The Lordship of Jesus is abundance in every area of your life including your health and finances.
A few weeks ago, we studied about the Lordship of Jesus.  
Today, I want to give you a few other areas where making Jesus Lord of your life is very important and most beneficial to you as a believer.
All the promises in the bible can be summed up into four basic categories.

1. Salvation for you and your family. 
2. Healing for your spirit, soul, and body.
3. Family well being
4. Prosperity for all of life and this includes your pocket book.

We're going to study about how making Jesus Lord of those areas in your life can help you.
Salvation: Acts 4: 12 tells us that salvation is only in the name of Jesus. You may need to read before and after scriptures on this. Look also at Acts 2:21, Acts 4: 12 and Mark 16: 16.  To understand salvation, read my article here.
Healing: 1 Peter 2: 24 is a very popular scripture to use when you need your healing.
Consider also Psalms 103: 1 - 3 and Isaiah 55:11.
Family Well Being:  The first 14 verses in Deuteronomy 28 spell out family blessings.  Who couldn't stand anymore blessings in our families, right.  You know, the family is God's institution. And satan, your enemy, can't stand anything that represents God.  That's why he fights to destroy our families so hard and so much.  Stand up to him for your family.  You may be the only Jesus your family see's.  Stand up, we're here to help you.
Prosperity: this covers every area of your life including financial prosperity. For a revelation on financial prosperity, study Proverbs 10: 22 and for general prosperity study 3 John 1: 2.
Now, you need to know that you can't accomplish any of this without faith.  So, I don't want to just drop you off right here, telling you these things are available to you without telling you how to get them.
Faith: the word says in Hebrews 12:2 that Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith.  The word of God can seem like a never ending maze of disappointments.  But I'm here to tell you that God has a plan for you that will pluck you right up from the miry clay (things in life that pull you down like quicksand and keep you there or worse, drown out your faith) and set your feet on a solid rock of wisdom, and understanding, salvation for every area of your life and so much more.  Trust Jesus to set you on His path of prosperity for your life.  You won't have to fight your way through a daunting maze only to give up because you can't seem to get anywhere.  It will save you tons of heartache and it will build your faith as you go along.  To help you get started on faith, here's a few more scriptures to look at:  Romans 10:17.  Be sure to drop by Hebrews chapter 11 because we call this the believers hall of fame. There is a solid rock for your feet to be on for every need in your life.  Only faith in Jesus and allowing Him to put you on His divine path for you will get you there. 
Before I close, I want to remind you that going over these scriptures daily will help build your faith to the point that you will be unstoppable.  And if you ever have any questions or you get stumped on anything about the word of God, please contact me.  I will get back to you asap. 
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In His Service,
​La Donna

Live the life that God ordained for you. Choose to live in the blessings of God today!

​We’ve all read stories where Dad creates this mega business that he hopes to one day pass on to his son or his children.  Basically that’s what God has done. He created the universe, put plants and animals on it and then created mankind and gave it all to us to take care of it.
And somewhere in the history of this thing, back before the creation story, one of God’s angels, Lucifer, now known as satan, was found to be full of pride and the word says that God vehemently threw him out of heaven to earth. He set up his evil worldly system designed to kill, steal, and destroy. ​Once God placed man here, in the Garden of Eden, God gave specific instructions on how to live. He told Adam and Eve to not eat the fruit of a particular tree (scripture does not say it was an apple) because it would expose man and all of creation to satan’s kingdom. And not just expose us to it, we would become subservient to it, owned by it, and trapped in it with no way out.
As many of you know, Adam and Eve disobeyed God when they chose to believe satan’s side of the story.  Using deception, he convinced Adam and Eve that it was actually okay to eat the fruit of that tree.  That’s why we should never practice deception for any reason, especially to get our own way.
Adam and Even could live here on this Earth and never see, touch, or taste of the kingdom of darkness - not even be bothered by it- if they had of just obeyed God.  But they didn’t.
At this very act of disobedience, many scholars believe that our precious planet tilted on its axis, We became subjected to earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, natural disasters, etc. For the very first time, the heart of man would taste of death both spiritually and naturally. 
Also in this act of disobedience, man became a lost soul.  No longer did we have fellowship with God but we also lost our relationship with God as his children. 
So, how does Adam’s and Eve’s behavior affect us today? Consider Romans chapter 5 with emphasis on verses 12 and 19.
Rom 5:12  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Rom 5:19  For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Lets look at another verse.  Romans 3: 23 says “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” That means we don’t look much like God in our spirit man, we don’t act or think like him either.
So, you see, through their sin of disobedience, it caused all of us to be born with sinful nature, a nature that rebels against God, no longer children of God, no longer citizens of his glorious kingdom - partakers of all that His kingdom offers the born again. 
We may not can see satan or his kingdom but we witness its destruction everyday: a loved one dying, school shootings, our children being doped up on drugs, divorce, starvation, poverty, sickness and disease.  All these are brought about by the hand of satan himself.
Does man have to live like this now and forever?  Are we doomed to this kind of life with no way out?
The answer is no, man does not have to live like this or be in bondage to the kingdom of darkness. Because of God’s great love for us, he had a plan ready and waiting.  That plan was to give us a choice.
God’s kingdom has been viewed, by many, as sort of some kind of dictatorship - it’s my way or the highway.  But that is simply not the truth.  I hope at this point, I really have your attention.
​Rom 5:20  Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
You see, grace is your answer to all your problems.  Meet every problem with grace and watch things change for the better for you and your loved ones.  How does this affect our loved ones? Well, your family loves you and it does their heart good to see you doing well.  Mom's, we are the strength of our families.  We can only be strong in the Lord, co-rule and co-reign with our husbands and God by understanding what grace is, how it affects us, and how we are to apply it to our lives.
Before I close, give me your ear for a few more minutes. Grace is not a license to sin. Rather it is your strength and right to say no to sin, to choose not to be a part of it, to not touch the things of darkness.  Let that sink it, think about that this week.  Grace is your right to choose the blessings of God and subsequently to refuse the curses of satan.  Choose wisely, choose carefully. 
Join me next week for more insight into God's grace.
                                                                                                                            

To understand the Lordship of Jesus, let's take a look at what the dictionary says about the word Lord.
According to Webster's New World college dictionary 4th edition, the word Lord basically means one having great power and authority; a ruler, a master. So, let's talk about making Jesus that Lord with all of his power and authority.
Many of us hear talk about trusting in Jesus and we don't dig in to really understand what this means for us. For many, words like that seem real but only for others, and not themselves. This is primarily because they think they have already done so many bad things that God would never want to spend time with them or do anything for them. That is a lie the enemy has sold folks generations over, and the people have bought into it, hook, line, and sinker.  And still do to this day. 
Listen, if you are one of those that thinks that way, let me tell you that just the opposite of that is true. Gods tender mercies are renewed everyday the word says. So there's no excuse, just open your heart to God, invite Jesus in and simply say, show me Lord, teach me.
There are tons of things we can trust to Jesus and I want to talk about a few of those things in this blog today. 
Trusting anything to Jesus is in fact making him the Lord of your life in that area.  When you begin to see  the Lordship of Jesus, how victorious he can make you in one area, you'll begin to open up in other areas. So, if you've never made Jesus the Lord of your life, start with these areas.  As an added note, look up the extra scriptures and read them out loud (faith comes by hearing). When you stay focused on these scriptures, you increase the strength of your foundation (why you are believing in this stuff in the first place), and you increase your strength to continue to believe in the Lord and his word.

1. Salvation: John 3:16 / John 10:10 / Galatians 3:13
   For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotton Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
   If you have believed on Jesus, you are currently trusting your salvation to Jesus. You are trusting that when it comes time for you to cross over, that Jesus will be there and will lead you in the sweet by and by.  And you can and should believe this even in the rotten here and now, AMEN.
   Coincidentally, standing on the word, trusting your everything to Jesus  happens in this same way.
2. Freedom from sin and shame: Romans 8: 1 (read through verse 6)
   There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
   You make Jesus Lord of your life when you believe and live your life according to the things of God, like when making your decisions, the Lord will nudge you which way to go. Those without Jesus, will continually make wrong choices because they don't have Jesus in their heart. Even for those who do, they may stop at salvation thinking that's all there is to this God stuff. But that is just so far from the truth. God will always be there to help you, but you must come to him.
3. Blessed & Prosperous Life: Proverbs 10:22 / Psalm 23 / 3 John: 2
   The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
   Just about anybody can describe the difference between a blessed life and a cursed life. Make sure you know the difference. If you need help with that just look at Deuteronomy 28: 1 - 14 to see what a blessed life looks like and then look at verses 15 - 68 to see what a cursed life looks like.
   Yeah, I bet you want that blessed life, too. So, when you trust your personal decisions like who you should marry, hang out with, where you should live, and work, to Jesus, he will bring you into that blessed life and man what a life! Give it a try. For a really good look at a blessed life, be sure to read the 23rd Psalm. With all the drama that has plagued our world, who doesn't need some peaceful and still waters in their life, right!
4. Victorious Life: 1 John 4: 4 / 2 Corinthians 2: 14
   Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
   We cannot defeat this mortal enemy of ours on our own. It takes having Jesus in your heart, his word in your heart, in your mouth, and in your hand (to wield as a sword) and you must know how to use it. This takes time to learn these things, to learn to trust Jesus and his word so start today.  Trusting your life to Jesus will not remove challenges, trials or tribulations from your life as the church once taught. I don't know, maybe by and large some denominations still does. But that is ignorance, it's pure foolishness to teach that or to believe it.  To see why I say this, look at Ephesians chapter 6, read about the weapons of our warfare. Now, why would God put that in his word if we didn't need them? Exactly!!! Learning the word and trusting Jesus to perform his word will always-always-always cause you to triumph in Jesus' name. In Jesus, you can truly say, I love a good challenge and say it with the expectation and full assurance that you will win every time. 

Jesus is neither overbearing nor dictatorial in mannerisms.  He will not push himself on you or anybody else.  You must go to him. Starting a life in Jesus may seem daunting but really it isn't when you take it one step at a time, one day at  a time. Dismiss thoughts that you can't obtain the things of God or that it's too late in your life to do this. It isn't. We are here to help you not only get going, but to help keep you going. 
What areas do you struggle in to trust the Lord to take care of you?  Let us know how we can help you, just contact us. 

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Stay tuned, I will be posting more on the Lordship of Jesus.
In His Service,
La Donna