My Thoughts!

I am currently doing the Proverbs 31 bible study online with a group of ladies in my community! One of the scriptures this morning was:

Proverbs 4:23 "Be careful how you think, your life is shaped by your thoughts" (GNT)

This scripture really spoke volumes to me and made me really think about my thoughts and where they come from and how my life is shaped by them! Well let me just say that 90% of what goes on in my mind daily is not the truths from God! They are the thoughts and lies from Satan that keep me and my life in the shape that it is in. My life is shaped according to the lies that Satan continues to feed me daily. The lies that I'm not good enough, I'm not talented enough or have any talents worth anything, I'm not loved, I'm not important, I have become overweight, I'm not pretty, etc. Yes, I face these thoughts daily and it has become how I think daily so therefore it has become how I live my life lately! My life daily is shaped around all of these lies from Satan! I know that they are lies from him and I know that God's truth speaks differently than any of this, but I can't seem to conquer this battle of the mind that has been going on for so long now! I know God's truth and I know that I am important to him, loved by him, beautiful in eyes, etc. I just face the battle with Satan everyday with claiming God's truth and applying in to my life daily!

This is a huge battle and it is not a good place to be! I know that God wants me to conquer this battle and trust in and believe in word and I am claiming now to take hold and grasp to his truth and his love!

God Loves Me: Ephesians 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, evenwhen we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved—

I am beautiful to God: Psalm 139:13:“You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.” 

 Jeremiah 29:11:“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”

 This has been one of my favorite scriptures since I become a christian and sometimes I lose focus of it, but I am claiming it now as I conquer and overcome this daily battle!

Trading the lies for God's truth,
Becca

Busyness!

It has been quite a while since I have blogged. I have been BUSY with summer, kids, home, and just all the things in life that seem to creep in and take away from my time in doing what God wants me to do! As God brought to my attention today that I have not even visited my blog site in quite sometime, it also brought conviction to me that I have allowed the "worldly", everyday activities to get in my way doing what God intended for me to do when I started this blog. Just to encourage women that no matter where you are in your walk with Christ or in your life that God is still there with his mercy, grace, and forgiveness!

So, as I was reading scripture on allowing the "busyness" of life and daily activities to take away from doing the things God calls me to do I come across this scripture: 

 

Haggai 1:8-10 (The Message)

8-9 Then God said: "Here's what I want you to do: Climb into the hills and cut some timber. Bring it down and rebuild the Temple. Do it just for me. Honor me. You've had great ambitions for yourselves, but nothing has come of it. The little you have brought to my Temple I've blown away—there was nothing to it. 9-11"And why?" (This is a Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, remember.) "Because while you've run around, caught up with taking care of your own houses, my Home is in ruins. That's why. Because of your stinginess. And so I've given you a dry summer and a skimpy crop. I've matched your tight-fisted stinginess by decreeing a season of drought, drying up fields and hills, withering gardens and orchards, stunting vegetables and fruit. Nothing—not man or woman, not animal or crop—is going to thrive."

The Reformation Study Guide gives this description on verse 9: The focus of their lives was on building personal fortunes rather than building God’s kingdom.

How often do I claim to be doing the things that God has called me to do? As I sit here and think about it now, I am doing them in the least way possible and in a hurry so that I can have more time to take care of the other things that "I think" are important. And then I wonder why my works aren't prospering, growing me, or just simply making things better in my life! The Angel simply states here in scripture that because of our stinginess with our time, God is drying up our crops! Things are still in my life because God is waiting for me to put forth ALL my effort in doing my works for him.

This scripture has sure shown me today that if I want things to get better and if I want my works to prosper, then I have to do them willingly and wholeheartedly and not just enough to get by!

Be in prayer with and for me and I face the challenge of trading the "busyness" of life and worldly activities for doing the things that God wants me and intends for me to do!

Your sister in Christ,
Rebecca