“With everything that has taken place last few years..I feel like people and their lives have been totally shaken up..we pretty much have had a rude awakening..Amen..it was as if everything we did and everything we knew changed and changed drastically..Amen..we had to rethink the way we did our lives..we had to adjust to work..to some losing jobs..to some the drastic change of online church..which I must say was great for the most part..but it is not the same at all..Amen..we had to stay home..be quarantined..for some they lost loved ones..Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings were at a stand still for so many..for they did not want to get loved ones sick..or take a chance on getting them sick..one of my dearest friends had a precious baby boy..and I hadn’t even gotten to hold him or even see him..so parenting for most had been unlike anything that we’ve ever experienced..Amen..stores closed down..big and major company’s had to close their doors..going to the store ended up to being curbside pickup..grocery shopping ended up being through delivery service..and as far as touching..or hugging..or even speaking to someone without having a mask on your face seemed like the most weirdest thing ever..somehow we felt as if we were doing something wrong..and somehow we thought that we were being exposed without that mask on..Amen..but it had and even now as taken a toll on lives..and whether we slow down long enough to see it or even realize it..somehow this morning I just feel that we should take time and pay attention to what truly is taking place..Amen..at how everything is changing and changing drastically..Amen..I think we all need a revival in our lives..we all need sustaining strength to endure these hardships that we have faced and are facing and dealing with..because I honestly don’t think that people have handled any of this very well..the drastic and much rude awakening that we has been handed..Amen!”

“But you know God doesn’t cause any bad to come on us..or does He tempt us the word of God says..James 1:13..but I think He does allow certain things to take place..simply for the fact of showing us who we really are..and what all areas we need to change in and most definitely grow in..because I tell you the things that we thought we would never do again in our lives..for some they’re doing it..Amen..for the I never would act like that mentality..well, for many they have..and they are..Amen..it reminds me of Peter when the Lord Jesus tells Him Peter even you will deny me three times..and Peter says to Jesus I would never deny you Lord..Amen..but Peter did..when the heat in kitchen so to speak got turned up..He denied the Lord..He acted as if he never even knew Him..and what was so sad is the fact that Peter was the one in whom was always there with Jesus and walked with Him..and seen all the miracles and all that He had done..Peter was Jesus’ friend..Amen..but in that moment of despair Peter lost sight and lost hope and he quickly fell apart..and turned his back on the Lord..Luke 22:54-62..Amen..and I wonder just how many of us have done the same?..how many of us have walked away from the Lord when the heat is turned up in our lives?..how many of us get mad and turn away from the Lord?..blaming Him for all of this rude awakening that has taken place these past few years?..because one thing none of us want to do is run away from the Lord or ever deny Him..for Jesus is our everything in life..regardless of any of it..Amen..we have to be strong in the Lord..Ephesians 6:10..we have to be soldiers in Gods army..2 Timothy 2:3..we have to put in place all that we know and all that we have learned..and we have to stand and build as we have our homes on Christ the solid rock..Amen..for the bible says the winds and the waves may come and beat upon our homes..and I am speaking spiritually here..but it says they will not fall..for we have built them on Jesus..Matthew 7:25..Amen..o don’t fall prey to the enemy and his lies that he has been speaking over you and your life..but just know that God our Father is always in control and He is always victorious in every battle and in every storm of life..so know who you are this day..and stay close to the Lord in much prayer, walking and talking with Him as you go through your day..making a difference in the lives of those ones in whom are around you..Amen..for remember just a little light repels away the darkness..Matthew 5:15..and just little grain of a mustard seed is all that it takes to move mountains..Luke 17:6..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 ❤️