What if you woke up every day happy to be alive? What if you woke up every day glad, really glad, to go to your job? What if you woke up every day thankful for the God-given wife you chose above all the rest? What if you loved your children and were just as excited to kiss them, feed them, clothe them, and provide a warm, loving home for them just as much as the very first moment you saw them at their birth? Wouldn’t it be great? Wouldn’t it make life easier if you were always “up”? Do you possibly even think you’d be more successful at —- everything!?
What if you looked at everyday as a gift from God – Who always has your back?!
2 Timothy 4:18
The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
YOU CAN!
My friends: this is not only what life can be – but it is what life should be! Why? Because in all things we are to live in honor! One of the most important ways of living honorably (and this only can be done as a child of God, of course) is to be ever-grateful to the One who loved you when you were yet a sinner and now – as a His child – He blesses you more than you can possibly know! And this is exciting!
WHAT IF YOU WOKE UP EXCITED EVERY SINGLE DAY BECAUSE: YOU CHOSE TO BE AND STAY EXCIED!? After all, God cannot lie!
Selah.
Beloved, think of the changes this choice would make in your life, today, tomorrow, every day until you go to your eternal home – Heaven. Be grateful now. You see, it is finished – ΤΕΤΕΛΕΣΤΑΙ!
God made you a new creation – a new species – you have passed from death to life!
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.
Jesus did take your sin: forgiving you and forgetting them all!
Psalm 103:12
as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Isaiah 43:25
“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
What’s that? He took your pain, suffering, transgressions, iniquities and your wounds too?!
Isaiah 53:4-6
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
What about your God-given family?
Philippians 4:19
And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
Psalm 37:4
Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Acts 16:31
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Rejoice! And be exceedingly glad!
ΤΕΤΕΛΕΣΤΑΙ! IT IS FINISHED!
Choose every morning to wake up EXCITED! Be glad! Be thankful! Choose in advance to be excited! Be excited about everything God has done: everything He has done for the entire realm of mankind! And for you! I challenge you! You will see the momentum of excitement change everything for the better! Jesus is with you and He will never leave you nor forsake you as you continue in Him! Have a planned, everlasting attitude of excitement of what God has done, is doing and will do: this will usher in joy unspeakable!
Herewith is one simple suggestion on how to begin waking up excited – by choice:
“Now I lay me down to sleep, the blood of Jesus gives me peace. In the morning when I wake, the devil, he will squirm and quake. As I speak the good report, my enemy cannot retort; he is filled with wrath and shame, he is a fool and is insane!”
CLAIM THESE:
Philippians 4:7
and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Revelation 12:12
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
Satan’s time is short!
Your peace, joy, love and victories are eternal!
Growing up in a home without the love for God, an invalid father, heavy financial hardships, and tremendous (sometimes dangerous) discord is always difficult. Add on to that extreme shyness, a feeling of inferiority, and some may think this girl was rejected. But God’s hand was on her and His heart was for her. Today, Ann Marie Turner has performed many great services in Jesus’ name for the love of God and man; and for herself! She has ministered in the male correctional for over ten years. Along with this website, Ann is the author of Joy Stories, Volume One and The Free Incarcerated Man. Writing about the joy of the Lord and the victory that is available for a willing soul is one of Ann’s now greatest joys! Ann’s prayer for you is to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony. Celebrate the God of the Bible and your personal victories in Christ unceasingly! Revelation 12:11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.