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You CAN'T worry and
worship at the same time! Worship sets your heart and
mind in the right place. It shifts your focus from the
problem to the problem solver. It brings down the strongholds of
sadness,
hurt, and hopelessness. It restores, fills, motivates, and
blesses you! It's proclaiming
that God is BIGGER than anything you face! So today, confuse the
enemy! The next time you start to worry, begin
to WORSHIP instead!
News You Can Use
Dont WorryWorship Instead!
What About My Enemies?!?
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good
to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use
you, and persecute you!
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What About My
Enemies?!?
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Rejected or Just
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Ministry Page 4
One Touch of Faith
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Help! Im
Offended
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Ministry
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Rejected or Just Redirected?
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Enemies. Some of us "think" we have them and some of us "think"
we don't. Sure, Satan is our true enemy, after all, "we are not
fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers
and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this
dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places"
(Ephesians 6:12 NLT). Clearly, we are fighting against Satan and
winning because we belong to Christ....but what about our earthly
enemies. The Word clearly tells us that we are not fighting against
them, but still......what about them?!? When we find out that
someone doesn't like us and is actively doing things to prove a
point and to show us
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how much they do not care for us, our natural response is:
That's their problem, not mine! Forget them! If they don't like
me, I don't like
them! I will treat them like they treat
me! Matthew 5:43 says, You have heard the law that says, Love
your neighbor and hate your enemy...." The truth is, we all have
heard and felt like we should hate, dislike, and mistreat, those
that are against us and love, support, and be kind to those who are
for us. That "seems" and "feels" like the right thing to
do......but the Word tells us differently. ".............But I say,
LOVE your enemies (Matthew 5:43)!" "LOVE my enemies?!?! Say
what?!?!" But they don't deserve my love!
You don't understand how much they have put me through!
But they are sooooo hard to be nice to, let alone love!
Friend, I understand how you feel. Some people make it hard to
love, but those are truly the people that need your love the most.
So what about our enemies?!?! The Word tells us to........
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"For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace
and glory; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk
uprightly.
O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You!" Psalms
84:11-12
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Anyone that knows me, knows that I love purses and jewelry. Now
before you stop reading (lol) hear me out; I'm going somewhere with
this. Last month for my birthday I decided to get myself a purse. I
had my eyes on this particular bag for about a month and was saving
up to get it. Well, once my bills were paid and I had some extra
money to spend, I decided to head to the store. Well, to my dismay,
once I arrived and ran to the purse section......it was gone! So, I
did what any person would do (or maybe just me).....I started to
complain! Lol! (Just being honest) "Ugh! If I would have gone ahead
and got the bag when I saw it instead of being 'responsible Raven,'
I would HAVE THE BAG! blah. blah, blah." Friend, my attitude was so
bad, I think I saw someone I know in passing and did not even speak
because I was soooo upset. (Please forgive me if you were that
person) Well, even though I was disappointed I decided to go into
another store and browse around, "knowing" that deep down inside I
would not be able to find a bag that was that nice for
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that price. Well, to my surprise, not only was there another
bag, but a WAY BETTER LOOKING BAG! Now you may be saying to
yourself, "Raven, what is the point of this story?" It didn't seem
like much of a big deal to me either until one morning during my
quiet time the Lord reminded me of what happened and said, "Raven,
many times you have felt rejected by something that YOU thought was
GOOD and started to complain, whine, and have a pity party. Not
realizing that I had something GREATER, something BETTER to give
you if you would have just kept walking."
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the same exact jaw dropping story as Sis. so-in -so that God
can't use us or better yet, that our ministry and testimony won't
be as effective! The devil is a liar!
God can and will use the part of your life that you think is
useless! Stop comparing yourself to others
and stop disqualifying yourself! It is God who qualifies those
who He calls and it is YOUR faith that will release His ability to
make your name great......all
for His glory!
4. ALWAYS value your reputation with God more than your
reputation with man.
Listen, sometimes we think that we have to say, preach, or post
the most popular/attention catching thing because that other
ministry does it and everyone and their momma loves it! For
example, yes, you are called to live a life of purity and to
abstain from sex until marriage, BUT although that is a part of
your testimony that can and will be used to encourage someone else
one day, does not mean that that is your only ministry or that that
is what God called you to preach about today. That could be the
ministry that Lisa was graced for! Your ministry could be the
homeless, or your ministry could be designing appropriate clothes
for saved women! Sure, you could post about Godly dating and
keeping yourself for marriage and..
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Ministry
Work willingly at whatever you do, as
though you were working for the Lord
rather than for people. Colossians 3:23
1. When it comes to dreams, plans, visions, and goals make sure
they are Christ orchestrated, Christ
fueled, Christ centered, and Christ focused! Seems like a no
brainer right? Wrong! Sometimes
in ministry, especially when your ministry begins to really take
off if you're not careful dreams, goals, plans,
and visions become: - Self orchestrated
-Self fueled -Self centered -Self focused
A self centered ministry won't make a lasting impact! You CANNOT
impress people with YOURSELF and the LORD simultaneously! Direct
your attention away from yourself completely and place it on Him
entirely!
It's all about pointing others to Him anyway!
2. You cannot become all God made YOU to be if YOU doubt what He
says about YOU!
Listen friend, what God says about you is truth.; the opinions
of man or your fickle feelings are not. No
matter what people say or dont say, no matter how you may feel
or dont feel God says that you are
chosen, anointed, and called. He sees YOU..always make sure that
you are seeing yourself through His eyes
and not others.
3. Don't disqualify yourself! God uses those the world considers
the least likely.
Sometimes we think that just because we don't have the
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The
Touch of
Faith
" upset because so in so doesn't want to be my friend anymore,
or because I'm still single".....you get the message. Just like
this woman, we have looked and looked and looked and tried and
tried and tried to find something or someone, anyone to heal us and
make us whole. This woman in the midst of her suffering made a
choice....she made up her mind to be healed. This woman said, If I
can just touch His robe, I will be healed (Matthew 9:21). Not only
did she make up her mind, but she put some feet to her faith (for
we walk by faith and not by sight 2 Corinthians 5:7) because she
knew that one moment in the presence of Jesus could change her
life. Notice she did not say, I "could" be healed or "maybe" I'll
be healed......she said I WILL be healed. Friend, never
underestimate a made up mind and some faith filled feet! Everything
and everyone had failed this woman. Everything and everyone that
probably worked for everybody else, didn't work for her. She had
every reason to give up and just wait to die, never being changed.
But even though no one and nothing seemed to be able to fix what
was broken, she still believed and took the last ounce of faith
that she had left
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"Jesus turned around, and when he saw her he said, Daughter, be
encouraged! Your faith has made you well. And the woman was healed
at
that moment." Matthew 9:22 NLT
It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to
victory.
"She's got issues!" Have you ever said this or at least thought
this about someone? Better yet, have you been this someone.....the
someone who has issues that everybody and their momma knows about?
In the ninth chapter of Matthew we meet a woman. She has no name,
no "degree," no friends, but she does have something.....an issue,
one of which she suffered with for 12 years. She was probably
ostracized, persecuted, put down, and talked horribly about all
because of her issue. Our issues may not be as severe as hers, so
to speak, but many of us can relate. Issues such as sleepless
nights, sadness, depression, loneliness, fear, anxiety, worry,
broken heart, discouragement, feelings of despair and emptiness,
etc., plagues many believers. Some of us even have "issues" that we
feel are not that important! We say, "People are hungry and I'm
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Help!
Im
Offended!
"Love is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account
of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered
wrong].
1 Corinthians 13: 5 AMP offended fendid/
resentful or annoyed, typically as a result of a perceived
insult.
Are you offended? Most people immediately will say, "Not at all!
I don't let people bother me like that child!" BUT deep down you
are either very resentful, irritated, or very annoyed because of a
PERCEIVED insult! Today, we are going to talk about the trap of
being offended, let some things go once and for all, and avoid this
deceitful trap of the enemy in the future. We live in a world where
people are not always nice. Sometimes people feel that they have a
"right" to be mean, but then there are those that are mean and
nasty for no apparent reason. One day they are your SISTER or
BROTHER and the next......they don't even want to talk to you or
acknowledge that you are alive. lol! At first, it doesn't "seem" to
bother you, after all "people come and
people go," but the more you think about it, dwell on it, and
the more you see their face pop up on your newsfeed (if there
hasn't been a deletion lol!) you find yourself getting more and
more irritated, annoyed, irked, and just plain aggravated by the
mere mention of their name. Friend, this type of attitude is not
pleasing to God. He knows that offense stunts our growth and keeps
us from living the abundant life that He preordained for us to
live. So how do we let it go and avoid the trap of being
offended?
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Book of the Month:
Ruthless
by Bo Stern
Song of the Month:
Tip of my toes/I Have Found My Joy (Spontaneous)
By Bethel Music and Steffany
Frizzle-Gretzinger
(Youtube)
Album of the Month
You Make Me Brave
By Bethel Music
Scripture Memory Challenge Verse 3
"Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's
leading in
every part of our lives."
Galatians 5:25 NLT
Scripture Memory Challenge Verse 4
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for
righteousness, for they will be filled."
Matthew 5:6 NIV
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