“I think that somehow we lose sight that really it’s about our hearts..Amen..it’s about what we’re doing..but somehow we get focused on the lives of others and we fail to look at our own lives and our own little world in which we live..that we stay there so consumed with what everyone else isn’t doing..to what they are doing..that we miss us and what we are doing..Amen..cause guys the devil can get our attention in many ways..and if he can get us to focus on others more so than our own lives..and our own hearts so to speak then we don’t really grow or honestly ever seem to take thought of what were doing..Amen..in otherwords it’s so easy to look at our brothers and sisters in Christ and see what they need to fix and do in their lives..but yet fail a thousand times over when we do this because we never consider what were doing to what were not doing..kind of a prideful thing that we can end up creating..and actually living out in our own life..see the thing about it all is the Lord is considering my heart..what I’m doing..how I’m living..if my heart is pure and right before Him and His eyes..cause I will be the very first to tell ya..if we don’t keep our hearts and protect them..they end up getting tarnished..and getting wounded..and somehow becoming very hardened..because life happens..and people happen..but in the midst of it all..the Lord is still God..and is still there for you and for me..Amen..so it’s not about what is..to what isn’t happening to us..cause guys the Lord already knows..but it’s about how we’re choosing to deal with it all..at whatever in the world life throws our way..Amen..for you see we can’t always be trying to fix everyone else..and fall way short to who we are and what all we’re doing for our Father..for the word says to us that we are to guard our hearts above all else for out from them flows the issues of our lives..Proverbs 4:23..for you see if Christ Jesus lives in us..then we are more than able to live out our lives through the word of God..for it’s only by living it out that we’re able to keep our hearts with all diligence..Amen..for it says why consider the mote in your brothers eyes but yet fail to see the beam in your own eye..Matthew 7:3/Luke 6:42..for it’s so easy to lose sight of it all..but guys we are to pray for others first and foremost..and we are to constantly and continually be working on who we are for the Lord..because one day we are going to stand before that judgment sit of Christ and give an account for our lives and how we chose to live them..were not going to be asked about such and such..and what they did or didn’t do..but we are going to have to answer about what we did to what we didn’t do..because the Lord knows us..He knows our thoughts He says from afar off..Psalm 139:2..He says before we ever speak a word He already knows..Psalm 139:4..Amen..so let us help ourselves by working on us and our hearts..see we have got to be made whole in Christ..we have got to be free from strife..from envy..from jealousy..from murmuring…complaining..bickering..judging..fault finding..I mean come on guys this list can go on and on..Amen..but if we want to be all about the Lords business we have got to stay completely in the overflow of who we are for Him and Him alone..we can’t keep living in the old ways..the old mindsets..and doing the same things that we’ve always done and expect to live out our lives differently than that of the life that we once lived..see Christ changes us..we are not that old man so to speak anymore..nor should we be..Amen..so put on Christ..and I am not just meaning putting him on just on the outside of who you are and walking the walk so to speak..and talking the talk..but I mean on the inside..I mean that when Christ looks at you He alone is pleased with you..and what your thinking..and what your doing..because our outside will line up with our inside..so please Jesus..let us stop with all the men pleasing..and with the being more concerned about what others think about us..more so than what Christ thinks and knows about us..for Paul says this to us in Galatians..”For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ…Galatians 1:10..for our lives are all about being able to stand before Jesus completely unashamed..Amen..it’s living and breathing to just completely please Him with everything that is within us..because we know that it’s all about Him..and Him alone being pleased with us and who we are for Him..so I’m gonna say it again..it’s about my heart..and what I am doing with it..and as well it’s about your heart and what you are choosing to do with it..for you see the Lord is close to the broken hearted and He alone binds up every wound..Psalm 34:18/Psalm 147:3..for God is able to fix, mend and heal every bit of all of our brokenness..for He is God..but know that we all have to help ourselves by helping ourselves live out the scriptures and living and abiding under the shadow of the Almighty and His presence..Amen..so be the best you that you can be..be a friend..be a help..be an encourger..and more than anything stop all of the gossip and fault finding with others..simply love and pray for them..and remember that God is not the God of confusion but He is the God of peace..1 Corinthians 14:33..and where there is envying and strife there as well scripture says is every evil work..James 3:16..so don’t let our lives get tangled up in that bunch of mess..live a life filled to the overflow with love..and live a life filled with much peace..Amen..for it says in the word that as much that lies in you..to live peacefully with all men..Romans 12:18..so let us work on us and who we are..cause when were better..were able to be better with others and with who they are..and that should be the goal for us all..Amen..loving and treating others as Christ Jesus loves and treat us..Amen..for then and only then will we all be them cities sit on a hill that cannot be hidden..shining ever so brightly for our Lord and for our Savior Jesus Christ..for with light everyone wins..and wins well for the Lord..so let us be the best that we can be..being the Lord’s hands and feet..living and walking always with the thought in our minds are we pleasing Christ?..and hopefully when we ask ourselves that simple question we all can answer..Yes, I am..In Jesus’ name, I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi