Daily Devotional for December 5, 2020
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” Psalms 27:10 KJV
Yesterday I had a virtual counseling session with my psychotherapist. I have learned that when I go through some valleys I must have faith, but faith without works is dead. Along with faith we must find support to help us along the way. I tend to REach for REassurance that I REally have/am working to get through a situation and that I am not working to bury it, tuck it way, or talk myself in to BElieving it’s REsolved when it’s not. Yesterday as I spoke to her, we discussed cognitive distortions—the ways our minds sometimes think negatively about things that aren’t REally true. I thought of that conversation yesterday as I REad this morning’s devotional by Joel Osteen. He says, “To feel sorry for yourself will keep you from the amazing future God has in store.”
Many of us (including myself) REflect and sometimes dwell on our lives from the past, and those things that hurt us. Instead of accepting the scar or the scabbing to BE used to show our victorious war wound of how we made it T.H.R.O.U.G.H. (Trials, Hurt, REgrets, Obstacles, Uncertainty, Guilt, Heartbreak), we want to keep it in our minds, distorting all the good that has occurred and the breakthrough(s) we are now experiencing. I, too, am guilty, but let us REmain forward, focused and following in faith (and not fear) and favor, for God has and will continue to work all things for our good. As my dear friend REminds me all the time, those were moments and we shall not allow them to BE monuments REmaining erected in our thoughts preventing us from keeping a mindset focused on God’s promises and plans for us to come and prosper us and not harm us.
Exodus 39
As Exodus 39:43 ends, may we REalize each day, the work that we are putting in for ourselves and the work that we have BEen called to do, no matter how large or small the task, we must focus on doing it as the Lord has commanded us to do.
REflecton from Yoke Breaking Anointing
One of my favorite words is the focus of today’s message by Vance K. Jackson: choices. In this life we get to choose what we will do, how we will do it, and when we will do it. But in those decisions, we have to choose our accountability partner. May we choose Christ to assist us along this glorious adventure, guiding us to make the BEst decisions for ourselves and not that of others, for when our work is done here, there will BE but One who will sit in judgment, and the work (and not the words, thoughts or actions of others about us) we have done—even to the least of them—will speak for us.
John 1:12
As we learned as little children, we only have to BElieve, and He welcomes, keeps, and blesses us as His own.🙏🏽💚🦋🌈
Seek to stretch and serve this Saturday, my friend.
