“This morning I can’t really get past the fact of all the ones myself included that has gotten hurt from the ones that are in the church..Amen..I think about how when you start out as a child of God you somehow assume that you need to do everything..you feel as if your whole life must change..or something drastic must happen..to prove maybe or to convince others that you are a child of the Lord..that you have been changed..Amen..that you are not who you used to be..Amen..but in the doing of all the changing..somehow you begin to listen to others and their opinions of what you need to do and what you should do that in doing so you miss God and who He is..you miss the relationship part of knowing Him..Amen!”

“But in doing all of that you begin to not measure up correctly..or you begin to lose yourself in the whole thing of becoming a christian..Amen..and honestly that is not where God our Father desires for any of us to get at in our walk and or our relationship with Him..Amen..for you see God made us and He knows us..Genesis 1:26-27..and He does change certain things about us..but He doesn’t change everything of who we are..Amen..He loves our personality..He loves our feisty spirit that some of us have..He loves our cleverness..He loves it all..1 John 4:16..Amen..so when we get to a place in the church as to where we feel were not good enough..or we don’t measure up..than there is a problem..Amen..because God does not bring any of that mess on any of us..Amen..and we are good enough to be in our Fathers house..even if we are a mess..God wants us to be welcomed in His house always..Amen..so to walk in and feel ashamed..or not good enough..than that comes from others..from people..but not ever from Jesus..Amen!”

“For you see when God changes us He does it carefully..2 Corinthians 3:18..Amen..He does it with much grace and love..He doesn’t make us feel bad about us..He doesn’t condemn us..He doesn’t make us feel we don’t measure up to meet His standards..because let us not forget John the Baptist..or the women at the well..or that grand ole tax collector..Amen..because God changed them..but He did it gracefully..so if today you have been hurt from others and their so called opinions of you and your relationship with Jesus..than please by all means find you a place and find your spot with Christ..because the Lord loves you..and He has a plan for you..regardless of what any one else may think or feel..this life and this journey is between you and Him..Praise the Lord..so listen to our Fathers voice..listen to His comforting words that He speaks over you..Proverbs 18:21/John 6:63-70..and than follow that voice..John 10:27-28..follow His leading..and follow His direction..because He leads to victory in our lives..never death..never loss..but complete victory and freedom..so shake off all the other voices that have been trying to speak into your life..and be still and listen to our heavenly Father speaking over you today..for what a voice it is..and what a comfort it is to know Him..and only Him alone..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