“Paul could’ve not written the words any better for us all then that of what he wrote in the book of Philippians..he says this to us..Brethren..I count not myself to have apprehended..in other words made it..in other words that he is already complete..Amen..because he is saying to us I have not apprehended..I have not yet made it..to perfection..perfection in Christ..and who He needs for us to be in Him..Amen..but this one thing he says that I do..forgetting those things which are behind..and reaching forth to those things which are before..Amen..for he says I press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus..Philippians 3:13-14..Amen..and so the same with us..we will beat ourselves up over mistakes that have been made..over things that we have done..Amen..but we are a work in progress..and a daily one at that..if we mess up..we repent..we confess..and we get up and we are to press on..Amen..because if we do not then we will wallow in our past..in our mistakes..in our failures..and the enemy will hold us there in that..never to grow and never to move forward and or to press toward the mark of the high calling of God that He has given to us..Amen!”

“And so this day I ask of us all to simply be easier than what we are on ourselves..Amen..we don’t change over night into perfection..we will never reach that this side of heaven..Amen..but we do press toward that..for we have gotta know who we are in the Lord..Amen..and we have gotta believe what the Lord speaks about us..and what the Lord says about us..Amen..and we gotta know that daily we choose life or death..daily we ourselves choose blessings or cursings..Deuteronomy 30:15-20..Amen..daily we pick up our crosses and we follow Jesus..Luke 9:23..Amen..and we are to love on Him and all of who He is to us and in us..Amen..for we are already equipped with everything we need..but again the process takes time to being renewed..having our minds thinking different then what they always have..having our speech as the bible says seasoned with grace and salt..Colossians 4:6..Amen..speaking well from our lips..all of this takes time..and effort on our parts..so daily when you see growth in you and who you are..then by all means celebrate that because that is a miracle..Amen..and daily there are miracles and change around us all..if only we look to see it..and live to believe it..so again forgetting those things as Paul says..and pressing toward the mark of the high calling of God over us and our lives..that is my prayer and my heart for us all..that we get up and we keep moving..forgetting the past..forgiving ourselves..and moving on..being the best verion of who we are in Christ Jesus that we ourselves can be..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 ❤️