Friday, 23 March 2012

no more lies

no more lies. yeah right! are  you thinking what I'm thinking?  maybe yes  maybe no? here is a topic  that  everyone  deals with or has  dealt with. no more lies!i  wont pretend  to  say  i have all the answers cause i  don't.
    here's  what lies  i  listen to  and I'm sure  alot of us  identify but feel free  to jump in and admit what lies you are listening to....... I'm not  pretty enough, I'm not smart enough, ill  always  stay the same and do nothing with my life, i am a failure.I'm not skinny  enough. etc you can take a  few minutes to think about what  lies you are listening to and how we can overcome this.
  so check this out if you dare.... are  you  ready for simple truth. or maybe you are  still listening to the lies that hold you captive and  you are too ashamed too afraid to here the truth.

1. look into a mirror and say  tada I'm beautiful
2.read  the bible there is  tons of stuff that can relate your lies
3.being you are in your  bible reading take some time and think about the  last  lie you listened to. now how through Gods truth can you speak  to the lies?how are you going to respond instead of react?

  now i also  want to be realistic  everyone handles things differently.so how you change  and how much you change is up to you. no words i  write will change you. so today this can be your  day  to gain personal victory over the lies that  you have been believing.this can be  your  moment of  personal  victory. you  can  do all things through Christ who  gives you strength. maybe you  are like me you  need  to hear  for yourself  a story  of  someone  over  came the  voices lying to there  head. I'd like to give you a story  something to relate to. but truth  is  i have yet  to fully overcome the lies in my mind.  all i know is  God is the only one  that can really  fully  transform our  minds. if we'll let him. so  come with me today and lets  trust god  can  do all things and he  can  transform out  minds to be  be  more like him. 


elz

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

seasons of change

Dear Reader

  get ready get  set gooooooo. here we are it feels alot like spring for winter and summer like weather for our spring  start off. talk about changes. changes are happening constantly all  around  us. there is a time and a place for everything. 
  change is constant.without change there is  no room for growth. a friend  told me earlier today that if you think about something you can determine  the  out come. so maybe like me you are one that over thinks things. what kind of change are you dealing with right now. maybe  like me you  hate change.  yet you  need  change in your life. or you face change and you thrive  for change id like  to say  you are  on your  own but your everyone has there own way of  adapting to changes.
  so  at  the  beginning i talked about different seasons. what  season are you in. do you  even know. i can tell you  this  no matter what you face in life  God will always  have your back even  when you cant see him hes there waiting for you to ask.when you come. begin to expect  big things  to happen in your life.  don't give up embrace  change.

elz  

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Blessings

Dear Reader,
 So i was at church on Sunday and all of a sudden i was thinking about something. so  for  example say God  asked you to Go up to someone and  bless them  with  $100 would you  fight with God  and make up all these excuses? what you are  really doing is being disobedient.  so  lets  say  again  god says  to you  give this person $ 100 again is  not your initial  response but God..  i can use that for something else. instead  we should  be stepping out in faith and  saying OK God if you can move  mountains  how  much more can you provide for me. i know all  this sounds  crazy  right but  i know we all have this at least once in our lives had this little fight going  off in our head. 
 so imagine  this if you  will if every time you  say no what you are doing is  holding back a blessing for the other person and your self.  when you trust god enough you  won't  have this battle  going on in your head. Are you  going through really tight finances right now? are you  feeling like  God  why  is everyone but me  being blessed?
    here is a little story  of  how  God  blesses those who are obedient.   this  week  Rachel and i  Had just  finished paying rent. so  we had no money for  gas in the car and really  didn't know how all that was going to work out.  then  Sunday  night mom and dad phoned  they asked  if they could come over  last night to  our apartment.  i was like  sure come on over.  so  mom  cooked  dinner. our fridge was  on  empty lol  and we were going to  have an involuntary  fast ha ha.  but  mom and dad  came over and filled our fridge and brought  over stuff as well as blessed  us  so we can put gas in Rachel car. I  didn't know how we  were going to get through this week but i knew in my heart that god would provide all our needs and then some.  maybe you  can relate to this. there is weeks and  you  really don't  know  how you  will make it through. its like you are hanging on by a thread.  i believe God allows these  things to happen so that we can learn to  depend and trust in him.  if  we always have everything at hand how do we learn to  trust?
 may  God  truly  bless  all of you and provide everything that  you  need  today. may you be obedient and  trust God  he knows what he's  doing. Remember God is able to do all things whatever your need.


elz

Thursday, 1 March 2012

the same God

for quite some time now i have been struggling with my walk with God  thinking why  would  god  still  care look what I have done.  this is a mindset  that many of us share when we have done things  that we know are wrong.  we pray  for redemption, we ask for  forgiveness, yet we struggle to believe our words. the words is this song  are powerful. the same God that was with you then  is  with you now. the  same God who led you in will lead you out.
What is  holding us back as Christians from really trusting God. I mean our words hold  the power of life and death. but  why is it so hard to  really  let  God in. i have shut him out in areas of my life  where  i needed to open up.  I shut him out in relationships. and was left  hurt and broken  cause i didn't  ask God. I know  we all have  things in our back closet.  some  is  really hard to deal  with.  we need to know that we are not alone.through Christ we can do all things. maybe you  seek reconciliation, or  forgiveness, maybe you  have been  on a path of failure and you try to  get up but the  attacks of the  enemy hit  harder every time and you stand in defeat wanting God to rescue you . but  we forget to ASK we forget to SEEK we forget to KNOCK.
so matter what you face in life don't give up don't lose hop  God has a plan  sometimes it requires us to wait a little bit longer and be  patient a little bit longer. if things  happened  exactly when you  want them to.  we  wouldn't learn to depend on God. we wouldn't  trust in him.

Elz