TRUTH on DISPLAY

 

True Christians recognize their dependence upon their Creator. They have every reason to express gratitude for God's blessings even within the communication which came by the sacrifice of Jesus and those, the true, will not desire to put Him off no matter what life may dictate!  Truly our desire should be to hear Him……..for it is by this grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, a decided plan and purpose in life for His glory was given by God's purpose for man! Within the influence of our Lord Jesus Christ, we maintain the walk which is the preserved from evil and is only good.

Responding to the love of God for us, we quickly receive His decided plan to do at the specific time, the specific place & toward the specific person. Jesus took on His assignment and saw it completed. He did not balk at God but carried a cross to a destined hill. In Jesus, we have redemption. Yes, we are the redeemed and we speak it out! We are the redeemed from the clutches of the powers of darkness. " Ephesians 1:7-12 NKJV  In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace, 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth---in Him. 11 In Him we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.

God's plan is unchangeable!

We praise God for His blessings He has bestowed on us who have a relationship with Jesus Christ, the Son of His great love! We give thanks for those blessings that are activated by the precious Holy Spirit our Comforter. Amen.

WE are Justified: It is one thing to believe that we are forgiven, cleansed & redeemed but it is another to believe that it is just as we had never sinned in the first place:2 Corinthians 5:20-21 NKJV 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 

Yes, God does not impute our trespasses to us. He put them on Christ. God's grace is now....and we are to enjoy that redemption given. God looks at us & sees His Son’s blood. Reconciled to the Father by the blood of Jesus, we live in His kingdom according to His rule of truth! We are made new and we are moved out of bondage from sickness, pain & disease!

 We are the Sanctified: Each of us as a believer is now a special vessel set apart for God. It is only by the blood of Jesus that this is made possible. We can walk the straight & the narrow path because He made a way where there was no ways!

Matthew 7:13-14….NKJV  13 Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate & broad is the way that leads to destruction,& there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate & difficult is the way which leads to life & there are few who find it.

We must hear God’s word & abide in it that is, we apply it to our hearts for growth: Growth represents sanctification, which is the formation of God's image in us by living His way of life empowered by His Spirit. What we do with the seed is "work[ing] out [our] salvation with fear & trembling" (Philippians 2:12).

Seen is our growth when the sum of rain, sunshine, weeding, fertilizing, takes place in our lives. When those things occur, then the potential is great for fruit to appear. Sanctification is worked out through application, by living the doctrine, that Gospel delivered by Christ Jesus.                                                                                

By the Blood of Jess, we have perfect peace. Colossians 1:19-20 NKJV 19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 & by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him whether things  on earth, of things heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

In our lives, battles appear, but the outcome has been determined on Calvary: "It was through what His Son did, that God cleared a path for everything to come to Him – all things in Heaven & those on the Earth – for Christ's death on the Cross has made peace with God for all by His Blood.

WE have access to the throne of God! Jesus' Blood made possible our complete reconciliation with the Father in Heaven. Covered now as in the Blood of Christ, we are like the high priest who was invited to enter the Most Holy Place –without being struck dead. We are reminded of this in:Hebrews 10:19-21 NKJV 19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new & living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil. That is His flesh, 21 & having a High Priest over the house of God.

The testimony is this: John 1 John 5:11-13 NKJV 11 and this is the testimony that God has given us eternal life, & this life is in His Son. 12 he who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, & that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

                                                                                                         

You and I have opportunities to testify to that Blood of Jesus Christ! In Christ's Blood, we receive life that death cannot conquer. Jesus has established a new covenant through His Blood, & He intercedes on our behalf to enable us to enter more fully into His Blood covenant with us:  Romans 8:34-36 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, & furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written; “For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.                                                                                                    

We partake by giving full worth to Christ’s redeeming work to this action. It is activated by faith, a trust in His redemptive work on the Cross. In that we partake in His full forgiveness and we receive full acceptance in Him, His full power is released to us in restoration, in strengthening us and in healing us!

In that Forgiveness, you and I have been forgiven through the Blood that Jesus shed when He gave up His life. "...Without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" Hebrews 9:21-22 NKJV 21 Then likewise, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

 Jesus introduced us to a new life to live in Him. He represented the kingdom of God sent by the Father. In Him, we enjoy life by His standard of living. In that we recover in health and breathe out for His glory a praise that others will hear! We bring it from the secret place we spend with Him. In that time we receive dreams, and we receive that which we thought was dead has now at this moment been made alive again. We find an existence that is made of His love. In His presence to hear Him speak we take account of the life given to make this moment possible to us.

I hear some today are experiencing “Ground Hog Day” every day, but for us, we praise God for His blessings He has bestowed on us who have a relationship with Jesus Christ, the Son of His great love! We give thanks for those blessings that are activated by the precious Holy Spirit our Comforter. Amen. 

We are walking in sunshine, we have our sights set for our future with our Lord and that future is a bright one indeed! Our belief is "right" in Him. It is always seen as living right in righteous behavior with righteous actions producing godly fruit!  Jesus told us this:Matthew 7:16 You will know them by their fruits. So yes, we will know others, those of the body of Christ by their fruits produced. It is within those fruits ones life will show what they believe. 

Are our actions set for God or are we turning aside desiring God to also turn aside for our whims or what we are believing outside of Him?  Redemption was given in that purposed by God and it was for righteousness sake! And in that redemption we gained a new birth, we gained a new walk in the spirit and not by the flesh creature....and it is holy living by God's Holy Spirit ( Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-26). 

We have been given weapons for proper use in this walk: 2 Corinthians 10:4-7, Ephesians 6:10-18 and Colossians 2: 6-10. You and I are to pay attention that we do not follow after deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. ( 1 Timothy 4:1) We are the redeemed to walk by faith with truth in the Lord.  As we deepen into the knowledge of the Lord, we do not discard it, but may we be truth on display. May we give detail to the kingdom of God, where eyes are opened, and false doctrine is stopped. May the internal beauty of Christ, the Author and Finisher of our faith be seen for in His person is where the vital faith rests that guards us until that Day of His glorious return. Hallelujah!

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SNOWTALS???????

SNOWTALS!!!!!

WAS viewing the Weather Channel recently for the word out from a local T.V. station that there was a storm producing extreme measurable proportions for snow, wind, and ice coming out of Canada and headed for Washington by the weekend. When your local T.V. station anchors and meteorologist starts blowing off the particulars of such events and yet the governor of our state declares a specific warning, I take note immediately of that situation spoken about. I then certainly resort to those "in the know" about such major events! Yes I sat before the T.V. viewing forecasts of Snowmeggedon!

So I start my confessions of having God's wisdom: James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him, 6 but let him asking faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. Then I am reminded of Jesus and His disciples....you know where Jesus comes walking on the water....Mathew 14: 22-33 and Mark 6:45-52.
I start speaking that my husband and I will speak truth and not the world's wisdom, and will ask the Lord regularly for His rule in that day for us especially those kind of things that affect large populations and travel.


Then I hear this man from the Weather Channel mentioning "snowtals"......and I am thinking and asking myself" what is snowtals"?
 After a a couple of minutes of rewording his sentence, the Weather Channel meteorologist spoke the word expressing the accurate word was....... actually "snow totals" for this big snow event headed for the Northwest Region of the U.S.
Oh, okay, now I am with you.....and the man continues to mark out the specific areas impacted by heavy snow and those with winds, and ice.

I pay attention to this and mention to my husband when he gets home from work what was coming down out of the "north".  And then the next day, early on that Friday, we are outside with our dog looking over some small amount of snow that remained from a previous small event and our neighbor asked if we had heard about "Snowmeggeddon" on its way and we spoke in unison, "Yes".
Of course, my husband and I stand with God and His word in those promises.....when... such things occur for the those whose travel is on roadways effected by such horrific storms. So throughout the week for work, to get groceries, visit family or church, we are thanking the Lord for safety to cross over as the Hebrews did over the Red Sea and away from Pharaoh and his army. We were well armed and ready to take that stand with our confessions ready to display before that which was headed toward us out of Canada.

Certainly we must know God's provision in His word to dispel any darkness within our own thinking that has been instilled by a culture of changing systems regularly. Still the devil has in place his system that brings captive those who are ruled by lust of their eyes, the lust of their flesh and the pride of life. And within that system, Eve and Adam bought the farm of life without God, without His rule and to scratch out a living. And the devil sets no captives free!
In Matthew 4:4 we find Jesus speaking to the devil " man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds of the mouth of God".

The devil presented his world and the beauty and sweetness that he could generate being that fallen one from God's presence:Isaiah 14: 12 How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!" 13 For you have said in your heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.' 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. 16 "Those who see you will gaze at you and consider you, saying: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms. 17 Who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners.

Yes, the devil has in place his beautiful kingdom to hold captives in that place of fleshly living! They are so many places to travel and embark on never before seen sights, tasting new foods that still appear alive since they are crawling on your plate, and oh yes, those really exotic styled vacations that exhibit clear light blue oceans, sands with bugs you cannot see or the parasites you knew nothing of till you arrived home to find a flaming red mark consistently moving from the bottom of your foot to your thigh. Yikes!

What taste does our stomach hold out for? IS it the word of God we search for diligently or for that far away trip to isolated beauty of third world counties with their own troubles. Heard recently of someone who went to Africa to visit family and a friend and came back with ebola virus!  Now that is no good time or trip. I wondered how many they, the traveler infected with that disease on their plane ride home.

YOU and I certainly should know God's word in this day and time. And should confess His word regularly. We are to ask the Lord for His leading and to find those things He planned or purposed for us, not only as individuals but for the body of believer's as well. 
YOU may not encounter the meteorologist who knows it all and will not give any more time to giving accurate weather. YOU may not encounter snow or high winds or ice, but you will encounter others who travel oh so freely to third world countries to bring back those terrible diseases, flesh eating bacteria and well, exotic morals or the lack of them.

OUR Father God desires us to live for Him and for His glory and within those parameter lines have surely fallen to us in pleasant places. (Psalm 16:6) Let's not waste our time or love on things that kill but spend time with Him who brings life to us and others we may meet. Seek His rule and leading and you will find those who actually give you accurate weather and snow totals, actually give you truth and not some twisted lies of deceit. Our faith in God is not that of "wishful thinking" but it is of the devoted heart seeking His words of life for today and every day.
He never changes. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Amen! So whatever the storm, circumstance, or maybe even sickness, still He is here, is alive and is ready to hear you call.....

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Once Saved Always Saved!?!

If going without the Lord
a ladder may not always be handy!

What? Once saved always saved, no that is so wrong in so many ways!
Our walk is with the Lord, not with the world, and people on a whim can drop whatever is worthwhile and go after that which brings no life or light to them or anyone else.
My husband and I were talking about this very subject yesterday and was telling him of the responses I had heard. He told me he had watched Ask the Pastor on Friday before noon, while I was preparing to teach, and he said this question was asked, again, once saved always saved!?!

When born again, our walk is with Jesus seated on the throne of our hearts! In that we are led by His Holy Spirit that directs to the very things Jesus spoke while on this earth. In these many years I have been alive, I have seen many leave a church but also leave the Lord. In their hearts they chose to worship someone or something besides the Savior, the Redeemer to the lost!

Jesus said this in the book of John11:25-26 NKJV 25 "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me, shall never die. do you believe this?
In looking up the meanings of these words, this was the event to bring us back to spiritual truth and to have moral recovery. Now if you have ever gone through any kind of operation, you can find there is a time for recovery. It is not instant on the spot, and you are back on track, living pain free life to the full. Although we can believe for that still our bodies have some time of recovery, so too our spirit man was be brought to life to be born again into the things of God. That is, we are to find His ways and His thoughts and walk that way.
So if you were born again, ten years ago and walked out to do something else without regard to God, His Son Jesus or to your life forever, then you have walked your own way, doing your own thing and of which we know is destructive indeed!

Surely God has His plan, and His ways and truths are not burdensome. Jesus said, "My yoke is easy and My burden is light." (Matthew 11:30)
We are to be coupled with Him as two oxen in a yoke for plowing. For in this daily togetherness, He declares the way and light of the morals we are to have for useful and protective life. Of that which pertains to Jesus, is the easy way truly to go and walk daily!

Proverbs 3:17 tells us of the wisdom of God. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 she is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who retain her.

Now retain is to hold fast. So if I followed my sister up a tree and found her laughing every inch of the way, I surely wanted the same laughter to come back down. But alas, I was not the tree climber she is or was. I wanted to do that, but for her it was a game, something of ease but spelled something totally different for me. I had to wait for help when someone hopefully would bring a ladder to aid or assist me down the thirty foot tree. Yikes!
Following after someone or something is not good at all! The only one we should follow and be excited about is following Jesus, the Son of God, who was resurrected so that we might have life everlasting.

Now there are things safe to do outside of climbing trees, like hiking, or swimming or even playing golf. But those things must be kept as exercise and not as a God to us. Now of course, my sister was being herself at age 6 who loved trees, and great heights. She love to stand in red ant beds and see them crawl over her feet. Yes, she out grew that thing, and today serves the Lord not looking for ant beds, but looking out through prayer for those who might be running down the wrong path, moving away from Jesus and just looking to live like the world.

God surely wants us to enjoy our life and He will give us those righteous desires when we delight in Him! Psalm 37: 3-6 NKJV tells us this: 3 Trust in the LORD and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. 6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the noonday.

God's  justice is supreme in power in authority as well! It is His truth that penetrates through of the excuses we can make about either our conduct or just bad attitude! But we must understand that it is all measured against His truth. It is so important for us to see His standard of truth, the very word of God as the path to follow and in having a true desire to live by faith in Him, then we see and recognize His very sense of justice.

So the entire picture of following God is paramount. Reality is God's justice and verses 4 through 6, that a committed person will  delight in the LORD, will set His standard of truth in their heart, and begin to see justice appear as the noonday in their life.

If delivered from sin, then why go back to the sinful life? That good life, that where the precious pearl is found in Jesus, the manifested Word of God

Once saved always saved........that is used to find an excuse to do whatever the flesh creature desires. The person with a heart for God will truly remove their wants out of the way to make room for peace, joy and love of God for themselves and their loved ones. May we truly stay within the Word and see His justice revealed for us and our families. May we truly desire to see our justice come as the noonday when we follow truth having moral recovery from sin and find the love we were meant to know. It is more exciting to follow Him in an adventure of faith than to follow someone say like up a tree and cannot get down without some assistance. The Lord will keep us in that place that is safe for  us and within this relationship we will see the effect of the permanent change that is for the positive in our lives! Amen.

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Unequally Yoked

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2 Corinthians 6:14 -17   NKJV
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
 17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you. 18  I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty.”

Now when I heard this taught, yeah decades ago....I remember the "pastor" tying it all up with the husband and wife teaching. (see Ephesians 5:25 and Colossian's 3:19)
Yet this passage has nothing to do with husband or wives, but as a believer with another believer or a believer with an unbeliever.
In closely yoking ourselves with others, we must be aware that we do not compromise integrity or our faith in God.
In verse 15, the mention of Belial has the meaning of worthlessness or lawlessness.

Understanding we are the temple of God, we are not to defile that temple in any way. Individually we are the living place for the Holy Spirit to reside.
God desires to be our Father. He desires us to know how richly He has life for us. In that abundance we have everything we need.

In those tales of the Old West, I remember visiting an old west town. It was in Arizona. I also remember that even the stage coach that was displayed for rides, was evenly hitched with the same kind of horse in size and weight. You certainly would not want a horse on one side of the team and a donkey on the other side to make a team.

To be a part of a family, one participates with the Father's way of being and doing. In idolatry, we become what we worship. Whether it be in watching zombie flicks, war movies or games, or even those that combine zombies, war and magic together. Yikes!
As a part of God's family, we must be in spirit and in harmony with His nature, which the Bible reveals. Knowing God's true nature is important because we become what we worship. 

So when we take a real look at what we spend some substantial time on: does it add up to more violence or more peace?
I have noticed of late that those which I considered "safe" to watch no longer follow the PG 13 or even PG rule anymore. ( not when nudity appears in the first 5 minutes of the show, etc.) 
Anything false and misrepresenting what they are showing is corrupt. And that false representation highlights that group desires to sneak in the wrong thing to make a buck!
Should we begin to idolize a certain show, character, and the "nudity" appears, what is your response?
If we idolize, we become the wrong thing.

So, if we spend extra time with an unbeliever, or one who exhibits ....say....a worldly attitude...do we remain with God and His peace or do we see how far we can stretch out and touch something that should never be touched.

Psalm 38:12.....They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

They also seek after my life lay snares for me. Malice in deed.

And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things. Malice in word.

And imagine deceits all the day long. Malice in thought.

In looking at what we once desired to look upon, spend time doing or just to relax in front of the TV or at the movies, would we consider Psalm 38?

Now the adversary cares not what you do as long as you stop spending time with God, being devoted to God and worshiping Him!

Ungodly behavior is not what a believer participates in. Living our lives and conducting them in the fear of the Lord honors Him and keeps us in quiet places and quiet rest. Check to see if anything in your life is that which degrades you. Allow the Holy Spirit to guide and lead you through anything which corrupts you.

Thank God, He did not choose us by our strength or ability or even good looks....but we remember His grace is for us. He is our sufficiency.

2 Corinthians 12:9   NKJV   And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

That infirmities in verse 9 has the meaning of malady, sickness, and morals. So whether in sickness or of weakness of morals, we need God to direct us.

When your character comes under fire, know that God knows. And He has given you His resource that makes "holy living" possible. He provides the way through and out of anything that the adversary may be presenting that is destructive to you.

Proverbs 13:20 ...NKJV ...He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed. 

Finding those to be equally yoked as in fellowship and even ministry, we are admonished to be connect with those who will encourage us into better behavior, not take us down or lead us into lustful situations.

Amos 3:3.....Can two walk together, unless they are agreed? 

 Proverbs 13:20.......He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed. 

Proverbs 22:24-25......Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man do not go, lest you learn his ways and set a snare for your soul. 

This last one is even a verse that we speak over our grand-daughter as she is in grade school. We speak this over her that she will not desire to go with the angry or the furious one. Let's consider that we make the choice every time we put something before our eyes and put into our hearing. Filth will only multiply into more filth, but consider this that the more wisdom of God we put in, the more His wisdom will rule our hearts.

Don't get yoked with a donkey!

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Rings of Gold

Proverbs 11:22..........22 As a ring of gold in a swine's snout,
So is a lovely woman who lacks discretion. NKJV

Without character....yes, a woman  without discretion is compared to a sow with a gold ring! But I found other things while looking over this passage and was intrigued and taught much about it.
Yikes, am I trying to impress someone by getting the "extra work " done? Do I think I am the only one who can do it? Have I forgotten who is God around here? Believe me, I am one who tried to control a whole family. You know the comings, the goings, the eating times, the trips out of town, the party times, the family gathering times, and oh yeah, even when everyone needed to sleep. I felt like the control tower for an airport. No, seriously, I wanted everything just right. You know the right clothes, the right hair-do, the right time, the right-weather! Seriously, Shelley, the right weather..............well, you get what I am saying. That is why it is SO IMPORTANT TO STAY IN THE WORD OF GOD!

In ....2 Peter 2:20-22.... 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire." NKJV
Wow, returning to the "old way" of doing things.............not good .........!
It is literally one who turns from the clean to the unclean, the one "without taste" [Taa'am (OT:2940)]....one without moral perception, without morals, running after lusts that are filthy. But I also found that is also the word translations as a meaning for "fool".

Again, is it possible that one would try to flaunt that, " I am really good at my job", or "writing", or "raising children", or "exercising to sport at size 4", or "climbing the corporate ladder"?
Is it possible when the plea comes for whatever kind of help, am I the "only one who can do the job"?
We certainly can see the importance of God's Word when we are raising our children, for we have a book to guide us and teach us in directing our children to life. And when we read in Proverbs, we find much about "the fool".

I also found this in :Proverbs 12:15...............15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,

But he who heeds counsel is wise.  NKJV
Wow, right in "his own eyes"........
My daughter and I have had very little time together the last few weeks, for me, getting over "this fatigue thing" and she, well, a "a coughing thing".
Now we both are those who spend time in the word of God and prayer. We certainly have the "God of Glory" move on our behalf numerous times. But one thing is certain, and that is we need to heed the advice of the Holy Spirit when He says "to REST"!

We came to that "thought" over the weekend. We had a meal together and of course, it is always fun time with our grand-daughter. But from the time of our trip back East in the Fall, we took "No Time" to recover from such a long trip. And as you know your body will certainly tell you when it is time to stop and "do nothing"!  Right?
Well, long story made short, we both each had a choice. We could do things, the right way and in character with God and His grace or do things our way, and keep doing and doing and doing with no rest.
So, were we finding OUR counsel better than God's? I will let you be the judge!
Just like our children who should be raised in admonition of the Lord, we too, should continue to follow His plan for wholeness and goodness to us!
One thing is certain, we had a choice and chose the wrong way to walk. I tell you today to choose His plan that keeps you safe everyday. Just because someone needs you to go above and beyond today or tomorrow may not be in the best interest of you or your family or God's plan.
Keep in mind that we are always forgiven when we confess "being foolish" and thinking we know the best for ourselves.  There are many nice people out there in the world, and would love to have our help, but is it above and over the amount any sane person should try to do? Do we ask the Lord for His wisdom or do we like the stroke my fur kind of thing?
If we keep doing the same thing over and over, and the result is the same, then we should be asking, "Lord, what can I change today in my life that will help me do what You have asked me to do and not become weak in my body?" "Where Lord, am I missing the mark to write and pray and study Your Word and keep watch on my home and family as well?"
This is from my perspective and will different from yours. But "choose life" today!
Lord, I do not want to be like those who refuse to pay attention to You. Help me to turn my back on being stubborn. Help me to not make my heart like flint and refuse to listen to the words that You have sent by Your Holy Spirit. (Zechariah 7:11-12)

Father, today I thank You for Your grace to us. I am thankful for the Blood of Jesus shed at Calvary. I am thankful that I have a new day in YOU. I pray for all who read this and who feel that they have at times strayed from truth and YOUR guidance and chosen their own way to do something specific. Father, in Your Word, You define who is wise and understanding among us: the one who shows it by his good life, by deeds done in humility that comes from wisdom. (James 3:13) Deeds that follow You and by being disciplined to listen to instruction in being wise with our health. Today, I want to encourage others to follow YOU and choose life for their bodies. May they find "the security" that lies in knowing You KNOW the best for each of us. When our flesh rises up to make a "foolish" decision, may we quickly discern the threat of such deception and to walk in truth of what YOU show us to follow in righteous and peace. As Your eyes look into the inmost places of our hearts and minds today, please help us to allow YOU Almighty God to show us things we need to see and teach us how to be free from the attitude that we can do it ourselves. Create within us a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit within us. Remind us daily Lord that we are "not to trust our feelings and emotions" for they make terrible masters. Thank YOU Lord for hearing and answering our prayer in Jesus' name. Amen.

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