The Mansion

The heart ❤️ is like a mansion with many rooms. When a heart is in good shape, it is like living a beautiful home that is dressed up and clean. The rooms are where we put past events that we have closed the door on. They hold good and bad memories. Without God dwelling in the mansion, death and sin live there. They will consume every part of our being. Without Salvation through Christ, we are sentenced to death.

When we open the door to Christ and let Him enter into our living room, we start building a relationship with Him. He will make us clean and drive out the sin through forgiveness. As we build a relationship with Him, the spirit of God will become our house cleaner. He will dust the furniture, vacuum the floors, etc. The Father knows everything that exists in the mansion. He will not get rid of anything unless we agree. He will not repair anything unless we allow Him, too.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Ephesians 3:16‭-‬21 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/eph.3.16-21.KJV

The struggle is real

Good morning, my friend. It has been one of those weeks that my job has consumed my energy and time. I was too exhausted to pray this morning. Now, I will stop and pray. It’s time to connect with my Daddy God. He is the most important person in my life. Out of all my relationships, this one I cherish the most. I feel bad because I don’t give Him more of my time. I am learning how to do that.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Matthew 22:37‭-‬39 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/mat.22.37-39.KJV

hello my friend

Life can be hard and distracting. My heart is full of lessons God has taught me. I feel trapped sometimes in the world I live in. What I mean is I have lived a life bouncing off one bad decision to another. It took me most of my young adult life to find the truth that I was missing. I have lived in the dark world of drugs and abuse with my first husband. We conceived and gave birth to 3 beautiful boys during those years. They suffered with me and others because of the sickness my ex-husband had. His addiction was his drugs, and he was mine. My heart ached for years for what I put my boys through. That is something I had to forgive myself for. My changing point was walking down the road in New Richland Hills back home from work when the spirit of God spoke to me.

The story behind this was that I moved there after my oldest son was murdered in Greenville, Texas. Finally, at this point in my life, I had severed ties with my ex-husband all together. I moved there because of a job I received at the local hospital, it was my youngest son and I. I was still lost in my pain of the life I was living. When my middle son came home, he went back to running with the gangs and drugs, so nothing really changed. We had found us a small local church that took us in. The reason I was walking my car broke down. The church was getting it fixed for me. What I heard was, “You have two choices. Go home and live for me or stay here and live for yourself.” Home is Brazoria County, Texas. I called my Dad and asked him to come get me. He came and picked us up. My life did not change overnight. God had to help me clean it up. It was full of a lot of emotional trash. I cried and cried as He cleaned me up. I finally figured out where I needed to be. I needed to be with my Lord.