Where Is God Now Ministries

There was a time when we heard, “Swallow your pride.” it was thought to bear shame. Conversely, no one wanted to swallow their pride. It admitted some type of weakness or wrong doing. Even now, this is how the world and culture look at swallowing pride.

In God’s upside down kingdom we do not act and think like the world and culture. As a result, we take on the mind of Christ. Moreover, we see things through God’s viewpoint. Therefore, it is often the opposite of how the world functions that we live in.

Proverbs 8:13 reminds us to hate evil. For evil is born out of pride. God hates pride and arrogance. It spews out bad fruit which evil behavior and perverse language is some of the bad fruit we see.

From God’s point of view swallowing our pride is a good thing. Further, it saves and protects us from self-destruction. Some of us are so deep into our pride that it is difficult for us to see and understand this. Satan wants to keep us blind and deceived by the ways of God.

Swallowing our pride helps us to remain humble. It helps us to walk in humility before God. Yet, one of the best ways we can stay humble is to remind ourselves we are sheep. Sheep are prone to wander and get lost. They need a shepherd to lead and guide them. Our shepherd is Jesus Christ. It is why we are called Christ-Followers. We swallow our pride to stay close to the Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Amen. Love & Blessings!

Where Is God Now Ministries, Inc, is partnering with Highmark Residential Communities to have a food drive for residents at Woodbridge Apartments, 717 Hunters Bridge Drive in the Greenbrier section of Chesapeake. This food drive will help with our pop-up food pantry for Woodbridge Apartments on Friday, August 21.

Inflation is up. Gas and oil prices are skyrocketing. Grocery prices are up including beef, poultry and fresh fruits and vegetables. Further, shelf-stable goods are up, too. Where Is God Now Ministries believe we can help ease some of the burden by bringing food to them. This will take some stress off of transportation of going to the store and making purchases for food.

We can collect refrigerated and nonperishable foods. So we can collect eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables as well as can goods, pasta, rice, can meats, cereals and more. Non-food items are being collected, too! Toilet tissue, paper towels, toothpaste, deodorant, and anything else needed to survive in a household. Your monetary donations make a difference, too!

Our collection dates for this food drive are Saturday, August 15 and Sunday, August 16. Send me an email to come and pick up your items for one of these dates. Of course, if you want to drop your items off at my garage door you are welcome to do so. Your financial donation is tax deductible! Just go to the “Donate” on www.whereisgodnow.org to help.

Jesus taught in His parable when you help the least of these you have done it unto Him (Matthew 25:40). This is a call for us to help and to be proactive in our efforts! WE are the hands, mouth and feet of Jesus on the Earth. We reflect Jesus through the Holy Spirit when we help others. It is humbling knowing that Jesus is working through US!… Amen.

Thank you for your continued love and support.

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Love & Blessings!

Gwen  

We love Jesus. Without Him we would be LOST! He gave us His all. As a result, we have eternal life because of Him. Moreover, we have an abundant, victorious life on the earth when we choose Him!

In Matthew 7:13-14 Jesus talks about the narrow and wide road. I believe when we read the words of Jesus in the Bible, everyone needs to stop and pay attention. Jesus never wasted His words. His words were significant.

Therefore, when Jesus was describing the narrow and wide road, He was describing our eternal destination. The narrow road is described as a humbling road. We deny self and selfishness. It is less popular and few find it, according to Jesus. Conversely, the wide road is described as popular and an easy road. Further, this road relies on self. It seeks self satisfaction.

Upon further description, Jesus talks about our eternal destination with both roads. Although many do not realize it at the time, the wide road is really destroying people. It is self destruction. Because people do not rely on God, they destroy themselves. The narrow road seeks God. It leads to the supernatural fruit God offers us to live our lives beautifully on the earth. This road ends with eternal life with Him after seeking Him with their whole heart.

Jesus did not mix words when He talked. The beauty about being a Christian is we get to choose. We choose the road we want to follow. Therefore, we choose the lifestyle we want to live. Will we choose the narrow road or the wide? The choice is ours. Amen. Love & Blessings!

God weighs our hearts. He weighs our hearts by the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the Fruit of the Spirit, and other means. Therefore, God looks at our hearts. Salvation is of God. God will give us a new heart of flesh. Not a hard heart.

Going to church is not enough. Conversely, being baptized does not save us. Yet if your heart is right, the rest of you will be right. Your heart will not want to hurt the heart of God.

Repent of sin. As a result, you will change your way of living. God will help you when you repent because you cannot do it by yourself. It is a supernatural mystery of God. Still, if your heart is open God will change your heart. Further, you become a new person. Moreover, you start choosing the narrow road and not the broad road of this world. It is the transformation of your life.

Acknowledge God publicly in your life. Have no shame about who you are. Undoubtedly, be the Christ Follower you have accepted in your life. The Holy Spirit will be your constant help in this process. You are never alone. Amen. Love & Blessings!  

Surrendering to God is where our promised land is on the Earth! God has promised and given us all that we need to live an abundant, victorious life. Therefore, it is up to us to choose it.

Psalm 95:7- 8 reminds us we are God’s people. It likens us to sheep in God’s pasture and when we hear His voice we should obey. It warns us not to harden our hearts. When we disobey God it becomes more difficult for us to hear Him. As a result, it hardens our hearts.

This is a testament of God’s love for His children. So, not only did God give us His only begotten son (John 3:16), through His son He gave us an abundant, victorious life on the Earth (John 10:10). However, we have to choose it. It is a supernatural occurrence when we do. It is in the spiritual realm of our lives. Moreover, it is a process we can participate in daily.

As a consequence of obeying God’s voice, we get more of the blessed life. Even when trials and tribulations come, we are blessed because our focus remains on the Shepherd’s voice. We hear Him in the supernatural. We trust the Shepherd will not lead us into danger and harm’s way. Although at times it may appear that way, we know that God has a plan. We trust God! Love & Blessings!

When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior we are called to a higher plane. Constantly, Jesus spoke spiritual things on the earth. As a result, we as Christians take on the mind of Christ. We should be living in the spiritual world as Christ and most of the New Testament talks about.

We know this walk is a supernatural walk in the spiritual world. The Holy Spirit helps us in this. He is our Helper. In ALL things, if we seek Him. The Holy Spirit is Christ’s spirit. These are things we do not readily mediate and utilize in our life. We think about it as an afterthought when it should be a forethought.

God asks us to shake off some people, places and things in our lives that would hurt or harm us. Even Jesus instructed the disciples to shake the dust off their feet when they were not well received by people and places they visited (Matthew 10:14, Mark 6:11, Luke 9:5).

Therefore, when we shake off people, places and things in our lives, we are relinquishing productiveness in our lives. We are setting ourselves free from toxicity, burdens, emotional turmoil and more of Satan’s schemes to kill, steal and destroy from us (John 10:10). When we are sleepy Christians we do not recognize these things going on in our lives. We think it is just life. Conversely, it is the enemy who comes in many shapes and forms.

Trust God. Whatever He is asking you to shake off, He always has something better to replace it. Again, it is in the spiritual realm we will be able to see the things God has for us. The subtitle of my book, Where Is God!?, is Blessed Are The Pure In Heart For They Shall See God. God said when our hearts are pure towards Him, we will be able to see Him in ALL things. Once more, Trust God. Love & Blessings!

The first place Satan likes to attack is our mind. Our mind is the center of our behavior. Therefore, this is where our choices, beliefs, and emotions originate. Because of this, Philippians 2:1 – 11 invites us to take on the mind of Christ. Yes, we, Christians, are to think like Christ. Moreover, we are Christ followers so we act, do and think like Christ.

How much we think like Christ reveals our surrender to Him. It is one thing for us to say we are Christ followers, it is another thing to think and live like Christ. Of course we cannot do this on our own. It is a supernatural occurrence. Undoubtedly, we have to rely on the Holy Spirit to help us every step of the way.

Satan is the one who leads us into sinful actions. Notice I said lead. We still have authority over Satan. We have to decide if we are going to cooperate with him or God. Satan has no authority over us unless we give it to him. Imagine that, we surrender to Satan instead of God. That is what happens.

The battle of obedience to God is won and lost in the mind. We have to allow our brains to be rewired. We have to decide who we are going to obey. What influences command our attention. Is it the things of God or the things of Satan? Even when we attack ourselves, that is of Satan. God does not cause us to turn on ourselves.

Christ teaches us how to be selfless. This is truly where our happiness and joy lies. We as Christians learn life is not about us. It is about us magnifying and glorifying God. Jesus teaches us how to do that. We must humble ourselves to take on the mind of Christ… Surrender. Amen. Love & Blessings!

On behalf of Where Is God Now Ministries, Inc., we thank YOU for your monetary and food donations during our food drive for the residents at Broadlawn Park. We partnered with the Chesapeake Redevelopment Housing & Authority, who manages this, of many properties, to serve their residents.

These residents were blessed with ground beef, ground chicken, chicken, pork, beef, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables, box meals, canned goods, among other food items. In Touch Ministries provided their Messengers, audio devices, to provide spiritual food. It contains messages from Dr. Charles Stanley and the reading of the Old and New Testament.

Your individual, business, corporate, and foundation donations were tremendous. We couldn’t have done it without YOU! Additionally, the Chesapeake Police Department joined us in serving and giving out food to the residents.

This is God’s work when we are the hands, mouth and feet of Jesus on the Earth! It is how God gets His work done… through US! Jesus said anytime we provide for the least of these you have done it unto Him! (Matthew 25:30). This means we are serving Jesus directly… How humbling is that!? Enjoy the photo gallery. Click on any picture to see up close.

There is nothing new under the sun ( Ecclesiastes 1:9). Although we consider it a cliché, Solomon’s quote is a timeless idiom. It describes how history and human experiences repeat themselves. Solomon was wise enough to realize that, even in his day.

In the same way, when we talk about the word love, it has been seen over the years to be a cure all for many of our physical, emotional, and mental ills. Paul talked about the Fruit of the Spirit when he wrote his letter to the Galatians. The Galatians were having trouble getting along. Does that sound familiar, given what is going on in our world today?

We know the Fruit of the Spirit consists of joy, peace, gentleness, patience, kindness, faithfulness, goodness, self-control and love ( Galatians 5: 22-23). I believe love is the glue that holds the other fruit together. It is as if they all anchor on LOVE. Without love it is difficult to produce the other fruit. Of course, we know these are supernatural fruit that is given to us by the Holy Spirit

When Karl Mennenger, a lifelong Presbyterian and American psychiatrist, stated, “Love is the medicine for the sickness in the world.”, it really was not quite a new quote. Even though he said it in a different way, we can surmise the Bible influenced his life for him to make such a statement. For those of us who are Christian, I believe we would agree with his statement. Needless to say, if we all operated in love, it would be like a medicine for the sickness in the world.

Finally, the second half of the Mennenger’s quote is sad, but true. It appears when love is given, not many people accept it. Strange? That is because Satan also has an influence that some people choose to take. Satan wreaks havoc in our lives. We give him authority without even realizing it. This is how smooth Satan can be. He kills, steals and destroys (John 10:10).

In conclusion, Mennenger’s quote is timely and true. It has a Biblical influence, which reminds us there is nothing new under the sun. Once again, when we keep our eyes on God and apply His practices and principles in our lives, we too, can use the medicine of love to cure many of our ills. Amen. Love & Blessings!

Who has the loudest voice in your life? Whatever has the loudest voice in your life is the loudest influence. Is God the loudest voice? Does Jesus influence you? Are you listening to the Holy Spirit?

The Bible says we, as Christians, are to take on the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). Therefore, in order for us to take on the mind of Christ we have to know what did Jesus says. Moreover, what did Jesus do when He walked the Earth? For we know that Jesus was God in human flesh. Further, Jesus said whatever the Father does, He does likewise (John 5:19). This was Jesus demonstrating His intimacy with the Father.

Jesus should influence everything we do. This is why we are Christ followers. If we are doing otherwise, it means we have taken our eye off of Him. We represent Christ on the Earth. If we love Christ we will follow His commands (John 14:15). We cannot do this on our own. Even now, we need the Holy Spirit’s help to do this (John 14:26).

God wants intimacy with us. It is not enough to go through the motions of going to church. God is seeking an intimate relationship with us through His son, Jesus Christ. Undoubtedly, it is a beautiful relationship to have with God. Because of what Jesus did on the cross for us, we can have this wonderful relationship. The Holy Spirit will bring to our remembrance the things of God and Jesus. This is why this relationship is so special.

In conclusion, pay attention who is the loudest in your life. So, if it is the world and culture, you will find yourself easily taking on those things. Conversely, if it is Jesus and God, you will be reflecting their character in your life. Likewise, you will have the Fruit of the Spirit oozing out and delighting yourself in the Lord. These are the influences that bring us peace and rest in our life. These are the supernatural things of God that we live by. Amen. Love & Blessings!