One Good Choice After Another

+Are you enjoying the life and blessings of God in your everyday life?⁣
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+Or have you made a series of choices resulting in disappointment, pain, or feeling that everything you do requires great effort and produces little reward?⁣
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+Don’t spend your time and energy mourning all the bad decisions you have made; just start making good ones. There is hope for you!⁣
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+The way to overcome the results of a series of bad choices is through a series of right choices.⁣
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+The only way to walk out of trouble is to do the opposite of whatever you did to get into trouble—one choice at a time.⁣
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+Maybe the circumstances of your life right now are the direct result of a series of bad choices you have made.⁣
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+You may be in debt because you have made a lot of bad choices with money.⁣
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+You may be lonely because of a series of bad choices in relationships or in the way you treat people.⁣
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+You may be sick because of a series of unhealthy choices: eating junk food, not getting enough rest, or abusing your body through working too much and not having enough balance in your life.⁣
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+You cannot make a series of bad choices that result in significant problems and then make one good choice and expect all the results of all those bad choices to go away.⁣
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+You did not get into deep trouble through one bad choice; you got into trouble through a series of bad choices.⁣
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+If you really want your life to change for the better, you will need to make one good choice after another, over a period of time, just as consistently as you made the negative choices that produced negative results.⁣
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+No matter what kind of trouble or difficulty you find yourself in, you can still have a blessed life.⁣
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+You cannot do anything about what is behind you, but you can do a great deal about what lies ahead of you. God is a redeemer, and He will always give you another chance.⁣
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Trust in Him ☝️⁣
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+If you have a situation that is too big for you to solve, then you are material for a miracle.⁣
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+Invite God to get involved, trust in and follow His directions, make one good choice after another, and you will see amazing results.⁣
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🙏 God, I am grateful that I can come to You just as I am.⁣
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+I know that sometimes I make mistakes, but thank You for being a God who forgives and restores.⁣
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+I’m sorry for the things that I have done in the past. Please continue to renew me each day. In Jesus’ name, Amen. 🙌🤍

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God is always listening

+Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.⁣

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-Psalm 116:7⁣

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+No matter what kind of situations we find ourselves in, God sees. And He’s waiting for us to turn to Him.⁣

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+When we do, our circumstances may not always change, but He’s promised His peace in the midst of it all.⁣

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🙏 Loving God, thank You for Your peace. Please continue to calm my heart in the areas of my life that feel chaotic.⁣

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+Help us surrender our desperate attempts at control and let go of the burdens we weren't meant to bear to find rest in Your grace and goodness. In Jesus Name, Amen. 🙌☝️🤍⁣

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#heymonday #haveaproductiveweekahead #staysafe #biblicaltruth #inspirational #keepgoing #faithoverfear #devotioneveryday #BLESSINGS #ctto 

Attitude of gratitude

+You and I have many opportunities to complain on a regular basis.⁣

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+But complaining doesn’t do any good; all complaining does is open the door for the enemy.⁣

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+It doesn’t solve problems; it just creates a breeding ground for greater problems.⁣

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+Instead of complaining, let’s choose to respond to the Lord each day by developing an attitude of gratitude.⁣

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+This is not just an occasional expression of thanks, but a continual lifestyle of thanksgiving.⁣

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+The person who has developed an “attitude of gratitude” is one who is thankful and grateful for every single thing that God is doing in his or her life day by day.⁣

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🙏 Father, thank You for the way You provide for every area of my life.⁣

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+Instead of complaining about what I want or about what I don’t have, I choose to be grateful for everything I do have.⁣

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+You have been good to me—thank You for Your goodness. In Jesus Name, Amen! 🙌☝️🤍⁣

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#happyLordsday #sundayservice #inspirational #youareblessed #beablessing #ctto

There's always a way!

When There Seems to Be No Way⁣

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+Have you ever faced a situation and said, "There is no way this can ever be?” Maybe some of these thoughts weigh on your mind:⁣

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There is no way I can handle the pressure at work.⁣

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There is no way I can pay my bills.⁣

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There is no way to save my marriage.⁣

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There is no way I can go back to college now.⁣

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+With God's help, there is  always  a way. This is a beautiful truth to be grateful for.⁣

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+It may not be easy; it may not be convenient; it may not come quickly.⁣

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+You may have to go over, under, around, or through difficulty—but if you will simply keep on keeping on, you will find a way.⁣

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+Jesus said in John 14:6, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life." He is the Way, and He will help you find a way even where there doesn't seem to be one.⁣

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🙏 Father, I thank You that You have "made a way in the wilderness.”⁣

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+Help me to focus on You and not on my circumstances. Help me to turn to You when I am worn out.⁣

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+Thank You that in You I find rest. Thank You that You are making a way for me today.  In Jesus Name, Amen! 🙌☝️🤍⁣

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#happyweekend 🌞 #ctto

God's loves you!

‘You keep me going when times are tough... I’ve hung on to you’ (Psalm 71:5–6, MSG).⁣

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+God is kind. He loves you. Whatever your needs are today, you can cry out to him and he will be your help and deliverer.⁣

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+When you are weary or worn out, you can be refreshed by spending time with God.⁣

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+Sometimes, you need to learn to separate yourself from the busyness of life and spend time with God in the way that Jesus did. 😊⁣

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🙏 God, I am so grateful that you are with me! You are my mighty Warrior-You rescue me when I feel helpless, and You help me when I feel hopeless.⁣

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+Nothing is impossible for You. I am humbled that You delight and rejoice over me.⁣

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+Thank You for being my constant protector, provider, Savior, and friend.⁣

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+Please bring these truths to the front of my mind at all times. I love You. In Jesus' name, Amen. 🙌☝️🤍⁣

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#dailydevotion #biblicaltruth #happyweekend #faithoverfear #inspirational #ctto

God has plans!

+We make our own plans, but the Lord decides where we will go.⁣⁣
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-Proverbs 16:9 CEV⁣⁣
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+We must learn to wait for God’s plans to develop. He perfects everything that concerns us.⁣⁣
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+True boldness moves in God’s timing; it moves at the right time.⁣⁣
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+It is good to have plans, and I believe we should plan boldly and aggressively, but we must be wise enough to know that our plans will ultimately fail without God.⁣⁣
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+God’s Word says, “Except the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it…” (Psalm 127:1).⁣⁣
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+We can build without God as our foundation, but like any building without a strong foundation, we will eventually fall.⁣⁣
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Trust in Him⁣⁣
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+Are you operating in your own timing, or are you trusting God’s timing? Trust God—His plans are always best!⁣⁣
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🙏 Lord, thank You for filling me with the power of Your Spirit.⁣⁣
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+Please show me where you want me to go, and give me the courage to follow wherever You lead.⁣⁣
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+Make me bold, and give me the words to faithfully share Your grace, Your truth, and Your love.⁣⁣
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+Help me always remember that You are the source of my strength.⁣⁣
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+Remind me daily to stay connected to You. In Jesus' Name, Amen.⁣ 🙌☝️🤍

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Living at peace!

+Peace is one of the most important elements to enjoying your life.⁣

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+A life of frustration and struggle, a life without peace, is the result of focusing on things you can’t do anything about.⁣

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+When you worry about things beyond your control, stress and anxiety begin to creep into your life.⁣

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+The apostle Paul said, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7 NKJV).⁣

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+Once we realize we are struggling with something and feel upset, we need to start praying and immediately turn the situation over to God, thankful He will provide according to His will and offer us peace.⁣

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+You and I are not called to a life of frustration and struggle. Jesus came so we could have righteousness, joy, and peace!⁣

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🙏 Father, I am grateful for peace. It is a wonderful gift that You have given me, and I ask for Your help to always be peaceful in every situation. Thank you. In Jesus Name, Amen. 🙌☝️🤍😊

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I'm not afraid to share the GOSPEL! ☝️

+Turn to Jesus for a reminder of his good news today. No matter what is going on in the world, your community, your home, or your heart. His powerful message of redemption endures.⁣

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+Let him show you what is true and remind you of the hope he brings.⁣

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+Every morning. Every evening. Every hour of every day.⁣

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+His powerful plan to rescue us, his incredible love that triumphs over evil that's our top story.⁣

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🙏 Dear Jesus, your gospel-your true story-is refreshing, encouraging, and transforming.⁣

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+Thank you for the hope that comes from your powerful message of salvation.⁣

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+Please lead me to share this good news that comes from you today.⁣

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+Thank You for giving salvation to all who believe in the gospel. I am constantly in awe of how good You are.⁣

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+Help me to be an example of Your love and kindness to the world around me.⁣

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+Please guide me as I choose to walk boldly in my faith. In Jesus’ name, Amen. 🙌☝️🥺💖

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Living Beyond Your Feelings⁣⁣

⁣+On any given day, we may feel good or bad, happy or sad, excited or discouraged, and a thousand other things.⁣⁣

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+Although feelings can be very strong and demanding, we do not have to let them rule our lives.⁣⁣

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+We can learn to manage our emotions rather than allowing them to manage us.⁣⁣

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+If we have to wait to see how we feel before we know if we can enjoy the day, then we are giving feelings control over us.⁣⁣

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+But thankfully, we have free will and can make decisions that are not based on feelings.⁣⁣

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+If we are willing to make right choices regardless of how we feel, God will always be faithful to give us the strength to do so.⁣⁣

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🙏 Father, I thank You that I no longer have to let my feelings control me. I am so grateful that I don’t have to wait to see how I feel every day before I know how to act.⁣⁣

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+With Your help, I am going to live beyond my feelings—I’m going to live the joy-filled life Jesus came to give me! In Jesus Name, Amen. 🙌☝️🤍⁣⁣

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#happymonday #haveablessandproductiveweek #devotion #inspirational #ctto

The Best Way to Begin in Prayer⁣

+No matter what we pray for, thanksgiving can always go with it. A good habit to develop is starting all of our prayers with thanksgiving.⁣

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+An example of this would be: “Thank You, Father, for all You have done in my life; You are awesome and I really love and appreciate You.”⁣

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+I encourage you to examine your life, to pay attention to your thoughts and your words, and to see how much thanksgiving you express. Do you murmur and complain about things or are you thankful?⁣

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+If you want a challenge, just try to get through an entire day without uttering one word of complaint.⁣

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+Develop an attitude of thanksgiving in every situation. In fact, just become outrageously thankful—and watch as your intimacy with God increases and He pours out greater blessings than ever before. 😊⁣

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🙏 Thank You, Father, for the way You guide me in prayer.⁣

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+Help me to come to You in thanksgiving before I do anything else. Let gratitude be the foundation of my prayer life.⁣

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+I make the decision today to put aside complaining, being thankful in prayer instead. In Jesus Name, Amen. 🙌☝️🤍⁣

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#happyLordsday #devotion #sundayservice #inspirational #ctto

Trust God. ALWAYS.Ü

+So always trust the Lord because he is forever our mighty rock.⁣⁣

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-Isaiah 26:4 CEV⁣⁣

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+God sometimes puts us in situations where we cannot see what is in front of us. Luckily in His word, God gave us a "line" to follow so that we will not stumble.⁣⁣

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+Trust is putting all faith in God to handle a situation although you don't know all the answers.⁣⁣

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+Trust is finding peace in not knowing all the answers and relinquishing all authority of a situation to Christ.⁣⁣

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+Trust is the hope that faith thrives upon. In looking at the metaphor of driving to a destination, God oftentimes lets us know, even if it is vague, what the end of the story will be.⁣⁣

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+God will give us a bird's eye view sometimes of where he wants you to be, but he might not give you all the details.⁣⁣

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+Why doesn't God answer all your questions? God is all about the journey.⁣⁣

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+We live in a society where fast answers are the norm. God is all about taking his children through a journey in order to develop them.⁣⁣

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+Also, God doesn't answer all your questions because if he did, you would have no need to strengthen your faith, self-control, trust, and other fruits of the spirit.⁣⁣

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+Ultimately, God needs HIS name to be praised. Because of this, he doesn't answer all of your questions so that you can properly develop into the person God has so much purposed you to be.⁣⁣

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+The key is even though you can't see in front of you, God gives you a line to follow and this is His word.⁣⁣

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+All we have to do is follow Him and trust Him that that "line" will take us to our destination.⁣⁣

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+Trust God to the extent that even if we look around and see nothing, that we know that God is directing us to a place where he needs us to be.⁣⁣

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+Trusting in God is fully contingent upon letting go of what you thought you knew without knowing what will happen.⁣⁣

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+It is the process of learning how to be okay with unanswered questions and the embodiment of realizing that whatever happens, whether you wanted it to happen or not if you are in God's perfect will, it is much better than anything you could have planned for yourself.⁣⁣

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+Trust is blind but so necessary in order for us to experience true peace and joy unspeakable.⁣⁣

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🙏 God, thank You for being my rock. In an uncertain world, You are steady, ever-present, and never-changing.⁣⁣

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+Thank You for being the one in which I can put my trust. Help me to remain focused on You in every circumstance rather than what I see and know about the world around me. In Jesus' name, Amen. 🙌☝️❣️⁣⁣

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#happyweekend #blessings #inspirational #devotiontime #keepgoing #faithoverfear #ctto

Cast Your Care⁣

+Is there something in your life that you could be very worried and anxious about if you didn’t decide not to be⁣.

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+Most people do, and if you don’t have something today, you might have something tomorrow or the next day.⁣

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+That’s not being negative, it’s just saying that life is real and you never know exactly what is going to come your way.⁣

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+But we do know God, and we don’t have to live in fear. He is with us and He’s on our side.⁣

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+You can choose your own thoughts. You don’t have to just think whatever falls in your head.⁣

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+You can cast out wrong thoughts and choose right thoughts. Faith starts in our hearts, as a gift from God, but it is released when we think and speak right things that line up with God’s Word.⁣

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+When we have a problem, we can either do what the devil wants us to do and worry about it, get anxious and try to figure things out on our own, or we can do what God wants us to do and think about the promises in His Word.⁣

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+The Bible teaches us to cast all of our care on God because He cares for us (see 1 Peter 5:7).⁣

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+It’s not wrong to acknowledge our problems, but we need to tell them where they stand in relation to God.⁣

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+Worry sees the problem, but faith sees the God Who can handle the problem.⁣

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🙏 God, thank You for taking care of me at all times and for bearing my burdens.⁣

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+I am so grateful that I can lean on You for support each day. You aren't afraid of my problems or overwhelmed by my busy schedule.⁣

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+You are above all things, and by You, all things are held together. All glory, honor, and praise belong to you alone! In Jesus Name, Amen. 🙌☝️❣️

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𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝙵𝚎𝚊𝚛

+Don't worry about anything, but in all your prayers ask God for what you need, always asking him with a thankful heart.⁣

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+And God's peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus.⁣

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-Philippians 4:6‭-‬7 GNT⁣

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🙏 Dear God,⁣

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+We choose faith over fear today. We choose to set our eyes on you and not on our circumstances.⁣

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+We choose joy over despair and peace over worry. Silence the lies of the enemy over us.⁣

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+Please give us the awareness we need to step over his traps. Help us choose not to worry but instead to pray about all that concerns us, allowing your Spirit to guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.⁣

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+We trust you to protect our way and to bring us safely through these problems we’re facing. Thank you for your great care over us, we love you Lord, and we need you, today and every day.⁣

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In Jesus’ Name,⁣

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Amen. 🙌☝️🥺🤍

#ctto

We will never be without problems in this life

‘… don’t be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God’s place for you’ (1 Corinthians 7:17, MSG).⁣

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+We will never be without problems in this life. If, in the midst of all the challenges, you cannot learn to thrive in the situation in which you find yourself, you will never find contentment.⁣

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+‘We should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what’s given and delighting in the work.⁣

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+It’s God’s gift! God deals out joy in the present, the now’ (Ecclesiastes 5:19, MSG). Learn to enjoy this wonderful gift of life in the present.⁣

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+If you do not, life will pass you by and you will never enjoy where you are right now.⁣

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🙏 God, You are generous, kind, faithful, and true. Every gift I have from You is good and perfect.⁣

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+Thank You for showing me what it means to live a generous life. When I feel overwhelmed by my circumstances, help me to trust in You and rely on Your faithfulness.⁣

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+You will never leave or forsake me-You have good promises in store for me. Thank You! In Jesus' name, Amen. 🙌☝️🤍⁣

#happyCHOOSEday #youareblessed #alwaysbeablessing #ctto 😊⁣

You’re Not Stuck—You’re Going Through!⁣

+We will all go through situations in life—some bad, some good.⁣

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+Many times, we think the phrase “I’m going through something” is bad news, but if we view it properly, we realize “going through” is good; it means we’re not stuck!⁣

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+We may be facing difficulties, but at least we are moving forward.⁣

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+Isaiah 43:2 says, “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned or scorched, nor will the flame kindle upon you” (emphasis added).⁣

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+God’s Word here is clear: we will go through things. We will face adversity in our lives. That’s not bad news; that’s reality.⁣

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+Let me repeat: we will go through things in life, but the things we go through are the very circumstances, challenges, and situations that make us people who know how to overcome adversity.⁣

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+We do not grow or become strong during life’s good times; we grow when we press through difficulties without giving up.⁣

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+Growth is not an automatic result of difficulty. Hardships do not necessarily produce growth or strength in us; it’s not that simple.⁣

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+We must choose the right attitude toward our challenges and refuse to quit or give up.⁣

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+We may have to do what is right for a long time before we feel it is “paying off,” but if we stay faithful and refuse to give up, good results will come.⁣

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+Once we get through the adversity and challenges we face, we emerge as better people than we were when we went into them.⁣

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+Determine that you will go all the way through every difficulty you face in life.⁣

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+Make a decision now to keep going forward, trusting God no matter how difficult it is because you know He will be with you and you will grow in faith as a result.⁣

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🙏 Lord, I come to You in my weakness and tiredness; please grant me renewed strength. In Jesus Name, Amen. 🙌☝️🤍😊⁣

#haveaniceandproductiveweekahead 😘

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