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Exodus is one of my favorite books in the Bible. I see God’s strength and power. I see Him as He is. God Almighty! The Great I AM!

Exodus 2:10- So she called his name Moses saying,” Because I drew him out of the water.” Moses means,”to draw out.” Moses was a Hebrew. In Hebrew, Moses means,”He who draws out”.

Eventhough the people rebelled against God after He had delivered them from Egypt, He was still with them. They felt like it would have been better for them to turn and go back to Egypt because they were wondering in the desert for forty years. They felt like Moses had led them there to die in the desert. What they didn’t realize is that God was their deliverer and their provider. They didn’t realize that for all of those years God was taking care of them; just like He takes care of us today. He supplies all of our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior.

Had they realized that, they would not have been complaining about what they didn’t have, and been thankful for what they did have. They had God with them but their hearts were so hard that they didn’t know how to be thankful. We now today in this world can sometimes be that way when we take our eyes and hearts off of the one who created all things. We need to understand and realize that the same God that delivered the Israelites from their bondage will still deliver us from whatever we are going through. He’s our ever present help. He will never leave us nor forsake us.

Sometimes life can make a person feel like they’re in Egypt. We feel like there is no relief from the hurt and pain that we go through. We often question God about all of the things that we go through being His children. We ask God if He’s ever going to make things right when we’ve been wronged by someone we love, by a boss, or even a friend? We ask God when will He do lots of things for us. We must first pray about whatever, or whomever is causing the problem. We must then believe that God hears us, and we must leave it, not pick it back up. God’s time is different from our time. God does things when the time is right, not when we want Him to. We want things answered right then, but God knows best.

God may not give us everything that we want, but He provides for us everything that we need to survive! Such as food, clothing, water, and shelter. He knows all of our hearts desires. He knows every hair on our head. When we complain about the things that we don’t have, we complain against God. It is not right for us to do those things, because it is a sin against God. Everytime we complain about something for whatever reason, God hears it, even our every thought. There’s nothing that’s to big or to small for God. He delivered the Israelites from their bondage from Egypt with His outstretched arm, and with a mighty hand. He defeated their enemies by drowning them in the Red Sea. The Israelites walked through the Red Sea on dry ground and not one person, or animal was left behind.

God is our vendicator. He’ll go through everything with us, no matter what it is. He didn’t leave them in the desert alone, and He will not leave us alone. There are times when we may feel that His presence is not with us, there may be times when we feel He’s not listening to our prayers, there are times when it seems like there is just no answer to anything; but what we need to know is that He’s just giving us a little more time to pray. He wants us to be still and know that He is God alone.

Psalm 121:1-2: I lift up my eyes to the mountains-where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

There are times in our lives when we go through things that causes us to need a little help, or maybe even a lot of help. We often forget that we serve a God that owns everything, and we should look to Him when we need help. Yes, we may call on our family and friends for help, but they can only do so much, they cannot do the things that God can do. When we don’t go to God for help things get out of hand; no matter what the situation is, He is our ever present help in times of trouble.

He makes a way for us whe there seems to be no way, just as He made a way for the Israelites to cross the Red Sea on dry ground. We can’t see what God is doing for us, so we just have to have faith that we may know that whatever He is doing it is for our own good. He helps us in many ways. He provides food for us when we have nothing. He helps us find things that we misplace, He helps us when we are sick and cannot afford to go to the doctor; He’s our doctor. He is here for us when we feel that we are alone, or going through something that we cannot control. He is our everything.

There may be times when we just need a little more time to do something to get things done, He makes a way for it to happen. There may be times when we do not want to be disturbed by anyone, He makes that happen for us. There may be a time when there is not enough gas in the vehicle to go where you want to go, but He makes a way for you to get to the gas station to fill up. He does things for us all of the time, but we just do not pay attention to it; we don’t even take the time to acknowledge what He does for us.

He will always help us no matter what we are going through in our lives. Do we ever take time to stop and thank Him for all of the things that He does for us? Do we even care about the things that HE does for us? God loves us, and we cannot take Him for granted, take His kindness for weakness.

His love never fails, and He is always there for us even when we don’t realize it.

Thank You Heavenly Father for all You have done, for all that You are doing, and for all that You are going to do in our lives, and on this earth. All praises be to our God and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who was and is and is to come, Amen!

(1.) My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul.

I love to sing to God. He is everything to me. When I am making melodies in my heart unto God, my soul rejoices in my Savior, Jesus Christ. I feel like I am standing right in front of Him; it is as if I have an outer body experience. I have been singing to God all of my life. I know I will always sing to Him for as long as I live. Even when I am resting, in my mind I can hear myself singing to God.

I remember on Sunday mornings when we would be practicing before we went to the choir stand to sing, as we sang the songs, I could see Jesus stand up with HIS arms open wide. It was so amazing! My spirit was so high I had to look down to see if my feet were still on the floor, because I felt like I was floating as I walked down the first row where I stood. Even as a child I felt that way whenever I would sing a solo. There are times when I just stay up all night long singing to God, writing music, and playing music on my keyboard. When my heart is full I sing to God. When I am sad, I sing to God, and when I dream sometimes I hear myself singing in my sleep.

Singing to God makes my heart happy. I forget about all of the things that makes me upset. My mind is clear, and as I sing I can hear Him speaking to my spirit. My heart is humbled before Him; it makes me feel like I am that little girl again just spreading her wings. I am talking about the wings of my voice. Whenever I think about what Jesus did for me, I can’t help but sing His praises. I can’t help but bless HIS name. I can’t help but lift HIM up more and more. Whenever I am reading the Word, I just may sing a tune or two quietly just for HIM to hear. It makes me smile from ear to ear.

I am so thankful for the gift of music, making music, writing music, playing music, it’s a beautiful thing. The world would be very dull if there were no music to brighten any day. Next time when it is quiet, and you’re alone, just sing to God, it will lift your spirit, and all of the worries will float away through song.

In the story of Cain and Abel, we know that Cain was jealous of his brother Abel because God accepted Abels’s gifts and not his. That made Cain very mad. We can see that Abel gave God his best, and Cain didn’t give God his best. In Cain’s eyes, he felt that God should have accepted his gifts as well, but when He gave God something it was not his very best. Abel gave God his very best.

I can see how jealous Cain became, I can also see his sadness, and the pain that he felt in his heart of not being accepted. I can see how happy Abel was when his gift was accepted, I can see him rejoicing in the Lord.

God looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering He did not look with favor.Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

I know sometimes that there are others that have things that we wish we had, but that does not gives us the right to become jealous because we do not have what they have. We do not know what they had to go through to get what they have. We should be glad for someone when they are doing good, or have something that we do not have. We do not have to want what others have, because what God has for us is for us, and what God has for them is for them. Yes, it is wrong for someone to do wrong and still want to be blessed by God. When we think about it, God blesses us all everyday with our lives. His mercies are new every morning, but in the case of Cain, he let his jealousy cause him to do something that he will regret for the rest of his life.

God asked Cain why was he angry, and why was his face downcast. God told him that if he does what is right, will he not be accepted. God also told Cain that if he do not do what is right, sin is crouching at his door, and that it desires to have him; that he must rule over it.

Anyone in their right mind would listen to God, because He can see the things that we cannot see. He never slumbers or sleep. He is ever watching over His creation. He knows what is best for us, lets see if Cain is going to listen to God or not.

As good as Cain feels, he asks his brother to go to the fields with him; Abel went, but when they reached the field, Cain attacked his brother and killed him.

See jealousy of that magnitude will make a person do anything that they normally would not do. Cain’s jealousy went very deep. He could not stand to see his brother being favored by God. He wanted what his brother had so bad that it caused him to kill his brother. All Cain had to do was do right just as the Lord said.

After Cain had killed Abel, God asked Cain where his brother was, and Cain lied to God telling Him that he did not know. Now, I do not know why Cain would lie to God when he should have known that God already knew that he had killed Abel. He was wrong for lieing to God in the first place, all he had to do was tell the truth. He has the nerve to ask God,”Am I my brother’s keeper!”

God asked Cain what did he do. He told him to listen, becasue Abel’s blood was crying out to Him from the ground. When someone is killed, God hears their blood as it leaves their body pouring out on the ground crying. Life is a precious gift,and once it is taken it cannot be given back; that person is gone forever unless God breathes life back into the body so that person can live again. No one has the right to take a person’s life, that’s God’s business. Everyone has a right to live a full life. It is especially wrong to kill someone in cold blood. That is what Cain did to his own flesh and blood, killed him in cold blood because he was jealous of his brother.

God told Cain that when he work the ground, it would no longer yield crops for him, and that he would be a restless wonderer on the earth. Cain told the Lord that his punishment was more than he could bear. Cain told the Lord that today He was driving him out of the land, and he would be hidden from His presence; and that he would be a restless wonderer on the earth, and whoever finds him will kill him.

Cain must have felt very bad for what he had done to his brother because he was worried about someone killing him. He must have been very frightened knowing that he was not going to be able to be in the presence of God anymore; that is as terrible way to live. Living without God is death in itself.

There are times in our lives when we dift away from God because we want to go our own way, do our own things. We often forget that God will be waiting for our return home to him. He never stops waiting for us. His arms are always open wide to receive us again.

The Lord told Cain “Not so”, that anyone who kills him will suffer vengeance seven times over. God then put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. Cain went out from the pesence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, East of Eden.

We being children of the Most High God, we are all marked with the blood of Christ. We do not have to worry about not knowing who we are, or whose we are, or where we will go when we leave this earth. Heaven is our home. We are just passing through this land on our way to a better place where there is real love, real peace, and real happiness, a land flowing with milk and honey. We serve a God that more than enough. He will never leave us nor forsake us. The love that He has for us will never waver. It doesn’t matter what we have, or have not done in our lives, He will always love us.

Let us not die spiritually, but die to our flesh. Our flesh wants things of the world, but our spirit wants things that are of God. We know that one day this world is going to pass away, but the Word of God will never pass away, it will stand forever.

If you have not asked Jesus to come into your heart to be your Lord and Savior, do so, because tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone. It will be the best decision you will ever make in your life. He is waiting to hear from you, He loves you very much. All praises be to God and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who was and is and is to come, Amen.

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I have been suffering with depression for a very long time. It all started when I was just a child, but to no avail I was never treated for it; it was just swept under the rug. For years I have been praying that it would go away on its own, but it has not.

Struggling with depression has held me back in my life from a lot of things that are important to me, such as holding a job, finishing school, and it has robbed me of my happiness that I once had. Years has come and gone but it is still the same for me.

I never thought that my life would be this way. Everyday is different for me. Some days I manage to get up and do things that I enjoy, like writing, drawing, writing music, and cooking. I spend most of my days just thinking about how my life should be, or could be if I were not suffering from this.

There are days when I am so happy and everything is alright, and there are days when I am not happy at all; as a matter of fact I am sometimes angry. I am angry because I do not like being depressed. I do not like feeling like there is no hope for me, no joy, no happiness, no love, no nothing, no peace in my mind that will make me feel and be normal.

Depression causes me to become more emotional than usual. Little thing’s. Things that happened to me in my life, things that was said to me to make me feel less than, being bullied, called out of my name. Some say that words don’t hurt, but they do. Feelings are hurt , sometimes things like that are hard to let go of.

When I awake from sleeping, I always take a deep breath. I do that because it refreshes me from the inside out. It helps me to release bad vibes. I know that may sound strange, but it works for me.

Living with depression for me is like being on a rollercoaster that only goes up and down from day to day. It is different, but it is not easy to come out of, it is not easy to get off of, and it feels like chains weighing me down, it feels like hands with grips that I cannot pull away from.

Through it all I try to be positive in my thinking so I will not lose my mind. I try to focus on the good things that I enjoy. I watch my favorite movies, eat my favorite foods, drink my favorite soft drink, read my favorite books. I sometimes go outside just to feel the sun on my face. I enjoy listening to the birds sing. I enjoy listening to my favorite music, and sometimes I just want to be alone in the quiet to think, and pray to God that I will be delivered from this disease called depression.

It is not fun feeling like this all of the time. It gets old. It robs me of my sleep sometimes, it makes me very edgy. It really frustrates me to the point to where I just want to scream. Depression hurts; it really does. The stress from it, and the anxiety from it is even worse. When it is that bad, I just cry because it hurts. It causes me to lash out, throw things.

It all comes from things that I have gone through in my life. Everyone gets depressed at some point, but for me it has been a life long battle. Hiding it will only make things worse, and letting it out feels good, but then after it is all said and done energy is lost that you just cannot get back. Time is lost that you can never get back.

I just pray that God will deliver me from this so I can live my life happy. I do not want anymore time taken from me because of this disease that has robbed me of my happiness.

If there are others suffering from depression, Pray for God’s divine healing. I know for myself that there are different medications out there, and people with licenses that we can talk to, but God has all of the answers that we need to help us overcome this that we are having to face from day to day.

All praises be to our God our Father, His Son, Jesus Christ our Savior, who was and is and is to come. Amen!

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Yes, we are God’s children, are we perfect, not by longshot. We all have missed the mark. Does He still love us? Yes He does. Does He still want us? Yes He does. I know that life gets in the way of us praising our Heavenly Father from time to time, but we have to make time to do it.

As children of God, it is our responsibility to acknowledge our heavenly Father…we cannot act like He is not important. He is very important; if it were not for Him we would not be here living on this earth that He created.

We are God’s children that are blessed in every area of our lives, we just don’t see it. The reason being is because we focus on the negative in things instead of focusing on the positive and the blessings that it brings.

When we focus on the positive in things, there is joy, laughter, and happiness. When we focus on the negative, there is sadness, resentment, hate, strife, and jealousy. What is the point in focusing on all of the bad things that has happened in our lives? What does it profit? Where is, and what is our heart and mind set on? Where should it really be?

To answer those questions: Number one, our heart and mind should be focused on our heavenly Father who created and loves us; who sent His One and Only Son to die for our sins. Number two, focusing on the negative all of the time only brings heartache and sleepless nights. Number three, focusing on the positive brings joy, love, and peace.

Yes, we are God’s children one and all. I am so glad He is there to pick us up whenever we fall. It is a marvelous blessing to be God’s children. It is a wonderful blessing to call Jesus our Brother. To be joint heirs with Him…The King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the First and the Last, the Alpha and the Omega,the Beginning and the End, the Author, Finisher,and Profector of Our Faith!!

The One who walked on water, calmed the raging sea, opened blind eyes, cured lepers, and made the lame walk, raised the dead, fed five thousand people with two fish and five loaves of bread, cast out deamons and evil spirits, hung bled and died, was raised on the third day with all power in His hands in heaven and on earth, and ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of God Almighty! Our heavenly Father, His God, Our God, His Father, and Our Father forevermore!! Praise God!! Praise God!!, Praise God!!

My heart is over joyed! We are so blessed!

We are God’s children. Let us not forget to Praise Him, and Glorify Him! He loves us, always has and always will forever!.Amen.

LIVING IN GOD’s PERFECT LOVE

When we were growing up, some of us grew up in families where there was unconditional love, and some of us grew up where there were no love expressed at all; some heard the word “love”, but some didn’t. We all have our stories of that word, be it good or bad.

I was always told to believe that someone loves you unless they tell you different. I have always had an open mind about that word.

Love hurts. It can be good, it can be bad, and it can be ugly depending on how it is used. People throw that word around like it is a ball waiting to be caught by someone whose going to hold on to it forever. That ball of love can be dropped again, or it can be passed on to the next person to catch.

When we look at that word “LOVE”, what and who do we think about? Do we think about our spouses, our children, our mothers and fathers, other relatives? Yes, no, maybe? The real question is this, do we think about God’s perfect love? Do we think about how He had to see all of the mean and hateful things that was done to His only Son? Do we think about just how much He loved His Son? Do we think about how it hurt Him to turn away from His Son when He took our sins upon Himself? Do we ever think about the love He has for us? Do we ever think about how we can live in God’s perfect love?

His love is the only perfect love, and as soon as we realize that , our hearts will be completely overjoyed. There will be nothing that can turn us away from His perfect love. Living in God’s perfect love is powerful. His love can turn the most coldest heart soft again. Living in His perfect love will make us love our enemies.

Living in His perfect love is the most wonderful thing that we could ever do; there is wisdom, knowledge, and understanding when living in God’s perfect love.

Sometimes we want to do things to make God smile towards us, for Him to lay His beautiful hands on us, and to bless us. We should know that while we are up front trying to do our thing, God is not only in the background, but He is all around us doing His thing; the problem is we just don’t see it, why, because our eyes are spiritually closed.

When we open up our eyes to the reality of it all, we will see that we’re not in control of anything that happens, or what is going on around us. Everything that happens has already been preordained before we were even born.

We cannot stop what was already meant to happen. No matter how much we pray about something, we still have no say in the matter; God has the final say in everything. Yes, it hurts when our prayers are not answered how we want them to be. We need to understand that our Father in heaven knows what is best for us. We may feel and think that we know what’s best for us, but we don’t. We need to always stay in the background and put God first always.How can we expect for God to give us anything when we don’t give Him what He deserves? How can we expect God to bless us when we find excuses to bless Him with what’s already His? Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.We have to give in order to receive. When we give to Him what is rightfully His, He will give us what is ours and more. We can’t beat God givin’ no matter how hard we try.

Life can be hard at times, but we must know that everything will be alright; it may not look like it, or feel like it, but it will. Sometimes it has to rain and it falls very hard. It may seem like it is never going to stop, it eventually does though. The sun shines again and there is a rainbow in the sky. It tells us that there is still beauty in circumstances, because God is there with us; He brings the beauty to all things.

Whenever we cry there’s beauty in our tears, our tears comes from our heart, that is where Jesus lives, and that is what makes our tears beautiful. We put on a smile to hide the sadness from others, but in the background we are screaming very loud. No one hears it but God. Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying so no one will ask us what’s wrong, but in the background God sees it all.

Let us step to the background and examine ourselves that we may ask God to remove the things from us that should not be there that we may be clean and pure before Him. When time comes for this earth to come to an end, we won’t have time to step to the background; we will all be in the forefront standing before Him. There will be no more time to make things right with Him, or anyone. There will be no more time to live according to His Word. There will be no more time to be baptized, or to learn the Word. There will no more time to go to church to listen to the preacher. There will be only time for judgement, the separation of good and evil, eternal bliss and eternal damnation!!

Time is running out. Come to the front. Don’t stay in the background. Don’t miss your turn to come to Jesus while He still may be found. Don’t miss out on the blessing of an eternal lifetime. We should never feel that we are in the way when we need to talk to God. He’s ever ready to listen to our hearts cry. He’s ever ready to hold us in His arms, dry our tears, and ease our pain, and fears. Yes, He has His work to do, but He loves taking care of His children too. His love moves mountains out of our way; nothing can ever separate us from His love. He’s never too far away in the background.

WILL THIS PANDEMIC EVER BE IN THE BACKGROUND?

As we are eight months into 2021, we are still facing pandemics due to the viruses that are spreading like wildfire. We would have never thought that something like this would be taking over the world that we live in. We never thought that something like this could ever exist and cause the harm it has caused around the world. Life as we know it will never be the same again. Life as we know it will be forever changed, and our freedom of living our lives the way we want to live them will be forever altered with masks. Just what is the world coming too? Why are we suffering like this? Why is there not a cure being made for this? Will the vaccines continue to work for some more than others? We have all seen what this pandemic consists of; it only consists of death. I am sorry for the people who has lost their loved ones because of this virus. For those of you who had the virus and made it through, Praise God! The very question is this: Will this pandemic ever be in the background? Will it ever vanish? Will it leave the world alone! I know it is hard to stay positive, but we have to in order to have some kind of sanity. It is even hard to have a since of humor because of all of this. I wake up everyday disappointed because we are going through all of this! Our life should not consist of this havoc and chaos. It is a shame that we cannot enjoy ourselves when we go out. I loved going to the parks, and to the lakes, but now I don’t. All of this isolation is getting to me. I have to find things to do to keep myself occupied…just to have some kind of enjoyment. I just do not feel safe when I go out. It has gotten to the point to where I will not go into the grocery store unless I really have to, and anywhere else for that matter. I just will go to my own mail box. These viruses has made life stagnant and boring. Will this ever end?!? No one knows except God. We surely cannot say if it will or will not end. What about the people who own pets, if they get sick, can the pets get sick too? In my opinion, if people own pets, the pets should get vaccinated too; there should be masks made for pets too.

In all truth, it looks like it is here to stay just like the other viruses that there are no cures for, such as HIV/Aids, and Cancer. This is something that we are going to forever be dealing with unless God works a miracle. I really pray that He does. We really need a miracle right now. We need healing all over the world. It really makes me think about the people who do not know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

I added to this post because I felt it was the right time to do so. I wrote the first part before I started my show, Food for the Soul. Some of you may have read it the first time I posted it, but just in case you did not read it, you will get a chance to hear it on my show. There are more posts that will be aired from my archives from when I first started writing two years ago, so stay tuned. I do so enjoy sharing my writings with you all. Stay safe, and stay blessed. Until next time, thank you for joining me on my journey with Food for the Soul.