Breakfast For Your Soul

Friday, September 24, 2010

  

Joyful are those who obey His laws and search for Him with all their hearts.

Psalm 119:2

We were filled with laughter,and we sang for joy.  And the other nations said,“What amazing things the Lord has done for them.” Yes, the Lord has done amazing things for us! What joy!
Psalm 126:2-3

Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy.

Psalm 126:5 

 

 How joyful are those who fear the Lord—all who follow His ways!

Psalm 128:1

[ A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. ]

You will enjoy the fruit of your labor.  How joyful and prosperous you will be!
Psalm 128:2

Yes, joyful are those who live like this! Joyful indeed are those whose God is the Lord.
Psalm 144:15

 

In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.”

Luke 15:10

I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn over what is going to happen to me, but the world will rejoice. You will grieve, but your grief will suddenly turn to wonderful joy.  It will be like a woman suffering the pains of labor. When her child is born, her anguish gives way to joy because she has brought a new baby into the world. So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again; then you will rejoice, and no one can rob you of that joy.
John 16:22-20

You haven’t done this before. Ask, using My name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.
John 16:24

 

“Now I am coming to you. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with My joy.
John 17:13

 

As He spoke, He showed them the wounds in His hands and His side. They were filled with joy when they saw the Lord!
John 20:20

You have shown me the way of life,and You will fill me with the joy of Your presence.’

[ Ps 16:8-11 (Greek version).]

Acts 2:28

 

  

   

JOY!… for everyone!

 

 

Good Morning Beloved,

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!! see a pattern?  Joy.  It does for us what a jump does for a worn battery.  It infuses and strengthens us.  It gives us the ability to lighten up and not allow circumstances to oppress, depress and suppress us.  The Bible tells us to “lay aside every weight and the sin that does so easily beset us” [Hebrews 12:1].  That means that we have some “skin in the game” as my mentor Lucille Price used to tell us.  We have a choice.  We can choose this day to receive the “Joy of the Lord” .. our strength … or we can receive the report of the evil one… whatever he said.  You know, I’ve often wondered about that elusive group of folks called “They”.  ‘They’ always seem to have something negative to say. ‘They’ constantly speak death, destruction, and poverty.  ‘They’ infuse feelings of inferiority and insecurity causing people to view others with suspicion and sometimes hatred.  ‘They’ promulgate fear (‘prom·ul·gate’ ~to set forth or teach publicly ..a creed, doctrine, etc.).  ‘They may or may not know what ‘they’ are doing.  Who are “They”?  I don’t know, but I suspect if we look behind the scenes real good, we’ll see a lil fella who used to reside in the heavenlies.  The one who used to have “every precious stone as his covering”.  The one who had the honor of being called “anointed cherub”, beautiful,“covering cherub”, “wise”,“bright”.  Had it all… lost it all.  We have been given a place in the heart of God that He never had, and he is determined to destroy us because of it.  That is the reason every human child is born with an enemy.. but we were also born with a Champion.  A Champion who awaits our decision to allow Him to take the lead role over our life.  We have a “joy that is unspeakable” that “they” will never understand… unless they get it too (which they can!).  Those who have been deceived into thinking that serving the darkness will gain them power and favor have made a terrible mistake, but here’s the thing…  the blood that Jesus shed on Calvary is just as potent to atone for their sin and it was for ours. 

… and that Beloved is Good News!

 

Y Stress? … U Blessed!

Have A Fabulous Day and a Wonderful Holiday Weekend!

Regina

 

“Joy”, Georgia Mass Choir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmvX3YwETdQ

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Abe6wBB-JQ

 

“For Every Mountain”, Kurt Carr and the Kurt Carr Singers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7YXaJKZunk

 

“He Reigns”, Kevin LeVar and One Sound

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

 

“Breathe On Me”,  Words & Music: Clint Brown~

Soloist: Todd Estes Performed Live 2007 @ Faith Church Sherman Texas. www.faithchurch.us info@faithchurch.us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQJX-InxBro

 

“Well Done”, Tye Tribbett & GA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3uwlVfReVA

 

“Awesome Wonder”, Trent Cory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCo04_puOJ0

 

“He’s All Over Me”, Georgia Mass Choir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsAK8xQS0CU

 

“My Joy”, Tye Tribbee & John P. Kee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1DVYpw1rRk

 

“Still Have Joy”, Tye Tribbett & GA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfJ2LZQbvs4

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, October 20, 2008

 

 
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

 

Good Morning Beloved,

 

I pray that this day you walk in God’s favor, accept what God has given you and not miss the “small” blessings.  A few years ago, I made statement that still rings true today.  I told a friend that I have truly enjoyed my daughter and all of her stages.  When she was a baby, I can remember the diaper bags, huge pocketbooks, deluxe strollers and traveling up four flights of stairs to her baby sitter’s house.  When she reached elementary school I remember walking her to school and then to work.  Through the years, I remember traveling with her on buses until I was blessed with my car.  There have been many times of struggling and making due, but with God (and my mom’s) help, we have made it through some difficult days.  There are frustrating and stressful days.  Days like the time I had Jah dressed in her Christmas finery, (she was about 3 or 4) and she dumped a whole container of baby powder over her head.  Head to toe baby powder.  Instead of going totally ballistic… I grabbed a camera.  I still have that picture.  Now, it is a precious memory that makes me smile… the day it happened…. not so much.  There has always been a thought in the back of my mind that said, “enjoy this… these days will shortly be over”.  Find the humor in the situation.  We have lost family members and friends.  We still miss them, but now we can think about them and remember how they made us laugh and how they got on our nerves, which can bring us back to how they made us laugh. I remember Minister James Hughes, a former member of our church and my pastor’s nephew.  He was terminally ill for many years.  The year before he got really sick, our family and his went on vacation together.  He was a minister at another church at this time.  It was supposed to be their church trip, but everyone backed out but our family and his family, so we decided to go anyway.  We had so much fun.  “Jimmy” was a person who really knew how to enjoy life.  Even with sickness coursing through his body, it didn’t take over his spirit.  He laughed, and joked and teased the whole trip.  A couple of years later he was gone, but the memories we have of him live on….. Enjoy this day!

 

Share some Good News…..

 

… oh, I have some… Happy Birthday to our sister Janice Wellington… I worked under her many years ago, and she is hands down from that day ’til this the best boss I ever had!… She is a part of the ‘Soul Food’ family… Janice, may God bless you with many, many more happy ones.  Thank you for being YOU!

U BLESSED!

 

Have A Fabulous Day Everybody!

Regina

 

 

Peace Rock -John 16:33

Even in the midst of a stormy sea of trouble, we can have peace in Jesus, a peace as solid as a rock. But if we give in to worry and fear, we will be in danger of sinking.