“I think we all dredge through much in our beginnings with the Lord..we all have so much that needs to be changed in our lives..in our thinking..in the way we live..in it all..and it is a journey and it is a process..Amen..and we do we make it..with the help of the Lord..and His people..for there is strength in numbers..Amen..and we are to encourage and pray for one another..James 5:16..Amen..but this morning I came to talk about us as individuals..Amen..for somehow we fall away little by little..with the things that we use to do..to the things that we do even now..we get tired..or we grow used to those things so we let them fall away..or we just think well this is the season that I am in..Amen..but truthfully..I think we all get to a place to where we just take the Lord for granted in our lives..we just live under the grace statue so to speak..all the while sinning and living as if it’s okay..we can do whatever we wanna do..for nothing can separate us from the Lord..right?..all the while doing as the world does..living as the world does..walking where the world walks..and dimming the light that Jesus put down in us..and personally us..Amen..for He hand picked us for such a a time as this..Amen..so I just want us all to be real honest with who we are..for the word says that we are to examine ourselves..Amen..for it says don’t we know our ownselves?..2 Corinthians 13:5..Amen..for we do..we know us better than anyone else..only God knows us as we know ourselves..Amen..and that as well should make us question ourselves..Amen..for we can’t hide from God..we can’t be this fake person with God..for He knows it all..He knows us..Amen!”

“And when we all do take the time to be still before the Lord and truly examine ourselves..and our lives that we are living..can we truly say that we are living them in the faith?..that we are truly doing what God desires from us to be doing?..are we truly pleasing the Lord with our lives?..Amen..because we all sing the songs and maybe even daily..if you can use anything Lord you can use me..Amen..I surrender all..right?..and all the while we don’t really mean it..because we don’t step up into it..Amen..for faith without works is dead..Amen..and where is the fire that we once had?..Amen..where is that holy ghost dance and fire that once stirred tremendously way down deep in our hearts and in our lives?..Amen..for I hope we know that who we are and what we do daily matters..and it matters to the Lord..and it matters what we are choosing..and I pray that we are serious in our walk..I pray we do have conviction over the things that we are doing..and the things that we are saying..I do pray that we are NOT straddling the fence line of life..that we are not hot and then cold..Amen..but that we are steadfast..unmoveable..always abounding in the work of the Lord..1 Corinthians 15:58..Amen..because our families need it..our friends need it..our community needs it..our church needs it..our youth needs it..whatever it is this gift that God has given to you..the world around us..needs it..Amen..so let us get real with who we are..and let us be honest with ourselves..and let us examine ourselves before the Lord..and ask Him for forgiveness..and ask Him to give us strength and help as we move forward choosing better and living better..and doing better for Him..and only Him..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 ❤️