We have choices!
I see so many people who have trouble with happiness. No one is in charge of your happiness but you. Happiness is being content, cheerful, or merry and this does not depend on circumstances or people. It’s a choice! When we have Jesus Christ in our life, we can be happy no matter what is going on around us. Here are some promises from God to stand on!
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. (Proverbs 15:13)
All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast. (Proverbs 15:15)
So many times we allow depression to enter our life; then we go to a doctor and he/she gives us a prescription! I am not against doctors and medicine but every medicine has warnings. Read the label. And most of the time the warning is worse than the actual thing wrong with us. The best prescription we can ever have is from Dr. Jesus and His words of wisdom and power. It is a decision on our part to stay happy and have a merry heart.
We Christians have no reason to fear or be depressed! We cannot be in fear and faith at the same time and we cannot be depressed and happy at the same time. It is our choice which of these we allow in our life. What I choose today will affect my tomorrow!
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My life is a mess! I know I have done so many things wrong. I have hurt so many people. I call myself a Christian, so how do I make all this right?
By faith, just like you received Christ as your personal Savior and Lord, you will release the language! Just get on your knees and surrender. Ask the Lord Jesus to baptize you with the Holy Spirit and He will! Find a Bible preaching Pentecostal church where the Spirit is moving with signs and wonders and miracles. This is all very exciting!
What is the difference between being happy and having joy? Aren’t they the same?
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Recent Food For Thought Articles
The Lord speaks to us through His manual for success (Bible). But are we listening? We are living in very evil times, but we can also see revival among people if we watch Christian News. When people get saved in great numbers, we need to pray for them to truly get connected. A merely emotional experience is not becoming born again. Conversion is believing that the Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross, died, and rose again, and we ask Him to forgive our sin.
Every day we hear something in the news that is so devastating, but as children of God we always have hope. So many Christians might attend church and read the Bible but still have no understanding of the Lord’s precious gift of Hope. Hope brings and builds trust IN our Lord no matter what happens.
Everywhere we look, so many people are going through horrible things. Every time I take a hot shower, the Lord brings to my mind how many people have no water at all! Bad weather and fires have destroyed so many lives. People without the Lord have no hope. But those who have received Jesus as their personal Savior and are trusting HIM and His Promises found in their manual for success (the Bible) – they have hope!
Have you ever thought about the word “wilderness” and what that means for the Christian and the non-Christian? To be a Christian we must believe—which is to trust and have confidence that Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of the world and rose again! Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.