“So I heard this pastor say once..that if the gospel isn’t really changing your life..then the gospel truly hasn’t entered your life..Amen..and thats the truth..Praise the Lord..because yes we are not perfect by no means..Amen..but I do know that the gospel when we truly give ourselves over to the Lord and we give our lives to Him and Him completely..then it does change us..Amen..and that change will be evident in our lives..in our homes..in our workplaces..in the way we carry ourselves..the way we present ourselves..everything we do different..Amen..not because of anything that any of us has done..but its all about what God has done for us..in the fact of sending His only Son Jesus..John 3:16..to come and walk this earth for 33 years and to go to the cross of calvary for whosoever will..Romans 10:13-15..for He was born for that mere purpose and that was for us..Amen..for me and for you..Praise the Lord..and that we could be free..Amen..free and washed in His precious blood that He so freely shed for us that we could have eternal life with Him..Amen..for when we accept the Lord Jesus into our hearts then He fills us and to the overflow with Him..and all of Him..Amen..we at that moment get washed and clean..Amen..He takes us and conforms us and changes us and washes over us..and He fills us up with the Holy ghost which is our comforter..in which case He says that it was expedient that He went so that the comforter would come down and dwell within us..Amen..for He teaches us all things..all we have to do is ask..John 16:7-16..Amen!”

“So in that case..yes again we change..Amen..we do change because the Lord is living inside of us..Amen..and He is with us..helping us along the way..and when we are choosing to hear and listen to the voice of the Lord..our lives change..and change for the better..because God will become our best friend in life..we can trust Him with everything..for He is the best listener..He is the best at everything..Amen..for He alone is our everything..and we live to please the Lord..to be more like Him..I mean we will never measure up to the Lord..but we do our best..Amen..and daily so..for you know were not perfect we will fail and fall..but I think in the failure and the falling it keeps us grounded to the Lord..we don’t get haughty so to speak or high minded within ourselves..but we stay humbled because we truly know that without the Lord we can do nothing..John 15:5-7..Amen..so again when the gospel hits your life..and when you give yourself over to the Lord..you will change..you change little by little..we don’t just willfully sin..because we are choosing to follow..listen and obey the Lord..Amen..because we love Him so..and ever so much at that..and we understand that this life isn’t anything to do with you and I..but everything to do with Him..Amen!”

“For the pastor preached yesterday out of the book of James..we are going through a series in that book..but he says three questions you can ask yourself personally..the first was is my faith helping me control my tongue?..the second was is my faith helping me care about others?..and the third question was is my faith helping me to say no to sin?..James 1:26-27..Amen..and then he says you all take a moment and answer them within yourself..and he says we all have failed that test I am sure in one way or another..because we are not perfect..but the thing is this we all should strive to be..Amen..for the bible says that we are to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect..Matthew 5:48..Amen..so we don’t just willfully sin and do things that we know the Lord is not approving of..Amen..but we strive to be better and do better and live better..all the while pleasing that audience of one which is Christ Jesus our Lord..Amen..so today let us look within us..Amen..not others..but us..quit comparing you and your life to someone else all the while trying to justify your actions and your ways..in other words I don’t do what they do so I am doing okay..Amen..see thats not what we do..we do what God wants from us..and we measure ourselves within ourselves..we compare ourselves to ourselves..and we ask those hard questions..Amen..how am I doing?..how am I growing?..Amen..so again its between you and Jesus..and daily we work it out with Him..Amen..pleasing Him and only Him with every step that we take..and being the best we can be for Him and Him alone..Amen..shining and sharing the gospel for whosever will..being the change that we wanna see in this world in which we live..making a difference where we are at in our lives..and around the ones that we are with..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 ❤