May 11, 2020
Brother,
I hope and pray all is well with you and your family today.
"Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart " - Psalm 37:4
God created vast universe, beautiful earth, and us human beings who have intelligence and can think. God also give us freedom to live our own lives. However, because of our selfishness, greed, lack of love, jealousy, hatred, prejudice, favoritism, we hurt each other, we are unable to have happiness or bring happiness to others.
God love us and want us to have happiness. God know how we can have happiness. God, by coming down to live as a human like us in Jesus, show us the way to happiness which is we have to forget ourselves and ask God to give us love so we can love others around us. If we ask God for what we want, God often not give to us because what we want are selfish. But if we ask God for what God want like helping us forget ourselves and give us love so we can love others, God will give to us without delay. Not only show us the way to happiness, God also set an example for us.
God, through Jesus, lived his life on earth forgetting self and loving others. Jesus traveled around to tell us the way to happiness. Jesus suffered and died being nailed to a cross to set an example of forgetting self, and to want us to come to God so God can give us love. If we forget ourselves, we are no longer slave to our selfishness, greed, jealousy, hatred, prejudice, favoritism and therefore no longer hurt others around us. If we love others, we bring joy to their lives and as a result we feel happy too. When we live our lives the way God want, not only do we have happiness in this life, but eternal happiness in the next life too.
Forgetting ourselves get rid of all the times we think of ourselves, of what we want, of how others have hurt us which take us away from reality, make our minds tired, make us suffer.
Forgetting ourselves alone doesn't bring us happiness but is a necessary step. The next step to happiness is love. We can get love from thinking about God. When we think about God, we know and feel love and when we ask for love, God then give us love. If we don't think about God, we are not going to know or feel love. When we forget ourselves and have love from God, it's like we lose ourselves but gain far much better, happy selves.
Let us pray, Dear God we pray for happiness. We pray that we have a cheerful heart. We pray that others are drawn to our happy smile, our positive attitude, and our face that shines with joy. We know that you have created us and everyone else to be happy, to find joy and laughter in the different stages and experiences of life. W pray that we express You in our expression of joy. Our outlook will be positive, and we feel happy. We feel so good as we release the joy of God from within and share it with everyone we meet today, tomorrow and always. We continue to express God's eternal, loving presence within us. We pray, daily, that our cheerful heart up lifts us, and brings joy to everyone around us. We ask all of this in Your Holy and Precious Name - AMEN
Have a Blessed day and week.
Please stay safe and strong out there today, tomorrow and always.
Remember I am there for you in thought, prayer and action - 24x7.
Have a blessed day and week.
Love Your Brother and Friend in Christ.
Michael
215-272-2740pm
PS. We will once again have a teleconference call on Thursday, 5/14 at 7:00 pm.This is call is open to Everyone. Below are the details. Join your Brothers from all over the world as we all strive to get closer to HIM and to each other and become BETTER men of God
Participant Instructions
Provide your dial-in number (701) 802-5357 and access code 792205 #
Host Instructions
Dial your dial-in number (701) 802-5357.
When prompted, enter the access code 792205 followed by pound or hash (#).
Press star (⋆) to enter the host PIN 9564 followed by pound or hash (#).
Tip: Dial *9 and 1 to record your call. Dial *9 again and 1 to stop recording.
