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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FIRST AND LAST

Isaiah 48:12-13 NLT “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, Israel my chosen one! I alone am God, the First and the Last. It was my hand that laid the foundations of the earth, my right hand that spread out the heavens above. When I call out the stars, they all appear in order.”

Don’t you just get a sense of God’s power from these verses? Our God is the First and the Last! He is the Alpha and Omega but I felt the Lord was asking if He is the First and Last in our lives? 

Is He first in the morning? Is He the last at the end of the day before we go to sleep? Or do we rush into the morning and become so distracted and busy we forget to include Him in all we do, in the bits in between, so that by night time we suddenly realise we might have left Him out of some things?

When we read how He is so powerful He laid the very foundations of the world, how He calls out the stars at night, we are being reassured that we don’t need to try to run our own lives because He’s more than able to deal with all our issues! Nothing is too hard for our God!

If God can set stars into space, how much more can He can also set things into place in our lives!😊 (Psalm 8:3-4) There is no mistake He can’t forgive, no mountain so high He can’t help us conquer it, no giant so huge He can’t equip us to bring it crashing down.

v.17 …I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is good for you and leads you along the paths you should follow. God is saying if we’ll give Him the first and the last word in all our decisions then He can protect us from wrong choices and show us what to do.😊 

So let’s be encouraged to remember to make God First and Last and include Him in everything we do this coming week.😊 Amen.

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