Today is the Day to Appreciate

appreciateToday in America, hopefully all her citizens are celebrating and appreciating the freedoms that were hard won.
As believers, today and every day should be a day to celebrate and appreciate the freedoms Jesus won and gave to us the moment we placed our faith in Him. Yet, are we always thinking about what we want rather than what we have, right here, right now?
Always thinking about tomorrow can hinder us from enjoying the life Jesus  gave us Jesus today. This focus on tomorrow can lead to all kinds of bad choices as we tend to forget who we are and what we have in Christ right now.
Stay focus on Jesus today. Let Him bring what may tomorrow because He is a good God who “rewards those who seek Him.”
S“E”t Free Nowww

Failure Not an Option – Learning Is

failure“And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” (Phil. 1:6) The moment you became a secure child of God, the Father has been working to replace your character with Jesus’. This reclamation project will one day be finished, but not today.
Therefore, life will have its low moments of failure. Our obedience will not always be perfect. Here’s a word of encouragement and exhortation, however. We can either learn from our failures or repeat them, which is our choice this side of heaven, not whether we will experience them. And unless we learn from them, we will become them.
We are secure children of God that is who we are. We are not failures. Having said that, if we don’t learn from our failures, they will become part of our character that the Father will have to continue to hammer away at.
Let’s pray for each other. We know failures will occur. Pray that they are far and few between because we’re learning from them how to hear and follow Jesus closer the next time.
“S”et Free Noww“W”