Assumptions Can Get You Into Trouble

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.Proverbs 18:2

Do you ever assume something but you really don’t know for sure something is true? I am sorry to say I have done it many times. When you do that you are burdening yourself with information you don’t need to even know or sticking your nose into someone’s business that is not yours. 

Want to start a ‘fire of words’ then start judging or assuming when you don’t know the facts. To keep the peace be still. 

Guard your heart as being careful what you read or listen to is so important. 

PRAYER: Lord Jesus help me not automatically assume something to be fact when I don’t know. In Jesus’ name. Amen. 

Foolish? Who Me?

Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent and discerning if they hold their tongues. Proverbs 17:28

Do you ever feel like a fool? There are many incidents in God’s word of foolish people and none of us want to be called a fool. Kind of like in the old school Highlights For Children magazine ‘Goofus and Gallant’. 

A fool doesn’t think things through. A fool speaks before thinking how it will affect others. Foolish people can make tragic mistake's. 

Do you want to keep away from being labeled foolish? Then slow down, listen, pray and let God direct your steps. 

PRAYER: I need you Lord each and every day to watch my words and actions and represent the kingdom well. In Jesus’ name.Amen. 

Under Construction

“Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:26-28

No matter what your age in the big scheme of things you are under construction in God’s scheme of things. 

Don’t give up on life and try to fit yourself into the world’s mold of at a certain age you have no use or purpose. That is a lie from Satan. Your body may look older and wrinkled but inside you are being renewed day by day. (2 Corinthians 4:16)

One thing to make sure you keep renewing is your mind and your thinking. No pity parties. No nursing past hurts. No imagining scenarios that don’t exist such as people not liking you. To renew your mind you have to stay in the word of God. Everyone does that in a different way. There is not a set formula to hiding God’s word in your heart. 

PRAYER: Help me Father to cast off wrong thinking and to keep looking up. In Jesus’ name. Amen. 

You Need Community

 "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?" Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

 

There is a TV show my husband and I found when we first moved to Idaho in 2020 entitled ‘Alone’ where survival experts are placed alone in the wilderness with only a few items to help them and the one who makes it longer than others wins a huge cash prize.Total isolation except for wild animals or fish.  Problem is many people ‘tap out’ due to social isolation. As one female contestant put it “I need community” so she called in to be picked up. 

It is okay to be alone sometimes. Every one needs their space and their time for solitude and thinking but to be dropped off in the remote wilderness is pretty extreme for anyone. Could you do it? 

God meant for us to have community even as a body of believers joining together on Sunday for fellowship or during the week for studying the Bible. If you don’t have a church home there are many outstanding body of believers throughout the United States. Start here www.associationofrelatedchurches.comto find a body of believers near you. 

PRAYER: Many lonely people just yearn for a smile, an invite, or a hello. Help me be aware of those around me hurting and needing community. In Jesus’ name. Amen. 

Pray Beyond Yourself

"I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for all people." 1 Timothy 2:1

Some people don’t believe in prayer and then others pray but then start to try to figure things out on their own. 

Where are you at? Believe receive or doubt do without. I have been involved in an awesome prayer ministry since 1996 called Moms in Prayer where we weekly pray for children and schools. Also my former church in Alabama has an awesome prayer App called Pray First, it’s free and is wonderful. 

I urge you if you don’t have a prayer life a serious one where you talk in regular English to God like He is right there with you and let Him hear your heart start one today, on your knees if you can.  Study the word prayer in the Bible. I have added a screen shot of what the prayer app looks like. Check it out. 

PRAYER:  Lord I give you my heart and my burdens. I know you don’t want me to carry them, in Jesus’ name. Amen. 

Got Faith?

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.Hebrews 11:1

Once again a personalized license plate gave me my devotion idea. It said ‘GTFTH’ and could have been meaning Get Faith but similar to the ‘Got Milk’ ad campaign several years ago I am asking my readers do you have faith to get you through your today and your tomorrows? 

How is your faith meter? Are you trusting and believing God for a seemingly impossible answer to prayer a parting of the Red Sea moment perhaps? Even within the Christian community there may be mockers who laugh at your faith. 

Hang on brother and sister as God has not abandoned you and He hears your prayers. 

PRAYER: I need you Lord every hour of every day. There may be many who have caved in to following culture so help anyone like that hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus’ name. Amen. 

What Seeds Are You Planting In Your Heart?

And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.Matthew 13:22

Social media seeds?News flash seeds? Gossip seeds? ‘Trending’ seeds? Do you need to pull some bad weeds that have choked out the word of God seeds and  start growing fruitful things in your heart? 

Your heart sort of controls everything besides keeping you alive by constantly beating and pumping blood. It is the ‘nerve’ center so to speak and regulates your life in every area. Proverbs 4:23 speaks of guarding your heart because everything flows through it. 

Do you need a spiritual heart check up? 

PRAYER: Lord I thank you for watching over me and I thank you for helping me be vigilant in guarding my heart. In Jesus’ name. Amen.