Posted on November 30, 2018
The smell of hot polyester seats with duck tape covering rips and holes wafted past as I flipped to the next page. Ears ringing to Jock Jams and mind whirring with anxiety, my eyes took in pictures of gold medalists and inspiring running shoe ads. All reminding me that the impossible is possible. Encouraging me to fight through the pain that would meet me on the track. As the lanes came into view and the bus squealed into it’s spot, I put the heavy binder back into my bag and walked out to warm-up.
We do a lot of mental warming up in life. Before sporting events, big interviews, important conversations and big moves. We repeat to ourselves what we hope to do and visualize what we want to happen.
But it doesn’t always turn out the way we want or look the way we think it should.
Without connecting our motivations to God’s Word on a daily basis, we are robbing ourselves of a key piece of strength. Strength we need to finish strong, close the deal, get the words out, or take that first step of change. The Living Word always applies to our lives. It’s relevant to what we’re going through, if we’ll seek to meet Him there.
As believers in Christ we have God’s Spirit in us, and it’s more powerful than any mental tactic we can conjure up …so why do we so often leave Him out of our important decisions and big moments? When seeking to achieve the impossible, it helps to have Truth ringing in our ears and whirring through our minds..
The more we read God’s Word, the more we understand what He’s trying to say to us. The more we seek Him in the early hours of the morning, the more prepared we are for each day. We are His, and we cannot operate within His will without His translation on our lives.
His opinion that matters the most. It’s what He says we’re capable of that we can wholeheartedly expect to happen. The Bible has the ability to motivate us and move our lives forward …all the way home to Him.
Father, Praise You for Your Living Word. Thank You for meeting us in the pages of the Bible, and speaking life in to our lives. Forgive us for seeking other ways of inspiration, and help us to seek You always and each day. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Get the conversation started by commenting below, and let’s encourage one another as we face life in 2017 armed with grace!
#greatgrace17
Happy Word-ing,
Megs
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Posted on August 25, 2018
“May God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
“See you later, alligator….”
At the sound of those story time ending words, little feet padded up to the felt board and stuck the alligator on to wait for his friends.
“Bye, bye, said the fly….” and up when another set of feet, holding the fly in hand.
Storytime at the library is precious time I will never regret carving out of my very first mom-days. Books are a universal. All of life revolves around one Book.
Today’s verse talks about the evil world. I can’t imagine how much more evil it could have been back then compared to what it is now. Yet, when we walk with Christ …though we know we’re immersed in an dangerous millennium, we are able to see Light in all things.
Like the little kids huddled around the librarians at story time, waiting for their turn to walk up proudly and stick their contribution onto the felt board …Christians walk to the ones He needs to love.
The world has a lot of evil in it, but I don’t believe the whole world is evil. I can’t know what I know about God and experience Christ like I have in my life …felt the Holy Spirit move as I have …and believe the whole world is evil.
After everything God created, He declared it “good,” and I believe with all of my heart that the “good” He declared can be seen through His Son.
“Let the little children come to me,” Jesus said.
No wonder. Sitting in a circle with little people reminds us why we are called to have a childlike faith. There is good in everyone, and beauty in everything God created. But we have to believe to see it.
Father, Praise You for innocence. Thank You for children, for they remind us to have faith like a child. Forgive us for letting cynical thinking exploit the very real evil in the world over the beauty of God’s creation. Help us to be stronger in faith, and to believe enough to see the good. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Get the conversation started by commenting below, and let’s encourage one another as we face life in 2017 armed with grace!
#greatgrace17
Happy
Megs
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Posted on November 30, 2017
The smell of hot polyester seats with duck tape covering rips and holes wafted past as I flipped to the next page. Ears ringing to Jock Jams and mind whirring with anxiety, my eyes took in pictures of gold medalists and inspiring running shoe ads. All reminding me that the impossible is possible. Encouraging me to fight through the pain that would meet me on the track. As the lanes came into view and the bus squealed into it’s spot, I put the heavy binder back into my bag and walked out to warm-up.
We do a lot of mental warming up in life. Before sporting events, big interviews, important conversations and big moves. We repeat to ourselves what we hope to do and visualize what we want to happen.
But it doesn’t always turn out the way we want or look the way we think it should.
Without connecting our motivations to God’s Word on a daily basis, we are robbing ourselves of a key piece of strength. Strength we need to finish strong, close the deal, get the words out, or take that first step of change. The Living Word always applies to our lives. It’s relevant to what we’re going through, if we’ll seek to meet Him there.
As believers in Christ we have God’s Spirit in us, and it’s more powerful than any mental tactic we can conjure up …so why do we so often leave Him out of our important decisions and big moments? When seeking to achieve the impossible, it helps to have Truth ringing in our ears and whirring through our minds..
The more we read God’s Word, the more we understand what He’s trying to say to us. The more we seek Him in the early hours of the morning, the more prepared we are for each day. We are His, and we cannot operate within His will without His translation on our lives.
His opinion that matters the most. It’s what He says we’re capable of that we can wholeheartedly expect to happen. The Bible has the ability to motivate us and move our lives forward …all the way home to Him.
Father, Praise You for Your Living Word. Thank You for meeting us in the pages of the Bible, and speaking life in to our lives. Forgive us for seeking other ways of inspiration, and help us to seek You always and each day. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Get the conversation started by commenting below, and let’s encourage one another as we face life in 2017 armed with grace!
#greatgrace17
Happy Word-ing,
Megs
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Posted on August 25, 2017
“May God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
“See you later, alligator….”
At the sound of those story time ending words, little feet padded up to the felt board and stuck the alligator on to wait for his friends.
“Bye, bye, said the fly….” and up when another set of feet, holding the fly in hand.
Storytime at the library is precious time I will never regret carving out of my very first mom-days. Books are a universal. All of life revolves around one Book.
Today’s verse talks about the evil world. I can’t imagine how much more evil it could have been back then compared to what it is now. Yet, when we walk with Christ …though we know we’re immersed in an dangerous millennium, we are able to see Light in all things.
Like the little kids huddled around the librarians at story time, waiting for their turn to walk up proudly and stick their contribution onto the felt board …Christians walk to the ones He needs to love.
The world has a lot of evil in it, but I don’t believe the whole world is evil. I can’t know what I know about God and experience Christ like I have in my life …felt the Holy Spirit move as I have …and believe the whole world is evil.
After everything God created, He declared it “good,” and I believe with all of my heart that the “good” He declared can be seen through His Son.
“Let the little children come to me,” Jesus said.
No wonder. Sitting in a circle with little people reminds us why we are called to have a childlike faith. There is good in everyone, and beauty in everything God created. But we have to believe to see it.
Father, Praise You for innocence. Thank You for children, for they remind us to have faith like a child. Forgive us for letting cynical thinking exploit the very real evil in the world over the beauty of God’s creation. Help us to be stronger in faith, and to believe enough to see the good. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Get the conversation started by commenting below, and let’s encourage one another as we face life in 2017 armed with grace!
#greatgrace17
Happy
Megs
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