Unlock Your World With One Simple Key!

This is my first blog.  I really don't know what I am doing, but here it goes anyhow.  Recently my mother went through open heart surgery to repair a valve and to stop atrial fiberlation.  I would stay with her twelve hours during the night and my dad would stay with her during twelve hours during the day at the hospital because she could do very little for herself and was very sick.  After the surgery, which was successful to repair the valve but failed to get rid of the atrial fiberlation, my mother had many sleepness nights.  On one of those sleepless nights my mother began to talk about "God" things.  She has not only been my natural mother, but my spirtual mother as well.  This particular evening as we were in Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas she began to talk about her favorite scriptures and began to tell me what was really the most important thing in life.  When you are lying on a death bed I guess many people begin to look at their lives retrospectively.  They think about what was truly important, which seems to get so little attention in our day to day lives, and think on what was so unimportant which, for some reason, seems to take almost all of our  focus.  She began to tell me when anything arises in life go to the word (Bible).  All of our answers can be found there.  She then began to talk about how our love walk brings about how well we use and see results from the authority Jesus has given us (faith works by love).  When she said this it reminded me of a time when the Lord taught me a valuable, yet very simple lesson .  I had been running errrands on this particular day.  I had turned into my driveway, shut off my car and began to fumble for my house key.  As I did the Lord reminded me of two scriptures.  One was "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost."  He then spoke a second scripture to me.  "I have given YOU the keys to the kingdom."  I have heard these scriptures all of my life, but never fully understood them until that day.  He asked me, "What do you think you would look like to your neighbors if you walked up to the door of your house and began to scream at your door NOW DOOR I COMMAND YOU TO OPEN RIGHT NOW!  I OWN THIS HOUSE AND EVERYTHING IN IT.  YOU OPEN NOW AND SO I CAN WALK THROUGH AND HAVE ACCESS TO MY HOUSE AND THE BLESSINGS THAT ARE WAITING FOR ME INSIDE!  He then asked me, "What if  you cried and wailed and rolled on the ground begging Me or for Me to send someone else to open it for you?"'  Of course, you and I know the door is not going to magically open.   I told the Lord, "Well Father nothing would happen!  It would remain closed and I would remained locked out.  I would also look pretty silly since I have the key in my hand and could simply unlock it, turn the knob and walk right in and enjoy all the blessings (air conditioning, refrigerator, TV, computer, personal library, etc.) of my home!"  What He spoke to me next shook me!  He said, "My children do this all the time!  They cry and beg and get angry at Me for not giving them instantaneously what I gave to them through Jesus My Son over 2000 years ago.  They want someone else to get them free, bless them, heal them, give them peace, take away every stronghold and anhialate them when all the while the key to all of this is in their hand!"  You cannot receive what you already have!! You have to UTILIZE what you have!   At that moment I recognized myself from years past.  The times I questioned God with all kinds of whys and why nots.  My answer was I had not used my key!  Today if you are going throught difficulties whether it be your health, the health of a loved one, financial need, hurts, woundedness I encourage you, precious friend, to use your key of authority!!  Don't be confused and angry with God.  He has already given you the victory through Christ Jesus and YOU hold your key to the way in or the way out!  My mother was discharged from the hospital the next day and is living in better health and getting better everyday!  Thank God for the reminder of that valuable lesson because the outcome could have been much different!!!  God is faithful to all and you are no different!  God loves you as much as everyone else and don't let that silly devil tell you otherwise!  Have a blessed day, all day!