Psalm 9 KJV I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise.
We are going into the new year. A good time to change yourself. Start a yearly Bible reading plan. Get back to working out and eating right. Get back to your daily devotions. All of this requires a will to follow through. To serve God requires a will to do so and Self control! For most ´spiritual warfare´ you only need two letters. N.O.!
Contrary to popular belief, God doesn’t just do stuff for us. The most popular non-Bible verse that people quote as a Bible verse is ‘God helps those who help themselves’. Although it isn’t in the Bible, it’s completely Biblical. God shows you what to do. He gives you the will to do it. But you have to get up and move.
God gives us all we need. He provides the miracles of our bodies. Our strength, life and the Holy Spirit inside of us. He give us air, our minds, food, the Bible, other Christians, everything we need to live a victorious Christian life. He gives it to all of us, liberally. God wants us to have everything needed. Sometimes He wants us to have it more than we think we want it.
He causes us to will the things He wants for us. Just like He gives us the faith to believe in Him. It´s His will, and His faith. We may think something is in His will, and be discouraged when we don’t get it. If we don´t get it, even though we asked Him for it in faith, it´s because it wasn´t His will, and we tried to force our will on Him. He will show you His will through prayer and listening and through is will.
Sometimes also we can be too specific. I am trying to help a pastor set up a halfway house for drunks. I got the perfect house for him, for free! It’s not in Managua city limits so he doesn’t want it. Won’t even look at it. Who knows when and if he’ll find the house he’s looking for in Managua. Let God give you the will and just follow His lead. God gives us the will to do His will, not ours.
Philippians 2:12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
But it’s up to us to have the will power to get up off of the couch and actually do it. (I love the term ‘will power’ because it shows the power of having a will). ‘I will’ says you have the power to do something or not.
Let’s look at Psalm 9:1
1. I will praise you with all my heart! The key to praise, is with all of your heart. Not just praising God with your mouth, and you mind, but with all your soul. The choice to praise God is entirely up to us. And then how we praise God, with our heart, or just to be seen, is also all up to us. It doesn’t matter if we don’t feel well, have marital problems, in prison, hungry, failing, broke or any of the other horrible things that can happen. The decision to say ‘I will’ and then to follow through with the actual praising of God, is entirely up to you. I guarantee this, start praising God and you’ll feel better. But you have to have to ‘will power’ to start. There’s a song in spanish that I love, ‘a sad heart can’t praise Jesus’
https://youtu.be/yUdXCNhV2rM
Psalm 150:6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
2. I will show fourth all of your marvellous works. Testify! Share! Have a pleasant disposition. Be kind. Decide to be positive in bad situation. Will yourself to be light, not darkness, in all of your decisions.
Matthew 5 14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
Be honest, moral and kind. Showing God to others isn’t only talking and quoting Bible verses and being mean to people who aren´t like you.
2 Corinthians 3:2 “Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:”
3. I will be glad and rejoice in you. Don’t be a cry baby. Don’t EVER NEVER feel sorry for yourself. Joy does not mean happy. Rejoice all the time, we can´t be happy all the time, unless you are insane, but you can be joyful all the time.
Philippians 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice
Psalms 47:6 “Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.”
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CHRISTMAS PRESENTS THIS YEAR! SINCE WE ARE ON OUR OWN FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, GOD HAS AGAIN PROVIDED FOR 1,175 CHRISTMAS PRESENTS THROUGH NICA SOURCE (NICARAGUAN NEAR SHORE IT COMPANIES). THANK YOU JESUS! WHAT KIND OF CHRISTIAN CHILDREN MISSION DOESN’T GIVE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS TO CHILDREN AT CHRISTMAS TIME? MERRY CHRISTMAS!
1. Our new room, and warehouse expnasion is almost completed, God is good! Needing to install the AC and we are finished. We had some issues but we should be done in two weeks.
2. The home back up power plant is a few days from arriving. Thank you, we desperately need it! They say it should be installed next week.
3. Our summer break-change of school year is here. We have a lot of broken stuff, painting that needs to be done, light construction repairs. We spent the rainy season fixing other homes, but ours has fallen in dissarry. Praise God that we have the time to get to it without a bunch of school kids running around. Thank you for your help.
4. English class, Daily Bible studies, school and feeding centers are all going well. Graduation ceremonies for the school are this week.
Pureheart Update – All is well, finishing up the new room and warehouse. We are painting, repairing the school´s classrooms, bathrooms, (lots of plumbling and electrical stuff going on) and we are improving our school’s computer abilities.
PRAYER REQUESTS
1. For Souls and Fruit.
2. FOR HEALING OF LOVED ONES WITH EVERYTHING FROM CANCER TO MENTAL ILLNESS.
3. FOR HOME VISITATIONS TO PRODUCE RESULTS, FOR VISITORS TO OUR HOME TO GET SAVED. FOR THE FAMILIES AND PARENTS OF ALL THE PUREHEART WORKERS TO GET SAVED.
4. FOR OUR 2 FEEDING CENTERS AND THE TWO OTHER FEEDING CENTERS THAT WE HELP. FOR OUR SISTER FEEDING CENTER IN ISLAMBAD PAKISTAN.
5. AS WE ARE HELPING OTHERS WITH EMERGENCY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS *THIS CONTINUOUS RAINY SEASON DESTROYS THE SHACKS THAT MANY OF OUR PEOPLE LIVE IN*. THAT WE BE THE LIGHT AND PEACE OF JESUS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORM.
7. GOVERNMENTAL PAPERWORK, I CALL IT ´DEATH BY 1000 PAPERCUTS’. IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, FRUSTRATING, AND EXPENSIVE. AMONG OF WHICH IS FOR PERMISSION TO HAVE AN ORPHANAGE-OLDFOLKS HOME ON A SUSTAINABLE GREEN FARM IN THE MANAGUA CITY LIMITS. THIS IS THE 4TH TIME IN TEN YEARS THAT WE HAVE HAD TO START AGAIN FROM SCRATCH EVERYTHING FROM ALL THE ACCOUNTING, BOOKS, AND PERMISSIONS FOR THE ORPHANAGE. EVEN FORECED INTO REINCORPORATING DOWN HERE. IT GETS TOUGHER EVERY TIME, BUT WE AREN´T GOING ANYWHERE. THE LEGAL AND CPA PAPERWORK AND ACCOUNTABILITY IS ESPECICALLY TOUGH.
8. THE DELAY IS OK, BECAUSE WE ARE STILL WAITING ON THE LORD TO PROVIDE THE MONEY AND THE PERFECT RESOURCES FOR ALL THE FULL TIME STAFF, DOCTOR, NURSE, AIDES ETC THAT COME WITH A FARM THAT HAS ROOM FOR AN ORPHANAGE AND AN OLD FOLKS HOME ON IT, AS WELL AS THE PROPERTY ITSELF. EVEN WITH JUST AN ORPHANAGE HERE, OUR STAFF WILL ALMOST HAVE TO DOUBLE IN SIZE PER NICARAGUAN REGULATIONS
9. FOR OUR OWN CHILDREN`S SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND SAFETY WHILE STUDYING IN THE STATES.
10. AGAIN, THE GOVERNMENTAL PAPERWORK IS HORRENDOUS, AND GETTING MORE DIFFICULT AND EXPENSIVE EVERY DAY.
11. Looking to buy (or get donated) a large tract of land to put the orphanage and old folks home on.
12. Pray that everything goes smoothly with the Christmas hand outs.
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A TALL ORDER, BUT NOTHING IS TOO BIG FOR GOD, NOT EVEN DIFFICULT.
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