GO ON AND BE HAPPY CHILD!!!!

Talking to one of my best friends on Saturday night proved very therapeutic for me! Minister Elois Freeman is a no non-sense seasoned believer who helps many people every day of her life.. I think ministry should be like that. We began talking about "stuff" and I began to voice some issues, and somewhat complaining(did I say that!!!), and she said GO ON AND BE HAPPY CHILD. I didn't need that, I wanted to display my issues and decisions and knowledge and yada, yada yada......But she was right(as usual), and I knew she had my number again, so we had a very enlightning discussion. We all need people in our lives that can pull our chains and not let us get away with "stuff". We need more than good pats on the back, and folk telling us ("how great we art!!!).
One thing for sure, we can't change people and only God can bring a clean thing out of an unclean one.
Two areas we need to always guard: our feelings and our thinking. Our human spirit is fine, no real problem there. We enter trouble areas when we gauge life by what we think and by what we feel or perceive to think and feel. Watch those areas where demons play, our mind is the battlefield and he loves to bombard there. The "feeling realm", and the "thought"realm.
I walk as a free daughter in Him, I give my thoughts over to him and we become one. I choose to say what the Father says about me, for this is truth. Whether I see it or understand it, or comphrehend it; I am what and who God says I am. I agree with Him, or I confess what he says and we walk together as one man. My perceptions has to go, I'm not my own, I have been bought with a price! So I'm who my redeemer says I am, and I can do what he says I can do and I am happy.
We must be careful with feelings because feelings follow thinking. I must think before I speak, words cannot be taken back. Col.4:6 says " Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. I must take charge of my thinking, bring my mind back to what God has said. I take every thought captive. Oh hallelujah!
The enemy has no assignment over my life! When I got saved as a young girl, his assignment was canceled over my life forever! This is the power of living in him. Now the bible says "neither give place to the devil." Yet some discouraging things may happen in your life, but give no place....Don't start blaming God because the tornado destroyed your house, and don't go boasting because your home was the only one saved on the block! Give no place....I am the only one that can give him a place. The scripture says "every man is drawn away of his own lust and enticed.
Go on and be happy child....
One thing is for sure, I am here for a purpose and I can't see the whole picture; but God can. I have authority over the devil, and I use it to beat him over the head!!!
Guard your feelings and your thinking! How? Renew your mind, renew your thinking, STOP IT at the first inkling. If some thoughts or imaginations are coming to you, do a Jesus check; is it according to the word of God. If its not, dispel it and move on. Now in order to do this you must know the "word." Your enemy is defeated, whether you know it or not. Keep your foot on the devil's neck, and go on and be happy child!!!