HOW TO GET OUT OF THOSE DIFFICULT OR TRYING SITUATIONS!

    You have the option to remove yourself from difficult or trying situations by cutting free of certain un-healthy relationships with people who you think are your friends. 

     Are your friends dragging you down with their negative attitude or always having a problem but refuse to walk with Christ? 

     This could even be a Christian who is immature and refuses to grow up. It's always about them, and their issues which they want to complain and talk about all the time. Maybe you think you are helping them but beware, sometimes we become like the people we are associated with. This will definitely affect your daily walk with Christ.

Listen Up! 

Re-evaluate all relationships and then ask the Lord: 

"Is this a relationship that is keeping me in these difficult or trying situations? More importantly, heavenly Father, does this relationship draw me closer to you or does it hinder my daily relationship with you? Am I spending my time thinking on these difficult situations or am I spending that time with you?"

     Today you have a choice? 

     Change is not Change until you CHANGE! 

     Don't be afraid! Jesus will give you clarity and understanding. Then new relationships can be formed with people who are wiser and have some life experiences and victories with Jesus under their belt. 

     Do it now!

Always Working for Him

Lou Ellen

 Word for the Day!

People usually apply a remedy to their problem to the outward body.

In other words they think by quitting it on the outside first, the problem, habit, circumstance, etc. is fixed.

But you cannot fixed something outwardly when the disease (habit, etc.) is in the ❤ heart.

You must NOT attempt to clean the outer life without FIRST cleaning the inner life....

Clean up the inside with genuine repentance and sorrow over the disease (problem, habit, etc.) and the outside, the exterior body will be naturally and easily reformed. (leh)

"Father we are tired of dealing with the same old failures, habits, bad relationships, fill in the blank, sins, over and over again. We are tired of going around and around the same mountain of failure. Today we are asking you to clean the inside of us so that the outside will naturally fall in line with Your Word. Today we draw a line in the sand and say, 'No More.' We truly need Jesus on the Inside, Working on the Outside, O What a Change in Our Life. We thank you for your help and your all powerful strength this day. In Jesus Name! Amen!

 Word of Caution for Today!

Changes are needed by yourself to maintain your health or strength!

There are things you need to do and not do, so that God can do the things He does for us as we co-labor together in the earth.

Get out of the rut you are in and quit complaining about it. Start DOING!

• If you need to start walking.........then do it.
• If you need to eat healthier food...do it.

You must first make a decision! One that says, "I can do this. I can do ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME!"

Once you make a decision to change your unhealthy lifestyle then the Holy Spirit will rush to your aid to help you MAINTAIN and give you STRENGTH.

An emergency intervention is needed to bring wholeness. Be patient, able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious.

Pray for healing and deliverance from sickness, injury, or bad news.

"Heavenly Father I need you more today than yesterday. I feel so alone and helpless at times. The un-holy spirit keeps me in a frame of mind that says, "I CAN'T. Today I repent for listening to those un-holy thoughts. I reject them now in the name of Jesus and command them to leave me. I believe that this is done NOW. Help me HOLY SPIRIT. Come and be my teacher and guide in this change to good health and strength. I CAN Do this with your help in Jesus name. Amen!"

Marching Orders for the Day

 

You will persevere with painstaking efforts, to love, or choose to do something with great skill and expertise, contrary to the excepted or expected standard or practice. That means you will follow the moral code book, the Bible, in opposition to all other earthly, human choices because you are a person with character and integrity who always puts your best work into everything you do.

Of late, you have the tendency to let things slip because of being unappreciated in all of your endeavors. This is a tool of satan to get you to give up and quit. Don't do it! Pull yourself together! Put your best foot forward and do a good job. Don't let the opinions of other people sway you from your God given ability to give your best for Him.

I NEED A FRIEND!

 The right type of friends in your life is so important!

     The bible says, in 1 Corinthians 15:33 that "bad company corrupts good character." Another way to say this is "Evil company corrupts good habits."

     Do not let anyone FOOL YOU! When we associate and love the company of people with worldly behavior, or habits, we run the risk of mimicking their behaviors, and their language. 

      Negative influence is not always easily spotted in a person.

     This is why we must practice what the bible instructs us to do. It is our moral code book. Many people would not find themselves in a mess if they would just read the bible and DO what it instructs us to do.

     Amazing thought isn't it. Yet I know many people who have thought they could help someone by hanging out with them to their dismay to discover the bad habits, and wrong choices captivated their good morals, and character.  

Proverbs 12:26 The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. 

 Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 

     The bible says in The Passion Translation in John 15:13-16 this:   

For the greatest love of all is a love that sacrifices all. 

And this great love is demonstrated when a person sacrifices his life for his friends.

     A true friend will not take advantage of you.

     A true friend will not dishonor you.

     A true friend will do what is right for you not themselves.

     A true friend will love you and only do good to you.

     You may be feeling that no one understands you. but Jesus will never leave or forsake you.

       

How do we get the right friends in our life.  Pray, and ask the Lord to send a godly, good character friend to you.  He will.....it may take some time but He goes to work immediately on your request.  He loves you and until the right friend comes in your life, remember this:

Always Working for Him

LouEllen

      NEVER believe or think that the place you feel stuck in life won't change!  It can and will!

     It could be the job you are working now, where you live, what's going on in your physical body, a relationship you are stuck in, or many other things in which you find yourself involved.

     Life has shown me that it moves on and we must be willing to let go of the current to move into the new place, position, or plans that Christ has for us.  That is so hard to do sometimes.  We feel stuck or in the rut, going through all the motions and routine of life.  

   Today, I want to give you a new perspective on this.  My closest friend made a statement several years ago which has helped me and motivated me to change my stinking thinking about things.  She had been complaining for awhile that she was sick and tired of the job and her workplace.  I listened as a good friend and attempted to motivate her into accepting it as the will of God.  Many weeks later she seemed to have a completely different mind set regarding the work place.  Her attitude was so different, and I knew it wasn't all the things I said to her, and pondered what in the world could have changed her attitude so much.  She had accepted her job and time there.

     As we began to discuss this imagine my amazement as to what changed her outlook.  This friend described how she had been praying and complaining to God over her job, cause she really wanted to quit, and the Lord spoke to her and said, (my words) "You have not completed your assignment there yet."

     Did you get that?  "You have not completed your assignment there yet!"  My head began to spin as I contemplated the power in that statement.  That meant, to me, that nothing is by accident.  Where ever or whatever you are feeling stuck in right now, is an ASSIGNMENT from the Lord.  

     Sometimes we are in certain situations because of choices we have made.  But never fear the Lord says  " And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."  (Rom. 8:28)

     From that moment of hearing "You have not completed your assignment there yet" changed my life.  No longer did I drag myself to work, or get frustrated at that situation I felt stuck in, but I began to LOOK for the assignment for which God had me involved.  Do you get it???  I want you so to be encouraged today that He is always for you, and not against you.  

     Start looking at your job, etc., with this new perspective that God has an assignment for you and it will transform who you are into a person who is accomplishing their God assignment in life.  Believe me it seems that in this life nothing stays the same.  Relationships change.  People move on!  Sometimes locations change!  HE love you and cares what you are going through right now!  Start looking for your assignment in whatever place or position in life you find yourself.  WooHoo!  We've got this.

     Always Working for Him

              Lou Ellen

     

    Whatever is holding you back from being the believer that God had planned for you before you were in your mother's womb, needs to go now.

     Listen, I am fired up!

    Many of us in the Christian church world are sickly and needy!  We need to wake up and realize who we are in Christ. 

    We are not Wimps........We are Warriors. 

    We have been given dominion, which means sovereignty, supreme power or authority, over the earth. It was the original design (plan) of God in the beginning, before sin. (Genesis 1:28) Once we left sin and came back to Jesus, our authority and dominion was restored to us.  We are not walking in it to the level that He intended for our life or we would not be so depressed, discouraged, full of doubt and unbelief.  Can I get an amen right here!

     Look if you are held today in bondages of sin:  drugs, alcohol, prescription meds, unforgiveness, (yes unforgiveness is a sin and shuts off our relationship to God).  Admit it, then do something about it.  Confess it then go get the help you need to change your life style and habits.  Those habits have to be replaced with good habits and God can help you with that.  That’s why I appreciate all of the Christian drug/alcohol centers.  They teach you discipline and a new mode of operation.  We all need some of that.

     If you and a family member are not speaking to each other, whether it is your fault or Not, get it right whether they receive it or not.  Say to them:  “Look I know there is this thing between us that has caused us to not see each other or speak to each other.  But God has dealt with me to get it right between us.  I don’t want to talk about who shot Willie, and rehearse the why I did or didn’t do this, I just want to say I am so sorry before God and you that it has caused this broken relationship.  Forgive me for whatever I’ve done to hurt you.    If they accept that then the WEIGHT WILL ROLL OFF OF YOU.  If they don’t accept it then don’t linger just Bless them in the name of the Lord and move on AND the WEIGHT WILL ROLL OFF OF YOU.  You will find that the heavens will open.  It's time for us as Believers to walk in the Word and do what it says......not just talk it.  (Matthew 5:22-24)

    What has happened to you to take you to this depressed, dark, place?  You need to let go of what happened to you.  Forgive that person or situation and leave it in your past.  Let go and Let GOD ARISE and your enemies be scattered.  Turn that person, circumstance, or thing over to the Lord.  Say:  "Here this person, circumstance, or thing is Lord and I place them (literally hold them up to God) in your hands.  You deal with this!  Now Walk on as if it never happened to you!  

    Praise God! I just sensed God moving in someone's behalf right there.  Halleluiah!  Praise the Lord!  Every time the devil attempts to remind you of what happened (in your thoughts) tell him to Go back to Hades (laughter)  and he has to do what you say...cause you have dominion (authority and power over all the works of the devil.)

    Get you Passion Back!  Get back your Joy!  Take Back what the devil has stolen from you.  Join the ranks of those who are becoming the warrior bride of Christ.  

Always Working for Him

Lou Ellen