Bitterness, anger, and envy can do you more harm than the person you’re holding it against. It will cause you to live your life half-happy, with fake joy, and pretending to be something that you’re not. And the person you’re holding hostage in your heart and mind are not concerned with, or may not even know, what you’re festering.

Let it go, and let them go. Holding on to ill-feelings is not of God, but sin. Forgive them, forgive yourself, and enjoy the life God has planned for you.

Peace is priceless, stop paying for sin. Jesus already did that for you.

Ephesians 4:31 (KJV) – let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.

Matthew 6:14-15 (KJV) – for if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

John 14:27 (KJV) – peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Galatians 1:4 (KJV) – who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father.

Jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, and our lives are similar. Once you have solved one part of the puzzle, you can move forward. In our lives, once you have done the will of God, you can move forward.

As long as you try to fit in a wrong piece, it will never fit correctly, and cause all kinds of problems.

You can force something that is not in God’s plan for you, but it will always be a problem, no matter how much you try to fix what doesn’t belong. The longer you force it, the longer you withhold your blessings.

Psalm 66:18 (KJV) – if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

Jeremiah 5:25 (KJV) – your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

There is so much power in the word of God. More powerful than any thing and any man. Trust — whatever God speaks, it is done.

God’s word reaches the depth of your soul, and the most powerful words you can speak. We shall live by His word. So don’t think that you won’t.

How can you not want to know His word — to know Him.

Hebrews 4:12 (KJV) – for the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Matthew 4:4 (KJV) – but he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

The flesh believes, that to be strong we have to stand up for ourselves and be ready to physically fight, and to speak harshly towards others. That we should never swallow our pride, but to prove ourselves to others.

There is nothing wrong with standing up for ourselves, but it’s how we stand. God will fight our every battle if we let him. He will tell us want to say in the time it needs to be said. We don’t have to practice it beforehand. Pray, and God will speak it through us. He knows what we are going to face before we know it. He is our saviour.

We are to be humble. But the flesh sees humility as being weak — a doormat. What the flesh does not know is, humility is wisdom, strength and power, and the flesh is weak. Any battle against us, is against God.

Jesus didn’t walk around showing himself mighty, but he humbled himself, ever step of the way, and God exalted him . . . every step of the way. Through his humility, He died for us, to live with us.

Humble yourself in order to become wise, and God will exalt you. He will lift you up. He will cause your enemies to be good to you. He will fight your battles.

Remember, you have to give account to God, not man.

Matthew 10:19-20 (KJV) – but when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

Matthew 6:8 (KJV) – be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Matthew 26:41 (KJV) – watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Hosea 13:4 (KJV) – yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

I Peter 5:6 (KJV) – humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.

Romans 14:12 (KJV) – so then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Did you know God is knocking at your door, waiting for you to open it and let him in?

He has been calling you, but you won’t listen.

Stop . . . Listen . . .

Open the door and let him in, and He will, in no way, cast you away from him.

Revelation 3:20 (KJV) – behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

John 6:37 (KJV) – all that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

There are people in this world that will tell you anything, things you want to hear, just to get what they want from you.

Some people are so believable with deceiving others, they will make you question yourself. Deceivers don’t have a certain look. They can look as beautiful, and as fine as a freshly picked rose, but their thrones are hidden. They look just like you and me.

If we are not careful, we will believe almost anyone with their deceitful and crafty ways. We have to know the word of God, or else we will be tossed around like the wind, trusting and believing whoever sounds good to us.

Reading the word of God will give you discernment to know the truth of God, and the lies of Satan, unless you don’t mind being tossed around.

Acts 20:29-30 (KJV) – for I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Matthew 7:15 (KJV) – beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Philippians 4:6 (KJV) – be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God.

Ephesians 4:14 (KJV) – that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.

John 10:27 (KJV) – my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

When we’re at a point of no return, and we feel enough is enough, and we’re tired of being tired, that’s when we should know, its time to break up with our old self and our old ways. Whatever it is or whoever it is, that brought us to this point, it’s not the circumstance or the person, it’s us.

The circumstances and/or the person played a major part in getting us to this point of no return, but it’s God working in and through us through the circumstances and/or the person. Therefore, don’t look at the circumstances or the person as the problem, but a blessing. Just think, had we not gone through it, we would not had grown stronger, renewed our mind, and changed our direction.

God wants to show us who we are. And by doing so, He allow things in our lives to get our attention. He removes the things that do not belong within us, so that he can reveal to us the gifts and power that is within us. But how can we see it, when we are holding on to the old self and the old ways.

A changed mind is extremely powerful. Therefore, renewing your mind will change your direction, give you strength to do what you normally would not do, and catapult you beyond where you can never imagine.

Let go of your old you and your old ways, renew your mind, and watch God reveal the new you, and see how He is working a good work within you. You can’t lose with God.

Isaiah 43:18-19 (KJV) – remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Romans 12:2 (KJV) – and be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Philippians 1:6 (KJV) – being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Our past can dictate our future, if we let it. Whether negative or positive.

Don’t let your present, fill the shoes of your past. Let go of your past, you just may miss out on the best thing that ever happened for your future.

Let go of what was, and enjoy what is. You just might love you.

Philippians 3:13 (KJV) – brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.

We can tell if someone truly loves us by their actions, as well as what they say.

If we truly love someone, what we do for them is genuine, not hard to do, and comes from the heart. But when we say we love someone and find it a burden to do something for them, is it really love? Or is it something we do just for our own gain? To get what we want? For self — selfish reasons?

We can’t see a person’s heart like God does. And we can’t trick God into thinking we genuinely love him to get what we want. He knows if we’re trying to use him. He knows our hearts better than we do. Therefore, He knows if we love him or not, and how much we love him.

Those who love God has the mind of God, and will do for him out of love.

So ask yourself, do you love God? What do your actions say?

John 14:15 (KJV) – if ye love me, keep my commandments.

We all have our theory of what’s written in The Bible. There are those who believe it, and there are those who don’t.

Whether we believe it or not, know this — that every knee will bow to God and everyone will confess to God. God’s word is the truth, and does not come back void.

There is one body, and one Spirit, one Lord, and one faith, one baptism, and one God, who is the Father of us all.

Romans 14:11 (KJV) – for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Ephesians 4:4-6 (KJV) – there is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Isaiah 55:11 (KJV) – so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.