Friend, today, be brave and say to the Lord, "Your Will, not mine in all things, Lord Jesus!"

Life is hard and the devil and his demons will come against you so take it minute by minute, "Your Will, not mine, Lord."

Don't worry about the small failures, just keep going and commit to the next minute to be in His Will not your own.

Don't wallow in the sorrow of a failure. The devil is in that.

"Forgive me Lord, I am weak, but Your Will, not mine, Lord."

"Teach me, Lord."

"Show me, Lord."

"Thank you, Lord."

Just speak to Him all through the day.

When something goes well, "Praise You, Lord and thank You, Jesus."

Before you go to sleep each night, "I bless the name of Jesus!"

His Will for our lives, not ours. Agreed?

Friend, I hope you have found the Joy of the Lord!

It is not of this world.

It is not in any way generated by this world.

The Joy of the Lord is very hard to explain; but it comes directly from Lord Jesus, who brings all things in your life together, for His Good Will.

We get moments, flashes, revelations both short and long of something He has done for us and our soul is flooded with Joy, Hope, Truth, Wisdom and so much more.

Just knowing that He is the Orchestra Leader and He is making beautiful music to ebb and flow around you is enough for you to know to relax the reins, and let them fall to the ground - on all the issues in your life. 

If He can bring a small thing into perfect harmony; He can also bring the big things into that same harmony that releases inner Joy into your soul and spirit.

This is His Way of teaching, guiding and growing you into the Godly soul He created you to be. 

Our soul and spirit crave this Joy, yet before we know Jesus as our Saviour, we can't find the key to unlocking this Joy. We instinctively know it exists, and we want to have it.

We search for it in all the lusts of life when it it freely given by our Lord - when we acknowledge Him as King Jesus, the One who left all the riches of Heaven to come into a sin filled world to carry out the Plan of the Father (to redeem us from eternal separation from Almighty God, from Pure Love, from Holy Truth). 

He successfully fulfilled God's Plan and all the sinners of earth now have a Perfect Way in the New Law, to break free from the chains of death and destruction of our soul to a new and eternal life with our Lord, pain free, no sorrow, no remembrance of the sins of the flesh.

We just have to confess our sin to Jesus and repent from our sinful ways, accept His Sacrifice and Free Gift of Salvation.

He will be your Confidant and Teacher. In Him you can place all your hope and receive a renewed heart and mind.

This is the beginning of great spiritual Joy.

Psalm 33:8

Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe .

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inhertance.

Psalm 33:18

Behold , the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him, upon them that hope in His Mercy.

Psalm 34:9

O fear the Lord, ye His saints; for there is no want for those who fear Him.

Psalm 34:13-19

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry.

The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

The righteous cry and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

The Lord is nigh unto them that are broken hearted; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. (repenting spirit)

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

Friend, are you acquainted with the Glory of God?

Are you discovering His Beauty and Goodness?

Has the Spirit entered your heart; shown you that the Lord is Faithful, True and Holy?

You can be sure that He is not a Liar.

What is it that you are searching for? What has hurt your heart and mind that you find it so hard to open your ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to you, and eyes for the truth and Beauty He shows?

Now is the accepted time for your soul to have Salvation and be renewed and forgiven.

Grasp it and never let your soul be denied again. This is the thirst we all have, to be forgiven, to have a new life.

Open your eyes to the Glory of the Lord. Accept the Forgiveness that He offers. He will help you to overcome when you are tempted to return to the awful sin of your past.

Today is a new day in Christ, your Lord and Saviour. 

Psalm 24:8

Who is the King of Glory?  The Lord Strong and Mighty, the Lord Mighty in battle.

Friend, He will fight your battles for you. Just trust Him and release your hold on the battle. He is a Victorious Warrior against the evil that has overtaken you.

Just trust Him.

Friend, are you in sorrow? Do you see the sorrow in the world?

It is constant. More and more so it seems. Everyday the news is full of troubles and sorrow all around the world.

Evil is the author and carrier out of the deeds. It enters our hearts and deceives us into believing it's evil intent is for the best good of the whole world.

We see our young people being taken in and believing. Evil presents it's intentions to them as something worthwhile and keeps them so busy in the carrying out of it's plans that they do not have the time to hear the warnings from the Holy Spirit and God's Holy angels.

It's like their ears are stopped up. The mind cannot comprehend God's Way but seeks after the easy way that will bring their "self" some notoriety.

Jesus has His arms stretched out to these people. He is saying to them, "Turn to Me. See Me and what I have done for you. You can have life eternal. Do not do this deed. My Spirit can heal your spirit. Turn away from evil and become My child."

We bring Him much sorrow when we turn from Him and ignore His Love for us. We have been given free will and we make our own choices many times to our detriment.

When we choose His Will for our lives, we will have inner peace and joy because we are able to understand His Ways.

To choose to run our lives out of His Will is to choose sorrow and sadness in our inner being which gives us a confused mind that easily can be led astray by satan and his demonic army for their own purposes.

Friend, have you found the Lord to be faithful?

Even when we deny Him, turn our back to Him, walk away for a time from Him, we later see He was faithful to us all through our wanderings.

He is faithful. He loves us and shows through His Faithfulnes to us that He can be trusted.

There is not one human on this earth who is capable of being as faithful to us as the Lord Jesus.

When you understand this and it has happened to you, there is a "knowing" that you carry with you that can be a foundation stone of your belief.

The Lord is Faithful. It's like having a beautiful gem in your pocket that you carry with you everywhere.

When trials come, you put your hands in your pockets in despair and you feel that gem and you pull it out to find that it reminds you of God's Faithfulness to the world, to you, to all He has created.

Yes friend, He is Faithful. Never forget it.

Be faithful to Him for He is Faithful to you.

Never lose that connection again.

Friend, there are states of mind that are very dangerous for us to participate in, and we must be sure to turn from them quickly when the Spirit prompts us.

It is our duty to learn to hear the Spirit through the reading of God's Word, and writing it on our heart and mind.

It is so easy for us to enter into some form of sin either in thought or deed and talk ouselves into tolerance of the sin. Soon we expand the boundaries of that tolerance and we find ourselves deep in the murky and muddy mire of the sin.

We do ourselves a disservice when we allow this type of behaviour because we are only making it harder for the flesh to let go of the sin.  We become "addicted" to whatever it is; swearing, lust, gorging on bad foods, racist thinking, etc.  All the sins that hurt our Lord's heart and that in the end can destroy us - our flesh and spirit.

We should read His Word and find that He is all Truth and Love and would not condone any of the sins we have allowed our mind and body to partake in. Our progress in the spiritual life with our Saviour is marred when we continue allowing the sin that besets us, to continue.

In fact, we hurt His Heart and become a problem child that cannot be trusted. Loved, yes, but still may not make it to Heaven because we have not acknowledged the Holy Spirit who works day and night with us to overcome.

This type of soul is depending on God's Love alone to get into Heaven, and once there will continue to live in sin because that is trully their choice.  But, God will not allow sin in Heaven. A sinful soul is untrustworthy.

Friend, if this is you; do not let evil rob you of your place in Heaven. Be strong and bring your soul into alignment with the Word of God - Jesus who died for you to be forgiven when you repent of your sinful ways.

John 15:10 If you keep My Commands, you will live in My Love.