Jesus is the only true house fixer and flipper

A wise builder first sits down to add up the cost of his build.

God consulted with Jesus and Holy Spirit and said let us make a man after our image and likeness. But before he did that God created the earth that was with out form and void so that man he would create would have someone to grow. Just like God took time to tell the waters after he separated the firmament the sky from dry land he put life into the waters. God saw that it was good. God make vegetation and caused a mist to come up from the earth so it would grow. God create other beast and creepy crawling things to help the ecosystem grow. So after he created man male and female after his image and likeness which is a Spirit well the man needed a body so he formed man out of his original creation the dust of the ground. Then he breathed life into that dust body and it gave us life! God created everything to create after it's own kind but he did it first and after seeing that even after creating all the animals, beast and such he saw there wasn't one fit for Adam the man he first created so he caused Adam to go into a deep sleep (side bar get sleep God heals us the most there where there are no distractions from our faith on when it will happen, why, how, what, and who. He allows our bodies to regenerate faster, burn calories, and will even speak to us and show us things while we are sleeping) nevertheless while Adam was sleeping took a rib and created woman and when Adam saw her called her Eve and he took her as his wife. So you see God knew what all of this would cost and he knew that Satan and his emps, demons, or fallen angels were already down on earth because he cast them down into darkness and now God disrupted Satan's Kingdom by putting us here and made life on it and knew what the cost would be so he gave stipulations to Adam and Eve regarding what to eat because God knew that what one consumes would be what they are. Once you consume something that is in disobedience to God or something not like God you can soon become aware that there are other forces beside God in operation and can diminish your faith in what you once knew if you let it. Had Adam and Eve been obedient to God and not allowed the serpent influenced by Satan trick them life as we even know it would be much different. However, I'm sure God already knew all scenarios on how things would play out because he is a wise master builder and already had a plan to fix things because some how sin would enter the world. God knew it could happen because he commanded them from eating that fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. So evil already existed it was just that God created Adam and Eve without the need to know about it. So since sin happened I believe God's plan was already in motion for Jesus then because the Word was and so was Jesus because he is the Word of God. So after the fall of Adam and Eve, and the first murder of their son by his brother, the fallen angels mating with woman from earth creating giants and so much more sin, folks trying to build towers to heaven which is God's throne and much more sinful acts God was repented that he ever created man so he found one faithful man Noah and his family and scrapped the whole creation he created because of their sinful nature and he populated the whole earth again with Noah and his family!.

Now let's take a step back as the title of this message is Jesus is the only true fixer and flipper of houses. Who would seeing a dilapidated, run down house that had some good bones and great locations wouldn't still survey the land and see what could come of it. If you were interested in something already broken you might have a vision on what the finished product will look like and that gives you joy and strength to press on to the finish line. But you also need a plan to figure out how things should start. Do you remove the walls all at once and start over from the foundation as long as

You have more power on your knees!

I saw a video of a ram fighting a rhino and it was amazing that the ram was able to out power this large animal and it was only one ram and at least 4 rhinos. I saw the ram back up get on it's knees and have more stabilizing power to ram ahead and defeat the rhinos and they ran off.

When we are facing opposition it would seem likely to want to always put up a fight and there is a time and season for all of that. But when we get on our knees and surrender to God he fights for us! We don't even have to defend ourselves! We have to acknowledge God in all our ways and he will direct our path! First seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added to us. What things? Anything you need that lines up with God's will for your life; peace in a storm, power to overcome, joy for mourning, comfort from sorrow, healing from pain, provision in the wilderness and protection in battles. We must remember we serve a God that is all powerfully and he will leave the 99 to go get the one. Therefore, if we seek him with our whole heart and have a relationship him God as our heavenly Father he will give us the desires of our heart. God puts his investment in us therefore he will protect his investment. Just like you put money our what you would consider your most prized possession into something and expect a return so does God! When he gave his only begotten Son Jesus to die for our sins we were bought with that price in exchange for our sins he cleansed us and made us whole. Therefore the return on that investment that God expects is really our reasonable service; for us to present our bodies a living sacrifice and whatever area that looks like for his name sake. Remember the wages of sin is death and since we were spared the least we can do is tell other folks about how God saved you, cleaned you up and set you free. You can also tell folks how God came to your rescue everyone has a story that could have went a different way but God's grace, mercy and protection saw fit for it not to be so!!! Glory to God I thank you Jesus for your sacrifice and for fighting for me, for bridging the gap!

Jesus himself prayed all the time. He would go off by himself away from the disciples and the multitudes to pray and that will strengthen him. He taught the disciples how to pray given a model in how to pray and to a Model prayer!

Not to say only pray this but how to pray and prayer is a constant and consistent and if we desire to be able to stand in the mist of adversity we have to have a solid foundation. A wise builder sits down and costs the cost of whatever is getting built right? Therefore we need God to be at the foundation of our lives so we can build wise. Our time in Prayer is what it cost to dif our foundation. As tall as a builder wants to make the building is how far he must dig down to be able to support the weight! Jesus prayed to God 3 times in the garden because he knew his time had come to fulfil his passion in not only having the burden of caring his cross but taking his last breath on it. So his time in prayer gave him the power he needed to endure!!!

The Lord's Prayer!!!

Mat 6:5-15 KJV

5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in

What God has on Tap!!!

Access to God anytime, anyplace, anywhere, always and forever!!! Once you accept him, he is available to you always! The thing is, God was, is, and will always be available and near to us,but he stood at the door of your heart and knocked and has been waiting for you to invite him in. God knows every scenario our life choices will take us to with or with him. Which is why he wants to be our God, our guide, and our father! He also will allow us to be given to our own demise if we are too hard-headed!

Revelations 3:15-22 KJV

15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

19. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

20. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

21. To him, that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

22. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

The truth is most of us are content in our mess and what we think to be the key to this life; wealth, and goods and think we are not lacking anything as long as the check clears. As long as I get the newest pair Jordan shoes that ar coming out. As long as I get the latest handbag, get my nails and my hair done or keep a fresh fade. A lot of us are fixated and fascinated with the tangable things that we can see. A lot of us will sell our soul just to be accepted in the sense of being a follower of man when we ought to be followers of Christ! So ,he cure to this mindset is getting access to God! Seeking and finding what God has on Tap!

Tap definition: is to exploit or draw a supply from (a resource).

a device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled. What we need to realize is that we can tap into God and draw from him because he is our source. Whatever you lack is what God has on tap. Whatever you need will flow from God to you,but you have to tap into him via having a relationship to have access to his riches and Ggloryin this life!

We also need to remember that we have the power of life and death in our tougue,so we need to tap in God to gain life and speak life. We literally become new creatures in Christ and no longer are subject to the world but Nnowthe Kingdom of God. So our whole attitude, walk, thought patterns, and the way we talk must also change and line up with God Word and will for our lives.

James 3:10-12 AMP

Out of the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. These things, my brothers, should not be this way [for we have a moral obligation to speak in a manner that reflects our fear of God and profound respect for His precepts]. Does a spring send out from the same opening ,oth fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.

Jesus' blood is a  filtration system for our sins, for our brokenness, our emptiness, loneliness, heartache,and dispar. Jesus' blood is cleansing and making new all the places in our lives that we missed the mark on. Giving us a refreshing and renewed way of thinking, speaking, and perceiving life differently.

Jesus' blood is a covering hedge of protection literally a living fence like you would have around you yard of bushes, shrubs and/or trees Such is Jesus for our life and ou

Have you reached the point of no return in your walk with Christ? The point where you realize, wow my life has changed and so have I and now I no longer have to worry. I no longer have to be subjected to life per usual. Well if you haven't come to the point of no return that just means you may have not started your journey walk with God just yet, you might have just started, or you have been doing it so long you have become complacent! This is life! We can't be so far away from where God brought us from to the point we don't think that one move couldn't land us 10 steps back. We don't have to move in fear but we do need to move in the mindfulness that we don't deserve anything we are given. This gift of life is just that the gift of life from God! There is an alternative to life and that is death. You can experience both walking talking and breathing and not living truly to the best that God has for us! God first loved us even when he knew what we would be. So this should give us some peace and freedom understanding that we will make mistakes and bad decisions but we don't have to allow folks to count us out and surely we don't need to give up on ourselves or our relationship with God because we messed up. Did you know that God doesn't love us anymore now walking with him then he did when we were dead in our sins? Why is that you ask? Well I'll tell you why! Gods love is unconditional and he loved us when we were sinners or he wouldn't have given his ONLY BEGOTTEN SON JESUS for our lives. Even when we get saved and our lives have changed and we slip up God said....

Matthew 18:11-14

11 [a]For the Son of man came to save [[b]from the penalty of eternal death] that which was lost.

12 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray and gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountain and go in search of the one that is lost?

13 And if it should be that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

14 Just so it is not the will of My Father Who is in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost and perish.

Romans 8:33

33. Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?]

See the thing is we can't even judge ourselves because we are bought with a price not as slaves but Jesus calls us his friends. We are no longer bondsman tied by link and chain to our sin!!!

Romans 6:6-7

6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Another point of no return: Jesus foretold the disciples what they would do!

Mark 14:27-50

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

27 And Jesus said to them, You will all fall away this night [that is, you will be caused to stumble and will begin to distrust and desert Me], for it stands written, I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.

28 But after I am raised [to life], I will go before you into Galilee.

29 But Peter said to Him, Even if they all fall away and are caused to stumble and distrust and desert You, yet I will not [do so]!

30 And Jesus said to him, Truly I tell you, this very night, before a cock crows twice, you will utterly deny Me [disclaiming all connection with Me] three times.

31 But [Peter] said more vehemently and repeatedly, [Even] if it should be necessary for me to die with You, I will not deny or disown You! And they all kept saying the same thing.

32 Then they went to a place called Gethsemane, and He said to His disciples, Sit down here while I pray.

33 And He took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be [a]struck with terror and amazement and deeply troubled and depressed.

34 And He said to them, M

The road to better!!!

The road to better is reached one step at a time even if you run you still have to put two feet on the ground one foot at a time. You might get there faster but the road to better is also about God's timing.  Some of us think that our situations are so bad but yet God knows our end before the beginning therefore our season might not be up yet because God hasn't stop the clock to release us from the season we are in and there just might be more we need to learn from where we are. Yet one step at a time will get us to the road of better. By and by and through the grace of God he has already given us a measure of grace to walk in the calling he has given to us. So stop trying to escape the parts of your journey that will make you stronger and that will make God's name great!!

1 John 4:4 AMP

4. Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world.

And because we know we can over anything because belong to God! We also need to know...

2 Kings 6:16 KJV

16. And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.

Mentioned this last episode

"The Word of God has to be in you or you can easily fall out of the will of God and the world will win. When we are building foundations we tend to build bad habits into them while God is trying to bless us. God will send us someone to correct us in the mean time and so that we are not so hard on ourselves so that we don't  build condemnation in our foundation!!!" Krystal Mitchell

That's where we get to...

Romans 8:1-39 AMP

8 Therefore, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.

3 For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [[a]the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [[b]subdued, overcame, [c]deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice],

4 So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit].

5 For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and [d]pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and [e]seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.

6 Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that [f]comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].

7 [That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God’s Law; indeed it cannot.

8 So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.

9 But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God].

10 But if Christ lives in you, [then although] your [natural] body is dead by reason of sin

What is your foundation built on? Sand or a Rock!!! Sand is easily manipulated especially near water so if a storm comes the sand will become overtaken. Rocks are solid and can withstand the storms that walking on this journey called life might bring. People, places, things, and or ideas are symbolic of sand can be easily influenced and can cause you to be carried away by the worlds point of view and social standards. The rock is Jesus that came to build more rocks!!! If we stand on him we are standing on the word of God!!!

So our foundation must be built on Jesus; He is the word of God and therefore we can by his spirit withstand all the wiles and or tricks, plots, schemes of the devil.

Matthew 7:24-29

Jesus tells a story about two men who each built a house

 24  ‘I will tell you about a man. He hears my message and he obeys it. Now, this person understands my words. He is like a man who built his house on rock.

 25  Then a storm came and brought a lot of water. The water hit the house and strong winds blew hard against that house. But the house did not fall down because the man had built it on rock.

 26  Another man hears my message and he does not obey it. He is like a man who built his house on sand.

 27  Then a storm came and brought a lot of water. The water hit the house and strong winds blew hard against it. The house fell down. The storm destroyed it completely.

 28  Jesus finished speaking. All the people were very surprised about the things that he taught them.

 29  Jesus did not teach them in the same way as the teachers of the *Law. Jesus had his own authority when he taught them.

Hebrews 11:3,10

3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Abraham

10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

So in other words we need to allow the Word of God to be our foundation that no matter who brings the storm, what type of storm comes, where the storm hits, why the storm came, and or how it came we can face any obstacle in life because our life is built on a foundation we can't see. When a house is build you can only see the top part of the foundation but usually there are crawl spaces under the house that will allow the foundation to be checked out. Well the Word needs to be so solid in your life that even if you had to crawl into a tight space or backed into a corner that you know that you are on a solid foundation and your house (faith) won't fail and or fall. You see God never promised us that the strong winds wouldn't beat up our house(life) he never said that storms wouldn't happen to and we wouldn't feel like we were going to cave but what he did say is that if we just wait on him he would renew our strength.

Isaiah 40:31

31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Abram when he was on the journey that God sent him on he looked for a city whose foundations and  builder was made by God and sometimes that is a physical place we have to pray and know where to belong; is the job we are at right for us, am I at the right church? We even need to know am I hanging  with the right people. God doesn't what people that have the wisdom to build rock houses to be negatively influenced by folks that have built sand houses. In fact...

Psalms 1:1-6 KJV

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind dr

Sometimes you have to dig in faith and dig to find your faith

Bible Gateway Genesis 12 :: NIV. The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

God counted Abraham righteous because he believed God!!! Just due to mere fact of life it might take some of us to dig to find our faith and or our belief system. Abraham just dug in faith so to speak because he just moved on God's command without question and believed that what God said would be so and acted upon it.

Refer to Genesis 22:1-19

He even had faith during the test of going to sacrifice his only son (born from promise) Issac he even told the servant once he found the place on the mountain while the sacrifice should be done to sysy here and I amd the lad will return. Issac even asked Father where is the sacrifice? Abram in faith said the Lord will provide a sacrifice even though he had no idea when, where, and or how God would do it but this had to be done as a foreshadowing of Jesus Father son sacrificial relationship with God!!! So you see Abraham dug with faith without worry and or doubt that God would keep his word!! We sometimes have to dig to find our faith not necessarily because we don't trust God but we haven't really been introduced to him and may not have a relationship with him. So we might have a hard time believing in a God you can't see. If you dont believe in him how in the world can you hear from him

When Abraham got to that mountain top he put his son on the altar to be a blood sacrifice in obedience to God and as he was living his had with knife to come down on his son. He heard the voice of the angel of the Lord Abraham Abraham stay your hand!!! This is so loaded because Isaac was being obedient to his father like unto Jesus bring led to the slaughter and opened not his mouth. Abraham in the fear and admiration of God and his complete faith he was ready to slay his only son that God blessed him with in his old age and because of his believe and faith in God and his relationship he was able to dig in faith so to speak and actually find the place where the sacrifice was supposed to be done. God only told him to go to the place of Moriah he said I will show you when you get there so he had to trust God that he would hear where the right mountain was he had faith that God would provide the sacrifice, and in that moment when he heard the angel if the Lord's voice call his name twice there was a ram in bush caught by it's horns!!!! That is symbolic of Jesus being on the cross with the cross if thorns on his head for the chastisement of our peace!!! But that ram that was the sacrifice that probably was making its way up the other side of the mountain led by God because he knew he could also trust Abraham that he would be obedient to find the place and to preform the sacrifice!!! So relationship is key and as said before some folks have to rely on what they see before they believe but that ought not to be so when as when the trying of our faith comes and it will come we have to be able to recognize the voice if so we won't slay the wrong sacrifice, so that we can be that sheep led by our Shepard. God doesn't have to be seen to be heard!!! Faith comes by hearing and that by the Word if God

I'm here to tell you you don't have to see God in physical form to see him. You can just look in the mirror or look outside and behold the beauty of the Lord as the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.

In others words if you allow yourself to open up your spirit you will feel God and see him too through his creation and the magnitude of the seen to be made of what is not seen

Hebrews 11:10 KJV

Heb 11:1-10 KJV

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that

Stop staying mad at extras; You are the main character of your testimony!!!

God created you and only one you! You are a designers original. God created you after his image and likeness but with your personality and the things you have been tested on were to build, mode you and strengthen your character

What is character?

Character is the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.

Rather, character is defined in how your habits, motives, thoughts, and so on relate to morality, particularly as it concerns integrity

What is intergrity:

the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.

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the state of being whole and undivided.

So God has called us for certain things specifically based on who he has created us to be. So we dont have time worry about the role someone else plays in our story because God is looking at our character and integrity to see how we will react and or respond or not to the things people do. We have to be so undivided and disciplined in our faith walk the we continue to look to the hills for my help! In other words we have to make sure we are focused on God and his will for our lives. We can be faithful one moment and faithless the next because someone said or did something to us because our life is not even our own we belong to God so why should I take my eyes off Jesus whom is my help and my exceedingly great reward!

James 1:6-8 Amplified Bible (AMP)

For such a person ought not to think or expect that he will receive anything [at all] from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides].

So I want to be steadfast and unmovable in God's word so I dont end up depending on the World and the folk in it to make me free!

We created by the same God to give him Glory but how the Hloey is extracted out of me is not gonna look the same because we are not the same.

Now you see you might have similarities with folks especially your parents because you share DNA but everyone has to walk this journey of life alone in the sense that you have your own cross to bare. Jesus already bore his cross and even died on it for us. He didn't die in the cross for you to stay angry at your situations and circumstances and especially not staying angry using unnecessary mispplacement of anger at who hurt you. Which is we have have to stop staying mad at extras you are the main character of your testimony!!! You are the one that lived the life you lived and are still living it by the Grace and complete and absolutely overflowing Mercy of God because we too could be extras in someone else's testimony that we could be the end of anger so don't get it twisted and feel like you are this victim and you are not someone that have created victims. Instead be a Victor and bless God and appreciate the ones that played the extra role meaning they will soon have to be on thier way to another assignment! You will be on this life stage with God and God alone and that is the only relationship that we can truly hang everything on! Folks will be here today and gone tomorrow once they have their thrill and or thrist fulfilled not to be worried about being upset because whatever lesson we needed to learn we must be grateful that we are not obligated to stay in the same place because we go from glory to glory and faith to faith and every step is just another notch in the belt of truth in your testimony as one Day God will ask you to tell it because we overcome by the blood of the lamb and words of our testimony so our job is not to waste anger on the extras who might not even have their lines right and who ever might have joined the cast late, whom were sent as a distraction or even a fill-in and or a bystander to push you where God needed you to be. ALSO when you get to a place you believe that God gives you something to do and or say stop telling everyone your plans because they might try to audition for your role and

Season 5 Episode 2 Courageous Beauty Podcast

The more love there is the more things will grow. I believe that rain is a sign of love because it waters the dry areas and prevents famine. Although rain is sometimes synonymous for pain in our lives without pain we might not know we are truly alive and won't ever grow in areas we need to without being pushed to change and or maneuver things in our lives. God will cause us to grow and there will be growing pains because in life our flesh most of the times don't want to change. Therefore we must put our flesh under subjection to God's will and not our own as he knows what's best for us. We also have to be careful not to get complacent in areas of our lives because first of all this life is not even our own; we were bought with a price: Jesus paid it all with the sacrifice of his life in love. So God gave his only begotten son in love and gained all of us as his harvest! God first loved us and blessed us and now it's our reasonable service to present our bodies as a living sacrifice unto God.

Romans 12 1-2 AMP (Amplified Bible)

1.Therefore I urge you, [b]brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies [dedicating all of yourselves, set apart] as a living sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing to God, which is your rational (logical, intelligent) act of worship. 

2. And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be [c]transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you].

In other words, we can truly show our love for God in all that we do. We can show our love to God and to others by the way we speak, we respond, how we act, the way we treat others, and how we treat our relationship with God, and how we treat ourselves. Love is the answer! Love covers the multitude of sins. Why? Because without love nothing we do will ever matter.

1 Corinthians 13 love(see the end)

We are a reflection of God made after his image and likeness therefore we must walk in the love from which we were created from!

John 1-4 NIV(New International Version)

"The Vine and the Branches

1. I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

2. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

3. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

4. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. (More later)

We were made from a place of love created from just a thought from God's mind and God orchestrated the very event that caused our parents to meet which is love maybe not always at first sight but it can grow into love. Either way love got us here. You might say well why would someone having a child as a result of being harmed be considered love? Well I believe God knows the path we will take and there are so many lanes we can choose to walk through and that he is at the end of them all no matter our life chooses. Not matter if things were forced on us he will take what the emeny meant for evil and turn it around for your good. See when life happens and folks harm us that's a lack of love and that person's love hasn't grown and they are not reflecting God and if they that hurt you are not reflecting God then they are reflecting evil and God doesn't control mankind he made us free moral agents so folks have those paths to choose and unfortunately the emeny being evil can influence folks decisions and cause the opposite of love which is hate to be there blinder. So if a child is born from someone being forced I believe it's God's way of bringing a blessing and breathing life out of a dead lovel

Season 5 Episode 1 Courageous Beauty Podcast

I was watching one of my favorite YouTubers cut up some giant carrots from her garden that she planted from seed. The thought process that I believe God gave me was that wow that carrot has a scab! The larger end of the carrot that was connected to it's life source had roots and dirt on it. It had the hard broken piece that was once connected to the soil that had the nutrients that have it life. Once it was broken away and uprooted from it's life source there was a decaying process that starts to happen and the part that was connected started to turn black mixed with the dirt. She cleaned them and peeled the carrots and proceeded to make a carrot salad. Although there was a scab on the carrot there was still life in it for a season because she uprooted when it was mature and ready to be picked and for it's purpose to be fulfilled. It was time for the life the carrot had from seed to give life to something else. Not all carrots or any plant for that matter will make it through this process of maturity because there is a sacrificial  journey it must go through before it can even grow. The seed most be planted, watered and nurtured. It must be the right season for carrots to grow in in order for it to sprout into a harvest. The right amount of sunlight has to be present to help provide the right amount of energy to seep into the soil and transfer to the roots. There are many insects, bugs, and other creepy crawling things, even larger animals and birds that might pick at the root or even the top part of the plant. So in the life cycle before its maturity the carrot has had many obstacles and challenges get through just to then but plucked from it's original life source. Sounds a lot like us when we were just a thought in God's mind and saw fit for our parents to me and hopefully fall in love and conceive us. Our mothers are our incubators and protection from the outside world constantly and consistently sacrifici g her body, hormones, and lifestyle to bring us here. Here comes the due date that the doctor predicted because truly no one really knows when their baby will be born but God because he has already orchestrated the date as he knew us even before we were in our mothers womb. But now her water has broken and she is contracting and with every painful or painless contraction with pressure in tow she labors and pushes to get out our little bodies which is her living breathing healthy baby girl or boy and then the cry of a life happens but in all the mist of the excitement we are still attached to our life source which is the umbilical cord while for a little while longer we are still getting our nutrients from mommy and as we are breathing new air seeing such a bright and busy word the Father in most cases is given the opportunity to cut the tie to our life source off. Now we although very much still connected to our mom we are no longer physical connected and therefore now have a sustaining life source within our little bodies that must be nourished constantly. We now are outside of our main life source solely dependent on our parents to care for us. The place where the umbilical cord was connected to the life source inside our mom has to be tied down in order for healing to close up sealing the deal that we no longer need to be on the inside of mom to have sustainable life. But where there is a scab there is life because as we grow older that umbilical cord cut off section scabs up and becomes what we call a belly button but is at the very sit of where all of nutrients entered our bodies. As we get older we learn to depend on our parents for everything and one day we get a sense of our Heavenly Father and he is now become our new life source even though he hmwas the one that gave us life in the first place just how we had to learn how to focus on our moms face to try and recognize her we always knew her voice. It is the same with God. He says in

John 10:4-5 KJV

4. And when he