Many people know the truth about God and His ways. But how many actually love the truth and actively seek out understanding, and the accurate information while also valuing and prioritizing truthfulness in all aspects of their lives, even when it’s challenging or uncomfortable.
Loving the truth is a commitment to honesty and integrity, refusing to compromise on principles, even when face with pressure to do otherwise.
A person who loves the truth, strives should be honest with themselves and others, avoiding deception and self deception.
Actively evaluating information is discerning what is accurate and reliable, not just accepting what is convenient or popular.
Having the courage to speak up, and being willing to be the voice of truth, even when it might be unpopular or leads to conflict.
Loving the truth, requires a genuine desire to learn and grow by embracing new information that our lines with the truth.
Loving the truth is embracing the teachings of Jesus, studying scripture and living, according to God‘s principles.
Psalm 2 tells us “The Lord laughs at the wicked.” meaning that God finds the people plotting and rebellion against Him futile and ridiculous that He essentially laughs at their attempts to oppose Him. He knows that His supreme power and confidence that their plans will ultimately fail.
God is not threatened by human rebellion and sees their efforts as insignificant. His laughter is a way of expressing His disdain for the wicked schemes against Him and His chosen ones.
The world has plotted the throw off God’s control. But the setting is black and white. God’s enemies stand against Him on one side, and His friends with Him on the other side. His plans will not be thwarted.
There is no reason to fear if we are on the side who are friends with God. Soon enough our enemies will hear His voice, but instead of being comforted by God, they will be terrified by His fury (Psalm 2:5).
They will stand no chance against the sovereignty of God. They will be overmatched and will most certainly lose in the end.
We all have free will, but soon people will have a choice of which side they wish to be on – God’s or Satan’s.
How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?
Anyone who has experienced childhood abuse knows the very core of the person’s being is altered. Their entire sense the world is turned upside down.
Surviving unthinkable abuse has changed the way I’ve developed. For year’s I’ve experienced fear and shame, anxiety, which shaped me into something I sometimes don’t want to be. I have worked hard on learning coping mechanisms to deal with my feelings of distrust and abandonment issues, and low self-esteem.
I’ve worked hard to not live in survival mode. For most of my life, I’ve felt constantly on edge, hyper-vigilant, and ready to react defensively to perceive threats, even seemingly safe situations which put me in a constant state of fight or flight response due to my brain having learned to prioritize self-preservation over feeling safe and relaxed.
I’ve worked hard to change my perspective on life, but not before I took a toll on my physical health. It is one of the reasons I started this blog, thinking maybe someone can learn from my mistakes.
“Always try to learn from other people’s mistakes, it’s much cheaper that way.”
Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.
To do it lists help us organize our thoughts, prioritize our tasks, and reduce cutter and provide a sense of accomplishment by visually displaying what needs to be done and allowing us to check off completed items. Which leads to increased productivity and better time management. 
I try not to make long daily to do it lists. Otherwise, I feel like unaccomplished. If I can get three or four things on my do it list today then. I feel good, but putting 10 things on my to do list I get overwhelmed and overthink, feeling like I have to rush through things. The rushing is what gets me in trouble.
Most governments are against Christianity because they cannot control people who believe in a “higher power.” Christians, due to their faith in God cannot be controlled by any earthly authority because their ultimate allegiance lies with God or higher power, which influences their decisions and actions even when facing external pressures.
This is emphasizes the personal connection between a Christian and their God. No earthly entity can fully dictate their beliefs or action based on their faith.
Belief in God provides a strong moral framework for Christians, which guides their behavior even when faced with external pressure to act differently.
Historically, Christians have used their faith as a source of strength when facing persecution, refusing to submit to authority that contradicts their belief in God.
It was Hillary Clinton that made a declaration of war on Bible believing Christians in 2016. She stated that the “deep seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.” This is perhaps the most radical statement against religious liberty ever utters by someone seeking a presidency. And it’s deeply revealing.
I really enjoy cooking, but I’m sure I’m like everyone else when I say I don’t like the cleaning-up process. We enjoy meals for probably 10/15 minutes and then spend an hour cleaning up.
Lately, I’m really loving the one-pot meals. Like Italian sausage and pepper sandwiches, or one-pot pasta.
I listened to a teaching from Steven Furtick a few years ago and wrote this thought down, because it is dead on for someone who is fighting all the wrong battles.
“I thought I was fighting someone, and I thought I was fighting something, but the real fight, the real war, the real battle was not a battle with them, it was a battle I was fighting within.”
There are times in our lives when we are like Saul in the Bible, fighting the wrong battles, trying to kill what God is trying to use. We explode or “freak out” on people, or treat them badly, when instead we should just bless the Lord, if we could just get ourselves right, our minds right, if we could just fix our eyes, it would all come together.
Saul wads walking, talking civil war. He took out what was happening within himself on the closest available target.
Parents do this all the time to their children. It’s not that we don’t love them, we love them more than we love ourselves, but sometimes we don’t love ourselves. So, we cannot give them the love we have for them, if there is no love of God that flows out of us. We are not fighting them we are fighting ourselves.
When we are at war with ourselves, wretched if you will as the Apostle Paul calls the weapons of this world. We are fighting the very thing that God is trying to use in our lives.
Sometimes we are fighting against what we should be fighting for.
Knowing the true nature of God will help us to trust Him and open ourselves up so that we can receive the healing that only the Holy Spirit can provide for us.
Tom and 8:32 says,
“He who didn’t spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how would He not also with Him freely give us all things?”
After Jesus suffered and died for us, why would He withhold healing our wounded souls? We can confidently open up to Him and know that He has our best interests in mind simply by looking at what He went through on the cross for us.
We are loved by God, not because of what we’ve done, but because of who we are. The Bible tells us that while we were sinners, Jesus died for us. He longed to have a relationship with us even before we became His children (Romans 5:8).
Jesus says in John 15:14, “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down His life for His friends.”
Jesus laid down His life for us -that is how valuable and dear we are to Him.
We must realize God’s will for our souls.
Aside from the spirit of man, we should remember that this is the most important part of a man. His soul. Our being is man and emotion. But the soul comprises three parts, the mind which says “I think,” and the emotion which says, “I feel,’ and the decision which says, “I will.” We should understand that it is crucial in our inner or emotional healing because it is our own self-consciousness, our inner being if the spirit is part is God-conscious, and the flesh is world-conscious, then our soul is our own self-consciousness. It took me 10 years to understand this, Hopefully, now you can understand this and benefit from it as I have.
“For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and of a sound mind” – 2 Timothy 1:7.
When the Holy Spirit comes, the will of God for the healing of our souls comes. God completes us!
We should make it clear in our minds that the Holy Spirit can work by God’s grace if we let Him. It is for us to decide.
Abuse, trauma, hurt, and pain are all works of the devil and the consequences of our fall. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil and to restore His children to fullness to which He had created them to fulfill.
When Jesus was here on the earth, He went about doing the will of the Father in heaven, and this included healing all who were oppressed of satan.
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, (satan) for God was with Him” -Acts 10:38.
When we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit comes as a result of this acceptance and He will be the One that will bring us to transformation.
Realizing our identity in Christ Jesus is absolutely vital to our healing process. We need to know that we are “new in Christ” freed from the darkness of our past, forgiven of our sins, and that freedom and healing are ours because of the Blood that Jesus she’d for us.
The decision is whether we surrender wholly to Him, and allow the Holy Spirit to live on the inside of us.
My first computer was an HP all-in-one with Windows. Computers have changed our lives in many ways, including how we communicate, learn, and access information.
It connected the world in ways our ancestors never thought possible and has impacted everything from education to healthcare and enabled unprecedented levels of connectivity and productivity across many fields.
Psalm 91:16 says, “With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.”
If you’re like me you know people who have died to young. It seems in the last year I’ve known too many people who have passed away far too young. It got me to thinking what God says in His Word concerning our life on earth -how we are to live and how long. God has a good, long life planned for us. But without that revelation, we can’t expect to live out the full number of our days. It takes faith to receive the promises of God.
There are several reasons people die young. To live long on the earth, it is important to do some things:
Receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, and live under God’s protection.
Except to receive God’s promises of long life.
Speak only good over your life, do not declare sickness, disease, or death over yourself.
Walk in love. Bitterness and forgiveness are the root of many diseases.
Obey God’s commandments, and live according to His Word.
Do what’s right in the natural. Eat right, exercise, and avoid unhealthy habits.
While we have a personal responsibility to live right, there are times when tragedy comes that we can’t explain.
There is no place for blame or guilt in these circumstances. It’s never God’s will for loss to occur, but He is always there to heal our hearts and comfort us. Some scriptures where God promises to comfort us are:
Isaiah 61:1-3
Psalm 23:4
Psalm 71:21
Psalm 24
Corinthians 1:3-4
The Bible teaches us that God is in control of all things, including death, and can even use tragic events to achieve a greater purpose.
While God’s plan may not always be clear to us, the Bible acknowledges that suffering and loss are part of life, and sometimes we may not understand why these things happen.
When you make a mistake, the key is to acknowledge it, learn from it, and actively change your behavior to avoid repeating it in the future. This means taking responsibility, analyzing what went wrong, an implementing new strategies to prevent similar mistakes from happening again again.
There are some key points remember to recovering from a mistake,
Own up to the mistake: Don’t try to blame others or make excuses and admit your error.
Look at the cause: understand what led to the mistake so you can address the root cause.
Come up with a plan to improve: Identify specific actions you can take to prevent similar mistakes in the future.
Practice self compassion: Don’t beat yourself up, everyone makes mistakes. 
Mistakes leads to growth because it provide opportunity to learn, improve, and develop resilience.
“ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result” -Albert Einstein.
Mistakes provide immediate feedback on what went wrong, and help us learn to grow and improve.
Mistakes for us to think critically and solve problems, which helps to develop resilience and adaptability.
Mistakes can help us develop a growth mindset, which is the belief that you can improve through learning an effort.
If we don’t learn from our mistakes, we cannot grow or improve, a lack of self-awareness or unwillingness to acknowledge our mistakes.
Not taking the time to think critically about our actions, or being stubborn to change our behavior even when it’s faced with negative consequences doesn’t get us very far in life.
What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?
The scariest thing would be hearing the words “depart from me I never knew you.” (Matthew 7:23) After my body returns to the earth. Hearing God say these words is the scariest.
Jesus says “I never knew you” to those who claim to who claim to know Him but don’t have a relationship with Him.
Jesus is saying that people who believe they are saved because they say “Lord Lord, but do not do what God wants will not be saved.
The only thing I can do is to stay in a relationship with Him. Follow Him and obey Him.
I try no catch myself before I begin complaining because it only provides temptation relief, validation, or an outlet for feelings of helplessness and lack of control.
God commands us not to complain. Some scriptures tell us to “Do everything without complaining and grumbling. Negative thoughts turn into negative words. It indirectly declares that God is not good, faithful, loving, wise or powerful.
Complaining is a sin and it’s important to avoid it. Complaining can lead to missing out on God’s provision.
Complaining tells God we don’t trust Him. It’s a lack of faith in His plan and ability to care for us,
From Pity to Praise 