“For me to live is to die..Philippians 1:21..Amen..isn’t that the silliest thing you’ve ever heard?..for in our natural minds we think to ourselves how can we live if we die?..Amen..but the Lord in His wisdom is speaking in turn of dying to self..dying to sin..and dying to anything and everything that would keep us or hold us back from living up to our full potential in Him and His will and His plan for our lives..Amen..I have heard it said like this..as long as there is seed time and harvest time than we ourselves will daily indeed die to self..Amen..that we have to keep taking ourselves and laying ourselves before the Lord to be alive in Him..because we are easily persuaded at times to live just however and do whatever type of people..because we’re sinful and we are born into a sin filled world..and no that wasn’t anything to do with Christ..but that goes all the way back to the garden where Adam and Eve disobeyed God..Genesis 3:7-13..and His will and His plan for their lives so in turn mankind suffers the consequences for their actions..and has now for years upon years..Amen..for the word says that whosoever will save his life shall lose it..Amen..but whosever shall lose his life for the Lord’s sake shall find it..Matthew 16:25..Amen..for any kind of dying is not a pretty picture and is not an easy one..Amen!”

“For when we grow closer to the Lord and we become more spirit filled..then we as well change from glory to glory to be more like Him..and live out our days doing His plan for our lives..Amen..again the Lord knows what beauty lies inside of each of us..Amen..He knows every seed that He has ever created in life..Amen..He knows what will come from each and every one..and the same with us when we die to ourselves..and we live in the Lord..we bloom and we will blossom into what He has designed and made for us to be..Amen..so only we ourselves get to choose to die to our natural nature and choose to do and be all that God intended for us to be for Him..but it does take that spirit filled man to be filled up with more of the Lord and less of the world to make it happen..so I pray this morning that a stirring stirs in each of us..that the Holy spirit would move over us and change us to be more like Jesus and less like us..Amen..to follow through and finish out the race that has been placed before us..Amen..so we live well and we will die well..and we do it all for God and His Kingdom and His glory..Amen..for He alone deserves it all..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 ❤️