“For us all if we do not intentionally make time to pray..intentionally make time to seek out the Lord in our lives..intentionally choose to be kind..intentionally choose to be positive..intentionally choose to be joyful..intentionally choose the right things to do..intentionally to just choose our lives..than we will be like the children in the wilderness that wandered around for 40 years..Amen..for you see intentionally means to do it on purpose..Amen..it’s not just gonna happen certain things in our lives that should happen..considering our attitudes..our actions..our prayer lives..our joy..our peace..all of these things don’t happen honestly in our lives unless we intentionally choose to make them happen..Amen..because firstly we still do live in these fleshly bodies..our spirit man is housed here..Amen..but as well when we begin our day..we have to then and there intentionally choose to do what we should be doing to start and begin our day..which is to sit our face like a flint before our Maker in heaven..Isaiah 50:7..Amen!”

“For you see we do this by getting our minds and hearts set in a good place to begin our day..because if not we will let other things take over that time and place and we end up running low in our day..and our spiritually speaking tank runs low and dry..Amen..just like with our jobs we know we have to be at work at a certain time than we know we have to be there..and we are there..Amen..the same with the Lord..we should set times to be with Him in our lives..sure we can talk to the Lord all day..but it’s different when we intentionally choose the Lord to be with Him..more so than just squeezing Him into our plans..or our schedules..Amen..in those moments we make it personal..Amen..and I believe the Lord smiles on that and honors us for that..Amen..just as when we make time for our families and friends..not in some rushing manner..but in a time that we’ve craved out just for them..it makes it a special time for them and for us..because it speaks volumes to them that we chose them..Amen!”

“So to be the best we can be..our time with the Lord is most crucial..it is the whole thing about the whole thing..Amen..for God fills us and releases us from our heavy burdens and our heavy loads at times that we pick up and begin carrying around with us..He fills us with His joy in His presence..He gives us clarity and much wisdom..He heals our minds..He comforts us..He gives us peace..for you see Jesus is a friend the bible says that sticks closer than a brother..Proverbs 18:4..Amen..and He understands us..for He says I know the words you speak before you ever speak them..He understands our thoughts from afar off..Psalm 139:2..Amen..for the Lord fearfully and wonderfully made us..Psalm 139:14..and He made us for Him and His purpose for us and our lives..for He chose us..John 15:16..and each of us as if there where only one of us..and He desires for us to be with Him..for our Lord is a jealous God..Exodus 34:14..and He wants our time with Him..for you see He is our Good Shepherd..John 10:11-18..and He knows that we are those sheep..and we get sidetracked sometimes..we lose sight sometimes..we begin getting off course sometimes..but when we stay close to our Shepherd..He keeps us safe and He keeps us protected..for there is no better place that any of us need to be at in our lives other than with the Lord..for it is Gods presence that changes us and grows us and helps us to be all that we can be..to be happy, to be whole and to be complete in Him..and in Him alone..so again what I will say is that our journey with Jesus is a personal one..and we ourselves must choose to live in His presence and with Him..and only Him ‘INTENTIONALLY’ and daily so..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