HELEN SANDERS
6-19-2026
BE DEPENDENT NOT INDEPENDENT

There seems to be an independent spirit in our country. People think they are self-made, and need no one but themselves to be successful. How sad. The very God that gave us life has been put up on the shelf. We wouldn’t have a chance in this world without Jesus.

He must look down from that shelf and weep. Yet, from the cross he spoke “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

Things that go against God in ignorance are one thing, but when people deliberately shut God out of their lives it is a dangerous place to be. We need God in our lives my friends. We need to be dependent upon Him for everything we do. He said He would send the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth, but only those that have asked Jesus to be Lord of their life have the Holy Spirit within them to guide them into that truth.

We may think we don’t need Him, but without Holy Spirit guiding and directing us, we fall for every lie of Satan. Just like the serpent, Satan, spoke to Eve, and said if she ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that she would be like God— everything that Satan has to offer is counterfeit.

Adam and Eve were already like God. They were created in the image of God, and therefore they were like Him. He breathed into Adam, and the breath (pneuma) of God was in him.

There is nothing original with Satan. He is a liar, and a counterfeit. God is the creator, not Satan. We must look to God, since he made us, and always be confident that through our dependence upon Him, we will be successful in all that we put our hands to.

If you are depending upon yourself, it is time to change, and make Jesus Lord over your life. You can’t go wrong with God’s plan, since he is a know-it all.