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Feb 4

Peace

by woman2womanministries1

Sometimes in life you have to get people out of your life just to have peace. It doesn’t mean that you don’t love them, but a peace of mind trumps a lover, family member or friend any day of the week. If someone is always bringing you drama, you need peace. If you have to constantly defend yourself to someone, you need peace. If, when that certain person always comes into your presence and your nerves are just shot when they leave, you need peace.

In some situations if you don’t have peace then it’s your fought. You can set the atmosphere in which you are. Even on your job with those coworkers and boss you don’t like, you can determine when you go into the office there will be peace. You can refuse to let the enemy have you all twisted and tied up for eight hours while you have to look at these people. You have to determine in your mind, I’m going to smile when I want to curse. I’m going to laugh when I really want to cry. I’m going to help them when I really want them to fail. They won’t take my peace or my joy.

God said he’ll give you a peace that surpasses all understanding. I never knew that type of peace existed, until I purposed in my heart to change the atmosphere around me. When you have to deal with constant drama, nagging, confusion, etc… It’s draining. It drains you physically, emotionally, psychologically, and sometimes financially. The bible also says; live peaceably with all men, if possible. Certain people don’t know how to live with peace, because drama is their normal way of life. You just pray for them and keep it moving. When you’ve had the peace of God in your life, you will never want to lose it.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Feb 3

Who Cares What You Really Think

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Sometimes in life you have to tell people that you really don’t care what they think or how they feel about you. I find it amusing that so many people think I should do this or do that, act like this or act like that; yet, they won’t do any of the things their telling me to do. It’s in those times that I tune them out.

People will always try to put you in a box and the minute you no longer want to fit in their box, here comes the noise. When you get to the point that you don’t care anymore and that you are going to follow God’s plan, toughen your skin because the attacks are going to come. Be prepared to lose some friends and family members, because they are going to think you are acting brand new. And, truthfully you are. You will realize that you have been living under someone else’s shadow and now it’s time for you to live in your own skin and find your own way.

If you continue to worry about what people think of you or how they feel about you, you will never go far in life. If blind Bartimeus would have cared what the people thought, he’d still be blind and begging by the side of the road. Today, as soon as someone says; I think you should do this or do that, and you didn’t ask them for their thoughts, cut them off and tell them, you could care less. When you tell them you don’t care what they think, say it with authority. Say it so they know you are not playing with them. Say it so they know you mean business and they better not say another word about what they think.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Feb 2

Cast Your Cares On Me

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When issues arise in our life, why don’t we go immediately to the Lord? Normally, we try to call our best friend, our mother, our father, our siblings, or someone we trust. Our first instinct should be to cast our cares on the Lord.

We waste a lot of time and energy telling everyone else about our issues. The sad part is, we are talking to people who cannot fix our problems. I don’t care how much we love these people, and how cool we are with these people; if we leave God out of the equation he’s not going to just allow our problems to be solved. When God said cast your cares on me, that wasn’t for kicks and giggles. He died for our sins and our cares. He rose out of the grave with all power in his hands.

So, I ask again; why do we keep going to people with no power? Think of it this way, when you have a problem with a utility bill and you call the utility company, you want to speak to someone with some authority who’s authorized to handle the situation. The person that answers the phone is not that person, that’s why you say; can I speak with the manager. Well, when issues arise in our life, we need to tell our issues I’m going to talk with the Master. He has authority and he’s authorized to do something about it. I don’t have time to talk to the middle man.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Feb 1

Tell Hell, No

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Years ago I preached this sermon at my grandfather’s funeral. I basically wanted the people to let hell know that they were not planning on making a visit there. No matter how much the enemy wants you, you have to tell hell, no.

You have to let hell know, that you’d rather be talked about, ostracized, put out and put down, before you give into the enemy. You must tell hell, that sleeping around ain’t worth it. Lying and stealing ain’t worth it. Disrespecting God and yourself ain’t worth it. When you really grasp the depth of the cross and what Jesus had to endure, you will have no problem with talking back to the enemy.

When the enemy wants you to take a second look at the other woman that means you no good, tell hell, no.
When that man says; if you love me you will sin for me, tell hell, no.
When the enemy tells you, it’s no harm in stealing office supplies from work, tell hell, no.
When the enemy tells you to give up on your wayward children, tell hell, no.
When the enemy wants you to focus on everybody and everything except the word of God, tell hell, no.

Telling hell, no needs to be second nature. Now, because you keep saying this, doesn’t mean the enemy is going to stop trying. It just means he’s going to try to come at you another way, so you have to be alert.

To be alert means to watch and pray daily. The enemy can try all he wants, but God said no weapon formed against you shall prosper.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Jan 31

When They Expect You To Fail

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We cannot be so naive to think that everyone is on our side. It would be good if they were, but let’s not get beside ourselves. Just because people expect you to fail doesn’t mean you have to be a failure. You need to get an, I’ll show you attitude.

I’ll show you that I’m fearfully and wonderfully made. I’ll show you that I’m the head and not the tail. I’ll show you that I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. I’ll show you that, the kingdom suffers violence and the violent take it by force, if you keep messing with me.

We need to realize that God allows people in our life to agitate us. They come to church every Sunday just to mess with us. They sit by us on our way to work. We run into them at the store. They become our boss. Some of them are our blood relatives. Although they agitate us and aggravate us, they are really there to help push us to where God wants us to be. If these people never came into our lives; we wouldn’t want more and we wouldn’t strive for more. We would be content with mediocre.

If you’re okay with being mediocre that’s cool. But, if our father is King and own a cattle on a thousand hills, shouldn’t we want to step our game up?
Can’t nobody hold us down but us. People don’t control our destiny, we do. No matter what the people say. If God said it, we should believe it, and that settles it.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Jan 30

When God Is Silent

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When chaos ensues and one thing after another begins to happen, it seems like God becomes silent. You’re praying and fasting and God is still silent. You even ask God; do you see, do you care what I’m going through? And yet, he is still silent. You go to church and the pastor is preaching, prophesying over your life and people are shouting; but all the while you’re just focused on what you’re going through.

It’s in the silence that you keep trying to trust in God while your faith is dwindling. You keep going to church in hopes that the pastor is right, when he says you’re next in line. You keep reading the word of God, in hopes it will come alive in your situation. You’re holding on by a thread, while the enemy is speaking in your ear, that God doesn’t love you.

When God is silent, you must dig deep and find a way to trust him when you can’t trace him. You must shut the enemy down by combating everything he says with the word of God. You must stand on the promises of God, even if it doesn’t look like it’s coming to past. Honestly, when God is silent, he’s showing you what he’s placed on the inside of you. He’s still working on your behalf, he’s just not giving you any insight on what he’s doing.

So, when God is silent, keep trusting and believing and know that trouble don’t last always.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Jan 29

Humble Yourself

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When I was in the Army my first sergeant would always tell me, I need to eat humble pie. I disagreed with him, because of pride, and I felt I was always right. Most of the times I was right with what I said, but how I said it, was all wrong. I needed humble pie.

Life has a way to humble you. The bibles says to humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. Now, you can do this willingly or you can be forced. One way or another, you will be humbled.

God can use your health, your children getting in trouble, you losing your job and having to beg for help, your marriage, the death of a love one or anything else he chooses to humble you. Don’t let it boil down to that.

Tell God to lead you and guide you and to direct your path and speech. People may expect you to act up and flip out, but God expects you to drop your pride, show love and kindness , show meekness, and act like his child.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Jan 28

Don’t Believe Me Just Watch

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Has someone ever asked you for something, or asked you to do something but didn’t believe you would come through for them? Did you feel like; why ask me if you think I’m not going to do it? Did it irritate you to no end? Did you tell yourself, you were going to do it just to prove them wrong? Secretly, did you say; don’t believe me just watch?

Have you ever prayed to God, but didn’t really believe he would come through for you? Did you care how you made him feel by doubting him? Do you think you irritated God with your disbelief?

God is so good and slow to anger, for the sake of his word; he said don’t believe me just watch. He performed a miracle in your life to show you who he was and what he is capable of. I can remember before I had heart surgery when my heart was malfunctioning , and I would have to be rushed to the hospital so the doctor’s could stop my heart and restart it. They would always get the crash cart ready just in case my heart didn’t start back. All the doctors and nurses would be around my bed waiting for my heart to stop and one day I said God help me. The doctor asked what did you say? I replied God help me. God showed those doctors and me something that day. My heart never stopped, it just reset itself and the doctors were all amazed.

It doesn’t pay to doubt God and it’s not always good to make God prove who he is. He can prove who he is in the most dire situations that can almost take you out.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Jan 27

I Paid For It

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Whenever you make a purchase at the store the cashier always ask, do you want your receipt? Normally, I say no, I know I paid for it.

I wonder, do we act the way we act as Christians because we know Jesus already paid for it. Do we have the mentality, once saved always saved, because we know Jesus paid for it? Are we so arrogant to think that Jesus had no choice but to pay for it?

Perhaps, our attitudes would be different if we had to pay the same price as Jesus. Perhaps, if we had to give up our only child for an ungrateful, evil, and perverse people the payment would mean more.

People don’t care as much when someone else pays the cost. But, they have a tendency to look at things much different when they have to pay the cost.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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Jan 26

Pop Quiz

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Growing up in school, we would come to class and the teacher would say; put everything away this is a pop quiz. The teacher would only quiz us on what we were taught. Some people were not prepared. Other people just put an answer on the paper, and some past the test with flying colors.

The bible says we are held accountable for what we know. It also says; to study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. I consider myself a student of the word. So, God gave me a pop quiz last week. I told my daughter she can only drive certain places where we live. She decided to be disobedient and drove specifically where I told her not to go. She got a speeding ticket. Where we live speeding tickets are between $650-950 dollars and if you don’t pay, you go to jail until it’s paid.

Jesus said ok Tereasa, pop quiz. When you mess up and repent what does God do? I answered forgive me of my sins and throw it into the sea of forgetfulness. Where does charity start daughter? I said at home. What are parents not to do? I said provoke their children to anger. You’ve answered well. Now, I’ve showed you love, I’ve forgiven you and your sins were more costly than a speeding ticket and although you provoked me, with love and kindness have I drawn thee. In other words, God said don’t be mad at her. You have the money, it’s not going to break the bank. Let it go.

I was obedient and when I thought about it, this too shall pass and God could have dealt with my disobedience much harsher than he did. But, he showed me grace and mercy, so why couldn’t I do the same for my daughter.

Are you ready for your pop quiz? Are you ready to be held accountable for what you know? Ready or not testing time is coming.

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

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