Doing it God's Way                                             

                                                                       With Reverend Michael Cartwright  

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"Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the Lord delivers him in times of trouble

 So that's what you think about me?

Just like you, depending on our age,  we each have  hundred's of life experience's that we each have that we can share by glorifying God by being a blessing to others. 

I have literally fallen out of my dad's car while my dad was driving on the freeway and my father literally drive over me as I fell underneath the rear tires and God protected me with no broken bones or serious injury.

I have seen a young man killed at a gas station in a driveby while I was standing at the gas pump.

I have been the victim of knife and bat attacks, all documented, and in each one of those situations God was with me and kept me from serious harm.

The Lord will protect him and preserve his life; he will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desires of his foes.   Psalm 41:1-2  

I have seen God bless me and my family financially again and again with perfect timing when we turned to Him for help, from $100,000.00 to $1.00.

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above." James 1:17 

God is bound by His promises to bless us again and again.

There's not one person who has ever walked this earth that someone else has not spread lies about, including being a victim of malicious gossip, rumors, or false witness.

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was perfect in every way, and still He was a victim from religeous leaders of lies and false witness.

"He said to them, "you are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight." Luke 16:15

May we all be blessed with knowing that everything that we do is for God's glory. So anytime we think we want to hurt someones reputation. Remember we dont answer to each other, we answer to God Himself for our actions.

If we live to be a hundred years old, may we always know God's truth, that the moment we make the choice to judge another believer, we have just brought God's judgment down on us and none of us are worthy to be judged by God.

When someone is being blessed, it is not up to you or me to sit and have a conference with other people and decide if God made a mistake.

So what ever we think of someone else, God knows that we really dont know that person, just like they dont know us.

The truth is there are many situations, moments or slices of our life that can be twisted from the truth to make a person seem negative in some way or another, including yours or my own past experiences.

The truth is God has promised that their will be adversity in each of our lives, how can we have great faith in our lives if we do not have nothing to have great faith for in our lives?

"Don't be bewidered or surprised when you go through the fiery trials ahead, for this is no strange, unusual thing that is going to happen to you." 1 Peter 4:12  

Why does adversity happen?

God knows that He has never left me one time and has turned everyone of my experiences that I call some of them the fires of adversity into a blessing and has triumphed over everyone of them and led me to total victory just like He has in so many other people's lives.

To be continually blessed, we have to always keep it real and recognize God's truth...

We are either blessed or cursed by the choices that we make each day.

And God is bound by His promises to bless us or curse us by our choices.

So lets make a decision to be blessed by the way that we think about others,

That everything that is happening in our lives as well as in all others is for God's divine purpose.

That in every moment, all of us are under construction spiritually to be shaped by the Master so that we can be used to glorify His Name. 

God does not want you to live a life of mediocrity.

So the next time you find yourself hanging around others who are trying to get you to judge, label or gossip about other believer's, which in truth is trying to take away God's glory by being a obstacle to God's Will and a curse to you.

"If you don't change your ways and give glory to my name, then I will send terrible punishment upon you, and instead of giving you blessings as I would like to, I will turn on you with curses. Indeed, I have cursed you already because you haven't taken seriously the things that are most important to me." Malachi 2: 2

Remember God's truth and hang around blessed people of great faith who don't judge but love all others, who have "walked the walk" and "talked the talk" on showing you and your loved ones on how to gain God's favor, protection and blessings throughout your destiny.

Glorifying God in all things is His Way to put your life at the highest level.

God Belives in You