Worldly or Wordly

 Joel 2:12 “Even now”, declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”   13.Rend  your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for He is compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and He relents from sending calamity.”   Repent and return!!! Have you been seeking your will and not God’s?   Seeking worldly pleasures over WORDLY is so easy for me to do.      What are your goals for today?  Do they line up with the Word of God?   Be inspired to seek Him first!!

Keep your head up in the storm

 Psalm 103:1-5 “Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name.  2. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits-3who forgives all your sins and heal all your diseases, 4who redeems your life from the pit and  crowns you with love and compassion, 5 who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”    One of my dearest friends suggested her Bible study group memorize these verses.     When we focus on how good God is, we can keep our heads up in any strom!  

Perfect love casts out fear

 Christ assurance verses Self assurance.  Christ confidence verses self confidence!   1John 4:4 “You dear children, are from God, and have overcome them, because the one who is in you, is greater than the one who is in the world.”  18 “There is no fear in Love.  But prefect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.  The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 “We love because He first loved us.”   Today, dont trust in your abilities to get things done, trust that Christ through, you will take care of everything.   If He has given you much ability and drive fantastic!! Use it for His glory, remembering He is the one giving it to you moment by moment.   Perfect love casts out fear.  He perfectly loves each of us….fear not!! Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world!!

The sovereign God of the universe perfectly loves you!! He didn’t get you this far to drop you now!  TRUST in His Love for you today!!

Clinging to a worthless idol?

 Jonah 2:8 “Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.”  What worthless idols are you clinging to?   Sometimes I cling to the security of the gifts and talents God has given me verses clinging to God.   At any moment everything can be taken away.  The only one that will remain is the Lord.  Cling to Him!! He is our TRUE HOPE!!  Matthew 28:20 “Lo, I am with you always even to the end of the age.”

When I trust my  “right” works will produce “right” things;  then I am trusting in me.   Bad things happen even when we do everything right.  When I trust in God, knowing He will make even the bad things right,  my anxiety lowers and I can breathe.   Romans 8:28 “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.”  Are you trusting in God or a worthless idol? TRUST GOD.  Find true peace.

Turn away and stay turned

 Jonah 3:9 “Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from His fierce anger so that we will not perish.  10When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, He had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction He has threatened.”  Have you ever turned from your evil ways to avoid the consequences? Then go back to those same old, same old ways.?  Be inspired to keep turning from the old, pressing forward to the High calling of God no matter what you are facing!   😇🙏❤️

If it’s causing anxiety reevaluate!

 Psalm 139:23 “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  24 See if there is any offense way in me, and lead me in the way of everlasting.”  

Do you have anxious thoughts?   Pay attention to those!! If your reaction to something is anxiety, evaluate whether that person, project or  event should be in your life. God gives us an unsettled Spirit to recognize things that are not of Him.    Lord, see if there is any offense way in us and lead us to the way of everlasting.   😇🙏❤️

He has plans for you!! TRUST

 Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”    Are your plans failing?   God’s are not!!   Some of our toughest times produce the greatest harvest.   Be still and know that He is God and He has plans for you!! Plans to prosper you, and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future .   TRUST His plans today!!!😇❤️🙏