His Yoke Is Easy

Everyone is in a hurry, rushing to get here or there, and no one is taking the time to just slow down and see the vision; taking the time to stop and smell the roses.

1 Corinthians 1:30 “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” Also, 2 Cor. 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” 

The year 2009, God wants us to speak the truth, the real truth as spoken in John 1:14, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.  God want us to stand up and bare witness of him and his love and compassion for mankind, that it’s not in his will that any man should perish, but all come to have eternal life.   We are to preach Jesus and his love, a love so great that he gave his life for the remission of our sins. 

The book of Matthew announces the birth of a Son, a Savior which will be born to save his people.  Today we celebrate what they call Christmas, we celebrate the birth of a Savior that was sent into the world thousands of years ago.  For some it means exchanging of gifts and for others it giving God the glory for a new life.  For me Jesus is the reason for the season, and there have been no gift as great as the gift that God gave us on that wonderful night.  God gave us the gift of life and we should be sharing that Gift with all that we meet, we should be sharing the love of God through Jesus Christ.  Earthly gift will fade away, will lose their value, we will grow tired of the store bought gift and they will tear up or be tossed aside.  But the gift of God even after thousands of years is still shining as bright as that Star the Wise Men followed, as wonderful as the new born baby that the shepherd saw lying in a manger.  The blood that Jesus shed, the blood will never, ever loose it?s power, today I give you Jesus, today I give you a gift that will never grow old, that you will never get tired of.  The gift that I offer you will change your life forever, Jesus will give you new life, He will bring you joy in sorrow and give you hope for tomorrow; He?s the answer for this world today.  Jesus bring a new life into your life, He?s the gift that keeps on giving, have you tried Him, have you shared His love with others, have you accepted Him as your Lord and Savior.  Have you invited Him into your life, He?s the reason for the season, He?s the answer for the world today, I give you Jesus; will you accept Him into your heart, your home, will you, my gift to you is Jesus.

 Be Bless

I know my Savior lives because of the changes inside of me, not anything that I put on, or can do within my own power, but because of the power that is moving in me, the inner presence of the working of the Holy Spirit.   Because of the changes in me and how I accept situation, how I feel calm before, in and during a storm; how I can let go and just be thankful to have a God that I can call my own.  Jesus, my reason for a new life, Jesus, the working force that keeps me going when others think I should give up, Jesus, the one I call on and hears my humble cry and standing right here by my side, Jesus, my anchor, my strength, my battle cry, the lifter up of my head, Jesus my shelter in the time of a storm, my shepherd that leads me and guide me into all truth and when I?m weak strengthen me.   I know because what use to make me want to give up, now make me want to just shout and tell somebody, it will be alright, my God said it, I believe it, I receive it, I calm it, it?s mines, God gave it to me and I shall rejoice always.  I have peace overflowing like a rivers of water, I have peace that comfort me, keeps me and make me strong; because he lives I can face all my tomorrow, I can find peace in the midst of it all, all this comes to make me strong, I got a God and I going to continue to stand on his promises.   It?s a relationship we have, as any good Father is to his child, my Father watches over me, take care of me and loves me and I love him with my whole heart, hallelujah I know my redeemer, He Lives.

Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Shout aloud, rejoice in the name of Jesus Christ, for our redeemer live and our accuser is cast down, no longer standing before our God trying to tear us down.  He is no longer counted among those that goes before the Father, we have been redeemed and the authority he had for a season has been taken away.  Thank you Lord, I will rejoice and be exceedingly glad, I will praise your name forever more, I worship and magnify you Lord, for you are great  and greatly to be praised, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God almighty.

Revelation 19:1
And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

When I was younger there was a process you had to do when you had hard wood floors so they would shine, they had to be stripped of the old polish or shine and then cleaned and wax again.   Those floors had to be taken care of, you didn?t want them to get dull or have a yellow buildup, so they had to be stripped and then refinished. 

Our lives seems to be like those floors sometimes, after so long we get life buildup and become dull from all that being tossed on us, we have lost our shine that luster we had in the beginning.   We have so much on us that nothing can enter in, nothing worth anything comes out and because of all the junk we have become cold and dull from extensive use and buildup.   But there is a God, a God of second chances, God who because of His love knows what these bodies needs, He knows that we need to come to the potter house.   He knows that these bodies need to be purged and cleanse because of the buildup and hardened from the world, they need to be stripped down to the soul.   We have put on a coat of don?t care, unconcern, leave me alone, not my problem, don?t like nobody, I hate, and buildup of that?s your problem, don?t need anyone, don?t have time, me, myself and I, self preservation, nastiness, disrespect, pride, and a cold shell of God knows my heart, I have church at home, sermon picking, they hypocrite, like they so good. 

The best thing is that for each and every one of us we have to stand before God in our own mess, we have to be stripped of what is hindering us, what is keeping us from pursuing a relationship with God.   We have to give it over to Him so He can purge us from all unrighteousness, cleanse us from all hurt, sin and shame; stripped from all impurities, from all the things that keeps us away from doing God will or from being obedient to God will.  We have to acknowledge God and let Him direct our path, we take so much care of everything and leave ourselves to chances, leave ourselves to all kind of attack, why when we have the protection we need, we have the one that created us standing ready to defend and repair all brokenness and unrighteousness in our lives.  We have Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, Jesus our Alpha and Omega, our beginning and our end, the one that shall come and will not tarry, our redeemer is close than we think and never too far away.

Psalm 79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

 Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Paul, not just a prisoner, but a prisoner o f Jesus Christ as he stated in his letters, he was not imprisoned for anything other than preaching Jesus Christ, His crucifixion, and resurrection.  Paul had time even to change his platform; to go back to the man he was, but one thing he could not forget, the one thing that kept him focus; and that was his encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus.  One thing for sure is that when we meet Jesus, I?m talking about a heart meeting, when we have a change to sat and talk with Him, it is not easy to forget or to turn our back and act like nothing happened, it?s madding it?s will drive one crazy, how can we forget such an awesome opportunity or even pretend we wasn?t prick in our soul; as did with Paul.

James 2: ?Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.?

We know from the study of the word that the devil knows that there is one God, since the beginning he wants to reign as a god.  He wants what God has, he also know the word because the word was what he tried to tempt Jesus with in the wilderness.  But here James tell us that we know that there is one God, and God loved us so much that he sent forth his only begotten Son to save mankind from sin.  This evil one that tries to tempt us with something he doesn?t own, he tries to show us stuff that looks real but is nothing but fool?s gold.   But what I like is that James states that the devil tremble because he knows that he only have a short time, because no matter how long it?s been, he wants to reign as lord throughout eternity.  

But what you must see is that the same power that makes him tremble is the same power that makes us over comer; we don?t have to tremble, we rejoice knowing that God word through our prayer is our weapon against the devil.   That?s why he likes to mess with our minds to keep us unfocused on God words to keep us from getting strength through our prayer life.  But we are more than conqueror through Christ Jesus, the word, in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the words became manifested, came and revealed the Father and redeemed us back to him.  And now it?s our job to go and tell the good news, to show the love of God to all brethren, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord; that he who shall come, will come and will not tarry.  We will see him and behold him in all his glory; lift up your head for our redeemer lives and we shall see him in our latter days.  Trials comes only to make us strong, but we have overcome through the blood of Jesus Christ;  I am redeemed bought with a price, Jesus have changed my whole life, if anybody ask you just who I am tell them, I am redeemed.  No more toss and about, no more complaining, but giving God all the glory, all my test comes to make me stronger and gives me a closer walk with God.   Our works is to do the will of the Father, by faith we preach Jesus and his death, burial and resurrection and how now he?s sitting on the right hand of the Father as our advocate.