Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Happy New Year - Lisa Patterson

Let us all give thanks for the things the Lord has done for us this past year. it may or may not have been the way you thought. But he does not do things in your time frame. The Lord is good and His mercy endureth forever!!
Let us take time to tell the Lord what we want Him to know and how we feel about Him. For he want s to know how we feel about him. For He careth for you even when you think there's no way out. Many have been there and all are loved by Him, who made us in his own image. Psalm 139:14, I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Sometimes it takes something like an injury or a sickness to remind us of the masterful design that we carry around in our bodies. Focus your mind on Jesus and his wondrous love for you and how detailed you were made. Let Him life your heart to grateful worship no matter what happens. Many of us suffer the pain of abandonment, rejection, and betrayal. Despite all this, through Christ we can understand the compassionate, and enduring nature of true love. You must remember you are loved by God. Jesus said so with His life that He gave us. No matter what the enemy tries to throw your way, and he can certainly do it, the Lord is bigger and stronger than anything he could try to do if you trust Him. But you must trust Him no matter how hard it may seem and as though nothing appears to be working. The Lord is always at work for those who call upon His name. He loves everybody saved or not, sick or not, or whether you believe in Him or not. because you cannot make yourself anything you aren't. It doesn't work that way. He is God and loves us all.
Remember, the Helper, the Holy Spirit, will teach you all things. John 14:26. The Apostle Paul had many Helpers in his work of ministry. Helping is a spiritual gift, according to I Cor. 12:28. Paul listed it among the gifts from the Holy Spirit and are given to believers in Christ's body, the Church. The gift of "Helps" is as much needed as the others that are listed. If Jesus called you to help in the Church, a person who Helps the Called, then you are to do it and do the best you can with your hands. Even the Holy Spirit is called a "Helper" Jesus said, the Helper, has gifted you, let Him use you for his honor. If you play an instrument, teach the children, read to the elderly, lead a class, work in the kitchen, teach Bible School or a class, you are a Helper in the body of Christ. There are many other parts to the body and you have to ask Him and discern which one it is you fit. you cannot make yourself something He did not make you. For He is the one who bestowed the gifts you have in you, called to the ministry or not. But everyone who has been saved has a ministry. See where you fit in the body of Christ for the New Year and let Him use you to the capacity He chooses.For he made us and there is no other. Do not be tricked by the enemy saying you can do anything you want.
This is Lisa Patterson with the Good News the Jesus Loves You and wants you to come to Him today. Time is short so do not put it off any longer and let the enemy make you think you can just put it off tomorrow, for it may be too late!

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