A blog on Christian life; the love, trials, and victories. These posts are written in truth and love. I'm going to share a part of my own growth along with messages directly on how to better your walk with Christ. I'm just striving to be the best I can be for God while encouraging others to do the same. Follow me as I follow His lead. :)
Monday, April 30, 2012
Be Wise With Your Heart
Sometimes we are the reason why we get hurt. We decide who we open up to
and who we let in our hearts. Foolish decisions have negative
consequences. Learn from these mistakes and take your time in opening up
next time. Choose wisely next time and stop the vicious cycle of MANY Mr. or Ms. wrongs. Not everyone is worth the key to your heart. ;)
Heart Check
Hurtful words can leave bruises and scars to the heart, just as hits
to the physical body can. But as bruises and wounds heal after time on
the physical body, SOME hearts will forever bear the
after effects of hurtful words. Whether we mean what we say or not,
doesn’t matter after the damage has been done. The fact that we allow
those thoughts to enter and REMAIN in our hearts is whats most hurtful.
… What you say flows from what is in your heart.- Luke 6:45 #heartcheck
Death To Diets
If you were to workout only ONCE a week, you wouldn’t see a difference in your health. Same thing with eating right. If you only ate ONE
healthy meal a week, what good would that do? We all know that if we’re
serious about making a healthy change with our bodies that it’s a
necessity to eat right and work out regularly. This is the same concept
with our SPIRIT. Difference is the goal is to trim off FLESH and not weight. Reading your word ONCE a week, getting in prayer ONCE
a week is not going to cut it. Your spirit will not grow if you’re not
making trying to transition into this Kingdom culture permanently. Stop
dieting and making this a lifestyle. Trim off the flesh so your spirit
can have room to grow. Your flesh can’t go where God is taking you.
Self Control Over Emotions
Exercising self control is vital to REMAINING in the will of God. Keep in mind that if your emotions are out of control its due to your thoughts being out of control FIRST.
Be watchful over what negative (doubtful & faithless) or ungodly
thoughts you allow to stay. They become uncontrollable emotions and
reactions if you don’t check them. Either you have control over your
thoughts and emotions or they have control over you.
Golden Words
Avoid talking about people when they’re down. Whether you understand
why they’re struggling or not isn’t any of your business. If you’re
really concerned you’ll pray for them. Sometimes we can get too caught
up in discussing the details of someones life and struggle when we have
no idea how hard it was for them to simply wake up and get out of bed
that morning. Our lack of understanding or reasoning with others
struggles, leaves us less than compassionate and borderline cruel with
our thoughts and comments of them. Let’s challenge ourselves to push
past our limited understanding and perception of things to support them
in prayer. Ask God how you can benefit someone who you think may be
going through a hard time. Whatever you do, just avoid adding to their
pain with hurtful words. Many of us have been misunderstood in the past
and as long as others continue to misunderstand us, their words seemed
hurtful.
Keep in mind: If you have time to talk about them then you have time to pray for them. Make your words worth being spoken.
Nobody's Perfect?
The saying “Nobody’s perfect” can have a lot of people becoming
complacent with their faults and weaknesses. But this only results in
them never striving to change that. Realize your faults so you can
address them and be a better you. Ignoring them or refusing to work on
them can have you missing out on bettering your relationships and
friendships. Afterall, our best relationships are the ones when BOTH are
willing to compromise and grow BETTER together.
Obedience: High Form of Loving God
Obedience is one of the highest forms of love you can show God. The
type of obedience where you push past feelings or circumstances to
follow through, because you LOVE God more than yourself. When you struggle with fear, trust, faith, and hope it makes you live a life of PARTIAL or COMPLETE disobedience. Those that don’t struggle with these, DON’T because they KNOW God. They’ve taken the time out to actually pick up their cross and follow Him.
God is looking for a people willing to live a life of obedience for Him.
God is looking for a people ON FIRE for Him.
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