Good morning and happy Thursday. Do you believe in the devil, Satan?  Do you think he has powers? Do you think he has reign over this world today? Satan knows God better than we do. He talks to God about us. He bears false witness to God. He's seen God. He mirrors his ministry after God. To look like God but with a very different motive behind it. He knows how to raise the sidewalk just enough in front of us that we don't see it before we trip. It looks harmless at first so we go along the path he has tried to lay down to look like its God's plan. No offense here, but it's kind of like leaving Texas roads and entering Oklahoma roads. As soon as you get into OK, the roads are nice and smooth and pleasing. Then after you've gotten comfortable on it, the real okie road shows up and you need to hang on and your car will need some work done when you get home. Satan works on us so smoothly. His cunning is his subtleness. You never know when it's really him, unless. Unless you have and maintain that relationship with Jesus. Let Him stand before the Father for you and cancel out what Satan is saying. Let Him be the One who took your place. He's already done it, we just have to receive and accept it. Then we have to live it. Father forgive us of our past, but thank you for letting it make us who we are today. That we can see where the evil one was in our lives and recognize him easier now because of you. You lead us and we follow. No matter where and no matter what. Thank you for saving us and going before the throne for us today. Let our lives being lived be a reflection of you to the world around us. Let them see you and not us and most definitely not the evil one today and everyday. Thank you God for this day to be reconciled back to you for the things we've done yesterday. Help us to be stronger in our weakness as we approach you today. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Tuesday. God said to take care of the poor, the orphans, and the elderly. I think we're doing a poor job of that. What does it say about the state of our culture if the biggest news in Texas, for some, is the cowboys win? Did you know that the government's emergency system issued a warning against zombie attacks. It was done as way to get the countries emergency system operators to look at preparedness plans. But yet it took zombies to get their attention. The news of the day is about the very things God told us to care for and we've become so numb to life we can't see it. Moreover we can't feel it. We're losing our contact and relationship with people. We pull into our drives and go inside and shut the door and call it safe. I know it's not all of us but it's most of this country. We're being cornered and fenced off so that Satan can have his control over us as well. Who's gonna stand up? Who should be standing up?  We fall on our knees to fight Satan. We have to stand up after the amen and do what God is directing us to do. It's to love each other and to take care of each other. Every four years we divide up sides and tell lies and deceive to get what we think we want. It's got to end with a revival of the Christian nation taking back what we've sat around and let go of because we didn't stand up. It's easy to pray for guidance. It's hard to follow the trail He laid out before you. Let's make a difference in this country with or without a government you like. They don't do it anyway, we do. Love on someone today and tell them you love them. Let people in your life know they matter and then go matter to people who don't know you. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Monday. And yes it can be if you just let it be. God designed us to walk with Him in perfect peace and harmony, so what's kept us from being full of peace and harmony? We have. Ourselves have done it to ourselves. With a little help but mostly us. It's a choice we make. It's the things we do or have done. Even the past keeps us from harmony and peace. So what's the point if even the past holds us down. Again, it's a choice. We can let our past go and give it over to God and it's done. But it has to be done in you too. He let it go, why can't you. It's because of that little devil in your ear that keeps reminding you of it. Two things need to happen; we need to ask for forgiveness and stay away from those sins from now on, and we have to accept the forgiveness and know we are truly forgiven. Guilt and shame are what the devil uses to keeps us down. It's our choice to stand up to him by being on knees to God. It's not hard and doesn't take a lot of time. Once you get going it may, but if we keep a daily vigil going it will be brief enough. The point is, we have to make the effort to be with Him, He's already with us. And if He can create all this stuff in the world, why wouldn't He be able to bring peace into our lives. In love always. <><