“I wonder how many of us are honestly stuck in being a person in whom someone else spoke that we were..I wonder how many of us ever really grow into being whom the Lord says that we are..for so many have very low self-esteem..and so many are full of anger all from the life that they’ve been dealt and handed..so many live in fear of not being accepted or appreciated all from failure and defeat that they have dealt with from so many times of trying only to get knocked down and or to fall..so for some they’ve lost heart..and for some they maybe have given up and forget all about who they wanted to be while they were growing up..or what they wanted to try and accomplish or even do for the Lord our God..for life is not always what it’s cracked up to be so to speak..and it’s something at how we come into this world as little tiny babies..and we laugh over the slightest of things..we come into this world free..we come not hating..or having any form of anger or bitterness..we’re just completely full and ever so full of love..God’s love..but as the days move forward and life begins to happen..we get so many things thrown our way..we get hurt..we get disappointed..we get badly spoken too..we go through so many heartaches..friends that promised never to leave us are now gone..relationships end..marriages fail..and as I said life happens..and we lose somewhere in the midst of it all we lose that person in whom we were when we first started out..somehow we grow bitter and cold..somehow the joy fades away..and somehow that once happy filled soul has now been crushed by life..and all that has taken place to us and our world in which we live..and for some they walk away from the Lord in the middle of it all..and for some they look everywhere else other than where they should be looking for the healing and freedom that their needing for their souls and for their minds..Amen!”

“But my point of it all this morning is simply this..that God loves you and that God loves me..and that this life is not always a pretty picture and that life happens..and sometimes it is way unfair..but you see we can’t change what others do..or what happens around us..but we can respond and choose to respond differently..for you see God sets us free from everything..and the word of God says that whom the Son sets free is truly free indeed..John 8:36..Amen..and that we as His children have got to know that we’re covered by the Lord and His precious blood that He shed on Calvary for whosever will..Amen..for we have got to stay close to the Lord in this thing that we all call life..we have got to pray and seek the Lord’s face continually..for the word of God says that the enemy as of a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour..1 Peter 5:8..but as well the Lord says that when the enemy would come in like a flood that He would raise up a standard against him..Isaiah 59:19..Amen..so for us to thrive and for us to live free in this life that the Lord has given and died that we could be living free in…then we have got to be obedient unto His word..we have got to stay faithful and filled with His power and His presence of the holy ghost of God in our lives..we have got to be wise..and we have got to help ourselves by helping ourselves..knowing that we can separate ourselves from bad people..and from the strife that others may try and bring..we have to help ourselves by choosing good things in life..knowing that with every decision there will be a consequence for our actions..for sometimes bad things happen that we can’t prevent from happening..but certain things we can prevent..Amen..and we should prevent..by being wiser and growing and learning from the mistakes and from the failures..for you see the word says a righteous man may fall seven times..but that he will rise up again..Proverbs 24:16..so know that you may feel that you are knocked down in your life right now..and everything is happening and everything is taking place..but I have come to encourage someone here this very night..that yes you may be knocked down for but a moment..but let me remind you that you are not knocked out..Amen..for you see you may be in a season that isn’t all fun and games..but know that you will get through this season..and you will come forth like pure gold once you have been tried by that fire..Job 23:10..for in God’s word it says..”To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven..Ecclesiastes 3:1..so my prayer is that you live in your season..that you grow in your season..and that you learn while you’re there in your season..knowing that God is in control..and that God our Father always works all things together for your good..Romans 8:28..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 ❤️