Breakfast For Your Soul

Thursday, July 8, 2010

 May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.  All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. This is what He wanted to do, and it gave Him great pleasure. So we praise God for the glorious grace He has poured out on us who belong to His dear Son.  He is so rich in kindness and grace that He purchased our freedom with the blood of His Son and forgave our sins. He has showered His kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding. God has now revealed to us His mysterious plan regarding Christ, a plan to fulfill His own good pleasure. And this is the plan: At the right time He will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth. Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for He chose us in advance, and He makes everything work out according to His plan. God’s purpose was that we Jews who were the first to trust in Christ would bring praise and glory to God.  And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, He identified you as His own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom He promised long ago. The Spirit is God’s guarantee that He will give us the inheritance He promised and that He has purchased us to be His own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify Him. Ever since I first heard of your strong faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for God’s people everywhere, I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly, asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.  I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope He has given to those He called—His holy people who are His rich and glorious inheritance.  I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe Him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated Him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms. Now He is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come.  God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made Him head over all things for the benefit of the church.  And the church is His body; it is made full and complete by Christ, who fills all things everywhere with Himself.
[Ephesians 1:2-23]

TAKE ANOTHER LOOK pt. 3 

NEWSFLASH… God is RICH!  I know, what a revelation right?  “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof”.  He is rich all the way around.  In addition to the “cattle on a thousand hills” (Psalm 50:10) , He is also rich in mercy, rich in goodness, rich in patience.  Rich.  He lacks nothing. Not only is He rich, but He is generous.  It is His good pleasure to give to His children.  The thing is, He is a good parent.  He knows that ’blessings’ out of season can actually become a curse to our life.  There are some affluent parents who give their children so much that it actually cripples them.  Those children become spoiled, self-centered, lazy and arrogant.  They develop a sense of entitlement that causes them to have warped sense of reality and lack compassion.  They become destructive to themselves and others.  Remember the old saying, “idle hands are the devils workshop”… we see that played out over and over in today’s media.  There are good parents though, who give their children more than just material things (though they give them stuff as well).  They give them.. themselves.  Love, time, care, attention, nurturing.  They impart wisdom to them and a sense of responsibility and respect.  These children generally grow up to be amazing people with a desire to give back.  That is the way our Heavenly Father operates.  He could make us all multi-millionaires tomorrow, but He knows chaos would ensue! Think about that.  If God gave us everything we wanted, exactly when we wanted, what would we do?  Would we continue to seek His face or would we be blinded and distracted by the stuff.  Truthfully, there are some things I’m glad God did not give me when I asked for them… it would not have worked out for my good.  God has used wisdom and experience to teach me that.  In Him is all that we need.  I was listening to Antwaun Stanley’s first project this morning and I fell in love with it all over again. The songs were honest and sweet.  They spoke to having a real relationship with God.  They came from a place of humility, surrender, curiosity, admiration and love.  That is the relationship God wants with us.  One that is not burdened down with fear, worry, sin and regret.  He told us to come to Him and “reason” with Him.  He is the answer to our “issues”, and He told us to cast our “care” on Him… Why?  Because He cares for us.  I received this repost from my sister-in-love” Michelle.  It read:

Today’s Battles, Tomorrow’s Strengths

By Steven Furtick
This week’s topic: Faith In God One of my favorite Southern Baptist preachers, Johnny Hunt, once said that the only time he ever gets headaches is when he finds himself trying to fight today’s battles with tomorrow’s strength. I think Pastor Johnny was quoting another pastor when he said it. Come to think of it, the idea originated with Jesus:

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” -Matthew 6:34

God supplies all the strength we need to do all that He’s called us to do. But He rations this strength much in the same way He rationed manna to the children of Israel. He provides sufficient strength each day for the challenges of that day…and that day only. This strength doesn’t carry over from one day to the next. You either use it, or lose it. And He will not give you enough strength today for the confrontations, obligations, and challenges of next week, next month, or next year. That strength will be deposited in your account precisely when you need it, and not a moment before. If you’re stressed and overwhelmed today, check your strength supply. I’ll bet you have enough to get you through this day. And that’s all you need for now.

Scripture Of The Day:

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” – Matthew 6:34 (NKJV)

The Lord’s account is never overdrawn … we just need to upload what is in His account to ours.

 

…. and that Beloved is Good News!

 

Y Stress? … U Blessed!

Have A Fabulous Day

Regina

 

 

 

 

“Show Me”, Antwaun Stanley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInjwss-X0Q

 

“Worship You”, Antwaun Stanley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRYsGYB7nGo

 

“Reason”, Antwaun Stanley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK6q3jOT3UI

 

“Teach Me”, Antwaun Stanley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlcUS7FaCPI

 

“Let Go”, DeWayne Woods

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76o4xhxIKfs

 

Standing On His Promises”, Bishop Norman Hutchins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RVAONfqaE4

 

“God’s Got A Blessing”, Bishop Norman Hutchins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-6HpdmIiZM

 

“Battlefield”, Bishop Norman Hutchins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW9ejLoHw54

 

“Holy Ghost Power”, Chicago Mass Choir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auyXYIuXo48