What is your Definition of True Wealth?

So how do you know if you have true wealth? What do you consider true wealth to be? Is it money, a big house, nice cars, or being a boss of a company? Well this morning I was reading the bible and God asked me what I thought what true wealth was. I gave Him my answer. Then there was time of suspense. It was a few minutes later when He answered back. I was getting nervous that I totally blew the question. So He just asked simply. Is that what you think true wealth is. I said yes. Then I asked what is true wealth. I found out at an early age. If you don’t ask He can’t answer. So God said this to me. If I got rid of everything I owned. Would I have true wealth? He said friends are not considered to be true wealth or part of the true wealth equation. Just because friends come and go. If you don’t have a house or money most friends would be gone. If you offend a friend more or less they will be gone. The only thing you have for sure is your family. Family members will always be there. Even if you don’t get along with family members they are still family. Family is part of true wealth. It’s not the strong part of true wealth though. He told me to picture myself with my family. Then picture myself without my family. Now picture myself with nothing. Not even with clothes on my back. Do I have true love He asked? Not sure what to say at that point. He said when you have nothing you have everything. See your true love is inside of you. When you asked Jesus to come into your body in engulfed it totally with Himself. You have everything that Jesus has. It doesn’t matter what you have on earth. Because when you die you can’t take it with you. The only thing you can take is the relationship that you have with Jesus. People might have billions of dollars and still don’t have true wealth. When they die. There wealth will be gone. There true wealth will be shown. See there true wealth will be eternity in Hell. There wealth will not save them. Even though how hard they will try to explain there lives. They will still go to Hell. When you except Jesus into your heart. You except true wealth. This wealth will be for eternity. All the money in the world will not compare to what you will have in Heaven. So don’t worry about what you do or don’t have on earth. All that you need to know is that your true wealth is waiting for you in Heaven.

That’s why we shouldn’t care about worldly desires. It doesn’t matter. Our focus should be on what God wants us to be doing. It should be saving the lost and doing His will. He’s given us gifts to use and it’s about time we use them. Let’s not worry about how to do it, or where we might be going. It just starts with one step in the right direction and let God worry about the rest.

April snow showers brings May?

Well we got hit by another snow storm. Hopefully this will be that last one. We got a total of about 5 inches of snow. This is getting kind of crazy. Here it is April 26th and we are still getting snow. I guess the May flowers won’t be coming until June. Isn’t it amazing how the attitudes and behaviors of people have changed. I while back people used to say thank you or sir or mam. People used to even wave when you let them in front of you while driving. Now people never shake your hand, and you are lucky if you get the person just to say hi to you. Now when driving you are lucky to get even a smile from a person if you let them in when driving. I have noticed that even when someone pulls in front of you they get mad at you for some odd reason even when you are in the right. I have noticed that there is a lot of people out there with four fingers missing. I don’t know if there was a birth defects or a shortage on fingers but everyone one is missing the same fingers. I do say. I am number one in a lot of people lives. Of course none of them would be going to church. Right? The sad thing is that one of the vehicles had a little fishy on the trunk. The bible tells us to be not of this world. So our actions should reflect Jesus’ actions in the bible. I would say for the most part they don’t. Christians in a way have been silenced by there own fears of life. They are afraid of what people might think or might do. It’s sad that the smallest of voices are winning the battles out there. See since Christians have decided to be silent. We now have half naked people on TV shows and commercials. We have gays and lesbians as a norm on TV. That’s not the bad part of it. The bad part of it is that we have excepted that it is normal. Christians don’t stop watching a show because it has swearing or gays or lesbians. The worst thing of it all is that our kids are right there watching it with us. They are growingup with less morals than what we have. Just look at the kids that are out there now. Half of them are looking for love in all the wrong places and others are confused who they are. Just by what they watch. Or should I say what there parents let them watch. Parents are setting the future for generations to come. It’s up to the parents to send each child into the right direction. The fall of America is because parents don’t want to be parents anymore. They want to be there kids best friends. They don’t want to be the bad parent so they don’t discipline them when they are young and they wonder why they are so rebellious when they are a teenager. It’s becuase when they needed someone to to discipline them there wasn’t anyone there. There was a study that just came out. They asked 1000 kids that were in jail. If they had someone in there life that disciplined them when they did something wrong. 87 percent said that they had no one there. They asked those 87 percent if someone one was there to discipline them if they would be were they are now. 92 percent of them said that they would not be in jail. That’s why God said that Love is the most power thing. That love conquers all things. It’s time for parents to stop being there kids best friends and start being parents. The best way to love your children is to discipline them. Kids are a joy and a pleasure to have. So treat them that way. Give them every time that you have. They are our future. They even might be in charge of your retirement someday. Scary isn’t it.

When do you praise God?

So when do you praise God? Do you praise Him in the good times or the bad times? Most people love to praise God in the good times. Everything is good. I have the money. I have a job. Life is great. Thanks God for everything that you’ve given me. Most people don’t praise Him when time is bad. You don’t hear people singing I have no money, I have no job, Life is horrible, thanks God for my wonderful stressed out life. You just don’t hear it. The thing is. We need to praise God the same in good times and bad times. Our praise shouldn’t change on how our life is. Does God look down on us in good times and say, “man this is my child. I’m so glad that I made him or her.” Does God look down on us in bad times and say, “this one. I don’t know this one. Nope never heard of them. I don’t remember every making them. Maybe is was a science project that made them.” See God doesn’t care if your are living a life of happiness or sadness. He’s always going to say the same thing. This is my child that I love. He doesn’t wait for us to be having a rough time in our lives for Him to start talking to us. That’s us that does it to Him. He’s always there to talk to us. In good and bad times. It’s us that choose not to say anything to Him until times get rough. When times get rough our praise to God stops and we start to complain about the situation that we are in. Why God? Why did you let this happen!? Does that sound familiar? Well sometimes things happen because we loose that touch with out Father. When we stop praising God we loose that protection from Him. Also sometimes we go through tough times for a learning experience. In any situation we need to always praise God. There’s different way to praise God. Most of us know the easy way and that is by singing. There is plenty of other ways also. You start thanking God for the car that you have. Thank him for the job that you have instead of complaining about it. Thank God for the family you have, no matter how you family status is. I have found out that more I praise God. The better I feel and the better my life becomes. I don’t care anymore what my life looks like, but what God’s word says. That’s why no matter what situation that I am in. I praise God. Because His word says that I am an over comer, That I have more than enough. That I am perfect in every way. So let’s start rejoicing God in the good times and the bad times! Don’t let the devil steal the riches that God has in store for you.