When God laid this on my heart I didn’t feel as though what He was giving was an article but a declaration that it is time to enjoy life. In life we will always have challenges, bills to pay, people who disappoint us and people whom which we also disappoint. What do you do when you have a life of sadness and moments of joy? When God laid this on my heart it was about 1am in the morning and it was a moment of truth that would liberate me to core of my very existence. You see, I spent many years unhappy but I decided that I wasn’t going to spend the last part of my life the same way. I could hear God saying, I blew into your nostrils the breathe of life and you became a living soul. In other words don’t waste my breathe, He kept telling me to, ‘LIVE.’ He said, you are to have a life of joy and moments of sadness. I thought about how we walk around sad, look at sad news, listen to depressing gossip, and hang around people who are sad, listen to their problems, and talk about ours. Writing just those few statements is depressing within itself. Sometimes we get so caught up into things that haven’t even happened yet. You were sad yesterday, and now you are sad today worried about tomorrow. I feel like I am coaching someone to get up and shake the dust off their feet and to move forward with joy. According to Psychologist, happiness is a moment of expression but the bible says that joy is a spirit. Wouldn’t you rather have the spirit of joy instead of a moment of happiness?
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As I sat in silence as God spoke to me, I could hear these scriptures:
I came that you might have LIFE and have IT more abundantly.
I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me.
Greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world
He said, that He would give me beauty for ashes, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness and by His stripes we are healed.
The reason why we are walking around sad is simply because we have a spirit of heaviness. These are the definitions of heaviness -Weighed down; burdened.
b. Emotionally weighed down; despondent: a heavy heart.
c. Marked by or exhibiting weariness: heavy lids.
d. Sad or painful: heavy news
I realized that I have been so focused on what was going wrong that I wasn’t thankful for what was going right. The problem is with our thoughts. In the bible it says this:
Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy think on these things. Philippians 4:8
It doesn't say whatever is messy, whatever is lazy, whatever is sad, whatever is depressing, whatever things we don't like, whatever things that bring people misery, if there is anything to be sad about think on these things. People 10:17
My question to you is this, what are you thinking about? We don’t encourage people to work out their relationships, pray about anything, we just dive right into the mess and help spread and contaminate our spirits with junk that was sent straight from hell. We give the devil more praise than we give the Lord. About a month ago a young lady asked me to dinner and I asked her do you have anything nice to say, every word that is coming out of your mouth is negative and you are stealing my joy. She looked at me as though no one ever told her that before. I said I don’t want to talk about that, tell me about the good things that the Lord is doing in your life and she couldn’t respond. I decided that she wasn’t someone that I needed in my life because she talked about everybody and everything. Oh, come on and be truthful what do you and your click talk about?
The bible says, ‘blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful but whose delight is in the Lord.’ Let me give you some examples:
Girl, there isn’t any good men out there and you say girl you right.
Girl, if I was you I wouldn’t put up with that and you say girl I know what you mean.
Girl, did you hear about and you say girl no way are you serious.
I could go on.
Why, are you watching everyone else live their life and your dreams are locked up in your womb? Why, don’t you believe that your dreams will come true? Why, I tell you why, because you think, act and hang around sadness all the time. Stop being lazy get off your sadness and do something with your life. Stop expecting people to give you what you don’t want to work for. I feel this so heavy, how do you have time to enjoy your life when you are constantly texting, on Face book, saying things like, girl I am sitting on the porch, girl I am eating, so on and so forth. Am I against Face book, no what I am saying is these are dream killers. I feel like I am coaching somebody and I don’t know who you are but God said, you are wasting the life you have left on things that don’t even matter. Don’t you understand that our days are numbered not counted? God isn’t trying to figure out when we are going to die; He knows the day and the hour. What are you going to do with the time you have left? Will you have moments of happiness and lifetime of sadness? Are will you get up and LIVE? Get up from depression, get up from unbelief, get up from those who are always sad, get up in your spirit, get up off that couch, get up from sexual immorality, get up in Jesus name! God has more in store for you. I don’t know who I am talking to but young lady, young man don’t you let your friends talk you out of your dreams, married woman or married man don’t you listen to your single friends. I wish I could preach this like I feel it. I am coming after that spirit of sadness; I am going to drive a stake right into its heart. It’s time to live, love and dream again.
I will close with this, in the bible there was a man who was lying beside the gate called, Bethesda which means beautiful. This man had been lying there for 38 years and when Jesus came up to him and asked the question do you want to be made whole. This mans reply was there wasn’t anyone to put me in the water. Jesus asked the man again, do you want to be made whole, then take up your bed and walk.
Sadness makes you say things like: I am trying but the truth is your not. I am fix’in to or about to but the truth is your lazy. You have been in the same position far too long.
I want to ask you these questions, could it be that you are in a beautiful place in life but because how you view life your not able to enjoy it or because those sad people who you are talking with? How long have you been lying there waiting for someone to come along and rescue you? Do you want to be made whole then get rid of sadness and LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE!
Lord, we repent for being ungrateful to You by focusing on the what we don’t have. Lord, I want to thank you that someone is about to step out on faith and get their joy back. I thank you Lord that if you never do another thing you have already done enough. I thank you for those who are about to give birth to their dreams. Lord, we honor the life you have given us and I pray that we can only repay you by living our best life. We love you Lord and we blow kisses to you. Revive us again in Jesus name we pray. AMEN.
Beautifully Speaking,
Sonya
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