It is the will of God that we rejoice and be glad in Him and purpose to have joy in our minds and in our hearts. We are to serve Him with joyfulness and gladness of mind and heart for all that He has given to us.
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JOYFULNESS OF MIND AND HEART
What is the will of God? That we rejoice and be glad in Him. That we purpose to have joy in our minds and in our hearts. That we stir up the joy of our salvation. That we serve Him with joyfulness and gladness of mind and heart for all that He has given to us.
You might say: Well, I don’t see anything good happening in my life. There is where most of us make our mistake—-I DON’T SEE! What do you see? Do you see the trouble all around you or do you see God’s Word which says that He will deliver you out of all trouble? We must learn to see what God’s plan is for us and not what it looks like in the natural world to our physical eyes. Then we PERSIST in standing our ground for God’s plan, regardless of what is happening or how long it seems to take to accomplish His plan.
We are living in a time where it is vital (not an option) that we CHOOSE to see God and His Word being performed in our lives and for us. Yes, our natural eyes and ears are seeing and hearing things we never thought we would see and hear. BUT, we must choose to hear what God is saying in His Word and to see what God is seeing. We must put on His eyes and His ears. It is a daily, perhaps a minute-by-minute choice for us.
Joy keeps God’s power and presence active in our lives. Grumbling, complaining, judging, analyzing, murmuring about what is going on, brings satan’s presence to us. Yes, it is true. We may not want to admit it but there are only two that are active in mankind’s life; it is either God Almighty or it is satan. JOY—-GOD! MURMURING—-SATAN!
Wow! I don’t know about you, but I am getting in the space of joyfulness of mind and heart.
Deuteronomy 28:47 Let’s turn it around from the negative to the positive and see what we get. I serve the Lord God with joyfulness of mind and heart in gratitude for the abundance of all with which He has blessed me.
Start today if you don’t already practice this act of joy. Think about what God has sent your way as a blessing. You can begin with being thankful that you are born again and on your way to heaven. That is a reason for rejoicing. You can continue with the fact that you are breathing and alive. Pick up your Bible and start speaking the scriptures of blessing over yourself and your family UNTIL THEY BECOME REALITY in your life.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life, as the old expression goes. REJOICE!
Categories Pearls of Wisdom
I serve the Lord with joyfulness of heart and mind in gratitude for the abundance of His blessing.
Categories Word of Wisdom
God made me perfect.
I am awesomely created without blemish.
My body belongs to God and it is a healthy body.
I am healed.
Categories Healing Confession of the Week
Your mouth will speak out of the abundance of what is in your heart.
Categories Word of Wisdom
Psalm 100:1,2
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Categories Prayer Scripture of the Week
WHOSE THOUGHTS ARE THOSE, PART 2
Jesus told us that out of the abundance of our heart our mouth speaks (Matt. 12:24). Our heart is the center of our being, where our spirit is located. If we think on something long enough, it gets in the center of our being and comes out of our mouth. When it comes out of the center of our being, it will create what we say.
There are two sources of thoughts: God and satan. We choose every minute of every day whose thoughts become our focus and then we speak out what we are thinking.
Let’s use a practical example of thoughts and words in our present day. If we listen to the news all the time, we are hearing words of doom and gloom “We are going under. The world is in a mess financially. People are out of work. People’s homes are being foreclosed.” “The Nile virus is spreading. Cancer and heart disease are becoming widespread. Get your flu shots now to avoid drastic consequences.” Etc. Etc. Etc. However, if we look at and speak what God’s Word says about our financial situations, we see in His Word that He takes care of us. Are we not of more value than the birds of the air or the lilies of the field? He says that He sent His word and healed us. He says that Jesus bore our sicknesses and diseases. One set of thoughts comes from satan. The other set comes from God.
There is a tug of war for your thought life. There is a constant barrage of thoughts bombarding your mind 24/7. Negative thoughts must be offset by God’s Word. It is almost like we are having to become walking Bibles, with the word coming out at every squeeze of pressure. The water of the word comes out of our life sponges rather than the mildew of the world’s ideas.
Whose thoughts are those? You are the determining factor of whose thoughts you ponder.
Categories Pearls of Wisdom
Even when we make petitions before God for our needs, we are to do it with thanksgiving. Why thanksgiving? Thanksgiving precedes the receipt of a gift given. Thanksgiving is saying to God: I know that You are taking care of me, and I don’t have to worry about it.
Categories Prayer Quote of the Week
How are you doing? We have had two weeks of learning how valuable we are to God. Are you changing your mind about your worth? If you haven’t, keep focusing on your value.
We’re going back to Psalm 139 and explore verses 13-18 today.
Psalm 139:13,14, New Living translation
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—-and how well I know it.
God made you. He formed you in your mother’s womb. He knows every part of your body. He made you perfect. Unfortunately, we live in this world of imperfection, which works on that perfect body of ours. There is pollution of the water and the air; chemicals are placed on our food to preserve it; processed food has many additives; stress is everywhere (the greatest enemy to our human body). But our God knew about this before you were ever born in this space of time. That is why relationship to Him is so important. He will guide you into healthy living. It doesn’t mean you have to spend every waking moment thinking, oh, my did I eat the right stuff, etc. It means you listen to Him and His instructions for you personally to live a healthy life.
In my period of living here on this earth, I see that the greatest friend of healthy living is a life lived in gratitude and thanksgiving, a life of positive outlook on things, regardless of the darkness of the situation. As you listen to people who live a long life of 90 or 100 years or more, the one thing that impresses me about them as they talk is their joy of living and their ease of forgiving others. They let go of “stuff.” They choose to look on the bright side of life.
So, thank God for making you so wonderfully marvelous.
Psalm 139:15,16, New Living Translation
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
God sees you and the victories and the defeats that you encounter. Every day of your life He knows about you. I think that is comforting. There is someone who knows about you and cares about you. He knows your every moment of living. You can trust Him to take care of you. He knew you would be born in this time, and He has made provision for your every need, including healing and health.
Psalm 139:17,18, New Living Translation
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They are innumerable! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up in the morning, you are still with me!
God has you on His mind all the time. He thinks about you so much that you cannot even count His thoughts over you and about you. He loves you. He will be with you forever. He is not going anywhere. He will not abandon you or forsake you as others do. He will be there for you every morning when you wake up, during the day, and when you go to sleep at night. You can trust Him. Place your life in His hands, and give Him your physical body for healing. It’s already available for you.
Categories Healing Teaching of the Week
Thanksgiving To God
It seems that the Lord is not finished teaching us about praising Him and thanking Him for all He has done, as we enter into prayer. I am learning as much as you are. Once again, I am reminded of the importance of thanksgiving.
Psalm 100
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come before His presence with singing! Know (perceive, recognize, and understand with approval) that the Lord is God! It is He Who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His]! We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise His name! For the Lord is good; His mercy and loving-kindness are everlasting, His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations.
Look at those verses. Come, come, come, come before Him with singing. Know that He is God. He is the one Who made us. We are His. Come on, come on, come on and enter His gates with thanksgiving and enter His courts with praise. Be thankful. Praise His name! Why? He is good and His mercy endures forever.
Now look at the New Testament in Philippians 4:6, Amplified Bible.
Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.
Even when we make petitions before God for our needs, we are to do it with thanksgiving. Why thanksgiving? Thanksgiving precedes the receipt of a gift given. Thanksgiving is saying to God: I know that You are taking care of me, and I don’t have to worry about it. Then God’s peace is ours. This peace builds a wall of protection around our heart and mind to guard us when thoughts come to us that are contrary to results—thoughts like: You’re not going to make it. You don’t really think you are going to get results. Look at all the times you didn’t receive anything. You might as well give up. It will be the same this time.
Thanksgiving overrides negative thoughts because you can’t think on two things at the same time, especially if you voice thanksgiving. Try it. Give voice to thanksgiving for everything you can think of and notice where your thoughts go. Your thoughts go in the direction of your mouth. What are we saying here? When negative thoughts bombard your mind, start speaking and singing thanksgiving to God. It works. Ask me how I know!
The greatest words expressing faith are two little words: THANK YOU! Thank you means that I take it. It is mine now. Thank you for it. I am grateful.
Categories Prayer Teaching of the Week
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