Lord, I need to understand my own heart. My prayer today is "Search me O God and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. And see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting". Ps. 139:23-24

Love is a miracle but it is also vulnerable. We let our guards down and open up to those we trust. Sometimes we do get hurt and for some it is difficult to move on.

However, God loves us and He wants us to know He does. His love was manifested on Calvary. There Jesus Christ gave His life for you and me. That is an AMAZING love. He loves you my friend.

Evang. H. Staple-Reid

Faith has 2 parts a) a belief that God exists and b) the belief that he rewards them that seek him diligently. The woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5 believed that if she touched Jesus' clothes she would be whole. God can do the impossible and He never fails. Have faith in God

Today, Jesús is offering Salvation to you. Therefore, if you hear His voice calling to you, please do not harden your heart. Now is the accepted time, today is your day of Salvation..

Do you have any idols of the heart? Anything tjst gets our focus above God, anything that we give oyr attention to more than God, anything that we think about more than God...wealth, money, educational achievements, relationships, technology and the list continues...anything we desire more than God...needs to be removed from the throne of our heart and give God His rightful place.

Friends you may be facing a rough patch now. You are almost out of options. It may seem as if nothing is working in your favor. I am encouraging you to choose joy over hopelessness. Rejoice because the Lord is your refuge and strength. The rubber may have hit the road, you may be between a rock and a hard place...look beyond your circumstances..see the bigger picture..God is able..trust in Him and His word and choose to rejoice...look back at what he has done for you in the past and look ahead in hope. He can do the impossible.

Jesus wants us not only to love people who are lovable. He wants us to love the difficult- the complainers, the bullies, the gossipers and those who get on your last nerve. We are not perfect, yet He loves us. We must therefore love others like He does..it is a sure sign of faith.

God sometimes asks us to act on certain matters. Our obedience is KEY. Saul is a perfect example . God asked him to kill all the Amalekites. However, he only did it in part. He killed some and saved others including King Agag,the best of the sheep and oxen. God said he was sorry he had made Saul King and Saul was rejected. Although Samuel mourned for Saul, there was nothing he could do. God had already drawn the line. He chose David to replace Saul. Let us obey God and live.

The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of His doings".

Today when you examine the events of your life, what do you see? The situations that you face may not be good, but God says in Jeremiah 29:11 that the plans that He has for you are not to harm you. They are intended to give you hope and a future. Look around you and declare that everything that happened in my life that was good " God did It"