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Apr 26

Better Days to Come

When you sit and listen to how much drama goes on in certain families and also the stuff that can try and enter into your own lives, you realize how good you have it when you learn to live and enjoy life.  Simply because Life has enough drama of its own to take it upon ourselves to create more.  The better days to come are here, because we can choose to live our life with Christ first and by doing it gives us the protection to know that if Our God is for Us, then who could be Against us!  When I look at the drama in my life and I see how God used that to create something awesome, it makes me in more awe of who he is.  He knows exactly what we need, but more so he knows exactly what it will take for us to open our eyes.  My eyes have been opened to the evil trying to infiltrate God’s Beloved, but because Jesus is a Warrior and Awesome protector he lays his hands of peace over me and allows me to share my love and transformation in him with others.  It is one of the best feelings to know that someone is talking trash about you, and they people listening let you know that it is going in one ear and out of the other.  One of the most important of the many lessons I have learned from the Holy Spirit is be yourself, be who you are with your friends, enemies and alone behind closed doors with yourself.  Then there is nothing to hide, because people will know your brokenness but because of that they will be wiling and more likely to share theirs with you.  I hid for so many years and that same coward tries to poke himself out of the darkness sometimes, but then Jesus reminds me of John 10:10, My paraphrase ” Anthony, Satan has come to steal your peace, kill your hopes and destroy your dreams, but I Anthony have come to put all of who Satan is under my feet, because My son, I have come that you may LIVE life to the FULL.”  There is no more hiding or shame when your True, One and Only God says why he has come.  I am excited to keep living my life with God first and with all the trials and tribulations that will help mold me into a better Man, better Future Husband, Better Future Father and Better Disciple of Christ! As God speaks this to my heart and my soul, I can only LOOK FORWARD TO THE BETTER DAYS TO COME!!  This truth is for all of us!! Amen!

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Apr 25

UM, You talking to me, God?

Well as God works in my life he continually does more and more amazing things.  Something pretty new that he has been doing or at least I have been noticing lately is as I am speaking to a group, the words that God uses through me are also directed to me.  I mean I am saying stuff that I didn’t “practice” to say and its good advice and then I hear a still and silent voice say, your not doing what your telling them to do.  I mean it’s crazy that God can speak to you as words are coming out of your mouth.  This has recently started with me and at first I didn’t like it and was like Um, you talking to me, God?  He was like yeah, these words are about you, too!  but remember, I am using you as a vessel to say something Jesus needs to be said to this person or persons.  So then God says Anthony, though you have prepared well to say what you have studied, please allow me, The Holy Spirit, the opportunity to Heal who I came to Heal and oh by the way listen because these words are for you as well.  This has been on my heart pretty heavy, because God is continually showing me that our lives are to serve others.  People need to know that they are cared for and that they are worth it.  God knows we all experience pain, some of us get it and some of us give it, but we all experience it.  God wants us to realize it doesn’t matter if you didn’t get something you thought you really wanted or deserved.  In the end, God first wants us to love ourselves so that then we can truly love others.  It is really hard to remember that my life is not about me, but God always has a cool was of reminding me of this truth.  So just to recap the question at the title of this Post, the answer from God is a YES! I am talking to You, My Child!  Selah!

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Apr 22

God knows what he is doing!

Why is it that I always think my way about situations instead of God’s way. I guess that is what makes him God.  Let me explain: Today I had an opportunity to do Chapel at a Family and Women’s Ministry Facility.  I have done this for about 9 months and usually have at least 7 to 10 women in the service.  Well my pride comes in at times and today was one of those days.  Only 2 ladies showed up and so I prayed and also texted a friend to pray for me as well.  Now I know that God has a plan, but for some reason I was about to make this about me and Jesus stopped that thought in its tracks and here is how.  I began with a prayer and started going into my sermon that was already changed by God during the previous weeks events.  Well as I start into my deal and talking about cherished moments, I started to discuss the loss of a beautiful young girl named Kaely Camacho.  Whose life was taken by a drunk driver.  I shared with the 2 ladies how I saw how Kaely was a Moment Maker, she didn’t wait for cherished moments to happen, rather she made every moment with her an opportunity to be cherished.  I then begin to share the scripture from John 10:10 and one of the ladies stops me and is crying.  She is at the facility because of drinking and she mentioned how many times she has been behind the wheel like that.  It was at that moment that I realized God set this appointment for this Sunday.  We stayed in the scripture and the truth of God and the more I spoke the more I realized the Holy Spirit was there for this woman today.  The even more amazing thing was the last scripture I had chosen to speak about, didn’t have much to do with Cherished Moments, but when I was studying something told me to add it. It was Philippians 4:6 – 7  which says “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.  Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.” Here is how awesome God is, the lady that was there, this was her last week, she was going back into the real world after 3 months of help.  She was so worried about what that meant for her and here was God the night before giving me this scripture to share and he already knew why!  I went on to share a poem with the 2 ladies and lifted my head after the prayer to see her crying, because she experienced what it means to be God’s Beloved.  He designed this weekend 4/22 for her.  The reason I was there was to relay this message of the Gospel to her, but also so the Holy Spirit could show her he is there for her.  Talk about a miracle, God used me today to be apart of one.  As we walked out, the same 2 ladies were headed to the Spanish service.  We had a chance to talk about that and it turns out the lady who does the Spanish service is someone who has been lifted by Christ out of abuse, prostitution, drinking and drugs and now shares the light of Christ with others.  God not only knows what he is doing but he Provides for us exactly what we NEED!!  I LOVE YOU, JESUS!!

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