Loving Others as Yourself

For work I do hair; I work one one one with people- touching them, talking to them and getting pretty upclose and personal, at least in ther face.
I think about people, in general, like, I guess you can say in almost a psychological way, but with the love of Christ- because we people are so complex and unique that we can only be truly seen through the eyes of God through Christ.
Well, yesterday at work I was a little busy. I was working on some boy's hair and a lady came in and askd how long for a haircut and I told her about ten minutes.
I was done and went to get the lady and do her hair cut, and it turned out to be a bit difficult than I expected. The lady had very short hair and wanted more and more taken off and when I was done she began complaining and it winds up she didn't pay and caused a bit of a scene - and besides all of this (because these kinds of things are somewhat "expected SOMETIMES" considering working with the public) the point I want to make here is I learned something from the lady.
For one she was angery. She seemed to have a major attitude problem and without going into all kinds of detail what I learned is pretty deep-

and it's about people loving others as themselves- and how some people who are hateful towards others, really have hatred indside for themselves.
When the lady had left the salon I had alreay went in the back and was praying because the lady was really argumentative- and I did not want to lose my job over her much less be in an argument or in a bad mood so I went away and prayed and I realized that her anger and bad attitude had nothing to do with ME- but she has a problem.
Some people have problems, and that is sometimes a part of life. But when people don't deal with thier problems - and deal with them the Right way, then they only get worse, even if they are hidden or covered up or disguised for a while- even a long while.
So, as I was praying I was like, wow, she was really hateful to me Lord, and He showed me that her anger and hurt and hatefulness was because she felt that way about herself inside, that that is the only way she knows how to express herself. No body has ever corrected her... or loved her right. Her parents nor friends. Because Love changes people for good- and if she had been loved she would love, because that is how love works.
And I think from seeing her in my chair for just a few minutes, that it looked like she had made some mistakes in life and maybe she regretted the choices she made and then hated herself for it- or maybe her parents or some other person was unforgiving toward her and maybe she depended on those peoples love who took away thier love when she made a bad choise- I mean it does happen.
Some people are biased in their love and if you make a mistake they might take away thier love- and this is the Ultimate Reason we need Jesus- because sometimes we do make mistakes but we if we have the LORD ~
If we have the LORD we for one try not to make such bad mistakes.
From the time I recieved Christ I changes my desicion making style. I have not always chosen the perfect choice, but I have learned and am still putting into practice seeking HIS WILL in my choices, and I learn that sometimes His Will is very different than what I Want. But it is also much much better.

I could go on and on today but the point I want to make is that other people's attitudes have much more to do with themselves than with who they are directed at. Love is unifying, where as hate is isolating.
Love is healing, hate is hurting.
Love accepts, hate rejects.
Love purifies, hate corrupts.
Sorry to be so gory but its true... and this is why we need to deal truthfully with ourselves and confront people in truth in love- especially the ones who need it most.
Tell the truth in love.
It seems challenging, but it is very simple.
Let Love Have It's Way~

Love today!

iAngel

believe like a child

There is something I have pondered that troubles me every time I consider… How the children of God that say they believe, never see the fruits of God’s Power in their lives.

Healings. Miracles. True Salvation. Deliverance. Spiritual Knowledge. Wisdom. Life Changes. Holy Promises Fulfilled.
Why ?
Why don’t people- especially “those of the household of faith” – ever see God’s “promises” come to life in their lives?

Doubt. Unbelief. Mistrust. Fear. Impatience.

These are a few reasons people do not see God’s fulfillment of His Truth in their lives~
But we need to ponder these reasons and ask, why DO people DOUBT God? Or WHY do people not believe Him and His Word in their lives? Or why do they think in fear, that they are less worthy than another person to have what God has promised to “ALL who believe”? And for people who don’t trust the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO then can they trust? For we all know that the “trust” of “man” is futile.
Where then is faith? It comes from a Knowledge of WHO GOD Really is.

God… The “God of our Fathers”.. the God of Jesus Christ… And David the King of Israel, and Isaiah the prophet, and Elijah and Elisha the miracle workers… and Esther the queen who saved a nation and Moses who lead the Israelites out of egypt, is that same yesterday, today and forever~ It is the same God that has always been~ And if we really want to have what God has promised through the Word of His Son Jesus Christ, the first and foremost we have todo is DARE to Believe.
I say Dare because it takes COURAGE to STEP OUT IN FAITH, it takes momentum, courage, passion, faith with reckless abandon~ to have the good things that God has for His Children! Why? Because there is a world out there full of thives imposters and liars that don't want (God's People) to have what (HE) wants (us) to have, because they don't have it. Have you ever heard that saying "Misery loves company"? And we see it all around, envy, lust, competitavteness...such things will never bring true peace or glory~ Only recieveing the Blessing from GOD, for the Bible says, "every good and perfect gift comes doen from the Father of Lights.."
(God is no respector of persons) he doesn’t compare us with each other… he compares us by our selves… meaning… He doesn’t say, oh, Sally is better than Trina, because of this this and that. NO. He has placed within each individual person a unique purpose, design and value that only HE can create and fulfill– and His value is based in His Word, and He judges according to HIS standards for us, not other’s people’s, and certainly not against other people’s, or their’s against us.

So we have to decide… what do we (each individually) expect and or desire from life, from the LORD?
What is our purpose for being here? What has God placed in Your’s and my hearts, and you and God know…
The LORD said to me that many of the desires that I have in my heart are desires that HE has FOR ME. God is not some God that makes people and ignores us. NO! He is a Loving, intimate, attentive, caring, compassionate Father.
That is what He created us for.
So we must dare to believe. For Himself. He Delights in us... He loves it when we come to Him for help, or for answers, or for anything we need, because in us is HIS Glory, and in Him we are fulfilled and gratifyed and blessed better than any other way possible. Because GOD IS GOOD!!!

One thing besides the list that I wrote earlier also keeps the LORD from fulfilling His Promises in our lives, and that one thing (which ALL the others fall into) is SIN.

Unbelief is sin, fear can be classified as sin, doubt is certainly sin, mistrust is sin( 1 corinthians 13 the love chapter claims that love always trusts) so if we do not trust we are not living in love therefore it is sin.
So, I would like now, to encourage your faith.

I want to use a few examples from the Word, to open your minds, hearts and spirits to the Power of The Holy Ghost; And to realize and discover what kindof God we really serve.
I hope you all can catch all this, and may the Holy Spirit give understanding as He so pleases.

Let’s consider the Gospel, it means “Good News” in the original text… some of the things that have really made me question MY faith and say, well, if God can do that, then…what can't HE do??!!???!
Are for example, when Jesus awoke Lazarus from death. In John chapter 11. The Lord Jesus Christ (not only was resurrected by God Himself) but rose a man from the dead. The Bible says that Lazarus “stank” as dead, and if you read the gospel carefully, you will read that they had to also take the grave clothes off him.
You know what I really want to say?? Why Can’t God be goodto us? He is good! So Why do people not believe in Him like they say they do? Because they really don’t believe.
God is good all of the time. Anything that we perceive as wrong or evil from God, is not really from God but is from the devil. And the fact that we humans “believe” that something evil would come from God is a LIE from the Devil, whose name means “Deceiver”. Does that make sense now? He will try to reduce your faith in God by putting bad things in your life or causeing problems to the point thta you think God is against you, but in reality it is one of Satan's main tactics of "DECIEIVING" you (into fearing God, distrustung God, giving up on God, not believeing in God).
We have to KNOW who our enemy is in order to be able to fight and destroy him.
His name is also “Accuser”,
“Accuser of the Brethren”,
“Liar”,
“Adversary”,
“Enemy” ,
“Imposter”, - just to show you who the devil really is.

I just want to challenge your all’s faith, because I can sit here and list a bunch of faithful things that the LORD has done, (in the Bible) but in my perception that would be like rewriting the Whole Bible here… so I just want to challenge your faith, and ask you,
“Why can’t God do something awesome in your life?"

And

“Where is Your faith?”

JESUS said that if we have faith as a grain of a mustard seed, that we can say to a mountain to move and it will obey us, and that we can say for anything to happen and it will.
What is a mustard seed, and what does it look like?
What mountains do you want to move out of your way~ into the depths of the sea?

All you have to do is simply believe.

Love, 'cause it's better than not to!

What is oppression?
Opression is judgement of another person to the point of ruling or controlling them by means of words/phrases of disbelief and or condemnation.
Let me reiterate... I can use myself as a prime example.
After I got saved when I was about 20, I turned my whole life around. I had many belongings from my former life ... that of partying, drugs, ungodly music, pictures of me and my friends using drugs (like, my whole photo collection basically), my whole wardrobe, Everything!
I threw it all away!
All I had left was a long black skirt, a pair of pants, and two or three tops to wear. Late I started rebuilding my wardrobe, but I literally threw it all away. Probably a 500 cdand tape collection. Pictures, some of which I later regretted tossing out...
I cleaned house.

Jesus helped me.

After that my family thought I was not right. They thougt I was crazy for changing so radically.
and it was a Radical Change.
It was a Big change, in fact it was straightly a "Life Change"!

They started thinking there was something wrong with me for acting in such ways... where as I had an after thought a couple of years down the road... "How could they think I'm not right now, yet all the time I was younger I was off the chain crazy wild???" Hmm.... the Bible says that in the later days that "men will call what is good bad and what is bad good."

Some where people have it backwards.

and then... the people in my life started telling me I was crazy... started telling me I was wrong.. started telling me this and that and the neighbors too!
Now, I have forgiven my family, please understand- I understand that they had no idea what on earth I was going through and dealing with....
But I have learned that what we say to people matters. And what we say to people can sometimes make or break them.
And what we say to others about people (which is gossip, by-the-way) can also have effects on thier reputation- how other people see and judge them.
Let's not be ignorant here people... It can be difficult to not judge people sometimes.
and why??
People are judges by thier looks, or thier finacial status, or thier religioun, or thier education.

But if you look pastthose outward things, skin, money, habits, knowledge... they are still human just like you and me.
Maybe they are different- we all are. Jesus teaches us first of all not to judge, but He also says that we shall judge people by thier fruits.
Whether they be good or bad.

Now then. What fruit are we supposed to be looking for?
What is this fruit we should find???
Ok, I will remind you :)

The fruits of the Spirit are as follows:
Love
Joy
Peace
Patience
Kindness
Gentleness
Goodness
Faith
Meekiness
Temperance aka self-control
Righteousness
Truth
(Honesty)


Against such their is NO LAW!


I discovered within myself on my Christian walk thus far.. on the issue of fear.. or faith vs. fear, is that I must have to be pure, in order not to fear.
Like, if I am dealing with fear of some sort, I have to know within my own heart where I stand, and then stand.
I have also learned this, because to be honest I have had sex outside of marriage (Lord Knows)
and I have learned what I think so many people maybe don't think about?? or practice or see with thier spiritual eyes, is that, just because (I) like or "love" somebody, doesn't mean I have to have sex with them.
Not even if I want to :)
Simple as that.

I don't understand why people become so jealous, lustful, envious, etc.. the Bible says that men lust to envy... meaning, they love to look at what other people have and get jealous / envious of what someone else has and want it for themselves. Maybe its sex or lust related, maybe its material, or monetary..... but the only thing that will EVER bring your Human earthly soul the kind of satisfaction a soul desires and longs for comes From GOD ALMIGHTY.
That is the Truth.

Some people think Money can answer everything, it can't... Solomon may think so.... but it can't love you. In fact.. quit trying to get love and just love! Love the LORD, love yourself, love somebody that needs it!
'Cause we all do!!! We all need love, every single on of us.

God is Love

Everybody needs God.



God is LOVE~
Everybody IS Loved... so let us love each other. And quit being so stinkin' envious..
We're supposed to love like Jesus Loves US... Love always trusts... Love always believes the best about someone (opposite of oppressing someone)

which brings us back to the beginning of what I started this with.

So instead of passing judgement on your neighbors, Love them.

Love them and let them Be!

LOVED!