When struggles seem so hard that we feel we can’t handle them, remember it’s only temporary. When we resist, we are resisting our blessings.

God has a plan in our struggles. We may not see it in the beginning, but there is a definite blessing in it.

Stop resisting your blessings, trust God, and He will see you through.

Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV) – for I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Most of us live our lives like crows.  We peck at the opinions of others trying to find our way, and the answer to our questions. What we fail to realize is, the more opinions we receive, the more confused we become.

Our first response should be to Our Heavenly Father, where there is peace. We are to cast our cares on Him, ask Him what to do, acknowledge Him in all of our ways, so He can direct us.

Stop pecking around like crows, trying to find your way through others, when the answers are in your Father. He will guide you and tell you what to do.

Trust Him!

Psalm 71:1 (KJV) – in thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

I Corinthians 14:33 (KJV) – for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Proverbs 3:6 (KJV) – in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Let us be careful to help others without being bias – prejudice in favor, you just may be helping an angel.

Hebrews 13:2 (KJV) – be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angel’s unawares.

God chose you and ordained you to feed his sheep.

When you don’t keep his word to yourself, but share it with others, He said; whatever you ask in Jesus name, He will give it to you.

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 your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Compromising the truth can be more costly than we think.

When we take one small step into compromising, we take another and another, and soon those one small steps leads to a BIG price to pay.

Pay attention to compromising the truth. Although it may seem small at first, later, you’d wished you hadn’t compromise in the first place.

Don’t settle, and don’t compromise what you know to be true. Take control, for the price you pay can be for a lifetime.

Matthew 6:13 (KJV) – and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Proverbs 25:28 (KJV) – he that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

When we lie, we do it to protect ourselves. From what? The truth.

We lie to hid, because we don’t want others to know who we really are, and we don’t want to be rejected. But understand, we are not protected by our lies, but being controlled by satan. There is no truth in a lie.

Be true to yourself. Be true to God. Accept who you are. Speak the truth.

I John 1:8 (KJV) – if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

II Corinthians 13:8 (KJV) – for we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Most of us have a tendency of begging God for things, when it is not His intention for us to beg him for anything.

God said, ask and it shall be given. All you have to do is believe what you ask for, and receive it – take it.

I Thessalonians 5:19 (KJV) – quench not the Spirit.

Matthew 7:7 (KJV) – ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Mark 11:24 (KJV) – therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

 

 

Laugh!  Laugh! Laugh!

One of the reasons we are so stressed out is because we don’t laugh as much as we should. We take things so serious.  Our lives are stressful, work is stressful, the news is stressful, and most of the movies we watch are stressful. We have allowed our joy to be taken, slowly.

Cast your cares on God, and tell satan . . . no more.  Rejoice in the day that God has made, and he will give you peace!

Watch a funny movie, swing on a swing, take dancing lessons, color in a coloring book – be a kid again! Let your hair down and rejoice!!!

Keep a smile in your heart, and it will always show on your face.  Laugh in your joy!

Psalm 40:16 (KJV) – let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

Psalm 118:24 (KJV) – this is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

 

 

Why do we keep digging up things that we have done wrong and feeling guilty about them?  Once you have asked for forgiveness, God has forgiven you, and doesn’t remember what you have done wrong.  Now forgive yourself.

Stop remembering your wrong, and move forward in your life.  God hasn’t given up on you, so don’t give up on yourself.

 I John 1:9 (KJV) – if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

 

 

When you hurt others, you are hurting yourself.

Think about what you’re going to do, because you’re doing it to yourself.

Galatians 6:7 (KJV) – be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Matthew 7:12 (KJV) – therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.