BEEN THERE DONE THAT

NO YOU HAVEN'T.
BUT YOU CAN GO THERE.

Thank You Father for honoring Your Word!

The Lord has placed on my heart to speak to people who have left the church or who have never really come in for anything other than weddings or funerals. This is not an insult.

He's calling you before you have to come in a coffin.

You may have reasons that you feel are valid for not coming to God, there is no valid reason for living with the opportunity to live, delivered,blessed, eternal and abundant but rejecting it.

Your focus may be all you have to give up but what are you really gaining right now?

You may have family members who go to church but haven't changed.
You might even attend a church and have gotten so far as to give an offering on a regular basis.

You may have dated someone claiming to be a minister who turned out to be crazy as Hitler.
The church ladies might have looked at you wrong and you are using that as an excuse to not go and be what God made you to be.

You may even be a minister or leader.

The truth or one of your mistakes or indiscretions may have been pointed out and now you are embarrassed, angry and or offended.

Your parents or grandparents may have been founding members in a church and now you are living with doubt and on all types of philosophy apart from the Word.

You might think that all preachers want is your money and I am sure it's because you don't have much to begin with.
Which means you may have been hurt by someone who professes Christ.

Those things can be remedied in working on your self through Christ, I am inviting you to come to Jesus Christ.
Not just stopping there but going on to live In Him as He will live in you.

He will lead you to a church that will teach you and help you to grow In Him.

You may even claim right now to be putting God first in your life so you believe that what I have to say is old news and you have been there and heard about Jesus and you straight.

But you haven't been there and done this because if you take a good look at your life, it ain't straight at all.
The path that follows Jesus is the only straight path.
God goes before His anointed and makes the crooked paths straight.

You haven't been to the place where your since of self worth doesn't come from some man wanting to bed you down, but it comes from knowing that God made you a woman beautiful and precious enough to be made a wife and to be loved, respected and honored.

Where the man has not made you one of many but the only one.

You haven't been to the place where your source of joy and strength is not in how pretty your wife is, or drugs, money and alcohol, but in knowing God and His clear love for you.

You haven't been to the place where you pay your bills and rent instead of going broke trying to dress the part.
You haven't been to the place where instead of being like everyone else you step out and be the love walker.

You haven't been to the place where God has restored your self esteem to the point that you are no longer competing with folks or easily offended at nothing.

You aren't at the place where you understand that you were not created to be someones footstool or live in poverty, lonely or sick and broken in shame and lack.

But Lolita, God is first in my life...
I want you to think about that and meditate on what it really means to have God as first place in your life.

People will tell you that it doesn't take all of that what I'm saying and those same folk will be right where they are emotionally and in every other area doing the same old thing and getting nowhere fast in the future.

Putting God first place really means that what God has said is the first and final authority in our life.
It means that if God said it, we believe it and that is how we are living.
We are not living based on our girlfriends opinion.

Do you know what God said?
Because all of man's problems are a direct result of turning away from what God said.
Get back to what God established as truth.

Many folks can quote Shakespeare or Wendy Williams but I'm telling you something that will require you to be more than a church member, more than just some chick or dude that dresses up and shows up in the place.

We are going to be challenged this year to step away from insanity into change.
Insanity defined is doing the same old thing but expecting a different result.

If I keep eating sugar I'm gonna keep getting fatter.

We may believe for a myriad of these things to come to pass but what are we willing to do differently?

He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Micah 6:8

Find out what those words mean.
To do justly.
To love mercy.
To walk humbly with thy God.

Have Faith In God.
Faith comes by hearing and then diligently seeking to understand what you heard and applying it to your living.

Faith means changes and rearranges.
Rearranging our priorities changing the way we think, that is a mind renewed by the Word of God.
The question is,
Have You Been There And Done That?

LOVE