“So I remember this young lady saying to me, Have you met you?..and well really I have never heard that before..not actually worded that way..I thought well if I met myself and all that I am would I want to be my friend?..would I like to be around me?..well I mean if I were to met me while out and about..maybe at work, church, the grocery store..running errands and what not would I like and choose to be my friend?..for she said well..everyone loves you, Mandi..and of course I smiled at her and said well not everyone..Amen..but I went on to explain that even our Lord was not loved by all..and that even our Lord was persecuted, rejected and despised by so many..Isaiah 53:3..but we all know this..and that even our Lord tells us in His word that it’s not that this world is hating on us..but it’s because the gospel of Jesus Christ..John 15:8..for you see others don’t like truth..and many despise the truth for the scripture says that light came into the world and that men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil..John 3:19..Amen..for you see I say all to many times that it’s not so much as to what others see or even think of me..but it’s all about what my Lord knows and sees of me..Amen..for we all can walk the walk so to speak and even talk the talk..but when it comes down to it..who we really are is who we really are..we can dress it up and we can make it up..but honestly we know who we are..and no one needs to tell us about us..whether our deeds are good or rather there bad..we know..Amen..and the Lord of course know us all to well..He knows our thoughts..for the scripture says that before a word is on our tongue the Lord already knows..Psalm 139:4..Amen!”

“But really where I’m going with this all be the person in whom you would like to be friends with..be the person that you’re wanting others to be towards you..for you see we all want others to go that extra mile..but when it comes to giving our best..and when it comes to us being better and choosing to be kind..caring and ever so nice..for some they wait on others to do it first..for some they say well if they don’t than I’m not..Amen..but really it’s being whom God wants for us to be..it’s being so full of the Lords grace, mercy and love..and knowing that we deny ourselves totally and completely and that we do pick up our crosses and follow Jesus..Matthew 16:24/Luke 9:23..Amen..for the Lord needs us to be the best us that we can be..but when we choose rather to remain..and not grow and not learn and not go above and beyond..were choosing to be who we want to be..other than living and being like our Lord Jesus desires for us to be..for you see Jesus our Lord turned the other cheek..Matthew 5:38-40..He came to serve and not be served..Matthew 20:28/Mark 10:45..He came to give us all a life and a life of abundance..John 10:10..but know this that our choices and our decisions in life will choose to see rather we live that abundant life or not..for the word says to keep casting our bread upon the water and that we would find it many days thereafter..Ecclesiastes 11:1..for once again be that person that you’re wanting others to be..shine the light of the Lord to all and to every place it is that you go..living this thing we call life for Him and Him alone..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 ❤