Breakfast For Your Soul

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Garment of Praise -Isaiah 61:3 91 of 102   All around us in this world is the spirit of heaviness, despair and depression. The garment of praise can protect us from these, even though it may look silly to some. August 10, 2008

Good Morning Beloved,

Suit up!  Put on the full armor of God, but don’t forget to overlay it with the garment of praise. So many of the saints are going through… losing their homes, wayward children, job loss, crazy relationships.  Many are having to sacrifice in ways they never thought they would have to.  Moving in with relatives and friends, selling their homes, over-all downsizing.  With the holidays coming up it is easy to become focused on what we want, what the kids want, what we don’t have, what we need.  We can become over-whelmed, stressed and depressed.  God’s Word tells us that, “God will supply all of our need according to His riches in Glory.” He will provide for us.  It may not come in the way we thought it would, but He will provide.  The songwriter said “be grateful because there is someone else who’s worse off than you”.  If we can look around our table and our circle is unbroken, be grateful, so many have recently lost their loved ones.  If we have a job to be irritated with …be grateful, people are losing their jobs in droves.  If we have a family that gets on our nerves… be grateful, there are people who have no family at all.  If we ate anything at all… be grateful, there are people in the world literally eating dirt.  The old song used to say, “count your blessings, name them one by one, count your many blessings see what God has done”.  That is a good exercise… when storms and trials try push us to the brink of despair and hopelessness… count your blessings and remember how God made a way for you in the past…. He is the same, yesterday, today and forever….

… and that my Royal sibling, is good news!

U Blessed!

Have A Fabulous Day

Regina

(The Hawkins “God Is Standing By”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsyNYTw6Vt8

(The Hawkins “Be Grateful”)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEkRp69aIU

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Good Morning Beloved,

I pray your morning is moving along swimmingly LOL!  This morning’s message is short and sweet (and all God’s people said….. AMEN!)…. Fear not!  That’s it… fear not…. yes these are the last days, and the news gets worse daily.  Yes, these are the days that ‘try men’s’ souls’.  Yes gas is high, there are wars going on, food prices are escalating, joblessness is high, leaders are tripping, families splintering, pain, rage, hopelessness are on the rise.  The True and Living God of the Bible is being replaced in the hearts and minds of the deceived, by a man-created facade.  Whew!…. Especially in these days and times, we have to make up our mind that we will not allow fear to overtake us.  Do what we must… tighten up where we should, but do not panic “as those who have no hope” (1 Thessalonians 4:13).  As we talked about yesterday with the “Joseph chronicles” in Genesis, nothing ever has or ever will take God by surprise.  Isn’t it funny that God, who is all-knowing, still told us to “count it all joy when we fall into divers temptations..” (James 1:2), and that “no good thing will He withhold from them that walk upright“, (Psalm 84:11) and that ”greater is He that is within us, then he that is in world” (1 John 4:4).  Remember the truth stated in Matthew 10:28, “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell”.  Kinda puts everything in proper prospective right?  Fear is our greatest enemy, so when confronted with fear, we need to take courage.  Courage will push through fear and get the job done.  God is, as He was with Abraham our “shield and exceeding great reward” (Genesis 15:1).

U BLESSED,

Have A Fabulous Day!

Regina