Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord-Genesis 6:8

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Rest Finds Grace

The first time the word “grace” appears in the Bible is in the story of Noah—“Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6:8). Noah’s name means “rest,” so the verse is showing us here that “Rest found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”

My friend, the enemy gets you off-track by getting you out of rest. How does he do this? By getting you into self-effort, where you trust in your own abilities to solve your problem. He wants you running around frantically looking for a solution, feeling anxious and troubled. But God wants you restful, trusting in Him and allowing Him to lead you to victory. Look at Jesus in the Gospels. No one was more restful than Him, yet no one was more effective than He was! Jesus rested in the love of His Father and only did what He saw His Father doing—there was no self-effort.

Beloved, stop striving through your own efforts and rest in the Lord’s love for you. Rest by trusting in His finished work. That’s how you allow Him to direct you with divine wisdom to His divine solutions. That’s how you allow His grace to abound in your life. His grace will stop that addiction. His grace will drive out that disease. His grace will fill your areas of lack and lead you to abundance and victory!

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NEW YEAR!!!!Welcome back blessed and highly favored readers.

  Psalm 150:6 "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord". We thank God that we are all partakers of this new year 2014.

     Many of us had great success and many of us had failures in one way or the other in 2013 but thank God it is all in the past and we are alive today to say Happy New Year to each other. As Paul said forgetting the past and pushing ahead is very important for us to succeed as children of God or else the enemy would weigh us down with regrets and depression preventing us from fulfilling our purpose of being alive in 2014.
 I will praise the Lord because i am alive as you should do too because it pleases God and it is a commandment- Let all that has breath praise the Lord.

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Before God speaks decie to say yes!

         The seeds that fell in good soil stand for those who hear the message and retain it in a good and obedient heart, and they persist until they bear fruit.” (Luke 8:15 TEV)
 God speaks to people who decide they’re going to do what he tells them to do, even before he tells them. It’s saying, “God, if you want me to move, I’ll move. If you want me to get married, I’ll get married. If you want me to leave this job, I’ll leave this job. Before you even tell me, my answer is ‘yes.’ Whatever you want me to do, I will do it.”Luke 8:15 says, “The seeds that fell in good soil stand for those who hear the message and retain it in a good and obedient heart, and they persist until they bear fruit” (TEV).                                
            I used to study this parable of Jesus and think it was talking about four kinds of people: those who are resistant, those who are shallow, those who are busy, and those who are good.But this parable actually represents four attitudes. You can have all four attitudes in the same day! One moment you go, “God, I don’t want to hear you, because I know what you’re going to say.” And the next moment you say, “Lord, tell me quick.” Then you hear it and think it’s good, but you don’t do anything about it. Maybe the fruit starts to bear in your life, but then you get busy with your job or school or your kids, and the weeds grow up. Then other times you say, “God, whatever you want. I’m totally open to you.”God wants you to have an attitude of obedience so that you can bear fruit — the biblical term for being successful. God wants you to be fruitful in your business, your family, your friendships, your relationship with God and with others, and your health.
    So how do you bear fruit when God tells you something? You pass it on. When God tells you something, the quickest way to let it bear fruit in your life is to tell somebody else what you just learned.Another translation of Luke 8:15 says, “They listen to God’s words and cling to them and steadily spread them to others who also soon believe” (LB). God wants you to pass on to others what you learn.

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Parts to play!

     John 1:20, 23 "And he confessed,  and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ" verse 23-"He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,  make straight the way of the Lord,  as said the prophet Esaias"
The startling reality is that each of has a role to fulfil and we are ideally suited for it. IF WE don't do it, then it doesn't get done. Or someone who is already too busy and doesn't have all the gifts necessary for it tries to do it in the bid to fulfill it. The Kingdom is poorer as a result.
Be sure of who you are and what purpose you are on earth for because we are all beautifully and wonderfully made for a purpose.

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ONE MOUTH!

Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.” James 1:19 (NLT)
    When you’re trying to reconcile with someone, don’t listen for the problem or the issue. Listen for the hurt beneath their complaint, their issue, or their anger.Hurt people hurt people. Healthy people don’t hurt other people. Holy people don’t hurt other people. Happy people don’t hurt other people. It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about marriage or the market place or the Middle East. When people are hurting, they lash out at others.People around the world are dying for respect. When you treat people with dignity, the anger dissipates quickly, whether it’s with nations or businesses or churches or ethnic groups or your own family. You treat people with respect.What is the greatest way to show people respect? Listen to them, and look them in the eye. In a peace conference, you need to stop and listen to what’s beneath the words they’re saying. What is the hurt they’re expressing?James 1:19 tells us how to do this: “Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry” (NLT). God gave you two ears and one mouth. He wants you to listen twice as much as you speak. But we get in a hurry. What you need to do is try to understand the perspective of other people. Don’t just look at the situation from your point of view. St. Francis of Assisi said, “Seek to understand before seeking to be understood.”You’re going to have a hundred chances this week to put this verse into practice. Don’t miss an opportunity to show respect to someone by listening to his or her hurt. Then, you can work toward reconciliation.Talk It OverWith whom do you have conflict? What do you think might be the cause of his or her hurt?How would you rate your listening skills? What gets in the way of taking time to listen to others?What steps can you take to sit down with someone and really listen to his or her heart so that you can work toward reconciliation?

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"In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." 1 Thessalonians 5:10
   Thank God Always!Do you know that the Greek word for “thank” is charis, the same Greek word used for “grace”? So to be full of grace is to be full of thanksgiving. God wants us to give thanks always. Even when things don’t go well with us, we can choose to have a spirit of thanksgiving because He is faithful and able to work all things out for our good (Romans 8:28).The thing about us is that there can be 10 good things happening to us, yet our human tendency is to focus on the one thing that is negative and fixate on it. We tend to look at what we don’t have, instead of thanking God for what we do have. We need to understand that when we thank God for what we do have, even if it is only “five loaves of bread and two fish,” what we have will be multiplied.
Remember what Jesus did before the five loaves and two fish were multiplied to feed more than 5,000 people? He gave thanks to the Father for the little that He had (Matthew14:17–21, NIV).My friend, cultivate a spirit of thanksgiving and graciousness, and keep it flowing today. Thank God for the parts of your body that are working fine. Thank God for whatever the amount you have in your bank account. Don’t focus on what you don’t have. Count your blessings every day. Thank Him for His presence and grace that make all the difference. Not only will you have more joy, but you will also experience His blessings and increase

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Expectations!

         What are your expectations from God? Do you believee Jeremiah29:11? That his thoughts for us is for good and not for evil, to give us a hope and a future. Your believe of God's worddetermines your attitude when you enter his prescence. When you believe GGod's word it wo4ks for you. Have a great week.
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