A wife was furious with her husband and out of anger she began to take his items and throw them out the house. She got his shoes, all his suits, ties, coats, and underwear. Setting everything she could manage to pick up and set it out in the front of the house.
When she could not see any more of his belongings, she marched to the garage and saw a container of gasoline with matches on a nearby shelf and infuriately walked outside to the front of the lawn, pouring gasoline all over the items.
She reached in her pocket for the matches and as she pulled the container of matches out, it read, W.W.J.D? She paused in tears shouting, “NO GOD! NO!, I don't like what you're telling me - he hurt me one too many times. Lord, I am not supposed to be treated like this. God, why?”
She fell to the ground heartbroken in tears, as she began collecting all the items, setting them in the garage.
My mind recaptures James 1:21 which says, "lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted Word of God which is able to save your souls."
This scripture is telling the believer to get rid of every corrupt affection, every prejudice, lay aside all sins which alter our judgment and blinds our mind. Anything that is dishonoring or defiling we have to cast it off. It continues saying whatever residue or remains of which are wicked that consumed us prior to converting, the day we announced Jesus as our Lord and Savior, lay it aside.
If you use to get so mad and curse people out, fight people at the drop of a dime, think about killing people, think about hurting others in any form or fashion we are drop that off at the door.
Isaiah 30:22 says it all so well, "you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, "Away with you!" A menstrual cloth is filthy. It has a stench like no other and all you can say is "Be gone, good riddance!”
James continues saying "to receive in meekness the implanted Word". Have your hands held out like a modest baby, ready to take hold of the moral perception of God which is already deposited within you; because the Word, the sayings of God is what will save you, keeping you safe, rescuing you from danger so you may live.
The woman mentioned previously might have had every right to be furious, but being a Christian, a child of God, disqualifies us from acting in any dishonoring manner.
Do you feel like you are at the edge? Are you feeling like any moment, "I am going to snap and that is it?" Are you aggravated because your life is irritating? Maybe someone has hurt you today. Perhaps you are fed up with how the world is treating you and are considering having a fit. Having a tantrum will not change the situation.
Consider receiving the Word of God. Allow his fruit to flourish; producing good stock not the expired, sour old stock. Pray to God to help you be willing to hear your faults and ask for forgiveness. Call upon the Lord to give you strength to jerk that stench of filthiness so the Lord may save your soul.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
The Change Has Come
As this year has begun, it seems as if I have so much to do and at the same time many people are experiencing a spirit of brokenness . My creative mind is growing within every second of every day, my husband’s work load increases daily, needing my assistance in various aspects and my children are growing needing more of my time. Outside of my personal life is my extended family, the ministry and church family. I can’t help but wonder, “What must I do in the midst of so much brokenness? How can I be available in my life when I have so much to do?"
My mind is captured by Proverbs 3:2-6 it says, “If you do this, you will live many years, and your life will be satisfying. Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”
This scripture speaks volumes about treating people with compassion and trusting God to direct thy path. It begins pointing out that in order to live a long life and be satisfied in your life, we must cling to being a dependable person as well as compassionate. Our expression of being reliable and kindhearted has to become our life style. These aspects have to be our very nature that it is strapped to our neck, deep within our heart. Once we have conquered being a devoted and most compassionate person then we will find favor with not only people, but God.
I can’t be a reliable person, someone you can depend on to listen to in your time of need, be there in your storm and turn around and be deficient in being compassionate. If I don’t have the two loyalty and compassion wrapped up within then I will lack favor from God and people. Being a person that is tenderhearted towards others and loyal gains us access of having a satisfying long life, favor among God and the people; in addition, to a good standing reputation.
The scripture continues in saying when we trust God with all our heart and don’t consider trying to figure everything out; while seeking in all our plans His will, He is going to direct us on the appropriate path to take. When we go to God and say this is what I know. I need your help Father, how do I execute this? How do I do what you want me to do according to your will in knowing I have all this to do? The Father will direct you in what to do first, next and last.
We have to be available to Him and empty our things to do and give Him our will; allowing His will to take place. In Proverbs 16:9 it says we can make our plans but it is God who directs them. Planning our day and even the months to come is great but we must honor the Father and let Him direct us. His direction gives us access to carry on.
Life is all about changes. Today someone died and their family is experiencing a sudden change, today some family had a divorce take place and change is being experienced, today someone lost their job and change is taking place, someone lost their house and change is moving about, today someone was told they have a life threatening illness and their family is experiencing great change, someone was raped or beat and a drastic change is taking place. Today a change is taken place in each home, each city, state, all over the world there are changes but we have to be willing to go to the Father and give Him our changes, kneel to Him allow Him to direct our ways so we may be sane enough to manage within the change.
When life is most constraining that is when we must be all so near to the Father. It is through Him we are able to get through the hard times. When we feel neglected, when we feel we are not being heard, when we are sick and need a healer, when our marriage is in shambles, when our life is like an ultimate shipwreck we have to be so close to God so He can keep us in His arms and carry us along the way.
What change is occurring in your life today? Do you feel you have so much to do that you are overwhelmed and bombarded? Are you stepping back from the Word of God because of your load? Are you looking to the Father in the midst of your change? Have you had your top management meeting with the Lord? Maybe you are so out of it that you don’t know if you are coming or going. Perhaps so much has changed you don’t even know what normal is anymore? What change has come your way?
Change is a natural part of life but in change it’s a season for each change. Consider not being in rage. Don’t allow the change to alter your focus on the Lord. Call to the Father to cool you off in your time of being sick and tired of being sick and tired. Pray to God to help you manage your emotions. Look to God to give you strength when you feel like, “I can’t take any more”. Don’t give up the good fight for the Lord is all so near and you are all so dear to His heart.
My mind is captured by Proverbs 3:2-6 it says, “If you do this, you will live many years, and your life will be satisfying. Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”
This scripture speaks volumes about treating people with compassion and trusting God to direct thy path. It begins pointing out that in order to live a long life and be satisfied in your life, we must cling to being a dependable person as well as compassionate. Our expression of being reliable and kindhearted has to become our life style. These aspects have to be our very nature that it is strapped to our neck, deep within our heart. Once we have conquered being a devoted and most compassionate person then we will find favor with not only people, but God.
I can’t be a reliable person, someone you can depend on to listen to in your time of need, be there in your storm and turn around and be deficient in being compassionate. If I don’t have the two loyalty and compassion wrapped up within then I will lack favor from God and people. Being a person that is tenderhearted towards others and loyal gains us access of having a satisfying long life, favor among God and the people; in addition, to a good standing reputation.
The scripture continues in saying when we trust God with all our heart and don’t consider trying to figure everything out; while seeking in all our plans His will, He is going to direct us on the appropriate path to take. When we go to God and say this is what I know. I need your help Father, how do I execute this? How do I do what you want me to do according to your will in knowing I have all this to do? The Father will direct you in what to do first, next and last.
We have to be available to Him and empty our things to do and give Him our will; allowing His will to take place. In Proverbs 16:9 it says we can make our plans but it is God who directs them. Planning our day and even the months to come is great but we must honor the Father and let Him direct us. His direction gives us access to carry on.
Life is all about changes. Today someone died and their family is experiencing a sudden change, today some family had a divorce take place and change is being experienced, today someone lost their job and change is taking place, someone lost their house and change is moving about, today someone was told they have a life threatening illness and their family is experiencing great change, someone was raped or beat and a drastic change is taking place. Today a change is taken place in each home, each city, state, all over the world there are changes but we have to be willing to go to the Father and give Him our changes, kneel to Him allow Him to direct our ways so we may be sane enough to manage within the change.
When life is most constraining that is when we must be all so near to the Father. It is through Him we are able to get through the hard times. When we feel neglected, when we feel we are not being heard, when we are sick and need a healer, when our marriage is in shambles, when our life is like an ultimate shipwreck we have to be so close to God so He can keep us in His arms and carry us along the way.
What change is occurring in your life today? Do you feel you have so much to do that you are overwhelmed and bombarded? Are you stepping back from the Word of God because of your load? Are you looking to the Father in the midst of your change? Have you had your top management meeting with the Lord? Maybe you are so out of it that you don’t know if you are coming or going. Perhaps so much has changed you don’t even know what normal is anymore? What change has come your way?
Change is a natural part of life but in change it’s a season for each change. Consider not being in rage. Don’t allow the change to alter your focus on the Lord. Call to the Father to cool you off in your time of being sick and tired of being sick and tired. Pray to God to help you manage your emotions. Look to God to give you strength when you feel like, “I can’t take any more”. Don’t give up the good fight for the Lord is all so near and you are all so dear to His heart.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
When Minds Change
A person came to me saying, “how did you get to be so happy being married and what did you do to change your husband?" My eye brows rose as I thought and stated, "Once I stopped trying to change my husband and concentrated the center of my attention on praying to be the wife God created me to be everything fell in its originated place."
Being married is a relationship that both people have to work at to get the best out of it. In a business, the manager and employees work to get the best results to get a pay check and occasionally pay raises. The employee that slacks at doing his/her job has a greater chance of losing their job in comparison to the person that works to the best of their ability.
When a person goes to work they go with a certain mind frame. When a person is married they too should have a certain mind frame that is to not give up. Our mind plays a big role on the outcome of the decisions we make in conjunction to our feelings. I know people at work today that do not feel like being there, but because they have made up their mind, they push them self to go. In marriage, I likewise know people that are married and say they do not want to be married. Some are working their best for better results and others are working them self out of the marriage.
It puzzles me that people weigh working at a place of employment at a higher esteem verses working at the relationship of marriage. Some think, “I am going to keep working at this place even though they don't pay me much, even though they chose to give the promotion to another and overlooked me, even though they are not very respectful, not considerate and not very dependable. But these same people will opt to get out of a marriage and they are having the same complaints, he is not brining much to the table, she doesn't respect me, my spouse is not considerate at all or dependable and I am getting a divorce. It is like a brainteaser to see people staying in the relationship of being employed with such bad treatment but hesitate not to relinquish their marriage.
The Bible states for us to "not be conformed of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That you might prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God," Romans 12:2.
This passage tells us that when we resist the ways of the world and renew our mind we will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. We will be able to stand as a testimony to others that we are a victor not a victim by renewing our mind of the Word.
Every relationship requires work on both parts rather it is your place of employment, church, friendship, family or marriage. When you have made up in your mind I am going to work even though I don't feel like it, your mind is renewed. When you have made up in your mind to not be focused on being treated unfair but God restoring your pain of hurt you are being renewed. When you have decided I am going to be considerate to my spouse even though he/she is not considerate to me, then you are being renewed.
How is your mind set today? Are you constantly set on things of the world? Do you consider your feelings and no one else? Are you selfish?
Consider allowing God's Word to replenish your thoughts and soul so you will see a new you, this New Year. Allow God in your mind, in your heart and soul and let Him direct your ways. For “some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities," Psalm 107:17.
Being married is a relationship that both people have to work at to get the best out of it. In a business, the manager and employees work to get the best results to get a pay check and occasionally pay raises. The employee that slacks at doing his/her job has a greater chance of losing their job in comparison to the person that works to the best of their ability.
When a person goes to work they go with a certain mind frame. When a person is married they too should have a certain mind frame that is to not give up. Our mind plays a big role on the outcome of the decisions we make in conjunction to our feelings. I know people at work today that do not feel like being there, but because they have made up their mind, they push them self to go. In marriage, I likewise know people that are married and say they do not want to be married. Some are working their best for better results and others are working them self out of the marriage.
It puzzles me that people weigh working at a place of employment at a higher esteem verses working at the relationship of marriage. Some think, “I am going to keep working at this place even though they don't pay me much, even though they chose to give the promotion to another and overlooked me, even though they are not very respectful, not considerate and not very dependable. But these same people will opt to get out of a marriage and they are having the same complaints, he is not brining much to the table, she doesn't respect me, my spouse is not considerate at all or dependable and I am getting a divorce. It is like a brainteaser to see people staying in the relationship of being employed with such bad treatment but hesitate not to relinquish their marriage.
The Bible states for us to "not be conformed of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That you might prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God," Romans 12:2.
This passage tells us that when we resist the ways of the world and renew our mind we will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. We will be able to stand as a testimony to others that we are a victor not a victim by renewing our mind of the Word.
Every relationship requires work on both parts rather it is your place of employment, church, friendship, family or marriage. When you have made up in your mind I am going to work even though I don't feel like it, your mind is renewed. When you have made up in your mind to not be focused on being treated unfair but God restoring your pain of hurt you are being renewed. When you have decided I am going to be considerate to my spouse even though he/she is not considerate to me, then you are being renewed.
How is your mind set today? Are you constantly set on things of the world? Do you consider your feelings and no one else? Are you selfish?
Consider allowing God's Word to replenish your thoughts and soul so you will see a new you, this New Year. Allow God in your mind, in your heart and soul and let Him direct your ways. For “some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities," Psalm 107:17.
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