KNOCK KNOCK . . . WHO'S . . .

Good morning, Woman of God.  Today's message is a message that will truly speak to your spirit.  I pray that as you seek God daily, you will receive everything that you ask for and everything that you need for your Spiritual Journey.  I love you with the love of the Lord.

Unclean Spirit:

(Matthew: 12:43-45)

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.  (44) Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.  (45) Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked and himself, and they enter in an dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.  Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

Spirit of the Living God:

(Matthew 7:7-8 . . . New Living Translation)

"Keep on asking and you will receive what you ask for, Keep on seeking and you will find.  Keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you.

I want to explain what the scriptures in (Matt. 12) is saying in a simple way.  When you are delivered from an unclean spirit (demonic spirit), that demonic spirit searching for another place for it to rest and abide. If that demonic spirit cannot find another living body to invade, the demonic spirit will revisit where it originally came from (back to you).  When the demonic spirit sees that you have not been praying, studying, worshiping and praising Jesus Christ (the Living God), that demonic spirit will come back and to ensure that he doesn't get evicted again, that demonic spirit will open the door and invite more friends demonic spirits.  So the state of that woman is worst because there are more demonic spirits.  You kicked the demonic spirit out but you have to keep it out.  How? by seeking the Living God everyday.

Now let's focus on (Matt. 7:7-8) While reading the scriptures, the Holy Spirit pointed out to me the words, keep on: meaning you have to keep on asking the Lord for what you want on a daily basis and while doing that you are inviting Him into your heart and into your day.  Seek ye first . . . and keep on seeking, keep on asking, keep on knocking.  Notice that the scriptures are saying you have to keep on seeking the Lord, keep on asking the Lord, keep on knocking. The scriptures are clear, they don't say seek once or twice, keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking.

Prophesy to yourself: because you answered when (Jesus Christ, the Spirit of the Living God, the Holy Spirit) knocked.  You answer the door and you remind Satan who you are.  "I am a child of the Most High, therefore I have the Spirit of the Living God living on the inside of me.  There's no room for you here, there's nothing that you can do to me without my Father's permission. 

Heavenly Father I praise and thank You that Your Spirit lives and abides on the inside of me.  By Your strength and by Your power I am victorious over the enemy.  Father I thank that You for cleansing me and washing me clean.  I will seek you first every morning and Your Word says everything will be added unto me.  I love you with all of my heart.  Amen. 

STICKS AND STONES

Good morning, Mighty woman of God.  I speak blessings of peace, love and joy upon your life and may you gain wisdom and understanding as you seek after our Lord Jesus Christ.

(John 8:7) But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Sticks and Stones my break my bones, but words will never hurt me.  I remember that saying when I was growing up.  

You know sometimes we think it is a good idea to always say what's on our mind.  We try to justify it by saying, we are trying to help our sister.  And often times we say, "I just have to get this off my chest".  So then are we really saying,

• I don't care anything about your feelings, and I'm going to say how I feel anyway".
• I don't care if your feelings are hurt, but I'm going to say it anyway."
• I don't care if you get more depressed than you already are, I going to get this off my chest".
• I don't care if you start to feel worthless or not, I'm going to say it anyway".
• I don't care if you start to cry once I get this off my chest".
• I'm not judging your situation, but If it were me I would do so and so".
• I'm going to say what is on my heart and I don't care if it wounds yours."

There are so many times that we should seek God's counsel on how to speak to our spouses and friends but we don't ask God.  Sometimes you don't know if what you say to someone will hurt their feelings and sometimes we don't even care.  We just open our mouths and let the hurt out.  Maybe getting something off your chest is not the right thing to do at that moment.  You think that you may be helping your spouse or friend by getting it off your chest.  Maybe you should carry it on your chest a little bit longer until God tells you how to say or do something for that person.  Sometimes getting it off your chest will make someone else's chest hurt.

Sticks and stones may break but bones, but words will never hurt me.  That's just is not true.  Some words hurt people or contribute to their low self-esteem.  Words are powerful.  Rather than building up one another, we flatter, gossip, slander and give them a piece of our minds.  As James says, "with our tongue, "we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.  From the same mouth come blessings and curses".  This should not be.  One way we can practice such love is through our words, not only what we say, but what we don't say.  Nevertheless, what comes out of our mouths is not the real problem.  Our fundamental problem isn't a tongue problem, it's a heart problem.  We need to watch our mouth, but more importantly, we need to pray and ask the Lord to guard our hearts from toxic thinking.

Woman of God, it's time for us to stop hurting one another with either our words or our actions.  God expects us to encourage one another and lift up and not tear down one another.  Give this message some thought and maybe you will find that sometimes you need to pause before you play those hurtful words out of your mouth.  PRAISE OUR LORD!

Heavenly Father, I thank You for making me as I am, even my tongue.  Father I am praying that you give me a heart for my sister and therefore when I want to say something, I pray that you will give me discernment.  Discernment as to when and how I should speak to someone.  I am asking you for forgiveness for not watching over the words that I speak.  Thank you Lord Jesus, AMEN.

HOW DID I GET HERE?

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God!

I pray that you have been blessed by "Spiritual Growth for Women Ministry" and the Lord's messages.  I speak peace into your lives and pray that your relationship with the Lord is growing during your spiritual journey.

You were raised in the church.  Your parents went every chance they had the opportunity.  You sang in the choir and went to church revivals.  You have a voice for the Lord and you read your bible faithfully.  You prayed for others and watched as the Lord God did miraculous things in their lives.  The only time you weren't in church was when the doors were locked.  You had a personal relationship with the Lord.  There was no way that you would even think of living your life without His presence.

A woman's downfall always seems to be a man, or significant other.  Satan knows that one by heart.  He doesn't even have to doubt whether or not you will fall when he sends the right person in your direction.  We get blind-sided by love, lust, loneliness, money and other things that will not last in the long run.  You're no longer with the man that used to care about you, when you first met.  Your love for him has not changed but his love for you has turned into emotional and mental abuse.  He moved into your home with you or you and your children and now he just stops by.  You don't know where he is for days, but when he shows up with the perfect story, you are all of a sudden just happy to see him.  You don't want to mention where's he's been and that womans intuition tells you that he is definitely lying about whatever comes out of his mouth.  You don't say anything, in fear that he will leave for a couple of more days again.

He somehow convinces you that you are just a jealous person and are out of your mind.  The truth is, you are out of your mind because you keep going through the same thing over and over again, hoping and hoping that things will change.  Things will not change for him, because he's happy.  Things won't change for you, because you have been blinded by the enemy.  You know it, but fear keeps you in that revolving door cycle; in love, out of love, in love, out of love cycle.

All of a sudden, you realize that you don't even know where your bible is and you don't have one gospel song to listen to.  What happened?  How did I get here?  When did I let go of Jesus?  Will Jesus forgive me and accept me back?

I have asked myself those same questions.  The only answer I could come up with was that Jesus would forgive me and take me back if I ask Him. I have to run and not walk to Him, begging Jesus to have mercy on me.  Pleading with Him to help me out of the toxic relationship with a man that will take me to hell with him, if I don't find my way back.  I no longer asked myself, how did I get here, I just wanted to know if I could make it back.  I stopped looking for a man to make me me happy, I had to wait for God to send me a man of God.

Sometimes you can go through this life so fast, that you will forget what is really important.  God has a purpose for you, way before you were conceived and the enemy has a way of taking you for the detour of you life. God's purpose and perfect will for your life will ultimately get the victory if you have started and the right place, you won't have to ask yourself, "how did I get here?"  Just know that you don't have to stay there.  GOD BLESS YOU!

Heavenly Father, forgive me, I have strayed.  I did not stay on the course that YOU set before me, I trusted man and not YOU.  Forgive me Lord Jesus for not accepting your love for me. I pray now Lord Jesus that I accept Your love for me.  I will take one step at a time and always keep You in my heart, in Jesus name, Amen.

YOU ARE FINE CHINA

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God.  I speak that the fullness of Jesus Christ will pour over you and that as you seek after Jesus, He will already be there. My prayer for you today is that you are blessed by today's message.  God bless you.

As soon as we break a glass or that something falls out of our hands and shatters on the floor.  We immediately try to pick up all the pieces before someone steps on a piece and cut themselves.  Even after we think we've gotten all the pieces up, tiny particles may still be on the floor.

Sometimes its those really fine pieces that we don't see right away, that cuts us very deep.  Look at that as a warning sign that Jesus gives us.  And in missing that key point or missing the direction that Jesus is trying to lead us; we miss our turn in our Spiritual Journey and it cuts us really deep.

Women are very emotional creatures and that is one of the reasons why we may miss our turn or the leading of Jesus Christ.  Some of us have allowed bad situations to determine our destiny.  That's not the leading of Jesus Christ. The leading of Jesus Christ is always to build you up.

Your were perfectly fine sitting on the shelf looking beautiful but then you allowed someone that didn't know how to handle fine china (you) touch you.  And because they aren't used to handling fine china they've dropped you and mistreated you and you shattered.

As much as you try to pick up those pieces by yourself, you realize that the Lord Jesus is the only one that can put those pieces together and NOT another man. And as you allow Jesus to do that, He will not miss one piece of shattered glass.  God sees what we don't see with the necked eye.

If you try to move on with your life without allowing Jesus to heal you completely from all the cuts and bruises that the person that didn't know how to handle fine chins did to you.  You might end up in the same type of relationship. When you try to move on with your life with broken glass and missing pieces someone always gets cut.  Either you cut the person that is trying to love you or you unknowingly continue to hurt yourself.  AMEN!

Heavenly Father, I realize that You are the only one that truly knows me.  You know the desires of my heart, You know where I am supposed to be in my Spiritual Journey and I know that You will never lead me astray.  Lord, my prayer today is that I received Your Spirit into my life on today and that I know and hear what You want for me today.  Lord Jesus I love You with all of my heart even though sometimes I mess up.  In Your precious name, Amen.

IS YOUR CUP CLEAN?

Good morning, Woman of God.  I speak blessings upon your life on today and that God will give you peace and joy as you follow after Him.

(Psalms 19:12 and 51:10), "Who can understand his errors?  Cleanse thou me from secret faults.  Create in me a clean heart, O God: and renew a right spirit from me.

While washing the dishes, I observed the cup that I was cleaning.  I washed the inside really good, and just ran the rag over the outside of the cup.  Then I heard the Holy Spirit say, "Clean the outside of the cup just as well as you clean the inside".  My reply was, "Well, we don't really use the outside of the cup".  I did what the Lord told me to do, washing the outside as well as the inside.

Then I heard the Spirit of the Lord say, "That's the way my people are presenting themselves to the church and the world.  They only cleanse the outside of themselves because that is what people see first and my people are dirty on the inside".

My Testimony:  I used to be an Administrative Assistant at my job.  I dressed very well; suits, heels and the whole nine yards.  If you were to see me on my way to work, you would never ever think that I had a drug problem.  I was clean on the outside, little did anyone know how dirty I was on the inside.  Little did my employers or co-workers know that I was carrying joints laced with cocaine in my purse.  Little did anyone know that I would go buy drugs on my lunch hour.  This was a weekly routine for me.  You talk about someone that should have been dead and gone, it was ME.

Once I started attending church, I keep the same drug routine.  The only thing that changed was that I didn't get high before church.  Once I got home, that's when I would smoke and drink.  Don't think that my church was lacking anything, it was all about me.  Did I want to change, Sunday after Sunday getting in the deliverance line?  I expected something miraculous after laying out on the alter, slapped with oil, but that didn't happen.  It was still up to me to hold on to it.

One Sunday, the Sunday School Teacher was anointing everyone with oil before we went into the classroom.  Once I sat down, something so different began to happen to my spirit.  That's the way that I can explain it.  I began to cry, not only did I just cry, but I cried the whole time (not out loud, tears just streamed down my cheeks.  I couldn't stop, even if I wanted to.  The minister placed a box of tissue on my desk, but she didn't say a word.  She just continued teaching the lesson.  I cried for one hour straight, I am not kidding, a whole hour.  The Holy Spirit worked on me the whole time.  Even after class, the minister didn't say a word.  That was the day that the Lord cleaned the inside and outside of my cup.  I was delivered, never drinking or doing any kind of drugs.

The ten-step programs did not keep me from using drugs, abusing what God gave to me.  It was the Spirit of the Living God, (the Holy Spirit) that cleansed me, washed me, and welcomed me in His loving arms.  Keep going to church don't let the devil speak to you in your ear saying, "I don't know why you're going to church".  He will remind you of all your faults, making you feel guilty everyday and every time you try to clean the inside (your spirit-man) of your cup.  Satan's job is to kill you with the spirit of shame and defeat. There is a saying when you go to AA or NA meetings, "Keep coming back, it works if you work it".  Keep going back to church, it works if you work it.

Woman of God, our Lord and Savior does not put a spirit of shame upon you.  No matter what you have done, He is always willing and waiting to forgive you.  The Lord wants to encourage, comfort and love on you.  His compassion for you is never-ending, it will never end.  God is full of mercy, it's up to you to receive His mercy; that's the first step for your deliverance.  I have heard women say that they don't attend church or pray because they know in their hearts that they will do the same thing again, smoking drugs, drinking, cursing and sleeping around.  Imagine how I must have felt day after day, Sunday after Sunday, Bible Study after Bible Study.

I pray that the Lord's message and my testimony will be encouragement and comfort.  I love you with the love of our Lord.  God bless you, my sisters.

YOUR REBELLION, GOD'S DISCIPLINE

Good morning, Mighty Woman of God.  I pray that you are all blessed and highly favored of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(Hebrews 12:5-8), And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as daughters: "My daughter, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He punishes everyone He accepts as a daughter.  Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as daughters, For what daughter is not disciplined by her father?  If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true daughters. (New Int'l Version) (I changed words sons to daughters).

I am going to throw myself under the bus for this one, but my prayer is that, in me doing that, I will touch someone's heart and mind to push you a little farther in your spiritual journey.

I have been dealing with something for the past week.  Just as Paul says, I know that I should do what is right, but the right thing I do not do.  There is a struggle in the spirit realm and just like Paul, I am struggling.  I don't know whether or not if struggling means that I am at least fighting to do what I know to be the right thing to do or not.  I have often laughed at cartoons when I see the devil on one shoulder and Christ on the other shoulder, both petitioning their point to that character.  That's what it's like when we are struggling.  Suddenly that cartoon doesn't seem so funny to me, especially when I am dealing with the spirit realm.

I asked my Heavenly Father, "Why don't I do what you want me to do? This should be very easy, just pray and the struggling will be over."  My Father's answer to me was, "Because you are dealing with a spirit of rebellion and disobedience."  That was a hard pill for me to swallow.  When my Father said the word 'rebellion', that stuck with me and it hit me hard.  It hit me hard because I never looked at my not doing what I know to do, as 'rebellion'.  My Father didn't sugar coat His answer to me and therefore it hurt.  The reason why it hurt me so much is that I really love the Lord and being 'rebellious' to Him, made me feel horrible.  My next question to my Father was, "Forgive me, what do I do?"   My Father's answer to me, "ENDURE HARDSHIP". 

I have a book that I used as a reference when dealing with stronghold's (demonic spirits).  This book gives you the root of the problem (spirit) and what to bind and loose in prayer.  The Holy Spirit had me to go to that book and look up 'rebellion'.  Under 'rebellion' there were 11 demonic spirits.  Being honest with myself, I was dealing with 5 of them: Idleness, Contentious, Rejection of God, Self-Deception and Rebellion.  God says, "These are all works of the flesh".  How do I fit into those categories?  I am idolizing that thing that I keep doing wrong; I am rejecting God because I am doing wrong, I am deceiving myself into thinking, I can handle it on my own; therefore 'rebellious'. 

 

This devotion was written 2 years ago.  I was trying to quit smoking and I was able to do that with the Spirit of the Lords helping me.  I like coffee and I asked the Lord to get me over that hump, imagine my surprise when I drank my cup of coffee and forgot about the cigarettes.

 

LET'S US PRAY!

Heavenly Father, please forgive me for my sins.  Everything that I say, do or even have in my heart that does not glorify You in Heaven.  Father, forgive me for being rebellious in the things that I know to do right, but don't.  Father, I ask that you strengthen me as I endure hardship, I speak over my life by the power of the Holy Spirit, that is within me, greater is He that is in me than any demonic spirit.  I will no longer seek the things of the flesh but the things of the spirit.  I speak that no weapon that is formed against me shall prosper and no spirit will rule over my life but the Spirit of the Living God, in Jesus name, Amen.

SIDE TRACKED

Good morning, Mighty Woman of God.  I speak blessings upon blessings over you.

We all get a little side tracked when it comes to our spiritual journey and that's okay.  In that stage of 'side tracked' the devil is not prejudice.  He doesn't care who you are, your racial background, your age or what your title is in church.

I started in the Prayer Ministry (Prayer Warrior) and I went to church every Sunday.  I went to Wednesday night bible study, I went to any classes that I felt would help me in my spiritual journey.  I graduated from a 16 week Teacher's Course and I attended Sunday School regularly.  Now that sounds like I had it all together.  Oh, and don't let me forget the Senor Citizens home I went to once a week for bible study and having a prayer closet that I stayed in prayer for a number of hours a day.  So what happened?

That title I have in front of my name doesn't make me immune to satan's tricks and lies.  I moved to Las Vegas to be closer to my family.  I used to go to the gambling boat a little bit and I loved it. So Vegas and you don't have to travel far to get to a slot machine.  The devil knew what I liked and he also knows what you like.  He will make it readily available to you.  Then I started smoking weed again.  I would have never thought that I would get that far away from God.  I love the Lord God so much, He was always in my heart.  The devil speaks to us by say, "You can't go back to being a minister.  You can't get back in the choir.  You can't go back to teaching the Word of God. God won't accept you back into His arms.  You have really messed up this time. You mind as well forget it.

The Lord has anointed me to be His voice, His mouthpiece for the ministry that I had on the inside of me.  I did not ask for the gifts that He has given me, He just knows what gifts you need to accomplish what His will is for you life.  God has anointed and appointed you for ministry work.  No matter what you may be going through in your life right now, God has a plan for your life.  The Holy Spirit has equipped you with everything that you will need for your spiritual journey.

The most important thing for you to remember when you are in that 'side tracked' mode is that you left the Lord arms.  He did not leave you, the Lord will never leave nor forsake you.  The problem is that we don't fully believe that.  We hear testimonies of others of how God has brought them through some challenges and difficulties, we believe that God is able, but in the back of our minds, we wonder will He do it for us. God will never unfriend you.  THE LORD GOD IS WAITING FOR YOU.

 

Heavenly Father please for give me for my sins.  Thank you Lord for never leaving me and Lord when I feel like I have gone too far to deserve your love for me, I will remember that you will never leave nor forsake me.  I love you Lord and I want to have a closer relationship with you.  In Jesus name, Amen.

10 STEP PROGRAM

Good morning, Mighty Woman of God.  I pray that today's message is timely and that you will be blessed by my testimony.

Philippians 1:6, Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

You have to believe and have the faith on the inside of you that God has begun a good work in you from the day that you were born.  Even if it doesn't look like it, or even if you are in a place that might not seem very spiritual at all, even if it seems that you are so far away from God because of some things that you are dealing with in your life right now.  Keep that in the back of your mind and you will find your way home to the Lord God, trust God and you will.

When I was in my 30's, I was an addict.  Addicted to marijuana and cocaine.  It was very bad and very expensive.  I went to work everyday, wore business attire and just by looking at me you would not know that I was an addict.  I even took my drugs with me to work.  Snorting in the bathroom whenever I needed to.  I didn't spend my paycheck on rent and other bills, I spent it to pay for my addiction.  After coming home and finding my furniture and most of everything that I owned outside, I knew I had to tell my family.

Well I checked myself into a drug rehab center and started my NA 10 step program.  NA's famous sayings are "change your people, places and things, and to have a higher power.  They just use the words "higher power" because not everybody's "higher power" is Christ Jesus.

After checking out of rehab I felt empowered and ready to get my life together.  I went to meetings and more meetings.  That didn't help I ended up back on drugs and this time even worse.  I didn't get evicted but I spent a lot of money.  My family probably thought that I just smoked weed, but I smoked weed, did cocaine and then picked up drinking . . . still going to work everyday, working in the corporate world. 

I did 10 steps, fell down 3.  Did 10 steps fell down 8 . . . over and over repeating the same cycle and just not seeming to get it together.  One day, I took a small step into church . . . just a small step. One thing that NA always say is "keep coming back, it works if you work it".  Well I kept going to church and that worked for me.  I finally took steps to the altar and decided to proclaim for love for Christ accepting Him as my Lord and Savior and later getting baptized.

I wasn't delivered that very day, but I kept going back and I worked it.  Using my "higher power" Jesus Christ to keep me and I held on tight.  At anytime I could have gotten some bad drugs and OD but God had begun a good work in me from the very day that I was born.  I didn't know that at the time but I believe it today.  There was no way that I should have come out of that life alive . . . but GOD.  I'm not saying don't go to NA Meetings or do the 10 steps, but if you are having trouble falling down over and over, try taking steps to the Lord God, that may make all the difference in the world. PRAISE GOD.

Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your grace and mercy towards me.  Thank You for the grace allowing me to wake up in the morning and keeping safe even when I'm out doing what I know to be wrong. I pray that Your Spirit will do for me what I cannot do for myself.  I thank You and I am holding on, In Jesus Name, Amen.

AS SOON AS

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God!

I pray that you are all blessed and highly favored of the Lord Jesus Christ.  I speak blessings of peace and restoration into your life. 

"As soon as" - - - I have heard this saying so many times.  I have ministered and prayed with a lot of people on the street and after prayer would them to visit the church.  They look at me and say, "I will as soon as I get myself together". 

Without Christ there is no "as soon as".  The church is for you and the church is for sick people.  It is not a place to come once a week to show off your new garments or hats.  It not a place to come to visit your girlfriend and catch up on all the gossip and it's definitely not the place for you to go to meet men.  If you are in a anointed church, filled with the Spirit of the Lord, you are in the right place. the Lord Jesus will pour out His spirit upon you and you will be at the "as soon as" place in your life.

If I had waited for the "as soon as" in my life, I would probably be dead.  I had to get to church, I had to get to Jesus.  When I first started attending church, I was damaged, on drugs and sick.  There was no way I would have made it if it were not for Jesus reaching down in the depths of hell and saving my soul.  You can keep sitting around waiting for the "as soon as" to happen in your life, but I promise you it will never happen without the Lord.

We never know how much time we have.  What is "as soon as" is the day that Christ comes back?  Are you still saying, "as soon as".  Don't you know how valuable your life to Christ is?  If you don't, let me tell you.  He died so that you could live, not live it up.  He's calling you today, and you don't have to wait for Sunday to walk to the alter.  He's calling you into restoration.  Restore your relationship with Christ today.  Give your life to the Lord today and let Him take care of the "as soon as" part.  LET US PRAY!

Heavenly Father, I give you honor and praise today for my very life.  Lord, I pray for your strength in my area of weakness.  Lord, I pray that you take away the "as soon as" out of my mouth that I may run to the alter just as I am.  Lord, I know that I am a sinner and I pray that you forgive me for my sins against you.  Thank you Lord for dying on the cross for my sake.  Now Lord, I give you my life, in Jesus name, Amen. 

SIDE TRACKED

Good morning, Mighty Woman of God.  I pray that today's devotion will be a blessing to you.  I speak blessings upon blessings over you.

I started in the Prayer Ministry (Prayer Warrior) and I went to church every Sunday.  I went to Wednesday night bible study, I went to any classes that I felt would help me in my spiritual journey.  I graduated from a 16 week Teacher's Course and I attended Sunday School regularly.  Now that sounds like I had it all together.  Oh, and don't let me forget the Senior Citizens home I went to once a week for bible study and having a prayer closet that I stayed in prayer for a number of hours a day.  So what happened?

I moved to Las Vegas to be closer to my family.  I used to go to the gambling boat a little bit and I loved it.  So I am now in Vegas and you don't have to travel far to get to a slot machine.  The devil knew what I liked and he also knows what you like.  He will make it readily available to you.  

 

Then I started smoking weed again.  I would have never thought that I would get that far away from God.  I love the Lord God so much, He was always in my heart.  The devil speaks to us by say, "You can't go back to being a minister.  You can't get back in the choir.  You can't go back to teaching the Word of God. God won't accept you back into His arms.  You have really messed up this time. You mind as well forget it.

The most important thing for you to remember while you are in that 'side track' mode is that you left the Lord arms of protection.  He did not leave you, the Lord will never leave nor forsake you.  The problem is that we don't fully believe that.  We hear testimonies of others and we believe that God is able, but in the back of our minds, we wonder will He do it for us. God will never unfriend you.  THE LORD GOD IS WAITING FOR YOU.

 

Heavenly Father I thank You for not leaving me.  Even when I don't do the things that I know is pleasing to You. Even when I say things from my mouth that is not pleasing to You, You still love me.  Father I pray that while I am in a side tracked mode that I attain and keep a listening ear to You, In Jesus name Amen!