“For many, myself included..we all can very easily fall into this trap of pleasing people..wanting people to like us..to accept us..and appreciate who we are..we will talk all day about what we are..and what we do..on and on we can go..trying to get people to notice or acknowledge..for we think well maybe a door will open if they know who we are and what we can do..Amen..so we live on and on trying to get involved..we will lead bible studies..we will teach classes..we will go on mission trips..even if the Lord hasn’t called us there..Amen..just because we think well this will show them who I am..or who we are..should I say..and so we will completely get so busy with stuff..so busy with things that honestly doesn’t concern us..just for the fact that we think it is going to make us look good..Amen..it is going to establish our platform so to speak..and than of course you get into the image or effect of social media..so you just do things to be able to post them..not even to the attempt or measure of wanting to..it’s just a image we want others to see of us..so we get once again busy with the internet and social media..that really we are lost in the midst of it all..failing right before our very own eyes to know or to really understand that the only one we should ever live to please is Christ and Him crucified..Amen!”

“Because I will say again that the Lord is the only one in whom can do anything for any of us..He can open doors..He as well can close them..and if the Lord decides to place you anywhere on any platform He alone can do that..so the scripture says but now do I seek the approval of man or of the Lord?..for if yet I live to please man than I should not be the servant of Christ..Galatians 1:10..Amen..in other wards it is saying don’t put people on some kind of high pedal stool..putting them way up there in your life and care more about what they think..more so than Jesus..Amen..and friends that is not a good place..for any of us..so let us think about our lives and the things we do and the reasons we do them?..and then let us make sure the things we are doing are the things that Jesus wants for us to be doing..Amen..because we have one life..and this life was meant to be lived for the Lord..and following Him..and keeping Him first place..listening to Him and His voice..and living it all to bring Him alone glory..Amen..so once again people are people..just as you and I..we all are sinners saved by grace..Ephesians 2:8..and we all are in need of a Savior..and we all need Jesus..and we all fight battles every single one of us..Amen..so my heart for us all..is that we know Him..we live for Him..and we love Him..we know His voice..we know His leading..and we more than anything live totally and completely for Him..I always say living for that audience of one..just living to please Him..not people..only Jesus..Amen..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