No More Drama

For God is no the Author of confusion but of peace.............  1 Cor 14:33

If there is one thing I hate, it is a bunch of confusion.  Nothing Good comes out of confusion and drama yet some people love to dwell in it. We have all at some point in our live dealt with these type of people;Those who like to make a mountain out of a mole hill.  Every situation, every conversation , no matter how big or small is a source of confusion. Maybe you have been that person who has been a confusion starter.  We get mad at these types of people, we don't want them around and hate to see them coming. 

Why do some people like confusion? After I really sat down to think about it these are some answers I came up with.

• People who are confusions starters are generally not happy with themselves, so instead of focusing on thier own unhappiness and dealing with thier issues , they choose to focus on anything other than themselves, which puts you and I in thier radar
• some people are just like that. They are messy at heart and like to cause confusion because they like this sort of thing. Some people, really can't help it if you can believe that. It's just their personality. They gossip, spread gossip and start drama. We can't change them, just accept them and handle them with a long handle spoon
• For some people their self esteem is so low that they make themselves feel important by creating nonsense

•    People who are causing drama need help in understanding that its their own misery that keeps them in the drama. The freedom that I have found in focusing on me and my own pain and working through it, is priceless. I find the more I am ok with me, the less I care about what others think,do or say. You must be aware of yourself. Forget those people and turn them over to God.. Let go and let God deal with them
they get joy and pleasure in trying to ruin someone elses happy life. it also gets the attention off of the happy person and on them. They tend to be attention-seekers

We are admonished in the word of God to seek peace ( to search for it ),  and to pursue it- which means to follow after it. We are to Make peace an object of desire, and put forth constant efforts to live in it.(Psalms 34:14)
Living in peace requires action , which is on going.    That's why Romans 12: 18 says  If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.   Yes this even includes your enemies.  Even though it is not easy to be peaceful with all people you are to keep trying.  Living a peaceful life can only be accomplished through Gods help. Why ? because we serve a God of Peace (Romans 15:33.)


My Declarations

This year I am detemined to live a drama free existence.  The situations I allowed to cause me stress and get me down last year I will not give power to this year.

I am determined not to stress myself out about other peoples lives because I have enough to deal with trying to run my own. 

I am determined not to stress myself about my Job and the confusion that happens there on almost a regular I am putting that in God's Hands.

I am determined this year to step back and let God have his way in my life.

I  am declaring and speaking into existence that 2012 is my year of no nore Drama.


Question of the day..

 if God is not the author of confusion but of peace,  why do we allow people to bring drama into our space and why do we cause so much drama for other people?...Don't let anyone take you "there" on today and don't you "take " anyone there today. Have a blessed, peaceful and drama free day.

God our protector

Lamentations 3:22,23 22It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassion's fail not. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

 

Jesus the reason that I am able to go on today is because of you.  The reason that I am alive today is because of you.  My life would be nothing without you and everything that I think about without you would fail.  Lord I give everything to you on today. My life , my health, my strength, my Job...everything.

Lord I thank you for being a protector and help in all of the present turmoil and trouble in my life.  Lord I cannot handle any of the things I am going through without you or any of the troubles which are coming without you.  I put you in charge of my day and my life and I am everything that you said I am. Sometimes walking with you is a hard Job, especially when I want to keep going my own way..But I thank you for your grace and mercy which are new every morning. Thank you for being a faithful God.  You are truly worthy to be praised and I love you.


Reflections

Last night as I began to reflect on some of the marvelous things that the Lord has done in my life, all I could do was cry.  There have been plenty of times when I should have died but God spared my life.  One day while on my way to work, the car I was riding in began to spin out of control in the middle of a busy highway, However there was not a car in sight.  I know that God held those cars back for my benefit and for that I have to say thank you. 
When I was 12 years old, I was riding in the car with my aunt and she ran into an electrical pole, It was only by the grace of God that the electrical pole bent but did not fall on the car.  My mothers car was totaled and I walked away with some cuts and bruises but God allowed me to live and tell the tale. Thank you Jesus.

On another occasion I went to a doctor who diagnosed me with ovarian cancer, I didn't let it stress me out , I put it into God's hands and kept on being about the fathers business, but little did I know that God had a divine healing and intervention set in place for my life through a prophetess, who visited a church I was ministering at. God use the Prophetess( I cannot even remember her name) to lay hand on me and speak into my life.  I left the meeting believing that I had been healed.  When I went back to my doctor he did some more test only to find that the cancer was no longer in my body.  God is so good.

God is a merciful, kind , just and loving God , who is concerned about you. He cares about you. All he requires is for you to give yourself to him and tell him yes.  In this day and time that we are living in, the only thing that's constant, real and trust worthy is God.  He will never leave, nor forsake you.
Please consider this bible verse and let it become real to you.

Proverbs 3:5-8 
⁵Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
 ⁶In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
 ⁷Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
 ⁸It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Lord I Just want to say Thank you

Psalms 146: 2

2) While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

Father today I lift my hands in total praise unto you, For when I think of all the things that you have done for me and for all the times you've have kept me, when things could have been the other way, I just want to say thank you.

As a small child one of the first lessons that I can remember my mother teaching me ; was a lesson on how to say please and thank you. I learned that when you ask someone for something and your request has been granted you are to follow up the granting of your request with a thank you. However, how many times have someone extended you a courtesy and you passed that courtesy off as if it was nothing? Actually how many times have you had the audacity to treat the courtesy as if it was owed to you. Okay let me go here..

How many times has God blessed u and you didn't tell him thank you? How many times have God made a way in you life and you didn't say thank you. God is not some cosmic santa claus who is obligated to fulfill your every whim and request. He is not your personal lackey. What we need to realize is, everything God gives us comes by privilege. God does not owe you anything But you do owe him something: YOU. You and I did nothing to deserve his grace and mercy. Yet instill he gave the ultimate sacrifice for us. His only begotten son Jesus. (John 3:16) The one who died for our sins,(read chapter John 19) the one who thought it not robbery to pray for us, a sinner, a wretch undone, a mess.( John 17:9-26) My my my what a sacrifice...           

Father God in the name of Jesus,

I would like to thank you for sending your son to die for my sins. I am so sorry for all of the times that I have taken your blessings and treated them as something common. Please forgive me for not following you every command like I should have in the past, but I thank you for being a God of a second chance. Father I give you my life..I take my destiny out of my hands and put it in your hands...Father have your way in my life, in my finances, in the ministry that you have placed in me, in my relationships and etc....I need you , I love you and I appreciate you. No matter how hard the journey Father I am going to stay on it because you mean more to me than life...Thank you Jesus for praying for me.....:)

all of these blessings in Jesus name I pray amen.

Letting Go of the Past

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before  (Philippians 3:13)




Letting go of the past can be a hard thing. Why? because some of us are still living in it.  We have made the past our home and no matter how torn down that house is we refuse to move.   In our house called the past we have made bitterness, hurt, heartache and pain, our bedfellows.  We stay hidden behind our stone walls which are so high that nobody, not even God ,can get through to us. In order to get free you have be willing to move out of the house that you reside in on 2300 Bitterness Lane  and move into the house that God has built for you called Freedom.

Being free means to be released from something that controls, restrains, burdens, and holds you in  bondage. 

What is holding you in Bondage? What is keeping you from being free?  Whatever it is let it go.  Give it to God  Unfortunately there are many, many people who have nothing except the past to hold on to. They live in the past it seems, because that's all they have. They talk about how someone hurt them at sometime in their childhood or how someone gave them a dirty look at the supermarket today and countless other things. I have known people to hold a grudge against someone that has been dead for years even. Why do we hold on to our past so much? It is time for you to get on with your life. Again I say let it go.
In order to be free you have got to be willing to give God everything in your life that is keeping you bound.
And after you have let go of the past , you cannot keep visiting and dwelling in it. You  have got to be willing to leave your former neighbors called bitterness , hurt and pain right where they belong; in the past.

Sometimes even after moving out of 2300 bitterness lane into Freedom Lane we try to take a part of the past into our new beginning . Bringing the past into your New beginning is dangerous because that means you are not really free but still in bondage. In order to hold on to freedom, the word tells me that you have to stand fast in it, you have to hold on to it and keep holding on to it no matter what is going on around you. To stand means to endure or undergo without harm or damage or without giving way.( Galatians 5:1) You can do it  just stay in the fight.

The way to recognize whether or not you are is free is the ability to think about what held you in bondage and not have it effect you. You no longer cry about it, you no longer cringe when you think about. It no longer haunts your dreams and when you are faced with it , you can laugh to yourself and say Did I really let this get me down? Did I really let this control me? Is this what I was so afraid of? When you have allowed God to set you free, you will really be free (He whom the Son sets free is free indeed!" John 8:36)



One of the major things that God is teaching through this fast is about how to obtain freedom through him. When you are free you can praise God with your whole heart because there isn't anything holding you down.  When you are free you can return to God and make him the love of your life, not people, places and things. Be encouraged, seek after obtain and dwell in a place of freedom.

Prayer

Father God in the name of Jesus,

Thank you for providing freedom for me.  I thank you for confirming through your word that I can be free. Today father I give you all of the bitterness and pain in my heart that is keeping me from seeing you and from knowing you. Please forgive me for not forgiving those who have hurt me , please forgive me for not loving my enemies like your word says.  Lord I ask that you replace the bitterness in my heart with love and that you help me see when I find myself slipping back into the past. Father I give you my past ,my present and my future. Father I don't claim to understand everything that you have in store for me but I am glad to know that in you I will have an end and life orchestrated by you.  all of these blessings in the precious name of Jesus we pray amen. 

Starting all over again

This year for me is about starting over, its about doing things differently. On Dec 28, 2010 I made a commitment to God that I would follow the dietary laws of the bible, which means giving up some of the foods that I love,such as pork and shellfish.  I didn't belly ache about it or anything , I just walked away from those things because I love God more than any thing.  After I made that commitment to God, its like I lost the taste for all of those things on the not allowed list.  As soon as January 1st hit, God told me that I was to fast for 40 days so here I am.  If you are interested in knowing I am doing a partial fast, no meats, no sweet, no fried foods, etc.
During this next 40 days I know that I am going to be tested like never before but I am going to stand without wavering. Actually my test began last night. I was laying in my bed and father was giving me the ins and outs of the ministry that he has placed in me. It is a ministry of benevolence.   Benevolence is defined in Websters dictionary as the disposition to do good , the ability to be kind and to do things for others without accepting any rewards or payment, a generous gift.  In other words the ministry that God has placed in me is one that requires my life, my gifts, my talents, my finances, my hopes ,my dreams, my wants and anything else concerning me ,to be a gift to others.   This messed me up a bit .  Actually after coming to the full realization of what God requires of me, I became very sad and angry. I was really feeling a lot of emotions. I cried myself to sleep.
Please don't misunderstand me,it's not that I don't want to be of service to other people, my major issue is; I've never felt that my life belonged to me. All of my life I have been a people pleas er, or maybe I should say dependable.  My being a dependable person has sometimes caused me allot of pain.   I find it hard to walk away from relationships and situations, no matter how unhealthy, when I feel directly responsible for those involved. I love hard. I have been hurt so often because of my love for other people.  When I got up this morning I'd made up in my mind that I was going to live my life for me..I proclaimed to myself that I wasn't going to worry about anybody else , just me. See when you are  too nice , too meek and too mild people tend to try and take advantage of you.  I have experienced this in relationships, at Jobs where I worked even down to the church.
However Father led me to Proverbs 3:5-8 which tells us to,
⁵Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
 ⁶In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
 
so by this afternoon I had made another proclaimation which stated  Father wherever you send me I will go. I know that if my path is directed by God, I will be able to stand the test of time. I also realize that without The Lord I am nothing and whatever I would even think to do without him would fail.  Giving your trust to anyone is a mighty hard thing, but then again God is not just anybody, he is the alpha, the omega, the beginning and the ending.  He is creator of all and he has my best interest as well as your at heart. All we have to do is depend totally on him and listen to him and him alone.  For Jesus said in his word
²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me (John 10:27)