“So last night Erik and I had dinner with one of his good friends..and we all were talking about our lives and our faith in Christ..and pretty much telling our stories to one another about how we met our spouses and how God was in every detail of them..Amen..but our biggest conversation fell on the subject of knowing who you are in Christ..Amen..finding your place in the Lord..and knowing that God loves you..and that it is truly a personal walk of faith..Amen..we get to the place as to where you are content in your walk and in your life..without asking of others always their opinion..Amen..because what we all pretty much found out in our lives and in our walks of faith while growing to know the Lord..stepping up to be more mature..is that people can hurt you while starting out and people can lead you astray from really knowing this Jesus that we gave our hearts too..Amen..because babes in Christ..1 Peter 2:2..Amen..we are tiny and we are that way when we begin..so we all do seek out counsel from others who have been with the Lord for a while..but even with that sometimes they say things and put so much on you that you feel within yourself that you must work for the Lord..that you have to let go of everything to even walk in the church house..sometimes you feel within yourself that you are not good enough and you don’t measure up so you never do accept what God did for you..Amen..and so you just stay away because you are not being taught correctly or right..Amen..so we continued on with our stories of faith..and our testimonies about growing up and walking with the Lord and at how so many along the way truly did say and do things that were not at all correct when you finally get to a place to having more maturity and your eyes are opened to the Lord and His grace and His love and His acceptance of you for who you are..Amen!”

“So we pretty much was saying that our lives and the things that happen even now were happening in the bible years ago..Amen..that all of those false prophets and all of those pharisees..Matthew 24:11..and they are here today with us..and they are still doing the same things..Amen..and for some they don’t really recognize or even know that they are..so they live their lives in the balance of all the way of being lawful and totally living under legalism..or on the other hand you have some who fall way over on the other side of do whatever,,live however and all is well..but both of those ways are not the right ways..because this is the key for us all..and that is we must find and have common ground with the Lord..we have to be in the middle of it all..and we have got to know the Lord..instead of always hearing people..and their opinions..we must seek God and His face..for if He is our Father and He does speak to us..He does lead us..and He does correct and love on us..He alone changes us into what He desires for us to be..Amen..so if we look to Him..and our hearts doesn’t condemn us and we lay our heads down at night in peace to sleep..then we are well in the Lord..Amen..we can’t get so far fetched as to the place as we are more so trying to find approval or acceptance from people..because you see people pleasing and hearing wrongly leads us down a road of confusion and then we never know who we are..but when you understand your heart and your relationship with the Lord..then that is the freeing most glorious blessing in life..because confidence in who you are as being a child of God is the best place to live..for without it you are always working..trying..seeking something that never needed to be sought out because He our Lord is with us..Amen..He says call to me and I will answer you..and I will show you great and mighty things that you know not..Jeremiah 33:3..Amen..because grace is ours..and law is no freedom..and God has gives us the freedom when we accepted Him at that moment He came into our hearts and He began at that moment teaching us and loving on us like no one else ever can..but today if you are bound by not knowing and trying so hard to win some approval from the Lord..or feel that you have got to do and do just to be with Him..then I do pray that you find rest in the Lord..that you step away from negative people that is speaking things and saying wrong things over you and your life..because iron sharpens iron and another mans friend sharpens his countanance..Proverbs 27:17..Amen..so I pray that you know this day that you are forgiven that you are loved and that you my friend find your common ground with the Lord Jesus..walking and living in His amazing grace and loving and living as you go along loving and living this beautiful life well and completely free in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ..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 ❤