BLESS ME? WHY?

PRAYER FOR TODAY

Lord God Yahweh, thank You Lord God for blessing me with all good things under the sun. Thank You for the beauty that surrounds me on all sides. Thank You for the accurate knowledge of the truth that sets me free; free to share all good things with others and to be a blessing to those who may not even know who You are or the one You sent. Thank You for blessing me to be a blessing to many. Help me to believe what You say and understand Your Word so I can share this wonderful Word with all who desire it. Help me to be a better example of a true follower of the Word so I can bring glory and honor to Your name and demonstrate Your kingdom on this earth now and in the future. I love You Father God and I love Your Word. Thank You for loving me first and drawing me ever closer to You. In the name of Jesus, Yeshua, our Lord and Savior, I "pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they will prosper that love thee." Make it so.

THOUGHT

When we pray for a certain "thing" how we approach God can make all the difference in whether or not our prayers are effective and we see results. The key to getting our prayers answered is to pray for the things that we know are found in God's kingdom: beauty, truth, joy, peace, love, abundance, prosperity, resources, perfect health, 'what ever is noble and of good report,' the very things we all would desire if we want to be a part of His Kingdom on earth and in heaven. Pray for the things that we can agree on as believers and the bible says we will have it. He will do it for us because we can never get what we really want all by ourselves. He uses people to bless His people. If He would personally come down from heaven and 'zapp' us and make us complete in the site of everyone then 'faith' would no longer be  a requirement for anything. As it is today faith means everything when it comes to answered prayer. First we must believe that God is real and 'He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.' He does'nt respond to tears or anger, but to faith. We need others to agree with us in these things and then we have the power God promised us in His Word. That's why I believe I've been seeing my prayers answered so profoundly it's almost supernatual, maybe it is supernatural that God answers prayer. All I know is, it must be a God thing because really, there can be no other explaination for answered prayer.
Then thank Him even before the things we desire actually manifest in our lives. 'Believe that you have recieved' even as though you already have it and keep it foremost in our minds that He has answered us and one morning we wake up and everything we desire according to His will has come to pass.
 I believe prayer is a process and there are steps to folllow, first, 'believe', 'ask', have 'faith', have 'patience', 'wait' and 'recieve' it. Be diligent and keep on asking, don't give up and when it's time, God will 'make it so' in a wonderful way!
God wants to take care of His children and to give us our hearts desire but we really need to know what is in God's heart for us. He wants us whole, happy, joyful, rested, healthy, lacking no good thing. He wants us to give because He is a giver, a giver of life and His own love through His Son, Jesus. So, that's why we ask in Jesus' name, Jesus is the 'middle man' so to speak. The 'mediator' between God and man, He is God's greatest gift to us all because through Him we can have life everlasting in heaven and maybe a little heaven on this earth while we are still here. I believe this is the most effective way to ask God for what we really want and the material things we desire will be a bi-product of the kingdom things we really want. God will supply all our needs according 'His glorious riches in Christ Jesus' and He will do it, sometimes in the most wonderful ways.                  

GOD BLESSES PEOPLE THROUGH PEOPLE

UNDER GRACE?

SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY

"For sin shall not be your master, for you are not under law, but under grace."  Romans 6:14

PRAYER FOR TODAY

Father God Yahweh, Thank You For Your mercy and 'grace' on me. I confess all my sin now and I thank You for forgiving me for all my sin. Thank You for protecting my children and grandchildren and all those I love in these last days from all sorts of accidents, illness, sickness and disease and every attack by the enemy. Thank You for being my Protector, my Provider and my Healer. Thank You for helping me to understand Your Word through your annointed teachers that You put on my path. You are so awesome Father God! I praise Your Holy name and pray that I bring glory and honor to Your name despite my sinful human nature. Thank You Jesus! For saving me from myself and and for loving me despite myself. Help me to be good, and make You proud of me. I love You Lord God and I love Your Word and Your ways. In the name of Jesus, Yeshua, I pray this prayer and for "the peace of Jerusalem, they will prosper that love thee." Make it so.   

 

ANSWERED PRAYERS?

WHY ME?

I'm trying to figure out why so many of my prayers are being answered and other people I know don't seem to be getting any where with prayer. I think it's because I am willing to recieve God's Word from many annointed teachers and to listen to the bible and read on my own. I tend to saturate my mind with the Word every chance I get and try to put God first every morning with prayer and the Word.
This blog may have very much to do with my answered prayers because I'm sure there is at least one reader out there who comes into agreement with me on the prayers I post here, maybe more. Matthew18:19 says: "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there I am also."  Maybe it's because I really believe God when He tells me these things and I expect Him to keep His promises and He does!
I talk about the Word with others too, sometimes when they don't want to hear it. I can't seem to keep quiet about it. The conversation always seems to gravitate toward the Word, the Gospel message, the way to salvation, His blessings on me, and I try to encourage others to recieve this same kind of favor that I seem to have with God. God's favor is something I've prayed for alot, and I still do along with joy, peace, love, freedom, abundance, prosperity, happiness and everything I can conceive of being in His kingdom.
I also thank Him for the things I have'nt yet recieved with child-like faith knowing now that my "Abba", Daddy will come through for me because He loves me and wants me to experience all good things, not because I've been a "good boy" and obey all the law, no, but because He loves me. The bible says, "None of us are good, no not one." So why does He answer my prayers? It may be because of what I ask for in faith, believeing, or because I study His Word, or because someone out there is in agreement with me, or all of the above. But the most important reason why I think He answers my prayers is because He wants me to love Him. And come to Him and know Him. He wants all of us to love Him the same way we desire our children to love and honor us as parents. We are His "kids" right? Well if that's the case then what the scriptures tell us is true, we are joint heirs with His first born, Jesus who came to set us free from sin, death, and the grave.
Maybe He does'nt see us as we are in this world, sinners deserving of death, but He sees us as we are in Christ, cleansed by His blood of all unrighteousness, set free from the law and made alive again by His amazing grace. He sees right through our sinful human nature and sees Jesus in us.
When Jesus shed His blood and laid down His life for us, He did it to take away the sins of the whole world, past, present , and future. That includes all of us who accept him and recieve Him by faith to be who He says He is. "God with us." He took our beating for us so we could have life and have it to the full. Not live in lack and poverty, and fear of death and judgment, but in super abundance and prosperity, peace, joy, and be happy knowing our sins are forgiven and He will remember them no more!
As believers, and followers of Jesus Christ it is are commission to spread this 'good news' which is the "Gospel of Grace" to as many people as possible in what ever ways we can, be it by word of mouth, writting, preaching, or giving money, singing, music, poetry, or passing out tracts with the salvation prayer.
How ever we do it, the important thing is that we do something to further the Gospel.

Father God Yahweh, I thank You for being my Protector, my Provider, my Healer and my Everything. Help me to live a good and upright life, to bring glory and honor to Your name in this world and do my best to do your will and live in the plan You have for my life. Your will be done not mine. Father, I pray for the blesssings of Abraham to be on my offspring and me, and all those who read this prayer and agree with me in it. Thank You for loving me first and blessing me with all good things according to Your Kingdom and your Word. In the name of Jesus, Yeshua, my Lord and King I "pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they will prosper that love thee."  Make it so. 

CONSCIENOUS

PRAYER FOR TODAY

Father God Yahweh, Thank You for Your teachers that teach Your Word and help us to understand the truth about our relationship with You. Thank You for sending Jesus to restore us back to You and You back to us. Thank You that we are no longer under the Law of Moses and now we are under Your Grace through our faith in Jesus. Help me to help others understand this truth and bring glory and honor to Your name. Thank You for the joy and the peace and the hope that these truths give me in my walk with You. I can only thank You a thousand times for Your love and mercy, and help me to be a person to be proud of because You look straight through me and see the righteousness of Jesus not my sinful guilt ridden self. In the name of Jesus, Yeshua, I "pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they will prosper that love thee." Make it so.

JESUS' PERSONALITY?

DID HE SMILE AND LAUGH ALOT?

Considering all that we read in the bible about Him one would probably conclude that Jesus was not as jovial and happy, and perhaps as funny as some of us would like to think. But tell me how could some one with His super natural ablities and way with words be anything but full of joy and peace, not to mention being "God" on earth. He was so full of the Holy Spirit I bet He was always smiling and laughing even when he spoke in just normal conversation, especially before His ministry began because He must have known His end from the beginning and the fact that He was the Savior of the world and no matter what He had to go through in this life, He would be ultimately be exzalted above all men and worshipped as God.

 I don't believe He was serious all the time. You know the type, pious, and quiet, exept to say scary things, always telling us everything we should not do and the trouble we'll be in if we are sinful. I just can't see anyone attracting such a large following by being serious 'all' the time and never showing a sense of humor. I tend to think of Him as being 'cool' and smiling alot, and laughing with people. Being friendly and helpful to His family and friends. I bet He even told funny stories and made His disciples laugh. I bet He even poked fun at people when it was appropriate. Imagine you're hangin' out with Jesus, having some wine and talking, you're asking Him all sorts of questions and He's answering all of them. Surely at some point there would be laughter and joy because He was full of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, all nine of them; love, joy, peace, kindness, mildness and faithfulness, patience, self-control, and goodness. There was no guile found in Him. The only 'perfect' man since Adam. He had a lot to be joyful and happy about and He was teaching His disciples to be like Him. Even though they would suffer and die in the process. But, up until that time came, I believe they all had some fun and good times as well as serious and scary times.
 

      His message was salvation through the 'grace' of God, through 'faith' in Him. The 'Good News' is, He took our punishment, He took our whipping for our sinful disobedience. He shed His blood and gave His life as the sacrificial 'Lamb' of God for the forgiveness of all our sin, past, present, and future. Anything less than that would not be such 'Good News'. If the Gospel message was salvation by obedience to the 'Law of Moses' we'd all be lost! If the Gospel message was salvation by going to church or salvation in and of ourselves to do good and please God we'd all be lost! The 'Good News' is that we are made righteous in the sight of God because of what Jesus did for us over 2000 years ago. God made a way for us where there was no way before Jesus. Praise His holy name! Be joyful and happy because if we recieve this free gift from Him, He will "remember our sins no more"! Wow! What a comfort to know that God loves us despite our sinful flesh, He knows us and wants us anyway! He will cleanse us from all unrighteousness and make us heirs and joint heirs with His chosen ones. Correct me if I'm wrong but this is really 'Good news.' This is the Gospel message that needs to be preached to the world and it is, more so today than ever before.

So, anyway, I believe Jesus was very cool in His time on earth. He taught very large crowds and kept their attention with His magnetic personality. Yes, I believe He joked, and laughed, and had fun while He was here. He was not 'all business' like some churches would have us to believe, He was not even keen on religion in His day. He exposed the religious leaders for what they were, hipocrites and vipers, play actors and teachers of the commands of men as doctrine. Here's a guy in His early 30s telling the elders of Temple that they were 'all messed up' basically. No wonder they wanted to kill Him. He was cramping their style, so to speak. But it all had to happen the way it did to fulfill the prophesies that were outlined already in the Jewish bible.

All this being said, if you have'nt yet heard this Gospel of Grace or recieved the free gift of salvation from God, just believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and God's Word says that you 'will' be saved. Say this: "Jesus, I believe You are the Son of God and You loved me first, and that You died for me, You took my punishment. You came back for me. You saved me by Your shed blood. Jesus, come into my heart and I make You my Lord and Savior. My spirit is born again now and I am saved! Thank You Jesus! Praise God!
Now, find somewhere to be baptized in water and also recieve the gift of the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised us we could have.  May the God of heaven bless you beyond your wildest dreams and show you great and wonderful things you do not know. Have a "smile filled" rest of your life. 



  

THANK YOU LORD!

PRAYER FOR TODAY

MY AWESOME GOD!

Father God Yahweh, thank You for being in my life by means of Your Spirit and Word. You are awesome the way You work. Thank You for the teachers that teach and preach Your grace that makes me righteous even though I sin. Thank You for forgiving me for all my sins and help me to be a better person so I can demonstrate the way Your kingdom works on this earth and bring glory and honor to Your true name. Help me to be a blessing to my children and grandchildren and teach them these truths and give them the same freedom and joy You have given me, not only by words but by actions and good examples. Thank You Abba Father Yahweh for loving me first, even when I denied You. In the name of Yeshua, Jesus, I "pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they will prosper that love thee." Make it so.