Pleasure

How many of us love pleasure?

I am a pleasure addict.  I love a good meal.  One of my favorites would be a great conversation with my wife, family, a good friend or even a complete stranger.  Right now my life is full of pleasures: traveling, good company, new sites and good food.  I am in heaven.

Don't you know that God made us in His image.... meaning just like Himself,  He also likes pleasure.

One of the biggest ways that God receives pleasure is when we express faith in Him.  The Bible says in Hebrews 11:6 that without faith it is impossible to please God.

That seems to say to me then, that every single day, we will be presented with opportunities in which we will need to express faith in God.  When we do.... we bring pleasure to God.  :-)

So, each day, we should not seek the "easy" life without challenges, but instead be consistently looking for opportunities where we need to express faith in God... therefore bringing pleasure to our God.

Wow!!!  What a new way to look at those things that cause us so much fear and anxiety.  Bills, jobs, hurts, health.... let them be the catalyst that brings joy to our Father's heart.  

If you notice, as we express this faith and bring pleasure to our Father, it even makes our lives that much more pleasureable!

It is a win-win situation!

So.... that thing you are facing right now..... see it for what it truly is...  your golden opportunity to truly make the Father happy!  

Shalom!

Why Some People No Longer Follow God

Why Some People No Longer Follow God

God is all powerful.  Satan is not.  Satan can not harm or defeat God even though he would like to.    

This whole life revolves around God creating man in order  to have a relationship with him.  That is God's biggest desire and aim.... what this life is all about!!!!!

Satan can, on the other hand, sway mankind because man has a free will.   Satan will try everything to get us to not have a relationship with God.  His tricks are numerous.  He will put thoughts in our minds.  He will point at a situation in our life and say things like, "See that! God caused that to happen because He does not love you!"  "If God loved you then you would have that job, or that spouse, or the perfect life!"  So God must not love you!"  There are many other numerous tricks that he will try in order for us to doubt God's love for us.

Once he convinces a person that God is not the loving Father that He is the next step is only natural....... for us to want nothing to do with God.  Which, sadly to say, is happening all around us today.  I must confess that I have fallen subject this this ploy as well in the past.

Knowing how much God loves man and how He longs for relationship with man, Satan realizes the most injury he can do to God is to put a knife through His heart each time one of His children turns away from the love He has to offer.

Sometimes it is through catastrophic events that happen in our lives.  Sometimes it is just the subtle, tiny, everyday annoyances that the enemy of God will use to wear us down and cause us to turn away from God.

                                             Don't be deceived!

                 1. God wants a relationship with you!
                 2. Satan does not want you to have a relationship with God!


John 10:10 says The thief (Satan) comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I (Jesus) have come that they (we) may have life, and have it to the full.

If it is stealing, killing and destroying you and pulling you away from a relationship with God.... then it is the enemy.   If it is full of life and leads to a relationship with the Father.... then it is God.

Let us stop listening to the lies of the enemy.  Let us return to a vibrant relationship with the Father and no longer be the knife in the hand of the enemy that wounds the heart of God.