D-I-V-O-R-C-E (What the Bible really says about it!!!)

First, let me say that it saddens and angers me to hear that folks have been or are being mistreated by church folks (people that are supposed to be Saints of God) because they are divorced!!!   

We, as the body of Christ, are supposed to build up, love and help those that are hurting, NOT tear them down and spit on them!!! 

And for those of you, that are mistreating others, You will pay!  You will reap what you sow!! 

 

D-I-V-O-R-C-E 

Nowadays, this is a common every day word to most people, but in some churches, they treat divorced people like common criminals!!!  

 

AND if you are in a church that does this, then you better start praying for the ones who are doing it, because being divorced does NOT make a person any less a child of God!!!    

 

Thankfully, I grew up in a Baptist Church and I thank the Lord that they did NOT preach that divorce was the unpardonable sin!!!  Matt. 12:31-32

And just in case, that you have been told that DIVORCE is a sin, I am here to tell you that you have been told wrong!!!!  That is a lie from the pits of HELL!!!  

I will tell you right now, that GOD would rather see one of HIS BELOVED CHILDREN get a divorce than be ABUSED by another man or woman!!  

So, what does the BIBLE say about divorce????  

Let’s go to 1 Corinthians 7:10-15 to find out!!!  

Now, first let me tell you that I am going to use the King James, so that I can show you what the Lord says in HIS WORD.  I want you to see what He revealed to me several years ago when my own husband chose to leave me and announced that he was getting a divorce!!

I want you to know that in looking ALL this up, I really enjoyed the way in which The Message Bible explains what Paul is saying and therefore, I have linked it and the KJV to the title up above.    

Now as we begin reading, I want you to pay close attention to the words, “brother” and “sister” in these verses, because in these verses the Bible is talking about the Saints of GOD (Christians)!!!   

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 (KJV)  

 ¹⁰And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 

 ¹¹But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

So, let me be blunt and plain about this!  Paul is saying here, “No, as a Christian, you are NOT just supposed to get up and get a divorce just because life is tough!!!  Stay married!  Go home and work it out!” 

And I am saying that I agree!!!  If you will ask God to help you, HE WILL!! 

GOD CAN AND WILL make your marriage better than you ever thought possible!!!

Now, we are going to talk about those folks who are SAVED and married to someone, who while they may claim to be a child of God, doesn’t act like one or who doesn’t claim to be saved at ALL!!!  God calls these folks UNBELIEVERS!

1 Cor. 7:12-13, 15 (KJV)

¹²But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 

 ¹³And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 

 ¹⁵But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

First, I am going to deal with verse 15.  Paul being led by the Spirit of God, says here:  But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

Paul is saying here that if your spouse (husband or wife) chooses to leave you, then let them go.  Don’t go trying to get them back or persuade them to come back.  Leave them be!!! 

I am NOT saying that it is easy to let them go!!!  But you cannot make folks come back or stay when they have chosen to leave you!  And you cannot make them love you. 


You can get a divorce or you can let them get the divorce, because you are no longer tied to that person!!!  

But if you get a divorce, do it peacefully!!!  Don’t be fighting and fussing with them.

I know that if you love that person, it is hard to let them go!!!  But ALL you can do is be nice to them and treat them with kindness!  And let them go!

I can still remember how I prayed and prayed for my husband to return to me.  I stood in Faith for him. 

You can do ALL that.  It is okay for you to pray for them, but it is best for YOU to seek God for HIS Perfect Will!!!  Ask God to heal your broken heart!!!   

And for those of you who are already so over that person...   


When your spouse chooses to get a divorce, you (as a saved individual) are not doing anything wrong by NOT trying to bend over backwards to keep them. 

God is saying in verse 15 to let them go, “SO, LET THEM GO!!!”

Now folks, we are going to get down to the nitty gritty!!!  We are going to talk about the phrase, “…be pleased to dwell with…”  In plain English, if a person is pleased to dwell with you, that means they are pleased to live in the same house with you as your spouse.  They love you and they treat you with respect!!!

IF THEY TREAT YOU ANY OTHER WAY, THEN THEY ARE NOT PLEASED TO DWELL WITH YOU!!! 

 

1 Corinthians 7:12-14 (KJV)

 

¹²But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 

 ¹³And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

Now folks, we ALL have common sense, so let’s use it!!!  I am going to be blunt! 

If a man or a woman is pleased to dwell with you, they will NOT CUSS YOU CONSTANTLY!!! 


They will NOT TALK TO YOU DISRESPECTFULLY!!!

They will NOT BEAT YOU!!!! 

They will NOT ABUSE YOU SEXUALLY OR PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY!!!  


They will NOT ABUSE YOU IN ANY FORM OR FASHION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They will NOT TERRORIZE YOU OR THREATEN YOU OR YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They also WILL NOT CHEAT ON YOU OR ASK YOU TO HAVE SEX WITH SOMEONE ELSE!!! 

And they WILL NOT HAVE SEX WITH YOUR KIDS!!!

 

DID I LEAVE ANYTHING OUT???

If you are married (or you were married) to someone who has done or is doing these things, then you need to get out!!!  I am NOT saying to get a divorce, but GOD SAYS THAT YOU CAN!!!  And HE won’t be mad at you!!!

GOD would NOT have put these verses in HIS WORD, (verses 13 & 14) if HE had NOT intended for us to read them!!! 

No where in God’s WORD does The Lord say, Husband beat your wife or Wife beat your husband!!! 

Here is how THE WORD says that we are to treat our husband or our wife.   

Eph 5:21 Amplified Bible (AMP)

²¹Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

 

 

Then it continues on in verses 21-33.  You can read ALL theses verses by clicking on this link!!!  Ephesians 5:21-33

 

 

Okay men, here is how THE WORD says you are to love your wife: 

 

Eph. 5:25-33

 

 ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;   

 

²⁸So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 

 ²⁹For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

  ³³Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself… 

Now for the wives, here is how THE WORD says you are supposed to show your husband that you love him.    

Eph. 5:22-24, 33

 ²²Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 

 ²³For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 

 ²⁴Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 

 ³³ …and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

 

 

And for ALL of you, I wanted to show you verse 33 in the Amplified: 

³³However, let each man of you [without exception] love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly].

So, HUSBANDS, if you do as verses 28-29 say, AND CHERISH YOUR WIFE AND NOURISH HER AS YOU WOULD YOUR OWN BODY, then you will have an exceedingly happy wife who prefers you above ALL others and esteems you highly!!!  She will do everything that she can to make you happy!!!   

And WIVES, if you will do as verse 33 says, and respect and honor and esteem your husband, letting him know that you prefer him above ALL others.  If you praise him, and admire him exceedingly, then he will make sure that you have the world and he will make sure that you are happy!!!

FOLKS, LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST!!!  A true marriage, one built on God, is a marriage of doing for each other and loving each other and respecting each other!!!  It may NOT be easy, but it is WELL WORTH IT!!!

 

 

Ephesians 5:31

  ³¹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

      

 

 

I've come too far from where I started from…

 

"Can't Give Up Now"

There will be mountains that I will have to climb
And there will be battles that I will have to fight
But victory or defeat, it's up to me to decide
But how can I expect to win

If I never try.

I just can't give up now
I've come too far from where I started from
Nobody told me the road would be easy
And I don't believe He’s brought me this far to leave me

Never said there wouldn't be trials
Never said I wouldn't fall
Never said that everything would go the way I want it to go
But when my back is against the wall

And I feel all hope is gone,
I'll just lift my head up to the sky
And say help me to be strong

I just can't give up now
I've come too far from where I started from
Nobody told me the road would be easy
And I don't believe He’s brought me this far to leave me

[Hook:]
No you didn't bring me out here to leave me lonely
Even when I can't see clearly
I know that You are with me (so I can't)

(Chorus – Lead Adlibs)

I just can't give up now
I've come too far from where I started from
Nobody told me the road would be easy
and I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me

I just can't give up now
I've come too far from where I started from
Nobody told me the road would be easy
and I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me

I just can't give up now
I've come too far from where I started from
Nobody told me the road would be easy
and I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me

I just can't give up now
I've come too far from where I started from
Nobody told me the road would be easy
and I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me

Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/mary_mary/cant_give_up_now.html

Wow!!!  There is really nothing to say cause this song says it ALL!!! 

So, I just have to remember that, “I just can't give up now!!!  I've come too far from where I started from!!!” 

No!!!  The road isn’t always easy!!!  And yes, sometimes it seems like our problems are mountains that we have to climb or battles that we have to fight!!! 

BUT GOD HASN’T LEFT US!!!  We may have gotten away from HIM somehow, but HE HAS NOT LEFT US!!! 

AND HE CERTAINLY DID NOT BRING US THIS FAR TO LEAVE US!!!  HE IS WITH US!!!

Even when we feel lonely; even when it seems that everything and everyone is against us, HE HASN’T LEFT US!!!!

So, don’t even think about giving up!!!

Giving up, isn’t an option!!!  We have to keep on fighting!!!

We have to remember, if it isn’t worth fighting for, then it isn’t worth having!!!! 

SO, WE CAN’T GIVE UP NOW!  CAUSE WE’VE COME TOO FAR FROM WHERE WE STARTED FROM!!!

I Will Praise HIM Through The Good And The Bad!!!

This is another one of those soul inspiring songs!!!  To watch a clip of a true songster click on the title. 

I heard this song playing while I was listening to some great gospel songs.  I had just listened to Dottie Peoples singing, He’s An On Time God, when this song came on. 

As I listened, I was struck by how true the words were, especially, the chorus below.  

I vow to praise You
Through the good and the bad.
I'll praise You,
Whether happy or sad.

I'll praise You
In all that I go through,
Because praise is what I do,
Cause I owe it all to You.

You see, some people think these are just words, but they aren’t!!!

You see, here they have spelled it out for us! They have revealed the secret!!!  And folks don’t even recognize it!!!  Folks don’t even know!!!

They have no idea that this song tells us the secret to stealing God’s heart!!! 

You see, when we praise HIM through the good and the bad; when we praise HIM whether happy or sad, HE KNOWS THAT WE TRULY LOVE HIM!!! 

HE KNOWS THAT WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE HIM!!!  Even when times get tough!!!  Even when things are bad!!!  Even when it seems that there is no hope!!!  Even when it seems that there is no way out!!!

We can still praise Him!!!  Because WE KNOW WHO HE IS!!!  AND WE KNOW THAT HE LOVES US!!! 

AND WE SHOW THAT WE TRULY LOVE AND TRUST HIM BY GOING AHEAD AND PRAISING HIM ANYWAY!!!  No matter what our situation is!!! 

When we praise GOD like that, the devil gets confused.  He just doesn’t understand why we are praising God when he has tried so hard to mess up our lives!!!    

For those of you who love God completely; for those of you who trust God completely; for those of you who have decided that you cannot live without God, IT’S THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO!!!! 

You can shout, and holler, and throw a fit!  You can try to run and hide!  But it doesn’t matter because, only God can make a way where there seems no way!!! 

There are some messes that only GOD can get you out of!!!! 

Just think of the children of Israel at the Red Sea.  They had the Red Sea in front of them and Pharaoh and his army behind them. 

Only God can divide the Red Sea, so that you can walk across on dry ground without even the tiniest bit of mud on your feet!!!  Only God can close up the Red Sea on your enemies, so that they drown and never bother you again!!!  Exodus 14.13-31 

When we praise HIM at ALL times, we show HIM that we love HIM and trust HIM completely!!!  And we know that HE WILL SHOW UP AND SHOW OUT!!!  JUST FOR US!!! 

SO, REMEMBER TO LIVE BY THESE WORDS AND WATCH WHAT GOD WILL DO FOR YOU!!!

Praise Is What I Do

Lead
Praise is what I do
When I want to be close to You,
I lift my hands in praise.

Praise is who I am,
I will praise Him while I can.
I'll bless Him at all times.


Chorus
I vow to praise You
Through the good and the bad.
I'll praise You,
Whether happy or sad.

I'll praise You
In all that I go through,
Because praise is what I do,
Cause I owe it all to You.

Verse 1
Praise is what I do
When I want to be close to You,
I lift my hands in praise.

Praise is who I am,
I will praise Him while I can.
I'll bless Him at all times.


Chorus
And I vow to praise You
Through the good and the bad.
I'll praise You,
Whether happy or sad.
I'll praise You

In all that I go through,
Because praise is what I do,
Cause I owe it all to You.

Verse 2
Praise is what I do,
Even when I am going through,
I've learned to worship You.
No, my circumstance doesn't even stand a chance,
My praise out weighs the bad.




Chorus
And I vow to praise You
Through the good and the bad.
I'll praise You,
Whether happy or sad.
I'll praise You

In all that I go through,
Because praise is what I do,
Cause I owe it all to You.

He’s An On Time God, YES, He Is!!!

 
This song was on my mind today and I just love it!!!   

If you click on the title above, it will take you to You Tube, where you can hear Dottie Peoples sing this awesome song - He's An On Time God!!!

Chorus:
(He's an on time God, yes, He is).
Oh, on time God, yes, He is.

(Job said), He may not come when you want Him,
(but He'll) be there right on time;
(I tell ya He's an) on time God, yes, He is.

Verse 1:
You can ask the children of Israel,
trapped at the Red Sea
by that mean old Pharaoh and his army.

They had water all around them,
and Pharaoh on their track,
from out of nowhere, God stepped in
and cut a highway just like that.

Chorus

Verse 2:
You can ask the five thousand hungry souls He fed,
on the banks of the river
with two fish and five loaves of bread.

What a miracle, He performed for the multitude,
oh, what He did way back then,
He'll do today for me and you.

Chorus

Vamp:
He's on time,
He's on time,
He's on time,
yes, He's on time.

He's on time,
He's on time,
He's on time,
oh yes, He's on time.

Ending:
(He's an on time God, yes, He is).
Oh, on time God, yes, He is.

(Job said), He may not come when you want Him,
(but He'll) be there right on time;

He's an on time God,
(repeat as desired)

He's an on time God,
(yes, He is).

You know, I really do love this song!!!  But there is one part that I just cannot agree with and that is when they sing, “(Job said), He may not come when you want Him.” 

I have to be truthful!!!  I don’t agree with that line because I can tell you from experience that HE IS AN ON TIME GOD!!! 

I can’t help what other folks think and I can’t change their minds, but I am here to tell you that MY GOD IS ALWAYS ON TIME!!!

Church may start late, and folks may still be in the bed, but my God never slumbers or sleeps.  Psalm 121:4 (KJV)

 

 

He doesn’t run late like some folks do (every day of their lives.)  He doesn’t oversleep or have a flat tire, just when you need HIM!  

And He will never tell you that HE has something more important to do than to help you!!!

My God makes a way out of no way!!!  He knows that I am going to need him before I need HIM and HE IS READY WILLING AND ABLE!!!

Maybe some folks have trouble finding God when they need because the only time they call on Him is when they are in trouble!!!  

As for me, I NEED HIM ALL THE TIME!!!

 

Who am I, OH LORD GOD???

 

1 Chronicles 17:16-27 (NKJV)

 

¹⁶ Then King David went in and sat before the LORD; and he said: “Who am I, O LORD God? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far? 

¹⁷ And yet this was a small thing in Your sight, O God; and You have also spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the rank of a man of high degree, O LORD God. 

¹⁸ What more can David say to You for the honor of Your servant? For You know Your servant. 

¹⁹ O LORD, for Your servant’s sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things. 

²⁰ O LORD, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 

²¹ And who is like Your people Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people—to make for Yourself a name by great and awesome deeds, by driving out nations from before Your people whom You redeemed from Egypt? 

²² For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; and You, LORD, have become their God.

²³ “And now, O LORD, the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house, let it be established forever, and do as You have said. 

²⁴ So let it be established, that Your name may be magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel’s God.’ And let the house of Your servant David be established before You. 

²⁵ For You, O my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build him a house. Therefore Your servant has found it in his heart to pray before You.

 

²⁶ And now, LORD, You are God, and have promised this goodness to Your servant. 

²⁷ Now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue before You forever; for You have blessed it, O LORD, and it shall be blessed forever.”

This was David’s humble reply, his prayer to God and his praise before The Lord God of Israel who had shown Him goodness and mercy above ALL men.  David’s God had brought honor to his name and to his kingdom.  

The Lord had made David’s name great above ALL men and had made his feared and respected of ALL nations!!!

And now God was honoring him even more by telling him that he was going to establish his throne forever. 

If we look down through the genealogy of David, we find that Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior is a direct descendant of David.     

And upon HIS RETURN, All of God’s promises to David will be fulfilled!!! 

And WE WILL RULE AND REIGN WITH OUR LORD and SAVIOR as HE SITS UPON THE THRONE!!!!!!! 

I WILL BUILD YOU A HOUSE

David wanted with All his heart to build a House for The Lord, A Dwelling Place for the Lord God Almighty; A Temple of Worship for The Strength of Israel.  

 

In 1 Chron. 29:1, David refers to this house as A Palace that he wants to build for The Lord.  And indeed God had given David the plans for the Temple in Jerusalem.  

 

We can see that the materials that David had set aside for This Holy House were vast, and were indeed riches beyond compare!!!  And we can see that David indeed planned to build a Palace for the Lord God Almighty Who rules Heaven and Earth!!!

1 Chronicles 17 (AMP) 

¹AS DAVID sat in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remains under tent curtains.

² Then Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.

But we must remember what God says in Isaiah 55:8 (KJV) …My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

 

1 Chronicles 17 (AMP)

³And that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,  

⁴ Go and tell David My servant, Thus says the Lord: You shall not build Me a house to dwell in,

⁵For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel from Egypt until this day; but I have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.

⁶Wherever I have walked with all Israel, did I say a word to any of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to feed My people, saying, Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?

And then The Lord spoke these words through Nathan...  

1 Chronicles 17

 

⁷ Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel. 

 

⁸ And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men who are on the earth. 

 

⁹ Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more; nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously, 

 

¹⁰ since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel...

And this was God’s Promise to David!!!

¹⁰…Also I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that the LORD will build you a house. 

 

¹¹ And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

¹²He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

¹³I will be his father, and he shall be My son; and I will not take My mercy and steadfast love away from him, as I took it from him [King Saul] who was before you.

¹⁴But I will settle him (Him) in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his (His) throne shall be established forevermore.  

¹⁵According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

 
When we honor God and seek to please HIM and to do His Will, HE WILL see that we are honored. When we make HIS name great before ALL men, HE WILL make our names great!!   He WILL establish us before ALL men!!!

 

The Lord God Almighty will build us a house!!! He WILL ESTABLISH US BEFORE Heaven and Earth!!  And HE WILL bless our future generations!

GOD Knew You Weren't Perfect!!!

Don’t you know that God knows exactly who you are!!!  He knows what you have done and what you are going to do.  He knew when HE called you, what your flaws were and what mistakes you would make.

And HE loved you and He called you, anyway!!! 

Even King David-A Man after God’s own heart-was NOT perfect.  Acts 13:22 


After God established David as King of Israel, He sinned before God and had to repent.    

Here's how it ALL began!  His first mistake was to stay home instead of going off to war like ALL the kings did at that time of year.    

Then when he went out on the roof and saw a woman bathing, he did NOT look away.  That was his second mistake.  That’s when he should have turned away, went back inside his house, and started praying!!! 

How many time do we have things going on in our heads, but we do NOT take them to GOD???  Many times we know that we should pray, but we don’t!

That is the biggest mistake we can ever make!!!  When we do not inquire or seek the Lord in every situation, then we are NOT being pleasing to HIM and we are NOT showing GOD that we trust HIM completely with every situation!!!

And we are falling right into the trap that the devil has set for us!!!

When David did NOT ask The Lord for help, he made mistake number 3.  And he began to lust after this woman, Bathsheba, who belonged to another man. 

And because he kept thinking about her and lusting after her, he made mistake #4 by deciding that he had to have her.  So, that led to another mistake and he took her to bed and she got pregnant!!!  

So, here he had a dilemma!!!  He had not only taken another man’s wife, but he had gotten her pregnant. 

So, what did he do???  Well, he tried to hide it, of course.  That is the normal reaction, isn’t it?  To lie, cheat and steal!!!  To hide your wrongdoing!!   

Well, if you belong to God, and David belonged to GOD, then NO!!!!    

And if he had sought God at anytime during ALL this, he would have ended up better off!!! 

So, what did David do next?  He sent for her husband who had been in the battle thinking that the man would come home and sleep with his wife.  So, when she began “to show,” the man would think the baby was his own and ALL WOULD BE WELL!!!

But Uriah slept outside the King’s house ALL night long and did not go to his own house or into his wife!!!  So, the next night, David got him drunk and still he did not go home.

So, did David admit his mistake??  No, instead he had Uriah killed!!

You can read ALL of what I am telling you and more in 2 Samuel 11.

God reveals David’s sin to the prophet, Nathan, in 2 Samuel 12.  Then, NOT only David, but others had to suffer because of his actions.  There were many consequences to David’s actions, but God still loved him!!!

God never stopped loving David, even when he was displeased with him.  And when David repented God was very pleased with him and LOVED HIM ALL THE MORE!!!

 

I want you to know, that God sees everything you have ever done and HE loves you!!!  

He knows exactly who you are and even more so, HE SEES WHO YOU WILL BECOME!!!  If you strive to please God, HE will raise you up and make you greater than you ever thought possible!!!

Can you imagine David out singing to The Lord and tending sheep?  Can you see him killing the lion and the bear?  Could you look at him and see that one day, God would raise him up to be King? 

 

From a little shepherd boy tending his father’s flocks to a Mighty Man of War beloved by all the people, to the King of Israel, a man feared by ALL nations because God had made his name great!!!  1 Chron. 14:17

God gets ALL the HONOR and ALL the GLORY!!!  GOD raised David up from a shepherd boy to make him, King of Israel!!!

That’s why it doesn’t matter what other people think, as long as you please God!!!  As long as what you do pleases HIM, then you have it made!!!  No man or woman has a Heaven or a Hell to put you in!!! 

So, strive to please The Lord God Almighty in ALL YOUR WAYS!!!  And know, that if God is pleased (happy) with you, then you have done well!!!

And one day, YOU WILL HEAR HIM SAY, "WELL DONE, MY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT!!!"  Mt. 25:23