Why Me, God? - A Common Question

I'm sure you are asking, "Why me, God?" because something has happened that caused you to feel somehow singled out. Perhaps you feel that God must be punishing you for some reason. Why else would this be happening to you? Be assured. You are not alone.

God has not abandoned you and He has not singled you out, no matter how you feel right now. Whatever you are going through, God's promise is that He will see you through and give you the strength and direction you need.

God wants you to know that He understands how you feel, that He knows more about your situation than you do, and that He saw it coming before you did. Above all, He began to work on His resolution for you before you even knew to ask! The reality here is that God is for you. He is not against you.

Why Me, God?

Our feelings of "Why me, God?" are real. They are based on real events, but our conclusions may not be accurate. While we don't want to minimize the pain you feel in any way, we do want to try to help you look more closely at why you feel singled out and whether or not you've arrived at a valid conclusion.

We absorb our beliefs from our parents, teachers, life experiences, books, etc.

We have learned untruths that cause us to live the role of the victim, either of circumstances or of our past.

God's answer is that we are not victims but victors. God has said that we can trust Him in everything and that every event in our lives should be counted as ALL joy (James 1:2). He has also told us that He will cause good to come out of every situation for those who love Him (Romans 8:28). When we ask "Why me, God" it's really because we don't believe God. Our belief system opposes God, so we feel singled out and victimized.

We have to change our attitude towards our trials.

When we choose to believe that ALL the events in our life are good for us, even the ones that seem frustrating and painful for now, we are agreeing with God! When we choose to believe and trust God that there will always be a good outcome, we are trusting Him! Only God knows why we are going through these circumstances. Our new dialogue with God will be, "God, this is going to be an interesting journey. I'm excited to see how you are going to bring good out of this one. I trust you will!"

Love

Leslene

Who I Am In Christ

Why do I need to know who I am in Christ?

You need to know who you are in Christ so that you can live a successful Christian life.

The more you agree with God about your identity in Christ, the more your behaviour will reflect your God given identity.

Learn to see yourself as God sees you. Accept what God says about you and become the spiritual person you are. God's opinion is the one that counts.

Understanding who you are in Christ will give you a strong foundation to build your life on. Knowing who you are in Jesus is the key to a successful Christian life.

Your identity doesn't depend on something you do or have done. Your true identity is who you are in Christ.

When you are in Christ you are a new creation, the old has passed away. It's time to stop living out of who people say you are and take hold of the truth of God's word.

You need to know who you are in Christ so that you can know what to do, when to do it, where to go, and how to do it

Who I am in Christ

Because you are in Christ, every one of these statements is true of you.

•I am loved 1John 3:3

•I am accepted Ephesians 1:6

•I am a child of God John 1:12

•I am Jesus' friend John 15:14

•I am a joint heir with Jesus, sharing His inheritance with Him Romans 8:17

•I am united with God and one spirit with Him 1Corinthians 6:17

•I am a temple of God. His spirit and his life live in me 1 Corinthians 6:19

•I am a member of Christ's body. 1 Corinthians 12:27

•I am a Saint Ephesians 1:1

•I am redeemed and forgiven Colossians 1:14

•I am complete in Jesus Christ Colossians 2:10

•I am free from condemnation Romans 8:1

•I am a new creation because I am in Christ 2Corinthians 5:17

•I am chosen of God, holy and dearly loved Colossians 3:12

•I am established, anointed, and sealed by God 2Corinthians 1:21

•I do not have a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a sound mind 2Timothy 1:7

•I am God's co-worker 2Corinthians 6:1

•I am seated in heavenly places with Christ Eph 2:6

•I have direct access to God Ephesians 2:18

•I am chosen to bear fruit John 15:16

•I am one of God's living stones, being built up in Christ as a spiritual house 1 Peter 2:5

•I have been given exceedingly great and precious promises by God by which I share His nature 2 Peter 1:4

•I can always know the presence of God because He never leaves me Hebrews 13:5

•God works in me to help me do the things He wants me to do Philippians 2:13

•I can ask God for wisdom and He will give me what I need James 1:5

Simply choose to believe what God says about you.

"How can two walk together unless they agree?" Amos 3:3

Try reading the above list every day for a month, preferably out loud. The more you know who you are in Christ, the more your behaviour will reflect your true identity.

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" Romans 12:2

To live an effective Christian life you need to know and believe who you are in Christ. Understanding your identity in Christ is crucial to your success.

The best way to renew your mind and experience transformation is by knowing, thinking and speaking who you are in Christ

Train yourself to say the same things that God says in His word. Become who you are in Christ. God wants to do more in your life than you imagine.

Love
Leslene

Choose Your Friends Carefully

Hello Everyone. Like one of my friends said this morning, "It's time for change"


God has been speaking to me this weekend and I just have to share.

Are you walking with the right crowd? Is it the crowd that God chose for you?

For those of you who have really entered into a true Spirit-filled, full-surrendered walk with the Lord where He is now leading your life in the direction that He will want it to go in – one of the first things that you will find happening is that God will start to prune out the people that He does not want in your life and start to bring in the people that He does want in your life.

Tthe Bible tells us to choose our friends very carefully in this life, and it also says that he who walks with wise people will become wise himself, but that he who keeps company with fools will be destroyed.

This does not mean that we cannot work with the lost, and the people who need to find God and His message of eternal salvation. When Jesus came to our earth in the flesh, He always went after the sinners and the outcasts. But when Jesus went after these sinners, it was always for the express purpose of getting them saved and cleaned up.Jesus did not chase after everyone. Some people are open to be helped, others are not. The Bible tells us to stay away from people who are considered to be “dogs” and to beware of people who are “evil workers.”
If you have only one friend that encourages you, that is good enough.

What I have learned is that it is not the quantity or amount that comes in – it is the quality. You are much better off having just one or two good, solid, quality friends.

Every Christian is operating at different levels of spiritual development with the Lord. God knows best as to who would be best suited for you at the level of spiritual development that you are currently operating at with Him. When God does bring in these types of special God-friends to share your journey with – they will be real treasures! These God-friendships will be anointed by God Himself due to the quality feedings and interaction that will occur in them.
Sadly, what you will find out very early on, is just because someone may be a saved and born again Christian does not mean this person has their act together in the Lord. Some people have become too judgmental and too critical in their walks with the Lord. Some have become too arrogant, thinking that they have all the answers to everything. They will tend to look down on anyone else who is not operating at the knowledge levels they are operating at.
Some have become so flaky in their walks with the Lord, that they have lost touch with reality and you won’t be able to connect with any of them. God knows best as to who will be best suited for you at your current level of spiritual development with Him – so let Him guide you to the ones that He will want you to connect with.


I have seen God do this so many times for others, that I literally consider it a miraculous piece of work – especially as to how He gets you to meet some of these people in the first place. Some of these chess moves are quite incredible, as most of these people will be total strangers to you until God moves in to match the two of you up.
The other thing that could occur besides God matching you up with total strangers is that He may move on someone else you may know, but that you are not particular good friends


with. That person then gets saved and plugged in, and then they find out that you too are saved and plugged in – and now a good God-friendship can start to build up as you now have something in common with one another to start to build a good, solid friendship with.
This could be another member in your family, someone that you may work with, a friend who you may have known from your past, or someone you may see at church from time to time but never really talked with. The possibilities are endless as to where these people may come from. These God-friends can come from anywhere and at anytime – so keep your radars up – as you never know when God may move to bring one of them into your life.


“The righteous should CHOOSE HIS FRIENDS CAREFULLY, for the way of the wicked leads them astray.” (Proverbs 12:26)

Notice this verse is specifically telling us that if we do not choose our friends very carefully in this life, that we could end up choosing the wrong type of people to become friends with and they can then end up leading us astray from God and with what He wants to do with our lives. Many of God’s people have lost their calls in Him because they chose to hang out with the wrong type of people or the wrong crowd.


SPEAK TO GOD ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS.

Love and blessings

Leslene

Is Jesus the only way to Heaven? OH YES HE IS!!

Question: "Is Jesus the only way to Heaven?"


Answer: "I'm basically a good person, so I'll go to heaven." "OK, so I do some bad things, but I do more good things, so I'll go to heaven." "God won't send me to hell just because I don't live by the Bible. Times have changed!" "Only really bad people like child molesters and murderers go to hell."

These are all common rationalizations, but the truth is that they are all lies. Satan, the ruler of the world, plants these thoughts in our heads. He, and anyone who follows his ways, is an enemy of God (1Peter 5:8). Satan is a deceiver and often disguises himself as someone good (2 Corinthians 11:14), but he has control over all the minds that do not belong to God. "The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God" (2 Corinthians 4:4).

It is a lie to believe that God doesn't care about small sins or that hell is reserved for "bad people." All sin separates us from God, even a “little white lie.” Everyone has sinned, and no one is good enough to get to heaven on their own (Romans 3:23). Getting into heaven is not based on whether our good outweighs our bad; we will all lose out if that is the case. "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace" (Romans 11:6). We can do nothing good to earn our way to heaven (Titus 3:5).

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it" (Matthew 7:13). Even if everyone else is living a life of sin in a culture where trusting in God is not popular, God will not excuse it. "As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient" (Ephesians 2:1-2).

When God created the world, it was perfect and good. Then he made Adam and Eve and gave them their own free will, so they would have a choice whether to follow and obey God. But they were tempted by Satan to disobey God, and they sinned. This separated them (and everyone that came after them, including us) from being able to have a close relationship with God. He is perfect and holy and must judge sin. As sinners, we couldn't reconcile ourselves to God on our own. So God made a way that we could be united with Him in heaven. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23). Jesus was born to die for our sins so that we would not have to. Three days after His death, He rose from the grave (Romans 4:25), proving Himself victorious over death. He bridged the gap between God and man so that we may have a personal relationship with Him if we only believe.

"Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (John 17:3). Most people believe in God, even Satan does. But to receive salvation, we must turn to God, form a personal relationship, turn away from our sins, and follow Him. We must trust in Jesus with everything we have and everything we do. "This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference" (Romans 3:22). The Bible teaches that there is no other way to salvation than through Christ. Jesus says in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

Jesus is the only way of salvation because He is the only One who can pay our sin penalty (Romans 6:23). No other religion teaches the depth or seriousness of sin and its consequences. No other religion offers the infinite payment of sin that only Jesus Christ could provide. No other “religious founder” was God become man (John 1:1,14) – the only way an infinite debt could be paid. Jesus had to be God so that He could pay our debt. Jesus had to be man so He could die. Salvation is available only through faith in Jesus Christ! “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

Have you made a decision for Christ because of what you have read here? If so, please leave a comment so that i can keep on praying for you.

Lots of love

Leslene

Thursday Humour

Are you up for some humour? Jesus was a humourous guy.

JESUS TO THE RESCUE

Hi there everyone. I am so honored and blessed to be writing this awesome message. It was dropped in my spirit after i had a discussion with a beautiful friend of mine. I was reminded of my past and i give God all the glory for the reminder. It just showed me once again that Daddy is and always be true to His word.

I trust you will be blessed and i hope i will get some feed back from you.
Often times people are in a situation where they wish someone would just reach down and rescue them.

They stop and look at their lives and they wonder, "How in the world did I get into all of this?"

They want a change or they just want to get away from a particular moment,

a particular situation.

They feel trapped and can't see a way out.

This is what eventually happens in life when we try to live life without Jesus.

We keep trying different things so that we will feel some kind of fulfillment within and then we feel like we are surrounded by every struggle possible.

It happens to people who try to find happiness within relationships,

and yet they can never find that one person who makes them feel fulfilled.

It happens to people who try alcohol, drugs, having a once off affair or even just sharing a kiss, thinking that if they put something inside of them it will change how they feel.

It can even happen for a moment where we go somewhere or do something and we know right away

that we are in the wrong place, with the wrong people, doing the wrong thing.

But then something happens. Some people say that they "hit rock bottom".

Others realized their lives were "out of control". It could even be as simple as

"I don't want to be here" or "I know I should be somewhere else".

They just want to be rescued from their own lives.

JESUS TO THE RESCUE!!!

Somewhere in each of our lives we need to come to a realization that we need to be rescued,

we need to be saved.

Jesus said in Luke 19:10, "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."

People feel lost.

They feel like there is little hope.

So Jesus reaches down to rescue them and they fight Him off, looking for other answers.

Jesus is the only answer.

He is the only way that we will ever feel like we are on the right track in our lives.

With Jesus, we are never alone.

With Jesus, we know the way out.

With Jesus, we know how to change and what needs to change so that we can be happy.

I have often talked to people who aren't ready to change their lives for Jesus because of what they will have

to "give up".

The strange thing is that the things they will have to give up are usually the things that are making them miserable.

In John 10:10 Jesus says, "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

Life with Jesus is a wonderful life.

It is true that we will still have trials and struggles, but that will happen with or without Jesus.

At least when we are going through the trials and struggles with Jesus,

we know we are not alone and we know that in the end it will be worth the fight.

Life with Jesus is life to the full! Paul describes the struggle we all have in Romans 7:15-17: "I do not understand what I do.

For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me."

We have all said it: "I don't know how I got into this mess and I sure don't know how I'm going to get out!"

Later he describes that moment when we give up and give in to Jesus:

"What a wretched man I am!

Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Thanks be to God-through Jesus Christ our Lord!" (Romans 7:24-25)

The assurance for the Christians is found in the words to the church in Colosse in Colossians 1:13-14,

"For (God) has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves,

in whom we have redemption,

the forgiveness of sins."

Not only are we rescued from those moments of darkness but from a life of darkness.

But the hope is not for us alone.

It is for everyone who is willing to turn from the darkness and follow Jesus.

There is a reason why Jesus is called the "Savior".

If you are feeling like you are trapped in the darkness and you want to be rescued,

He wants to help.

I can share with you how Jesus rescued me and wants to rescue you.

I love you so much and i want you to be rescued.

Love

Leslene

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