Regrets. What are they? And are they helpful or do they hold us captive? We can remember back in our lives when we’ve made poor decisions and had terrible outcomes. We can remain stuck in those memories or we can move on and be free from them.
I think back to my high school years in choir. For reasons I dont know, I seem to have this reoccurring dream of my teacher in that class. I dream that I shared Christ with him and he accepted Jesus. That teacher passed away relatively young. And I have regrets that I did not live in alignment with God to show this man Christ. I won’t know until eternity whether he made it to Heaven or not.
I see on my Facebook feed pictures posted by the mom, in the car accident we were in, of the baby stillborn after 8 month’s in his mothers womb and it still gets me to this day. And that baby’s in heaven but it still hurts his mom after nearly twenty years has gone by. Deep down I can feel that pain. Ya I have regrets. Do you?
I don’t know what regrets you have also, but a good question to ask is what do we do with them? Do we live with memories of choices that sting us or others for our entire lives? Ya I think there’s a part of us that should remember, so we never go back to where we’ve been delivered from. But I think that we need to allow the God of Heaven to heal us so we don’t lug around burdens we were never meant to carry. Because all of our sin was paid for on the cross that Jesus carried for us (John 3.16) We are told in the Bible to, “Cast our cares upon Him because He cares for us” (1 Peter 5.7). These cares can be something that hold us back from receiving truth from the Lord that will free us. In Luke 8.14 Jesus talks about seed that is sown among thorns but because of the cares of this world it will not go deep and produce what it was sent to. Jesus told us in Luke 21.34 that we’re to keep our guard up because our cares can keep us cloudy and unable to receive truth.
So I just want you to consider where you’re at this moment as far as regrets are concerned? Have you given them to Christ or are you burdened by them? Do you know Jesus personally to be able to cast your cares upon Him? For the Bible says,

“Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you–and even more” (Mark 4.24).

So what you’re thinking about you will be. Don’t live in regret. Move forward into what Christ died for you to have; freedom. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom” (2 Cor 3.17).
If you dont know Him personally just ask Him to forgive you of your failures and to come live in your heart (Roman’s 3.23, 6.23, 5.8, 10.9, 10 ). Receive that free gift He offers of eternal life with Him. Ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit to fill you (Acts 2.38). Walk out of the bondage of regret and into the new life Christ died for you to have (2 Cor 5.17).

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Using my time to study God’s Word, I’ve seen something new in a passage that I’ve read and used many times over the years when sharing my testimony. Its taken from 2 Samuel 22. This Old Testament passage refers to God rescuing David from his enemies. Verse 13 says, ‘From the radiance of the Lord’s presence a FIRE was kindled.’ Blueletterbible lists dictionaries referencing what FIRE is here. In The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia FIRE is THE BAPTISM OF FIRE.
This leads to the verse Matthew 3:11, which says,

I indeed baptize you with water. unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire…

The copulative kai requires that the baptism “in the Holy Ghost and in fire,” should be regarded as one and the same thing… The statement, therefore, in this verse indicates the manner in which Christ will admit them to discipleship and prepare them for His service.
(Blueletterbible.org)

So how have you prepared for ministry in your life? In our lives are we standing close enough to the Lord to experience His radiant presence to ignite a fire within our hearts that explodes into people’s lives all around us? In big or small instances that come our way, it doesn’t matter. We need ‘to be ready to give an answer for the hope we have in Christ Jesus’ (1 Peter 3.15) Is it by your power or by His?

The Bible says to ‘Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness.’ (Matt 6.33) ***Challenge yourself this day is to get into His Word. Let it explode into your life so you can pour out on others.

“They looked at Him and were radiant; their faces shall never blush for shame or be confused.” Psalm 34.5

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This morning I woke up thinking about a ministry that I had been involved in in the past. How I had an experience with this ministry to lead a Bible study group for ladies, where no Bible study was even offered anywhere within this ministry. This was something I had to fight with a Pastor about to do. I had really sensed that God wanted me to write these lessons on a regular basis, listening to Him weekly for those lessons. I had to fight to even write them. Even though I had shown myself, in times passed, as being a dependable person in the ministry, for a lot of years. I even had the opportunity to share my story with all the churches, a part of my church, on a Sunday morning a few years earlier. They knew I was legit. They had heard the story of freedom and yet they trusted in themselves more then in asking for God’s leading.

I had experienced in other ministries within this church how shallow their teachings were. And I believed that the Lord prompted me to write these lessons for addicts, based upon my own experience from breaking free from years of bondage under Satan. How wrong it is for the church to believe that they are strong enough with their own head knowledge to fight the battles of addiction. This battle is only something that can be broken by the Holy Spirit. And I had experienced this myself in my own life. Over my time serving in this huge ministry I had seen many lose this battle, dying, even after being involved in this church. To this day I pray for the Lord to conquer this spirit of pride that led this ministry at one time. I don’t know what they do or don’t do but I do pray that if they haven’t changed their ways that God would take this ministry away from them and plant these people somewhere they will find freedom in Christ. Not only for the church’s discipline sake but for the sake of these people’s lives they’re trusted with.

Oh how quickly we forget what the Word says:

“My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness.” (2 Cor 12.9)

“LET LOVE for your fellow believers continue and be a fixed practice with you [never let it fail]. Remember those who are in prison as if you were their fellow prisoner, and those who are ill treated, since you also are liable to bodily sufferings.” (Heb 13.1, 3)

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Last night I had a dream I can recall this morning. I was walking around using Jesus’ name to see works done by His power. Everywhere I saw need, to whomever was struggling, I declared things to be done in Jesus’ name and they were completed. This morning reading John 15 in my Bible are highlighted verses that say just that. If I live [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and and it shall be done for you… I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you] that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing,that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain and abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you (John 15.7,16).

Digging deeper into the text I see when the author John wrote these verses he was stating that we could use Jesus’ name to command things to be done but not in casual sense. At times it’s as if we’re coming to God begging Him, to do only what He can do. That means we’re coming to Him with everything we’ve got in us. He’s our only hope. God knows our hearts.

What about you? Is your heart divided? I know mine can be sometimes. Give God your all and see what happens.

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I was interviewed by the Associate Pastor of our church. He has a daily show called KDS INSPIRE. Check this out. Sharing a bit of my testimony and just great conversation.

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New day. New year. New season. I’m proclaiming this over myself and MY life. Goodbye spirit of death. Get off of me right now in Jesus name. I invite the SPIRIT OF LIFE to flow over me and through my blood, in my brain, throughout all the organs in my body in Jesus name. I am healed in JESUS name. No more. No more will I just deal with the infirmity that has been over my body going on now 19 years. No More!! I am proclaiming the WORD of God over myself daily. I am FREE from the power of sin and death. I am FREE from satan’s grasp. “I AM MORE THAN A CONQUEROR THROUGH CHRIST” (Rom 8.37) “If God is for us who can be against us?” (Rom 8.31) The WORD is true. 2 Cor 2.12-13 says, “We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing Spiritual truths in Spiritual words”. Fill my mind with thoughts that are “…are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.” (Phil 4.8) I am expecting return on HIS WORD. He does not lie. His Word does not return void (Is 55.11)

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You know growing up you dont really understand the brevity of life. I know I certainly didn’t. I had a best friend in High School until probably my senior year thst was my bud. We’d met in choir freshman year and both moved up in choir basically together. She was smarter than me though. I can still remember her yelling at me for getting grounded again for something stupid and foolish I had done at home. I was sad that we’d ended HS on such a bad note. She wanted nothing to do with me. When Christ changed my heart after the car accident I had in between my 11th and 12th grade year, my whole viewpoint of life changed. She was very much against God. Who knew that years later, in her early 30’s she would’ve passed away? I still to this day wonder if she’d died knowing Christ or not? I was a bad representative of Him in HS. I could’ve had an impact for Him with my friends if I would’ve known Him intimately.

Life is so brief. Dont waste it with having to be right about everything. It’s not about the size of your IRA or about what you have or dont have. Use your time to love others into the Kingdom. Take chances. Share Christ with people because you just dont know when a friend or family member will depart from this world. You want to make sure they know thier eternal life is spent on the right side. Point those you have contact with to Him. Because once this life is over thats it. And when it all boils down to it that’s all that really matters.

It starts with your inner man. What are you feeding yourself? And where is it gonna lead you to? Do you have enough of Him to share? And is He truly reigning to make a difference to those around you?

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When reading Isaiah 5 recently, verse 4 popped out at me. It says:

What more could I have done for my vineyard that I have not already done?
When I expected sweet grapes,
why did my vineyard give me bitter grapes?

In this verse what do you think Isaiah was saying when he said he’d reaped wild grapes instead of sweet grapes?Was he possibly relaying what was happening around him? We all are planting things in our lives; some good and some bad. Are we planting what we actually want to see grow up in our lives? The Bible says that we’re gonna reap what we sow (Gal 6.7). Isaiah said in his vineyard he’d expected clusters of grapes to come forth but instead he’d reaped wild grapes. In the Strong’s Concordance it actually means the vineyard produced poison berries, stinking or worthless things, stinkberries. In a real life sense these wild grapes could be compared to hypocritical performances put on by religious folk. These people look like Christians on the outside, doing Christian-like things such as serving, or they may talk the Christian lingo but on the inside they’re sour or bitter. They’re so far from pleasing God that its provoking to Him. You could say their counterfeit graces are wild grapes.

It should make us consider as we read if we’re reaping good fruits in our lives or not. Do you remember the things that God teaches you? The Bible says that even the little things He reveals to us will be taken from us if we’re not wise with them (Matt 25.29). If we don’t have good soil in our hearts to plant truths into, then we’re not going to produce good fruits in our lives. The Lord expects return on the investments that He makes in us.

What are you doing with what He’s revealed to you in your quiet time? Do you have consistent quiet time with Him? If so, are you being a good steward of the truths He speaks to you? Can you be trusted with more because you’ve been faithful with little? This is something I try to ask myself on a regular basis. I think it’s good to question ourselves because when we’re real we can see where the need for change is and improve in those areas. Since we’re open to receiving a ‘rhema’ word as it’s called in the Greek, which is the Word of God spoken directly to us by the Holy Spirit, it helps the work necessary for change to occur in us and we are fruitful.

We all go through seasons in our walks with the Lord. But with change of seasons should bring real change in our lives. What does your inner life look like? How is it different from let’s say a year ago? And is it better or worse? Let’s do as the Word says:
In the morning sow your seed,
And in the evening do not withhold your hand;
For you do not know which will prosper,
Either this or that,
Or whether both alike will be good (Eccl 11.6).

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