2 Peter 2: 1 Words to live by today ....

As I meditate on the Word of God I have come to a point in my life where I need to make a decision about what it is that I want out of this life.  You don’t know but I have been struggling with my temper and I have to really work at not being angry.

Breaking point I need to end this self-destructive attitude or it will destroy my whole life.  I sat on my bed the other evening and I just said “Lord God help me.”  The next day I read these words and have come to realise that I am at fault, I need to repent and ask the Lord God to heal my broken heart and heal my spirit.  1 Peter 2: 1 So be done with every trace of wickedness (depravity, malignity) and all deceit and insincerity (pretence, hypocrisy) and grudges (envy, jealousy) and slander and evil speaking of every kind.   I realised that I was constantly saying bad things, not considering people’s feelings and being just plain mean.  I didn’t want anything good to go their way.  I was constantly saying how bad they were and I had been totally rude to them all.

To sum it up, I have been going through a really negative stage and had been mean to everybody around me.  I soon came to the point that I realised that I am being self-destructive; with the people I love and deal with each and every day.

I made up my mind to trust the Lord and give this problem over to the Lord.  I needed to repent of my negative state of mind and accept that the Lord died on the cross for all my brokenness and that I can be nice to people and love them.  Isn’t that the command the Lord left behind.  Love your neighbour.

Be blessed as you are my blessing, thank you for your support.

Anger Management - Day 1

If you look at me and my size you probably would not even consider that I suffer with a really bad temper.  

The problem I face is before I realize it I have ‘Lost it’ completely.  People I know who enjoy upsetting me make it even more difficult to watch myself.

Of course you think ha, that’s not difficult ignore them.  The thing is they seem to detect the days when I am not at my best.  Those days I completely ‘fly off the handle’.  Then they have the cheek to get upset and feel hurt when I explode.

So I have no resorted to studying the Bible in more depth, focusing my time and energy on verse to help me cope. 

Proverbs 20: 3 ‘It is honorable to back off from a fight, but fools jump right in.’ The problem is I am not afraid and when challenged I step up and am always ready.  So no to change my thinking, take a deep breath and pick my fights; how to cope with this situation? 

Proverbs 19: 11 ‘Insightful people restrain their anger; their glory is to ignore an offense.’ I need to train myself in taking note of the situation, ignore the person baiting me and shake it off.  In this way I am able to avoid an explosion.  Proverbs 17: 14 ‘The start of a quarrel is like letting out water, so drop the dispute before it breaks out.’ The trick is to identify the baiting and to watch my thinking and only God can help me.  

Some tools I want to use in my daily walk:

1.      When a person is baiting me – back off

2.      When this person is really looking for a fight – ignore them

3.      Remind myself – they don’t have the power – I do and God will help me

This is my first part in working on my anger issues, I am still learning and it sure is making me seem so insignificant.  

Pray for me it is one of the most difficult issues I am facing right now.

Feeling down .....

Giants in my own life are aging, finding a good paying job and being able to look good and feel good about myself.  Facing the fact that I am growing older and that I cannot do the things I used to do and maintaining it, I tell you it freaks me out at time.

I look at people and I think everybody seems to be doing just fine, I doubt they go through any of the things I do.  It seems that each person has wonderful days, wonderful lives, wonderful jobs, wonderful friends and family and not to mention great very great lives.

Today is my day of moaning I feel down, I feel yucky and miserable, I feel lonely and I feel sick, my stomach isn’t right.  The pessimist in me is much stronger than ever today.

I have been praying and fasting for people in my life and today it seems I just cannot lift myself up, I think I might be tired and because of that I feel yucky.

I want to change my point of view but right now, I just cannot stay focused and I feel that I am a disappointment, I don’t do great and wonderful things.  I don’t touch any bodies life and I am just me.  So who cares? 

Sorry its little old me feeling down!

2015

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Do you think I got it right this time?

God Bless you abundantly this year!

I am still in a job and will be for the next year, this is my confession for this abundant year 2015.  I confess and believe that the Lord God is in control and that I am able to secure a job this year.  Praise and honor to His Great and Holy, Holy, Holy name.

I want to wish you a wonderful and supernaturally blessed year too, I want to encourage you to keep on praying and seeking the Lord with all your heart.  God is able to open the right doors at the right time.

Jeremiah 17: 7-8 'Blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence.  They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water.  Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought.  Their leaves stay green and they never stop producing fruit.'

Taking up this challenge of staying in the Lord is my quest this year and I am going to do whatever it take to say in HIM.

Blessings and Honor for you going into 2015 we serve an awesome God.

You are a blessing in my life.

Joke sent to me .... tee hee ah shame

A man received the following text from his neighbor:

"I am so sorry Bob. I've been riddled with guilt and I have to confess.  I have been helping myself to your wife, day and night when you're not around. In fact, I have probably been getting more than you. I do not get it at home - but that's no excuse. I can no longer live with the guilt and I hope you will accept my sincerest apology with my promise that it won't ever happen again."

On reading the text, the man, anguished and betrayed, went directly into his bedroom, grabbed his gun and, without a word, shot his wife dead.

A few moments later, a second text came in, "Bloody spell check!! Sorry Bob, the second sentence should refer to your wifi."

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

With heartfelt gratefulness I want to thank you for reading my story, I do appreciate all the views.

You are a blessing in my life, may the LORD God richly bless you

with peace and happiness this Christmas.

Enjoy a precious Day in the Lord Jesus

thank you 

Blessings Yvette

My Confessions ...

My attitude in general is very negative and I have been working hard at the change in my own life, by the way it doesn’t work that way.

I soon came to realize that nothing I say and do can change who I am.  The only ‘One’ able to change me is ‘The Almighty God – Lord Jesus Christ’.

Now after hard work and struggling I decide to hand my situation over to the Lord.  In the meantime I have been learning.

1.      Taking my thoughts captive

2 Corinthians 10: 5 ‘ We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

Now I am instructing my thought life to the Lord Jesus.  When I feel that I cannot cope with my own thoughts I pray and give them to the LORD.

I have decided that I will believe every word of God through the Bible.  Jesus Christ is my salvation and I will submit every thought I have to Him.  Humbly praying about my thinking and asking for guidance and protection.

2.      Protecting my heart

Romans 8: 1 ‘Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,’

I am born again, I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and dedicated my life into His Holy hands.  I have been created by the LORD God.  Ephesians 2 : 10 The Voice ‘For we are the product of HIS hand, heaven’s poetry etched on lives, created in the Anointed, Jesus, to accomplish the good works God arranged long ago.’

I have been created by God and I am the product of His hand, God said that He made me ‘heaven’s poetry etched on lives, created in the Anointed, Jesus, to accomplish the good works God arranged long ago.’  I have been place on this earth with a purpose and I have decided not to allow the devil to stop me getting to my purpose.  I am created by God, He is happy with me.  I will protect my heart each day and call on Jesus in my hour of need.  Protect me with Your blood Lord Jesus.

3.      Stay humble for the LORD Jesus

Romans 12: 3 ‘Because of the grace allotted to me, I can respectfully tell you not to think of yourselves as being more important than you are;  devote your minds to sound judgment since God has assigned to each of us a measure of faith.’

Respectfully I humble myself before the LORD Jesus Christ, I am asking the Lord to guide and protect me.   It is important that I change my perspective of people around me.  I cannot allow myself to think that I am better than other people.  Working hard with an attitude of not trusting people and taking people at their word, I need to humbly pray for guidance.

Submitting my life before the Lord is the only way I can see people in a different light.  I just don’t trust people and because I have been hurt I will be careful as to what they say and do, making me someone that is very judging.

I am arming myself with the Lord Jesus Christ and I am praying when things are coming my way that the LORD Jesus will help me.

I plead the blood of Jesus Christ over my life and also over yours as you read my bible study.  God bless you.

You are a blessing!

You are a Blessing to me!

Working in a multiracial office is always interesting, and my story today is one about sharing and looking out for each other.  

Our cleaning lady doesn’t earn much and I doubt even if they are paying her ‘mini mum wages’.  Nevertheless the people in our office know this and worry about her.   One of the young ladies decided to give her a newspaper with all the latest add in it.  As she paged through the paper she sat next to her and asked her ‘what do you like’.  

Looking at the stuff on the page she pick out a couple of things that seemed impossible to own and said to this young girl.  I like this and I would love to have one of these.

Without her knowledge the Human Resource division made a collection and they then assigned the task to the young lady to buy the things Judy wanted.

We gave her, her gifts today.  I was amazed at her gratefulness, tears of joy running down her face and all she could say was “Thank You God”.

God blesses each one of us with what we have and it is natural to want to keep everything to ourselves but something I learned today was the gratefulness of someone.  They weren’t expecting anything and were happy before they received what they got.

Accepting what you have and being thankful is important, we never realize what it means to have nothing,  loaf of bread, a little of milk, some peanut butter or jam.

The challenge is can you bless someone?  If so, why haven’t you?  Are you so busy that it slipped your mind?  Concisions are like; little wheels, it reminds you constantly, it turns in your head.  Going away but returning to you later.

Lord God, humbly I pray for the ability to be a blessing in the lives of people I can help.  Bless me today and help me become the blessing You wanted me to be.  In the name of Jesus Amen