ONE OF THOSE DAYS!

Genesis 42:36 NLT Jacob exclaimed, “You are robbing me of my children! Joseph is gone! Simeon is gone! And now you want to take Benjamin too. Everything is going against me!”

Have you ever had ‘one of those days’ when everything seems to be going against you? You’ve had a difficult phone call, you can’t find the keys, and the traffic is bad, or something worse!  Well Jacob knew just how you felt!  He’s now an old man and he did what we’re all tempted to do on one of those days and he listed all the things that were not right. He focused on what was wrong and became thoroughly depressed and upset. Anyone identify?😊

The things that are staring us in the face bog us down in our here and now, and we can forget we’re children of the Most High God and sometimes behave as though we had no loving Heavenly Father looking after us at all! And all the while the Holy Spirit is nudging us to remember we’re more than conquerors, that He has placed in us everything we will need to deal with whatever situation has ganged up on us, to enable us to overcome it.😊

So, next time you recognise you’re having ‘one of those days’ where everything seems to be going wrong, just stop for a minute, take a deep breath, and ask the Lord for His grace, for His insight as to what’s going on, and let Him settle you down inside so you can deal with it.

God has put within us the ability to take authority over our own feelings, over situations, and to resist the enemy and whatever is coming against us. We can ask God to turn it around for our good, we can choose the high road and let Him raise us up above our situations if we’ll praise Him for what’s right.

I’ve still got a long way to go with this and as always, am speaking to myself first, but I know God is in the everyday nitty gritty with us and He wants to give us His victory and turn it into a blessing if we’ll believe Him for it. Let’s invite God to turn ‘one of those days’ to ‘one of those glorious days’ when God helps us. Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊

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