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New Year’s resolution ringing in your ears? What goals, resolutions, or plans have you promised yourself to do in 2012? God showed me something I need to share with you.

Hab 2:2 says we need to WRITE DOWN the VISION

Proverbs 29:18 says, if we have no Vision His people Perish (or die).

If you desire changes in every arena of your life, you need to change not only something you are doing but your mind. That’s right, the way you think can and will affect your whole life. You want different results, that means you cannot keep doing it the same way or make the same resolutions. Change comes when you reset your mind on God’s word and refuse to think like the world.

I remember when I first reset my mind to focus on God constantly. My flesh screamed, “HELP”. But I wouldn’t quit! If you know me, or as my hubby says, “She’s a little stubborn.” I look at it as a gift! But I was determined to focus on God and His word, no matter what my flesh was saying. In order to focus on God constantly I had to change some things. First, t.v programs. What you watch, you become. What you hear, you make room for. What I was watching on t.v, changed my thinking from positive to negative. It had to go!

Next, music. I used to listen to country music, but now only Christian upbeat, positive music, KLOVE. But my favorite music to listen to on my IPOD are sermons from Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, and fellow believers.

Friends was next. I found this one extremely hard. From really close friends, to family. But God showed me things I wasn’t seeing before because I was in the circle looking out instead of looking at the whole picture.

I need to say that all these changes did not happen overnight. It takes time, but I was running the race of endurance. Never quitting and always asking God for help.

Here’s my point. You can make resolutions all you want but until you change your mindset and routine, nothing will change! Did you know if you do something consistently for 21 days, your body will automatically start doing it. But you have to put forth an effort to make the change.

Romans 12:2 says, “Be NOT conformed to this world, but be TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of YOUR MING”. That requires YOU to to do something on your part! Jesus has done ALL He is going to to and is SEATED at the right hand of God! It’s up to YOU to make the change!

God Loves you, We Love you, and the Blessing of God is upon you in 2012!

May God enrich your life with His Abundant Blessings!
Christy Teter, co-founder of Living in the Blessing
owner and founder of Taylor Made Organics
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Habakkuk 2:2 says: Then the LORD answered me and said, “Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run.

As I think about goals I want to accomplish in 2012, God reminded me of this scripture. My husband and I own and operate Taylor Made Organics, natural organic skin care company. God gives me great product ideas and formulations for our handmade products. He is really the owner. Normally I breeze through the year planning things out month by month. But this coming year is SUDDENLY going to change and I need to be ready for it!

While attending the Victory Campaign in November 2011 the word SUDDENLY popped our in Kenneth Copeland prophecy. He said that 2012 was Suddenly going changing; prayers answered, debit cancellation and more. Suddenly everything changes for those who believe and obey God!

Writing down the desires of your heart. Do you envision yourself with a bigger house, new car, spending more time with the family, expanding your territory within the ministry or business? Write down whatever it is you have been praying for or standing on. Put pictures, words, or whatever you like on a paper and praise God everyday for it! Keeping the vision before you will SUDDENLY get it to come to pass. When you start praising God for the VISION it SUDDENLY gets His attention. Much quicker than complaining, whining, crying, or throwing a hissy fit.

Moses will tell you a little something about this. He wandered in the wilderness for 4o years. At first they were happy to be free and no longer slaves. But something changed and they questioned Moses. They became tired of eating manna (Numbers 11) so God heard their cry and sent quail to eat. They became sick. Why? Because they were feeding off their fleshly desires, complaining and whining about everything. When we get upset with something or take an offense, the anointing on your life stops. Until you walk in love and forgive, then the anointing restarts. My mother-in-law called me today with a HUGE revelation about why Moses followers became sick from eating quail. She said when you start eating on flesh, you become sick. She had recently been upset over a situation and became sick, physically. She was claiming her healing, but knew something else was wrong. Once hearing the teaching from Perry Stone on why God sent quail, she realize why she was sick. Not walking in Love, having ought against someone was stopping her anointing. She was eating on flesh or her feelings. Suddenly she corrected the issue and immediately became well.

Whinging and crying or throwing a pity party is NOT going to get God’s attention! Praising Him for all He has done, is going to do get’s His attention. That’s why I am saying “WRITE DOWN” the vision God has placed in your heart! I am working on one personally and with our business! I know what my God will do, I am His daughter! I am Blessed beyond Measure! Obedience is key here. If you are not obedient, rebelling or not listening to His voice when He tells you something to do, that shuts off the blessing. You might say, “I am no longer under the curse.” Take a look at Deuteronomy 28-30. God gave you a choice to either obey and the blessing would be on your life or disobey and the curse would destroy your life. Deuteronomy 30 says if you messed up, walked away from God, repent and He will restore your blessing, but you must be obedient!

God Loves you, We Love you, and the Blessing of God is upon you in 2012!

May God enrich your life with His Abundant Blessings!
Christy Teter, co-founder of Living in the Blessing
owner and founder of Taylor Made Organics
Natural Organic Skin Care & Cosmetics
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Merry Christmas from Living in the Blessing!

2012 will be full of SUDDENLY’s

Suddenly your prayers are answered

Suddenly you are out of debt

Suddenly you are blessed in every arena of your life

We serve a mighty God! The I AM is Wonderful, Counselor, Powerful, Healer, Giver, Forgiver, and so much more!

May God enrich your life with His Abundant Blessings!
Christy Teter, co-founder of Living in the Blessing
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The Lord has been teaching me to become more obedient. I thought I was, but He showed me numerous areas in which I am not. Last night I read Deuteronomy 30. God showed me even though I turned to the world for a short time (but thank you Jesus I have returned) He will restore me. Even prosper me in every area of my life.

I have turned to hear His voice when He tells me the simplest thing to do. Sometimes I would hear Him but would not act on what He told me to do (disobedient). I would either forget or He would repeat it numerous times, then I would do it. Why not do it the very first time? I do not know, but I do know that He is a loving God. Sweetness and kindness are shown every time He reminds me.

The last couple of days He has told me “you need to start cutting would because a storm is coming”. The farmers almanac calls for a couple of nor-ester storms to hit our area in December. We heat our house with a Taylor outdoor wood stove. Not only does it heat the house, but our shop and water. The hot baths are nice, knowing I can take a little longer shower than normal and the hot water will not run out.

As I head out the door to the shop, I pass the outdoor stove. Light smoke makes its way through the woods and over the valley. The smell takes me back to my childhood years. My brother, sister, and I would help our father after school to cut wood. We heated with an indoor stove. Kind of a mess, but I am glad technology changed.

As I was passing the stove this morning the Lord reminded me, “It’s time to cut wood”. OK sir, we will cut wood this evening. I text my husband to remind myself, “Honey we need to start cutting wood because the Lord said so and a storm is coming”. I do not know much about the farmers almanac, but I do know that my parents and grandparents always payed attention to it (can you say faith) to plant their garden and watch weather patterns. It’s pretty accurate. I know that the Lord knows all things and I am not superstition, but it’s pretty interesting how it works. My daddy says that my mother learned her time tables from the back page.

So I closed the shop a little early because I enjoy the hot water and warm house. As I walked through the woods, I asked the Lord to show up and tell me something more about Him. Seek him and you will find Him. Of all things in which He created I found Him in a tree shaped like a football goal (picture at top of page). Let me back up. As I was walking up the trail to find my husband at the back end of our property cutting wood, holding my jacket trying to fix the zipper. Upon arriving, He asked me, “You came to help”? What a strange question. Not really because he has taken care of cutting the wood and I help as I could. But today was a different day. God called me to cut wood. I told my husband, “If we all pitch in two days a week, we can have a stack of wood to hold us through the winter.” He laughed and said, “I know how you like to stock up, so I guess we better get going”.

I fixed the zipper and started picking up the wood. Some were heavy, but those prior years of hauling wood strengthened my muscles. Well picking up 50 lbs of oils and soaps everyday in the shop helps maintain it. I holler over at my husband who is picking up a large piece, too heavy for me, “Use your legs and not your back”. Guess who was using their back and not their legs? Me! Had to eat those words, because I was trying to help him and not paying attention to my own words. Like religious people are. Correcting others, but not themselves. They can tell you whats wrong with you and help you get back on the path of  being obedient to God, but will not eat their own words to help themselves.

Picking up those pieces remind me of picking up the pieces where you left off. Some where heavy, some light. Jesus’ yoke is easy and His burden is light. We do not have to carry those sins or burdens. If we repent He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us of all UN-righteousness 1 John 1:9. I could not image carrying some of those large pieces of wood around all day. They were heavy! But people do carry weights like this everyday, some heavier than the ones I picked up. Sin separated us from God. Disobedience does too. Obedience brings the blessing. Disobedience separates us. We have to separate our lives from the world and His holiness. God wants to use you to advance His kingdom, but you need to cast your cares on Him 1 Peter 5:7. You cannot carry this baggage around, taking it everywhere you go. At some point in your walk with God, while carrying this baggage, the darkness will come out. Light draws out darkness. You either repent and hand it over to God or the darkness will shine in the light for all to see. I understand this. I was serving God and carrying a ton of baggage. The word says either you judge yourself or He will Matthew 7: 1-5. Darkness has to come out when Light is present. I thought I could keep it all hid, but God wanted to anoint me to teach, but I had to get the junk out of the trunk. Some I handed over and what I did not deal with God did. He sent messengers, helping  refine my character. My mother-in-law was one of them. Some of you might think, MOTHER-IN-LAW, they always have something to say. Guess I am in a different group, because I dearly Love my mother-in-law. She is sweet, kind, and loving. What a blessing in my life. I remember as a child calling in my husband, speaking things I wanted in my husband. He is all that plus benefits.

Let me tell you about this tree. It has the two tall limbs, like its raising its arms to praise God. Standing firmly on the edge of the hill, overlooking a beautiful countryside. Each time I drove the four wheeler back to the house to drop off a load of wood, I would catch a glimpse of this beautiful tree. I kept asking God, show me what you want me to see in this tree. He says to me, “Praise me in the storm”.

Are you in a situation right now, either the storm is brewing or it’s full blast? Praise God in your storm. You can have the victory! Praise gets His attention because despite the circumstance you trust Him and not becoming moved by what you see. My pastor and his wife will have a party when the devil tries to cause trouble in their life. We need to do the same. We should not be soaking in the puddle of the burden, trouble, or sin. Get up and take your healing! God wants to prosper you in every arena of your life. He wants to bless you, but you need to get up and start laboring in the word! Labor in the Word, then REST so God can Manifest. Rest means praise! Praise Him for the victory. Praise Him for being God! Praise Him because you desire a closer, intimate relationship with the Father.

You might say, “I messed up”. Well OK, just REPENT 1 John 1:9! God will and has ALREADY forgiven you. Take IT! Deuteronomy 30 God says, HE WILL forgive and prosper you in every arena of your life. If you have been disobedient, repented and start following the guidance of the Holy Sprint, God WILL RESTORE your blessing! Obedience brings the blessing! That is shouting ground!! I have messed up, walked away from God, but thank you God for your son who took away my sin. He has made a covenant with me because of my obedience! You might say, “That’s a lot to ask”. No it’s not. God knows you have to work, take care of family, etc. He IS a loving, gentle never overloading you with stuff to do. Sometimes He asked me to only do one thing, but when I hear Him and DO what He tells me to, the blessing comes. Am I am expecting something from Him? Certainly NOT! I enjoy serving Him. I am enjoy knowing He told me to do something and I did it the first time and not the 99th time.

God is a gentleman. He is HOLY. He has nothing to do with sin. So if you want to become more like God and expecting Him to bless you more in every arena of your life, then become more obedient. Serve Him without expecting anything. Let Him cleanse, refine, and change you character to become MORE like Him. I am in the process. My flesh wanted to fight some of it, but God’s bringing me through it. I want to become more obedient. I want to serve Him ALL the days of my life.

Psalms 28:7 The LORD is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving. NLT

This storm will not last forever…we all need a little rain before we can grow in the Son… Jessica M.

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A journey of a life time started when I was 7 years old. My Aunt Linda took my brother and I too a revival one summer evening. I will never forget when I ask Jesus to come live in my heart. It began the Journey of a Life Time.

My youth and teenage years was spent at church. I was very active with the youth ministry. Our director was Lois Hart, a remarkable woman of God. She was an inspiration as well as ministering into my life year after year. I will never forget one day after church Lois and Wanda (another youth director) stayed after church with us to practice for a play. Lois was avid that we shouldn’t listen to Country Music. Wanda was ok with it and we new that. So when Lois left for a while we decided to take a break and listen to country music. Lois came back and said, “What are you listening too? This music is not good, turn it off”! I never knew why until some years later.

Lois had us over at house every month for a fun night. She made the best spaghetti and garlic bread. Nothing out of the ordinary. Love was the special ingredient. Writing this is making me hungry!

After graduating high school, I didn’t go to church as much as I use too. Boys were on my mind and not too long after graduation I met my husband, Travis. What a blessing to my life. I had dreamed since I was a child to marry a man of God, desiring God as much as I did, following God’s path, and hoping he would become a preacher. Travis is all that and much more, excluding the preacher at this time. The preacher part was my desire and not his. I am preaching today while he cheers me on.

Travis was raised in a wonderful Godly woman, Alice. His mother drug him to revivals, meetings, and spirit filled churches all over the area. She didn’t drag him, he was willing to go. Seeds were planted. God was moving in.

Let’s say after a few years our journey together took a turn. We had a child, Taylor, got married, and wasn’t seeking God as we did when we were younger. Alice, Travis’s mother was praying we would get back in church and raise our daughter as God called us to do. When Taylor was about 1 1/2 years old we started going to “Word Ministries” church with Pastor Larry. Wow, what a change. Wasn’t sure why they clapped their hands and praised God during service. I wasn’t raised in a church that did that. We were taught to keep quiet. The Holy Spirit was present in that church. Even though I wasn’t filled yet, I knew that something was different and I wanted some of what they had. I set under Pastor Larry’s teaching for several years before we moved to Port Republic. Church seemed so far away from our new home. We stopped going again.

After a few month our Sunday’s were filled with our plans, but we both know that Sunday is worship. Something was missing. One Sunday were decided to go to another church in town closer to home. Why is it we will go quite a ways to get a meal, but we won’t travel to go to church? This new church had two services and we could attend the early service so we could do what we wanted to the rest of the day. Can you say selfish? Now we had 2 more children, Catelynn and Ben. This church had a neat children’s ministry. We could get a break, drop off the kids at their classes while we listened to the pastor preach. Really selfish. After 3 month attending this large church, nobody speaking to us and them sending us letters in the mail to send in our tithe, we quit. Hurt? No, just too big of a church for us. You couldn’t socialize and our oldest daughter, Taylor was frightened during a children’s lesson.

A few months went by and we decided that it was too hard taking all the kids to church. Another excuse. But God had other plans. A friend of mine, Stephanie had consistently asked us to come to their church. So one Sunday we decided to give it another try. Let’s say the Journey of a Life time began again. Smaller church, loved the members, and God was present. I immediately got involved in the Children’s Ministry. Then I realized, I am helping others but I am not getting fed. How can I help and teach the children when I don’t have an intimate relationship with God? Yes I listened to the pastor on Sundays, but that was it wasn’t enough. I was stressed, trying to build my business, help the children’s ministry and run a house. Anxiety, stress, panic attacks, and other mental games plagued me. I was ready to quit, but God wasn’t. Again I was hungry for God, but didn’t know how to start having a relationship with Jesus.

One day I went to the doctor to get my prescription refilled for anxiety. The doctor told me, ” I am not going to refill this prescription til you deal with what’s going on”. I thank God for using Him to tell me the truth. It was time I dealt with what was causing the anxiety and stress. I could spill my guts here explaining all the stress in my life, but it was more a mental game than anything. The devil was constantly telling me I was a failure, I should quit and end it all, your having a heart attack, placing fear into my head and body.

Carla came into my life months prior to this. She started talking to me about God, His blessing, His words, His Love. I had quit God so many times. He sent Carla into my life so I could get on track, serve Him, and learn the Word.  A seed was planted in my spirit, took root, and began to sprout. I changed my thinking to God’s words, thoughts and ideas. It took a few months to get off the medicine (horrible side effects), get the devils toxic thoughts out of my head, and build my faith. I started Rhema correspondence course and read my bible everyday. While I was working during the day making creams, salve, and other goodies, I would and still do put in CD’s from Kenneth Hagin, Creflo Dollar, John Paul Jackson, Keith Moore, Kenneth Copeland, and more. Hear and chewing on the word consistently. My faith started to build and my mind was being cleansed of the toxic thoughts. Praise God for these ministers.

We left that church and started attending, “Faith Outreach Ministries“.  This was the church! Spirit filled and on fire for God.

There is so much that has happened since then. One day it will be in my book. But my point is my journey began when I put Jesus back in my life. When He wasn’t in my life, it was horrible. Anxiety, stress, pressure, panic attacks, and numerous mental games plagued me. I wasn’t reading or hearing Gods word, building my faith, and letting God lead my life. I never will go back! God healed my wounds, anxiety and panic attacks. Love flows out of my heart, God is in ME!

I don’t want to discourage you from going to church, but encourage you to find the right spirit filled church right for you. Find a church that refuses to teach none other than the True Gospel. If the preacher steps on your toes, well you needed it. Believe me Pastor Lucas has stepped on mine plenty of times, but I didn’t get offended and stop going. I realized I needed to change in that area. So I made a mental change, repented, and started over again with God in the middle of it all.

Journey of a Life Time begins with Jesus in your life. Let Him come into your heart. Accept Him as your Lord and Savior. Click here to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Once you speak these word aloud, email us and let us know. We would like to send you more information, help you get started with your walk, and help you find a church.

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Many times we question God’s love for us. God IS Love, He not only has it, He IS it! Satan wants us to think we are not worthy because of our sin, but Jesus died on the cross for our sins over 2000 years ago and we are no longer under judgement or condemnation. If we draw closer to God He will draw closer to us (James 4:8). If we don’t have a relationship with Him, how can we really know Him and His love? It’s the same in any relationship. You are dating a person, you have to get to know them and when the sparks start to fly LOVE is present. It’s the same with Jesus! When you start to date Him, you want to spend more time in His presence and the Love will grow stronger and stronger between the two of you. The stronger the knot between you the harder it will be for Satan to try and cut through the knot. Get to know Him! Set aside some time everyday to ask Him about who He is and let Him love on you! He is a wonderful, gracious, merciful God who is longing to have a relationship with you. He is not like other men, who leave you, tell you He loves you and then either ditches you or cheats on you. God will NEVER do that! He is longing to have a relationship with you and His promise said, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5). Come to Jesus! Let Him wrapt His arms around you and love on you!

May God enrich your life with His Abundant Blessings!
Christy Teter, co-founder of Living in the Blessing
owner and founder of Taylor Made Organics
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It’s 12:50am on a Sunday morning and I am wide awake. The Lord speaks to me all day long, but it seems right before I go to bed is when His voice becomes clearer to me. It shouldn’t be that way, but I am working on that. A post from my dear friend, Jackie Burner talks about getting up a few minutes earlier in the morning to pray and fellowship with God. In those wee hours in the morning your thinking is clearer and you get in depth instructions from God for your day.

Recently several things has happened to me. One is Interceding prayers for a variety of people. Some I know and others I don’t. God can and does speak to us through dreams and visions besides His still small voice. A recent book I read from Perry Stone called, “Dreams and Visions” gave more insight to me. God is a good God! Before I understood what my dreams were I thought it was Deja vu. NOT! It’s God sealing our instructions to us during the night in our dreams and when the dream or vision comes to pass you say, “I have been here before or I have already done this”. For more information about dream interpretation visit this website. Streams Ministry

Intercession Prayers is when you intercede for another person or situation. Such as a dream or vision that the Lord may show you is to come. You then start praying about it until peace and understanding comes over you. You then know that your prayers has interceded and the spiritual battle has been won.

Recently I have had several occasions where God has shown me to pray about a situation or an event to take place. One that I will mention is a friend who had shingles. I was with her son several weeks ago during Kings Fest at Kings Dominion. We were there Thursday and Friday and that Saturday they were leaving to go on vacation. Sunday night while I was getting ready for bed the Lord spoke to me to pray for her and her family. I knew they were traveling a long distance, but I did as He said. After praying for sometime I went to bed and didn’t think anymore of it. After returning from their trip she had posted on FaceBook that a few bumps had appeared on her face and she thought they were pimples. A few more popped out, and then the pain started. Shingles had irrupted. The enemy was trying to attack her.

I still had not put 2 and 2 together until late one Saturday night. God reminded me that an overwhelming feeling came over me to pray for her and this was why. Yes she did have a break out of shingles, but only a few small patches on her face. I know she is healed according to 1 Peter 1:18. What I am saying is that God told me to pray for her and at the time I didn’t know why. The break-out could have been worse and my prayers stopped the attack. It may have been the very moment the irruptions were irrupting is when my prayers interceded and the break out stopped. I don’t know, only God does! My point is how important it is to pray when God tells you to pray. God is the divine healer. I am not taking credit here for my prayers or look at me and what I did. I want to express how important it is to intercede in prayer when the Holy Spirit tells you to start praying!

We are not fighting against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers, Ephesians 6:12. Our prayers God hears and if we are diligent enough to take the time to pray and have an overwhelming amount of peace over us during intercession the spiritual battle is WON! Some people pray a few seconds or minutes. But intercession prayer can take hours. You know when the battle is won, because an sense of peace comes over you through the Holy Spirit affirming the victory is won and you respond by giving Him Glory! Spiritual warfare is REAL and if you don’t know anything about it, it’s time you do!

Spiritual Warfare books to read:

Dressed to Kill by Rick Warren
A Womans Guide to Spiritual Warfare by Ruthanne Garlock
Possessing the Gates of the Enemy by Cindy Jacobs

It’s time to start praying for REAL! If you have not been baptized in the Holy Ghost you need to know more and get baptized! I didn’t know how to pray during this situation so I started praying in tongues and let the Holy Spirit intercede on my behalf to Jesus. He hears our prayers and answers them.

It’s time to get REAL! If you are a professing to be a Christ follower start acting like one! If you are a prayer warrior, then start praying! If you Love Jesus, then start Loving others like He loves YOU! “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus”. Phil. 2:5 Jesus is coming SOON! We need to start praying for this Nation, because this nation needs Jesus!

May God enrich your life with His Abundant Blessings!
Christy Teter, co-founder of Living in the Blessing
owner and founder of Taylor Made Organics
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Has a Lion ever roared in your face so loud you shook in fear? Did you want to run? Or did you stand there and face it?

I recently read the new book from author Perry Stone, “Purging your House and Pruning your family tree”. Everyone needs to read this one. It’s amazing the insight and revelation God gave me. One of the chapters Perry was illustrating a trip Pastor Jentzen Franklin took to Africa. It was amazing what God should Perry from Jentzen’s trip, including the “Roaring Lion”.

When you are face to face with a real lion, you are to stand there and not move. Once the lion checks you out and maybe roars a few times, wave your hands in the hair. The lion thinks you are bigger than he is and therefore runs away with his tail tucked between his legs.

People of this world like to intimidate you into thinking they are BIG and inferior. When really they are insecure and shy. They like to ROAR like a lion, loudly making you think you should be afraid of them. Therefore people who are faced with the Lion turn and run from the viscous roar.

What did I learn from the Lion’s roar? People of this world are scared little children who have been deceived by the devil. The devil bloats their head with selfish thoughts to make them think, “No one is gonna run me over and I am gonna do what I have to to protect myself”. What does the bible say about pride? Pride comes before the fall, proverbs 16:18

The lion can roar, but it’s up to you if you are going to let the devil beat you up or not. Did Jesus not give you dominion and authority over all the earth Luke 10:19. Yes the devil is the god of this world, but the bible says to put on your whole armor and speak to the devil and rebuke him. He will flee, James 4:7. The next time the lion roars in your face. Face it head on! Don’t move one inch. Stand there, confident with your sword which is the word of God. Face it without fear. Start waving your arms and praising God for the victory! The lion will realize you are not scared of it. It will think you are bigger than he is and then…. the lion will run! It’s scared of YOU! The lion doesn’t know if it’s the Lord or YOU with the armor on Ephesians 6:11! Amen! Praise you Jesus! Thank you for the Victory! Now walk in your Freedom!

Have a blessed weekend!
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Faith is confidence in what God’s word says. Trust is committed to His word no matter what happens. How many times have we failed God? He never fails us. I thought I had it all. Nothing was going to get me, not even the devil. I was building my faith by reading the word, spending time with God, listening to teachings from numerous True Gospel preachers. What I didn’t realize is that I had more faith in my faith than I did in God. I built my Faith, but I wasn’t Trusting God to do what His word says. Hearers and not Doers of the Word. It’s time to take action.

When I started the series, “Don’t Doubt, Trust God” at our bible study several months ago, I knew God was trying to get something across to me. He was ready to advance me to another level. I needed to fully Trust Him in every area of my life! Jeremiah 17:7 says, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord”. Everyone wants to be blessed by God in every arena of their life, not just physically and financially. Where ever I go and what ever I do, I want to be blessed by God.

Your faith or confidence in God can fail! Luke 22:32 says, Now this is Jesus speaking, “But I have prayed especially for you [Peter], that your [own] faith may not fail; and when you yourself have turned again, strengthen and establish your brethren.

Your faith can fail. But trusting in God will never fail. Well Christy it didn’t turn out the way I thought it should. God didn’t say it was going to be your way. When we trust Him it’s in season and out of season. If it goes His way or our way. Faith can fail. When it didn’t go your way you either quit God or say, “I didn’t have enough faith”. No, God had you in a position where He wanted you to TRUST Him so that the BLESSING would POUR over you in EVERY ARENA of your LIFE! You might say, “But God failed me”. No God didn’t fail you, you failed Him. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Get back up repent and ask God to show you where you missed it. Tell Him you have Faith and you Trust Him no matter what! If it goes His way or your way.

Proverbs 3:5 says: Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.

Matthew 6:33 says: Seek ye FIRST the KINGDOM on GOD and His RIGHTEOUSNESS and ALL these THINGS shall be added unto you.

Don’t look at your own understanding, what other people think, or what the world says. People opinions and selfish understandings separate more people from God than the Devil. We give the devil more credit than He should have. Seek God! He will always give you the right answer. He will never fail you! Whatever you put into God’s hands IS Secure!

Jesus is seated at the right hand of God RESTING! We need to REST, LEAN ON, and TRUST IN the Lord. When we rest, the BLESSING is released and God goes to work on our behave. God wants to take you to the next level. Build your Faith, Trust in the Lord, Rely and Lean on Him, Rest in Him, and it will RELEASE the BLESSING!

Don’t give up, push forward, Trust God!

May God Enrich your life with His abundant Blessings!
Christy Teter
co-founder of Living in the Blessing
owner and founder of Taylor Made Organics
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