CREATE JOY

Self analysis,   well right off the bat, let me share with you the style of font I am using is quicksand 😆 I hate to admit this,  I guess I have become a glass half full kind of gal.   I am not sure I have always been, or if it has just become my default mind set. I am still not even sure how I  became a preaches wife, it wasn't my plan.  There are a lot of things I am just not sure about..... I started out with gusto.  Listening to everyone's problems,  excited to teach God's Word..... and  now, now I am 61  (and just like I didn't know how I became a preachers wife, I don't know how or when I have become 61). There are those who tell me 61 isn't old.   It is beginning to feel old.   I have listened to thousands tell me their problems, and thousands tell me my problems.... I wrestle with God daily, unlike Jacob who wrestled for one night,  hey, did you know Jackie is the female equivalent the name Jacob,  hmmmmm?     excuse my wandering mind..... back to wrest

  Sometimes the oppression covering our land is so thick you can almost see it with the human eye.  We can certainly feel it in our hearts and minds. Listen to these amazing words written in Ephesians 6 "Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity." Everyday, we as "brethren" have opportunity to live in love and grace with faith from God.  The only prerequisite is to love Jesus in sincerity. There is a battle raging right now, for the attention, energy, and thought life of every believer and to discourage or distract us.   In this very same chapter in Ephesians just a few verses before,  Paul tells us God supplies the amour for this, we only need put it on. Listen to what our amour consists of: truth, righteousness (which is not ours but Christ's),  peace, faith, our salvation, and The Word of God, because Satan uses people to attack us and God