Good Morning Peeps! How are you doing this Friday morning, good I hope? Are you having a good work week so far, I sure hope so? Have a good and very Blessed Friday and weekend too! - May God Bless You and Yours In 2018 and Beyond!!! - “Are YOU 100% sure, that you are Saved and headed to Heaven when you die? Are you sure YOUR name IS written in the Heavenly “Book of Life?” Is there absolutely not a shadow of a doubt in your mind, that your Salvation is already secured and you’re just waiting on the good Lord to call you home to be with Him? If the answer is “No, Not Sure, I Think So, Maybe, or Probably, then you need to get busy right now working on fixing that. You need to be totally sure where your Soul will spend eternity!” And AMEN goes right here….
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“This is the day that the Lord has made! I will rejoice and be glad in it!”
The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “When God isn’t Enough…”
Could it ever get so bad in our lives, that even God isn’t enough in OUR minds? I think so, and after talking to multiple people here lately, who feel they are out of options, at the end of their rope, on the brink of giving up, and or have just written themselves off as not being worthy of anything good or positive happening in their lives, I believe it happens a lot more often than the majority of people in this world thinks. It is with this train of thought, or line of thinking, that it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about, “When God Isn’t Enough” and AMEN goes right here! And to be clear on MY stance on this, #1. There is NEVER any problem or situation too hard for God to resolve! #2. That I personally don’t think people who are feeling this way are mentally or emotionally unstable, weak nor less than a normal human being or even less than a good Christian for having these moments of Spiritual uncertainty. And I can especially say, that for the one’s I referenced in the start of this paragraph, because they carry on their day to day lives everyday, putting on a shallow smile for the whole world to see when they are undoubtedly flooding with tears on the inside. It takes a very strong person to be able to put on that facade for everyone else all day everyday, while they are in the public eye. Only to break down, or erupt into tears once they get home where they don’t have to be concerned about what people might think, or say if they lost control of their emotions in public. From the outside looking in, it is very easy for the outside world to say “oh it’s not that serious, and or to say to that person that they need to just “suck it up”, not knowing the severity of the damage done, especially if it has been over a period of time…
For someone, especially a Christian Believer, to reach the point of thinking or feeling that their situation is so hopeless that even God can’t make a difference in it, that tells me that they have endured something so physically, mentally, or emotionally devastating, that normal methods of rationale have been tossed out of the window. And don’t for one minute assume that you are the only one who has ever felt this way or been in this position, that would be a very naive assumption, because the Bible is full of people who dealt with and overcame overwhelming odds to find their Peace in life. Ironically, the one thing that they all had in common, is that they finally turned their problem, or situation over to God, entrusting Him to do what no one else could do, not even their mother, their father, sister, brother, grandparents, their best friend, or homie, their school or professional counselor, and yes not even their Church Pastor! Think about this, the woman at the well with the issue of blood for 12 long years, you don’t think after dealing with that blood issue for 12 years, that she wasn’t ready to throw in the towel? What about the blind man? Or what about the lepers? And then you have the Israelites, they were in slavery for 400 years! That is generations of their family members who were born into and then died into slavery, some never getting to experience or see freedom. THEN, once they were freed from that bondage, they spent 40 more years wandering around in the wilderness, all because they looked away from God for too long. Now I’m not trying to imply that YOUR situation is not as important as these above, just because they are noted in the Bible. I am however, just trying to tie the pieces of the puzzle together, that if they could endure what they endured, that just maybe we need to take a page out of their book as to how they overcame their situations! As I said earlier, they all had one teeny, weenie little factor, that is actually NOT so teeny, weenie in any aspect, in common…….GOD!!!
Now watch here how God works, you see, God isn’t going to come find you and force you to submit to Him! No, no, no, that’s not how He works. Oh He very well could do that if He wanted to and very easily. Remember, He created the Heavens and the Earth and everything in them in just 6 days, and still had time to rest on the 7th! Now what did you say your problem or situation was again??? You really think that your petty little situation, not that I am trying to downplay the severity of it in any way, that you have multiplied in your mind to be so BIG that not even God could resolve it, IN YOUR MIND???? Again, don’t go getting mad at me and thinking that I am making fun of you, or belittling your situation, or implying that it is not important, because I’m not. What I AM doing, is opening your closed Spiritual eyes and mind to see the truth that you have been led to believe is not real or actual by your doubts. You see, when we are at our most vulnerable state in life, namely going thru sometype of “storm(s)”, Satan sees that opportunity he needs to plant that seed of doubt in our minds, that just maybe, God doesn’t exist. OR, that He has forgotten about YOU. OR, that you have done something to fall out of good graces with Him. ALL LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES!!!! If you read your Bibles regularly, then you know that the only way Satan can be successful in wreaking havoc in your life, is IF he is invited in there, by yep you guessed it YOU! Now I know that some of you are looking at me a little (or maybe even A LOT) cross-eyed right about now, or as my grandfather used to say, “Like a mule about to kick” LOL! But it is very true, when Satan shows up at our doorstep to like a FedEx, Ups, or US Mail delivery person delivering a “custom designed storm” specially designed for you, just like with the others I listed, it is because YOU ordered it. Now calm down folks, I’m getting there, let me explain that statement! You see, when you put out half the effort in serving God than you know you should be putting out………not reading your Bible as often as you should, not following God’s Commandments like you should, you get where I’m going with this??? Then you are basically leaving your “Spiritual door” WIDE open for Satan to come in and make himself at home in your life. Now don’t mistake what I’m saying, God didn’t promise Christians that they would live a life of luxury, free from pain, sorrow, death, heartache, disappointments, etc….What He promised us, is that He would be right there EVERY step of the way for us to lean on Him and to give us the strength to endure those “storms” that come to test our Faith in Him. Come one people, THINK, THINK, THINK!!!! God even gave us the power in our tongues to make Satan flee ourselves! “Get Thee Behind Me Satan, In The MIGHTY Name of Jesus Christ My Lord and Savior!!!” Satan was DEFEATED on the Cross by Jesus Christ when He died for all of our sins. I could even back up way before that and tell you that Satan was also defeated in Heaven when he rebelled against God. Satan although still very much involved in the chaos we see in the world we live in today, is NOT in control. Now, if you are going to say those words, you have to say them with meaning so that Satan knows you mean business! Problem is, how many of you reading this has ever tried sincerely using them? The Bible says, “you have not because you ask not” and that means you aren’t going to receive God Blessings unless you ask for them and more importantly BELIEVE that you will receive them according to God’s Will! Can I leave you with a question to ponder today like I always like to do????
“Now tell me again how unsolvable, your problems are or how hopeless your situation is, or that your situation is too “complicated or difficult” for God to fix”????
Can I get an Amen???
“Today, choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ! Afterall, isn’t that EXACTLY what HE did for US on the Cross?”
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