Hey, hey it's Friday!

This has been quite a long but fruitful week for me.  Full of life's joys and challenges, but busy and accomplishing a lot.  I can feel it tonight.  I don't know if it is because our bodies know that we can shut down from work for two days and just enjoy our family life for a bit....but on a Friday I am usually really tired. We all look forward to not getting up in the middle of the night, get dressed in 2 seconds, fly out the door, drive to work, work, drive home, feed your family, a bit of quite time, sleep and then tomorrow we rinse and repeat.

A lot of people call it "a rat race".  This is where this scripture I have chosen for my blog today comes into play.  I thank God for continually working with me through Jesus, The Holy Spirit and His angels.  If it wasn't for that, I would most probably still believe that day to day life is a rat race and I would not enjoy or appreciate everything as much as I do.  The last few months have been like a fast forward in my spiritual growth, I have been guided by the Holy Spirit to very specific scriptures, sights, messages, blogs and the one after the other YouTube video.  It was as if I am willed on to learn as much as I can in a day.

The scripture very much sums up what God expects from us in our daily lives.  It might look like a piece of cake, but He has shown me that it takes a total change in your daily routine and life.

I am going to break it down piece by piece to show you what He has shown me He really expects of us -it is not as easy as it seems.

"Rejoice always"......
In easy terms be full of joy, happiness, hope, love etc...when?   ALWAYS
Easy...let me tell you not so easy at all.  God has made it clear that He would like is to always be happy no matter what the circumstances.  That is His wish for us.  He does not want us to suffer.  He wants us to stay in the Light all of the time.  This means that if you move into the shadow emotions you have to very much concentrate to move out of the shadows into the Light.  Jealousy, hate, anger, frustration etc are the dark shadowy emotions that has nothing to do with rejoicing and as God expects us to rejoice ALWAYS, we need to implement it in any way to move from the dark emotions.  If we are in the dark nobody likes us and can see the Light within us.  Only if you are in the Light, all of the time people will want to be like you and accept Jesus as their Savior and receive the Holy Spirit.  As we also talk to one another more and more with our emotions and thoughts these days this is becoming more and more important....

Challenge No. 1 - No matter what you are doing in the next week I would like to challenge you to be in the Light as much as you can and I would love to hear what your feedback is in this regard.

"Pray without ceasing,"....
This I see as being in continual contact with God, praying, talking to Him, being aware of Him with you all the time and making Him part of all of our day.  Not just Sundays, or in the morning or at night.  He wants us to have a true relationship with Him and you will be surprised how much you will see that He is with you all the time, when you involve Him in everything you do.  Trust your intuition....He will give you answers through the Holy Spirit or the angels.  That little voice inside of you keeping you upright and in the right place is Him or of Him.

Challenge No.2 - Speak to God continually every day as if he is next to you all of the time.  Just sharing your thoughts or praying.  You don't need to say it out loud and make everybody think you have lost your marbles (although I sometimes do, do it...LOL).  He knows all of your thoughts so have a conversation with Him and His angels in your mind.

"Give Thanks in all circumstances"....
We need to be continually be thankful for the smallest blessing we receive.  Even to see, breath, hear, talk, the birds singing in the trees, the sun, the rain....EVERYTHING.  Don't only be thankful, but thank Him continually as something comes into your mind and have gratitude for His amazing Grace!

Challenge No.3 - Look at the smallest thing that you use, see, feel, hear, smell  ......realise how much we actually have to be thankful for and have gratitude for.

"for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you..."
All of the above is what God expects of us in Christ Jesus.  Amen

Have an awesome weekend!