I love listening to Jesus in Matt.5,6 &7. I was reading the Beatitudes (thats a funny word we don't normally use). He is telling us how to live in The Kingdom! No wonder we are always saying that God's ways are so different than the way we have been raised. Jesus is telling us how to think Kingdom not natural life. The Kingdom of God is our new born again life. You know, where you love your enemies, bless people who are creepy to you, forgive because you want God to forgive you. Where if you will hunger and thirst after His ways, He will fill you! Fill you with Himself!!!!
My favorite Beatitude is the pure in heart will see God. My translation of that is, if you will keep your motives, words, attitudes right before God you will begin to see His ways/leadings. We can know what He is doing and all He is requiring of us. I need that. I like teaching that we are like a pipe that God wants to pour His Glory and Power through and how clean or clogged we are inside will determine how much of Him pours out of us. To me that means I have to be quick to repent, walk in love, to imitate God as I use to imitate my own dad. I have to know His word to know His will and His ways. It really can be the most fulfilling life.

Hi All,
I told you how after finding the scripture in Deut.6:4&5 which is to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, and with all our souls and with all our might, that I began saying to God those very words. Not because I FELT them but because His words said it. I was learning that prayer is repeating His words back to Him so He could bring it to pass in my life. I think most people have learned to speak to God the problem and hope after making Him feel sorry for them, that then maybe He'll move. Well let's be honest, that doesn't work! Pray His word, of course, that gives you the responsibility to find out the word. I love that He gives us the right to use His word and come out of every thing that would keep us in bondage. If you are new at this begin saying back to Him these scriptures; Deut. 6 4&5 , Psalms34:4,9,19 , Psalms 50: 14&15& 23 , Psalms 91 ( my most favorite )Psalms 103:2:6 . Start with those, say them back to Him and watch Him move in your life. Know He LOVES us and wants to help us but we have to know His way!
After saying " I love You with all my heart, and with all my soul, and with all my might", I began to feel love for Him. Imagine being afraid of God your whole life then just out of obedience, speaking His word to Him that a lovely change would happen on the inside. That is the perfect love that 1Johns1:5 and 1John4:18 write about. This works, this is success

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When the Father God created man, His original purpose was that mankind would act in His image and likeness as His representatives on the earth. We have got to KNOW this, else we become religious instead of operating like God. The creator wants us to govern earth just like He governs the universe. We must know we are to be Kingdom minded not religious. Jesus announce the Kingdom of God has come, no mention of religion. He would say the Kingdom of God is like... or the Kingdom of God is... . Why? cause Jesus knew that mankind had become religious and lost sight of God's original purpose. The enemy has worked to reduced our thinking to just going to church on Sunday, singing a few songs, saying we love each other with the love of the Lord and listening to a message. While all the time our Father wants us representing Him in the earth. Certainly not looking or acting like the world. Not selfish like the world but loving like He is loving. Meeting the needs of the person nearest to you, that is what neighbor means. That is exactly what Jesus did, everywhere He went He met needs. Healed everyone, fed people, cast devils out of people, and my favorite raised the dead! What would happen if we really believed God wants us representing Him just like Jesus did? I will tell you, it would be a lot of kingdom representatives going about doing good and healing all that are oppressed of the devil cause God is with us! God is not religious, He is the King of a Kingdom. Let's change our thinking.

Are you changed?

Everyone of us have heard at sometime that Jesus died for our sins and that we need to accept Him as our own personal savior. Or we were in a church service somewhere and heard " if you die today where will you spend eternity?" Too often people quoted a prayer because they didn't want to go to hell yet there was no difference in the persons life. This is one of the worst mistakes we have made in church-dom. We all should have heard that God ,Who is Love, created us to be in dominion on this earth. His purpose was for us to rule earth as He rules the entire universe. Literally imitating Him, like kids imitate their dads. We should have been told that the devil deceived Adam and Eve and is presently the god of this world. We should have been told that Love Himself sent His only Son to die instead of us, so we could live free from the bondage of the devil. Also that we are delivered from the devil but not immune to his attacks. The church should have told us that we are in a Kingdom that is in this world but not like it, so stop acting like the world. We should have been told how to resist the devil, his ways, his lies, his fears, his threats. Father God needs us to imitate Him in this world.

Hi All,
When I first began to know God and it takes time I read in Deut.6:5 to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our might. I understood that is His will but I knew I didn't. Yet something inside of me just knew to begin to say those words to Him. I would say everyday at least once a day "Father God I love you with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my might." At that time I didn't check to see if I really felt it, it just became my prayer to Him. Speaking His Word to Him changed me and my feelings. Over the years I have experienced His love, mine for Him and His for me! I believe the best prayers we can pray is speaking His words back to Him. Too many times we say wrong things that hinder Him. Speaking His words make us be successful, cause He watches over His words to perform them. Of course that gives us the responsibility to find His word and say them. I like that kind of responsibility.

His way is the highway

Me again, I think people should know that God is rigidly righteous. He wants our lives ordered His way. If we live as His Bible teaches us, we can expect His protection, provision, and help. This has been my experience. I grew up so afraid of Him but after studying His word, ways, and commands I found that obedience allows Him to be able to show me His goodness. Listen, this is wonderful! God is Love and wants to be good to us. He is totally hindered to do so if we are not ordering our lives like He wants. Jesus said in His own earthly life that He only did the things He saw His Father do or say. By the way He did very well and perfectly pleased His Father!

life is good, death is not

Hi again,
I think most people think that there is a day that they have to die. That somewhere, it is written that this is THE Day. Yet that is not what I find in scripture. I read where living our lives in respect to God and His Bible will add days and years to life here. Even honoring our parents gives long life and living in God's righteousness will deliver you from death ,That is found in proverbs11:4b. I lived in so much fear before finding the Truth in the Bible. It is the truth that makes you free. Not any truth makes you free but the Bible truth does. You can be free from fear, anxiety, worry or whatever is your own suffering. God wants you free from all pain and suffering. He even says in 1John 4:18 fear has torment. He is Love and doesn't want us in any torment. I like that about Him!

2nd blog

Hi again,

Remember I said yesterday that God is all about giving life? Well ,I did not know that growing up. In fact I was taught that every death was either His doing or for His purpose. Upon careful search in the Bible I see that death is considered by God as an enemy. The church world has called death the ultimate healing. Which is true? The Bible or the people? I am going with the Bible. God knows! His Word says in Hosea 4:6 " My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge". I have seen people destroyed haven't you? We cannot go past what we know or believe. If our knowledge and belief system is wrong then we are in trouble.

First time Blog

Hi Everyone,
This is my first ever, I have never even read a blog.

I want to blog about my own experience in developing a Friendship with God. I have always enjoyed telling people about Him so this is a great avenue to begin. Everything I learned as a child about Him scared the tar out of me. An example is the Lay me down to sleep payer. Do you know it? I pray the Lord my soul to keep if I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take. Religion has taught us God could take us at any time and you just never know what He will do. Do you know that is not His will? His will is life, long life. Abundant to the full ,till it overflows life! He is all about life, never death. Too bad His people don't know that.