We ask God to give to us, yet we don’t want to give to others. We ask God for blessings, yet we curse others. We don’t want to do what God ask, we just want him to give us what we ask for.

How can we expect God to give us anything, when we don’t want to give a portion of what we already have to others?

Stop asking for a blessing, when you don’t want to be a blessing to others.

Luke 11: 11-13 (KJV) – if a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Be the best you can be, not the best, someone else you can be.

Stop trying to be what you’re not, by comparing yourself with someone else. You can’t be anyone else, and no one else can be you.

Accept who you are. You are a masterpiece – fearfully and wonderfully made!

Psalm 139:14 (KJV) – I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

If we pick at scars before they heal, they’re painful, adds more scarring, and takes longer to heal. Once healed, we can still tell there was a scar there.

When we allow our scars to heal on their own, we can barely see there was a scar, after a period of time.

Just the same, when you handle your battles yourself, you go through all kinds of pain and heartache. In the end, there are noticeable scars left on your heart that takes longer to heal, and in some cases, relationships that never mend.

When you let God fight your battles, no one can tell that you are going through, or even, went through a battle.

Don’t allow your battles to make you look like what you’ve been through.

Exodus 14:14 (KJV) – the Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Deuteronomy 20:4 (KJV) – for the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Father God, please hear my prayer. Forgive me, I don’t have time to spend with you. But when I need you, please be there for me.

We have so much time for everything, but God. Yet, we want God to have time for us.

When it’s your time to meet him face to face, you don’t want to hear; go away from me, I never knew you.

James 4:8 (KJV) – draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Matthew 7: 23 (KJV) – and then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

No matter what someone has done wrong to us, we find it hard to forgive them. Some things, we feel, are just not forgiveable.

No matter what, we are to forgive others, or we will not be forgiven by our Heavenly Father.

Forgive others. It’s not for them, it’s for you.

Mark 11:26 (KJV) – but if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Whatever or whomever we spend time with, we value. We value what we love.

Yet, how can you love what you neglect?

Jeremiah 29:13 (KJV) – and ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

We receive all kinds of gifts. Some we cherish more than others. But, there’s a gift that has been given to all of us, that can’t compare to any gift ever given, or will be given. A gift that most don’t cherish, or even consider. That’s the gift of God’s only begotten Son – Jesus Christ.

He gave you the greatest gift ever! The gift of eternity. He died for you, so that you may live.

You can never repay his gift that has been given to you. But, can you give back by choosing to believe in him. He chose you.

John 3:16 (KJV) – for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 15:16 (KJV) – ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that you fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.