My friend's announcement

I just got an e-mail from my friend who announced that she was"turning off the TV and was going to read good books, listen to inspirational music, and help anyone and everyone to lead a better, more prosperous and healthier life. She said she was officially announcing that she was not participating in the recession."
I wrote her back and said, me too! I told her we have been watching positive, clean movies from NetFlix. We are tired of the news. It can be so twisted to where we don't know what is true. Even the "good guys" at FOX could get wrong information. My friend is a Shaklee distributor, as I am. I, too, want to help people get their health back, or protect their good health.

"But the Lord watches over those who fear Him, those who rely on His unfailing love. He rescues them from death and keeps them alive in times of famine." Psalm 33:18-19

This isn't a fear as we would fear something or someone on this earth. It is a holy fear, knowing that He holds our future and it will be a good future if we obey Him.

Good movie

Yesterday we watched an excellent TV movie. The name of it is "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story." It's a 2009 movie. If you can catch it, you won't be disappointed!

My pastor's second point yesterday was how people struggle with how God made them. We all have these thoughts; whether we are questioning our physical appearance or our personality or our ability to do things. Also, we question when bad and hurtful things happen to us. We want answers to why things happen. But for some questions we will never find the answers. Some things only God can understand. We all have the gift of free will and some people abuse it. They hurt innocent children and people. This isn't God's fault. If these hurt people can forgive, WHICH IS HARD, BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE, they can move forward and help others and have a very successful life. If you seek God and find Him, He is better than the answer you were looking for.

Heard this at church

If we don't confront our past, we will never go forward. We try to go forward but the force of the unreconciled past pulls us back. We must deal with the regret of the past and then redeem it into ministry to help others.

We all have things that have happened to us that are not letting us go ahead into our future. Tell yourself that not another day will go by that you are regretting the past because you can't change it. Let God guide you into the life that He wants you to have.