What makes me faithful?

What makes me faithful? Well I know the love of the Lord, He has been so good to me and I look forward to the time that I spend with him. Think about it this way how many times have we gotten together with friends and family and just spent time together, doing nothing in particular but having the best time. Well we as Christians need to think of our time with the Lord that way, I will be honest with you it is hard to find time to spend with the Lord, our days are hectic and we all have so much going on, sometimes the Lord is who we neglect, shame on us. I get home lately and I just don't want to do anything. I am trying to be better about my studying. I believe we are what we read and watch. Now I am not saying that I don't read or watch things that I probably shouldn't, we all do. What I am saying is if we would look at what we are spending time on that we may realize that we do have time to spend with the Lord, we may just have to turn off the t.v. for a while. This is my goal this week is to be more diligent with my time and to use it wisely. The Lord has been dealing with me on this subject for awhile and I really haven't done what he is wanting me to do. When I went to the Joyce Meyer conference Creflo Dollar spoke the first night and he said that he thinks that FAITH means doing the last thing the Lord told you to do! If you think of faith that way how can we expect the Lord to give us something else if we haven't done what he asked us to do in the first place. Think how we feel if we ask someone to do something and they don't do it, I'm sure God feels the same way. It doesn't make us happy and I'm sure it doesn't make Him happy either. If you don't do anything but maybe turn the t.v. to a different channel there are some great christian based channels that have some wonderful words on them, Shannon and I have our DVR set to watch Creflo Dollar every week night on the Word network at 6:30 we have really enjoyed this he has a wonderful practical word, I encourage you to read your bible (you have to get it for yourself, someone else can't give it to you.) the Lord has really been putting that in my spirit lately, so many of us only go to church on Sunday and alot of us don't even do that and don't even think of the Lord any other time of the week, we have to get to the place that the Lord is the first and last thing we think of everyday. I believe that we must have a support system and a church is a great place for that. We also must get it for ourselves, because if we spend our whole lives listening to someone else and not even looking at our bibles, how do you know that the other people are telling you the truth. There are all kinds of people out there that are not preaching the truth, and we have to know them by there fruits. If we truly know the Lords voice (he does have a voice in our spirit) we will know everyone by there fruits. As we watched Creflo Dollar this week he has been talking about hearing from the Lord.he gave these scriptures and I wanted to share them with you.

John 10:25-30 (GW) 25 Jesus answered them, “I've told you, but you don't believe me. The things that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf. 26 However, you don't believe because you're not my sheep. 27 My sheep respond to my voice, and I know who they are. They follow me, 28 and I give them eternal life. They will never be lost, and no one will tear them away from me. 29 My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than everyone else, and no one can tear them away from my Father. 30 The Father and I are one."

I think that this speaks for itself. We are his sheep and His sheep respond to His voice. My prayer for you is that you have a relationship with the Lord that you know his voice when he speaks. If you don't know his voice the only way we can learn it is by having fellowship with Him. Just like we know our friends voice we can know the Lords!

I also want to add that I study with a NKJV spirit filled bible and it is an awesome bible. I usually use NIV to quote with because sometimes it is easier for people to understand. I have a computer program that has several version and I will be using it to help save time on my blogs so I will usually use the amplified or the Gods Word version on here because that is the version that is on my computer program. I encourage you to use the bible you are use to using to look them up for yourself. I am enjoying this time and I am going to try to do this very often. If I am going to be truthful, this is probably one of the hardest things that I have done, because I don't feel like I am the most eloquent writer. As I said in the last blog the purpose of this blog was to do what I am doing now and as you can see that I have taken awhile to get started, but I have been very nervous, but as I said earlier to be faithful I feel like I have to do what the Lord wants me to do, and this is one of the things. Hopefully y'all will enjoy it and it will help people realize that we can do something for the Lord. I don't know how many people will see it, but I have faith that the Lord will bring the people he wants to see it. GOD BLESS!