God

Genesis 1:1

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
I did not understand what Christianity based itself off of until God showed me Genesis 1:1. It says, "in the beginning.....God." Sometimes we get caught up with other things and other people, but we should always get back to the center of life....which is God.

What is the answer to everything? God. What is the purpose for all things? God. In the beginning.....God.

Once we stop looking at problems and start looking at God, if we get time to look back at our problems, they will have changed. Before anything else was thought of and before anything else was made, God was there. Before time was formed, He was God.

I know this may not be a very uplifting message, but to understand who God really is, we have to appreciate that God was there before all things. God was there before your problem was there.

Another translation says, "In beginning was God." It takes "the" out. The word "the" dates the verse. God was God before dates. He stepped out on nothing and made everything.

If you need to be uplifted, you must understand that nothing makes sense until you get back to God.

DAILY LOVE FROM HIM ABOVE

I've Very Happy To Be Here.

Psalm 100:2

Serve the Lord with gladness, come before His presence with singing.

I feel, in today's time, we have become accustomed to saying we have to do somethings. "I have to go to church." I have to go sing." I have to go to a ministry meeting." Psalm 100:2 says, serve the Lord with gladness. The mere fact that you get to serve the mighty God is a testament that says, "I may not have everything that I want, but I have God."

I don't have to serve God. I'm thankful because I am allowed to serve God. I don't have to do anything for God, but He allows me to serve Him. I serve Him with gladness, because I realize that it's a blessing to serve God. The fact that He woke me up this morning makes me glad to serve Him.

Then the scripture says to come before His presence with singing. We should always have a song in our hearts. A song to help you get over what you may be going through.

So, as you enter worship with God , remember you don't have to do it, you are allowed to do it.

DAILY LOVE FROM HIM ABOVE

Watch Your Wallet

Yet from the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” Says the Lord of hosts. “But you said, ‘In what way shall we return?’“Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ in tithes and offerings.
Malachi 3:7-8

I went to church for about six months feeling as if there was a great divide between God and I. I would pray to Him, yet, I was not getting from Him what I thought I should have from serving God. I prayed very hard, asking God, "Why aren't You showing me what I wanted?" Yet, every Sunday, during offering, I would hear the verse mentioned above.

No one ever told me why God asked the question, "Will a man rob God?" So, I began to read it myself and it said that we had gone away from what He told us to do. Verse six says, "I am the Lord, I change not." We left Him, He never left us.

So, God wants you to come back to Him and you want to get back to God. How is the bridge between the two going to be repaired? The Word of God says, give Him what's His.

To rob someone means to take something in their face. When the offering is done during worship, that is God's hand out asking for what belongs to Him. If anyone would rob God, what makes your money safe around them?

DAILY LOVE FROM HIM ABOVE

Total Praise

Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.

I was listening to Total Praise, by Richard Smallwood, and, it has become an anthem for my life. I thought about the words, "You are the source of my strength. You are the strength of my life." The song basically tells us that no matter what we have going on in our lives, we are like the verse, Philippians 4:13. We can do all things through Christ. God is the source of our strength, and the fact that we can do all things is contingent upon us doing things through Christ.
In life, when we deal with problems, we sometimes leave the "through Christ" out. If you have a problem that you can't seem to solve, put Christ back in your problems. Get your strength back! Even if you know how to do some things on your own, you cannot have it complete without Christ, because He is your strength. God knows what He's doing. Allow God to be God. Whatever your problem is, even if you think it's too big, turn it over to Jesus.

So, start your week off by knowing that you can do all things through Christ that strengthens you.

DAILY LOVE FROM HIM ABOVE

How to Get from God.

2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray, seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sins, and will heal their land.


Sometimes in life we go through things, not because it's God's design for us to struggle in life, but because God has a way of humbling us. We think what is accepted by society should be accepted by God, but God still deals in what's right and what's wrong. In 2 Chronicles 14, He gives us a guide on how to get from God.

He says if we humble ourselves. This means we shouldn't come to God with the attitude that God owes us something. Yes, God sees the best in us. But, the best in you is still of no value. The Bible says we are all like filthy, dirty rags.

First, we have to humble ourselves, then we have to pray and seek God's face. We think that just because we want something, God automatically knows. His Word says, seek first the kingdom and then your needs will be met. You have to pray to God to get what you're looking for.

Turn from your wicked ways. Some things God can't give us, because He can't trust us with it.

Then, God will hear from heaven and heal the land. Once we humble ourselves, seek His face, turn from wickedness, God will answer our prayers. He will hear us.

So, no matter what you may be dealing with today, know that if we are able to do these things, then we are able to get from God what He has in store for us.

DAILY LOVE FROM HIM ABOVE

Good Morning

Lamentations 3:22-23

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

This morning I woke up thinking about how most days we deal with the same problems. Sometimes we find ourselves just going to sleep in order to get away from some things; only to wake up to the same problems waving at us the next day, saying good morning.

What do we do when things around seem like they will never change?

When I woke up and saw the same situations staring me in the face, I sat up. And, behind my problems, I saw brand new mercies. I began to ask God, "Why does it seem my problems wake me up?" God said, "Because, that's what you choose to look at."

In the book of Lamentations, it says, "It is because of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed." It has nothing to do with us. It has nothing to do with where we are in life. We have nothing to do with why things have not consumed us. It is of the Lord's mercies.

So, even though you may the same problem looking at you, your problem is getting older. But, every morning, God's mercies are new. Don't complain. Don't compare your problems with someone else's problems. Have peace, joy and understanding in knowing that even if yesterday's mercies didn't defeat the problems, I get new mercies every morning. Don't get frustrated with God, because He keeps sending you new stuff. And, as long as you're fighting old things with new things, you realize that the old things get weaker over time, but new things remain strong.

DAILY LOVE FROM HIM ABOVE

Judge not

Matthew 7:1-2
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.

God has a way of making everything we try to do seem so insignificant. We always want to judge others. Yet, we pray for forgiveness when it comes to our sins. God says, don't judge other people, forgive them. Give them what you would expect in the same situation.

We are very quick to jump on the bandwagon to ridicule and turn our back on others, when they make mistakes. Yet, there comes a point in our lives when we have to stop and realize that we all have been at a place where we have made mistakes that we thought were unforgivable.

The message today is to show us that every time we felt we couldn't go on, we continued to press our way. We're still here.

So, as you continue throughout your week, know that someone had to forgive you.

Remember, the same measure that you've measured others with will also be used on you. So, maybe we should stop using rulers and yard sticks and start using arms to give forgiving hugs. Give others the same compassion that you have been given.

God is love and, He waits until we die to judge our sin. Yet we as humans we can't wait to find fault in one another.

DAILY LOVE FROM HIM ABOVE