Friend, remember to walk each day with the Lord.  Know that He is with you and His Spirit is available with tens of thousands of angels to put to work for you when you walk with Jesus as your Lord and Saviour God.

Have Joy in your heart for Almighty Father God loves you, and is guiding you along the Path of Life everlasting for your soul.

Be open to hear the voice of Father, Son and Spirit, and respond according to the inspiration you receive.  Do not deny it, as it will shrink away to nothing when you constanntly crowd it out with your own rationalizations.

Reject the old ways of thinking and reacting to your circumstances.  Be the changed soul that God desires.

Return to Him every time you recognize your mistake in thinking or reacting to daily troubles in the old patterns.

Each day when you arise and have thanked Him for your new day, decide to change the thing that He has asked you to. 

Maybe it is not saying His name as a swear word (in vain). Or removing anger towards someone who has hurt you.  Whatever He asks, set about to do it and you can go to Him and ask forgiveness when you fail -  just keep trying with His help. You will begin to overcome and will acquire a new area in your soul that the Lord can fill with spiritual things of value to you.

All our pride and sinful ways block the Lord's access to our spirit.  The sooner we get rid of these evil ways, the closer we get to having a fulfilling relationship with Jesus the lover of our soul.

The Lord is waiting for you to recognize that He is the answer to all your needs and you must begin to rid yourself of all the evil excesses you have acquired. He will help you to do it.  Just ask - His Power is greater than the power of evil that pervades the world.

With Him you will overcome. 

Meditation

Friend, we must be alert to the workings of satan, the enemy of God.

Satan works in the world to bring disharmony and keep our daily lives full of excesses that entice us away from God.  He seeks to manipulate and coerce and drag us into sin of all kinds.  The world is full of his works.  Every day he is using people to destroy us, so that we die without ever having heard the Word of God.

Satan distorts God's Word and uses people to deliver new messages to us.  He has introduced superstitions and black arts to confound us.  Whole belief systems are supported by satan.  He can appear as an angel of light and fool the unwise. (If you bow down to an image made by man, you have been fooled.)

Many people believe they are going to be with God when they die but they have allowed themselves to be fooled and God will prove it to them. They would not answer the call from Jesus and the Holy Spirit.  They went the path they desired while ignoring the Truth of the Spirit's voice.

They bought into the lie of satan and developed "stories" not Truth, for the masses who God says are goats and will be separated from His sheep when the time comes for Judgement.

Ask yourself, am I one of the goats or am I one of God's sheep who knows the Master's voice?

Hear the Spirit, open your mind, heart, eyes and ears and say, "Holy Spirit, I want to hear You and only You from now on."

Friend, God dwells with humble and repentant hearts. 

The high and mighty, arrogant, selfish, boasters, He cannot dwell with, because their hearts are turned from Him and turned to their own evil ways - and the god of their world, satan.

In Isaiah 57:15 God says to us...I dwell in the high and Holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isn't that a beautiful Word for your heart?  Your humble and contrite heart, the simpleness of who you are; He loves and dwells with to show you great things.

When we come to Him as a broken cup, one that can't hold the Life-giving Water for our soul, He mends us and pours into the cup all the Water we need, even to overflowing, if we will receive Him.

A contrite heart is one that weeps and agonizes over the sin and says to God, "Lord God, I am a sinner, help Thou, me!"

He will forgive that heart, because it wants to shun evil.  This is a starting place for God.  From here, He knows what to do - you must allow Him full rein.

He asks you to walk humbly, knowing you are a sinner saved by His Grace and Mercy.  In due time when you are ready by His standards, He will give you what He knows to be your new destiny.

Commune with Him in a secret place and meditate on how Great and Powerful your God is.

Stay humble and contrite.

Friend, put aside the murmurings of unbelief that flood your thoughts.

Give your soul a chance to know Truth, to find Wisdom and to enjoy constant companionship; with Joy and Love and Peace for the soul.

Isn't this what we all crave and search for?

The Holy Spirit is speaking with us all at every moment we are alive on this earth. Do we hear Him? 

Do you hear Him?

We must give ourselves a chance to recognize His voice in our mind and heart.

Start from the position that we are full of sin and can do no good thing ourselves. When we do good to someone else, it is the Spirit's encouragement, and His rationalizing that we hear. 

So take no thanks for what you have done. It is not you, but the Spirit.

How do you feel about that?

Do you want to take the credit yourself and deny the Spirit?

The Bible, God's Holy personal letter to us tells us that it is the Spirit. This then, is how the Lord interprets our good deeds. We get credit from God when we recognize that it is the Spirit; and give thanks and praise to God for the Spirit who works with us daily.

Friend, today, allow the Spirit to receive the glory for your good deeds. Take no thanks yourself. Place yourself in His good hands and allow His urgings to be fulfilled in your life today.

If you stumble or fall or are embarassed, take no heed, keep on the path of righteousness with the Spirit guiding and directing.

Praise Him and thank Him for His Goodness!

He will not take you down evil pathways.

Friend, keep praising Jesus!

In your darkest hour - praise Him!

Let praises flow from your mouth early in the morning through to when sleep overtakes your body.

Always have a praise on your lips and in your mind and heart.

Know what to praise Him for; so that the thoughts and words will flow like a river - soft and gentle when needed and raging like a torrent when in dire need.

He is worthy to be praised so tell Him so. 

Everything He does is Holy, full of Wisdom and Truth, Life and Love.

Let Him know you know these things.

They are Life to your soul when you praise Him. Blessings and health and healing and knowledge, wisdom, truth, love, forgiveness, all come when we praise the Lord Jesus. 

We are in the mode to receive perfectly when we praise Him in love and truth.

Friend, the Bible encourages us to break free from old thinking and stagnant beliefs.

Many of us believe in legalistic ways and think by doing this, God will be pleased with us.

God gave the Law of the Ten Commandments to Moses and from those Holy Laws, men have added whatever their interpretation of them has been and almost choked the Word of God from us. Many have become bound up in those laws and do not open their hearts to God to have the personal relationship He wants.

Jesus came to free us from those legalistic ways.

All through His ministry while on earth,  He shows the Pharisees the error of their thinking, but most, loving their positions in the temple could not see the true Word of God who stood before them in the flesh, nor could they change their ways of teaching the people. The people's own sin caused them to debase God's Law by their desire to always have what they wanted.  This caused their spiritual leaders to add new law to God's law to try to control sinful behaviour of the people.

Here are the Ten Commandments;

Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me.

Do not make any graven images of anything to worship or bow down to worship an image

Do not take the name of the Lord in vain

Keep the Sabbath day Holy

Honour your Mother and Father

You shall not kill

You shall not commit adultery

You shall not steal

Do not bear false witness against another

Do not covet what others have

Friend, these ten commandments are God's Law for us - but He has made a Way for us to be with Him.  He sent His Son to be the Sacrifice for the sins against the Law that we all have fallen short of.

The Law shows us that we are sinners. 

We cannot keep the Law without the help of Jesus who died so that His Blood would wash away the sin and set us on a Path to reconciliation to God the Father. Belief in Him and the Sacrifice and Resurrection is the requirement of God the Father for our sins to be forgiven and a new life to be embarked upon with the Holy Spirt as a Guide, Mentor, Teacher, Counsellor, Comforter.

Without the Holy Sacrifice, we could not ever be reconciled to God.  Under His Law, we are sinners who would taint Heaven with our unrepentant souls.

No, we have to repent and accept God's Son as our Lord and receive the baptism of the Spirit.

As long as we believe and have faith, His Mercy and Grace is new for us every morning.  He requires we repent of sins immediately we realize and He is Just to forgive.

But, friend, do not deliberately sin.  Refrain from deliberate sin because God knows the heart and sees the unrepentant quality and the desire to do or have whatever the sinful practise is and is able to discern the reasons for the continual sinful behaviour.

We must overcome ingrained sinful attitudes as the Spirit shows them to us.

With the help of the Spirit and Son we can overcome.  A humble heart will overcome.