Joy is in my heart and in my life

Greetings Everyone!

The messages for the month of December will focus on the spiritual faculty (God-given power) of LIFE.  Rev. Angela Harrington Rice of Hillside International Chapel and Truth Center in Atlanta, GA is the author of this month's messages.  I will provide an affirmation and a song to accompany each message.  Bishop Dr. Barbara Lewis King, Founder and Spiritual Leader of Hillside writes the below message about LIFE.

"God is LIFE.  LIFE is the invisible energy that is always seeking expression through everything.  It is the power that is active and always producing itself.  It takes form in all conditions and situations in our environment.  It creates and restores the cells of your body.  God is in you, expressing through you as life.  Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly."  (St. John 10:10)  More life means more peace, more happiness, more prosperity, more understanding, and more health.  Jesus also said, "I am the way and the truth and the life..." (St. John 14:6).

Come through the Christ consciousness.  Follow the teachings of Jesus, the Christ.  You can change the direction of your life by the renewing of your mind.  When the woman, diseased with an issue of blood for twelve years, touched the hem of Jesus' garment, she made direct contact with the Life Principle and was immediately healed.

Judas means, metaphysically, "sense consciousness" that betrays man.  This faculty, when used destructively, will get you in trouble and leave you weak and impotent.  Judas killed himself.  "Sense consciousness" will kill the organs of your body.

Love is the faculty that will transmute Judas, the sense man, to his original state of Judah, which means, "I will praise Jehovah."

Do NOT waste life...LIVE it in honor and glory of God giving Him thanks, praise and worship for and in every thing and situation.  Here's today's message...

AFFIRMATION:  ". I choose to be joyful at all times.  I project joy to everyone I interact with"

THOUGHT:  "Joy Is Mine"

Joy comes from within.  It bubbles up inside when we decide to invite it.  It is a decision we make that is always available.  Throughout the day I think of things that bring a smile to my face and joy to my heart.  This feeling of joy comes from God, and I pass it on to everyone I meet and greet.

I place my thoughts on higher things.  There is nothing in the past, present, or future that can separate me from or rob me of my joy.  Scripture says, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light."  My joyful spirit cannot be kept down, and it allows only light and peace to permeate it.  I turn every seeming challenge into a blessing.  I focus on the good in my life, and there is joy.  Thank You, God!  Thank You Life...In me, through me, as me, around me, in the name of Jesus, the Christ.  And So It Is!!!

"Thou wilt show me the path of life, and I shall be filled with the joy of Thy countenance, with the pleasure of victory of Thy right hand." ~Psalm 16:11

Drena

Hebrews 10:17

Your Sins Will Not Be Screened In Heaven

Hebrews 10:17 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

When I was a young Christian growing up in Singapore, I read a little tract entitled This Was Your Life. In that tract, it said that when you get to heaven, God will replay your entire life, including all your sins, on a huge video screen for all the angels and other saints to watch! The idea that God was making such a video of my life with the intention of screening it for everyone to watch used to make me feel awful and condemned before God. How could I ever stand boldly in His presence? And how was I going to face my loved ones and Christian friends in heaven? I was a nervous wreck, thinking about all my sins that God was recording down, until I read this in the Bible: “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.” (Romans 4:8) Hallelujah! I jumped for joy when I found out that God was not counting my sins against me, and that He has given me something called “non-imputation of sins”! My friend, the reason that God does not impute any of our sins to us is that He has already imputed all of them to the body of His Son Jesus when He hung on the cross 2,000 years ago. Not only that, when God punished His Son for our sins, He caused the curse of the law to fall stroke by stroke upon Jesus’ entire body until every curse had been fully satisfied. That is why we have been redeemed from the curse of the law. (Galatians 3:13) That is why, instead of imputing sin to us, God imputes righteousness! God wants us to know that our sins and lawless deeds He will remember no more. The words “no more” in the original Greek text carry a strong double-negative meaning. In other words, God is saying, “No way, by no means, will I ever remember your sins again!” Beloved, since God says that He will remember your sins no more, why do you still remember them? Or for that matter, your spouse’s or neighbor’s sins? God does not want you to be conscious of sins because He is not. So rejoice! Come to Him boldly and expect Him to show you mercy and grace because He remembers your sins no more! (When I read this email, my thought was "how awesome to know that GOD will NOT remember my lawless deeds.  It made me think about how we as the flesh remember our brothers' lawless deeds and in most cases, hold onto it- taking up memory space, keeping a stain on the heart. We/I need to get it go- especially if it's something we canNOT change! AMEN!)