Attutude Check - in His Word 3-24-25

 Attitude Check- In His Word 3-24-2025

Some days we get up and rush off to work or driving the kids to school, or whatever we do to fill our days, and everything is good. Then there are other days when caps lock keeps turning itself on, the scroll arrow jumps around and makes you rewrite your words five times, the coffee is just not as tasty as you would like and it feels like even though its all small stuff it is horrible. Of course none of that is big, its just annoying but it can change your attitude, your feels for the day or your outlook on life for the moment. These little things can become the leaven to our day, or we can toss it out like we should do with rotten bread and make the most of our day by getting in the Word and prayer to highlight the good things! 

 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?  Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed1Corinthians 5:6-7

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.  Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:4-9

Really these 5 verses bring me so much focus and organization of thought, when I remember to read and do them! It is amazing what good it does, really, when we just open our Bible and read. 

Right here it pretty much deals with all the little things that are annoying us, don't be anxious but instead find the reasons to be glad. Guard our hearts and minds via the Holy Spirit, and faith that God has our back. He guards our hearts and minds. He is giving us the right things to think on but we often forgo that advice and wallow in our vain selfishnss and complain, and cry, and even take things out on those around us. It really makes no sence to do that. 

Lets just make it a plan to write out this section of verses and create a back ground for our devices to remind each of us that when we start to fall to the little leavens we can toss it out and focus on God. 

 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.  We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2Corinthians 10:3-4

Oh! Yes I put it there! It really says it all doesn’t it? We can try to fix the little things, the big things whatever size our days issues are by ourselves but really look. It is not ours to fight! It is God's battle to fight for us. 

Satan’s cronies would love to give us the anxiety, the anger, the self inflicting ignorance we could wallow in, but God, in the name of Jesus has taken control for us! He will lift us up and out of the spot we are in, emotionally, physically and even spiritually. Not always in that order, sometimes it starts with the spiritual mindset, then the emotional and the physical fall into place. Its not always as easy to get through life, but if we remember to catch the little things that gt us down and cleanse our minds renewing them in the Word, then have a better we have a better starting point to our day.

 So, here we go, start the day in the Word. 

Pray and thank God for the good things. 

Ask Him to renew our minds and keep them focused on the good things! 

Then put on the Armor of God again to remind yourself that its all connected in the Word. 

Open Your Eyes In His Word 3-17-2025

 

Open your eyes! In His Word 3-17-2023

We close our eyes to pray to God and ask Him to open our eyes to see. Now that may seem odd, but the truth is we want our physical eyes closed to ward off distractions as we open our spiritual eyes to see, and our spiritual ears to hear what it is that the Spirit is saying to us in His Word today.

Today as I often do when things of the world start to pull at me I prayed “Create in me a clean heart Oh God and renew a right spirit within me.”  Funny thing is instead of feeling overwhelmed with my to-do list I just got it done. Sometimes we need to ask Him to open our eyes even in prayer, that we would see what to pray, what to do with what we pray about and then we need to follow in those footprints He puts in front of us to follow.

When is the last time you prayed to God and asked Him to ‘open the eyes of your heart’ that you may see Him, o your years to hear?

Through the book of Revelation, it repeats the words “Those who have ears to hear and eyes to see…” several times. It reminds myself to ask Him daily if necessary to open my eyes and ears that I may see what He has for me to see, do , or walk in. It often takes a lot of reading in the Bible to get to the answer I seek, or to see it. It may not be an easy answer either. You know when you have heard from God, even if you do not like the response, that you have to walk through the door He has opened. You cannot deny when you see something, some Word, or often that still small voice that whispers to our souls. You cannot deny hearing His voice. The Bible is full of stories of people hearing and doing what God said, and in the book of Jonah we can read about what happens when we think we know better than God about what we should do. Fortunately, when God opens the eyes and ears of our heart we know it is Him, and we know better than to run from it. Still sometimes we do. Until He makes it clear that He is the one in control.

“I, the Lord, have called you to demonstrate my righteousness. I will take you by the hand and guard you, and I will give you to my people, Israel, as a symbol of my covenant with them. And you will be a light to guide the nations.  You will open the eyes of the blind. You will free the captives from prison, releasing those who sit in dark dungeons. “                               “I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols”. Isaiah 41:6-8

Be good to your servant, that I may live and obey your word. Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions. I am only a foreigner in the land. Don’t hide your commands from me! Psalm 119:17-19

 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. Ephesians 1:16-21

Lord help us to listen to Your Words in our hearts and minds. Help us to see what it is that You want us to see and hear what you want us to hear that we may walk in Your will every moment of every day.

Thank you for being available, always.

In Jesus’ Name

Teresa Wilson