My success is Focusing solely on the Lord God

I have made a mental decision that I am going to succeed at everything I do because God has already determined my destiny.  I have been thinking about how negatively I have been living for almost my entire life.  Today I have decided that I am not going to make the same mistake twice.  

I will be a success as I believe God has ordained it for me, for you and for all of us who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

God has a definite purpose for my life and I aim to find out what it is and work towards it.  God is my architect and He is building my life, stage-by-stage.  With God’s word in my hand and me on my knees I am sure that I can find out what, where and whom I am supposed to be.

Reading my daily devotion I have taken something away from it that I am built to become more than I anticipated and I want to be efficient and I want to use my whole being in becoming a fully developed Christian.

My past was very trying and I cried so much, I never realised that God was making me stronger to stand up for myself, preparing a solid foundation in me so that I may take the pressure that comes with His blessings.  Making me flex all my muscles and building my faith so that I can withstand the fiery darts of the devil.  Making stand against all the storms in my life, helping me grow spiritual, physical and mentally.  Ready to receive all the blessings God has in store for my life.

Isaiah 27: 2 – 3 In that day – “sing about a fruitful vineyard:  I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually.  I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.”

Building a relationship with the Lord God

Darlings how awesome is our Lord God, lets focus on God’s word today and see what He is telling us in Isaiah 43: 25 lets read this ‘I (God), even I (God), am he (God) who blots our your (me/you) transgressions, for my(God) own sake, and remembers your (me/you) sins no more.’

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Wow, now as far as I can see God is telling me and you today that God is blotting out my/your transgressions!  So what are transgressions?  It could be something you did wrong, or a disobedience, or offenses?  Now God is stating that He is doing this for His (God’s) own sake, and believe it or not He (God) is forgetting your sins.

How awesome is our God, the things we did wrong and we have confessed them to Him in humble prayer or confessions.  God heard them and is saying to you and me – He is blotting them out for God’s own sake!!!!  

A quote I read early this morning ‘When in doubt, choose change.’  I believe that if you are doubting your situation and you don’t know what, where or how, choose to change it.  Start with a conversation with our Lord God.  Sit down, tune into God’s word and check out what He has to say to you today. 

Father God, in the Holy Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, I am choosing to change my point of view, I am going to stay focused on You Lord.  I am going to embrace You and I am going to come into Your presence and argue my case, I have been chosen by You, You called me by name, You loved me so much Lord that You gave Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to die on the cross for my transgressions.  I am Yours Lord, I want to stay focused on You and draw near today.  I bring before You all my blogger friends in humble pray and ask bless each one of us today with Your supernatural favour Lord, with You Lord God as well as with man.  In the Holy Name of Jesus Christ . . . Amen

Is God molding you into something beautiful?

In the hands of the Potter

I am the clay Lord and You are the Potter

Life it seems is very difficult and painful

You are forming me and shaping me

Tears run down my cheeks, help it hurts!

Be still my child, I know what I am doing.

Lord please I am trying but I seem to be failing.

The Potter is molding this in to something beautifull

Be still my child, I know what I am doing.

Help me not to resist You today Lord

Guide me and show me the way forward

The bending and twisting of my life is excruciating!

I want to fight back and make it go away.

Be still my child, I know what I am doing.

I don’t know when I would be as beautiful as You

Help me stay focused on You Lord!

Father God in Jesus Christ’s Name I trust You

Completely!!!!

A poem by Yvette van Niekerk

Happy Birthday Pieter

Now I must tell you about this young lad, he is a cute young teenager, 13 to be exact.  He is in Grade 7 and the little girls adore him.  He is friendly, helpful and kind-hearted.   Pieter needed me to bake a cake for school and I gave it my best shot.  I baked two cakes for the lad, one was with the theme of cars and the other with a couple of spiders.  We are going to take these two cakes to school and see how the children enjoy them.

In Pieter’s class there are 37 children, so I literal take my hat off for the teachers.  School seems to be fund right now and I am glad to say that Pieter changed his mind about mathematics; he seems to be putting in the effort.  

His dad bought him a blackberry as a birthday and I got him a dog chain with a nice Christian verse on as well as a couple of shirts.

I am sure Pieter is looking forward to today as he will be the main man around school today, I am sure glad I was able to bake him a lovely cake or two.

Hobbies and likes of this young lad are TV, PSP and Xbox – you can put him in front of any of these devices and he will be able to play it with his eyes closed. 

So Pieter here’s wishing you a wonderful day, I hope and pray the Lord will bless you richly and that all your dreams may come true.

The Writing is on the Wall, Part 2

Daniel looked at the King and said ‘O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendour.  Because of the high position he gave him, all the people and nations and men of every language dreaded and feared him.  Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death; those he wanted to spare, he spared; those he wanted to promote, he promoted; and those he wanted to humble, he humbled.  But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.  He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like cattle; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and sets over them anyone he washes.’

The king gassed at Daniel and listened as Daniel continued to speak.

‘But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this.  Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven.  You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them.  You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand.  But you did not honour the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.  Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.’

Daniel walked up to the wall and read the inscription to the people in the banqueting hall.

‘This is the inscription that was written:

               Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin

This is what these words mean:

Mene:  God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

Tekel:    You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

Peres:    Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persains.’

‘Bring the purple clothes and a gold chain!’  King Belshazzar called out to one of the slaves.  ‘Come place this on Daniel, he is to be the third highest ruler in our kingdom!’  The king called out and the people stood to honour Daniel.

Late that night an attack on the kingdom took place and the King Belshazzar was slain.  Darius the Mede took over the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

We all feel that we are actually in control over our own lives; we feel that we have the power to make the necessary changes.  We believe that it is our efforts that bring us what we need.  I say, thank the Lord for this time of leisure.  I know God is in control over my life and that I can bask in His glory.  I am the righteousness through Jesus Christ.  Are you?  Don’t let the writing be on the wall for you today, instead, take some time and start focusing on the Lord our God.  Give the Lord our God all the glory, honour and praises due His name.

This is taken form the book of Daniel, chapter 5.

God bless you as you read my blog.