The day with dianne Louise

So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. Galatians 5:16 NLT We start to have problems the moment we decide on doing things our way. This habit starts very early in our lives. Being told, "No!" Usually results in tantrums. Some of us still respond the same. Learning to submit is a good idea.  Learning to know the Holy Spirits presence and mind is also a very good idea. Learning to combine all this into one package results in peace and fulfillment. Thus the journey! Learning to submit to a force greater than ourselves who has everything in hand, is good for us. Amen!

So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.  Galatians 5:16 NLT We are told what our sinful nature wants: When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19‭-‬21. However, the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! Galatians 5:19‭-‬23  One is full of all manner of evil,  the other is full of goodness,  as that is what the Holy Spirit is, good. It is all a matter of control! Amen!

So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ. Romans 10:17 NLT Men are often accused of not listening, and many jokes are made about their ability to hear. When it comes to hearing from God, men don't necessarily corner the market in their inability or ability to hear from God. Women also find it challenging. So then, how can we hear from God? This scripture tells us it is hearing the good news about Christ.   If we have  have a habit of reading the scripture with our internal ears on, it can speak to our hearts. It is this hearing that is important. We can hear life during a preached message the key,again, is to have our internal ears open. In other words,we ensure our hearing is intentionally on. A hungry heart will always hears the good news. This heart will always be set free by new revelation. Amen!

So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ. Romans 10:17 NLT I am so glad that there is an avenue of faith. Every time I find myself at a loss I determine to hear what I need for faith to ignite within me. The flint needs to be struck for the spark to produced to cause a flame in faith. I remember being in the backwoods of Nepal on a visit, and experiencing a sense that huge faith was present. I preached on faith and miracles. A woman who was bent in half from spinal curvature came forward for healing. I laid hands on her and rebuked an evil spirit. I continued to pray, and the Spirit of God poured out on us. That woman came upright, walking towards me. I returned to the village a few years later and there was no faith, and the woman refused to come to the meeting as she was again crippled. Thr evil spirit had returned. No one had ministered to her the truth about retaining her healing. Jesus at times would say, "Go and sin no more or worse will befal...

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NLT Women who support abortion cry out: "my body, my choice!" However, the right to murder another human being is not ours. Yet, as a child of God I have the right to be called a daughter of God. God rejects no one, He welcomes all. It is us who are rejectionists. We like to play god  and our rules are cruel and variable.  If I want it, it is right. I may change my mind tomorrow, but today, this is it! How fickle! How foolish and very selfish! We play the devil's advocate when we choose to be selfish. He robs, kills, and destroys.  Jesus came to give life. I choose to give life, and not take it away. Amen!

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NLT Foster care is an important part of our society. Children caught in the system can love it or hate it, depending on the family they came from and the foster family they are placed into.  Jesus gives a choice to become part of His family or the stay in the world, caught in the family of darkness. Crazily we can choose what we know instead of what we don't. I remember when God was wooing me girls from the nurses home would invite me to youth group and I would refuse. I have no explanation for refusing, but I did, regularly. It was not until I met Jesus that I went with them. Paul the apostle even stood holding garments of those who stoned Stephen, until the fateful day when he met Jesus. Then he was a changed man who went to the cities and towns in the Mediterranean vicinity and Asia to share the message about Jesus. When we meet Jesus we change. When we meet Him we join His famil...

For I hold you by your right hand— I, the Lord your God. And I say to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I am here to help you. Isaiah 41:13 NLT Facing life's traumas alone can be soul destroying, but having Jesus beside me makes the cross bearable. Jesus did not promise a bed of roses. He said, " take up your cross and follow me". We can try to avoid our cross but in Jesus' own words: " he who falls upon the rock will be broken, but he who the rock falls upon will be crushed". I think broken sounds better than crushed any day. Choose Jesus as your companion and guide, all will work out. Amen!