OPEN YOUR MOUTH WIDE

Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.

Winter seems to be going on a long time here in the Midlands, but 200 miles away in Devon my friend's photo of her garden says spring is on the doorstep and the blossom is in full petal! So beautiful to see and it gives us a little taster of what's to come here too.

I think we're probably all delighted when winter is left behind and life is like that as well. We all go through 'winter' seasons but the good news is God has guaranteed winter will come to a close even in our spiritual lives. 

Spring always follows winter so get ready for some 'Spring' in your life, a new season is coming no matter how old you are because our spirits never grow old! It speaks of new growth, freshness and bright colour where everything has seemed so grey. The Holy Spirit loves to bring all those things into our spiritual lives too, fresh anointings, greater insights, new buds of increase in all areas, seeing His plans unfold in technicolour. Let's believe for all of that and ask for a double helping! 

As we know God loves it when we ask big and believe Him for big things and Psalm 103 tells us He's pouring His benefits out on us and filling our mouths with good every day.

Look what God said to the Israelites in Psalm 81:10 .....open your mouth wide and I will fill it with good things. 

Just in case your mouth has been shut a bit tight lately, this is a little reminder to open it wide again and let God bless you as you go into this new season. His heart is to fill you with His goodness and mercy, His joy and peace, His favour and to satisfy your soul. Open your mouth wide and let God fill it!  Let's have great expectations from our great God.😊 Thank You Lord.

THE BEST YOU

Ephesians 2:10 For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

Do you ever look at other people and think "I wish I was more like them!"? I have a friend who is gifted with hospitality, the more people she has in her home the happier she seems to be and she produces a lovely meal from scratch while she's chatting to you and it all looks so effortless!

Whereas I can get flustered just trying to get everything on the plate at the same time!😊  Hospitality doesn't come naturally to me. I can do it but it's not my gift. Can anyone identify?

Then the other day the Lord dropped this thought in my head "Be the best you, you can be." If God wanted me to be brilliant at hospitality He would have gifted me that way but as it is He gifted me in other things and God doesn't make mistakes! It doesn't mean we're less than the other person, it's just who they are and who God made them and us to be.

I wonder if you're struggling at the minute thinking life would be great if you could be or do what someone else can do, be all relaxed like them when you feel stressed, always have the right thing to say when you can't think of anything to say? 

If so, God wants to encourage us all today to just be who He made us to be and relax in that. He's not comparing us to anyone else and neither should we. He already knows the treasure He’s put in us and sees who we can become. I have to keep reminding myself I’m still a work in progress, how about you?

All God is asking of us is to be the best we can be and let Him bring out His treasure inside us, things we never knew were there or thought we would ever be capable of, with His help. For instance I never imagined I would be writing a Blog at seventy but God did! It's never too late to be used by God.😊

God chose you before the foundation of the world. He made you a masterpiece, one of a kind, there will never be another one like you and He's delighted with you so smile, and enjoy being the 'best you', the 'glorious you' today as you do the good things He has planned for you.