As I lead praise and worship on yesterday, Sunday December 4, 2011 under the warm gift of the s-u-n and S-O-N from the Creator of Creation, I must shout hallelujah once again! God never fails me! It doesn’t matter how bad I may feel- sad, hurt, brokenhearted, or grieved, once I begin to present my body as a living sacrifice for my Lord to use me for His service, that all vanishes for He is truly the lifter of my head!
    
I just want to encourage everyone great and small, black, white, red, yellow, or brown; Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, or Non denominational; Muslim, Mormon, Catholic, or Christian in the fact that the Creator of the universe loves us so much and He desires our praise! It is my prayer that we all come together and lift up the name of Jesus- the Son of God who died for our sins, who is the only way to the Father, who sits at the right hand of God interceding for us daily, and who will come again to claim us as His own. 

Lift Him up with our lifted hands and voices across America and across the world singing praises to our God who is Holy and requires us to be holy. For holy is the Lord God Almighty and the earth is filled with His glory for all to see so no one can say there is no God. The heavens declare His glory and the earth His glory! So let us lift up holy hands, shouting to the Lord with the voice of triumph that He is our God, the One True God and He shall reign forever!

It is my prayer that all of God’s people (His entire creation) will truly accept the gift of eternal life by asking Jesus the Christ into their hearts for real, for real,  that there will be an obvious transformation apparent in their lives that will bring glory to our Creator! I am praying for the Christians also. I see way too many people who proclaim to have accepted Christ living according to the flesh! Absolutely no good fruit on their tree because a tree cannot bear both good and bad fruit and a fountain cannot contain both bitter and sweet water and neither can we serve two masters.

Therefore, it is my prayer that all of those who proclaim to be God’s people to begin to act as such and concentrate on building up their spirit man to be able to withstand every wile of the devil. If you have accepted Christ, let the world see your transformation by being in the world but not of it! May we all be blessed to praise our Lord with our entire lives and worship and honor our Lord with our life style.  

Amen? Amen!

This has been a ministry moment of: 

Cynthia Lazaro
Co-Pastor of First Watch Ministries