TURN THE LIGHT ON

Isaiah 8:20 NLT Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark.

If you’ve ever gone into a dark room you know how you have to grope about till you find the light switch!😊 Even if you have someone with you, if you both don’t know where the switch is, it’s like Jesus said  in Matthew 15:14 NIV …If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

If ever there was a day when we need the light of Jesus in our lives, it’s now! Jesus said He is the Light and that He has made us to be lights in a dark world so where do we find His light? It comes when the Holy Spirit lights up God’s word and we spend time with Him. Psalm 36:9 NIV For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light."

We’ll find it hard to have His light if we constantly look at the darkness the world offers through the media, and it’s not surprising if we still feel like we’re groping around in the dark if we don’t take the time to turn the light of His Word on! If we have time to turn a screen on, we have time to turn the Word on.😊

If we ask for advice from people who are not reading God’s word, they’ll only be able to give us human wisdom, but God says He will give us His wisdom if we ask Him for it (James 1:5-6), so let’s ask and believe we receive when we ask. (Mark 11:24)😊

Psalm 119:105 NIV Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. I’m so glad God is not withholding His light but if He has told us to do something and we’re ignoring it then it will be hard to hear any more. No doubt if we obey the last instruction first the rest will surely follow.😊

So the Holy Spirit is encouraging us again to turn on the light of His word in our lives and believe we receive His light and His wisdom, so we can just do whatever He says, and I know He’s speaking to me first!😊 Amen.

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NO JUNK MAIL!

Philippians 4:8 NIV …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.

A lady wrote this the other day, "Lord I pray YOU get into my head before I do!” I had to stop and think for a minute!😊 It’s like on those days we wake up and the first thought is sometimes not the best or most positive thought! So she was asking the Lord to get in her head first before she had time to think her own thoughts, because then she would be lifted up, not cast into a fit of the dismals about the coming day. 

God will always come with His truth, that we are who His Word says we are, we can have what His Word says we can have, and we can do what His word says we can do.😊

It’s not just in the morning though, it’s when we hear bad news, or we receive a difficult doctor’s report. It may be when we’ve just been told we didn’t get the job or someone can’t come at the last minute. 

It’s when disappointment or discouragement come knocking on the door and we’re tempted to have the wrong reaction but instead we ask the Lord to get in our heads first, to give us His perspective, before we say something negative, or give vent to our frustrations!

If we imagine having a door on our minds and we’re standing behind it, we need to keep it closed when doubt and fear or negative emotions come knocking, but we need to throw it wide open when God is bringing His truth.  Sometimes we get it round the wrong way!😊

God’s word is truth and when the enemy tries to post his junk mail through our letterbox we can praise God we have the authority and ability to block him off and say, “No junk mail here”!😊

James 4:7 NIV Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Thank You Lord for giving us the ability to think Your thoughts and we ask You to get into our heads before we, or anything else, does! In Jesus name. Amen.

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