“Many failures..many downfalls..many falling downs..many sins..many thoughts..Amen..many arguments..many disagreements..many disappointments..many defeats..many let downs..many gossips..many lies..many wrong mindsets..many and many and many..for us all we fall down in this category of our lives..we say things..we do things..we respond ways..we disappoint..we overlook..we don’t reply..we watch..we listen..we drink..we take..we do a lot of things each of us..and we fail..and we turn away from the goodness of the Lord..we turn away from all that He has done for us..we let go of truth even for but a moment and reach for self..and selfish ambition..we daily seem to fall short somehow or someway..because again we’re not perfect people..and here recently I have heard and seen many things in my life for not only myself but others..Amen..and I think Lord how can these things still be present?..how Lord can we serve and live and love You and still fall prey to this world?..and to it’s ways?..and to really sin?..Amen..and it’s not that any of us choose to really want to sin or to think wrong and do wrong..or whatever the case may be in our lives..it’s not that we choose to be mean towards the Lord..it’s not that we don’t love the Lord..I just can’t seem for the life of me figure it out even though some feel they have..Amen..or that they somehow made it to where they sin not at all..and that again is a complete understatement..because daily I think we all fail..and we all fall..and we all say and do many things in our lives..even towards others..and even towards family..and co-workers..and just really and truly to ourselves..Amen!”

“For I like to say to us all that we all know us and who we are..and at times I feel like the scripture that King David prayed unto the Lord..Amen..in which case was this..”I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn I can’t make myself do right. I want to but I can’t. When I want to do good, I don’t; and when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. Now if I am doing what I don’t want to, it is plain where the trouble is: sin still has me in its evil grasp. It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant, but instead I find myself still enslaved to sin..So you see how it is: my new life tells me to do right, but the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible predicament I’m in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower nature? Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set me free..Romans 7:18-25..Praise His name!”

“So for us all this morning..I am not sure the battle or the battles that you are facing and or are fighting in your life..and as I say we all are facing and battling something in our lives..for we live in a fallen world..and sin is here with us..but sin is the thing that I think keeps us at the foot of the Cross..keeps us continually looking up into the face of Jesus..maybe I am wrong..but I can say this it keeps me at the foot of the Cross with my Savior..Amen..for maybe just maybe it’s the Lord’s way of keeping us in fellowship with Him and daily so..but as far as the things we do and the many failures and defeats that happen and that will happen in all of our lives..I pray that none us carry the burdens from the things we do..or have done..but that we do lay them down before Jesus at His feet..and if it is a daily thing I pray we keep laying it down before our Father’s feet..Amen..for I love the scripture that says therefore now there is NO condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit..Romans 8:1..Amen..so know that we are not perfect beings..we are sinful souls..and we’re never gonna be perfect till heaven..Amen..but we do the best we can and daily so..denying ourselves picking up our crosses and following the Lord..Amen..for isn’t it funny how we pretend we are those perfect ones..but in reality we’re not..even the disciples of the Lord turned away from Him..even Peter denied Jesus three times..Amen..His closet and dearest friend..Amen..so my heart and my prayer is that we keep climbing our mountains and we keep walking our valley’s..but whatever we do we never let go of the Lord in the process..because He loves us and each of us with an everlasting love..and just know that God our Father doesn’t have favorites..He loves us all the same..what a Savior He is..Amen..so have the best day..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that 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