on.

I have seen that life is too short for me to worry about that person wanting nothing to do with me. I know that my heavenly Father loves me and that's all all that matters.

Isaiah 40:12

Isaiah 40:12
"Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and hills in a balance?

The Lord is good all the time. As I read through Chapter 40 the Lord showed me, compared to Him the Nations are truly just a drop in the bucket. In Isaiah 40:22 it says, It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in. I wonder if all of us could wrap our minds around this if we would pray differently, with more boldness? I can just see the Lord sitting above the circle hearing our prayers and answering all of them. What a gracious GOD we serve.

I am Learning!

Philippians 4:12
I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

I did something that I didn't think I would have to do since I started to drive, walk to the store to pick up a few things for dinner. I have been driving since Charisse was about 6 months old and before driving I took the bus everywhere or walked. But today I had to make a choice, either walk to the store or don't go to Church, I probably would go to Church with Charisse of course. As I was walking to the store I was thinking, "I feel as if I've been reduced to not driving to the store," but I really had to stop myself from thinking like that. I started to think about Philippians 4:12, Paul learned how to be in want and to have everything, I'm learning the same. I went from having a DVR to no cable, but they're just material things, aren't they? The Lord said that these things will just fade and shatter. As I was walking home from the store I looking at the beautiful mountains and got me thinking ( you do a lot of thinking when walking) the Lord spoke all this into existence, there is nothing too impossible for Him.

When I was walking to the store there's a few things that I like about walking:

1. I get see a lot more then if I was driving.
2. I get to talk to people about the Lord, and that's exciting.
3. I don't have to pull over for the Fire trucks and Ambulance's.

Which Concerns Me!

WHICH CONCERNS ME!

Psalm 138:8
The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

Lately I've been seeing what concerns me and what I just don't understand. What really concerns me is how my parents are toward me, my mother hasn't spoke to me since before Thanksgiving and my father not calling me to see if I got the funds for what I needed them for. I was thinking if Charisse came to me for help and I haven't heard from her I would be calling her in a heart beat. The Lord has been showing me a lot, like they're not saved and need to pray for their Salvation, the other thing that the Lord showed me is that my father doesn't really like me I've known this for awhile I guess I've been living in denial. I will always love my parents and honor them but I will never understand what they do. But I do know this, that the KING, KING JESUS knows all, my Heavenly Father likes me and loves me so very much. This and other stuff in my life concerns me and He will perfect that which concerns me. I believe whatever concerns me concerns Him and He will not forsake the works of His hands in my life with the things I've been called to, He will raise me up not man.

I have given everything which concerns me to the Lord and He will take care of everything.