WATER THE FLOWERS

Philippians 4:8 NLT And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

When we came home from holiday yesterday we had to water the flowers and it reminded me I read this the other day, “Stop watering the weeds in your life and start watering the flowers.” Now everybody knows not to water weeds unless they want more weeds!😊

The Apostle Paul is saying the same sort of thing when the Holy Spirit tells us all the good things to think about listed above. We may have a natural tendency though, to think about the weedy thoughts that pull us down. When we dwell on those wrong thoughts, we’re effectively watering those ‘weeds’ and they start to overrun us. The dandelions of despair, the brambles of discouragement that make us feel less than, or the prickly thistles of bad memories, of failures or mistakes that want to be on replay. They’re all weeds! So don’t water them!😊

Instead we all want the beauty of flowers. So the good news is, we have been given authority over all the works of the enemy and that includes negative weedy thoughts that don’t agree with what God says about us. 😊

So here are some ‘flowers’ to water every day instead -  If Jesus is our Saviour then God says we are forgiven, and made righteous with His own righteousness. We have His blessing on our lives, and His favour is surrounding us like a shield. He calls us His masterpiece, so don’t let’s argue with Him and think weedy thoughts!

Need more flowers to water? - We have the Holy Spirit to be our Helper, Counsellor, Advocate to plead our case, and our Comforter. We have His power and wisdom available to us round the clock. He has declared we’re above the circumstances and not beneath them. He has seated us in a place of great privilege at the right hand of the throne of God, the seat of all power. We have access to our Wonderful Father to obtain mercy and find grace whenever we need them 24/7.

Those are all uplifting thoughts we can put on replay in our minds so that when the enemy comes to tell us we’re not doing so well we recognise that ‘weedy’ thought and uproot it before it takes a hold. We don’t have to replay anything we don’t want to!

I think I need to go and do some selective watering! How about you?😊

Have a blessed weekend.x

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