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Today is Wednesday July 15, 2009 and we are continuing our studies in the book of Psalm, please read chapter 119 in your Bible or Click Here to read it. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20119&version=9

Today's Message: Way of Life
Is one truly happy with a worldly life? Happiness is the outcome of a right relationship with God and living according to the way of life taught by His Word.

I forgot to mention that Psalm 107 begins part five of the book of Psalm which centers around the Word of God. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the entire Bible and the entire Psalm is dedicated to God's Word, we are to delight in it and in His commands. “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.” - Psalm 119:1-7. The word undefiled means that we are to keep our thoughts and body pure and uncorrupted. The psalmist is saying that all who walk with God become blessed as they learn to keep their thoughts and body from being corrupted. Let's face it, there is a difference between doing something unknowingly and doing something intentionally, we all know when our thoughts and actions do not line up with God's Word. However, if we wholeheartedly seek God we are a testimony of the wonderful life that can be lived by following Him diligently.

In His Word, God has provided everything we need to be the person He planned for us to be and to accomplish the purpose for which He created us. We are to delight in His Word and long to understand it so we know exactly what God's Will for our lives are. “Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness...............And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.” - Psalm 119:33-36,47-50. Those who learn and study God's Word begin to understand what God's Will for their lives are. The once corrupted life turns to a more fulfilled life that gives one hope and comfort through all circumstances.


I truly believe that the majority of those who do not follow God do so because they know their lives will change dramatically. Time and time again I hear people say, “I am going to live my life the way I want because it is the only life I have”. It is sad to hear those words because people with that attitude have no idea what they are missing and what is waiting for them after this temporal life on earth is over. Can you honestly say that you are truly happy doing things you really do not want to do because it is what your friends are doing? Look around, are any of the people you hang around truly your friends? Is going out every weekend drinking and partying truly the life to life? Does giving yourself to every person that looks at you really make you feel as though you are someone special? Do you really think that your soul mate can be found in a bar? “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” - I John 2:15-17. It is much harder and unsatisfying to try and fit in with the world than to just live for God. The world can care less about us, but God loves us and wants to see us truly happy and successful.

Trust me, I have lived in the world, I thought that I had a boring life and was missing something, boy was I missing something and it was not anything that the world had to offer. I was missing Jesus and in the process defiled my thoughts and body in order to seek something I had all along and that was God's Word. All I had to do to find it was call on Jesus and all my past and everything I did in it was redeemed. I thank Jesus every morning for taking me out of the wasteful life that I lived when all I did was search for things that had no meaning. Praise God! We can not change the past, but we can change today, when we call on Jesus He gives us new meaning of what life truly is about and I pray that all will see this before it is too late. “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.” - Philippians 4:4-9.
Today's Prayer:
Dear God,
Lord, it is Your desire that we stay faithful to Your teachings. Scripture gives many examples of those who knew to do right, but instead yielded to temptation. The consequences of their wrong actions inflicted a great deal of loss, life-long regret and emotional pain. Help us to avoid the traps Satan has set for the believers by not only reading Your Word, but applying its truth to our lives, and standing firm when the temptation to do wrong is ever before us. In Jesus' Name...........Amen.

Have a wonderful and blessed day/night and enjoy the rest of your week.
God Bless You,
Christina

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