Serving God with Simplicity

Serving God is simple, praying is simple. Too often we (especially me) try to make things more complicated than they have to be.
Praying is one of the most simple things we can do. So simple, in fact, that it almost makes prayer seem to be ineffective. But the complete opposite is true! Prayer is easy but its the most powerful thing we can do! Have you ever heard someone say, "Well, I guess, all we can do is pray..." Saying that is comparable, in a war, to saying, "Well, all we can do is drop an atomic bomb..." Prayer is access to the most powerful force in the universe. Do you realize that we have access, anytime night or day, to the God of the universe, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the great I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!! If we really understood that how our lives would change! The great I AM wants to talk to me? He wants to be my friend? He is just waiting to hear from me and to move on my behalf! Wow! God is so good! And He wants to help us with EVERYTHING from fixing our hair to saving our sick child. He wants to be involved in every aspect of our lives. And He wants us to realize the power of prayer so He can work in the earth. This is how God chose to operate, through prayer. Prayer releases Him to work in the earth. So pray about everything. Pray all through the day. Prayer can be so simple as, "thank you God" as you cook dinner. I can't tell you how many hours a day I pray because basically, I live in prayer. I am almost always praying. Many of my prayers just consist of "Help!"
Now, I am not saying that life is simple. Life has challenges. But life without God is hard, very hard. But life with God means we always have someone to turn to. We always have hope. John 16:33 says, "In this world you WILL have tribulation, but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world." So if you are facing a situation in your life today, any situation big or small, drop an atomic bomb on it! Do you have unsaved loved ones? friends? neighbors? Drop a prayer bomb on them too!
Be blessed! God is Good! Feed yourself a good spiritual meal today.... I think I will.

Heavenly Sustenance

I was lead by God to open this blog. I want it to be a site where you can come and get a word from God. Where you can be uplifted and encouraged.
I just want to let God's word flow through me to you. I believe He will lead the right people to this sight, the people that He has something to say to.
This has been in my heart to do for several weeks. In fact, I opened this blog and didn't do anything with it for about a week. So here is a testimony about this blog. I was praying and I told God that if He really wanted me to do this that I needed the messages and scriptures to just come to me. So His words started falling into my heart right then. He said, "Tell them that my words are just like manna. They are the bread of life. And use the scripture where Jesus was told to eat and He said, " I have food to eat that you know not of."
So I said, "OK, Lord, but I don't know where that is found. So if I can find it I will use it. Then I did my Bible devotion with the girls and what chapter do you think we read? John chapter 4! I had no idea that would be the chapter with that verse! But God did!
It's John 4:31-34. Our God is so amazing.
There is another verse where Jesus is very hungry and the devil comes to tempt him and says,"If you are the son of God tell these stones to become bread." And Jesus replies, " Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."
Isn't that good? Basically what He is saying is that God's word is our very sustenance. Without it we cannot live. Just as we need to eat physical meals every day we also need spiritual meals every day. We often get spoon fed some really great meals by our pastor but we also need to prepare our own "meals" and dive into the word of God for ourselves. We are responsible to feed our spirits so our spiritual man can survive and not just survive but thrive and grow! That's why I named this blog, "manna from heaven". In the wilderness, God fed the Israelites bread that fell from heaven, called manna. That is how they survived! All they had to do was go out and pick it up off the ground each day!
So remember today, this is how your spiritual man will survive and thrive, by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God! Don't let your spiritual man starve to death today!

Mana From Heaven