Today is than Sings my Soul Saturday at signs miracles and wonders ( the song and dance is at the end of this saturday's devo.... in fact..my 1 st....bear with me...)
This morning i was lead to look up versus around giving our worries to God and what it aquiers from me.........
I'm a verry..verry visual person so that's why the bold and colored letters......so you could follow my mind
And as you see i love the Message translation.
Ephesians 6:14 (The Message)
13-18Be prepared. You're up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it's all over but the shouting you'll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You'll need them throughout your life. God's Word is an indispensable weapon. In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other's spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.
Philippians 4:6 (The Message)
6-7Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when CHRIST displaces worry at the center of your life
Psalm 55:22 (The Message)
22-23 Pile your troubles on God's shoulders—
he'll carry your load, he'll help you out.
He'll never let good people
topple into ruin.
But you, God, will throw the others
into a muddy bog,
Cut the lifespan of assassins
and traitors in half.
And I trust in you.
A David Psalm, When He Was Captured
by the Philistines in Gath
Proverbs 3:5 (The Message)
5-12 Trust God from the bottom of your heart;
don't try to figure out everything on your own. ( he said it above already eph)
Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go;
he's the one who will keep you on track.
Don't assume that you know it all.
Run to God! Run from evil!
Your body will glow with health,
your very bones will vibrate with life!
Honor God with everything you own;
give him the first and the best.
Your barns will burst,
your wine vats will brim over.
But don't, dear friend, resent God's discipline;
don't sulk under his loving correction.
It's the child he loves that God corrects;
a father's delight is behind all this.
JOIN TOGETHER ALL THE REDS WITH ME!!
Be prepared
Gods Word is an indispensable weapon and
Prayer
Let petitions and praises, shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns.
CHRIST displaces
Pile your troubles on God's shoulders (visualize it....what a mighty God we have isn't it!! full of love and compassion)
WHAT.......
I TRUST
GOD
Listen for HIS VOICE ( no one elses...the world ( common accepted) believes...,enemies wispering/negative thinking fe)
Honour God with my FIRST and BEST.
DON'T resent DISCIPLINE and SULK under HIS loving CORRECTION!!
WHY
IT'S THE CHILD HE LOVES !!..........that GOD corrects !!
Conclusion
If i kick and fight against it or feel frustrated...
I want to be a stubborn child!! Or behave like that...I'm not listening to His voice.......
I don't want to accept His Love...
and discipline and corrections....Which i get when i go to Him in prayer and His Word.....
( side thought...if i neglect to pray and be in the word i let the enemy distract or steal my time... i hide for my "daddy" isn't it or i'm at least far to reach........!!)
I told you i love to make a picture of things in my mind.........I see "my kids when i discipline and correct them!!" Remember my last TT post.... God use situations with my kids to understand Him best...to speak to me....
In both directions to see MYSELF in relationship to HIM and to get directions to discipline and corrects my own Kids in a Godly manner using Gods values and standards.........It's not easy ( but did He say in His word it would be easy?)
Friends let's meditate on God's word and bring everything to Him in prayer....
When i feel far away drifted from God i take psalm 51 written by David and set my heart on to it and start saying those words........
1-3Generous in love—God, give grace! Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record. Scrub away my guilt, soak out my sins in your laundry. I know how bad I've been; my sins are staring me down. 4-6 You're the One I've violated, and you've seen it all, seen the full extent of my evil. You have all the facts before you; whatever you decide about me is fair. I've been out of step with you for a long time, in the wrong since before I was born. What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life. 7-15 Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean, scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don't look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don't throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I'll let loose with your praise. 16-17 Going through the motions doesn't please you, a flawless performance is nothing to you. I learned God-worship when my pride was shattered. Heart-shattered lives ready for love don't for a moment escape God's notice. 18-19 Make Zion ( ME) the place you delight in, repair Jerusalem's ( MY HEART AND MIND) broken-down walls. Then you'll get real worship from us ( ME), acts of worship small and large, Including all the bulls ( sacrifices) they ( I) can heave onto your altar!
When you pray this psalm to our heavenly dad we know,believe and trust( because His word said it also to us....whiche verse....??)that it touches His heart and His voice speak to our heart and minds who are now open to be filled and spill over........
Our mouths can start praising and worshipping to our Lord and speak out the words of this also awesome psalm ( i can't get enough friends....)
Psalm 34
1 I bless God every chance I get; my lungs expand with his praise.
2 I live and breathe God;
if things aren't going well, hear this and be happy:
3 Join me in spreading the news;
together let's get the word out.
4 God met me more than halfway,
he freed me from my anxious fears.
5 Look at him; give him your warmest smile.
Never hide your feelings from him.
6 When I was desperate, I called out,
and God got me out of a tight spot.
7 God's angel sets up a circle
of protection around us while we pray.
8 Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see—
how good God is.
Blessed are you who run to him.
9 Worship God if you want the best;
worship opens doors to all his goodness.
10 Young lions on the prowl get hungry,
but God-seekers are full of God.
11 Come, children, listen closely;
I'll give you a lesson in God worship.
12 Who out there has a lust for life?
Can't wait each day to come upon beauty?
Is your heart not full are you not experiencing a sense of GOD'S WHOLENESS everything coming together for good ....( philipians 4:6-7 above) ??
My choice of music is on this beautifull worship video.
Weekend Greetings!
Romans 12!