one day fine..the next day...horrendous.

Our dear Bro. Haney is suffering a disease that is all too common. Just a few days ago our neighbor was diagnosed with the same condition: inoperable brain tumor.

It is remarkable to me how quickly these things come about. My neighbor worked full time and one day just forgot how to drive to work. When her daughter suggested she go to the clinic, she remarked that she did not know how to drive there either. A few hours later at the ER, she was given the grave diagnosis.

One day fine; another day incapable of most anything.

I hear you Lord, you are reminding me to fill each day with love and joy and deal with difficult circumstances that come our way with GUTSY faith.

Dear Lord, touch our dear Bro, Haney, he is such a fine man with such integrity. And touch my neighbor Bev, who really needs your comfort and peace.

Who do people see when they look at you?

Strange question, unless you are a sold-out follower of Jesus.

If you have a made-up mind about this walk with the Lord, then you want people to see Jesus through your face.

You want your spirit to be under Holy Spirit control. Paul said he, "died daily", why?, because his flesh kept wanting to be in charge. He "died" out to the flesh through prayer and reading the Word. It works!

Our flesh usually drags us down paths leading AWAY from God.

If we had our way we would:

hold grudges,
live for the moment,
get even with our enemies,
follow after lustly pleasures,
watch and listen to anything that seemed pleasureable to our mind and body,
live for money, or power, or pride,
anything enticing...need I go on?


But.....we rise up after being in the WORD and in prayer.... with power and joy which gives us strength to live above sin.

And we may not even know it, but OUR FACES WILL SHINE.

So, truly, we look different to others when they see us.

Before my husband was saved, he ran into a newly spirit-filled friend and this friend's face was shining. He saw the light of God in his face. And when his friend invited him to a revival service, there was a pull on his heart. He was not turned off by the encounter; it was like a MAGNET to his soul.

He went to the service, heard the singing and the preaching, felt the love of God so strong, he fell to his knees in repentance and began speaking with tongues (filled with the Holy Spirit) in just a few minutes.

He has never been the same!

Please read this:
John 1:18 KJV
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son,
which is in the bosom of the Father,he hath declared him.

God has made himself known to us, how?
By wrapping himself in the human body of Jesus the Christ; his ONLY body, flesh or Son.

Read the same verse in the New Living Translation:

No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father's heart. He has revealed God to us.


Even Jesus, as he walked this Earth wanted people to see God when they looked at him. He didn't want people to say, "oh, there's Mary's son, the carpenter!" John the Baptist, who was his natural cousin, even saw Jesus as God, when he walked toward him one day. John declared, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"
Who do people see when they look at you?