Joy!

Do you want it? Just ask for it.  Pray to the Father and He will give it to you.   He sure will.  Do you want to be delivered from sin?  Pray.  It is as simple as that.  Are you double minded?  Good one minute, evil the next?  Pray and ask GOD for understanding.  Pray, ask for wisdom.

Man is by nature a fallen creature.  That fallen nature was given to us by Adam.  Adam and Eve did not trust GOD.  Tempted by Satan's tricks, they fell.  But, Jesus came to give us another chance.  Not  just one chance, but a million,  if we need them.  No matter how many times you fall prey to the enemy, you can always turn around.  You do have to humble yourself.  You do have to admit that you were foolish and carnal.  You do have to admit that you are ashamed.  You must repent.

There is no getting around repentance.  To repent means that you have changed your mind.  Please do not put on "Christ" to fool people.  Don't use Christ as a snare.  You will only ensnare yourself.  When you are caught you will be humiliated and furious.  Don't be furious with GOD.  Thank Him.  Thank Him for another opportunity to get it right.

Love your enemies.  Thank them for the mistreatment and pain.  It enabled you to humble yourself.  GOD knows what you need.  Praise GOD! Thank Him!

I thank GOD for each and every day of my life.  I thank Him for Jerome Walters and other true Christians just like him.  My grandfather died and went on to glory and he did not have any hatred in his heart for any man.  My grandfather loves his daughter and forgives her.  That's Christ.   That is what it means to be a Christian.  That's Joy!  That is unspeakable Joy!  Jerome Walters had a Christ like spirit.  He was a very humble man.  He had that Perfect Peace.  That is something I long for, pray for.

I get it sometime.  I have it today.  I prayed for the indwelling of His Holy Spirit.  I pray daily as I struggle in this world.  I pray as my heart aches.  I pray when my awful pain brings me crashing down to my knees.

My grandfather's heart was broken.  So many tragic events attacked him.  Yet he held on to GOD's unchanging hand.  His daughter's treacherous trickery broke his heart.  He tried, he could not change her.  I have grown frustrated and my heart aches.  I can't change her.  No amount of pleading and appeals from me can reach her.  Frightened relatives refuse to help her.

Are you yet that selfish, that blind?  Why do you laugh with her when you know full well she is lying?  You listen to her reinvent herself daily.  You know the person she declares herself to be has never existed.  Are you afraid of her "roots"?  Why?  If you believe in GOD you know that you are protected.

Could it be you are a closet demon as well?  Do you suffer with secret jealousy?  Do you get off on the suffering of others?  Can you pray?  Do you put Jesus on your lips to look good, to sound good?

Remember, man is by nature a fallen creature.  You can get up.  We can all get up.  This Christian walk is a daily fight.  If you fall, forgive yourself quickly.  Get up!  Pray and continue to fight.  Pray for GOD to take that awful excruciating pain.  Pray for GOD to take the debilitating hatred.

We serve a GOD of a million chances.  If you don't get it right today.  GOD will give you another chance if you ask Him.

Stay in His WORD children.  Remember; "Apart from Christ you are nothing."

May GOD's Grace, Mercy and Truth, engulf you, cloak you and keep you in Perfect Peace,
Rachel Gwendolyn Doster (the exceedingly proud granddaughter of a great Patriarch, JEROME WALTERS)