When we feel good we stop complaining and looking for a fix from others. We have no need to boast of ourselves because the joy and love begins to come naturally. God made us, He redeemed us and we have God’s promise so if anyone or any circumstance tell us what is contrary to God’s word we can have confidence, knowing it is not the truth. The responsibility of caring for us is the Lord’s. Our responsibility is to believe in, follow, receive from and trust in the Son of God. He is our provider of housing, clothing, and food. As Spirit-filled believers who seek His direction for our lives, we are assured of these things in God’s word. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. God did not send His word for us to fail in Jesus. In fact God always tempts with blessings and never tempts with evil. How does God test our faith? He gives us an opportunity and says, "Now do it." If we choose not to we end up going through the learning cycle again and again until we come back to faith. Until we move in faith we will always through different circumstances come back to the point we walked contrary to His faith. God doesn’t teach us with curses, for example making us sick or taking away our money to see if we have faith. Those things are perversions created to destroy us. Rather He gives us a blessing so that we may move into what He has created us to be, do, and fulfill.

God offered Abraham a nation if he gave up his son. That wasn’t a curse but a blessing and Abraham met the challenge. Jesus met a similar challenge at the cross. God told Him, "If you give your life I will give you many lives." Now Christ says, "I give you that life and I give it more abundantly." What is more abundant than the old life? A new life that feels good and is content, that has found the peace and joy of the Lord and that is able to be that consistently.

Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

This doesn’t mean we thank Him for the bad things of this earth. We are to give thanks to God with psalms, spiritual songs and hymns in our hearts. As these melodies come out we become a praise unto the Lord. We don’t have to be distracted anymore. We can break out of that negative mold for we are the people of the light. We are resurrected and able to speak to ourselves with the creative power of Jesus Christ in psalms and hymns. This is our thanks, that we can have an avenue of escape from the old patterns of death, which is not complicated, nor does it require great talents. It is a simple choice of praise. He gives it freely so we can know and thank Him for the reality of His presence. No one needs an abstract, distant God but rather a real one. We need a miracle-working, powerful God that is right here and is able to destroy the things of this earth that are disturbing us. We need to be saved from the world. The world is the problem, not God or us. We can give thanks, for God has called us out of the world. He has made us to feel good when everyone around us is overwhelmed with sorrow.

So far we’ve established that we can neither fix anyone else’s bad feelings nor have them fix ours. So if we find ourselves bound up in a distraction, the action we need to take is to put our minds back on the things of God so we can begin to give thanks and have a relationship with our heavenly Father again. As the spirit of God begins to fill us up and we are in communication with Him we feel good. It doesn’t matter how much we know about God and His word because He is the one doing it and He’s not looking for any personal qualifications. He is the only one that can do all things. Now the Word says, "Giving thanks always for all things unto God in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ." The Name of Jesus is a very powerful tool that God has given us and there is only a certain sect of people that can use His Name. They are those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life. There is only one Name in the book of life and that Name is Jesus. If we have received that name there is much to be thankful for. Distractions make us forget our name and the abundant life that comes with it. We know Jesus is not sick, poor or sad. When we give thanks, it is in the name of Jesus as He is the highest praise unto God. There are many things of this world we’re not to give thanks for, but we give thanks for all things God has given us pertaining to life; those things which are Christ Jesus.

It doesn’t work when we heap everything in a bucket, saying to God, "Wow, this is my life and I’m giving thanks to you." We have to do it in the name of Jesus because in His name we are healed and we are delivered. In the name of Jesus awesome life, changes manifest in this earth because His name is the name above every other name. There is nothing to give thanks for but that name and the things that are in His name. Giving thanks for bad things is nothing but a bad habit of feeling sorry for ourselves, trying to con God into feeling sorry for us. We can’t con God. He knows our every thought and motive. We’re not to continue trusting in the temporal things this earth has to offer, or in our own lives which are also temporal. Trusting in our own lives to produce good feelings just won’t work. Rather, we’re to Trust in the Spirit of the living God, giving thanks, centering ourselves back on the cross of Jesus and His life more abundantly. That is the reality of our joy and peace and is the only thing that really matters. We don’t cling to the idea of money, material things, or other people as the factor that will make us happy. We ought to be happy because we are born of God and already have all that He has, because, we are His heirs—joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only one who is truely trustworthy. We must seek those things that are in Christ and hold on to the truth and reality of what He is and what He has bestowed upon us.

Eph5:21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

He cares for man because man is an instrument He created. What happens when man is isolated from man? Man is not complete in himself and becomes emotionally low. Yet when God created man he also created the way for him to live with positive emotions. There is a precious part of the Spirit of the living God that manifests in our lives when giving thanks and singing praises. At these times we begin to love one another in the Spirit of truth. We realize it is not about the things of this earth or the things we desire, it is about what God has created and the way He created it. As we begin to function together in the body, fulfilling what God created us to do, love starts flowing out of us naturally. It is easier to feel good when we are in a group than alone. Take a moment and think about when you were growing up. You naturally sought out others because man was not created to be alone, as that is a perversion of God’s plan. Being alone was designed to force us emotionally low. There are many people alone and hiding from others. Why? Because lies and fears distracted them and became a life-controlling obsession which trapped them in bondage within themselves. God did not create anyone to be by themselves or to be on their own. He made it a necessity to be a part of one another. God created us to be the instrument that is the fullness of His purpose in His creation. The creation of man is a function of the power of God’s word and that word is what will cause the Spirit to manifest in this earth as we are willing to submit one to another. As we do that we find the anointing power of God manifesting naturally. What we want is for God to operate in our lives naturally, not artificially. People are so busy trying to recreate peace, joy, and love that the simplicity of what God created us to do naturally, has been not understood and forgotten.

As we seek and follow God’s will, the standards He set for us, our reactions will naturally start becoming praise unto God. We will naturally give thanks unto to the Lord, submitting ourselves one to another. The truth is we are all the same and require one another in order to feel good in corporate worship and naturally flow in our Creator’s fullness. In order for God to fulfill His purpose in this earth He must be omnipresent, therefore He needs all of us. The only way for His presence to cover this earth is in the bodies of men all submitting one to another in His purpose and Spirit, being a praise unto God, giving thanks always in the name of Jesus for those things that are Christ Jesus. In doing so God can touch every alley, city corner, house, street; farm, field, every place we find ourselves. There is not one of us clever enough to put ourselves where we need to be for God to use us. He does that and the more as we submit ourselves to God. It becomes natural to seek out one another giving comfort, strength, or whatever is needed as only a Spirit filled believer can. God doesn’t need scholars. God needs willing vessels to be filled with His Spirit. God wants us, He does! He doesn’t care about our education, looks, or bank statements. He doesn’t care about any of the things of this earth that we think make us happy. God does want us to feel good, but not with the requirements of our desires, but His.

Psalms 37:4 "Delight thyself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."

When we delight ourselves in the Lord the temporal things that once were so big… are not so big after all. If God is truly the center of our lives, God will always be ok so we will always be ok. It doesn’t mean we’re going to be ashamed or fail because we won’t. Even if it looks like we’ve failed it won’t happen because God will resurrect us. We belong to God, we are His creation, His gem, an object of love that all of creation in heaven, earth and under the earth can see. Our heavenly Father is captivated by us, He loves us more than any other creation, for in us He is fulfilling an eternal purpose.