Shea Brewer

            Matthew 5:12  Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Rejoicing in stressful situations is so hard, but with our focus on God, it is possible. Rejoice Because You Are Blessed When…. You recognize your need for God. You mourn, especially the spiritually lost or for the darkness on earth, God will comfort you.  You express a humble attitude, patient endurance, “Gentleness” with frustrating situations/people. You pursue righteousness, long to please God in all things= supernatural joy and abundance. Show compassionate treatment to the distressed, especially when you could…

50 Commandments of Jesus #3 Follow me—: Matthew 4:19. Jesus said, “Come, follow me and I will make you fishers of people.” ” Hey, how you are you doing today? “ ” Oh, my back hurts, my allergies are killing me, stressed at work, not great.”  How many times do we respond with, ” Sorry, to hear that, I hope it gets better soon. “ Then, we walk away.  I started a new job a little over 3 weeks ago. Part of my new job is that I have to do cold calls into businesses. I walk in and out of businesses all day long doing my tap dance and song…

 #2 Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled Let not your heart be troubled— John 14:27 It says “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”  John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” Matthew 6:25-26 Do Not Worry 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and…

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1  The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1: 14 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’  Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’ Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house…

  “Mom, can you send me our insurance; I got pulled over by a police officer.”  Through the cell phone, I could hear the police officer somewhat apologizing saying he normally does not give tickets for just 3 miles over but it was a school zone. When Slade got home I looked at the ticket and the police officer had written it for 23 over the speed limit not just 3 miles over as I had heard him say. The ticket noted a day to appear in court, so I decided to go with Slade to be a witness to the mistake and to support him.  When we got to…

Yesterday, I was in Target with my daughter. The store employees moved the graphic tees to the corner on 3 almost unreachable shelves. The t-shirts were tossed like fresh clothes out of the dryer. The rock T-shirts mixed with television shirts and so forth. Trying to find a size and themed shirt was near impossible. Why on earth they tucked them in a corner in such disarray right before school starts back is beyond me. Braxton and I began organizing the chaos as we searched for a few. Upon doing this a judgmental lady came by with disapproving non-verbals. I woke up thinking about yesterday’s t-shirt colossal. I have noticed…

My mom called and said “ I have to tell you my dream, but it was gruesome, see what you think it means.” Dream: She was walking a calf and all of the sudden it collapsed. She tried to pet it and when she did, the head fell off and rolled into a ditch. She screamed for help. Everyone asked what happened. She did not know but everyone was freaked out because there was no blood at all in the calf. It was as if the calf never had blood running through its veins.  I was unsure if the dream was symbolic or had a personal application. But this morning…

There have been times in my life where God reminded me to pray for those who have hurt me, offended me and ignited anger in my heart. In those times, when I obeyed the Holy Spirits prompting for me to pray for the unlovable, sometimes I felt like a hypocrite, a liar because as I prayed, I still felt ill will towards them.  I continued daily to pray for the one that ignited negative emotion within me. Through that obedience to pray for the enemy so to speak, to bless the enemy and to pray for a transformation, something happened. He not only changed the offender, but more importantly he…

After David betrayed his solider by committing adultery and impregnating Bathsheba, the psalm of repentance Psalm 51: 1-19 was written.  It was only after the prophet Nathan called out his sin, that David truly went to a place of acknowledging and feeling sorrowful for his sin against God.  He did not finger point to Uriah the Hittite, Bathsheba’s husband, blaming him for being away at war. He did not blame Bathsheba for be a seductress, exposing herself while bathing or for being lonely. He could have made a million excuses. But David recognized the magnitude of his personal sin. He repented and took the punishment through the death of the…

I have started reading my one-year bible again, one day at a time. We are in some strange times. With the pandemic, the Ukraine thing and Russian threats to cyber security which could affect electricity, food supplies, water plants and so forth, we need to know the word. We need to get closer to God, now. We must be spiritually ready for anything and so close to God that we can hear his voice in the sea of those wolves disguising as sheep.    So, I felt led to read the bible in its entirety again, to make reading a priority again.  I have read the bible many times through…