“I keep thinking about just being truly the best person for the Lord that we can be..Amen..I keep thinking only imagine if we didn’t let ourselves be some cheap version of who we are supposed to be for the Lord..I keep thinking Christ what if we truly lived for you?..in everything..Praise the Lord..other than using Gods grace as some crutch..Amen..this morning we were speaking in bible fellowship class about why we end up not giving it our best when it comes to serving Christ..and I speak up and say well because we don’t get corrected in our sin..we get by with stuff..well not really we don’t because even if no one else knows our so called cheap version of ourselves that we are at times..Jesus knows..Amen..but for us we just let life sometimes take over who we are..what we stand for..what we believe in..and as I say we let ourselves step away from excellence in the Lord to step over into some mess that we never should be stepping over into..Amen..and as I say in the midst of all of that..we never stay the course of what we should be doing..or where we should be..because we keep compromising who we are..and we end up in this cheap version of the person that God our Father created us to be for Him and His glory..Amen!”

“So how do we get away from that?..well we do it by being steadfast in who we are..1 Corinthians 15:58..and always who we are before the Lord..Amen..we do this by staying inside the gates of the Lord..we do this by getting involved in church..in ministry..in something that we have been gifted with..Amen..and we use that gift..we use our abilities..we use our love for Jesus..to be excellent for Him..being salt and light in this world..Matthew 5:13-16..denying and truly denying ourselves..which is so hard at times..to place that ole sinful self away from us..Amen..because we are always in a war with ourselves..Amen..always the enemy is trying to grab our attention to make us think that this doesn’t matter..or that doesn’t matter..or we can go there..we can do this or that..or whatever the case..Amen..and then it is in those moments where we are to rise up and choose the right way..the right thing..Amen..because it’s easy to live however..and do whatever..but if we are serving the Lord..I do pray we don’t live that way..because you know we may fool others..but we never fool Jesus..Amen..and He is the one who matters..He is the one in whom we should be living our lives for..pleasing Him..and walking with Him..because a cheap version of the real thing is always just that and that..it’s cheap..Amen.,and when something usually is cheap well what happens?..usually it breaks..or it falls apart and completely unravels..Amen..but I do hope that as far as you and I..that we live wholeheartedly before the Lord in the man and woman that the Lord desires that we be for Him..not just a compromise..not just a whatever attitude..but a true blue fervent fear of the Lord..Proverbs 9:10..knowing that He sees us and He knows us..and what He knows is the most important..Amen..so let us rise up and be them great and mighty warriors for Christ..living always to please that audience of one which is Jesus Christ our Lord..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi