Dear Saints, This anointed message was sent to me a few days ago by Mary Grady. I have no idea who the author is, but he or she sure can speak the Truth. Gene

It’s so hard!

———Transformation

EVERY MUSCLE, TISSUE, and cell in your body today is different than it was seven years ago.  Every strand of hair you have today is different.  Every toenail and fingernail you have today are not the same ones you had just a few months ago.  Today, you are totally different in every physiological sense than you were three, five, or seven short years ago.  The question is, how different is your mind?

Each moment, your physical body changes without any input on your part.  Your mind, however, is a completely different issue.  You must work to change your mind.  You must be willing to release past pains, past regrets, and ancient resentments.  You must be willing to let go of hostility, anger, and judgments about experiences and people.  The people in your past, like you, have also changed. They have new hair, new tissues, new cells, new toenails and fingernails!  It is up to you, however, to see them in a new light . . . even when it looks like they are doing the same thing.  The only thing that will keep you stuck in the past with old experiences, useless emotions, and worn-out habits is your mind.  Fortunately, you have the ability to change your mind to match everything else that is new about you.

You are renewed!  Now change your mind!

POST SCRIPT: The author didn’t say it directly in his message, but you and I both know that our minds are renewed by the Word of God. By the way, if I don’t respond to your E-mails in a timely manner Monday it is because I have decided to take Mondays off. I won’t go online until 6 p.m. each Monday.

Gene

THE MESSAGE BIBLE IS MORE CLEAR:

Seven Things God Hates

^16-19 Here are six things God hates,
and one more that he loathes with a passion:
eyes that are arrogant,
a tongue that lies,
hands that murder the innocent,
a heart that hatches evil plots,
feet that race down a wicked track,
a mouth that lies under oath,
a troublemaker in the family.  PROVERBS 6

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It is really easy to sin.  Look around you.  But, amongst the brethern who know better, it’s easy too if you aren’t careful.

The devil will find a way to get you in a bad place.  He’ll even convince you that your sin is alright; that it is an exception.

Examples:

Arrogant Eyes

He’ll make you think:  “I’m this!  I’m that!  I’ve done this!  I’m better than them.”  Don’t believe it.   That can cause arrogant eyes…ever so subtle.  It can be sen  in churches:  “I’ve been here this long…how long have youuuuuuuuuuu been here?”

A Lying Tongue…

Lying tongues are all around; all the time.  It’s contagious; pretty soon if you are not careful you’ll be exaggerating  ..I mean lying too.  Don’t join the liar’s club.  That’s a group of people who lie and they all know it but it’s okay.  It seems like such a trivial thing; but it’s not.  Ever met someone who has everything going for them except they make up huge whoppers?  I have.  If it’s not the total truth…it’s a lie!

Hands that murder the innocent…

Aside from the obvious, people in authority have a great responsibility…have you false accused someone, framed someone, lied about someone ruining their life or altering the course that God has for them? Have you ignored a  move in your spirit to help someone, minister to them, are your hands completely clean?

A Heart That Hatches Evil Plots

Perhaps you’ve been wronged and you want revenge…back out of it!  Vengeance belongs to God.  Tell no lies, create nothing unjustified against another, be right with God, forgive; lest that thing get mired down in your spirit causing you to think or be involved in the unthinkable!

Feet That race Into Mischief

Don’t let your feet put you in quicksand.

A mouth that lies under oath

Watch what you swear to or what you’ve sworn to.  I know people who swear to uphold this country; yet they undermine it in little small ways.  Have you been to court lately?  Well,  witnesses lie so much that they have to make them sit outside the courtroom while testimony goes on because that’s the only way the truth can be sorted.

A TROUBLEMAKER IN THE FAMILY

Many families have troublemakers.  Is it you?  This is not acceptable to God.  Are you a rumor started or do you sow negative discord?  If yes…you BETTER stop!

God loves you, but don’t make Him hate what you do; lest you be an abomination in His sight.  If you’ve missed the mark, please repent and ask Him to strengthen and heal you of these bad habits and transgressions.

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Some things are so simple…that it makes them hard.

I see it all the time.  People walking around saying:  “What should I do?”

“I don’t know what to do?”

“I’m stuck.”

All of this…believe it or not…is not faith.  Sorry, but it’s true.  When you do not have the answer that you need…the bible gives so much instruction.

Here’s a great answer that I often use in James 1: 5-7

⁵If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of ^[a]the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him.

⁶Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind.

⁷For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord,

See what it say.  It says:   A-S-K!!

Ask who?

Your girlfriend?   No.

Your doctor?  No.

Your mother?  No.

Your neighbor?  No.

Your husband or your wife?  No.

The Mailman?  No.

The list goes on…

But, it says Ask God.   It says God will give you the answer but it has a second part to it…yiu have to ask in faith.  You must believe that God definitely has the answer and that only He has it and will get it to you in the allotted time.

So you see…your answer is in your faith.  How’s your faith doing?