We fail because we trust ourselves. Andrew Murray Life can be very stressful at times. Even our ordinary life can be both stressful and boring bringing us to the point of despair. We wonder how we will ever get through it. Right? Many times at the end of the day we look back and wish we would have made better choices, was kinder and had not failed as a Christian. When we are drawing from our abilities or resources, it…
Anchored Living life anchored to a correct center or foundation will bring peace and calm, and hold us steady when all around us is in turmoil, troubled, disturbed, unsettled, and shifting. We will be aligned. Not our bodies dictating our feelings or behavior. Not our soul ruling us through our feelings which have no brain. Did you know feelings can’t think? They just feel. Allowing them to rule us is submitting our lives to unthinking emotions. Emotional rollercoaster. They will…
Father in Heaven, We pride ourselves on being grown-up, not childlike in our faith. Children can imagine things. They can believe things. We lose our ability to imagine as we grow up. There is so much in Your kingdom that we don’t see or imagine. We are so temporal minded. You want us to be child-like in our faith. Your kingdom is accessed by faith. Results of our prayer are seen by faith, by seeing beyond what we can see,…
Giving back to God is an act of worship. All He gives me I must continually give back to God to keep it pure, unclouded by my opinion, by other’s opinions, or tainted by pride. Keeping it free of entanglements Holding on to it lightly, loosely so it doesn’t become my possession and thereby possess me. Remembering what He gives me is to be turned around, reflected, to glorify Him. Whatever God shares with me must be poured out to…
Last August I was out walking and praying, pouring out my heart to God after receiving word that one of my brothers had died. As far as I knew, he hadn’t been living for God. (I had been praying for him for a long time.) You who know the truth understand my pain. Walking down that country road, I gradually ran out of words to express my grief and let calm wash over my troubled soul. Coming to a point…
