God is Pleased with Me.

Have you ever gotten a "Word from God" through another person? Someone, maybe a relative, or friend or sometimes even someone you barely know, or don't know at all, will be praying and receive a word from God to tell you. This happened to me recently, my sister and I were talking on the phone, and she told me a word that God spoke to her to tell me. It was short, just a few lines, but in it He told me that:"HE Knew where I was at." That He was" pleased with me",And that" He would meet my needs from unexpected sources in ways that I could not conceive and that I would know it was from Him and Him alone." I cried when my sister told me this, she followed up with a email so I could print it out and read it over and over, which I have. Every time I read it I cry, I mean the God of the Universe sees right were I am at, He knows my innermost thoughts, He feels the emotions that I feel, and He will meet my needs by miracles, so that I will KNOW it was HE who meet them. Wow, what a God were serve. But then just this morning I re read this and guess what? There it was a line in there that I had read but not read. He was pleased with me? How? I stumble, I have things in my life that are not pleasing to God. How in the world does he have pleasure in me? All of a sudden I was so humbled, so in AWE, so grateful, so wanting to bow before Him and praise Him more. God, is pleased with ME> Yes looking back over the past 6 months or so, I have had a deeper desire to do the things of God, to serve Him more, to concentrate on Him more, this post is all apart of that. But to have Him say that "He is pleased with me" is just more then I could ever imagine. Another thing He said is that he is so glad that I have drawn closer to Him. I am pretty glad also, it feels so right. My whole attitude has changed lately. Because I made a decision, a definite decision, to seek more of Him. I will admit I did not like the way I saw my life going a few months ago, and I decided to seek more of Him, out of desperation, but it doesn't matter, I still sought Him. Luke 2:14 “Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.” The question comes to mind: How do we please God? The answer is easy, seek Him with all your heart, soul, and mind. But the easier answer is to just do His will. Talk to Him (pray), you don't have to use all big 5 syllable words, He understands what your saying. Just talk to Him like He is your Dad, because He is. And then the most important part, the part I forgot for many years, Listen to Him. He may talk to you through your thoughts, He may talk to you through someone else, like He did to me recently, He may talk to you through His bible as you read and study. But He WILL talk to you. BUT you have to be in a position to LISTEN. Unlike allot of TV and Radio preachers, God never yells, His voice is "quiet and still" Some have even called it a Whisper. To hear Him, you have to be still and KNOW HE is GOD. Why would you listen if you did not believe that? You wouldn't . So God told me He is pleased with me, now what? Easy I want to please Him more. When I was little and I helped my Mom do something she and sometimes my Dad if he was around, would smile and say "Thank You, Chris" you helped. This made me so happy to please them, I wanted to do it more. I am praying that I please God more, that He will send along things, circumstances, people ....in my life that I can shine His Glory, and please Him. I want to serve Him, to make Him happy, to worship Him. I want others to like me, because they see me pleasing Him. I want people to come up to me in everyday life and say: "What is it about you? You seem so happy, what's up?" "God told me I pleased Him, how can I be down?" I know there are many many people in this world that please God, I know that. But when God tells you that you are pleasing HIM, it means something. It is a pat on the back by the coach after a good play on the field. It is a promotion at work for a good job done. It makes us want to work harder, and please our Father even more. Let's all go out and please God. Let us work at pleasing Him. Others will see who we are pleasing, and who we love and serve. They will want some of what we got. I struggle with trying to please myself, more then pleasing Him, but that is what He is working on in me. And telling me I am doing a good job, is one way it is working. Now, I need to stop doing................because it will please Him some more. Remember, who is it that we want to please? Go out and serve Him today.