Never lose your joy

There may be days when we question ourselves as to what we are really seeing and feeling (deception is running rampant) but as long as you have King Jesus you don’t have anything to worry about. Seasons come in seasons ago and so do our times of testing. My concern is when people think that they can handle their problems all by themselves. These are the times when they get weak and weary. One of two things can happen in your life. Either you can get weak and weary from the Devil’s trials and Temptations, or you can get weak and weary for trying to handle everything on your own without Jesus. Jesus said “Come unto me all ye that labor and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart. And you shall find rest into your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

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I have also noticed that there’s so many preachers and programs on the TV and on the Internet that they can confuse a person who is looking for the truth. Some Christian programs do so many interviews and advertise so many products that when you get up in the morning it’s hard to be able to hear the Word of God from someone. My mind can focus on the Word and praise and worship that is sometimes in the background of what I am doing but I just can’t focus on people talking and talking and talking. After a while you have to get up to change the channel because it sounds so strange with all that talking. I have actually switched from channel to channel just to hear the word. Believe it or not it is easier for me just (sometimes) go to YouTube and find a preacher that I want to see than to depend on the channels that we are sometimes ‘donating to’ to bring us to word. There are so many good preachers in the world but we still keep seeing the same seven every day there’s something wrong with that. Sometimes you get more word from those non-established ministries than you do from those who are established with big names. I know some preachers who have small ministries and not many people know them but they can preach the house down. I would rather watch them on television spreading the word than to watch well-known preachers going through the same, let’s call it ‘rituals’ every day. Sometimes it begins to look like a clubhouse instead of the House of God with some even offering memberships. Pardon my rant.

When I get up in the morning I stretch and thank God for a new day and I say “Baruch Atah Adonai” which means “Bless you Lord”, and I lay there and pray for people all around the world. Most of the time I say the Lords prayer since it is a new day. When you listen to the prayer it is actually blessing your new day.

Mat 6:9  After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Mat 6:10  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Mat 6:11  Give us this day our daily bread.

Mat 6:12  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Mat 6:13  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

If you notice there are many versions of this prayer with one saying ‘deliver us from evil’ yet the Complete Jewish Bible by David Stern says ‘deliver us from the evil one’.

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The Lord’s Prayer

Mat 6:5  “When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites, who love to pray standing in the synagogues and on street corners, so that people can see them. Yes! I tell you, they have their reward already!

Mat 6:6  But you, when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. Your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Mat 6:7  “And when you pray, don’t babble on and on like the pagans, who think God will hear them better if they talk a lot.

Mat 6:8  Don’t be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Mat 6:9  You, therefore, pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven! May your Name be kept holy.

Mat 6:10  May your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven.

Mat 6:11  Give us the food we need today.

Mat 6:12  Forgive us what we have done wrong, as we too have forgiven those who have wronged us.

Mat 6:13  And do not lead us into hard testing, but keep us safe from the Evil One. [The latter half of verse 13 is not found in the oldest manuscripts.] For kingship, power and glory are yours forever. Amen.’

I like the one it says “deliver us from the evil one”but keep us safe from the Evil One”. Every morning that you get up you need to ask God to do this for you. Is there anything too hard for the Lord?

I pray for my Minstry that God has given me. I pray for people who follow this ministry. I pray for my family and my friends, our health, our finances, or families, our churches, our mindsets, hearts and Israel.

There are so many things in this world right now in this year 2024 that will make one depressed while feeling also oppressed. The best thing that I can offer you and it is the truth and I pray that you believe the word of God, and that is:

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Jas 1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

Jas 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Jas 1:4  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Jas 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Jas 1:6  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Jas 1:7  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

And…..

Born Again to a Living Hope

1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1Pe 1:4  To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

1Pe 1:5  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1Pe 1:6  Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

1Pe 1:8  Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

1Pe 1:9  Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Lastly…

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1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

1Pe 4:14  If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

No matter how bad you may feel don’t ever let the devil know that something is bothering you. Smile, praise the Lord, and thank Jesus for his strength that he is already given you when he died on the cross. Don’t ever let the devil see you sweat.

RevEssie