Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Story of AliciaFour-year-old Alicia made a slight mistake when she said her Bible verse:
"That who so ever believes in him should not perish but have ever laughing life." Grinning, her mother didn’t correct her. That’s exactly how she wants Alicia to feel about Jesus.
My walk with Christ should be one of unspeakable joy and amazing love. Even though things don't go the way I want it to and problems don't seem to come to an end, I know everything's gonna be alright.
The devil, on the other side, sure don't want me to stay firm in my new found source of hope in Christ. He will do whatever it takes to steal, kill and destroy. The most destructive emotions that he uses are grief and sorrow.
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Mark 4:18-20, Jesus warned me about that. He told me that the devil would come to steal the Word from my heart, and He said that one of the ways he would do that would be through the lusts of other things entering in. I have always assumed that phrase referred only to pleasure. But the Holy Spirit has shown me plainly that the spirits of grief and sorrow fall in this category.
Mark 4:18-20 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown."There is no way I can hear God if I indulge myself in sorrow. Even though it hurts, there is something in it that makes me reluctant to let it go. I can't have sorrow and joy at the same time. So today I choose joy. If anything happens, I'll always have someone to fall back on.
I'm created to have joy.John 15:11 'I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.''Jesus, I take authority over my feelings in Jesus' name. I've given my life to You as a sacrifice well-pleasing unto You, and I won't partake of anything but Your joy. Amen!'Singing' The joy of the Lord is my strength... hahahahahahahhahaha...
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