WEDNESDAY IN THE WORD-JESUS CALLING

I just have to share today about this devotional book. This has been one of the best if not the BEST daily devotional books I've ever read. (And I have a lot of devotional books)

For Today, I would like to share my devotional. I pray the Lord speaks to your heart as He has mine through it.

When things don't go as you would like, accept the situation immediately. If you indulge in feelings of regret, they can easily spill over the line into resentment. Remember that I am Sovereign over your circumstances, and humble yourself under my mighty hand. Rejoice in what I am doing in your life, even though it is beyond your understanding.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. In me you have everything you need, both for this life and for the life yet to come. Don't let the impact of the world shatter your thinking or draw you away from focusing on me. The ultimate challenge is to keep fixing your eyes on Me, no matter what is going on around you. When I am central in your thinking, you are able to view circumstances from My perspective.

 

Have a great week.

Hugs and blessings, Cindy

WEDNESDAY IN THE WORD--WORRY

Have you ever wondered what worry really is? Some define it as anxiousness, or fear that sits in your head and festers. Worry represents a process in which the individual continues to live in the past or tries to live in the future.

Matthew 6:25-34 says:
²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life
²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

If Jesus said that we cannot ADD not one single hour to our lives by worrying then why do you and I waste so many hours in a fretful state of anxiety? I can remember my granny would say, "I know the Lord tells us not to worry but that is much easier said than done!" 

I would be telling a big fat lie if I said I never worry. Sometimes I think I don't worry but then deep inside in the pit of my stomach I can feel that anxiety creeping up to my throat and then to my head. You know the feeling I am talking about don't you?  
It is at those times that I have to get a grip and say, 
"Lord, You are the one who created my life and You can be trusted with the details of my life.  
 I have to admit to Him that my faith is lacking and ask Him to help me to have the faith of a mustard seed. 
I have to make every effort to keep my eyes focused on HIM and not the problem or the issue at hand. 
I have to remember that my HOPE is in HIM and in HIM alone.

May we commit these versus to our life daily:
Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart

and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways submit to him,

and he will make your paths straight.

May we be reminded of HOW GREAT HE IS!

 

Hugs and blessings, 

Cindy

    

WEDNESDAY IN THE WORD-Vision Prayers

WOW! I feel it has been forever since I blogged. Seems to be so hard these days to blog. Picking and choosing has been my game plan recently. Don't misunderstand me as I do enjoy blogging and I do love to look at and read my friends blogs as well. It is just that the Lord has been showing me through recent events in my life that He must be first. Let's just say I am having to do a little re-arranging in my life. Today I would like share something from my Bible Study that has really JUMPED off the page at me. I pray that it does the same for you.

               Praying with EXPECTANCY! Most of the time if we will admit it we tend to pray with.....DOUBT! Doubt that God will answer us. We know that He always answers though it might be yes, no or wait. But HE ANSWERS! 

What if we go ahead and just grab the mindset of "I am praying EXPECTING something to happen in this area of my life or with this relationship, this person, or this situation?

Take just a minute and read this Scripture:

Habakkuk 2:2-3

Revised Standard Version (RSV)

² And the Lord answered me:
“Write the vision;
    make it plain upon tablets,
    so he may run who reads it.
³ For still the vision awaits its time;
    it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seem slow, wait for it;
    it will surely come, it will not delay.

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I realize that our Lord speaks to us in different ways through different things. Sometimes I can read the same scripture over and over and all of a sudden it just LEAPS off that page at me. Well, that is exactly what this done for me. 

Pray with a VISION! Pray with EXPECTANCY! 

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Get out of that ditch you are in and PRAY EXPECTING GOD TO MOVE!  

You may ask, "How do I know this is what God would have me to pray? LINE IT UP WITH HIS WORD! If it lines up with the Word of God then you go for it....hook, line and sinker!

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Does your husband need Salvation? Your Mom or your dad? 

God says in His Word that it is His desire that all come to know Him as Savior....that NO ONE perish. PRAY with a vision EXPECTING them to come to know Christ!

Before any of my grandchildren was conceived I began to pray that all my grandchildren would come to know Jesus at an early age. I pray daily for them to grow up to be Godly men and women. I pray for their future mates. Praise the Lord so far I have seen 3 of my grandchildren come to know Him personally. I am praying with a vision for my 4th one. 

 My list of Vision prayers in long but the Lord's Word tells us to keep on pressing. To pray without ceasing and we must do just that. Satan came for one reason....to kill, steel and destroy. We must be about our Father's business and pray with a vision for ourselves, our family, our friends, our church, our nation.

Get yourself a journal...a note pad or whatever. Write down your vision prayers and date them. Pray and believe that God will bring it to pass. 

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 Hugs and blessings, Cindy