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YOU DESERVE HAPPINESS

God does not want you to sacrifice your happiness to keep somebody else happy. You should not take responsibility for someone else's poor choices. If you do, before long, that person will be controlling you and manipulating you. You needn't be harsh or uncaring, but sometimes we can be so good hearted and generous that we allow people to control us. At some point we have to realize that we are not helping that person anymore. Beyond that, now they are hurting us.

Is God Speaking To Us?

Yesterday we were speaking of the recent tragic events that have impacted so many of us either directly or indirectly and my friend said to me, "I believe God is trying to tell us something...." This statement got my attention very quickly, and to be honest in a not so good way. It grieves me to think that precious people of God are blaming God for something He did not do. After they said this I realized that many people have this kind of idea in their mind. But, what does the WORD OF GOD SAY?

1 Kings 19:11-13 (New Living Translation)

11 “Go out and stand before me on the mountain,” the Lord told him. And as Elijah stood there, the Lord passed by, and a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. It was such a terrible blast that the rocks were torn loose, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. 12 And after the earthquake there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there was the sound of a GENTEL WHISPER (Still small voice). 13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And A VOICE said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

Did you read what the bible said? God was NOT in the wind, God was NOT in the earthquake, and God was NOT in the fire. God was in a still small VOICE. This is how he speaks to His children. God is a good God and does not, and I repeat does not bring confusion and destruction to speak to His COVENANT people. The key to my last statement is His covenant people. God is not a child abuser, the person behind the destruction is the devil. Jesus confirmed this in the book of John.

John 10:3-4 & 9-10 (NKJV)3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Jesus the Good Shepherd

9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.


Jesus Himself said, the way he speaks to his sheep is by HIS VOICE. Then He said, "It is the thief (devil) who steals, who kills, and who destroys, not Jesus. HE SAID, I AM the GOOD SHEPHERD!" GOD IS A GOOD GOD. For years religion, human reasoning, and even insurance companies have blamed God for what the devil is doing. I am going to take the word of God and what Jesus said and expose the thief for who he really is, he is a thief, he is a killer, he destroyer. BUT JESUS GIVES LIFE AND GIVES IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.


I don't know about you, but I will continue to allow the Word of God to be the final authority in my life and let God be true and every man liar. (Romans 3:4) Even if they have a Post Hole Digger (PHD) attached to their name!


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