What is a Glorious Church life?

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In a nutshell......it's what we make it to be. You can take lemons & make lemonade but if a person does not add sugar, the lemonade is going to taste sour.

In these last days, life is more challenging for the world. It's getting darker & scarier to many..and we, the saints in Christ Jesus may not be of the world but we're in it.

With gas prices are rising, I've been telling the Lord to keep my gas tank full so I don't have to spend money filling the gas tank.

Hey! The Lord tells us to ASK and we SHALL receive, right? Delight in Him and He promises to give us the desires of our heart! (Psalm 37:4) So why not ask & believe?

When people ask me how I am, I reply I AM BLESSED and HIGHLY FAVORED!

That always gets heads turning. :-)

I sometimes bless people by telling them "The Lord bless you and keep you. May He shine His lovely Face upon you, encamping His angels to watch over you and protect you in all your ways."

People like being blessed and we don't bless enough. The more we bless, the more we are blessed. The more we are blessed, the more we tell people what Great things God is doing in us, through us and for us.

Sometimes people see the JOY and Blessings of God permeating us & are automatically drawn to us.

That's MY experience anyway.

But I got here by practicing and practicing and proclaiming the Blessings & Favor of God over me......even in my darkest hours, I'd give Praise & Glory to the LORD.....just like Paul & Silas did while bound and chained up in the dungeon. Those guys had blood all over their bodies, knats, flies, stench of the worst kind, possibly rats running around & not to mention the excruciating pain they were enduring while they were chained up. But amidst all that pain & suffering they made a JOYFUL NOISE unto the LORD! And at the midnight hour, the angel of the LORD came to set the captives free!

Imagine that!

I've done the same thing. In the midst of my personal emotional & physical sufferings with tears in my eyes, I've given PRAISE & GLORY to the LORD.

Man........does it ever go against our mental way of thinking!

But you know.......the Lord has richly blessed me with inner JOY and more. I LOVE talking about How GREAT our GOD is! What is impossible with man is MORE than possible with God.

For me......this is what the Glorious church life is.

However, as I tell my friends....a professional athlete does not wake up one day and find him/herself a bonifide athlete with stellar accomplishments.

Listen to the testimonies of Professional Tennis & Basketball players who make the sport appear so effortless. They'll ALL tell you they have been practicing their sport since they were able to hold a ball in their hands.

If they don't practice & play every day, they get restless & if they let it go too long, they become rusty & when they get back into the swing of things, their practice & playing time is more labored.

This is a universal principle & it applies to our spiritual life as well.

I ain't just 'preaching/teaching' something I've read. All the day long I am Praising our GOD. I pray without ceasing pray. I pray for the Lord to gather His saints together and to be one with each other and with the Son just as the Son and the Father are One...for How Good and how Pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is there that the Lord commands the Blessing even life forever more.

I pray for the LORD to tear down the walls of division..to crush the spirit of competition among His people. I pray for the unbelievers to enter the Kingdom of God QUICKLY as time is running out and the door of the Ark is about to be shut once again..for the LORD JESUS is QUICKLY coming for HIS BRIDE.

OH COME QUICKLY PRECIOUS JESUS.....for the Spirit and the BRIDE say "Come."

Notice what the WORD says...the Spirit and the BRIDE say 'Come'. It doesn't say......the Spirit and the CHURCH say "Come."

Something to think about...... :-)

So KEEP looking to JESUS the Author & Perfector of our Faith everybody! Keep running the race with endurance. We're almost there & He's at the Finish line cheering us on along with a great cloud of witnesses!!!!!!!

YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!